From winter storms to wildfires, NCAR is a world leader in measuring climate data to predict extreme weather events. Without these predictions, lives are put in danger. Save Lives, Save NCAR. Email your Rep. & Senators to demand the full funding of NCAR! : tr.ee/save-ncar

Are you an undergrad interested in ecology, evolution or related fields? Apply by January 20 for our Undergraduate Community at Evolution program! This program provides funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...

My buddy and bat scientist @arummel.bsky.social is studying how bat wings move in flight. Scientists often look at the 2d shapes of bat wings but her work shows it’s critical to consider the 3d shape while in flight. #SICB2026

my 2025 year in review

The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14

POSTDOC ALERT🚨 Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today! We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January. Collaboration with @dustinrubenstein.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly. Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help! 🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm

Did you receive a Student Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social ? We'd love to hear what you achieved with those awards (or, please share with someone who had one), even going back many years: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Why did I only just find out that that there are water striders that live IN (ON!!) THE OPEN OCEAN? 🧪 OCEAN STRIDERS!!

The Undergraduate Community at Evolution program provides travel funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. Please share with undergrads in your lab! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ... @asn-amnat.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social

This is a reminder that @asn-amnat.bsky.social publishes abstracts in both English and your native language, using your native alphabet. You can see and read those online. Here is a screenshot of a great example. Love seeing this in my favorite journal.

🚨Who wants to work with Kalahari meerkats? A MSc project with @mathildemartin.bsky.social at the University of Zurich. #bioacoustics 🧪

If you're looking for a #postdoc but aren't quite a fit for my lab, check out this exciting opportunity via IU's Common Themes in Reproductive Diversity group! 2-year NIH traineeship to work on one of the group's core themes. Details here! ctrd.indiana.edu/how-to-apply/

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

🔬✨Join us Nov. 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Science Fest 2025. Explore hands-on, interactive activities that spark curiosity and inspire learners of all ages. You might even spot Hoosier the Bison in his new lab coat! 🦬 🥼 🎉 Open to the public, free admission. 🔗sciencefest.indiana.edu/index.html

The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

my lab has moved to @iubiology.bsky.social! We're getting the #newlab set up here and excited to interact with @iu-cisab.bsky.social, @bdsc.bsky.social, and more! I'd love to hear from prospective lab members, especially prospective PhD students, postdocs, and technicians. more info: saltzlab.com

The Smith Bee Lab is HIRING! 🐝🐝🐝 - Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date) - 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026) No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply! (no jerks, plz)

The next stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social will be on the East Coast!!! Mark your calendars for January 8-12, 2027 and we'll talk evolution, ecology, behavior, and integrative organismal biology at www.themansionatglencove.com/meeting-venues

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

NIH funding had a 156% basic annual return in 2024 (ie not taking into account any previous and/or future investments and/or returns). I’m no finance expert but it seems crazy that we’re all going to have that thrown away cause some people think public schools want to turn kids into transgender mice

Come see @stevebrusatte.bsky.social and I TODAY at the @edbookfest.bsky.social! We'll be talking about A City on Mars, and the @royalsociety.org is going to announce their 2025 Book Prize short-list during the session! Tickets available here: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

"Save The NSF" - a little blogpost I wrote to amplify the #SaveTheNSF mission. The National Science Foundation is one of the world’s premier funders of basic science research; proposed federal cuts would derail how we do science in the U.S. aguidetoacademia.blogspot.com/2025/07/save...

A Peacock Fly (Callopistromyia sp.) showing off the beautiful display on those wings! They strut around waving their wings and doing a little wiggle, an amazing behavior right in your own backyard. #Invert #Diptera #bugsky 🌿 #entomology

Proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation “would cause immense and largely irreversible damage to the successful American scientific enterprise,” write Jerry Kaplan and Dana Carroll in an op-ed.

Hi, if you are looking to come to Canada for a post-doc or a PhD, consider my lab to study the genetic basis of social interactions, using the fruit fly! My university (Western University) has a new program to welcome you! See below! #drosophila #postdoc #canada #PhD #social #behaviouralneurogenetic

One small hint here: Everyone in the country wants cancer cures. And they’re cheap and easy compared to other programs: Fund NIH/NSF, and keep politics out of those agencies. Politicians should lean hard into this!

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

My university has announced a special international graduate fellowship for PhD students whose acceptance at a US university has been rescinded. Check it out: grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

Do you have expertise in Animal Behavior & in Editorial work? Open position below👇🏼

"A generation of scientific talent at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by dismantling of NSF" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How to interpret sexual selection using Bateman gradients? When are these not informative & how should researchers identify, deal with confounded gradients? We simulate anisogamy & sperm competition to provide a guide for using Bateman gradients. Out in Evolution academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Great new paper shows that using knowledge from non-English language journals can strengthen global biodiversity databases. Including info from Brazilian journals increased species & population coverage & reduced uncertainty in population trends besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@madisonplunkert.bsky.social speaks to the people of #Maryland: Budget cuts to NIH, NOAA, and other agencies threaten our health, safety, and economy. These aren’t just numbers—they endanger the scientific foundation of our future." zurl.co/B7VCL #Maryland#StandUpForScience #SummerFightForScience

The 2024 Breakthrough of the Year @science.org Where did it come from? NIH supported research www.science.org/content/arti...

"Every cut has a constituency". In this case, Chicago and Illinois politicians will see their voters die from Trump cuts. Stand up with us to fight back for all-things science, health and life itself in America. #StandUpForScience

Richard is a metastatic cancer patient whose life could be saved by a custom cell therapy — one that is currently sitting unused in a freezer because of Trump's NIH cuts.
 Yet another example of the real impacts of the Trump Admin's attacks on science and our federal workforce.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

I stand strong with the civil servants at NIH who are not only doing science but defending science by demanding that the administration not abandon lifesaving research mandated by law. Putting NIH research on hold puts people’s lives at risk.

Powerful story from Carolyn Johnson at the Washington Post... wapo.st/44ntbo4 [Should be a gift link; let me know if there are problems]

@carrieamcdphd.bsky.social speaks to the people of #Pittsburgh: NIH dollars fuel research, clinical trials & health innovation. Cut NIH? You’re cutting 60k jobs & lifesaving discoveries. We fight for science because gutting science affects ALL of us. #StandUpForScience zurl.co/TODlP

The Senate Budget Reconciliation bill was changed over the weekend to authorize the selling of 258 million acres of your federal land. The first selloff must be finalized within 30 days, then every 60 days the bill would require more.

“The bill’s process for selling off lands runs at breakneck speed, demanding the nomination of tracts within 30 days, then every 60 days until the arbitrary multi-million-acre goal is met, all without hearings, debate or public input.”

Interested in Postdoc Research here in Oxford? Many projects possible using long-term population studies of birds, field & lab experiments with insect consumers, phenology of trees all in Wytham woods & based in new Biology building marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

This is worse than many appreciate because it is not merely a delay. Many institutions such as mine are TERMINATING these otherwise active grants if the NoA is delayed by more than a month because they cannot afford to keep the grant supported personnel on payroll

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟 If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

New preprint dropped: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by PhD student Swapna Subramanian. Wild yeasts on apple orchards in CT exhibit local adaptation (and sometimes maladaptation) to their particular orchard & apple variety. The dominant yeast's adaptation affects community composition