with the end of the shutdown looming, here's my look for @wired.com into what life has been like for EPA employees over the past five weeks: little to no heads up about who was getting furloughed next, important projects getting put on the back burner while deregulation moves forward:

Disgusting unacceptable cowardice

This! The extent to which people don’t actually enjoy thinking has been eye opening.

That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating. And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

Betting markets have already pulled odds on who this will go to

Comments on this are a litany of women with their own stories, as the title says.

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The doc about this, Shut Up and Sing, is great. Heroes

This lady rocks. We should all be this engaged at 91!

It's touched on in here, but I've been avoiding food lines thinking, "Those should be reserved for people who really need it," while in the back of my mind trying to calculate when that will be us.

Truly did not expect her story to go so viral it ended up in the NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

My kids (3 & 6) love Circle Round, if you're looking for good car ride material

Every time I read one of these I want to quit my job and figure out how to always be working somewhere at my kids' school

#mayofacts Heinz did not know when making a mayo and ketchup mixture in a bottle that mayochup in Cree (the most widely spoken indigenous language in Canada) translates to "shit face." boingboing.net/2019/05/23/i...

I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙 Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details

UConn responded to my op-ed and I have a few immediate thoughts (that followed the initial shock/terror/happiness that this got anyone's attention...) ctmirror.org/2025/10/24/s...

Start a garden. In fucking October.

#microsky #mevosky The UNC Chapel Hill Biology Department is hiring 2 Teaching Assistant/Associate Professors with expertise from any area of biology. Individuals with expertise in microbiology are particularly encouraged to apply. Read more and apply at unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California 2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin. ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003

Not to be a jerk... but too many scientists on this app are acting as if this is their first government shutdown and are unsure of what to do. Like, we've been through this before. Am I just that old?

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Again, Mark Zuckerberg's kids go to a screen-free school with 14 students total and multiple specialized tutors

Reminder there are some tox/ecotox starter packs out there

Toxicology starter pack! Please share so we can find our fellow environmental health scientists 🌏. Comment or message to get on the list. go.bsky.app/E69Frq7

Learn more of the story at: www.notesoniowa.com/post/iowans-...

Did you know six Iowans went to Harper’s Ferry with John Brown? On October 16, 1859, Abolitionist John Brown and 20 additional men, including six Iowans, invaded the Federal Armory at Harpers Ferry.

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

I'm a civil servant environmental scientist. Having my wife make more money than me is the dream

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

Really sets up a chicken and egg question with gym bros and intelligence

Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Still trying to come to terms with the fact that it may be completely impossible to afford taking my young kids to a home world cup.

Welcome to hell! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Hanging onto every bit of good news The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing. This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better. lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

Are furloughed federal employees entitled to backpay? The short answer is yes furloughed federal employees are entitled to backpay, but the mechanism a little complicated. And, importantly, it means the House GOP CR is insufficient for reopening the govt & needs to be amended. Thread explaining:

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow! These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here: eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

This will definitely not fix the problem where primary care folks who were already living and working here decide to just work in neighboring states instead

Signed up for the ticket purchase lottery but I don't think we'll be going

Number of new homes needed to return affordability to 1990s levels: 3-4 million. (via Goldman) $XHB @birdyword.bsky.social

Hey Botany friends, any PI at a grad-degree-granting institution want to help us out with a "applying to grad school" panel on Oct 9th at 4:30 est? 🙏 Come share your wisdom!

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget. “Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It’s not just that video is too slow. It is that. It’s also not my own understanding happening. I also truly believe that the mind and life I want to have does not happen through watching but does through reading. Wild that this is even a little bit provocative but I suspect that mostly just online

#SICB er @noahwithfish.bsky.social wants to share this job: "Applicants must hold a #PhD. in a relevant area of #Biological #Sciences or closely related #science and must provide evidence of potential for excellence in #teaching and #research." read in full www.higheredjobs.com/institution/...

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...