Another fisheries genetics job working with the Northwest Indian Fisheries Comission! #consgen #fisheries #fishgen nwifc.org/fisheries-ge...

Use of lead ammunition negatively impacts human health too. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From squirrels and concrete to whales, plastic and wetlands, news tips on new environmental studies from @ucdavis.bsky.social. www.ucdavis.edu/climate/blog...

A 'megacluster' of genes found in a common soil bacterium can produce a range of antibiotics that can act against multi-drug-resistant bacteria go.nature.com/4aRR6ii

Are you a recent Ph.D. graduate? Apply for the Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists. The $30,000 grand prize will be awarded for outstanding research in cell and molecular biology, genomics, ecology, or molecular medicine. Apply by 15 July: https://scim.ag/4lUpKMN

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

Lifetime fitness (lifetime reproductive success) and annual survival are heritable and genetically correlated in wild female baboons! Moreover, nearly all of the genetic variance in LRS can be attributable to survival to first reproduction. Out at Evolution now: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) was a pioneering naturalist, entomologist & scientific illustrator whose meticulous artwork & observations: 🦋 Revolutionized the study of insects 🐜 Laid early groundwork for #ecology 🐞 Permanently changed how we understand insect life It's #InsectWeek #WomenInSTEM

Hey #Evol2026 - while I am not in Cleveland this year (hope to be in San Juan next year!), I would love to connect with folks who might be interested in this open position in my lab. DM me for deets!

💨Air doesn't just carry DNA—it carries location information. We show that simple wind data can help pinpoint where vertebrate airborne eDNA comes from, bringing us closer to biomonitoring from the air with spatial precision! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #eDNA #Conservation #congen

Still some time to apply to our postdoc position - deadline 3rd July. I'll be at #SMBE2026 if anyone would like to chat about it 😊

SFGate: Schiebelhut Saw Sunflower Sea Stars by the Sonoma Sea Shore www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Nice article about California’s caviar industry, built on the pioneering work of Serge Doroshov and colleagues at UC Davis!

Thank you for speaking up, calling electeds, and talking about why ocean monitoring is critical to our coastal economies and safety. Ocean Observing Initiative is spared the axe for the moment. www.nsf.gov/news/update-...

I recently heard a biologist describe salmon as “pretty darn weedy,” and this story, a blast to report and write, epitomizes that concept: far from being hothouse flowers, these are fish who can flourish almost anywhere we give them a fighting chance. Thanks in advance for reading!

A new orca calf born to the critically endangered southern resident killer whale (SRKW) population was recently spotted in B.C.-area waters. https://cheknews.ca/were-thrilled-new-endangered-southern-resident-orca-calf-spotted-1331222/

The Trump administration has been ordered to restore signs & exhibits at national parks covering topics such as slavery, climate change & Indigenous history, with a federal judge ruling that their removal set "a dangerous precedent of censorship & sanitization." www.newsweek.com/trump-ordere...

My @ucdavis.bsky.social colleague Laci Gerhart is doing extraordinary work: teaching natural history and participatory science in CA prisons, with a new $1.9M NSF grant to scale it statewide. The participants' curiosity and engagement shine through in this piece. biology.ucdavis.edu/news/trainin...

A few days late, but big congrats to GVLers Anna Jordan and Grace Auringer who received their hoods on Thursday! In just a few months, we’ll have two more doctors in the lab! So proud of all that these two have accomplished!

California law has prohibited race in college admissions for years. UC Davis has worked hard to devise admissions so that its graduates serve the people of Calif, which includes rural and urban communities that need primary care

New paper from the lab on #eDNA sampling strategies for air. Well done Nina Garrett #womeninStem 🧪 . Sampling Intensity and Temporal Persistence of Airborne eDNA in Partially Enclosed Spaces - Garrett - 2026 - Environmental DNA - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The papal encyclical letter goes beyond a religious document and diagnoses a failure in AI governance that the scientific community should heed, says Paolo Benanti go.nature.com/4xHsXFd

My heart!! ❤️

Here is the paper describing tests for dog "handedness" (pawedness?) in case the Science news feature is behind a paywall for you. Can wait to try this on our pups! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Left-pawed dogs take fewer risks. Right-pawed dogs can be more aggressive. And ambilateral dogs appear to be more fearful of thunderstorms. Fun story by @phiejacobs.bsky.social for @science.org

Gross.

