My undergrad mentee, Dorian Scheim, rocked their first conference at #Botany2025! If you're interested in temporal sampling using herbaria, asters, or how floret counts change over time and environments, there's still time to check out their poster at P109!

If you're at #Botany2025, I'd love to see you at 5pm in the popgen session, where I'll be sharing on landscape genomics across the tiny, fragmentary range of the Gaviota tarplant!

Proud to share our new article on how lava flows reshape Hawaiian arthropod communities at species- & haplotype-equivalent scales! We studied kīpuka—forest patches isolated by lava flows--with bulk arthropod samples & metabarcoding. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (1/3)

What happens when you do surgery with a chainsaw www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

Grateful for our Stand up for Science Rally at UCSC today! "They want to raid the pockets of universities, labs, hospitals and agencies across the country.... if they are successful, people will suffer, and our economy, our health and our environment will also suffer." tinyurl.com/3b2yts7y

Leave PUBLIC COMMENT opposing the final interim rule that will strip NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) regulations: shorturl.at/6zdG1 🌍🌍🌍 NEPA requires federal agencies to assess the environmental, cultural, and historical impacts of proposed projects before they are approved.

Ever since Norman Myers came up with biodiversity hotspots I’ve found the idea intriguing-but was a little disappointed to find it was largely based on plant distribution. Today you can look at @inaturalist global biodiversity map of 100,000 species 👏👏👏👏👏 www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918...

Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park. Yosemite with my parents and partner this winter.

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

When you don't normally write the word, so suddenly realize you have forgotten the actual spelling of 'angsd' 😭🤡

WATCH: “This is what happens when the world’s biggest aid donor suddenly stops sending money… not a single doctor for this community of more than 30,000 people.” After Trump’s cuts, Myanmar-Thailand refugees unable to access critical care.

A new tool shows you how much federal funding tied to the Inflation Reduction Act and Biden-era infrastructure legislation is being spent in any given zip code. There's more than $1B within 10 miles of me, from battery manufacturing to cybersecurity. What's in your area? grist.org/accountabili...

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

We have a new pre-print out describing a functional long-wavelength cone opsin gene in caecilians. Check out the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025... The explainer thread is here (sorry!): x.com/majonavarret... 🐸🌿🧪

Great piece by @antonsrkn.bsky.social delving into all the nuance surrounding how the L.A. fires might impact wildlife. Happy to have been part of it, check it out!

Made my first calls to Congress for the new week with @indivisible.org's current list of requested actions against the ongoing constitutional crisis, which covers options for representatives and senators of both parties indivisible.org/coup

The Trump NIH is banning hires of new students and postdocs. This is devastating for NIH research and will result in a lost generation of researchers at the institution. Heard from a applicant today: "A lot of people are banking their entire careers on the [NIH student programs]..." #NIH 🧪 1/

NEW modeling study on covid vaccination: -More than 68,000 people averted hospitalization with covid in 2023-24 bc they have been vaccinated -More than 13,000 averted intensive care bc they were vaccinated -Roughly 5,000 lives were saved bc of covid vaccines www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

New @erc.europa.eu funded #ConvergeAnt paper on phylogenetics and transcriptomics of chitinase gene repertoires in convergent ant-eating mammals finally published in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Coevolution in 101 seconds! news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/06/w...

Decision tree that has been sent to Program Officers at NSF

It has been brought to my attention that my article has been censored to exclude certain terms: asm.org/Articles/202... web.archive.org/web/20250114... #MicroSky

Here is the guidance in full. The wording is very broad. This should help a lot of organizations and people.

The US gained its international leadership in science (& economic benefits of that leadership) starting in the 1930s when Nazi germany drove away its leading scientists. The US can lose that leadership in much the same way, which will take many years to recover from. Oppose RFK Save NIH/NSF/CDC

13 state Attorneys General put out a joint statement this week vigorously defending DEIA programs and calling the EOs offensive, discriminatory, and illegal. They're Democrats. Some Dems absolutely need their spines stiffened. But some are actually fighting too www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-re...

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost. www.latimes.com/environment/...

The following pages have been removed from the CDC website. This used to be known as censorship. Not sure what the new word is.

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

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

New paper from me + @lauradee.bsky.social on using causal inference methods and concepts in ecology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (1/5)

Everything I love about a story: a forgotten museum collection, dogged researchers.....and whales! Debut feature by @giulianaviglione.bsky.social, edited by @sarahmgilman.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social Huzzah! www.biographic.com/how-whales-f... 🦑🧪#conservation

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

A quarter of freshwater species (fish, dragonflies and crabs) are threatened with extinction according to a new analysis: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics! Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics. Please spread the word! www.su.se/english/sear...

I enjoyed participating in the symposium on genetic time series to understand microevo & eco dynamics @ ASN25 organized x Brian Reid & featuring @meaghansaurus.bsky.social @markcbitter.bsky.social @renedelight.bsky.social @isaacovercast.bsky.social ! Can you believe this incredible impromptu art?!

My parents, enduring several days of sopping wet, cold hiking... And the payoff!

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Oh-so-gradually getting to my photos from travel before the World Congress of Herpetology this last summer. I highly recommend a stay at Camp 5 to those visiting Gunung Mulu in Malaysian Borneo.

New paper alert 🚨check out our new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution on anglerfish trait evolution led by the fantastic @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today at reading group, we enjoyed discussing the clear story and ? in tinyurl.com/2pk6jha8 admixture between closely related species occurred in the past perhaps more than we realize, w measurable benefits for gen diversity... Should even interspecific genetic rescue be more frqtly considered?