I am excited to hear about people's elevator mishaps at #WSN2025. Cuz I have no doubt they're coming!

Environmental Scientist position available with the City of San Diego #WSN2025 www.sandiego.gov/public-utili...

Listening to a student down the hall yell at a guy for not voting yesterday because he didn't think it was important. Get him, girl

See a bunch of you at #WSN2025 in San Diego tomorrow!!

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

You forgot the best part. FM: They even gave us dinner! Me: We do like to feed people FM: I've noticed that. When I go to a republican meeting, everyone buys their own meal Me: ... this analogy feels a little too on the nose

In positive news, a family member who voted for Trump three times went to a progressive political meeting in their small town last week just to check it out

This is excellent!

Nanotyrannus is real. For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex. But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species. Isn’t science fun?! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Release the Epstein files

Today would have been a great day to declare a general strike, so I could pretend to be fighting for something greater while struggling to stay awake from a late night of baseball

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Give Ohtani one more at-bat. Winner takes all Or Bunt-off

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All the pets are upset that the 15th inning means their bedtime has not been met

Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪

Are traffic signals at all connected to AWS? Cuz damn, my commute took twice as long today for no apparent reason

Having not ever met before, I’m assuming we’ll meet up over Spring Break with @colincarlson.bsky.social here? deadline.com/2025/10/mega...

Trying to find things I can work on that don't involve, ya know, the internet...

The seriousness with which faculty and students view cheating is so completely different. Faculty: you're destroying the fabric of academic pursuit that is the foundation of a university education Students: oops, my bad

A political party that adds "No more spam calls" to their platform would go a long way

Paper is finally out!! Thanks to reviewers we dig deeper on the differences between domestication events -spoiler alert: it doesn't matter that much. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This is a one-time bonus (I think? Maybe? The details are non-existent), rather than a raise. But it will certainly be used to delay raises for faculty, who are currently working without a contract

I'm giving a talk about mental health in grad school this afternoon. What's your top recommendation for grad students?

Join a mentorship group! Advice, support, and honestly, friendship at the times you need it the most.

Gahhh, this 👇

Wow. A rare sign of courage from the national press. Good job lil campers! Next take up your reflexive bothsidesism.

Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email [email protected] today. Thank you.

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

A million dollars a month...in a budget crisis

Florida Man started the Palisades Fire? www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

If you are interested in joining the Diversity Committee of the American Society of Naturalists, please nominate yourself! Or please pass along to others who may be interested www.amnat.org/announcement...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

The schedule for #WSN2025 is now up on the website! www.wsn-online.org

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Weekend at Bernies 2

ICYMI

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

You try to make one reference to How Stella Got Her Groove Back and students don't understand...

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

I did a little digging on the NSF side. Their search is not quite the same so I looked for active awards with original award dates during specific fiscal years. Here is what we have: 2023 - 8960 2024 - 9888 2025 - 9169 That kind of blew my mind...

And that's the paper in a social thread, though I hope you'll read the whole thing! The full final article is indebted to discussions with @colincarlson.bsky.social, @ecoevolab.bsky.social, Judie Bronstein, and of course that critical email exchange with Daniel Janzen doi.org/10.1093/evol...

We've already got hundreds of students and mentors here, sharing how the sudden policy change has derailed plans. We're looking at formally "delivering" results to NSF leadership tomorrow, please do keep sharing and spreading the word: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

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