Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

📣 SING USA 2026 applications are open! The Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING) workshop will be July 19–24, 2026 at UW–Madison. ⏰ Apply by March 13 (midnight Hawaiʻi time) Learn more & apply: sing.nativebio.net Please share with Indigenous students! #Indigenous #Genomics

Happy to share new manuscript I completed with @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social & @davisjmcc.bsky.social back in Melbourne. The work originally conceived by @ijbeasley.bsky.social focuses on how we can reconcile and meta-analyse eQTL studies across studies cohorts and ancestries. doi.org/10.64898/202...

🚨🚨🚨 "At least 63 times since 2007, data from some of the 28 human genomic repositories that the N.I.H. controls was improperly released to researchers, used for unapproved purposes or made vulnerable to theft..." (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Proud to share our latest publication out in @pediatricresearch.bsky.social! We investigated the effects of extended CPAP on the metabolomic profile and its association with lung function in preterm infants, providing insight into neonatal respiratory support. Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s413...

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

Today is the day! Our reply to the two concurrent critiques (from the same set of authors) is now published in the journal Intelligence 🧵 1/

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

BSA’s Graduate Research Fellowship Writing Workshop is back! Whether you’re applying for the NSF GRFP or another graduate-level fellowship, this workshop will help you craft clear, compelling research statements. Apply by Sept. 26: forms.gle/wfFPhVUELj47... Workshop date to be announced soon!

Really insightful post from Julie Tibshirani (spotted in LinkedIn, can't find on Bsky) reflecting on #rstats 's unique governance structure and what can be learned for other languages jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

A higher resolution pic than my screenshot that captured the salute, from Alyssa Pointer (Reuters) – press weren’t allowed past the front gate for security reasons.

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

So delighted to congratulate @scimiguel.bsky.social on his PhD thesis being officially signed by his committee and accepted by the formatting gods! Just awaiting the conferral date to formally welcome Dr. Guardado to the club!!!

📣 New preprint from the SCIMaP team! Across three studies, we show that communicating the economic impact of NIH funding cuts—especially with interactive quizzes and maps—decreases approval and motivates action to oppose the cuts, across the political spectrum. 🧵 1/8 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Germany used to lead the world in science. The language of science was German—until the Nazis came to power and chased out, imprisoned, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists. Fascists break good things, and it is happening here. (2/2)

Looking to build a community of folks working to improve and advance scientific #research, #innovation and #STEMworkforce development. #competitiveness #policy @chrispickett5.bsky.social @ubadahsabbagh.com @scipolguy.bsky.social @matthourihan.bsky.social @jpflores.bsky.social go.bsky.app/FQk37Ba

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

Excellent work, Adrienne! Thank you so much for sharing, and speaking to the public about your work and why federally funded research matters.

If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today. Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.

🚨 BREAKING: Nearly 4 months the NIH cut its first grants, a judge has ruled that the directives and process that led to cuts are arbitrary and capricious. "The explanations are bereft of reasoning — virtually in their entirety... unsupported by [facts]." Each of them are VOID and ILLEGAL, he says.

I wrote about science cuts and my family's immigration story as part of The McClintock Letters organized by @cornellasap.bsky.social. Haven't yet placed it in a Houston-based newspaper but hopefully it's useful here gargnikhil.com/posts/202506...

Op-eds across the country and an open letter are out today to fight for the future of science in honor of Barbara McClintock's birthday - including mine. Thanks to @cornellasap.bsky.social @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social and @standupforscience.bsky.social!! www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

Since we featured the Stand Up for Science letter in the Good Trouble segment of the Daily Beans podcast this morning, signatures have gone from roughly 5,000 to 15,000! You can add your name by clicking the link below:

Very happy that my first PhD paper is now out in PLOS Genetics! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics.... We describe our implementation of variant-specific priors in coloc. We show that using distance to the TSS as information about which variants are causal can improve colocalisation performance, 1/n

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

forms.gle/47FXU1dnFCNc... Early career researchers, sign the open letter calling to preserve the future of American science. #ECR #McClintockLetters #DefendResearch

And PIs, don't tell your students/postdocs to do it, even if *you* did and were okay in the past! They may not feel like they can push back if they're not comfortable, and the stakes have gotten a lot higher.

As of yesterday using publicly available data via Grant Watch grant-watch.us/nih-data.html: 05/24/2025 word cloud depicting 165 unique words or phrases, flagged 10904 times, within 2118 terminated NIH grants. @standupforscience.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

New paper coins the "Gollum effect" in reference to systemic territoriality in academia, behaviour that is anthitetical to scientific collaboration, resource sharing, and open knowledge exchange. Check out the stats! Most respondents from #ecoevo www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

As a part of the @standupforscience.bsky.social Summer Fight for Science campaign, we want to host 1000 teach ins across the US between now and Sept 30th. Yeah, it’s a big, hairy, audacious goal. I know. Here is a running list of ideas, please scoop and do! 🧵🪡

Attend our McClintock Letters Initiative science communication workshop, to get yourself started on writing your op-ed piece! Wednesday, May 21 @ 12:20p ET Sign up here for Zoom link: cglink.me/2ee/r2286347

Let's share more of this with the public. Scientists, share your research and story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SaveNSF Share how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. tinyurl.com/McClintockLe...

New article out with fellow plant ecologist 🌱 @stressedbranch.bsky.social on what it is like being #DisabledInSTEM in eco-evo fields as part of @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social's TrendsTalk disability series. 🧪 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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

Interested in the impact of Denisovan and Neanderthal introgression, or using high-throughput assays to answer evolutionary questions? Check out our work MPRA’ing Denisovan and Neanderthal variants in present-day humans to characterise their impact on gene expression ⬇️

*ol boy also this article says it better than me. the expectation is “Orwellian levels of obeisance to whatever random lie supports the administration’s goals.” www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/w...

A new chapter of the Peruvian Genome Project is out! We explored the genetic composition and dynamics of individuals living in urban areas. We analyze genome-wide data from 432 urban individuals across 13 regions of Peru, including 346 newly genotyped! (1/6)

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

🧪 #ScienceSky and #AcademicSky: We’re trying to learn more about the real-life scope and impact of the Trump administration terminating NIH grants. Here's how you can help our reporting 👇

This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.

Elon Musk has more kids than there are trans athletes in all of the US. Let that sink in.

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

Beautiful, powerful letter I have been asked by Harvard colleagues if they should keep quiet so as not put the larger Harvard community at risk with their words Took me a while to ruminate My response: Harvard is its people and their voices If we are silent then there is no Harvard to save

Here's a super helpful site called Signal in the Storm that is automated to keep track of federal policy changes (EO's and Ed dept) and news re: academia. Also includes suggestions on what to do, and a faq's page about indirects, etc. Pls RT! signalinthestorm.org/index.html