One year into Trump's second presidency, how are science and medical research faring? Our @nature.com team breaks it down for you. (1/n) From @virginiagewin.bsky.social, learn about Layoffs ✅ Funding cuts ✅ Attacks on science ✅ www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Job alert! We're recruiting for a #lecturer in marine conservation to direct our new #Marine #Conservation MSc and have the ?pleasure of working with me 'cos I run the Wildlife Conservation MSc. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQF022/l... 🧪 We're friendly and you can still buy a house on an academic salary here!

❗Just two weeks to go! Please remember to submit your abstract and award application for SMBE 2026 in Copenhagen by February 3. 📨 Abstract submission & Award applications smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

Out in @natcomms.nature.com, a collaborative paper showing that, across 73 species (including common terns), warmer years are associated with earlier phenology, and that populations in which such an association was observed have often been stable or increasing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Come on @aflcio.org, make it national.

Job alert: NOAA NWFSC & UW are looking for a postdoc (ASAP) in Seattle study foraging ecology of Cook Inlet beluga whales using eDNA. Genetics/ecology/eDNA experience preferred. Interested candidates reach out to [email protected] or [email protected] directly. #eDNA #ConsGen

The fascist playbook is always the same. Create chaos through targeted violence. Use the existence of that violence as a justification and rationale for implementing autocratic rule to end the violence and chaos they caused.

Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026

hey friends. maha and her son need another $400 at the end of the month to avoid being evicted from the room she’s rented—can anyone help? xoxo

My house spider, Samantha, just moved from the windowsill to the dishes cupboard. We feed her moths with tweezers and when she doesn’t like them she cuts them out of her web and drops them on the counter. A woman who who Knows What She Wants

Arrived home to find the family of Crested Caracara enjoying the good weather we are having!

Anchor River ❤️ Wikipedia calls it a stream but that’s just rude en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_...

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Got paid AND his job back, lmao. Keep fighting these dweebs

SMBE2026 Symposium L03 | Beyond limits: unlocking the potential of ancient animal genomics 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funded NPR, PBS and hundreds of local radio and TV stations across the U.S. for more than a half-century, said on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization because Congress cut off its federal money.

A must read for conservation geneticists on the utility (or not??) of using molecular diversity to predict adaptive potential 👇🏻

Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

100%!! As an AE, it’s vastly more inconvenient to have someone ignore an invite than decline it. Just say no!

Out now in ‘Evolutionary applications’, the last chapter of Anna’s PhD thesis, in which she used whole genome sequencing data of contemporary and historic European gull-billed terns to assess whether the population decline in part of their range has had genetic consequences: doi.org/10.1111/eva....

Here’s a closer look at the amazing prehistoric rufous scrub bird - ancient relatives to most song birds and related to lyrebirds, we are hoping that our breakthrough with capture techniques == new opportunities for conservation (1/2)

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

"I don’t know why my fellowship was terminated. I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary of what we expect to see in nature, with completely different males and females." @carlzimmer.com profiles my wonderful coauthor @jjinsing.bsky.social Gift link.

It's been more than five years since the "three billion birds paper," about the shocking decline in North American bird populations since 1970, made headlines. What's happening with recovery efforts? #ornithology

Coyote on the shore - taken in September when I stumbled across the pack while kayaking at sunrise. This was one of my favourite moments of 2025. #mammals 🌿

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: The Paleontological Research Institution and the Museum of the Earth have made it through the crisis! Thanks to everyone who shared or donated-every donation mattered! Please share the good news just as widely!⚒️🧪🦑 Together we did #savePRI www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/...

2025 recapped

POV: you’re trying to eat something in my house and you aren’t sharing

As it’s Christmas, I thought I’d share with you a painting by the Low Countries painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c1525-1569) who painted one of the most atmospheric artworks in 1565; The Hunters in the Snow. I’ve used software editing to bring the image back to how it might have originally looked.

🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming. Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... #PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

Oh i forgot how cute baby gulls were for a second. 🪶 🐣

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐲 𝐎𝐰𝐥. 💔 For the first time in 20 years, a bird species has disappeared from the country.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Population-scale long-read datasets, involving sequencing and de novo assembly of multiple individuals within a species, are better at capturing the full spectrum of structural variants, but such datasets are rare outside of humans www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #biodiversity #genomics

We're editing a special issue of Ibis and are after the best in collections-based research and commentary! All the usual Ibis paper formats are welcome (reviews, viewpoints, research articles, short communications). #ornithology #museums #birds

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

1/🧵 Two bird species bred in the UK in 2023 for the first time since the 1990s! The latest report by @ukrbbp.bsky.social published in @britishbirds.bsky.social confirmed a pair of Hoopoes raised three young from a nest in Leicestershire and Rutland. #Ornithology

Good piece on the grotesquely circular story of the European eel's extinction: the rarer it becomes, the more desirable it is for consumers - which drives more killing, driving up price and desirability in turn.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza caused a mass die-off in Eurasian cranes during their autumn migration through Germany, France and Spain. More than 18,000 dead cranes were reported dead in Germany alone. The full demographic impact of this mortality on the crane population needs to be assessed.

14 2y postdoc positions to rescue you from the US: Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme 2026 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

you ever think about how buck wild it must have been to be the first European colonizer to see a hummingbird? “i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”

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🚨We need your help🚨 #Shearwaters are washing up on beaches, particularly around #Tathra. Some #seabirds are still alive. Please do not touch the #birds. Instead, take photos & submit your observations to our new portal ➡️ adriftlab.org/beached-bird... (also, please share this) #ornithology #OzBirds

One of the UK’s most beautiful mushrooms to my mind, the Wrinkled Peach (Rhodotus palmatus) is much less rare than one might think. I’ve found it in at least 3 different locations. As appetising as it looks, and despite its name, this one is in fact not considered an edible - bitter and rubbery.