If the CDC firings fill you with the fury of a thousand white hot suns, might I suggest this rally and joining/supporting @standupforscience.bsky.social 🧪🩺 #ScienceSky

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

Opinion | What Makes a Great Op-Ed? An ‘L.A. Times’ Editor Explains Op-ed editor Philip Gray shares advice for academics on how to get published in a national paper and how submitting pieces is a numbers game. https://bit.ly/46W4zmE #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

March 16: "It is time to change course before the US loses its ‘measles eliminated’ status and becomes a country where children are routinely hospitalized and die each year of a preventable disease." joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/eliminated... Mid-Sep via CDC, highest # of cases in 25+ years.

There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition. Feel free to sign and share this open petition: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

✓ No basis in fact.

Unrelated to anything, just a cool recent paper jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

Do you want to support students attending #AABA2026? Get your #AABA2026 t-shirt or hoodie! Proceeds will fund our various student programs www.bonfire.com/sales-will-s...

Interested in becoming more involved in AABA? The deadline for nominations for President-Elect, Vice President, and Secretary are due October 15! bioanth.org/95th-annual-...

📌 Students attending #AABA2026: we've made some changes to simplify the submission process for Student Presentation Awards. Your award application is now due October 15, 2025, the same day as abstracts are due. 📖 Read about it here: bioanth.org/about/studen...

Ok so I have the Jane Goodall legos (which are awesome or “fire” as my daughter says!) but I totally need #PlaymobilÖtzi!

Apply! @bioanth.org #AABA2026

Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Penn & Teller covered how vaccines don't cause autism 15 years ago on the show Bullshit! which aired on Showtime. The illegitimacy of Andrew Wakefield and vaccine disinformation has been widely debunked and discredited over and over again with creative analogies and visuals, no less.

The University of Texas at Austin seeks a postdoctoral researcher in Ancient DNA. Requirements include a PhD, DNA analysis experience, and strong computational skills. Apply to Ainash Childebayeva. More info: [email protected]. #postdoc

💡 Did you know that the Tar Pits' iconic Lake Pit is a pit left over from asphalt mining operations in the late 1800s? Uncover more about the past and Ice Age L.A. at TARPITS.org!

Really excellent. Since Wakefield's retracted study, 43 of some 70 studies found no vaccine-autism link For 26 reporting a link: 2/3s authored by David & Mark Geier. Their work's been criticized for "deceptive research techniques & flawed data." Of the 8 others: 4 retracted for data manipulation

MPD cannot force you to show ID. You do NOT have to answer their questions. You SHOULD ask if you're free to leave, if the officer says NO ask if you're under arrest. DO NOT give permission to search your person or your belongings. The cops will lie to reach their goal www.acludc.org/know-your-ri...

Are you a faculty member or museum educator with a passion for tackling misconceptions and improving science education? We are now accepting applications for our 2026 Sound Science Fellows cohort! Full details and application - ncse.ngo/sound-scienc... #Fellowships #EduSky #Academia

Hank Green does an excellent job of spelling out some of the challenges higher ed is experiencing. It's worth sharing, especially with those who are not as familiar with the workings of academia. #RAdminSky #Research #Science #AcademicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQwh...

The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052

#Job alert: associate professor (universitetslektor) at the program in Human #Paleogenomics and #Population #Genomics. Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 1st. #vacancy @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

As I wrote in @thehill.com, federal science funding isn’t just about labs, it’s about livelihoods. Cuts to NIH, NSF & NASA mean lost jobs today, stalled discovery tomorrow, and fewer opportunities for the next generation. When we invest in research, we are investing in workers and communities. ⬇️

This man is destroying vaccination as a public health intervention in the US. Top to bottom. It has nothing to do with science. He is a fanatic, know-nothing ideologue.

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.

Earlier this summer I took a box making class at the Royal School of Needlework and I finally finished the box!

Important new document available regarding SCOTUS and NIH grants. scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/tell-the-s... 1/2

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

Really excellent description of how the challenge of housing has changed everyday economics for recent generations.

Proposed NIH cuts predicted to cause a drop in the US scientific workforce, to reduce support for public health, and to create gaps in scientific knowledge. Story by @aniloza.bsky.social industryhttps://www.statnews.com/2025/07/28/nih-cuts-new-study-says-long-term-they-will-cost-more-than-saved/

Learn now how to plan and hold “Effective Meetings with Lawmakers at All Levels” on July 30 at 2 p.m. ET. Learn how to tailor your message to different contexts, relay scientific information clearly, and how to maintain meaningful connections. Open to the public. RSVP now: bit.ly/3UttRm1

Want to get involved with the SMBE IDEA/ Non-Parachute Science/ Outreach? Check out our webpages, and join us! 2- or 3-year term, ~1 day/month + Award proposal reviews 1x/year, Open to SMBE members. www.smbe.org/call-for-new...

This features the amazing IDEAS program which has supported many wonderful scientists: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Its support was cut by the current admin, but the AABA exec committee voted to continue IDEAS at our meeting (join me to donate to the AABA community fund at bioanth.org/donate/)!

This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Science philanthropy faces a new reality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yes the NIH people were out in front on this “Using the rescission process, which requires only a simple majority in the Senate, the Republican majorities in the Senate and House can vote to return the unspent funds. That will avoid impoundment and lop billions off the NIH budget” April

Congratulations to Dr. Winingear and Dr. Siford @rebeccasiford.bsky.social who both successfully defended their dissertations this summer! Primarily advised by Dr. Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social. I was lucky to co-advise on some pieces. Super cool work and tremendous effort by both!

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows. Gift link: nyti.ms/44KFFFv

Science Makes the U.S. a Great Nation

CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY OR TOMORROW AND ASK THEM TO SAVE NSF!!! Full Committee Markup of NSF Appropriations for FY26 is happening Thursday morning at 9:30 EDT.

We're thrilled to announce the 2025 Leakey Foundation Baldwin Fellows! Click through to learn about these 14 scholars and their exciting human origins research. leakeyfoundation.org/announcing-t...

By me: A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference jeopardizing the future of US enterprise. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I spoke to @ninalakhani.bsky.social for this article and reading it was still a gut punch. The US’s gold-standard scientific funding system has been completely demolished. I genuinely don’t know what to do with what remains. And it’s going to get even worse under the new budget.

If you write grant proposals in the US, you might want to give this a look. boingboing.net/2025/07/01/f...

A thread about ongoing erasing and ignoring science... 🧵

It has been a busy couple of weeks in the Stone Lab. Last week Stevie Winingear defended her dissertation research on 🐌 genomics, ancient 🦃 DNA and evaluating online bioinformatics teaching! Congrats Dr. Winingear!!

As an alumna of UVA, it’s sad to see the university cave to pressure from the Trump admin: What the University of Virginia Should Have Done www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...