We’re thrilled to welcome Raghavendra Gadagkar from @iiscbangalore for our next CASCB Summer Seminar Series talk! 🐝 Join us at 12:00 to explore how nutrition shapes caste and social roles in a primitively eusocial wasp. 📍ZT 702 & online @uni-konstanz.de www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

I’m thrilled to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. What an honour! Would not have happened without the mentors, postdocs and students who I’ve had the great privilege to learn and collaborate with throughout my career. @uni-konstanz.de @maxplanck.de

NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨 The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (🧵 1/10)

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I just got word that this federal transportation grant was terminated today, despite us removing the word "climate" from the title. The moral of the story? Obeying orders doesn't keep you safe with this administration.

📐Excited to have Vishwesha Guttal @vishuguttal.bsky.social (Professor from IISC, Bangalore) tomorrow 11am for our weekly DIEP seminar! Vishwesha will discuss the role of stochasticity in biogical systems such as animals 🐼 Interested? You can register here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

Since we've moved platforms, I thought I'd make a new explainer thread for our (Aamir Sadiq, @vishuguttal.bsky.social, Rohini Balakrishnan, and I) recent paper on tree crickets. Meet Oecanthus henryi. Like in many cricket species, O. henryi males call to attract mates. #science #evobio 🌍 🧬

Lab group pictures, which somehow did not upload!

Our lab went for a little field trip retreat. Semi-arid rocky landscapes are absolutely amazing!

I’m certainly not a superwoman but it’s so exciting to be featured in a comic that I grew up reading 🥳 😇 @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social #TinkleMagazine

#NewComicAlert! We are back with another inspiring comic with Tinkle Magazine featuring cognitive and behavioural neuroscientist Dr Abhilasha Joshi! 🧠 🐀 Happy reading! Download your free copy here: bit.ly/ncbsxtinklec... @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social #sciencecomics #womenscientists

NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.

This hasn't gotten much attention—but new National Science Foundation grants have dropped by almost half since Trump took office, an analysis by @davidimiller.bsky.social shows. www.science.org/content/arti... (Story by @policyhound.bsky.social)

🚀 Apply now 🚀 The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. postdocprogram.mpg.de #ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

Science & the innovation economy are under threat. "We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated." Read & share ... 👇

Bombay in spring from the @tifrscience.bsky.social campus - the fleeting window of time before summer descend in full blazing glory!

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Follow-up #substack post (5 min read) on the consequences of yesterday's ad-hoc termination by HHS of virus research spanning antiviral therapeutics, vaccines, immunology and more. Bottom-line: a bad decision for science and policy. joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/on-the-mis...

Some very cool work by @arshed.bsky.social and @vishuguttal.bsky.social!

ನಬೀಲ್ ಮತ್ತು ಇತರರು ಸ್ಟೋಕಾಸ್ಟಿಕ್ ಸಮಯ ಸರಣಿಯ ದತ್ತಾಂಶದಿಂದ ಸೈದ್ಧಾಂತಿಕ ಪರಿಸರ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನದ ಮಾದರಿಗಳನ್ನು ಪಡೆಯುವ ವಿಧಾನವನ್ನು ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತಪಡಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಈ ದತ್ತಾಂಶ-ಚಾಲಿತ ವಿಧಾನವು ಪರಿಸರ ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತಗಳ ಪ್ರಾಯೋಗಿಕ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು ಅಜ್ಞಾತ ತತ್ವಗಳನ್ನು ಕಂಡುಹಿಡಿಯಲು ಸಹಾಯ ಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ. ಮುದ್ರಣಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಂಚಿತವಾಗಿ ಈಗಲೇ ಓದಿ! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Due to circumstances beyond our control, the AMS Math Programs page remains unavailable. We have put together a new application site, applications now due April 4. We will make expedited decisions. Travel awards available. bit.ly/phageschool2... Please share. The Summer School is on!

Hello World! After almost a month of starting a research group - finally the announcement :) We are the 'Active Sensing Collectives' group (tinyurl.com/yckehxys) at the CASCB in the University of Konstanz. We're still growing, see PhD position ad below. @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de z.de

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

The ASN Early Career Investigator Awards recognize outstanding work by 4 researchers who have received their doctorates in the past 3 years. Recipients include: Ashwini Ramesh directory.natsci.msu.edu/directory/Pr... 3/N

Hey folks, its time to celebrate some outstanding scientists & science. The American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social gives out a variety of awards each year. It is my great privilege to announce this year’s slate of awards. These will also be announced in the next ASN newsletter. 1/N

“The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said, at a time when top officials have emphasized their determination to curb the incidence of such chronic conditions.”

Open Day 2025 at IISc! CES was packed with members of the public, student groups and neighbors exploring ecology and Evolution, and the PoCo Eco lab activities were great!

See here for the paper itself: bsky.app/profile/asn-...

amnat.org/an/newpapers... Nice to see Tahirah Williams' fantastic layperson summary of our ( @vishuguttal.bsky.social and I) Synthesis work on demographic stochasticity and eco-evolutionary dynamics out on the @asn-amnat.bsky.social webpage! #evolsky #evolution #mathsky #physky #philbio 🧪🧬🌏

Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

Excited to announce our symposium on the 'maintenance of trait variation under sexual selection' as a part of the Behaviour 2025 conference scheduled August 25-30 in Kolkata, India. Send in your abstracts! 1/2

T2 was solving some division problems. Every time I explained some steps, she would crosscheck with T1 and believed me only after T1 confirmed. Not once, every time! My ego is now bruised 🤣.

@asn-amnat.bsky.social has an open call for proposals for a symposium in the Virtual Evolution meeting. It would be especially nice to get proposals that go against current US political trends: on climate, education, underrepresented voices, etc. give someone a lift up.

So today, of all days, I want to share a brief note of thanks to the international group of folks who joined our team because they believe in the mission and the power of collaboration and imagination and discovery.

Pls share: Konstanz School of Collective behavior from 21st July - 8th August. Application deadline: April, 15. An amazing line up of speakers spanning all aspects of collective behavior . For info: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

A new paper from CES colleague Umesh Srinivasan's lab at CES @iiscbangalore -- led by former UG student @AkshayBirdwatch -- on social networks in mixed-species flocks.

I am one of these NSF postdocs. NSF has frozen everyone’s access to their salaries and research stipends (that were already awarded) with no information about when they might be expected to be unfrozen. It still appears like we are expected to continue doing our work though.

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

These fast-moving and chaotic efforts to dismantle government - our government - will come with consequences. Government is not a website built for clicks. But if DOGE and others turn it into one, we will certainly be far worse off. /🧵

Want to hire someone to build a highway? Feed a military base? Conduct cancer research? Develop a new fighter jet? Forget about it! Why would they trust you to pay up if a president can just cancel your contract or refuse to pay up at any time for no other reason than they just don't like it? 🧵

A new paper from CES colleague Umesh Srinivasan's lab at CES @iiscbangalore -- led by former UG student @AkshayBirdwatch -- on social networks in mixed-species flocks.

Prof Irfan Rashid from the Department of Botany, Kashmir University -- who is visiting our lab at CES @iiscbangalore as an INSA visiting scientist -- gave an insightful talk on plant invasions in Kashmir Himalayas.

Vivek Hari Sridhar @vivekhsridhar.bsky.social, a postdoc from Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, soon a faculty at the University of Washington Seatle, gave an excellent talk at CES @iiscbangalore on integrating neuronal behaviour to the individual to the collective animal motion!