#Invasivore You could eat these invasive species for Thanksgiving www.futurity.org/thanksgiving...

UW-Madison is hiring a Professor of History who work in the history of science with a focus on water For full consideration, all materials must be received no later than 11:59pm on December 31, 2025. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess...

Conflicts over freshwater resources are accelerating. Data from the new update of the Pacific Institute Water Conflict Chronology. www.worldwater.org

I feel so sad for the students, faculty, and staff of Texas A&M

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Record numbers of younger women want to leave the U.S. news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...

Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes: www.aurorasaurus.org

There is a race to the bottom brewing in Texas regarding academic freedom.

Submitting a symposia application for #eccb2026 on transdisciplinary applications of #eDNA research, focusing on stakeholder integration. If you’d like to present in this symposia and are already planning to attend, message me before Friday!

Once these freedoms go away we no longer have universities. Real learning will be pushed underground.

Hey look👀 Getting a COVID vaccine is safer for kids when compared to getting a COVID infection Has your family gotten their COVID booster yet?

The worst part is that this destruction is not a side-effect; it is the goal #WarOnScience

"Policed and censored: professors in the southern US feel under siege" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Probably a radical ideology that will get me fired, but this seems wildly unconstitutional www.everythinglubbock.com/news/latest/...

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

What an embarrassment www.texastribune.org/2025/10/21/t...

Heroes, leaders in the resistance to the #WarOnEducation and #WarOnScience

let’s see what they canceled children’s cancer research for:

Every decade, university administrators excite themselves over the prospects of firing all the faculty and 95% of the staff. Early 2020s: LLMs Early 2010s: MOOCs Early 2000s: Wikis

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

Heroes. Leaders. Although we didn't make the first cut, I have begged my University to also reject this compact.

Small water bodies - ponds, ditches, small fens, headwater streams, flushes - the delicate capillaries that make up 80% of water bodies, home to some of our rarest creatures - ensuring their health has an outsize benefit for wildlife

This is the most unserious adminstration in history.

Heroes in the #WarOnEducation #AcademicSky

#AcademicSky #WarOnEducation

5 million of them are about research

Only negative controls amplified.

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Trump said layoffs were directed at Democratic priorities only. Conclusion is that Republicans care nothing about Americans dying of preventable diseases and stopping outbreaks before they become pandemics. Wow www.rawstory.com/layoffs/

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"Conversion therapy has been widely discredited by scientific studies and is viewed by many health professionals as being tantamount to torture. One such study ... found that LGBTQ people exposed to conversion therapy were twice as likely to have future episodes of suicide ideation."

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

The #WarOnScience is being perpetrated by the elites, not everyday Americans

Bad Bunny (all Puerto Ricans, in fact!) is American, so make sure you ask yourself "Am I just being racist?" before speaking about the Superbowl.

Professional educators should decide what to teach, not politicians www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/t... #WarOnEducation #AcademicSky

My first post here 🙂 👩‍🔬💧 Can a few drops of water reveal hidden rice-field pests? Our new bioRxiv preprint shows how low-cost eDNA can help farmers track native & invasive species efficiently—no long surveys needed. 🌾 Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #eDNA #Agroecology #PestMonitoring

Hey US scientists, the NY Times wants to hear from you if you've had your funding cut. 🌊🧪

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

UC’s Academic Council calls on the Office of the President & the UC Board of Regents to unequivocally reject governmental demands that compromise institutional autonomy and #academicfreedom. This is the way. #DefendHigherEd

We wrote a post about this desert… but it was a little dry. Ba dum tss. 🥁 Even in some of the driest deserts, rivers sustain life. Here's how The Nature Conservancy is working to protect some of the world’s most important rivers: https://nature.ly/4nPfhlo

Looking to learn more about #eDNA? Join us Wednesday for this webinar on real-world applications and how and where the tech fits within broader environmental assessment and monitoring frameworks. https://esa.org/career-development/professional-development-from-esa/#edna

#AcademicSky #WarOnEducation #WarOnScience

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