Biologists: Pay attention to this. This is the legal basis for NOT teaching creationism and intelligent design in science classes. If this ruling sticks, teaching evolution as science will be attacked in short order, with geology and astronomy not far behind.

PhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬 Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution? Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 22nd of May!

Friends! My university is hiring an Asst Professor of Biology and an Asst Professor of History and American Indian Studies. Our students are wonderful, my colleagues are great, we do good work. Please share! Happy to answer questions :) heritage.edu/wp-content/u... heritage.edu/wp-content/u...

Ecologists I need a favor! 🌎🌍🌏 I am teaching a GIS class for freshmen. I want to zoom in for like 15-20 min with other ecologists that are using drones, uav, collars, biologgers, telemetry, or any type of sensors to study wildlife. 1️⃣

Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive! If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email [email protected].

A central mission of PASEDB is to foster networking, discussion and a sense of community We offered multiple opportunities such as two poster sessions, community-building workshop, opening reception with a karaoke session and poetry slam… 🎤🎙️🎶

I keep a trail cam set up outside my office, and the other night I picked up a long-tailed weasel. I've never seen one of these in my life, but apparently we have them right here on campus (Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, USA)

List of positions open at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon University: arquivo.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/concursos You can use the "filter" to select for grade (e.g., Professorships) and area (e.g. Biological Sciences). There are two now open relating to Biology, and presumably a bunch more to come.

One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!

📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢 My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica! If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre. #TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur

LTER has been archived for about a year now. It’s normal between solicitations. LTER is still here.

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.

Where on the Democracy Index does it fall when the government bans entire fields of education?

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

Trump’s $1.5 trillion military budget will destroy what little is left of US science, environment, & health: Cuts: NIH -$5.8 billion NASA -$5.6 billion NSF -$4.8 billion EPA -$4.6 billion CDC -$2.9 billion NOAA -$1.6 billion It also includes $$ for 130,000 beds at ICE concentration camps.

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds. n.pr/4ttOsq4

Joined a protest and checked my bracket today. (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)

Our paper is on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social : a strawberry poison frog with the most common color morph, living up to its common name 🍓. In this issue, we uncover the genetic basis of color variation in frogs from Bocas del Toro, where blue, green, yellow, orange, and red morphs occur

Predictable, but sad nonetheless. 🧪

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

🧪Science friends: Participate in this (quick) survey-based study of GenAI use in ecology & evolutionary biology research clemson.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Undergrad and graduate students! Could your work benefit from visiting one of the NHMLAC’s collections? Apply for our Collections Study Award, due Apr. 1. I’d love to have students make use of our Entomology collection! Details here: tinyurl.com/bdduefsy

Let’s go #scicomm peeps.

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Gavin expresses beautifully how active, personal writing forces clarity in thought and expression. We can only stop and exit this ride, however, if we more senior academics jettison *metrics of productivity* in our evaluation of applicants and colleagues. 1|4

this is a generational loss

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Sowed all the seeds that I'd collected last fall on our recently burned campus prairie. (Butler University campus prairie, Indianapolis, IN, USA)

Post prairie burn pics. I spread some wildflower and native grass seeds in some of our burned areas and put up our tree swallow/bluebird boxes. A little DeKay's brown snake came out to bask (Butler University campus prairie, Indianapolis, IN, USA)

We tried to squeeze a prescribed fire in between the rains. Managed to burn the big bluestem, but we couldn't get fire through the forbs. Hopefully we get better conditions before burn season is over. (Butler University campus prairie, Indianapolis, IN, USA)

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

So proud to be a part of this, and thanks @katharinehayhoe.com for the shout out on the Bright Spots chapter, which is what I have worked on! #EarthOptimism www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...

HUGE paper alert. 🚨Lowland tropical insects likely at their thermal limits 🚨 Big congrats to Kim and colleagues on this. Protein stability matches up with thermal limits across families too. 🧬🔥

Every American needs to watch this:

I have my intro biostatistics students a challenge: create the ugliest graph you can given the data and your current skill set. Here are the top contenders. Warning: they are ugly. #rstats

Come work with us at UW-Green Bay! We're hiring a tenure-track ecologist with a focus on global change biology. 🧪🌎🪶 wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UW_Com...

I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Happy Black History Month! I am sharing a permanent and continuously updated list of inspiring Black scientists! Check it out! Huge thank you to the folks who gathered this info. Thank you to @drstarbird.bsky.social and the rest of the Index Committee! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...

Nature and Science journalists denied entry to event featuring NIH Director

Sunday: Contact my senators and rep, watch birds and squirrels from inside the house, watch the snow, drink hot coffee, repeat. (Hamilton Co., IN, USA)

Too cold to go outside, but I can still get photos from the warmth of my kitchen! (Hamilton Co., IN, USA)

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

Great to see some bipartisan support for science in Congress in this budget cycle. www.reuters.com/world/us-sen...?

Update on some of our decades long cowbird research in @audubon.org magazine: www.audubon.org/magazine/got...

I'm gearing up to teach a non-majors "Evolution and Society" class for the first time. One unit will be on debunking myths and misconceptions about evolution. Which ones do I absolutely have to include?