Excited to share our new paper on #zooplankton 16S #microbiomes and #bacterioplankton across alpine lakes. We found deterministic processes > than intraseasonal temporal effects overall, with host filtering and dispersal limitation driving change in zoopl. #MolecularEcology tinyurl.com/4e4rnjhk

An entire nightmare brought to you by Trump, Miller, & Noem.

🌟 It's being hailed as the “discovery of the decade” by Drew Harvell, a disease ecologist at the University of Washington and member of the research team behind the breakthrough. After years of mystery, scientists have finally pinpointed the cause of sea star wasting disease! #marinescience #ocean

“Fire is always where people are,” Mike Flannigan continues. “It goes with us wherever we go. But fire is now uncontrollable, and we're going to see more and more fire and more and more catastrophic fire...Sometimes I say we’re in Dante's circle of hell." 🌏 time.com/7299284/age-...

Water quality in the western United States is affected by wildfires, with sediment and turbidity levels increasing up to eight years post-fire, according to an analysis in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/4nhBER6 ⚒️ 🧪

This is why we call: Also on the chopping block: US Forest Service monitoring and research of our vast public lands and forests. Call your Senators -so many reasons to preserve this agency’s function. Noted some in this #resistbot petition below: Click, sign, share resist.bot/petitions/PG...

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

Teachers: are AI checkers worth a damn? Any preference for reliable checkers or approaches to addressing high similarity scores? I've used TurnItIn, ZeroGPT, AskGPT and all are so variable...

Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget

Seeking solace, and finding hard truths, on California’s Highway 395 "Here’s the truth: There’s not enough water in Mono or Owens lake. It’s hotter than it used to be." — Insightful essay by @sammyroth.bsky.social reflecting on a trip to the Eastern Sierra: www.latimes.com/environment/...

With the recent rapid increases in #wildfires as we head into summer, a timely reminder of this excellent starter pack on #wildfire experts put together by @fkearns.bsky.social go.bsky.app/RmQuXhp #IIFF

New paper! How does fire affect aquatic ecosystem plankton and microbes? We found 🔥 and loading amount shifted zooplankton and microbial community composition over 90d. Recovery of microbial community (and function) was > in host-assoc. vs. free living 🦠 @jonshurin.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mwbkhxsv

🪸 An innovative approach to #CoralReef restoration: Gel! A new substance designed by Scripps Oceanography & @jacobsschool.bsky.social scientists improved coral larvae settlement by up to 20 times! Learn more about SNAP-X & how it's helping corals thrive. ⬇️ 🌊 @ucsandiego.bsky.social

"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."

I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science

I don't know what to say... this is the purposeful sabotage and dismantling of the leading force supporting science research in USA. Dark days lie ahead for us all...

I got to spend the morning working with Paepae o He'eia pulling invasive upside down sea jellies from the loko i'a. They estimate 5 million in the pond, we pulled ~ 35,000 out today. Small progress, but rewarding to work hand-in-hand with the community kia'i. Join us next time! 🪼

"It's time to fight everywhere and all at once" Pritzker says, blasting "the do nothing crowd" of Dems in response to Republicans: "We have to abandon the culture of incrementalism that has led us to swallow their cruelty and their callousness with barely a cowardly croak."

No, deep sea mining is not benign, it is will harm ancient ecosystems vital to the deep sea and our planet. Pillaging the earth is not NOAA's mandate. phys.org/news/2025-04...

Compliance with the regime will not save you. Piece of evidence n+1

2025 has been hard... I didn't agree with the capitulation by NSF to the illegal EOs, but I appreciate that Director Panch was doing his best in an impossible time. Thank you for your service, sir. www.science.org/content/arti...

Read to the end for a fun bit where the Project 2025 proposal to ax this program suggests getting the same scientific work from university researchers funded by the federal grants, which of course the administration is also axing

On it. Report your terminated NSF grant here: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... And spread the word. We'll have a database up once we build out the back end and receive submissions. All credit to @noamross.net for standing this up so quickly.

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

Opening up sanctuaries of biodiversity for commercial fishing does not make America stronger. This is an abdication of USA leadership in preserving culturally and ecologically sensitive heritage sites. Oh, and it is illegal. www.civilbeat.org/2025/04/trum...

We have a new video to share! How to prepare stickleback muscle tissue for stable isotopes analysis from the Bolnick lab space at UConn. www.sticklestock.com/protocols-1/...

A tale of two titles: One on the website, the other on the pdf of record. Is this a sloppy edit or an attempt to self-censor for the techno-Fascists? @nature.com @asm.org www.nature.com/articles/d41...

From UC: "...the Board has directed President Drake to take action to ensure that diversity statements are no longer required for new recruitments....Diversity statements may lead applicants to focus on an aspect of their candidacy outside their expertise or prior experience." W😤WWWWWW

Federal research instability risks postdoc careers, American leadership www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/p... via @statnews.com

USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula

anybody else a fan of "three body problem" - remember that part where the aliens attack earth by shutting down our ability to do science? what a crazy, fictional idea, good thing nothing like that could happen in real life.

More bad news for science training in the USA...

How US science agencies could fare amid future budget cuts and Trump team push for huge government layoffs: “NSF as we know it could cease to exist” NIH scientist: “they want to send us back to the Dark Ages by stopping science in its tracks completely”. @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Goddamnit. The lack of response on this is so stupid. It also implies an answer.

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

New paper alert: Check it out! A big effort on "flying plankton" and the traits of prokaryotic and eukaryote microbes that shape dispersal and colonization @jonshurin.bsky.social and @ucsandiego.bsky.social inhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aem.02055-24

THIS.

licking the boot won't gain us favor... "Come and Take It" should be the mantra, not "Thank you may I have another."

The share of Americans employed by the government steeply dropped in the decades leading up to 2000, and has remained essentially flat since. A bloating federal workforce is a myth.

The worm overlord ate his integrity, as well as his brain.

Please repost this government led survey to get this into every fired government employees hands! 🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Wow this Judge paid attention in genetics class 🍻

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

I hope there's a class-action lawsuit about these illegal firings because Congress doesn't seem to be doing anything about it.

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

One of our amazing grad students lost everything in the LA fires. She is so kind & compassionate & always 1st to help out a friend. She is also a champion of protecting coral reefs through research & action. If you have any capacity to help her it would be so appreciated. ❤️https://gofund.me/27c354ef

📣 JOB ALERT📣 The Silbiger Lab is hiring a full time research tech @ University of Hawai’i at Mānoa to support research on intertidal ecology in Hawai’i & coral reef/coastal oceanography in Okinawa, Japan. RCUH ID: 225085 application link below. 1 year to start, but have several years of funding.

Why learn to code? So you don't mistake legacy code structure (CODL database here) for actual data points and become a bombastic twat claiming you've discovered "the greatest fraud in US history". We need programmers, we need educators, we don't need fascist pigs.

The uncertainty caused by Trump’s funding and hiring freezes has limited training, postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation in areas vulnerable to wildfire and left some firefighters with little choice but to leave the force.