NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

Le détail de la modification des conditions générales (ça va au-delà de l'IA) :

New paper out! 🍾 Using a simple, cognition-based model of pollinator movement, we show how learning can have striking effects on plants' mating patterns. Led by the brilliant Juliane Mailly! 🐝 🌺 🐝 🌸 @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...

Une équipe internationale de chercheurs a testé les effets du glyphosate, célèbre herbicide, sur plus d’un millier de rats à différents dosages - considérés comme sans effets par la réglementation européenne. À chaque fois, ils ont enregistré un surcroît de cancers. www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Entire board of Fulbright, the most prestigious American program for international educational exchange, has resigned. As someone who benefitted from a Fulbright fellowship, this is heartbreaking.

Hyper important: les Français, en particulier les enfants, sont massivement contaminés par le cadmium, un cancérogène présent dans les engrais phosphatés, à travers la consommation de céréales, pain ou pâtes. Il y aurait un lien avec l’explosion des cancers du pancréas www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨 You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone. Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise. Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️

There are 3 grants from @ucdavis.bsky.social that are on this list as being terminated as of right now (and possibly more that haven't made it on yet). I just made my calls to @schiff.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov and @mikethompson.house.gov

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

"Le gouvernement propose de réautoriser le plastique dans les cantines scolaires sous la pression des lobbys" @stephanemandard.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Call for abstract is now open, until March 28! 🧪

The Ecology & Behaviour annual conference is organised BY and FOR young researchers. In 2025 it comes back to Montpellier @ the Center for Functional & Evolutionary Ecology. Highly recommended to PhD students & postdocs - come to share your science, make new friends & meet your future collaborators!

Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world. www.science.org/content/arti...

Nouvelle enquête, nouvel appel à témoignage. Cette fois, je m'intéresse aux difficultés, dilemmes, questions et attentes qui traversent les parents au moment de choisir un mode de garde pour leur enfant. Un immense merci d'avance pour vos réponses et vos partages ! framaforms.org/trouver-un-m...

[ #VeilleESR #OperationPostes ] Un moteur de recherche super bien fichu des postes ATER, MCF et PR ouvertes au concours. sciences.re/postes/

well this shit has me rethinking my vacation plans

File under "best news you've heard in a while". Wisdom the albatross has a new baby ❤️ #birds 🌿 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

FFS! 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Oxford University has extended paid paternity leave from 2 to 12 weeks. It says “this new scheme reflects a progressive approach to supporting new parents, ensuring that employees can fully embrace this life-changing moment with fewer financial or professional concerns”. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

🚨 Breaking: Vital Long COVID data taken down following Trump order. #LongCOVID prevalence data are among CDC information taken offline following Trump order to remove “gender ideology” references. Read more from @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social: bit.ly/4jHhbTU

A l'occasion de la grève des agents de l'OFB ce vendredi, @liberation.fr publie la carte de plus de 80 actions de syndicats agricoles qui ont visé les antennes locales de l'établissement public en un an Carte by @aliceclair.bsky.social En version interactive ici www.liberation.fr/environnemen...

Disappointing new study showing - once again - that women are leaving research careers at far higher levels than men If you're interested to read about strategies to reverse these types of curves, check out our recent #Cell perspective- link below ⤵️ #WomeninSTEM 👩‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

New paper out! 🌳 🌲 (and this one is very special to me) ➡️ Diversity boosts forest productivity also (and especially?) through its effect on the number of trees within forests besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @journalofecology.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social More ⬇️ 1/7

Alors qu'il est 1er ministre, François Bayrou fait un aller-retour en jet privé à Pau pour assister au Conseil municipal. Soit 3 tonnes de CO2eq, plus que le budget carbone cible d'un Français... pour une année entière. Sans exemplarité, la transition écologique n'a aucune chance d'arriver.

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/