I am happy to share the conversation I had with @mgurven.bsky.social about the evolutionary aspects of humans living seven decades. Hope everyone enjoys! @princetonupress.bsky.social convergingdialogues.substack.com/p/449-living...

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🏞️𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡? Our new study looked at fieldwork policies and risk assessments from 90 UK universities offering environmental science courses. The results are eye-opening: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just one week away until SEVEN DECADES is born. Not too late to preorder (code PUP30 for discount): tinyurl.com/efpaxtex I hear from friends that the preorders are already arriving! @princetonupress.bsky.social

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences. Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Are we great yet?

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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NEW: An NIH policy coming in the next week will target — and at least temporarily stop — funding outside the US, threatening thousands of projects and collaborations on topics like infectious diseases and cancer. Some NIH staff have already been told to hold all subaward funds for foreign labs.

📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

🚨 New pub 🚨 On the energetics 🔋 of cellular immune activity 🦠 in juvenile arboreal primates 🐒 (not toads and snakes) and its costs 💸 in terms of growth 📈 in lean body mass 💪. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

how good is your Rhythm Radar? 🥁 one of our honours cogsci students, Maxx Shearod, is keen to find out if metrical perception, the hierarchical processing of rhythms, is consistent across listeners globally help him find out at www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/down... [this game is in beta!]

Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story. Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 “You Are Married by the Woman” explores how men’s support for women’s empowerment is understood in a fast-urbanizing Tanzanian community. If you're interested in gender, masculinity, and social change, check it out!

Letter from 21 legacy US Digital Service staff who resigned, saying they can no longer work for DOGE. "We will not use use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize American's sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services."

This seems like a good time to re-up this take down of another recent attempt to tech-dredge words like “diversity” for political purposes. This kind of text-mining is very hard and they are very bad at it (sledgehammer, etc). academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law. Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

35+ Dems plan to hold the Senate floor all night to oppose the confirmation of Musk-Trump funding freeze architect Russ Vought. THIS is how we fight back while in the minority. (via @schatz.bsky.social)

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

This is a clear case of work NSF scientists should refuse to do. Skip the meeting, call in sick, lose the email. Do not make a list of grants flagged because they mention "women" or "people of color." Don't. It's unethical.

"leadership [has nothing] to do with charisma...instead [it is] focused on substance and relationships, and [is] ultimately about building mutual trust and respect"

TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.

If you can, do something, speak up and act up. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”

Well-being trajectories of older adults look different in absence of retirement, institutionalized income & social security. For source paper, see: tinyurl.com/3u5cc5nv

Congrats, Baptiste!!!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🐒

Damnit.

🧪 Check out our new paper in Sciences Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🐒 When a severe drought hit a population of wild monkeys in Costa Rica, individuals with a stronger stress response were more likely to survive @jbeehner.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social

I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

NSF's Undergraduate Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology program has been abruptly archived. The deadline was tomorrow. People were submitting proposals. This program is designed to support the American scientific workforce. I cannot see the point of this level of self-sabotage.

Timing matters for maternal effects on offspring HPA-axis in wild macaque. New paper out from the Assamese macaque Project at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary! link here 👇👇 tinyurl.com/yc6k5dvf @primatenzentrum.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social @primatecognition.bsky.social @dfg.de

Permanent mood.

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

My academic grandmother.

SANTA FE INSTITUTE RESIDENT FACULTY SEARCH CALL FOR APPLICATIONS santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

I wrote the latest cover story for The Atlantic. It's about the far-ranging implications of one simple statistic: Americans have never spent so much time alone, and surging solitude is warping our society. I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

For folks on the market in social sciences.

I'm looking for guest speakers (paid, awaiting funding) for my Primate Behavior class. I'm hoping to find a couple people who work with primates in different settings (zoo, lab, field). Preference for in-country (field), historically excluded, & student/early career primatologists. Please reach out!

Terrific illustration of Simpson’s paradox, a not uncommon stumbling block in data analysis, via @tah-sci.bsky.social In the whole dataset, the relationship between X and Y is negative, but the relationship between X and Y is actually positive, once proper subsets of the data are considered.

"analyses indicate that monogamous marriage is not consistently associated with better outcomes for children...challenging prevailing assumptions about monogamy & offering insights into diverse ways in which children’s welfare is supported across sociocultural settings" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Birds have complex social lives; they pair-up, divorce and repair, but we know very little about when and how these relationships form. New work from Daisy Abraham & Josh Firth on Wytham Woods Great Tits shows that divorce happens early - probably soon after breeding www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...