Who is the biggest lemur around?! It's the Indri! These beauties can weigh up to 21 lbs, making them the largest lemurs in the world! #FunFactFriday 📷️: Tony Tang on Unsplash

New opportunity for PhD fellowships at interface of ecology & evolution from the Simons Foundation. Application deadline June 30, 2026. My interpretation is that this applies to prospective PhD students & those accepted/not yet matriculated. Full details: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Teacher applications are open for 5 more days! 👩🏽‍🏫 "If you teach grades 5–8 at a school in a low-income community in the US, you may be a great fit – whether you're a 5th grade teacher who teaches all subjects including science, a middle school science teacher, or even a math teacher." #EduSky #STEM

Members of the US Congress have signaled that they will again reject the Trump administration’s proposal to slash science spending. But the bill they advanced today still calls for substantial cuts to budgets at agencies such as the NSF. go.nature.com/48AkE33

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

TODAY: Americans are walking out of school and work to wield our power as workers, consumers, and students. Join us for the nationwide day of economic disruption: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i... Find one of the more than 3,000 events planned for May Day: www.mobilize.us/mayday/map/?... #MayDay

The University of Maryland got hit with a ten percent cut in state funding for FY27, resulting in hiring and travel freezes as well as deferred maintenance. Expect more colleges to adopt midyear budget cuts this fall as oil prices stay high and inflation ticks back up.

I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead. Signed, A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure

Prof. Adriana Romero-Olivares, UC Riverside, was doing incredible work on how fungi and ecosystems respond to global change. A rising voice, a dynamic scientist and educator, a young mother, wife and daughter gone far too soon. A huge loss. Her family, students and community are in my thoughts.

Job Alert 🚨 - please share! My brilliant friend and collaborator, Fumihiro Kano, is launching a new Ecological & Collective Cognition lab at Kyushu University, and has postdoc, grad, and tech openings! Lab video: youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Academics: What are free resources you wish you knew about sooner or ealier in your career? (That are still helpful today.) Anything from paper access, scheduling time, writing help, etc. Not everyone gets access to this knowledge so let's share and spread what is available :) #academia

National Science Board eviscerated; Trump admin fires all 22 members arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget. NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy... The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%. NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

I highly recommend the SIGNAL program! It's great professional development and networking for graduate students in a variety of biological fields, especially Animal Behavior.

The largest biomedical research organization in the world is being decimated by the Trump administration. This defunding will have a drastic impact on the health & well being of American families & deepen the crises on our campuses that carry out critical research. This is insanity. #TrumpsCutsKill

Letters to a Pre-scientist is recruiting teachers for the 2026-2027 academic year! 📨 Please share with any 5-8th grade STEM teachers in your life! 👩🏽‍🏫 This is my 3rd year participating as a pen pal, and it's a fun way to connect with & support students. #EduSky prescientist.org/for-teachers/

Radical Transparency

NEW: Spending on new medical research by the National Institutes of Health has fallen roughly $1 billion behind the pace of years past, delaying thousands of scientific projects. @benjmueller.bsky.social @irenatfh.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

Scientists: It’s time to build ourselves some better options. Working in science under this administration has become an exercise of trying to find the least worst option: Do I quietly comply with unethical practices or refuse to comply and lose my job or grant or lab? 🧵1/5

Andddddd that's a wrap on #CO32026! A big thank you to all the presenters, both in talks and posters, to everyone who travelled to Montréal, and, of course, to the amazing organizers who made this conference such a success. We are already looking forward to #CO32027! Can't wait to see you there!

In 1777, George Washington mandated that all members of the Continental Army be inoculated for smallpox. In 2026, Pete Hegseth—citing the Biden administration's COVID vaccine mandate—ended the requirement that service members receive a flu vaccine.

Abortion rates in red states have not decreased, aside from medically necessary ones. Pregnancy has become much more dangerous. slate.com/news-and-pol...

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c

In August, Jay Bhattacharya said “Training future biomedical scientists” was the 1st priority for his version of NIH. But talk is cheap. Let’s see how JB’s doing. 🤔 NIH supports trainees mostly via fellowship (F), training (T), and career development (K) awards. Here are funding curves for each.🧵

I am again asking people to pay attention to what has happened to our National Science Foundation and by extension thousands of researchers across the country. The devastation is ongoing and worthy of continued outcry to officials and journalists. 🧪

There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news. But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials. Keep funding science!

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

Nice coverage of what’s happening at NSF from @thehill.com! Two points from me: 1. NSF staff are hanging in like a hair in a biscuit and the admin isn’t making it easy. It’s a psyop every day. 2. Jim O’Neill is not the one to run NSF. Full stop. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Black-and-white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) are sparsely distributed in Madagascar's eastern rainforest. They prefer the upper half of the canopy and leap vertically with stunning accuracy. Perhaps the world's largest pollinators. Threatened by habitat loss and hunting. Critically Endangered.

Closing out #CO32026! Thanks to everyone who organized a wonderful conference! @compcogsoc.bsky.social

New paper alert! 📢 Out now, fully #openaccess, in a special issue of Phil Trans on the evolution of collective intelligence (1/4) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

Hey, do I have any beetle peeps here?* @americanbeetles.bsky.social maybe? This wee little guy was feeding on the stem of an evening primrose. *I am fully aware of iNaturalist and BugGuide and have posted, thank you. Nor do I require any “That’s Steve!”

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

When supporting vaccines disqualifies someone from a top health position we're in the upside down world.

For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Answers are for information only, NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc April 2026 edition.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

"Students should be free to make up their own mind, but in order to be free to do so, they must be exposed to different ideas. We can't just expose them to conservative ideology approved by the board of regents or the governor of Texas." — Martin Peterson, Texas A&M AAUP

"Dominant capuchin monkeys donate to socially close and similarly ranked group members in a group service paradigm" An interesting look at prosociality & oxytocin in capuchins! Congrats @matthewbabb.bsky.social 👏🎉 #AnimalBehavior #ComparativeCognition #Primatology 🐒🧃➡️🐒 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

NEW: National poll on No Kings 3. ATTENDANCE: 7% say they attended; 16% more said they wanted to. POPULARITY: +10 among all voters; +22 among mods. GROWTH: 32% of protestors were first timers. 27% of all adults said they'll come next time. Highlights & crosstabs: indivisible.org/news/nationa...

Ecologists I need a favor! 🌎🌍🌏 I am teaching a GIS class for freshmen. I want to zoom in for like 15-20 min with other ecologists that are using drones, uav, collars, biologgers, telemetry, or any type of sensors to study wildlife. 1️⃣

Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Why is NSF SBE important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience or #WithoutNSFsbe

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world. It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.