The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.

"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors." One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/3Zfm0e8 #NationalMentoringMonth

NEW – Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2025 | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/sF3cD1c

It's late & it's been a horrific day, but the Trump admin has pulled the US out of all the international environmental institutions I have been deeply involved in: IPCC, IPBES, IUCN and many others (UN Water, UN Oceans, UNREDD, ITTO, etc). And of course UNFCCC too www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Timeline cleanse.

With misinformation nearly everywhere, one professor tested a simple fix of 150 minutes of fact-checking homework – and it worked, boosting the students’ ability to spot misinformation by nearly 20%. theconversation.com/college-stud...

It’s 2026 and one of the first things that has happened is that a major news outlet has announced that it will no longer seek information from experts. I don’t think this is gonna help with what I think is the most existential threat to our society currently: disinformation.

As someone who has been on many faculty search committees… (Dies of laughing)

Canvas used to be helpful but that time has passed. Last semester I gravitated some of my course materials off Canvas. This coming semester I will pull off even more.

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

#popgen #evolbio #genomics #consgen

working at a university

Student Success | First-Year Persistence Continues Slow Climb Back From Pandemic Drop Nearly 84 percent of the first-year students who enrolled in fall 2023 persisted at their institution to the spring term, though 14 percent left higher education entirely. https://bit.ly/4pfWLDj

In what quite discouraging, this semester's course evals have by far the greatest amount of factually incorrect things in the comments with regards to course structure, policies, and content. Do they honestly believe these things? Is it a lie? I just don't know.

NSF now planning to let POs largely decide what gets funded, and to send PIs reviews that are only 3-5 sentences long. They don't have to use outside reviewers (except maybe 1) and don't have to convene panels. (1/5)

Key misunderstanding I want to get ahead of: NCAR isn't really a government agency like NIH or NSF. It's one of the largest NSF grants in history, and is given to a non-profit org called UCAR, whose job is to make NCAR exist (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). That means the buck stops with NSF right now

I think the decision has to be seen in light of the "one outside reviewer and no panel review" that came out 2 days ago. Last step is allowing awards to be granted to orgs other than an academic or non-profit ones.

How much of the observed global warming was caused by humans? Science's best estimate: ALL OF IT

Need suggestions: favorite eco-evo journals that don't have crazy open access fees required? Have some of my first students getting excited to submit chapters, but they were not on grants where we have $4K+ to pay per pub. Bummed to see how many of my favorite journals have gone OA required.

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

Really happy to share that the Second Edition of our book, "Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling", is now out and available online! We provide a foundation for applied spatial ecology with a focus on learning-by-doing. @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk

Our Editorial for our upcoming special issue in Molecular Ecology: Conservation Genomics—Making a Difference onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

As a US journalist, it is notable that the most accurate headline in this collection is by the non-US Guardian. Which is owned by a trust, not a billionaire. (The NYT hed is not bad, but as the thread notes, it was a lot worse and was changed post-pub.) Support non-billionaire news.

Made a Bluesky feed to keep up on all things #25DaysofFishmas this year! The more fishmas-es, the merrier - just use #25DaysofFishmas hashtag to be included! bsky.app/profile/did:...

A fine-scale fish population model reveals how integration of spatial and temporal management can maximise conservation and fisheries benefits 📊🧪 Applied the model to spangled emperor in the Ningaloo World Heritage Area 🐟🌏 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🐛 #MNSG project highlight: #BugsBelowZero Bugs Below Zero helps understand winter stream food webs, which helps trout fishers & communities protect fisheries—supporting local economies! Bonus: anyone can get involved in community science & conservation! Learn more: z.umn.edu/mnsg_bbz

Half the southern elephant seals on South Georgia Island, one of the major populations, were wiped out by bird flu in the past two years: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...

Check out new research on Lake Michigan Cisco and their use of DRMs, here! Limited time link to free article here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1m8t31MRgT... #ciscoinferno🔥

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

Opinion | Finding Your People College gives students the opportunity to grow by connecting with people outside of their bubbles of belief. https://bit.ly/4oiPWjM #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Happy #WorldFisheriesDay! Celebrate by reading the latest issue of #Fisheries: Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon restoration, Defusing and advancing the dialogue on hatcheries and stocking, Climate change call for action, and much more: academic.oup.com/fisheries/is...

Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime. Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

#UMN undergrads: Ready to school yourself in fish care? 🐟 Join #Minnesota Sea Grant’s Aquaculture Lab & help raise #YellowPerch & #GoldenShiner while gaining valuable professional experience! $15.25/hr, 10–15 hrs/week. 📍 UMN St. Paul 🔗 z.umn.edu/2025-mnsg-aq...

"This narrative that faculty are indoctrinating students is a manufactured crisis...You can trace it back to a network of right-wing think tanks, but it seems the university is treating it as if it is real.” - Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social

One of my favorite things as a graduate student and now as a faculty is the Landscape Genetics Distributed Graduate Seminar. Happy to answer questions. Please see course website for more info if you are an individual or group interested in joining us this spring: sites.google.com/site/landsca...

Folks whose jobs, postdocs or grad school fellowships or applications were cut short--drop them a line

The reviewer crisis: data from the journal Biological Invasions: "Reviewer acceptance rates dropped steadily over the past two decades. Early-career researchers had the highest acceptance rates, while senior scholars were least likely to accept review invitations." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Breaking News | MIT has rejected the Trump admin’s proposal to sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would mandate sweeping changes across campus in exchange for preferential treatment on federal funding. Read the full story ➡️ https://bit.ly/4h5dQgM

This: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Absolutely yes. And I'm proud that @asn-amnat.bsky.social has led the way on this with requiring code and data editors checking code for about five years now!

Oh cool, he’s singling out random academics now to send targeted harassment this way! Can we stop doing this with our hands tied behind our back and actually try to push him out now

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

Just because an LLM can produce a report with various figures & charts doesn't mean it is good at statistics. Because good statistics is not about producing code. It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Read of the day: “Turning Point USA is targeting a Rutgers faculty member for doing his job — in this case, researching the history of postwar anti-fascist movements and writing about them,” [Rutgers AAUP-AFT President] Givan said. https://loom.ly/1rQW_J8

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

It looks like Trump's EPA is stonewalling the release of a major scientific report on the health effects of "forever chemicals" in our drinking water. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

What are the ‘social dimensions’ of moving species for conservation and why does engaging with them matter? This is the focus of our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social olevo.bsky.social led by ever talented @aisrayne.bsky.social 📷 Kevin Parker

The American Fisheries Society extends our support to the furloughed fisheries and aquatics professionals affected by the U.S. federal government shutdown. Read our full statement on the shutdown and its impacts on natural resources here fisheries.org/2025/10/afs-...

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