The president keeps telling the military to murder people in boats and the military keeps doing it. Crimes, just straight-up crimes internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Did u know?Since we've been making bee hotels,our diversity of solitary bees has increased 10-fold.This is a mud nesting brick for Hairy Footed Flower bees.Recipe:cricket pitch loam,sand,straw. Poke holes. 2 feet off the ground,south facing. Plant Pulmonaria-they LOVE it.How fab is the male?! 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🐝

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

🔬🌱 We are planning ahead for Botany 2026! We’re looking for folks interested in helping organize a hands-on workshop on building custom LI-COR chambers and measuring gas exchange on non-conventional plant material. 👉 Reach out to [email protected] if interested! #Botany2026 #bsaecophys

Excited by this breakthrough work led by Dr. Lauren Stanley (now Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University). Lauren was able to develop for the first time floral dip/spray transformation methods in the yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus). bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

This is a very big deal 🧵

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

UPDATE from @jodiscohen.bsky.social + @jsmithrichards.bsky.social: Following public outcry, the Department of Ed. has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an org that will provide funding to these students.

I'm the incoming SSE president and am behind this idea -- if you're interested in putting together an app and have questions, pls reach out!

Marshall, MO. I head into rural Republican districts across the state and country and I organize the Democrats in those red spaces. I am a cheerleader for these Democrats. I remind them that they are not alone, and they are a force for change. I will never stop.

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

An EPA report found that the forever chemical PFNA interferes with human development and likely causes damage to the liver and male reproductive systems. The agency has sat on the report for months. “Scientifically, it was done,” said one scientist. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Per WSJ, the Trump regime and Bannon are bragging they’re “ruling Congress with an iron fist” and that it is “largely ceremonial” like the Russian Duma. Shameful. Not what the founders intended. 🇺🇸 @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Walked by Kramer Books on my way home and signed a copy of my book We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation. Go pick it up if you don’t have a copy. The staff is also great too.

“If we aren't free to pursue research and teaching based on wherever the knowledge leads us, we are not truly working in the service of the public.” — Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Imagine being this bad at running a government

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

Listen to this episode if only for the discussion about the world-altering value of affordable higher education and Pell grants: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

ICYMI: I interviewed Franchesca about coming out late in life smomg other things! bsky.app/profile/angr...

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do. In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap. Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

🚨🔊 Fully funded PhD!! 🚨🔊 Are you interested in wildlife gut microbiomes? Love birds, fieldwork and bioinformatics? Want to join a collaborative and supportive team? Looking for training to become an independent scientist? Please apply! Informal enquiries welcome! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

I'm frequently asked if we can use XRM imaging to study Arabidopsis, and the answer is absolutely yes. The pollen grains were segmented using basic grayscale thresholding. This scan used the 4X lens, stayed tuned for results from the 20X. @danforthcenter.bsky.social @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

~40% of the ENTIRE corn crop of the US is used to make ethanol. This gets blended with gasoline to power well under 10% of our vehicle miles. If we converted 100% of our vehicles to EVs installing solar on a small fraction of the land this corn is grown on would power them all.

Such a needed paper! This focuses on the EU, but I've had to talk many teachers out of exotic stick insects, which are regulated species here in the US as potential pests. (and we have one escaped stick species that has established itself!) #education

Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?) Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15. More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts! Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking! Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November. SquidFacts.net

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries benharrap.com/post/2025-10... #statssky #episky #academicsky

The majority of heat related deaths in European cities this summer were caused by climate change. These figures should terrify us. This shows us that heat plans not enough – we need strong EU climate targets to cut the emissions causing this dangerous heat. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Just a heads up: lots of Republican women get abortions too.

Science doesn't happen in silos. Funding cuts will ripple out and affect us all. If your funding has been cut, tell your story! @nytimes.com ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

"Officials from Australia, Wales, South Korea, Canada, Norway, Lithuania, Estonia, “northern European arts councils and the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU” have sought briefings on the scheme, the Minister said." www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song. But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Loving the burst of pseudoscorpion posts! Gave this grabby guy some bristles and a bit more attitude 😈 (remember in reality they’re like sesame seeds with attitude) #arachtober

1,000+ people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled unconstitutional in 2020. Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases. With @veritenews.org

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

This is how it's done: put the truth right there in the headline and sub headline.

We have an updated version of this preprint, available at: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Fingers crossed the formal, final version will be out soon. We think this highlights a major issue in how we study behavior (& more). Thank you @sekharma.bsky.social & @itchyshin.bsky.social! #evolution

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

“Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report… That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates”

this is who bsky banned for life

OMB has deleted the reference on its website to the 2019 law that mandates back pay to all federal workers who were not paid during a government shutdown. This is like when babies play hide and seek but only cover their eyes because if they can’t see you, you can’t see them.

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...