Photographer Pennie Smith, The Clash, September 1979, an image used for the 'London Calling' album cover art and voted best rock 'n' roll image #WomensArt

Calling all scientists - nature magazine wants to know what you really think about your job. I will be writing about the results later this year and am keen to have lots of responses from Africa and the Global South. You can win an $250 voucher for your trouble! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Arrival of the Sun, 1962 by Kenojuak Ashevak, artist of Inuit heritage born on Baffin Island #womensart

David Hockney

Week 23 of my stitch-the-news daily news diary included: A CBS logo A cow An NBC logo A referee jersey A green heart with an up-ticking line graph A bottle of sunscreen A World Cup game ball

Pollinator Week is coming soon 🐝🦋💓 It is a good moment to remember that caring for pollinators can start very locally: in a garden, a schoolyard, a farm, a park, or one small patch left a little wilder. Small actions can create real butterfly effects. #PollinatorWeek #Pollinators

This is crazy! Obviously people should recuse from discussion of a grant from their institution but to have to recuse from a WHOLE PANEL is nuts. This is just meant to make it harder to review grants, slow down review, and reduce funding grants As always, the point is to destroy science

Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in photography and botany, considered the first person to have photographic images published in a book, 1843 #WomensArt

"Trees are poems that Earth writes upon the sky." Khalil Gibran Ralph Emerson art

'Woman wiring an early IBM computer' from the 'Documenting Science' series (1938-58) by US photographer Berenice Abbott #womensart

When artist Veselka Bulkan discovered she was pregnant, she used her ultrasound picture as the inspiration for her embroidery #WomensArt #Monday

Strawberry plant from "A Curious Herbal Antique Botanical Illustration", 1737 by Scottish botanical illustrator/author and engraver Elizabeth Blackwell #WomensArt

UK based stained glass artist Harriet Love #Womensart

Happy birthday to marine biologist & conservationist Rachel Carson (1907-1964)! 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci After publishing the sea trilogy in the 40s & 50s, when she published Silent Spring in 1962 she captured the world’s attention to the risks to health & environment posed by pesticides & DDT in particular. 🧵

Hazel MacNab, contemporary UK printmaker based in Cornwall #Womensart

because I know y’all can’t click and read

SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

👋 👋 SSE members, I hope you'll join me May 21 for the virtual SSE Presidential Symposium: Navigating Uncertainty: Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology Pls RT to help get the word out!

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

That time of year again! If you'd like an example of job apps in academia or industry, here's a good resource. If you got a job in industry or academia in the last few years, please consider adding yours! github.com/RILAB/statem...

NSF GRFP results are out! Awardees: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Honorable Mention: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... (Our team members didn't get emails but discovered the lists through Reddit. Confirmed by logging in to the website and checking.) #NSF #GRFP

Yarn bombing is where knitted or crocheted yarn—rather than paint—adorns public objects like poles, and benches. Also known as "guerrilla knitting,", it is a street art originally started by women #Womensart

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

In July, we will teach the 3rd biodiversity genomics course in Latin America, this time in Bogotá, following the COLEVOL meeting. We invite applications from students, postdocs and PIs from Latin America interested in learning how to analyse genomic data. biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com

Are you also gearing up for Bombus queen season? The ladies are already flying around Chicagoland, so I collaged together the queen IDs from Colla, Richardson, & Williams for quick reference. See the full pdf here on @xercessociety.bsky.social : www.xerces.org/sites/defaul...

New blog post!🚨 The BIEN working group give the story behind their new paper "BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data"🪴🌍 🧪 Read here 👇 buff.ly/PZcecxJ

This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)

Congratulations to Dr. Maurine Neiman, recipient of the 2025 ASN/SSE/SSB IDEA Award! She will present her work during the IDEA Award plenary at the virtual Evolution meeting this May. #Evol2026 www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @maurineneiman.bsky.social

The youngest #kakapo chick on Pukenui/Anchor Island: Hanariki-A2, at 3 days old. It's a tiny 42g, but doing OK. Managed to keep it mostly dry on a very wet night. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

#PlantJob Are you looking for a place to start your independent group and develop all the amazing ideas you have in mind?, consider this to join us @cragenomica.bsky.social www.cragenomica.es/events/sympo...

The arrival of data centres in a community can cause surrounding areas to heat up - in some cases, by 9 degrees Celsius. My latest for @newscientist.com looks at research that estimates some 340 million people have already been affected www.newscientist.com/article/2521...

Congratulations ‪@bjenquist.bsky.social‬ for leading the amazing BIEN. Biodiversity science is immensely richer, more reliable and more integrated thanks to BIEN. This new paper shows how and why.

1 year technician position in the Roeder lab on how sepal morphogenesis is robust to environmental perturbations. Great position for a postbac. jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

Postdoc (2 years) in mycorrhizal fungal biogeography & species distribution modelling @umeaplantsciencecentre.se Work with large-scale metabarcoding data and modelling. Deadline is 30th April www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Artwork by Grace Yencer, a contemporary artist living and working in the US #womensart

The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% from 2017 to 2025. The top 1% now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined. Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

Kitty Shepherd, contemporary British ceramic slipware artist #WomensArt

Worth another posting. Artist is Jolene Thompson 🧶 #knit

"California is pledging to put 7.5 million acres under tribal stewardship in the state’s first-ever tribal stewardship policy." Absolutely *phenomenal* news & essential. We need this, across Turtle Island, fast. We don't time. But WOW. What an amazing thing to see in my lifetime.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Petunias, 1925 #WomensArt

UK sculptor Heather Jansch (1948-2021), known especially for life-size driftwood horse sculptures, #WomensArt

Please share! 📢 #plantscience #plantscijobs Are you a plant or microbial scientist that is passionate about global innovation in sustainable agriculture? 🚨 We have a number of exciting job openings in nitrogen fixation at EIT ‼️ Find out more and apply here 👉 eit.org/careers

Though it may surprise East Coasters, the story of this winter was not record cold but record heat

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion). Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

Exciting position at The School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University. We are looking for an Associate Lecturer in Plant Ecology. A great opportunity to teach, mentor students and contribute to plant ecology research on the Wallumattagal Campus in Sydney.

Our new review is finally out! 🌿 I’m especially excited because this is the first chapter of my PhD! Have a read to see what shapes the range limits of alpine plants besides freezing temperatures ❄️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

💬 In the second installment of The Evolution Exchange, retired NSF Program Officer Dr. Sam Scheiner returns to discuss how to craft a successful research proposal. Watch or read the transcript here: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...

**BREAKING NEWS** - Marsh Clubmoss refound in Dunbartonshire, at a site where it was last recorded in 1854! Being more-or-less evergreen, clubmosses make great botanical targets all year round. With that in mind, I set out to hunt for Marsh Clubmoss near Inveraran on the shore of Loch Lomond 🧵

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...