Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social, a PhD microbiologist who won the democratic primary for Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, tells C&EN how being a scientist is propelling her toward Congress. #chemsky 🧪

The world's first trillionaire did this

Reminder that the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) is asking members to sign letters regarding the OMB rule (by 6/15) and to submit individual responses (by 7/13!!). We have >250 signatories right now, GREAT!, but we have ~4k members, give or take, so pls get those signatures in!

All thanks to the newly minted trillionaire.

Still all quiet on the #NSF front. No new awards in the past week. REMINDER: We still are hearing of trickles of terminations, suspensions, and money being held back from grantees, which NSF isn't reporting. We need your help - please report! 🧪 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

The Laysan albatross has a wingspan of 6+ feet, a lifespan of 60+ years, can fly for months without landing, lives in the Hawaiian islands, and mates for life. About 31% of breeding pairs are lesbian. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 Behold the lesbian Laysan albatross. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Dr. Steven Khan, one of my colleagues here at UW, is a specialist in type 2 diabetes. His work has been cited 145,000 times and his H-index is 153. He is the Editor in Chief of _Diabetes Care_, the ADA's flagship journal.

The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.

JFC Just open censorship, siccing the cops on scientists, intimidation, and sycophantry. These aren't just signs of fascism, it's a goddamned neon explosion.

Scientists and Science Supporters. Now is the time to act to stop the new OMB proposed rules that changes federal grant regulations and threatens to weaken US science... the comment period is open now and until July 13th. @sse-evolution.bsky.social email below with information on what to do next!

HUGE kudos to SSE leadership for spearheading collective action against OMB's proposed rule. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🧪 Societies matter!! Support them with your engagement, conference attendance, and choice of journals. SSE members: please consider signing these letters! SSE non-members: please consider joining ☺️

I just learned that OMB is required to respond to every comment on the anti-peer-review rule. So that means our comments really matter, at the very least by gumming up the gears. Send your comment today.

Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Plasticity takes on new meaning with Isabelle, who studies how animals especially in the ocean are adapting - or not - to changing temps! #scicomm #sciart #genetics youtube.com/watch?v=pTwl...

If reading through the list gives you the reaction it gave me, pick the three things that scare you the most and specifically mention them in a call to your reps tomorrow

Important explanation of a myriad of different ways that the act of doing science will be prohibited by this administration. Topics of study, attending conferences, public communications, open access journals, and so much more.

Thank you, @science.org!

Years ago, I was told I was not allowed to assign “Weapons to Math Destruction” in my data science class in Louisiana and ceding to that demand is one of my chief life regrets.

If you'd like to hear Isabelle give a talk about this work, you can watch the seminar version of this manuscript here: cassyni.com/events/TF2rJ...

And a fun video to go along with it! youtube.com/shorts/wkJsw...

Out today from Isabelle Neylan, @rujutavaidya.bsky.social @brantfaircloth.bsky.social, M Dassnayake and me: The transcriptomic response to early life heat stress mirrors adaptive differences between populations – evidence for plasticity-led evolution. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

UVic is hiring a Terrestrial Plant Ecologist Assistant Professor! Come join our department! We're nice and Victoria is awesome. www.uvic.ca/science/biol...

Nobody is born Islamophobic. Islamophobic children are made and will continue to be made in a society that treats Islamophobia as a bipartisan norm and even sometimes social good. Islamaphobic children with access to guns are made possible by an Islamophobic society that loves guns.

A couple nights ago, my 13yo daughter and I were nerding out on @drcraigmc.bsky.social ‘s Gulf of Mexico research videos. Today she surprised me with this handmade gift - giant isopod constructed from a toilet paper roll, ready to lovingly consume on your nearest deep sea alligator fall

Range expansion in action! 🦑🌊 During our #SwelterShelterNSF surveys, we saw many “dark unicorn” 🦄 whelks, the leading edge of a poleward shift. Beshai et al. recently documented these “climate invader” impacts in @esajournals.bsky.social *Ecology*: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This month we launch a Focus issue on the impacts of extreme events on biodiversity, highlighting research and opinion pieces on their variable impacts, short- and long-term consequences, and conservation measures to mitigate their effects: www.nature.com/collections/... Read more 👇

Preprint of Wissam's third chapter is out! Check out this very cool study showing that ecologically relevant heat stress affects night-time predation risk in mangrove snails: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.

IU let them lock the labs without notice and the occupants had to beg to make sure equipment was turned off and experiments running taken care of to, you know, not cause the building to burn down

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

for, uh, world-historical reasons I am putting this back out there

I could have just resigned in protest, but I also believe that is exactly what the admin wants… Fed scientists to quit. So I chose to be as transparent with my grantees as I could (with the incomplete info I had), comply with them if that’s what they chose, and be as loud as I could about the harm.

I'm a reasonable moderate (lower the age to 70, kicking off the oldest Republican)

ABC News: Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.com/Politics/jud...

2016: Black students complaining that dehumanizing language on campus and in the media is dangerous 2016-2026: cancel culture hysteria, these students are whining about nothing 2026: Black people losing the right to vote on a state-by-state basis ANYONE WANT TO REVISE THEIR ASSESSMENT?

They sure are desperate for control of you.

Louisiana GOP showing their true colors, in case anyone had any doubts what ‘partisan’ redistricting is actually about.

From small white blooms to bold “hot lips,” wild coffee plants keep reinventing their flowers. Across 650+ species, showy blooms have evolved at least 10 times. Dr. Lagomarsino is heading to Colombia as a Fulbright Scholar to find out why. 🔗 lsu.edu/science/news... @lsuresearch.bsky.social

Triple the rate. 3 times more likely to have grants suspended. “Compared to the all NIH-funded investigators in 2024, investigators who received targeted terminations were more likely to self-identify as… Black/African American (n = 86, 11.9% vs 4.0%)”

There is no reason for the U.S. to fall behind in its investment in science and technology and in training a science-savvy citizenry. It's a choice being made that will have consequences. theconversation.com/china-surpas...

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

lsu.edu/blog/2026/05... I’ve had so much fun collaborating with Ambre Placide and Barbara Tartarotti @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social on this project! Thanks to @fromthelabbench.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social for covering the story. @lsuscience.bsky.social

The National Science Foundation is the main source of funding for basic sciences in the US. For decades, they have supported a scientific R&D ecosystem in the US that has been an engine of economic growth and competitive advantage. Destroying the agency is no less than an act of sabotage.

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

This is really bad 😔

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...