I just paid $1023 for my LA-> Cleveland flight for #Evolution2026

Cool, now do Zoom

aaaand our campus Canvas has been hijacked by ransomware headed into finals week

No applause after the last lecture of the semester. I'm losing my touch...

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Lately I'm inundated with requests for research experience from students from R1s who are home for the summer. Nothing against those students, but sorry, I'm giving any research spots to the students at my own school who don't already have all the opportunities that R1 students do

Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...

Not DJ X saying he’s going to play pop hits through the ages…from Sabrina Carpenter to “that classic Avril Lavigne energy”

zomg!

Another day, another attempt to get in the wrong gray Prius...

I feel like Tom Steyer is the only person getting much attention in the CA governor's race (because he's spending a TON of money), but you can't convince me to vote for a billionaire over other good candidates

A student just accidentally called me Coach. I'll take it!

He never had the money to pay for the ballroom. It was always a scam. We were always going to have to pay for it. They were just waiting for the right moment to hit us with the bill. This is now the time.

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2026 SSE Lifetime Achievement Award, Dr. Samuel M. Scheiner! Read more about his work as a researcher and NSF Program Officer, as well as his service to the biology community: www.evolutionsociety.org/society-awar...

“Release the Epstein files”, shout millions of Americans on their way to see the Michael Jackson movie

Pride in STEM is 10 this month, and we are so proud to celebrate these 10 change-makers who were proposed and voted in by the community. Read about their work, their impact, and their commitment to improving the lives of LGBTQIA+ people in STEM and beyond, here: prideinstem.org/2026/04/01/t...

Clifton's was my favorite bar in LA and so bummed that it is closing. Plus, Cole's just closed too. Is DTLA ok? therealdeal.com/la/2026/04/2...

Discussing density-dependent vs independent pop regulation in class and student asked if human wars are DD or DI. I said maybe DD because wars are often over resources...except for the Iran war, which seems not about resources at all, but just a madman. But thinking more, maybe that is the norm?

Our very elderly cat now has to take anti-nausea meds to help with her dizziness and gait. We call them her Lucille Two pills

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

Registered for #Evolution2026! Early bird deadline is today. I'll also say that Cleveland hits WAY over its reputation

Congratulations to Dr. Tess Grainger @integrativebiology.bsky.social, named an Early Career Fellow with the Ecological Society of America! The fellowship recognizes ESA members who have advanced ecological knowledge & applications within 8 years of their doctorate. www.uoguelph.ca/cbs/news/202...

So anyway, amidst everything else, I've been spending this week figuring out how to deal with the death of a mentee Remembering Dr. Lea Richardson lab.jbyoder.org/2026/04/09/r...

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you wonder why students protested loudly under Biden but aren’t as visible under Trump, it’s because they thought they had some margin of safety to speak on campus then. Even before Trump 2.0, they learned administrators and political leaders were willing to harm them instead. So here we are.

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

Also, this logo is 🔥 #MansionMeeting2027

The American Society of Naturalists standalone meeting (formerly the Asilomar meeting) is being held instead in a mansion on Long Island on Jan 8-12. Mark your calendar. Proposals for symposia are due April 30 www.amnat.org/announcement...

Robyn isn't queer?? I really feel like this info should have been included in the introductory pamphlet...

sorry i know it's supposed to be a scandal but there is literally nothing you could do that is more embarrassing than being married to that woman

NOW PUBLISHED at the American Journal of Botany: Temporal analysis of reproduction distributed in space illuminates the climate-change resiliency of toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia) doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

LA is installing new speed trap cameras on local streets, and fine whatever. If you're going 10-15 mph over the speed limit, it's a warning and then a $50 fine. But if you are going ONE HUNDRED MPH over the speed limit, it's a $500 fine. Not like, revocation of your license??

Sorry Duke maybe you shoulda kept your herbarium 💁‍♀️😡

We have 2 cool shirts! I have to sell them out by early April for 2 reasons: 1) 5 of my family members are staying in the Skype a Scientist stockroom in mid-April 😅 2) I need to fund our mural project which starts the first week of April! They're soft! They're cute! Get a shirt! SquidFacts.net

Marching with a band for #NoKings was the best

Student: "so what is a species then?" Me: You're not allowed to ask me that for two more weeks

Just quietly slipped into this story: “Trump voted by mail in the election” apple.news/ADeHVIP_gRf2...

We are a Hispanic-serving institution and we just elected our first Latina faculty president...maybe ever? But certainly in several decades

I need a tool where I can put in two addresses, and then it pinpoints a spot in between those two places where a person starting from each address will need to take no more than one transit line to get to the meeting spot. Does that make sense? A meet in the middle calculator for transit users?

There are at least three major news stories about sexual assault and abuse of power by men in prominent positions this week. Government, labor, academia; the culture is everywhere, and women disproportionally bear the weight of the consequences. If this week feels extra heavy, be kind to yourself.

It was 95 degrees in Los Angeles today. It’s winter.

Been there, done that here in the Cal State system www.cpr.org/2026/03/09/c...

I'm not sure anybody even knows exactly how many people are being killed in the Middle East, but the ONLY consequence of war I hear on American media is about oil prices

Grad student accepting their offer this morning: "thank you for believing in me"

Excited to see this in such a high profile journal!

ICYMI: in our new paper, we contend there is "no current consensus on a definition of sex that is free of assumptions and limitations... and most importantly,...no biological definition of sex should be used to dictate human rights" #evolsky #LGBTQSTEM #ecology #evolution #biologicalsex

Agree! Though I swore I’d quit if they had killed off Derek. Derek’s don’t die

A thing that gets in the way of me eating more garbage food than I already do: I don't like ranch flavor

move slow and repair things