It was great to chat with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social for her important article on discrimination and microagressions in peer review. Without system-wide changes, we must rely on individual action - if you experience this behaviour, inform the editorial team ✏️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So honored to be honored by a society I value so much

I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv. We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us (and @sfn.org) this Wednesday for a webinar that will explore how brains cope with changing environments. Hear from experts on recent advances in the field. Learn more: bit.ly/3HeL1kv #KavliNeuro #neurosky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social

From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for leading a many-author non-empirical paper | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Join us August 20 at 12pm ET for "Neurogenomic Adaptations to Variable Environments," a @sfn.org webinar featuring Hans Hofmann and Kimberly Rosvall. Learn how organisms cope with change and what it reveals about plasticity. Register: bit.ly/3HeL1kv #KavliNeuro #NeuroSky @rosvall-lab.bsky.social

Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter): Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.

Did ceratopsian (horned) & ankylosaur (armored) dinosaurs walk together? Newly discovered dinosaur tracksite in Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta CA) suggests they did, similar to modern multi-species herds. News item includes comments by Yours Truly. 🧪🦖🐾 P.S. Quite a day for cool fossil finds!

We're hiring! Remote work on red wolf behavior 🐺🧪 jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 National Science Foundation Letter of Dissent Against the Administration's Actions

Super excited about our first analyses on extra-pair paternity in tree swallows! New results coming soon.

This. 90% of my job is writing. It's basically almost all I do

Concerned about the potential impacts of how taxonomic biases in our research affect the broader generalizations we draw? If not, maybe we should be. If you saw @sekharma.bsky.social 's poster at ABS, you can find the pre-print here: doi.org/10.32942/X2X... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social #ABS2025

At ABS 2025, join us and @aibsbiology.bsky.social July 9 at 12:15 PM for a workshop on communicating science to non-technical audiences! We'll focus on influencing policy and public understanding—perfect for making your science matter beyond academia. Sign up here: fs10.formsite.com/spltrak/gdrr...

SCOOP: NIH appears to be disregarding last week's court order to stop screening grants using a process a judge ruled illegal. This has many NIH staffers confused and worried about the legality of their actions.

How to interpret sexual selection using Bateman gradients? When are these not informative & how should researchers identify, deal with confounded gradients? We simulate anisogamy & sperm competition to provide a guide for using Bateman gradients. Out in Evolution academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Good thing I put my senator on speed dial back in January. Already left angry voicemail.

Judge Young on NIH grant terminations cont.: "I have never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable, I have sat on this bench now for 40 years, and I've never seen government racial discrimination like this, and I confine my remarks to this record, to health care."

Thank you, @rheisman.bsky.social for writing this piece about the BBL and BBS at USGS! therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

Here is a link to a good CNN story including an interview with two of the NIH folks who wrote the #BethesdaDeclaration and stood up. More bravery facing the cameras. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD8y...

The absurdity of “catching” a cavity nester

Writing one's promotion dossier is basically a lot of googling oneself. 🙃

🚨Our new paper ‘Nest building and circulating testosterone dynamics in male zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata’ is out!🚨 With @simonemeddle.bsky.social and @cogwild.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3

Also not doing behavioral observation here anytime soon.

Suffice it to say, we are not going to be able to do the behavioral observation at this nest today.

So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The cover!!!!

Do you have a bird banding (sub)permit? Interested in a short-term contract in Bloomington, IN? 7-30 days, starting asap. Our crew is looking for paid temp help banding & sampling blood from tree swallows. Pls share, esp in Midwest. 🦉@instbirdpop.bsky.social @amornith.bsky.social

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

📣Get ready for the next Cutting vEdge Tools webinar in our series on ecological databases! On May 9 at 14 CEST, Jens Kattge will talk about the widely known TRY plant trait database. Join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... only 100 places!

One of my biggest takeaways from my day out with @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @drcatmac.bsky.social and The Field School team is that science is such a refuge. When the world gets to be heavy, the burnout hits, and you need an infusion of hope, tapping into that inner kid wonder about the world 1/x

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

An important publication from John Endler on the fundamentals of behavioural ecology: " We need to make a lot more use of Natural History. Natural History is the ultimate source of all hypotheses, so neglecting it could result in stagnation of our field " academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... 🧪🪶

📉 Why did NSF Director *just* resign? Grant cuts+budget slashed+more. We’re tracking damage—one grant at a time: first NIH, now NSF. 👀 Thanks @nytimes.com spotlight & @noamross.net s.net + @scott-delaney.bsky.social for expanding tracker. We didn’t want to build this. But we won’t look away.

Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You want to hear what "return on investment" means in relation to NSF funding? I know you do...

Love this paper!

Taking a moment to celebrate our new paper out today in Nature Ecology Evolution, led by the amazing @jacanamama.bsky.social Sara Lipshutz. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI

My latest in @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Catching up with colleagues and I feel like "have any of your grants been terminated yet" is the new "have you had COVID yet" from 2022 and I hate it.

US based scientists are not ok.

In addition to the terminations of existing awards, new NSF grants are still stopped completely since DOGE was granted access to systems a week ago. Last Thursday, an agency spokesperson said "NSF continues to issue awards." That does not appear to be the case.

*takes notes* "Scientists have long wondered how female bonobos maintain their matriarchies...Females, they found, form coalitions against males to tip the balance of power in their favor." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

In terminating hundreds of NIH grants, the Trump administration dumped years of investment down the drain. In my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com column, we analyzed the cancelled projects & talked to scientists to understand just how much the public loses out. It's a lot: tinyurl.com/bdey86su

One of the great sparrows, White-throated Sparrow, NYC #birds #nature 🌿 #sparrows

If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

What additional tweaks can NSF make to the GRFP program to improve equity and access? How can we improve it without entirely tearing it down and rebuilding it from scratch? 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/sciencef...

Brown, Columbia, Harvard, Penn, Princeton. Now Cornell and Northwestern. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...