Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

US faculty, your immigrant colleagues are lonely and scared right now. And they can no longer share how they feel on social media without fear of harming their immigration status. Check in on them.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Here's a summary of all the data that supports adding more red meat to your diet

Add to this list BBC Verify and several European newspapers, unanimously reaching the same conclusion. It's a serious test of the Trump MAGA lie-machine.

But Larry Summers still has a job.

Where your taxes are going: it ain't free to terrorize and kill people in your own cities

We need to call out any media organization that does not report Trump and Noem’s words for what they are – lies. If you look out the window and your eyes tell you it is raining, you don’t need to report ‘both sides.’

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

Very excited for this incredible lineup of talks at #SSB2026! ssb2026.github.io/talks.html For those giving talks, more instructions will be sent shortly. @systbiol.bsky.social

So often you can find a story to tell in RNAseq data, but how real is it really? Here we independently replicated evolution by genetic accommodation in D. melanogaster!!! Congrats George!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today is a very very good day to follow more independent news sources:

Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)

Very cool new study from my colleague Jiaqi Tan in collaboration with his students Yifeng Cao and Xiyan Feng @lsubiosci.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/louisi...

Transgenerational plasticity affects fitness and mediates local adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.23.690023v1

i’m defending my phd in a couple weeks!!!! lmk if you’d like an invite/link

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

New results from our lab: Polyploidization in diatoms accelerates adaptation to warming. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities? Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation. 🧵(1/n) @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515

A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

New from Drs. Isabelle Neylanm & Ana Salgado, @rujutavaidya.bsky.social, & rockstar @lsuscience.bsky.social undergraduate Cullen Guillory: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We're excited to kick off another year of LAGNiAppE! 🎉 Welcome to our new cohort — we can't wait to see how they grow as researchers and individuals. Stay tuned as their journey unfolds! @tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social @jembrown.bsky.social #postbacc #RaMP #training

Highly recommend meeting Finn, who is here with his person @ecarlen.bsky.social and is a very good boy. #evol2025 #evol25

The recording of my IDEA talk is up on the #Evol2025 YouTube channel, and I've thrown that together with a PDF copy of the slide deck and a bibliography: lab.jbyoder.org/2025/06/21/a...

From @rujutavaidya.bsky.social some categories of genes respond to heat stress through differential expression while others respond through differential exon usage. Only a small fraction do both. We miss an important part of the story when we focus only on DEGs! #Evo2025 #Evo25

On our way to #Evol2025! @rujutavaidya.bsky.social

How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new @pnas.org paper addressing these questions in collaboration with @rokaslab.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, and the Pennell lab! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Pause for a minute to appreciate the valiant Program Officers still at NSF, who are doing their utmost to preserve what they can. They’re in the stinking rotting belly of the beast, laboring on our behalf. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them

NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants. grant-watch.us It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon. Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.

🧵 Thread on NSF grant terminations 🧪 This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants. "DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature" What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?

“Exploring Careers in Ecology” webinar tomorrow! Join me, Rese Cloyd, and host Aaron Stoler, to duscuss finding jobs, navigating new careers, and defining success as a professional ecologist. Webinar is part of a series by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social. Register: esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Live view of my students today, as I took them from salmon and white throated sparrows (gender and the expression of sex-associated traits are not binary!) to the Jan20 White House order on gender, to the closing of the Institute for Sexual Research in Nazi Germany.

Love this! @standupforscience.bsky.social Austin is making posters and taking our message to the TX Capitol tomorrow!

In Nature Climate Change @natclimchange.bsky.social, we show that Extreme Weather Events (EWEs) have strong but different effects on plant and insect phenology, as individuals respond to immediate environmental cues such as EWES, likely more rapidly so than to gradual climate change. rdcu.be/eaLMu

If you've been calling Congress, keep calling & if not, start-we're getting their attention. We had a good visit to a Congressional office yesterday to discuss science funding & the staffer told us how busy they've been-usually the Senate shwitchboard gets 64 calls/minute-now they're getting 1600 🧪

Please help spread the word. Open tech position. My lab at Loyola University Chicago. www.careers.luc.edu/postings/31037 A project to improve eDNA resources and use eDNA to study fish diversity in Illinois's Fox River. @danielbolnick.bsky.social @ambikamath.bsky.social @ericrlarson.bsky.social

🚨Three weeks left for applying to perform independent research @lsubiosci.bsky.social. Join us to learn skills for careers in STEM. 🗓️Application deadline March 16, 2025 (11:59 PM EST). Learn more: linktr.ee/evo_lagniappe #NSF #Postbacc #RaMP @tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social

The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

I know somebody will tell me this can’t work but what about $0 registration for our agency colleagues who want to attend @evolmtg.bsky.social or other conferences so they can talk about their work? Network for jobs?

Just saw an email sent to a student of mine from a REU canceling their program due to staffing & federal research funding uncertainties. A REU was when I internalized my science ID & applying to grad school. If this continues, it will devastate my students #1 pathway to STEM careers.

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.

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

So my take away is: 1. They are setting up a legal battle where the court is encouraged to outlaw POC-associated affinity activities at any org receiving federal funding (not just schools) 2. They are intentionally avoiding a parallel case around women’s activities bc it undercuts their transphobia

Don’t know if anyone else read the letter and caught that it contradicts the majority opinion in SFFA, which allows discussion of racial identities in essays to be used as a factor in admissions. They’re trying to rewrite an already very conservative SCOTUS opinion www.ed.gov/media/docume...

What I see when I hear people say there’s too much DEI in schools

Most people in the US have no idea about the attacks on federally funded science or our government institutions. Many (or most!) of your family, coworkers, neighbors, and friends have no idea. My own MAGA dad thinks DOGE is just identifying waste, and that nothing has been cut. We have to tell them.

Trans people have always existed and always will

Go to the page, scroll to the bottom, respond NO when asked if this page was helpful, submit your suggestions for improvement 🙃😘 And in case you don't know, trans women of color organized the 1969 Stonewall riot www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm