Statement from Rep. Lofgren (ranking member of House Science Committee) re dissolving SBE: "What NSF is reportedly doing is in illegal contravention of the laws enacted by Congress this January. For over 75 years, NSF’s guiding light was how to best support cutting-edge research across all...

If I read this correctly, the proposed cuts are 50% for GEO, 65% for BIO, and 80% ENG? (To 2x click link in post, then click link for pdf of budget request).

April is half way through the fiscal year, but NSF still doesn't have its funds because Vought constantly find ways to strangle the US scientific enterprise.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

The new bee documentary is out today in Disney+. Our buzzing bees did make the cut at the end! It is really nice to see the clip of how bees use previously collected nectar to pack pollen even in nectarless flowers! There are lots of other cool things in this two-part film!

I'm hiring! I have 2 open positions: 🔬 Postdoc 🧪 Research associate We study how animal multicellularity evolved by exploring the molecular logic of cell adhesion using cell biology, 'omics, and tool-building in non-model organisms. Come join us! Details and application links 👇 Please repost

Check out this paper by Shelley Sianta, myself, undergrad Amal Suri, @ybrandva, and Dave Moeller! Despite the notable absence of ANY early-generation hybrids in our dataset of 410 plants from selfing and outcrossing #clarkia sister taxa, we found substantial admixture. 1/4

🚨 My first first-authored paper is out in @evolletters.bsky.social 🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis. 🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations. 🧵⬇️

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to [email protected] + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

Review: What happens when it gets too hot – the vulnerability of plant reproduction in a warming world plantae.org/review-what-...

While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....

Spring beauty blossoms #Spring

Sometimes you just get that shot. Anna's hummingbird with a little friend, in my yard. Davis, CA. #birds #ants

Hey #fungal26 our lab is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for an NSF funded project in ectomycorrhizal competition. Come find me for more info! www.lotuslofgren.com/pd2026

Xkcd does it again! m.xkcd.com/3221/

You hear what I'm doing constantly here, but do you want to see what @skypeascientist.bsky.social accomplishes in a year, all in one place? Our 2025 annual report is where you'll find it! drive.google.com/file/d/1sHCs... TY to graphic designer @coreydanks.bsky.social for putting this together!

We're hiring a post doc! Looking for a global change ecologist to work with Jenny McGuire & a multidisciplinary team including me and @jameststroud.bsky.social on the ecology side of things please share widely!

Calling all Master students! We have two PhD positions open, one in molecular plant science on robustness, and one in plant cell biology of light signaling. For more details see: www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/en/light-sig...

We are thrilled to announce the next ECR (and apparently butterfly)-themed session of the Integration of Speciation seminar, featuring @charlottewright.bsky.social and @thymelicus.bsky.social + careers Q&A with Dr Sally Potter. Find the link on the Ios website & mailing list.

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Absolutely astonishing. I don't think many people realize the extent to which the scientific enterprise in America has collapsed over the past 14 months. As someone who covered science funding for the first half of his career, it's almost unfathomable this could happen.

In honor of #PiDay, the case of when the Indiana house of reps overwhelmingly voted to make it 3.2 and the Indiana senate was only stopped from doing the same due to where Waldo was and his work (math prof there to lobby for Purdue budget) www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The world is rubbish, but this poppy grew from a crack in the pavement outside my house, and that's rather lovely, isn't it. 🌱💚🥰

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Frog chorus in Santa Cruz off West Cliff Drive 🌿

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

🚨🚨🚨 Attention science communicators! 🚨🚨🚨 The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN! Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*. The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026. Apply here! forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...

1. Bumblebee deep breathing: abdominal pumping moves oxygen to the muscles pre-flight😮‍💨 2. Digging through leaf litter to find a cosy hibernation spot for the winter💤 3. Resting post-hibernation, allowing the body to adjust to being awake☮️ 4. A quick groom (every bumblebee must look their bee-st)🔥

14 more days left to apply for these two postdoc positions in my team. Please share with your network!

Postdoc @eawag.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/673277/1341/...

My good friend and director of the natural history museum of Denmark is looking for a curator for #bryophytes. Thus, if you like these small #plants, you should really apply. Great place to work, great city and amazing plants. #sciencejobs #plantscijobs www.linkedin.com/posts/nina-r...

Bees 🐝

During his career Stewart has been involved in research projects on black and grizzly bears, bighorn sheep, mule deer, whitetails, mountain lions and elk, along with three species of grouse.

“While not everyone will be funded, there is some expectation of a fair and transparent review process, and that doesn’t seem to be happening ... For new grad students, or those applying this year, the outright rejection without a clear reason is incredibly discouraging” —@kheyduk.bsky.social

Say hello to my little friend #birds

Open PhD position – join our lab in Freiburg Through the IMPRS (Max Planck) program, we are looking for a motivated PhD student interested in signalling, and developmental mechanisms. Be quick - deadline is tomorrow! www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr...

In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth let’s learn more about Marie Taylor, a plant biologist and chair of Howard University’s Botany Department. Love her focus on photomorphogensis and using light microscopy on living plants! 🌱 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_T...

This fungus infects plants, hijacks them, and makes its own fake flowers where the real ones should be www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

Is speciation usually allopatric? Genomic analyses of 93 Drosophila species pairs show that gene flow during divergence is common—even among allopatric species—challenging the classic allopatric model of speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Penstemon whippleanus, our Whipple's Penstemon, blooming in Mayflower Gulch #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to July 20 🌿

Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

I used this pic. today as part of my intro to adaptation in my UG class. I get students to guess what the pic shows and what it's for. I've done this w. other traits in prev. years to highlight how adaptation get us asking about function/purpose of traits in ways we dont do with nonliving things.

📢 I would be happy to host a 2-year DDLS Postdoc at my group using museum genomics to look at recent adaptation in insect pollinators 📉🐝🦋🧬 If you are interested in this (or have other project ideas) get in touch ASAP! The application deadline is March 31. INFO 👉 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

The Canada Government will offer 400 postdoctoral fellowships to international researchers in early 2026. If you have a background in wildlife microbiome or quantitative genetics and are interested to apply to work on microbiome variation in Sable Island horses or caribou, feel free to get in touch

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

This photosynthetic magic trick allows for the big finale: some sacoglossan sea slugs can detach their own heads from their body (which contains the gut!) & live on photosynthesis for a few weeks while the body regrows from the head! The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.

Pink Ghost Pipe plant at my hometown, Logy Bay, #Newfoundland Canada. Ghost Pipes are most commonly white, but some have pink or even red colouration. Pic from a couple of years ago, in August. #wildflower #flower #botany #plants #fungifriends

I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿 lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...