Every accusation is a confession. This is political indoctrination—the exact kind they accuse the left of.

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

Hi! We need lice for our diversity and adaptation project. Specifically, we need lice from zebras, camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, guanacos) & aardvarks. If you or someone you know might have lice, I'm happy to discuss our inclusive collaboration plans! sites.google.com/nhm.org/anop...

Our department is adopting a 2-semester core course for entering grad students, 1 semester of grad evolution, 1 semester of ecology. I'd love to see what other depts are doing with equivalent EEB grad core courses, so if you teach one & are willing to share a syllabus & reading list please LMK

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

Starting July 1, 2026, parents can only borrow $20,000 a year, or a total of $65,000 per student, from the Parent Plus loan program. High school seniors applying to college will now face borrowing restrictions.

To anyone wrestling with impostor syndrome, here’s a reminder of what impostors are really like… claiming totally false experience/knowledge or denying that it is even relevant

Do evangelicals who plan to get raptured this week have legal Wills &Testaments? I mean, are they like, my kid is a sinner who won’t ascend with me so I’ll leave them the house and bank accounts?

Adult strength Tylenol was marketed for over the counter sale in 1960 Autism diagnosis predates 1960 And the rise in rates came decades after Tylenol was widely adopted

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.

The latest example of Trump’s relentless assault on free speech. He's rewriting visa rules to make it harder for foreign reporters to cover his presidency - so he can just kick them out if they write stories he doesn't like.

1 week left to get your image in for Evolution 2026 logo contest! www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo-co...

This is the most anti-science thing I have watched today. What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up. There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

Interested in #virulence? Not sure what it is - or how to explain it? Just curious? 🧐🦠🧬🦋 @kayla-king.bsky.social and I just wrote a Primer for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the ecology and evolution of virulence! Check it below and share :) #MicroSky #EvoSky #pathogens

Three crashes in the first day? Tesla’s robotaxi test in Austin. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/09...

Friends: I'm recruiting at least one PhD student to join our lab in Atlanta in the Fall of 2026. Information about our research can be found at the link below. Please pass along to any students interested in the quantitative study of speciation, secondary contact, and the build-up of biodiversity!

Acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy doesn't cause autism, no matter what RFK says this week. This is not an unsettled question. Evidence summarized here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

Sunday afternoon relaxing by the pond with a preprint from @3rdreviewer.bsky.social for tomorrow’s Evolution Lunch journal club at UConn; we are spending the semester learning about machine learning methods in popgen.

Some recent sunrise photos from the back yard...

Some recent yard birds for a bit of restful contemplation

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. Deadline to apply September 30. Reach out if you have questions. apply.interfolio.com/172496

My kids (14&17) were refused a Covid vaccine at CVS in Connecticut.

“Stop the Count”: food-insecurity version. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Seen at a yard sale / antique sale in rural Massachusetts

Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all research and stop publishing their studies.

If you were trying to construct the single worst policy that a country could implement, “make it way more expensive for highly skilled people to work here” would rank pretty high.

Looking to Buy an Electric Vehicle? You Should Do It Before October gizmodo.com/looking-to-b...

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

Do you know someone who has contributed to strengthening the evolutionary biology community by promoting inclusion and diversity? Nominate them for the IDEA award! More info: www.systbio.org/idea-award.h... You may self-nominate!!!

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

I was sitting by the back of my yard doing the crossword puzzle when this chap flew over to visit. I’m sitting here less than 10 m away.

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Final ACIP update for the Covid vaccine: 1) Covid vaccines for all ages will be based on individual decision-making (no recc). 2) 65+ can just go and get it. 3) 6 mos-65yr, vaccine informed consent will be required to be discussed prior to receipt with 6 points of mandated misinformation 1/2

Someone explain to me how this person ended up on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices? 0 background in medicine, biomedical research, or really any natural science...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

There is a real potential for misuse here if these recommendations are adopted. My long-form response on dangers in adopting the bad-faith banner of 'gold standard science' to promote 'gold standard scholarship': joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/between-th...

"STAT’s analysis of NIH Reporter data reveals that the agency will still fund far fewer new projects this year, due to a change in how it awards grants...the number of R grants issued has dropped much more precipitously — from 5,633 to 3,758 newly funded projects."

Cool. Cool cool cool. #nutmegsky #AcademicSky

Former staffers of Climate.gov are launching a new site: www.climate.us 🧪

Siri is this guy, btw www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

My husband is stepping up to do something about the mess we're in. (I'm so proud of him/we're in for a wild year as a family) I would LOVE it if you took all the frustration/anger/despair you're feeling and channeled it into helping us take the fight right to the heart of the Republican stronghold!

I'm honestly floored and moved to see this announcement of a call to service. I have seen the integrity of @kolyin.bsky.social in his legal reporting and advocacy against grifters and conspiracy theorists. He would be a great public servant. colinforkansas.com

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

Despite its 162-year-history of service, congressional Republicans tell federal agencies not to seek the advice of the National Academies. www.science.org/content/arti...

Somehow I missed this tentative but important news -- extension of the NIGMS MIRA (R35) mechanism simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

Love those claiming she left her training to expose pharmaceutical corruption. No, she just makes bank as a grifter.