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even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

I'm pleased with this

IMHO, the Supreme Court is a *bigger* problem than Trump, and it should be the primary target for reform. Trump and Congress would both be very different under a law-abiding SCOTUS, which would have stopped government action clearly animated by racism and racially gerrymandered districts.

The entire fuckin point of the national mall is loitering

Sam Alito is functionally no different than a straight up klansman and I’m sick and tired of people tiptoeing around that basic fact

John Roberts: the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to ignore blatant discrimination on the basis of race www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/john...

I like the idea of genomic databases! Just in the hands of non-profit research archives, not a tech company who is threatening real species conservation efforts by convincing people that extinction isn't forever, actually (spoiler alert: it is! DNA isn't enough) www.wired.com/story/coloss...

The whole dire wolf thing was borderline fraud. And of course the point of all this bollocks is that all these accelerationists, longtermists, EAs, and their GOP allies have been salivating over an excuse to destroy the environment now on the grounds that later generations can recover it.

The website (and registration) are live for the January 2027 @asn-amnat.bsky.social American Society of Naturalists meeting: www.amnat2027.org On the East Coast of the US for once, which makes this easier for many people to attend by train or car (or travel from Europe more easily)

Interested in gene family evolution, mutualism, & gene expression ? Check out this talk by post-doc @damianmicroeco.bsky.social with @meafkhami.bsky.social Connections between gene family expansion and context-dependent expression in mutualism! Wed, 6/24, 4:15-4:30, Room 25B. #Evol2026.

I’m starting at Oregon State University this September as Herbarium Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. An absolute dream job and I am so grateful! Looking to grow the lab soon and will update here. In the meantime please don’t hesitate to reach out!

I humbly suggest my own writing on probability theory, probabilistic modeling and Bayesian inference, Bayesian modeling techniques, and case studies at betanalpha.github.io/writing/. In my opinion, no single reference is sufficient for contemporary Bayesian analysis...

it was literature pub quiz night and our team name "flowers for algae gone" didn't get a single laugh, this isn't the country i grew up in

Rare Notable Exceptions www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/rare...

My student Josh Melnick did a great job presenting his masters research at #Evol2026 on comparative population genetics between Astragalus lentiginosus and rhizobia. This was his first conference talk. He is off to Florida State for a PhD this fall.

Last evolution conference as PhD student !!!!! Come check out my talk in the ecological genetics section #Evol2026

If you’re in Cleveland for #Evolution26 RUN don’t walk to @jillmlove.bsky.social ‘s talk on the genomic basis of local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in Mimulus laciniatius!!!! Tomorrow at 5:15pm!!! #Mimuluspropaganda

And if you’re going to Evolution, come to my talk to hear about this project’s equally cool (but less finished 🤫) genomic side! “Linking a genomic locus for leaf shape plasticity to natural selection in the wild” - Monday, June 22 @ 5:15 PM - Ecological Genetics II - Room 24

🎉 PUBLISHED!!!! Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social 🎉 We found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity in a Monkeyflower species. This experiment used two big field transplants, greenhouse, AND growth chamber work. It was hard, but awesome. With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Sad to miss #evol2026 this year but most of my lab will be there. Juan Diego will defend his PhD in October and will be looking for a Postdoc. Stephanie will be presenting a poster on work that she did as an undergraduate and she is looking for graduate programs for Fall of 2027.

LGBTQIA+ at #Evol2026! 🏳️‍🌈 Did you sign up for the LGBTQIA+ Networking Lunch? Check your email! 🏳️‍⚧️ The LGBTQIA+ Mixer is set for Sunday, Jun 21 @ 3:45 PM in Room 26C. All are welcome! 🏳️‍🌈 Come grab some swag at our Access, Inclusion, and Community (AIC) booth and see what else we have going on!

Is this a joke? Yes. Is it also an opportunity to demonstrate how extrapolations that incorporate uncertainty are far better behaved than those that don't? Absolutely.

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I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.

A straight-up eugenicist is Secretary of HHS

none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful

Help make a difference in a young scientist's career by donating to our Graduate Research Excellence Grants. Even small amounts move us closer to our goal! www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...

🎉 Happy Birthday to Barbara McClintock, GSA’s first female president (1945) and a pioneer who transformed genetics. Born June 16, 1902, her discovery of transposable elements, or “jumping genes,” reshaped our understanding of genomes and earned her the 1983 Nobel Prize. 🧬🌽

(The answer to grade inflation, btw, isn't "tougher" grading. It's recognizing that grading, especially letter grading--not a very old system--serves employers but not students. It incentivizes cheating & corruption. Other evaluative frameworks are possible.)

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

genuinely inspiring.

Tony Bourdain taught us all that a place is full of good food, good people, and good experiences despite very shitty politics and I think it’s kind of classically American to have thought we were excluded from that Venn diagram

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

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!

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

Amy Angert and I are recruiting 2 temporary field technicians to assist with demographic surveys across the range of scarlet monkeyflower in California and Oregon. Perfect for recent graduates who are considering applying for grad school. Apply here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/231.... Please share!

Look at these goobers (these are the baby Fish Crows, all as big as their parents now that they are ~32 days old, working out those wing muscles and getting the last of their flight feathers unsheathed so they can leave the nest, presumably this week) #birds

Meanwhile, departments like Literature have to justify every minor expenditure year after year after year.

In case anyone’s struggling here, he’s saying that the wrong side won the war and he intends to correct that with a second Holocaust against Muslims alongside the European fascist parties that are allied with the regime he serves

Hegseth sees DDay as a story about invaders who must be stopped.

All around super inappropriate.

And it says *100% AI written* with "high confidence." It is 100% wrong. I say... AI detector tools are about as reliable as AI writing tools.

Why we’re concerned about “Getting Major Projects Built in Canada” 👀 and its impact on nature and a healthy environment. Have your voice heard - read the govt’t proposal www.canada.ca/en/one-canad... and email feedback to [email protected] by June 7, 2026 🙏@baumlab.bsky.social

If my math is right, the crime rate for pardoned insurrectionists is roughly three times higher than that of immigrants.

The @sse-evolution.bsky.social crowdfunding campaign for student research grants is at 10% of its $30k goal! Chip in here to help evolutionary biologists in the first stages of their scientific careers: gofund.me/70d1ce65e

black people electing black people to congress in districts where they form a plurality or majority? potentially invidious racial discrimination. the only way to escape constitutional scrutiny is to elect a white conservative, then we know dr. king's dream of colorblindness has been achieved

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

More “It’s both obvious and must be said” truth from the imitable @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

🧨 New publication out (I think this one is 🌶️ ): Cerca & @stelkens.bsky.social - "The identity crisis of speciation genomics". academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...