Fascinating time to be an American teaching abroad in Spain...

The Texas Academy of Science is seeking passionate Texas scientists for the following leadership roles: • Non-Academic Director • Student Representative • Academic Director • Executive Secretary Read about these roles here: www.texasacademyofscience.org/volunteer-jo...

‪Tell me the truth...I'm ready. New IPBES report finds that $220 billion were directed to conservation & restoration of biodiversity in 2023... yet $7.3 trillion flowed toward subsidies that directly harm nature. IPBES Business & Biodiversity Assessment www.ipbes.net/business-imp... @ipbes.net

🔬 Calling scientists & data managers We need your expertise to: ✔️ Identify workflow gaps ✔️ Prioritize interoperability ✔️ Align data standards Turn #eDNA potential into policy-ready solutions for #OceanDays! 📅 Deadline: 06/03/2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/5n7phwdd #Science #Data

📣 New Publication Alert! 📣 Lee C, McIntyre NE, Barnes MA, and Luan X. 2026. Effects of land use on Eurasian otter presence in northeast China. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 19: 193-200. linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2287884X25001189

📢 An ✨ONLINE FIRST✨ Call for Collaborators! Xin Sun & colleagues seek collaborators in #eDNA of #urban #soil Check out the call HERE ⬇️ soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v...

One of the worst things about AI, for me, is that it takes away from people the sheer joy of writing. Schools don’t often make this point, but writing should be fun. Putting words together, finding ways to express yourself, the pure pleasure of a well-crafted sentence. 1/5

A challenge to remote sensing of #lakes #wetlands #rivers is that many of extant satellite products are corrected for land, making water signatures muted because water is dark. We constantly hear about how we need an aquatic reflectance product. So, we made one. doi.org/10.1002/lol2... @aslo.org

USA wins Hockey Gold! 🦅🏒🥇

"Too many of us have become so inured to inexcusable and illogical practices that we’ve stopped asking questions." www.chronicle.com/article/high...

Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.

Excellent public letter and reminder that not only is it not illegal to speak up against unconstitutional acts by our government, it's patriotic www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Did you know that because roly polies are terrestrial crustaceans and not actual bugs they breathe through adapted gills even though they live out of water.

Congrats to Team USA! What an exciting finish!

Keep fighting back! The culture warriors have spread themselves too thin (just too much to be frightened of!) and are losing the #WarOnScience. #AcademicSky

But wait, there's more go.bsky.app/4wMsfX4

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Follow these awesome women ocean scientists, many of whom I'm proud to call colleagues and delighted to call friends. 🧪🦑🌍🐟 go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo

Really feels like we are doing a huge disservice to our students here www.texastribune.org/2026/02/04/t...

Amber Glenn won Olympic gold on Sunday. That same day, she left social media because of death threats. Her offense: she'd told reporters the queer community is going through "a hard time." The headline called it "backlash." www.readtpa.com/p/the-thresh...

Fun story about lifelong connections with two of my most important scientific role models, HS biology teacher @thebiospace.bsky.social and undergraduate research mentor @profromi.bsky.social : www.southwestern.edu/live/news/17...

The American academy is currently suffering from a severe and potentially fatal lack of leadership

Took me way too long to realize that its super easy to just merge pdfs in R rather than fussing with Adobe #rstats library(pdftools) pdf_combine( input = c("file1.pdf", "file2.pdf"), output = "merged.pdf" )

I won’t stop reporting the truth. The First Amendment is the bedrock of our democracy, and I’ll continue to fight to protect it 🤝🏾🇺🇸

If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons: 1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress 2) Write to your congressional reps. 3) Write to [email protected] to request re-consideration;

There is a cost to science denial.

For every new STEM PhD hired by the US Government in 2025, 11 quit/retired/fired. Eleven.

It's annual review time, so I was looking at my CV and decided to add up total, formal manuscripts reviewed in my approximately 10 years of reviewing. Without double-counting times I reviewed a revised manuscript, my total is 121. There are sooo many PhDs; why is it so hard to find reviewers?

I edited a special issue in Frontiers as an early career researcher, and even though I am proud of the editorial into we wrote for it and think the papers we solicited are all high quality, it does give me mixed emotions on my CV

I am so thankful to be safe in Spain right now and not on the federally terrorized streets of America

❗Violence Warning❗ But please share this as widely as possible on every platform. Americans need to watch this and say enough is enough. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/25/u...

Due process is enshrined in the Constitution, so it should be patriotic to demand it. I wish more people - especially our elected officials - were patriots.

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

Almost all of the world’s mammal biomass is humans and our livestock and pets. We're currently in the age of the Anthropocene, and the impact the dominance of humans is having on the world around is very clear.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Life update! I'm teaching in Sevilla, Spain this semester. Just arrived today and looking forward to a wonderful five months. If you are or know of any #eDNA researchers on the Iberian peninsula looking to develop new collaborations, please let me know!

#invasivore www.biohabitats.com/newsletter/e...

I have a very loud speaking voice. It carries very well. I always use the mic

Always use the mic at a conference even if you’re loud. People who can’t hear you *can’t hear you * when you ask if you can hear them in the back. Some of us went to one too many hardcore shows in our youth without ear plugs and our hearing ain’t what it used to be 🥺 #SICB2026

Honestly, anyone currently considering applying for an academic job in Texas should be re-considering until things change. The GOP wants to make the UTexas and UFlorida system a model for their new UberUniversity system.

No science. No debate. No public participation. This too is the stuff of authoritarian rule.

Has a team with a first round bye ever won a College Football Playoff game?

ALRIGHT! WHERE ARE MY CANADIAN SCIENTISTS?!

Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...

Wouldn’t it be kind of wild if someone actually pulled everything we know about what happens to eDNA between shedding and detection? Decay, transport, microbes, temperature, rivers, oceans, all of it?! We did that. 📄 Preprint link: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8... 🧬🔍🌊 #eDNA #MolecularEcology

🧵1/5 Positive Public Health News Highlighting prior post cuz I need to remember the bigger picture of hope. Australia is on track to ELIMINATE cervical cancer by 2035. Eliminate. A whole cancer ❤️‍🔥 All because a government actually invested in HPV vaccination (prevention)+ cervical cancer screening

Trump threatened Indiana Republicans that if they didn't do what he wanted, he'd block all federal funds to their state but they ignored his threats and told him to pound sand. Take notes, college presidents.