📢 #Postdoc opportunity! We're looking for a Postdoc to join the lab of @carogutj.bsky.social at the @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social (Potsdam, Germany). Research focus: #molecular mechanisms of nutrient exchange in arbuscular #mycorrhiza #symbiosis 📩 See www.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/2287446/karr...

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Are you a scientist or have you benefited from the fruits of research, from new treatments to new technologies? Then you have a job to do. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. Register for this meeting--then take action. @standupforscience.net

Interesting study from Landry’s team journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Easy link for comment submission: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB... Also send a copy to your congresspeople!

The Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute at @ucdavis.bsky.social is announcing a new Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity! Priority review starts June 15, 2026. Help us spread the word to the #MarineScience community. Details and Apply ➡️: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07627

📣 POSTDOC position available in the Feschotte Lab at Cornell to work on #TRANSPOSONS! More details below. Pls send informal application or inquiry ASAP by DM or email to cf458_at_cornell.edu. Pls spread the word 🙏 #TEsky www.thefeschottelabatcornell.com

Please repost !! SANTA CRUZ DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026. Deadline to register your abstracts for the meeting is Monday June 1. Please get those abstracts in ! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

More than two-thirds of the papers we've published since the lab started in 2019 have international co-authors, who have greatly enriched the science that we do bsky.app/profile/jros...

So no publication fees, no conferences, no international collab, and we can terminate or reject your grant anytime for any reason. This might have some impact on how science works, folks. And maybe just maybe not a positive one.

postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Wrote a short piece on Transposable Elements as catalysts of evolutionary innovation for a forthcoming special issue of @naturerevgenet.bsky.social on, duh, Evolutionary Innovation! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

The public comment period closes approximately July 13, 2026 (45 days from May 29 publication). Comments must be submitted to regulations.gov, Docket OMB-2026-0034

Happening today! 🚨 Don’t miss the first lecture in the GSA Award Seminar Series with 2026 GSA Early Career Medal recipient @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, presenting “Genetics in the Wild.” Join us at 1 p.m. EDT. 🔗 Make sure you're registered: buff.ly/SRiwOFt

Beyond thrilled to welcome our inaugural cohort of #CechFellows — 176 talented undergrads who will spend 9 weeks this summer contributing to real scientific discovery alongside leading HHMI scientists across the country, & at our Janelia Research Campus! hhmi.news/4dBq7tb

Happy to have the chance to share this commentary by @will-milligan.bsky.social & me: rdcu.be/fldBs.

Excited to share the published version of MIC-Drop-seq @natcomms.nature.com! Shoutout to co-lead authors @claycarey.bsky.social @sparvez.bsky.social for driving this work. Excited to see where this new scale of single-cell perturbation screening goes next. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Abstract deadline for Midwest Pop Gen 2026 extended to June 12th! Aug 21-22 at UChicago — free, trainee-oriented meeting with talks, posters + Friday BBQ at Promontory Point. Chicago in August doesn't get better than this... jkreinz.github.io/mwpg2026

Meanwhile, more on the shitweaselry within the NSF. For unexplained reasons they've put all grants to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Duke on hold.

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

Our paper on recurrent independent duplications in the primate amylase locus is now out in Cell Reports! Huge thanks to @petarpajic, @spit-lab.bsky.social and @gokcumenlab.bsky.social for their support. More about the work in the thread below from when we first shared the preprint last August.

Funny that the administration thinks they will get away with overriding free speech and whistleblower laws. They won’t. Don’t sign this. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

One month left to apply for this postdoc position in my lab at UBC! Funding is available for up to five years #DevBio #cellbio

NIH funded peeps: This is insane and coming for us.

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

“Eddy received a letter from the [NIH], informing him that his work "had been determined to be of absolutely no value to the US taxpayer, and therefore it was being specifically terminated," he recalls. Eddy says he has given up on any dream that his funding would be restored”

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

How do sperm and egg fuse? Surprisingly, we still don’t fully know… Our field has uncovered many pieces of the fertilization puzzle, but not how they fit together. We identify ✨ SPARK ✨ - a conserved sperm complex that couples sperm-egg binding to fusion. tinyurl.com/34cm4xat Read on! 🧵👇

"An email from NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to research-center grantees, seen by Science, requires their institutions to promise that U.S. authors of papers NIH has flagged because of foreign co-authors will not collaborate with them in the future."

The White House has undertaken mass exclusion of international students. It has slashed new F-1 visas circa 32% in the latest available State Dept. data. That stunning, destructive act says a thousand times more than any empty words uttered at a press conference.

The US Department of Education is currently overhauling federal accreditation rules for colleges & universities. The April 6, 2026, Proposed Changes to Initial Draft Regulations unacceptably seek to narrow & control what can be taught, learned, & researched on college & university campuses. 🧵 1

Sobering essay about the lack of science funding from the president of Johns Hopkins. Note, that 1.5 years ago, Hopkins rolled out the red carpet to the men responsible for this...

I am delighted to share new work with Simon Myers (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...), on how genetic variants that influence binding patterns of PRDM9 and slow down the repair of meiotic double-strand breaks impact mammalian spermatogenesis and fertility. 1/n

Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.

UVic is hiring a Terrestrial Plant Ecologist Assistant Professor! Come join our department! We're nice and Victoria is awesome. www.uvic.ca/science/biol...

This is a fantastic mentoring opportunity!

I am recruiting Ph.D. students this cycle. Students interested in deep-sea fishes and phylogenetic comparative methods are an especially good fit.

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

The human genome's most variable and clinically important regions (centromeres, telomeres, and acrocentric short arms) have been hardest to study at scale. Thrilled to share KaryoScope, our new preprint that brings them within reach. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

“Most Chinese scientists came to the U.S. with the hope of staying for their careers,” Innes says. “But now they are getting the clear message that the government doesn’t want them to be here.” 1/2 @policyhound.bsky.social 👏👏👏 www.science.org/content/arti...

MIT is doing less research and enrolling fewer graduate students as a result of federal actions, the university president warned. Federally funded research on campus is down more than 20 percent compared to this time last year, she said.

Scoop: There has been a massive shakeup at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Eight of the top ten officials have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office. In @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

MIT has lost 500 international grad students relative to last year. Caused directly by the White House. Closing America's doors to the very best, most brilliant people on the planet is like dropping a bomb directly on America's capacity to innovate. On the prosperity of our children's future.

this bizarro anti-gender clinic is the type of thing you set up to launder pseudoscientific “research” through an otherwise reputable institution and further amplify a small minority of voices. a clinical dept staffed by segm…