Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote. Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California. techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...

some data on the shrinkage

"The average taxpayer in 2025 paid: $4,049 for weapons and war, vs. $2,492 for Medicaid, which provided health insurance to 68.5 million Americans in 2025 — about one in five Americans."

“The decision … is not going to result in any more oil production; it’s not going to result in lower gas prices. It will result in real harm and the potential extinction of one or more species in the Gulf.”

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

Discover Day today! Please join us in the Student Union to see the results of some fantastic undergraduate research. While you’re there, be sure to check out posters from rockstar Kelly lab students Deborah Shobamowo and Suzie Heneghan 🌊@lsuscience.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social l

If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid: $124 — school lunch & nutrition programs $49 — diplomacy to prevent wars $19 — USPS $19 — Federal Aviation Administration $18 — national parks and $4,049 — weapons and war. These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay

LSU science professor here... we DO want her at LSU!! So glad to hear she had a good recruitment experience 😊

My quote of the day You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

This was one of the few existing ways to find long term research. That is horrible and a huge loss to all of science. I hope other organizations and university will step up to help this important research.

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.

Available soon! Jeb Byers, April Blakeslee, and myself gently twisted the arms of a few dozen of our brilliant colleagues to put together this new text on "The Ecology and Evolution of Marine Parasites and Disease", should be out in June. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The tech industry props up the richest people on the planet and pays far less than its fair share of taxes. It can absolutely afford its own R&D. But instead, it’s effectively hijacked our public science infrastructure because having more wealth than anyone could ever spend is still not enough.

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.

At $4.8 billion the budget request for federally funded science for our entire country comes out equivalent to just 5 days-worth of funding for a pointless and brutal war.

This is sickening 😞

15 minute break from email to walk barefoot through the mud and collect a bag full of snails! Continued to answer Dean’s office emails while walking to and from this field site 😒, but it feels nice to be outside…

Oh hello it's Trans Day of Visibility and, like many trans people, I'm only visible if I say something. If you think you don't know anyone trans, you probably do. If you want to read my post about how I understand my gender, it's at daniellaurison.com/n...

@vscooper.micropopbio.org & @isabelott.bsky.social let me crash their high-school bacteria hunt while I was working on my book "Life's Edge." Their paper's now out, featuring lots of mutants (including my very own CZ1A).

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

So far we’ve got: running, crawling, sprinting, flying, swimming, burst speed, righting time, climbing… what are we missing?

Skymind! I'm part of a team investigating how thermal optima for locomotion vary across populations of ectotherms. We need a search string that captures all of the ways to describe movement. How do you describe the movement of your study species? Jump? Swim? Run? Please comment below and repost.

"Although cuts occurred across all regions and institution types, statistical patterns show that early-career investigators—assistant professors, postdoctoral scholars, trainees, and graduate students—were disproportionately affected, as were women" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Coauthors include @mattsasaki.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social and @lsulagniappe.bsky.social

Proposals are due May 18 for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! Up to $2500 for 1st and 2nd year grad students and $3500 for 3rd years and above. Evaluation criteria and sample proposals available online: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

New from Wissam Jawad & others: synthesis across many species shows 1) Incorporating local adaptation has BIG impacts on predicted vulnerability to warming 2)Pace of warming is much more important than capacity for evolutionary rescue in driving extinction risk. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is AP news. Like the most vanilla take on our news. And this is what Trump has wrought.

Special Feature in AmNat @asn-amnat.bsky.social just out on Genomic Forecasting. "Collectively, the articles underscore both the promise and the limitations of genomic forecasting while [showing] predictive performance is context dependent" 🧬🧪👨‍🔬🖥️🌲🐋🌿 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

This is a pretty cool (short) story about a Chilean copepod that we've been working on with @invertevoeco.bsky.social and her lab... turns out, after doing some sequencing, it looks a lot like a new species.

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2025 Haldane Prize!⭐️ 🪸Carolina Olguín-Jacobson used kelp forest monitoring data to assess the impact, resistance and recovery of marine heatwaves on fish and invertebrate communities inside and outside marine reserves🐟️ @jellyfishvibes.bsky.social buff.ly/sAv1GGL 🧪🌍️

🏅 This month's Editor's Choice article by Megan Barkdull and Corrie Moreau: "Phenotypic plasticity in turtle ants has opposing evolutionary consequences for genes and regulatory loci" academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... @corriemoreau.bsky.social @meganbarkdull.bsky.social

Out today in @science.org our paper on how evolutionary adaptation to warming will reduce fisheries yields. Please let me know if you need me to send you a copy. Summary of the paper coming soon. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big congrats to former Lowry Lab postdoc Daniel Anstett, who's paper: "Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought" is out in Science today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🐟How does the Amazon molly defy all evolutionary odds and overcome the detrimental costs of asexual reproduction?🧬 😊Glad that @rdacemel.bsky.social and I could contribute to this fascinating study, brilliantly led by Ed Ricemeyer @nature.com 👏Congrats to all authors! @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social

Some brilliant photos in this article on the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory's white abalone breeding programme www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hey post-docs in Environmental Sciences that need to catch them all... Job posting #academicsky #postdoc #phd #ecology

🚨 Paper Alert! In 2023, Mexican coral reefs experienced an unprecedented bleaching event. But bleaching wasn’t the biggest issue. Our study in Proceedings B @royalsociety.org shows a marine heatwave caused massive coral mortality and pushed reefs from production to net erosion #Reefs A thread 🧵

I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills! I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.

ICB highlights #spider research this week: Invasive Widow Spiders Perform Differently at Low Temperatures from Conspecifics from the Native Range Monica A Mowery et al doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #science #arachnids

“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year” Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

North American bird populations are not only declining, but they’re also shrinking faster with each passing year—particularly in regions shaped by intensive agriculture, according to a new study in Science. https://scim.ag/4bkrafP

January 2021 was the deadliest month of the pandemic. 3000 Americans died daily, 95,000 in total. And Prasad was *mocking* people for avoiding COVID. Shame on anyone who treated him as a good faith actor or serious thinker. Let’s be honest about his record.

I had a favorite uncle who declined a wedding invitation b/c they had not told their 11yo ‘about the birds & the bees’ (deeply problematic in and of itself!) It was hurtful at the time but sparked decades of hilarious speculation about what *exactly* they imagined would be happening at this event.

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that long-term ocean warming reduces global fish biomass by up to 19.8% annually. Warmer years and marine heatwaves were linked to sharp biomass losses of up to 43.4%. go.nature.com/40b6AIB 🧪 🌍

“Men older than me spat on me in public,” Lauren Stokes testified, speaking about the days after the University of Mississippi fired her for resharing an Instagram post that called Charlie Kirk a racist. “People are still saying vitriolic things to me. I’m still suffering and humiliated.”