I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Very pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations to this year’s Hamilton Award winner, Kip Lacy, and Honorable Mentions Meagan Clark and Jeremy Summers! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... Watch their outstanding talks from virtual #Evol2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzh3...

The SSE Hamilton Award symposium starts in under an hour. Don’t miss this outstanding lineup of talks!

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

“The entire landscape of American science, research, and engineering are under heavy attack,” the employee says. “It’s really critical that we all speak against it and be unified in our opposition.”

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

We need you--every single one of you-- in the US to stand up, right now, and fight for NSF, NIH, USGS, NASA, USDA. Agencies Congress empowered to serve the public with impactful science and innovation. This is not a drill. This is our last stand. After this, there will be nothing left to fight for.

LISTEN TO ME. *NOW* IS THE TIME TO CALL YOUR REP AND SENATORS. NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU DO, OR WHERE IN THE US YOU LIVE. I'M HERE BEGGING YOU. #SaveNSF Here are your talking points: democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF! Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts. We must make noise! Pls RT!!!! #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V

We're hiring an assistant prof in global change ecology! Apply!!! We're vibrant, supportive, and interdisciplinary EEB community! Plz note the weird dates: We're reviewing applications beginning on ✨August 15th✨. I'm part of the SC and happy to answer questions! apply.interfolio.com/164677

Crazy times, but I'll be advertising for a 2 year postdoc to work with me on new comp. methods to estimate evolutionary history soon - specifically to develop methods to handle missing data (e.g. ascertainment bias, allele dropout). Are you a comp. biologist graduating with a PhD soon? Reach out!

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

In December I accepted a position as a senior investigator at the NIH in the National Human Genome Research Institute & Center for Genomics and Data Science Research. Bringing the party in the desert to Maryland. We are hiring postdocs & postbacs! Please reach out :)

Only about a month left until virtual #Evol2025! If you live in Brazil, India, or one of the 150 other countries eligible for our GMA program, you’re eligible not only for discounted SSE membership, but also free virtual meeting registration! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

With @hybridzones.bsky.social & @jenncoughlan.bsky.social, we have been working on an update to Daven Presgraves' influential 2010 review on hybrid incompatibilities (shorturl.at/cJndf). The preprint is available here (shorturl.at/DTC48) with an updated table of almost 100 incompatibilities!

🚨 Students and recent graduates: you still have a month to submit your talk for consideration in the 2025 Ernst Mayr Award Competition 🚨 See this page for requirements and instructions. www.systbio.org/ernst-mayr-a...

SSE grad student members are invited to submit their abstracts to the SSE Hamilton Award competition at #Evol2025! Finalists receive $500 and will present their talks during the virtual part of the meeting on May 29-30. Apply by April 15! buff.ly/5EmzAzH @evolmtg.bsky.social @ssegrad.bsky.social

Hello graduate students! Volunteer travel award applications are due March 21, 2025. In return for working two ~4h shifts, graduate student members of one or more of our societies can receive a rebate equal to 100% of the regular early student member registration fee.

Need extra funds to help cover costs of caring for someone while you attend #Evol2025? Apply by March 15 for the SSE Caregiver Award - up to $500 US. Funds can be used as the awardee wishes to facilitate attendance virtually or in-person. buff.ly/4ayQxbG @evolmtg.bsky.social

SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2025 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Sign up for your free registration code today! https://buff.ly/4hK08PZ @evolmtg.bsky.social

Lindstedt et al. Gregarious, chemically defended pine sawflies as a new model to study cooperative interactions in an ecological context link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Looking for a postdoc with expertise in genetics and neuroscience. Experience in Drosophila a plus. Get in touch! www.uwo.ca/research/fun...

NSF is re-hiring nearly all fired probationary employees following an OPM directive and a Friday judge order. This is 84/86 probationary staff being hired back; 84 "experts" are still terminated My Signal : nidhisubs.11

Quick request: Please do contact us if you're a scientist at a university or outside NIH, and you serve on an #NIH council or advisory board, including the intramural Board of Scientific Counselor review boards (the reviews that impose high standards on NIH!) We'd love to be in touch.

The National Science Foundation benefits communities in every state.

From the former director of NIGMS, the most thorough inside summary of what is happening at NIH that I've read to date.

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

Lerch et al. unify perspectives on coexistence with evolutionary perspectives on speciation to study how diversification results from a complex interplay of both ecological and evolutionary constraints. Summary & Analysis by Nikka Malakooti: www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...

Nearly 40 percent of people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with #cancer at some point in their lives, and almost 1 in 5 Americans will die of it. Proposed cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding puts lives at risk. bit.ly/3D6Gizi

Sad milestone: As of today more than half of scheduled study sections this year did not meet as scheduled. Sections not meeting as scheduled today (2/26): BCO, CIHB, HHD, LHB, MABS, PMDA, TAG, CDIN, MPPA, ZRG IIDB-F. As of now, the NIH has no new postings to the Federal Register since 01/21/25.

Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

"It is absurd to mindlessly decimate the workforce that has led the world in science over the past 75 years, and to willingly give up excellent scientists and talent," Beyer wrote. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

1. Help: NIH study sections and council meetings not already published in the Federal Register as of Jan. 21 have not been allowed to meet (thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...). This appears to be an 'end run' around a recent injunction and came from HHS officials. You can help (see below):

Just be patient and kind to the remaining NSF folks. I promise you, they are still fighting for American science.

Are you a grad student attending #Evol2025, virtually or in person? Submit your talk for the SSE Hamilton Award! Finalists will present during the virtual portion of the meeting on May 29-30. Apply during registration by April 15! https://buff.ly/3QI1ZJj @evolmtg.bsky.social

Different divisions were impacted differently across NSF. DEB lost 5 out of 12 permanent program directors yesterday, across all four clusters.The very best human beings. Grateful to have worked with them and become friends with them.

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

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

I was hoping that my first bsky post would be more cheerful. I recently joined NIH (NIEHS) as a PO. I fought hard for this position and was so excited to support health science from a new vantage point… I picked up my life and moved to NC. Unfortunately, my time at NIEHS was short lived.