I LOVE that MSU is positioning Extension as human expertise in direct opposition to AI ❤️ 🤘

Great science happens in great teams — research assessments must try to capture that www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One Health

Postdoc opportunity at the Batten School & VIMS/William & Mary! If you have interests in shellfish pathology and parasitology, parasite phylogenetics and phylogeography, marine disease ecology and evolution, consider applying to work in our lab. williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/job...

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

The University of Hamburg has opened 14 PhD positions focused on ecological and evolutionary research, including climate change impacts on aquatic populations. Details here: https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/grk2530/openpositions.html #phd

#nokings Williamsburg Va! Great peaceful protest

#PopGen New preprint of the team on the discovery of a very high rate of polymorphic duplication in a marine bivalve. Imagine looking at the distribution of the allelic coverage fraction at heterozygous calls in an indivdual and getting this distribution 👇 😱😱😱

As we bid a fond farewell to Professor Stephen Widdicombe, we share his parting reflections on what makes a great scientist - and why the world needs marine science now more than ever.

yo this guy is cooking

Live seaside webcams for Aotearoa New Zealand (not a complete list) #earthquake #Tsunami Oamaru: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKhG... Dunedin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5gl... Wellington: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWrY... Castlepoint: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gmI... Hauraki: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXE6...

Our new paper highlighting the relative freedom from protozoan infection of hatchery shellfish seed, information foundational to shellfish health management in the US: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"eliminate all funding for [NOAA] climate, weather, and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes" "ending the operations of a huge host of earth science satellites" "closure of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center"

Attention all beaver lovers! This one’s for you. A beaver dam in British Columbia holding back sediment after heavy rain 🦫👇💚 📸: Dave Throup

“A new global analysis reveals that coral restoration…. often overlooks current and future levels of thermal stress, which places most restoration projects at high risk of failure.”

A new paper we’re so pleased to be a part of, led by our colleagues @cofcharleston.bsky.social : www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Bioinformatics without the command line? Yes please. We just launched a free app where non-comp bio folks can run bioinformatics software like SprayNPray, Megahit, Bakta, and more, via simple GUIs. Get your FASTAs ready! omix.midauthorbio.com

Studies show a massive return of fish and marine megafauna to sites with these underwater tidal turbines. How? Simple: overfishing is prevented. If they proved suitable for Irish locations, it would be *such* a win-win, generating clean electricity AND providing a haven for marine ecosystems.

I’m so happy that I’ve finally done a firefly&glowworm themed piece! When we talk about bioluminescent insects, we usually first think of those flying & twinkling little fairies. However, many of them are in the form of wingless “worms”, and I found them equally fascinating 💙

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In "Dynamics of Mixed-Ploidy Populations under Demographic and Environmental Stochasticities", Gaynor et al. discover a tetraploid advantage in times of high environmental stress! Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Join us at the University of Iceland! They are hiring an assistant professor in marine and freshwater ecology! 🤓 Lots of water available in and around the country, plenty of cool nature and a volcanic eruption every now and then! 🌊🐟🐳🌿🌋 english.hi.is/about-ui/wor...

The US once benefitted from autocrats chasing away scientists and academics from Europe, now somewhere else will benefit from autocrats doing the same thing in the US. Shame.

This gritty reboot of Rocky IV where the U.S. government roots for Drago for some reason, is terrible

#StandUpForScienceFr #StandUpForScience2025 #StandUpForScience À #Marseille c’est un peu plus de 700 personnes qui se sont rassemblées pour défendre nos libertés académiques et scientifiques !

Here, America, is the *real* response to Trump’s address to Congress tonight you need to hear. Circulate it as widely as you can among friends, neighbours, workmates, members of your church. Circulate it especially among Trump voters, so that they can know the needless viciousness of what he’s done.

Trump thinks anyone protesting must be from another country when the right and will to protest our own government is a foundational American value.

Being an archive is essential if website content is restored but access is limited by banned keywords.

Extraordinary quote from the German president about Trump/Vance's ambush of Zelensky: "I would never have believed that we would ever have to defend Ukraine from the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...

This is unforgivable.

My kind of breaking news: Robert Caro on next installment of his LBJ biography: “Well, I’ll tell you what pages I’m up to—951.” www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rifl...

As the world of science wakes up to modern fascism, it's worth remembering older generations who stood up for humanity in much harsher circumstances. Jacques Monod worked actively for the resistance in WWII, while pursuing early stages of his research in occupied Paris. @standupforscifr.bsky.social

Virginia has made significant investments in the restoration of oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay, and now a study led by William & Mary’s Batten School & VIMS suggests those management practices are literally paying off in the Rappahannock River

Any French-speaking friends with interests in marine geoscience (broad!) interested in moving to Canada? 🧪⚒️ #AcademicSky universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

NEW: Trump actions on science may affect a generation as pauses + cuts in graduate admissions begin. “We had just flown them out, we told them we love you, we want to admit you, and then everything just stopped." "It's freezing everybody into inaction." www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/t...

The wind may be partly to blame for bird flu spread between farms, a new study suggests www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

Just some amazing things created by federal civil servants 💚

@stevestuwill.bsky.social you posted on 𝕏 on Dec 5, 2020 this stunning video - why not repeat on 🔵bsky ? (sorry, I did)... "Time-lapse footage of a vampire amoeba: a microscopic organism that feeds on algal cells by breaking through their cell walls and sucking out their insides." #ProtistsOnSky

Mortality drives production dynamics of Atlantic cod through 1100 years of commercial fishing | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Government scientists in the US must be clear-eyed and continue to serve the public, says Gretchen T Goldman https://go.nature.com/4aKiLAs

NSF is still freezing grants and reviewing for potential clashes with trumps edicts: terms such as“broadening participation” language, foreign assistance, climate science, domestic energy” all flagged. This is insane, career wrecking and damaging for quality science 😡🧪

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

Really appreciate Jonathan Lambert pointing out that NSF grants are congressionally mandated to weigh how grants broaden participation in science, putting the administration's executive order against DEIA in conflict with, and potentially undermining, congressional legislation