JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Apply now for the SSE Caregiver Award for up to $500 USD to help cover caregiving costs while attending virtual or in-person #Evol2026. Deadline March 15! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social

BREAKING: IL Governor JB Pritzker just sent Trump an invoice for $8.6B that he stole from Illinois small businesses. Excellent. This must be enforced and Pritzker should pursue litigation if Trump balks. Indeed every single Democratic governor should do this asap. Make it a class action lawsuit.

We're hiring at CSUN. Vertebrate Functional Morphologist. Please apply! We still allow DEI, which I horribly need to specify. (I'm also not on the committee, but happy to answer any questions!)

ASN members! Please vote in the ongoing ASN officer election (www.amnat.org/announcement...). Not receiving your voting credentials from ElectionBuddy? Please email [email protected] and we'll be happy to get you sorted. (This especially includes student members who had to sign up on paper.)

Did you receive a Student Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social ? We'd love to hear what you achieved with those awards (or, please share with someone who had one), even going back many years: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Bay Area Popgen. FREE awesome popgen conference. Registration and application for talks now live on our website!

I love this photo a ton but I’m also obsessed with this one.

Hey #PopGen #EEB #PUI friends! Do you have a cool paper demonstrating the power 💪 of "modern" PopGen that would be exciting to upper-level undergrads? I feel like students leave the PopGen unit thinking it's some kind of dead science b/c we're limited to introducing simple models in Evol classes. 😢

Lichen, Lecanora epibryon. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends Lichen is approximately 5cm long.

Today 73 years old 💝 🔥 🍀 Happy Birthday to the one and only Kristy Marlana Wallace aka Poison Ivy Rorschach, co-founder of the American punk rock band The Cramps, born on this day 1953 in San Bernardino, California. 📸 Brian Rasic #punk #punks #poisonivy #thecramps #history #punkrockhistory

My @ologies.bsky.social episode on animal defenses is out now!

This really is a great picture:

BRACKET DROP DAY!!!! Get yours now at the LibGuide! libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... Pick your portal: Players, Learners, or Educator! #2026MMM

New paper out today in the ISME | International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal and the first product from our ESIIL (Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab) working group on Fungal Dispersal. Check it out! academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

A federal judge has accused the Trump administration of terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law in its efforts to deport millions of people living in the country illegally.

Modelling stomatal mechanics: a critical review A #ResearchReview by Tan et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

We’re horseposting post your horses Not my horse but one of my all-time faves by Sarah Andersen of Sarah’s Scribbles and you deserve its cute lil face

Beyond Mendel. FINALLY. Brilliant, thought-provoking read! This new perspective argues that our obsession with single genes and clean knock-outs is holding us back. Couldn't agree more, and I hope Reviewer #2 reads this. academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

I’ve always said the head of NIH should be a part time job.

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

Extinction isn’t random. Range size matters. Temperature tolerance matters. Climate change matters. But there’s another piece we’ve long suspected: geography. For 500 million years, the shape of continents helped shape survival. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/rPvvUEM

Registration is now live for the Evolution meetings! Members will receive an email later this week with the roster of SSB-sponsored events and awards. Keep an eye on your inbox!

🚨New paper in @ecography.bsky.social! First Pan-Arctic study on how large herbivore exclusion shapes mycorrhizal fungi, brilliantly led by @colebrachmann.bsky.social. Key insight: AM fungi—often overlooked in Arctic research—respond most strongly to herbivory while EcM and ErM vary locally. Thread 👇

I just realized that today is Chinese New Year, the 1st day of Ramadan, AND Fat Tuesday. That means the Chinese new moon lined up with the Ramadan crescent and also fell exactly the right amount of time before the Easter full moon. An extremely rare lineup of 3 major moon-based traditions!

Climate change coverage fell 14% globally in 2025, while the world endured record heat, raging wildfires, and devastating floods. The crisis intensified. The headlines didn’t. Less coverage = less urgency. www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

A summary of what our Science IRL grantees have been up to for the last year will be dropping tomorrow (Wed.) at 9am Eastern over at patreon.com/SkypeAScientist In the meantime, you can subscribe to our updates there! I have a bunch of updates coming out soon, so now's a good time to subscribe.

If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award. Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026. Please share widely! 🧪 #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior

"Nearly 90% of firms said AI has had no impact on employment or productivity over the last three years, the research noted."

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson 🙏🏽

Civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate Jesse Jackson has died. His work and activism "contributed to making this country more democratic, more inclusive, more fair," says Howard University professor Clarence Lusane. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/17/remembering_jesse_jackson

75 years old! 🪶🪶 Wisdom the Laysan Albatross has returned to Midway Atoll. medium.com/discourse/sh...

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...

Are you an relatively new to field ecology and data collection? Or are are you supervising students? Our guide for effective field data collection is now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! We also include a printable poster with a visual overview of the guide doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Registration is now open! Early-bird closes April 15. www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

This duck managed to both nap and keep an eye on me while also spinning around in a circle for the entire morning. Multi-talented, obv. 😉 #birds

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here! New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more! edopportunity.org/segregation/

NSF Update Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit. Now by Directorate... 1/11

As @wiegold.de just pointed out, this basically cuts off access to important international markets for a number of US manufactured products like cars. On top of the already imposed tariffs. Apart from the environmental crime it’s also (economically) equivalent of shooting yourself in *both* feet 🤦‍♂️

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

Huge win for California mountain lions: Today they were granted protection under the state #EndangeredSpeciesAct 🙌🐾 Now, six populations within Southern #California and the Central Coast will receive much-needed protections under the Act. More info on this win for the wild ➡️ bit.ly/4tzC4FI

The Trump Admin is taking down signs at Nat'l Parks, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe is fighting back. Their Council passed a resolution opposing any changes to signage at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.

Even though I have never seen her live. How she flies in the sky, with her skates just looks incredible to me. Amazing #skates #Olympics

VENEREOLOGY (Sexually Transmitted Infections) is up! A brand new Valentine's Day ep on the health of your junk, how to have an STI chat w/ a partner, testing, vaccines and why you should be horny, authentic & safe with THE Dr. @inaparkmd.bsky.social. We ❤️ her. www.alieward.com/ologies/vene...

This is unbelievably cool