New paper alert!! This project has been a favorite idea in the lab for many, many years! So excited to see this out. Huge congratulations to first author @gwelsh.bsky.social on her awesome work!

Are you teaching for the first time? Running your first grant? Just became Chair? In charge of a new thing of any kind? Don’t downplay your structural power over others. Be sincere and humble about your authority, because your students/mentees/employees take your power over them seriously.

Hey folks going to #evol2025 in Athens. The SSE #DEI committee is sponsoring a workshop on how to avoid bias in writing T&P letters. Registration is required and the workshop is open to all career stages! Please share and help spread the word @sse-evolution.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social

The University of Toronto's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department invites postdoc applications. Salary: $70K; start: July–Dec 2025. Deadline: April 25, 2025. More: https://eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/ #postdoc

Nature review article: Long-term studies provide unique insights into evolution https://go.nature.com/3Rjd1ol

Be part of this movement! Today in #Denver at 1pm at the capitol! Come #standupforscience

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

Flies from the genus Ormia parasite crickets which they localize by eavesdropping. Cricket songs have therefore rapidly diversed, in Hawaii . A new study @currentbiology.bsky.social gives insights into the rapid evolution in sensory tuning of an eavesdropper. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb! NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️

Colorado— Looking for a @standupforscience.bsky.social sign/poster making event? Look no further! Golden—3/3 @6 Boulder—3/5 @5 Aurora/Denver—3/6 @6

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When young scientists see programs disappearing, funding in flux, and no clear path forward, many will walk away from STEM entirely—not because they lack passion or talent, but because the system is failing them.

Action fatigue is real, but so is our power to create change. We built Action Lab to make it easier to find, track, and contribute action items that move science and policy forward in the midst of the news firehose. Try it out now, and stay tuned for a bigger launch! airtable.com/app3mMFCCzpp...

This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking *ALL* NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/

This is an attack on US science. NSF staff provide critical support for scientific infrastructure and global excellence. These are valuable dedicated public servants. Please contact your reps, write letters, make noise! Are there any plans for rallies at NSF headquarters? Journalists: COVER THIS!

This is absolutely devastating www.wired.com/story/nation...

Where can we donate to the legal fund for NSF employees fired without cause today?

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so! Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report. NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

Your kid’s tuition is about to go up.

Since I have way more non-academic followers than I ever would have imagined: a short explainer. TL;DR: Substantially cutting indirect costs will either mean raising tuition and fees, or laying off a bunch of mid- and low-salary staff and students.

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

This is a good graphic explaining what overhead is used for bsky.app/profile/aida...

The shut down of USAID is threatening the response to a new Ebola outbreak in Uganda. www.cbsnews.com/news/some-u-...

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I've posted it several times but the deadline is this Friday: encourage undergraduate students you're working with to apply to this fantastic program! We've got amazing researchers and opportunities in organismal biology, biology education, applied ecology, evolutionary ecology and more!

I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I agree--the female should reward the offering by decapitating the male and using his carcass as a temporary storage for her eggs

Grad Student Travel Awards available for Evolution 2024 Des bourses de voyage disponibles pour les étudiant·e·s diplômé·e·s membres de l’ASN pour la conférence de l’Évolution de 2024 www.amnat.org/announcement... Further support/soutiens supplémentaires : www.evolutionmeetings.org/participatio...

Do you teach evolution or think about inclusive pedagogy? Contribute your resources & teaching materials for inclusive undergraduate evolution education by filling out a short Google form: forms.gle/Sjn9V3oezas9... (More info here: www.amnat.org/announcement...)

MSU's EEB program is looking for one or more asst profs in quantitative ecology or evolutionary biology. Review begins Nov 8, so hurry up and get those applications in! Please repost. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/51...