Another day testing the limits of resilience. The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels. Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels. The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.

I am looking for a postdoc to work on cutthroat trout evolutionary and conservation genetics, starting ~January 2026. Get in touch or find me at #Evol2025 for more information!

I wrote this in a week where it felt like professoring while parenting (and equally, parenting while professoring) was impossible. This feeling ebbs and flows. Seems like Mothers Day is as good a time as any to share, maybe it will help someone else feel less alone. The More Paradox 1/8

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NSF’s entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES), which “aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds to actively participate and excel in STEM disciplines” and some of it congressionally mandated, was just notified they will be RIFed. www.nsf.gov/edu/ees/about

Here's my federal funding story #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF #scicomm 🧪

Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF! Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts. We must make noise! Pls RT!!!! #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

Upset about federal funding cuts in the US? Want some ideas of what to do? I wrote a long-ish blog post about it here ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com summarizing things I learned meeting with Senate & House aides this week with the @aibsbiology.bsky.social Congressional Visits Day event.

About NSF’s new(est) bulletin - 15% indirect cost rates will kill universities. Apparently that’s the point. I am sick.

Only about a month left until virtual #Evol2025! If you live in Brazil, India, or one of the 150 other countries eligible for our GMA program, you’re eligible not only for discounted SSE membership, but also free virtual meeting registration! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Eva (Dia) Windhoffer is a Natural Resources Scientist who worked as an Avian Biologist for BOEM when she was terminated due to federal cuts. Her background is in wildlife biology, and she is passionate about environmental work and conservation. Illustration by @sigridknemeyer.bsky.social

It feels like things are hitting a tipping point. Key debrief items: - The Harvard letter - FDA food safety inspection - Financial devastation of NIH, NOAA, USGS - DOGE hits NSF - grant terminations - Doublespeak & disinfo And more This was Week 13 buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

This week's #WeeklyWrapUp: 😡10,000 workers cut from HHS, 😱 international students detained, 😍 vote for your favorite & invertebrate, 🔥 find a protest near you #resist! 500womenscientists.org/updates/2025...

“Today, we recommit ourselves to our collective mission to serve society by making science open, inclusive, and accessible, and to transform society by fighting racism, patriarchy, and oppressive societal norms.” Join us. 500womenscientists.medium.com/dear-scienti...?

One month left for early registration and in-person talk submission for #Evol2025! Don’t forget - SSE members get significant discounts on virtual and in-person registration. Check your membership and register today: buff.ly/IadATYh @evolmtg.bsky.social

#Project2025 specifically calls for #NOAA to be “dismantled,” “downsized,” and “eliminated,” recommending the privatization of its essential functions. Frank Schwing, Science Network member and retired federal scientist, explains how your community’s safety and prosperity rely on NOAA. #ProtectNOAA

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

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Action fatigue is real, but so is our power to create change. We built Action Lab to make it easier to find, track, and contribute action items that move science and policy forward in the midst of the news firehose. Try it out now, and stay tuned for a bigger launch! airtable.com/app3mMFCCzpp...

Today's federal workforce massacre was at NSF. Time to push back. Find state-specific stats on NSF funding at bit.ly/NSF_bystate & call your reps. De-funding science hurts us all—our health, economy & future.

Amid the chaos of federal workforce cuts, here’s one action you can take: Find state-specific stats on NIH funding at bit.ly/NIH_bystate & call your reps. De-funding science hurts us all—our health, economy & future depend on it.

For state-specific NSF info cards, find your state here: bit.ly/NSF_bystate

DOGE is slashing federal science jobs—harming public lands, research, & safety. See this thread for agency budgets & workforce details, then download state-specific info cards linked below. Call Congress & fight for science! #FundScience #SaveOurAgencies

Colleagues, including my partner, with years of service at the agency. Some Permanent POs reclassified as Probationary. Exceptional scientists who were former professors at major institutions, and came to NSF to serve the community and ensure science thrives in the US.

Federal Workers, you are in our hearts this Valentines Day! Your work makes a real difference. Thank you for your dedication, resilience, and service! Help us thank Federal Workers this Valentine's day by sending them a message using our templates! Keep an eye out as they pop up on your feed.

Thank you Federal Workers. You're out of this world!

Dear Public Health Workers, our love for you is CONTAGIOUS!

You all are Tree-Mendous!

Dear EPA Workers, you are Air-Replacable!

Dear Public Health Workers, you are the Anti-Body to misinformation!

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

Do you know what tomorrow is? It's send a federal worker a valentine day! Our federal employees need a lift, a laugh, and some love. Send over your best federal-agency themed Valentines puns and with @500womensci.bsky.social we’ll launch some templates tonight!

Apply now for funding to attend the AIBS Congressional Visits Day in Washington, DC on April 29-30! Participants will receive communications and advocacy training before meeting with lawmakers. Learn more and apply for funding from SSE here: https://buff.ly/3Wry2QY Deadline Feb. 17!

🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -

🚨 New paper! 🚨 Population Genomics of Adaptive Radiation: doi.org/10.1111/mec.... This was such a fun review paper to work on over the last four years with @cewagnerlab.bsky.social and my UW lab mates, keeping us working together during Covid times and as we have (mostly) all moved on to new places

Delighted to share our new review paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... This was a whole-lab effort for my group ~2021, and these students were a dream team 🤩 (yes it took us 4 years...but I'll take credit for that...turns out having a baby in a pandemic slows things down 😜).

I wish all academic administrators would read this article and take it to heart: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00888-3

With some outside-the-box thinking, funding agencies could be doing so much more to support gender equity in science: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00252-5

I have grad student positions available! Looking for MS/PhD students with fundamental interests in evolutionary biology who want to work with genomic data applied to questions of conservation relevance. All projects are focused on freshwater fishes....

Come join our department at the University of Wyoming! We are searching for a computational evolutionary biologist as part of a cluster hire led by the new School of Computing. Details for our position:...

Reminder for #SIAL9_LakeTanganyika participants that abstracts are due by June 8th. Registration is still possible also at: https://www.agl-acare.org/sial9

The Species in Ancient Lakes (SIAL) conference will take place July 18-21 in Kigoma, Tanzania. *Tomorrow is the final chance for early-bird registration rates!* Register here: https://agl-acare.org/sial9 Mtg...

The 9th Species in Ancient Lakes conference will take place July 18-21 in Kigoma, Tanzania, on the shore of beautiful Lake Tanganyika. Registration is now open! https://www.agl-acare.org/sial9 For more information about SIAL:...

Does anyone in twitter-world know why http://treebase.org is down / requiring a username and password? My macroevolution students are relying on this resource for their final projects this semester and need access to trees! 😱It was working two weeks ago.

Join us at the University of Wyoming! We are looking for a great new colleague in our department. https://https://t.co/OEf8Yh8MlK

Huge (belated) congratulations to @jessi_rick for her outstanding PhD defense week before last! 🥳Jessi is a phenomenal scientist and her departure will leave a giant hole in the lab. But, she's off to accomplish great things as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow!

Join the Wagner lab! PhD position available to work on integrating ideas in evolutionary biology and ecological stoichiometry as part of the STOICH project - http://stoichproject.org. More info here: https://cewagnerlab.com/2021/12/07/join-us-phd-position-available/. Please spread...

I was thankful for the opportunity to speak about these important issues related to continuing support of women and parents in the wake of the pandemic. This study's results underscore the importance of continued policies to support hard-hit groups:...

Saturday a worker loaded my car with groceries during a downpour, with a smile on her face. I am so thankful to all the stores offering easy grocery pickup. For those of us with kids too young to mask, being able to buy food without putting our babies at risk is a tremendous help