Just submitted my comment! Saw that there are currently only 12,400 comments on this. Those are rookie numbers folks, we gotta pump those numbers up. We have til July 13th!

What were 2025's greatest moments of clarity at Lake Tahoe? Find out in the latest Lake Tahoe Clarity Report, released today from @ucdavistahoe.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social 💙https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/2025-lake-tahoe-clarity-report-released

This is AMAZING

There is a through line from "If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases" Trump, Allentown, June 2020 to the ongoing steps by a know-nothing administration to dismantle instruments of measurement, because data poses a threat to its grievance-driven political priorities.

Very cool application of Cas12 - not just diagnosing disease but treating it!

Another fisheries #consgen job alert! The Northern Gulf Institute at Mississippi State University is seeking a Postdoctoral Associate to lead the development and application of molecular assays to support fisheries and biodiversity monitoring #eDNA

The US Forest Service National Genomics Center is hiring an eDNA lab technician! Come work with us on cool genetics projects in Missoula #ConsGen #eDNA

Nature research paper: Genetic architecture of sugarcane traits in a polyploid genomics framework go.nature.com/4v8qykA

I keep looking for mitigating factors, or ways the impact of these new policies (which are already being applied, at least in part, per recent anecdotes/reporting) might have been overstated. And I have found none. This is a genuinely extreme, extraordinarily, and immensely dangerous development.

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

Here's a summary of what is being proposed: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

This is very alarming. What is the point of funding research if you won't aren't willing to pay for its peer review and publication? Does the gov't just plan to sit on TBs of data and grant reports and have the knowledge gained go no where and benefit no one?

Dismal. But it seems irrelevant that even the best models are crap at marking. Why are you using them even if you think they work? Why teach at all if you can’t be bothered to mark your own students? Yes it can be tiring, but…it’s your actual job?

This flouf is one of 15 healthy California condor chicks to hatch at our conservation center this season. A new record! #Condorable #KeepCalmAndCarrion

Very excited that my western bluebird friends are double-clutching!!

~ Mama Kestrel Coming in Hot with a Cold-blooded Meal 🦎 ~ Along with rodents, insects, and small birds, reptiles are on the menu for American Kestrels raising young in Napa 🍇 Valley #WildAg #AmericanKestrel #RaptorResearch *nest monitored with permits

Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

NPR’s science correspondent @ngreenfieldboyce.bsky.social is among those who was laid off. 😒

Jasmine Clark led a March for Science in 2017. She just won a Georgia primary for a safe Democratic House seat. @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social spoke with Science about her background, the roots of her political activism, and what she hopes to accomplish in Washington, D.C. https://scim.ag/4uzbXyE

New blog post highlighting one of many exciting collaborations between California Dept of Water Resources and UC Davis to conserve native fishes! mavensnotebook.com/2026/05/15/d...

@tiffanydobbyn24.bsky.social just wrote a wonderful article about Karen Gallardo's ongoing field season on barn owls, rodents, and noise in California vineyards... Check it out! caes.ucdavis.edu/news/what-ba... @ucdavisnews.bsky.social

“Academic science is not only about productivity but also deep understanding, creative solutions & training critical thinkers as next generation of researchers. Now is the time for our community to evaluate whether AI products help or hinder these.“ @lmesseri.bsky.social & @mjcrockett.bsky.social🧪👇

Excited to have our new garden dormouse paper out! Small mammals are underrepresented in conservation research. Here we explore patterns of genetic erosion in garden dormice, considered the fastest-declining mammal in Europe, in its core German range #consgen link.springer.com/article/10.1...