🎉 5,000+ genome assemblies sequenced! EBP affiliates are building momentum, and we’re already looking ahead to the next genome sequencing milestone on the road to 2026. Congratulations to everyone who worked together to make this happen. Happy holidays and a happy New Year! ✨🧬

A new #ScienceAdvances study shows that commercial whaling in the Southern Ocean over the past century reduced the genetic diversity—and possibly the evolutionary fitness—of the region’s humpback whales. https://scim.ag/4anxPpM

We made the cover of @heredityjournal.bsky.social ! Photo by @cherinebaumgartner.bsky.social

Buy The Evolution of Cetacean Societies book direct from uChicago press via link below and use the code UCPNEW at checkout to get 30% discount off the list price. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Halloween, the day Satan introduces your children to the gateway drug to homosexuality—costumes!

New paper out in Heredity: 'Evidence of long-term purging of mutation burden in killer whale genomes'. Time calibration of purging was through inclusion of an ancient (7.5Kyr) genome which was close to directly ancestral to the present-day population with signature of purging. rdcu.be/eM25j

We are seeking speakers for #pag33 hosted in San Diego: Jan 9th at 10:30am. Talk to us about your current/planned efforts to develop genomic resources for threatened/endangered species! @ebpgenome.bsky.social - hosted by @uconneeb.bsky.social @nanoporetech.com Abstracts by Oct 27th! 🧬 🦜 🌱 🐛 🐢

It's not easy to make genomic research sound exciting, but the Earth BioGenome Project has done a great job in the latest issue of EBP Life, featuring "Underwater Genomes", and a Spotlight story that makes my career sound as exciting as I think it is. bit.ly/EBP_LIFE

We are seeking volunteer ASL Interpreters (or students working towards certification) to join monthly, virtual meetings and facilitate translation of spoken language (English) to American Sign Language and sign language to spoken language. Knowledge of marine mammal sciences is not required. (1)

White Christian Taliban shit right here. Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)

Thanks to our whole EBP community for making this milestone possible. | @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social | @kurakulabmsm.bsky.social | @atlasea.bsky.social | @biogeneurope.bsky.social | @ergabiodiv.bsky.social | @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social | @invertebrates.bsky.social | @projectpsyche.bsky.social |

🚀🧬🔥 Hot off the press — 2025! Don’t miss this must-read publication: bit.ly/4mJwFb7 This groundbreaking paper sets the stage for Earth BioGenome Project Phase II — where EBP is gearing up to scale genome sequencing 10× faster than ever before! 🌍✨

📣 ATTN (please share!) 📣 The #DEI Committee of the Society for @marinemammalogy.bsky.social is currently seeking volunteer American Sign Language Interpreters (or students working towards certification). #ASL #AmericanSignLanguage #SignLanguage #marinemammals @dolphinwhisperer.bsky.social

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Thank you @murray.senate.gov for joining the chorus demanding RFK be fired. www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr... Now we need action! @sanders.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social

AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

Important. Clear, concise, imperative. Please watch.

I sent her a response today: Washington state will not be bullied or intimidated by threats and legally baseless accusations.

The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.

With the death of anti-LGBTQ Christian Nationalist, James Dobson, the VIP section of Hell is now full. Fellow bigots, please make other arrangements.

“Progress” is not what got them to drop everything, including Merloni leaving her vacation, to scramble and fly to DC immediately. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Release the unredacted tRumpstein files!

Costco NEVER carried mifepristone Costco NEVER carried mifepristone Costco NEVER carried mifepristone Costco NEVER carried mifepristone

Notification about the Kennedy Center Honors:

People working in or visiting museums in DC: Please use your phones to record politically/racially/sexuality/gender sensitive exhibits before the Trump administration desecrates them with its white supremacist heteronormative propaganda. Because we will need to fix them when he’s gone to Hell.

NEW: Governor Newsom will be holding a press conference and rally at 11:30 AM PT tomorrow in Los Angeles regarding redistricting. The announcement is chef's kiss.

"ChatGPT, show me on a map where most of the crimes are being committed in Washington, DC."

@genefortexas.bsky.social: "We're buying time for Texans to wake up... To not only deal with TX but deal w/ this in every other state. If ppl who lie, cheat, and steal are allowed to win the day, that is the end of our country... Get off your ass! This is our last shot at saving the American dream."

Here are the still images. Please share them widely.

Note to Kristi Noem: It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.

#Hypocricy #ManufacturedOutrageTheater

My baby boy's first wonky media mention. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

August 3, 2025

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 2! Two options: 1. Attend a @50501movement.bsky.social Protest! (Link in their bio) 2. Share our 31 Days of Action w/ a listserv, dept, signal chat, union, your lab, or group chat! #31Days www.standupforscience.net/31-days-of-a...

Another day, another reminder...

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

Bravo to this wonderful woman who is stepping up and using her voice. Let’s all be brave like her, shall we?

The Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genome Lab is hiring for a wet lab Research Support Associate! Interested in sequencing long-read DNA and RNA for high-quality reference genomes? Apply here: careers.rockefeller.edu/jobs/1834?la...

The Department of Homeland Security wants you to know its values are now based in White Nationalism. Systemic racism at the highest level.

Complex patterns of hitchhiking mutation load among stickleback populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666323v1

New lab preprint led by Jana Nickel (not on BS): doi.org/10.1101/2025... Investigating hitchhiking mutation load in threespine sticklebacks. I'll be presenting this work in a few hours at #Stickleback2025 here in beautiful Bamfield

"The Slovenian Sex Worker Who Did Soft-Core Lesbian Porn and Married a Vulgar Rapist for his Money Opera House" seems like a long name.