The USFWS plans to hand over more than 700 acres of The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge — home to some of the United States’ most critically endangered species — to SpaceX in a reckless land swap. Tell your senators to stop this giveaway. act.biologicaldiversity.org/Ws09iSNvsE2X...

Idk though it’s probably because the Dutch team is good instead of just expensive? #DallasSucks #GoBirds

OB-GYN association, deviating from CDC guidance, issues its own vaccine recommendations ACOG recommends that pregnant people receive Tdap, RSV, influenza, and Covid shots during pregnancy.

There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.

Proposed changes by the Trump administration to rules that govern how federal dollars are spent "would inevitably lead to unlegislated reductions in funding and damage US leadership in science, both in academia and industry," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4uK0fBj

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

#Chimpanzees can show major sex differences: males are typically more aggressive, obtain higher status, and are more sociable than females Recent work by Margaret Bryer, @kris-sabbi.bsky.social @zeppypearl.bsky.social @alexrosati.bsky.social & others shows that these differences can be #flexible!

We’re sending Little Joe to Pittsburgh? I hope he enjoys the grand adventure! And of course that Pablo will Mar fast friends with Frankie. It will be so interesting to see how they get on.

I think I'd say ... Don't run universities like a business; run them like universities. Not everything is assimilable to some other market-based category. Universities have their origins, and in many ways find their deepest purposes, in a medieval world very different from our own.

You guys. They hacked Canvas? I mean if all the semesters it’s obviously this one but for crying out loud, Universe! Can a girl catch a break?!

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

If you are a post-bac thinking about grad school, you should check out this amazing opportunity! Many a wonderful career has been launched from this lab… 🧪🙊

1/ 📢 We’re hiring at Brunel Psychology! We have ✨TWO sparkling ✨ new permanent roles in Clinical Psychology as we grow our clinical provision, including our new MSc in Clinical Psychology launching this September. Come and help shape what we’re building 👇 @brunelgradschool.bsky.social 🧪

Guys. George Orwell really needs me to submit a manuscript to a genetics journal (not at all my field). PS - We definitely did not "previously discuss" 🧪🧬🙊

Please repost: My department at USC is hiring for a teaching-track faculty position. We are looking for someone principally to teach statistics for biologists, but there will be opportunities for other courses in statistics & algorithms applied to biology usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Multiple scientists who served on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions by President Trump. https://wapo.st/4vWaXpG

In a sea of terrible news about the state of #science in the US, this interference into the board of the NSF - which has been historically protected from exactly this type of interference through multiple bipartisan laws - should be getting more coverage. 🧪

Any chance they’re also in need of a primatologist and generalist nerd who knows about birds even though I don’t study them directly? 🧪🙈

So excited to see this paper from post-doc work with @alexrosati.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, Margaret Bryer, et al. - including so many wonderful collaborators at Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary - out in the world!! Team science is the best kind!! 🧪🐵

May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June. We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Oh no. NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program shuttered. This one leaves me winded. A good story from 2025 by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social offers insight into what we are losing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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

Once again it is time to contract your representatives: The FY27 budget request for NSF (see nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...) would get rid of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

Asia’s called leaf monkeys include about 55 species, including langurs, lutungs, and surilis. Slim, long-tailed monkeys with multi-chambered stomachs to digest tough plant food. Most live high in the trees. Sadly, most species are endangered due to habitat loss and hunting. youtu.be/r5EL1OULbhA

Forest #science peeps : does anyone have recommendations for a good budget lightsaber.. (ok fine, laser rangefinder) for distances of up to 80m in forests… 🧪🙏🤓

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Brilliant!!

HUMPBACK WHALE OUTLASTS HIPPO!!! #2026MMM

WATCH NIGHT CAM FOOTAGE in LINK ABOVE; WATCH DIFFERENT (sadder) DayCam Footage of Coalition Lion Pair & Croc Attack here! #2026MMM www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HUJ...

Reproductive Ecology and Evolutionary Anthropology: Foundations, Unanswered Questions, and Future Directions - Bribiescas - 2026 - American Journal of Human Biology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Whoa. This super super cool 🤯🧪

I have a most delightful media request: I am looking to speak to one of my ecologist colleagues who plays any of the Pokemon games about some of the Pokemon that are based on real animals, and/or what you like about playing Pokemon. 🧪🌍 #SciComm

New OA paper @royalsocietypublishing.org: What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation? royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... Lovely collab with @lirsamuni.bsky.social Martin Surbeck and Richard Connor.

PLOT TWIST!! 🙈🫣 #2026MMM #AbsoluteCarnage

UP NEXT: #2-seed Wild Dromedary Camel (Camelus dromedarius) vs. #3-seed Aurochs (Bos primigenius) #2026MMM

File under: I wish we did not need this job but boy would I love to be the one that gets to do it 🐻

This is literally just the plot of the The Martian

Talk about validation! Bookmarking this for every time my students give me a hard time about date formatting.

Next up: Aurochs (Bos primigenius) vs. Bramble Cay Meloymis (Melomys rubicola)!!! #2026MMM

How did the Wolf reach the Falkland Islands? #2026MMM DNA evidence shows its lineage diverged from mainland relatives 330K years ago, long before humans reached the region. The wolves may have reached the islands by rafting on debris or crossing glacial ice from Patagonia. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

What we call “weasels” is a taxonomic group that includes stoats, polecats, ermines, mink, ferrets and SOME weasels, in the genus Mustela. The rest form their own taxonomic group called the “American Weasels” in the genus Neogale (including the extinct sea mink) doi.org/10.1186/1741... #2026MMM

From their influence on forest growth to their connection with people and ecosystems around the world, this short video answers the big question: Why primates? Watch now to discover why protecting primates means protecting life itself. youtu.be/uXE9bbwZ_Wc

Is there anyone (preferably an ECR/grad student) in the wildlife sciences that would like a free 6 month membership to The Wildlife Society? I have one that I can gift. Let me know!

Last Up: #2 Lions (Panthera leo) vs. #15 Mold (Aspergillus sp.)! A #2026MMM collab between @mammalssuck.bsky.social and myself!

Plot twist: “ancient domestic cat” wasn’t a domestic cat after all. Genomics of 5,400-year-old bones from China revealed a leopard cat instead. Domestic cat (Felis catus) likely reached China via Silk Road trade only ~1,400 years ago. #2026MMM www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Full-ride and partial scholarships available for summer marine biology field research methods courses 🧪🦑🌍 www.getintothefield.com/scholarship-...

Dogs evolved to eat your leftovers! Comparing dog & wolf genomes revealed dogs have up to 30 EXTRA copies of the amylase gene (AMY2B) that helps digest starch. This is a key genomic signature of living alongside humans & table scraps for thousands of years 🐕 www.nature.com/articles/nat... #2026MMM