Brutal review, wow... "The book reads like an Eat Pray Love of biotech grifting, designed to make her into a public figure based on her personal journey, now presented as the living impetus for her advocacy."

The higher ed thinkfluencer-industrial complex churned out thousands of pieces just like this one

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings. This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Colossal about to announce another timely de-extinction project

If you’re about to make fun of Colin Wright, I implore you to stop and come up with something 10x meaner

Neural posterior estimation for population genetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691638v1

This is horrible news. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...

If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.

We have 60 students signed up and 42 mentors so far.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Colbert resurrected his character from "The Colbert Report" and it's glorious www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxL...

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Fellow academics: Have any of you heard about concerns regarding the use of NIH funds to support travel to trainee-focused conferences like SACNAS and ABRCMS (e.g. on an R25 where travel was budgeted)? I have heard indirect rumblings about concerns, but have not gotten any specifics. Thanks!

Are scientific societies (that own their journals) keeping an eye on the Anthropic settlement? Maybe the settlement could fund at least a travel award!

I think we've figured out the right solution at the Evolution Meetings: Bang for your buck, a virtual meeting two weeks before the in-person is the most cost-effective way to involve remote participants. A couple thoughts 🧵

This mammoth is a huge blow for Colossal

Good morning, America

"You're taking civilization for granted and not contributing" says man whose only contribution is doing youtubes and tweets as a job.

An authoritarian, corrupt president who changed the constitution to get reelected 20 years ago was just sentenced to 12y for fraud and bribery. This seemed absolutely impossible in Colombia at some point! Seems like relevant optimistic news for other countries

look who crawled out from under a rock

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In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

Bumpy road for this one, happy to be able to share Eugene's work. Comments welcome, of course!

I can’t believe this account is still doing this numbers station bullshit.

Today in History: July 10th 1925: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

The #GENETICS July cover shows male (top) & female (bottom) cichlid fish of the species Aulonocara koningsi at Mbenji Island in Lake Malawi, East Africa, key in revealing the genetic basis of gut length variation associated with trophic level in Lake Malawi cichlids. 1/2🧵

It's risky as an academic to publish outside your area of expertise. But telling the story of my family's experience of the Mexican repatriation in the 1930s seemed important, so I dropped what I was doing last summer and wrote this. Please read & share. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Wooohoo!! @emjo.bsky.social 🎉🌿

ugh

Can we write grants about biological 'divercity'? maybe 'd1versity'?

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

Colossal Bioscience is a dark look at the future of science in the US as federal funding declines and dependence on philanthropy increases. Incentives to impress the investors of a $10 billion private valuation drive the need for flashy press over quality science.

Our review of recent Sequentially Markovian Coalescent methods is up on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.00692 (based on last year's @official-smbe.bsky.social symposium)

Industry friends, now is the time for MUCH more speaking out on behalf of academic colleagues under duress. Here are core open source methods that many of your products doubtlessly depend on either directly or indirectly (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMMER) being abruptly defunded. Make noise.

Postdoc job opportunity! We're looking for ECR in evolutionary genomics to study the relation between intra-specific gene expression variability, polymorphism, and macro-evolutionary rates. We have the data in 3 fishes & amphioxus, just waiting for your expertise and enthusiasm! tinyurl.com/3aewk286

NCMA’s visionary new exhibition explores the Black figure as seen by some of the most important Black artists of our age. indyweek.com/culture/now-...

For your slides on species concepts

Amy Angert & I are recruiting 2 field technicians for demographic surveys of scarlet monkeyflower in late summer-fall. Please spread word to any potentially interested candidates! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/217...

Check out the latest @evolletters.bsky.social cover article: Parallel and convergent evolution in genes underlying seasonal migration, by Zamudio-Beltrán and colleagues academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...