www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... Submit your comment here. Read this short piece by lawyer Claudia Polsky to see why science needs you and all your friends and colleagues to write. It’s fast and easy and it will make a difference.

White House enhancements that Trump said he would pay for, like replacing a walkway and repairing masonry, have in fact cost taxpayers $689,232. The admin has slashed spending on many national parks and redirected money instead to D.C.-area improvements — "a quiet crisis unfolding."

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

Don't forget to comment by July 13: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

Public health research at world-class institutions like the NIH is an important public good. Rep. Suzan DelBene, Rep. Lori Trahan and I are leading 122 of our colleagues to oppose the Trump Administration’s efforts to give partisan political appointees final say over health research grants.

This is making NSF guidance in line with the proposed changes from OMB on grantmaking., e.g., "Disallows publication costs consistent with proposed revisions to 2 CFR 20" Comment by Aug 24.

My editorial in this week’s Science @aaas.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Breaking news: The Trump administration can cancel temporary humanitarian protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants living legally in the U.S., the Supreme Court ruled, possibly allowing the deportation of hundreds of thousands of people this year.

To the #Evol2026 folks, I am recruiting MSc/PhD students (with or without their own funding) - please send people my way if you know of anyone interested in blending ecology & evolution!

⚒️ 🧪 A catastrophic earthquake just struck northern Venezuela. Large buildings have collapsed, and the USGS PAGER is forecasting thousands of fatalities. Our colleague in Caracas, Dr. Frank Audemard, has shared with us what the earthquake felt like and footage from the region. Here’s what we know.

OVERSIGHT HEARING - OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET 🧪 Tuesday 10 am June 30, 2026 appropriations.house.gov/schedule/hea...

Probably a bit late, but if anyone in Cleveland for #Evol2026 has some free time, the Cleveland museum of art (open until 9PM tonight; 10am-5PM tomorrow) is FREE and has a ton of exquisite and culturally significant works of art! Here’s just one example. There were 4 Van Goghs on the other wall

Scientists have mobilized against OMB's power grab, but we need to look beyond our own grants and make coalitions with neighbors whose hospitals, schools, broadband, roads and parks are at risk. Go out and talk to your town council and county commission! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... 🧪

Just about ready to start in room 22, Coevolution I #Evol2026

Wondering why the NIH has such a slow pace of grantmaking this year? Here’s my breakdown. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-execut...

I know it seems like a heretical idea, but one way to figure out if a preprint is really interesting (to you) is... to read the preprint. Then, in the spirit of sharing, send a note to authors: a simple kudos or a more detailed question. I do this a dozen times a year. It's awesome. Try it.

Grad student @gykim.bsky.social 's Opuntia common garden might be the prettiest thing on campus right now.

I'm very excited and so grateful to receive an NSF CAREER award - we'll be testing ideas about how CAM evolves using C3+CAM intermediate species and teaching students how plant physiology and genomics can simultaneously inform our understanding of plant biodiversity. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/... 1/2

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

Members of Congress calling out the blatantly unlawful proposed OMB rule on federal grantmaking. Let’s keep the pressure on! thehill.com/newsletters/...

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

Wait I'm sorry I'm just learning from a community fb comment section (I know, I know) that people think someone is dropping ticks from...the sky? What??

If you are a mystery solver, want to learn more about hybridization or just love boechera come check out my talk #Evol2026 tomorrow at 2:45 “What roles have polyploidy and hybridization played in the evolution of eastern Boechera stricta?”

Thousands of biomedical studies are stuck in limbo as NIH drags out renewals months after annual budgets expire. Since 2025, the rate of overdue renewals has TRIPLED. This leaves scientists unable to plan, keep staff employed, or maintain long-term research. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NIH 🧪

🌱From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Plant Resilience and #Conservation for a Changing Climate”🌱 Linking community structure & climate vulnerability in desert plant assemblages of southern California By Hector Zumbado-Ulate, @sweetlynn.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #climatechange

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The Department of Integrative Biology at Oregon State University is currently looking to hire multiple tenure track researchers with an emphasis on organismal biology. See link for details: jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/181...

“Collections are something done by past generations for future generations to preserve information” Dr. Jessica Ware, now discussing improving access to natural history collections at #evol2026

We've been checking with contacts inside the NSF and they are saying it is **not true** that X-labs is responsible for this. X-labs is not anywhere close to big enough to make up this hole. As far as I have heard, this program is coming out of TIP funding.

ok didn't think I'd have to mute a candy related post but that is incredibly on brand for me

Is there a bigger lie than calling a bag of candy "share size"? Lol I am not sharing this. Have you seen the state of the world? These 15 servings of M&Ms are MINE.

📣 It's out ! ✨32✨ great #paleobotany papers in this special issue of @annbot.bsky.social on fossil #plants 🌿⛏️ edited by Mihai Tomescu, @sandyheth.bsky.social, Brian Atkinson & myself. Thank you to all the authors & all the reviewers for their contributions! 📄 academic.oup.com/aob/issue

A brazen raiding of public funds, ignoring Congressional directives and cutting basic science programs to send money to the insatiable maw of the AI industry. #NSF 🧪

🚨New paper alert🚨🔥 I’m thrilled to share new work from our lab in Ecology Letters: we tackle the challenge of making general predictions for competition in a warming world 🌡️🔥🌏 Led by the brilliant postdoc @kaleighedavis.bsky.social with @tessgrainger.bsky.social and others tinyurl.com/44hr6bzf

"It even suggests staff “pull back any award recommendations in the queue,” another way to lower the number of grants ultimately going out the door this year." 🫠

Bummed to miss #Evol2026. For all those students looking for a position, we're recruiting MS students (polyploid genomics) and a PostDoc (conservation genomics) for next year. Shoot me an email!

Sam Scheiner accepts his @sse-evolution.bsky.social Lifetime Achievement Award by pulling up a slide packed with names of colleagues from his 26 years at NSF, and reminding us to thank federal agency staff and scientists who are still working to support research while going "through hell" #Evol2026

#Viewpoint: Using herbarium collections to study genetic responses to global change Eckert et al 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @lucaseckert.bsky.social @cameronso.bsky.social

🎉 PUBLISHED!!!! Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social 🎉 We found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity in a Monkeyflower species. This experiment used two big field transplants, greenhouse, AND growth chamber work. It was hard, but awesome. With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Happy birthday to #botanist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci renown algae expert, celebrated seaweed cook, devoted teacher and mentor, expert on Hawaiian ethnobotany, the first Indigenous Hawaiian woman to earn a doctorate in science and the first woman or person of colour to become 🧵

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It was fun to work on this meta-analysis of resurrection studies involving plants with Lillie Pennington, Steven Franks, Jill Anderson, and @elenahamann.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Job opening: Postdoctoral Scholar researching chlorophyll fluorescence and gas exchange using mathematical models at Michigan State University buff.ly/Wd2lT15 #PlantSciJobs

What is going on?!

NSF grants awarded per day (two week rolling window): normally 30-60 this time of year, now around 6 (note the y-axis is log scale). Data compiled at bomeara.github.io/rnsf/ . Inspired by looking at the awards plateaus at grant-witness.us/funding_curv... #NSF #AcademicScky 🧪

biology is cool

WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN! (Gift link) When we don’t capitulate, when we flood the zone, when we raise our voices together, when we say NO!, we win. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Remember to include alt text in your posts promoting your #Evol2026 talk or poster! Most have been, but not all. See www.bskyinfo.com/guides/getti... for info on how to do it well and ways to make it required for your posts.