We are searching for a new Department Head of Entomology at Virginia Tech. Come work in lovely Blacksburg with some pretty cool people and spectatular students. Please repost and spread the word. Review Date 4/26/26. jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/profess...

Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019. Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate. Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes. Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

We need to urge Congress to protect American science and the American public by impeaching, convicting and removing Russell Vought. actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

Who should be an author on a scientific paper—and why? A new PNAS Perspective argues that responsible authorship should rest on three principles: transparency, credit, and accountability. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/BSYP50YsT0f

Female Common Earwigs Forficula auricularia are very good mothers. After spending the winter guarding her batch of eggs she cares for the nymphs for several weeks and regurgitates food for them. The nymphs will disperse when they are large enough to fend for themselves. Dartmoor, Devon

Seen on the Hill last week, no notes

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

Excited to share a new paper written by a AAAS Policy Fellow I mentor, Dr. Lisa Walsh. “This review synthesizes literature on fieldwork safety across scientific disciplines, highlighting four facets of safety for leaders and researchers to address: physical, social, financial, and psychological.”

I don’t think people understand what’s this means: MEDICARE AND MEDICAID ARE BLOCKING ALL WHEELCHAIRS, WALKERS, CANES, INSULIN PUMPS, GLUCOSE MONITORS, CPAP MACHINES, NEBULIZERS, BEDS, CRUTCHES, COMODE CHAIRS, BED SORE PRESSURE PADS, CHAIR LIFTS, OXYGEN TANKS, BREATHING EQUIPMENT, to name a few.

Nothing beats submitting a manuscript you really like for review. Well, maybe getting past reviewer 3. Bit feels good regardless.

Booty bumping is officially a scientific term!!!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Related: "Moving on from this one-sided paradigm require systematic development of integrative, evolutionarily grounded experimental approaches that better capture the multigenic and context-dependent nature of inheritance." doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Remember, when news outlets first reported that Kash Patel was spending $75,000 of taxpayer money to fly an FBI Gulfstream jet to Milan so he could watch Olympic hockey, the official spokesasshole for the FBI had this to say:

Why the FUCK is the director of the FUCKING FBI using YOUR TAXES to FLY TO ITALY so he can party with pro hockey players?!? In WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE is this ok?!

Stoked about the new Replication Studies section in Behavioral Ecology? Me too! Jeremy Fox over at Dynamic Ecology interviewed me about our recent commentary on this topic and I'd love to hear the community's thoughts! dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/t...

Now's your chance to snag the adorable UK edition of my book THE CREATURES' GUIDE TO CARING for 25% off! Preorder this week from @waterstones.bsky.social: www.waterstones.com/book/the-cre... 🧪

We are hiring at UGA! We’re looking for a full professor & director of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (based right on the coast in Savannah, GA). Please pass on the job ad to anyone in your networks who may be interested: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/468...

As always with Matthew, interesting and enlightening.

Just as importantly, we suggest that (close) replications could be incorporated into early career research training - the first project a new student undertakes is a replication of a study that's in their research interests and uses methods they think they'll want to use too. 2/

This is fantastic.

Reposting again because according to Reddit threads, another round of RWR emails went out today.

Neil H. Shubin has been elected as the next NAS President! A leading evolutionary biologist and science communicator, Shubin will succeed Marcia McNutt on July 1. The Academy also named Cherry Murray as International Secretary and elected new councilors. Read more: www.nasonline.org/news/2026_pr...

What ever happened to MOOCs? Remember how they were going to revolutionize education? Lots of OTHER things that are going to revolutionize education aren't going to either! Mostly because it doesn't need revolutionizing.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call: - 453 Britons - 158 Canadians - 89 French - 59 Germans - 53 Italians - 44 Danes - 17 Spaniards “Stayed a little back, off the front lines “! No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

It's easier to tear down than build up, and in science we have a bad case of that. So: how to lead a journal club that actually finds value in what you read. scientistseessquirre... 🧪

This would also be just reward for FIFA, not just for THAT trophy but for decades of dreadful venue selections and corruption.

Once again having to peer-review a ms for a major journal in which the figure, its legend and the Results text describing the figure *are all physically separated* on the pdf. Have had to create 3 copies opened simultaneously to appreciate the experiments. WHY do they make it so hard for referees??

True that you either love or hate inline figs, but find me one person who wants the figure separated from the legend??? This is legacy from print days and serves nobody.

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Urban Evolution and Ecology which will be held from Jan. 31 - Feb. 5, 2027. Please save the dates, and we look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Ventura Beach, California!

COME ON

So the the FIFA Peace Prize truly was meaningless after all?

I personally favor the notion "peer-reviewed" just means a paper with peer reviews, as opposed to a paper that's deemed to have passed some (ill) defined bar as a result. But I'm skeptical the community will embrace that - and even if it does I suspect they'll want curation steps with bars. 5/n

The Canada Government will offer 400 postdoctoral fellowships to international researchers in early 2026. If you have a background in wildlife microbiome or quantitative genetics and are interested to apply to work on microbiome variation in Sable Island horses or caribou, feel free to get in touch

I don't think you non-science people realize what it takes to get a grant funded by NIH. Started experiments in Sept 2021 to generate 3 new mouse mutants to model human disease. Prelim dara shows they have relevant disease phenotypes worthy of study. Need a small grant first to characterize /1

If more people understood that socialism doesn't eliminate personal wealth we might be so much further along as a society

IF THE SHOE FITS Justice Brett Kavanaugh isn’t happy that his name has become synonymous w/racist immigration enforcement. ICE’s policy of detaining people based on ethnicity is called a “Kavanaugh stop,” named after his ruling that allows it. He’s afraid the name will ruin his “legacy.” Too late!

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

Have you ever wondered: just how strong *is* the evidence for Muller's ratchet on mtDNA? Well, wonder no more! (Project led by Yu Mo, with @smishra677.bsky.social and @yadirapga.bsky.social) "No molecular evidence for Muller's ratchet in mitochondrial genomes" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Impressive that one of the leading scientific organizations in Europe, the CNRS, has said "good bye" to Web of Science and its pernicious Impact Factors. They are in good company, but that company must grow! Who will be next to wake up?

New paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters. We show that variability in contest behaviour can emerge from plastic responses to modest size differences between focal males and their rivals. #Drosophila #Diptera royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Hello! 👋 I've finally moved here from the dark side and I'm excited to reconnect with all the awesome scientists I followed previously! In our lab at University of St Andrews we study behavioural and physiological responses to climate change (mainly in fish and insects) 🌡️🪲🐞🐟🐠

The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Fantastic cover art and cool research.

a wonderful, fully funded PhD opportunity Deadline approaching (ok not that quickly but you may forget over Christmas!) 7th January www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Interested in open, reliable & transparent science in ecology & evolution? Become a member of the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @sortee.bsky.social! Membership is open to all and it's optional to join at no cost 👉 sortee.org/join/

Sharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever. "We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research." elifesciences.org/articles/102...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952