I really needed to see a woman on a horse holding a sword last night. And given the horrific news out of Minneapolis today I feel like others could probably use this too. Krewe of Joan of Arc kicks off the rebellion, whoops I mean revelry, of Mardi Gras 2026 in #nola Happy Birthday Joan.

It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead

Plant phenolics play a key roles in plant strategies. Here we explore the drivers of phenolic content in plants over 1800 species across global drylands 🧪🌐 ➡️https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.70222

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New Ferris Lab preprint demonstrating adaptive plasticity in Mimulus laciniatus! See @jillmlove.bsky.social post below for the link. Check it out y’all!!!! #Mimuluspropaganda

Sun on the green grass. Triangle of light dappled with the scent of summer. #haikuonthebayou

New Ferris Lab preprint demonstrating adaptive plasticity in Mimulus laciniatus! See @jillmlove.bsky.social post below for the link. Check it out y’all!!!! #Mimuluspropaganda

Preprint up now! With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social, we found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity across the altitudinal range of the cutleaf monkeyflower. This experiment was a HUGE personal undertaking. If you give it a read, I’d love to hear your thoughts! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Driving through Mississippi at night Strings of lights wend their way through the dark, vanishing over hills and around bends. #haikuonthebayou #solsticepoem

RFK Jr. promised Senator Bill Cassidy that he wouldn’t change the vaccine schedule and wouldn’t mess with the CDC website’s statement that vaccines don’t cause autism etc. Anyone who cared enough to look beneath the surface would have seen why so many of us opposed and oppose him.

Solar power is expected to become the world's largest source of electricity by 2033. ☀️🔌💡

There's a lot happening in the world, but I'm still trying to celebrate the little (and big things). Today @jillmlove.bsky.social submitted our paper demonstrating selection on phenotypic plasticity in the wild. So proud of you and your hard work Jill!!! Way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez,” he said. “It has nothing to do with the science." STAT on the betrayal of early-career researchers: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.” Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

As SCOTUS hears another case today that could further destroy campaign finance regulation, consider this astonishing fact: political spending by billionaires has increased 160-fold since Citizens United decision www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com: 1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science. 2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really proud of @nuala.bsky.social's work always, and in particular this series she's doing about what it's actually like to finally get housing, and how it changes people's lives. www.coyotemedia.org/homeless-to-...

Yes. More churches like this please. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

Sally Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social and I are back with the next installment of “Reflections on the history of modeling and theory”, supported by @smtpb.bsky.social. Bob Holt shares his personal history and stories of his life in science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hX...

If you're an undergrad looking for a great biodiversity/conservation field course, please check this out. Run by my buddy Jordan Karubian through Tulane U.

Paper (re)resubmitted!!!!

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are

New paper! PhD student Julie Rej found that invasive brown anoles are more aggressive than native green anoles across a wide range of temperatures. The difference is greatest when it's hottest, ie, heat amplifies the aggression of an invasive species! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just like anti-vaxers, people who dislike immigrants are a weird terrible fringe group and we should treat them like the weird terrible fringe group they are.

Hi everyone! I am looking for any #scientists (including grad students, post docs) that’d be willing to be interviewed about their research by my #SciComm students in October. Here is the form to fill out if interested! Our time zone is Alaska, FYI. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today, I tried to get my COVID vaccine and was denied. Even after showing the pharmacist @govwesmoore.bsky.social 's statement that Maryland law says all Marylanders should have access to the COVID vaccine, I was still denied. They said they had to follow the box. This is RFK's fault. RFK must go.

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

Don’t say “Dems aren’t doing anything.” There’s just little attention to the courage of these Missouri Dems resisting the extreme gerrymandering of Republicans desigmed to increase Republican numbers in the House. www.kfvs12.com/2025/09/05/m...

Obligatory sharing of John Oliver's take on this administrations fight against research and Universities #academia youtu.be/xk94il8L820?...

Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Chicago’s Mayor: The National Guard Isn’t What We Need www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

Convocatoria para PhD en New York Botanical Garden. Ayúdenme a compartir! Proyecto estudiando filogeografía de plantas de rio y modelos de conección de ríos luego del levantamiento del Istmo de Panama. Interesados en evolución de plantas Neotropicales💦👇 anamariabedoya.weebly.com/opportunitie... 1/2

RFK Must Go

62 years ago, Dr. King led the March on Washington with giants like John Lewis, Mahalia Jackson, A. Philip Randolph, and so many others. If you’ve ever wondered what you’d be doing during the Civil Rights Movement, this is your test. (1/2)

I hope to take a PhD student in 2026 to study siphonophores. Please reach out if you are interested in applying this fall. For examples of recent lab projects see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK

Friends! Today is the day! Please consider giving to the Botanical Society of America's fundraiser to help us meet our goal & to continue to support our amazing community! Hear about all the amazing things the BSA does here: day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025 Donate here: crm.botany.org/civicrm/cont...

“Prasad overruled dozens of career scientists to limit Covid vaccine approvals three times in the past few months”

The work of @basicbiologist23.bsky.social on lizards and lead in Nat Geo! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Some more nice coverage of the lead work

Brown lizards in New Orleans carry more lead in their blood than any other animal on record — levels that would kill humans — yet they seem unfazed, according to new Tulane study.

Check out this amazing study on lizard lead tolerance by @agunderson.bsky.social and colleagues!! It's already been featured in www.popsci.com/environment/... !!!

Such a cool new study from @agunderson.bsky.social 's Lab!!!! What a great evolutionary biologist...is he taken? ;) news.tulane.edu/pr/lead-resi...

The University of California system is publicly mobilizing against federal attacks. That’s historic. It's time for ALL of us in US #highered to act. Join our movement at standtogetherhighered.org. #academicsky #highered #standtogether 🔗 universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved/stand-up-for-uc

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong walked on the surface of the moon for the first time. This was an incredible feat fueled by the scientific innovation of NASA. On the heels of this anniversary, please support our colleagues and the core mission of NASA by signing the Voyager Declaration! 🧪🚀