I am one of a growing number of voices encouraging the scientific community to engage with people and policymakers outside of our typical professional circles. Our professional organizations, including @sicb.bsky.social, also need to engage with new audiences by making their science accessible.

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

This was such a fascinating talk at #SICB25 so excited to see it published www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Read this and sign it!

Excuse me, what?

This looks super interesting!

💙 I'm SO doing this! 💙 🧠🪱🐤 SHARE, SHARE, SHARE 🧠🪱🐤 🦋 @standupforscience.bsky.social 🦋 act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

As most science PhD programs are at least 5 years this is going to be a massive problem.

It was great to collaborate with you Joao on making some justice to the memory of the Elisabeth "The Great" Vrba and contextualizing her contributions as one of the "three musketeers" of the macroevolution! link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology #Geology #EvoBio

My whole lab is going - who else will be there?

I’m excited to finally be able to attend one of these SSB breakout meetings!

Hey @timmiller.bsky.social @thebulwark.com @maddow.msnbc.com @rbreich.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @atrupar.com @motherjones.com @clarajeffery.bsky.social We are up to some good trouble! Can you help us reach 100k signatures to IMPEACH THE QUACK???

Nice find on our dog walk this evening! North American luna moth.

Introducing the 1,000 Flower Collection 🧬🌹 I’m creating 1,000 genetically designed flowers each crafted with new colors, patterns, and shapes. Here’s how I’m making it happen… and how you can join me on this journey 🧵(1/7)

Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology! Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions. (Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.) lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...

I am really excited to be a part of this team. We took our time writing this, putting a lot of thought into how our journeys as #NativesInSTEM were affected by different aspects of Universities and looking for commonalities across the world. I hope folks in academia appreciate this work.

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096... Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples! #rstats #geology #paleontology

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...

New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access! doi.org/10.59319/YHF...

Devastated to see the NSF postdoctoral research fellowship in biology archives. This is a transformative creative opportunity and a path to the professorship for many (including myself). Postdocs are highly trained and often in the newest techniques which spur innovation. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Well, fuck.

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪

Unfortunate, but not unexpected: Spotted lanternfly is now in South Carolina. Let the squishing begin! news.clemson.edu/invasive-spo...

Scissor-tailed flycatcher in South Carolina! They are a breeding pair but their nestlings were predated last week. However, we found what looks to be a new nest in a less exposed position so 🤞

Keep going everyone!

If Harvard (a private institution) can't resist caving to protect, NAY, UPLIFT our communities, students, staff, faculty, then I'm not very conf. other places can. We are watching the fall of DEI happening in real time. We're losing a gen of scientists. www.cnn.com/2025/07/10/u...

I am sure this will be interesting! Tucker is a great scientist

Call your senator TONIGHT or tomorrow morning if they are on the appropriations committee and encourage them to support the subcommittee recommendation - i just did!

Had great fun making these cakes for our two newly minted Doctors in the Lab. The decorations match their thesis topics - fish teeth and a whale fluke.

Congratulations to Dr Dani Adam’s @dani-adams.bsky.social and Dr Keiffer Williams @keifferwilliams.bsky.social who defended their dissertations this week! Two brilliant scientists who will go on to do amazing things. Read Dani’s first chapter here bit.ly/3TiVsG5 and Keiffer’s here bit.ly/4lbabPN

HUD has been touring the building for months. NSF says nothing…”nothing to see here”. I’m quite sick of gaslighting, bullying, and lack of respect for science and academia. It’s getting harder and harder to take.

A major figure in macroevolution is gone but not forgotten!

Looks fascinating!

For this world ocean day I was super fortunate to sit and eat breakfast here watching two endangered Hawaiian monk seals foraging. The oceans are the lifeblood of the planet - donate and advocate where you can.

Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space. 2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

In case you couldn't bear to read all the way to the end (understandable), here is the proposed picture for the BIO Directorate.

🚨🚨🚨!Post doc opportunity! 🚨🚨🚨 35 month post doc on niche modelling of migratory whales in my lab with Katrina Jones. Job advert below: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please get in touch with questions!

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ... Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge! Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' @jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer ssb2026.github.io

Hey folks going to #evol2025 in Athens. The SSE #DEI committee is sponsoring a workshop on how to avoid bias in writing T&P letters. Registration is required and the workshop is open to all career stages! Please share and help spread the word @sse-evolution.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social

New paper alert! @keifferwilliams.bsky.social has spent many years refining the application of complexity measures to highly variable 🐟🦷 he explains how you can do it in his first chapter of his PhD in @sicbjournals.bsky.social

I just did this - you should too!

Lucky shot! Was taking photos of the noddies (seabirds) and they were photobombed by the tuna! Could not have taken this photo if I tried to do so but a very happy accident!

We just completed the first of four weeks measuring and photographing 🐠 at the Bishop museum. To my surprise I have found a new appreciation for gobies - so morphologically diverse! Tiny fishes are hard to measure and photograph so the team is looking forward to pseudochromids and labrids soon!

Super excited to share our new paper investigating convergence across planktivorous fishes and assessing the impact of ancestry and light environment led by Dr Jen Hodge @fishncurious.bsky.social and including most members of the lab past and present academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

This is a really excellent thread for grad students or soon to be grad students.

Published today in Biological Reviews: "New perspectives on body size and shape evolution in dinosaurs" - the biggest paper from my PhD (my favourite chapter, too). doi.org/10.1111/brv.... Here's a thread outlining some of our key findings. (1/10)

This highlights how a strong mutualistic interaction can promote the diversification of entire clades by influencing their phenotypes, defining their geographic distribution, and ultimately contributing to their evolutionary and ecological success 🧪🧬🐠 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New from the Near Lab, a super collaboration led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social Phylogenomics and evolutionary history of the iconic reef fish clade wrasses and parrotfishes (Labridae) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6149