Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever. This is the country we live in now.

We finally saw an olive ridley nesting last night! I used the long exposure setting to take photos under the full moon. Today, we went to Copalita National Park before heading to the beach.

The learning continues. Night time nest relocation, a leatherback track after we saw the female false crawl, revegetation, and triangulation.

Yesterday afternoon, we learned about the history of sea turtle conservation from local cooperative members as well as government employees. This morning, we rescued hatchlings on the beach.

We saw our first olive ridley hatchlings last night. This morning, we cleaned a large tank and helped handle green turtles for vitamin injections at Centro Mexicano de la Tortuga.

Before heading to the coast this afternoon, we toured Monte Albán to learn about some Mesoamerican archaeological history.

I have the privilege of taking students to Mexico for just over a week for my Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation Course this semester. Despite the travel complications yesterday, all but one arrived to Oaxaca. Some scenes from the city.

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.

The university mandated everyone to come back to the office but now say they can longer afford to keep paying for office phones.

On the list: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services International Tropical Timber Institute Internacional Union for the Conservancy of Nature Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research

Maybe this is my sign to tone down my perfectionism this year.

The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal! www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

7/ Here's the bottom line: This is an unprecedented shift that risks weakening protection against preventable diseases at a time when outbreaks are rising and children are already being hospitalized. Vaccines don’t work without strong supporting systems...and the U.S. doesn’t have Denmark’s.

As parents are helping their kids consider colleges, this is my perennial reminder that state schools often have lower price tags, yes, but private schools, including many small liberal arts schools, often have better aid packages, and are thus often cheaper in the end (but may be more competitive).

Every article about the dismantling of NCAR says the same thing, but read every one because it's so insane.

I really appreciate whoever keeps posing the skeleton model in the anatomy lab room like this; I grin every time I walk past it.

New OA pub in @stacksjournal.bsky.social : @zoologistkate.bsky.social social compared the isotopic composition of hair and feathers to the whole body of mammals and birds. It turns out these tissues can sometimes (but not always) represent the whole body. stacksjournal.org/article/davi...

I ran a slow half marathon this morning…it was 75F by the end. This afternoon, I did some grocery shopping and made a double batch of enchiladas to take a pan to our neighbors with a newborn. #WorkfreeWeekend

What does ‘six-seven’ mean? Nothing. But it’s still loaded with meaning | Matt Cantor

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

gas, hybrid, EV

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/ and please spread the word!!!!

NSF Graduate Fellowship announcement is finally posted! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... 1/2

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

I am glad my Supervisor of Elections sent this message today: All vote-by-mail ballot requests in Florida expired on December 31, 2024, due to a change in Florida Law. Voters must make a new vote-by-mail ballot request for each election cycle.

Hot off the presses 🔥🦇! In a new paper, we describe a new migratory strategy (pell-mell migration) in which hoary and eastern red bats migrate north in the autumn— sometimes long distances— before turning around and migrating south. 1/n

New pub from my first PhD student @batsonthemove.bsky.social. She found some bats have a complex migration strategy: two species move north in the autumn, flying long and likely circuitous routes of hundreds of miles, before ultimately returning south to overwinter. news.ufl.edu/2025/09/bat-...

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

Guess what Florida will make great again? Measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Respiratory syncytial virus, influenza, Covid-19, hepatitis A & B, varicella, Human papillomavirus, Meningococcal meningitis & rotavirus

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

Good overview of yesterday’s legally questionable & incredibly harmful SCOTUS decision from @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @dangaristo.bsky.social. It’s clear SCOTUS will not rein in Trump’s authoritarian overreach. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This morning, the Atlantic published an article on David Geier, highlighting his history of publishing papers that claim associations between various vaccines and chronic conditions, including autism. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

This cat is from Gainesville.

Do not organize conferences in the US with an expectation to invite international scientists. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/busines...

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!! An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today. 🧵 Brief thread 1/4

New parenting level unlocked: my kids have given me head lice.

Academics get annoyed by the "gosh, it must be nice to have your summers off" thing. But it's just a special case of something general: there's lots we don't know about each other. scientistseessquirre...

The Senate appropriations committee has voiced its intent to ignore the request by President Donald Trump to slash the budgets of the National Science Foundation and NASA science programs. scim.ag/4nW7XWi

..there's no doubt that: As climate change supersizes weather extremes, we need MORE info to keep people safe, not less. More experts, instruments, models, research, etc: much of which is being reduced or cut. Timely, accurate science helps assess risks + make informed decisions that save lives.

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

Grant submitted. But good feeling is brief, as now I need to pick up all the pieces that were put aside to work on the grant.

We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

I celebrated some good news yesterday with sidra and chorizo.

Well, the NSF found my active CAREER Award has words that are now forbidden. I have been asked to submit minor modifications before the next increment is released.

“Looking to magic and intuition for agency in a moment when science and medicine are frustrating is normal and human. But I worry that these normal human impulses are being exploited by powerful people,” Dannagal Young, a professor of communication and political science, writes.

Enjoy today’s sunlight. Happy summer solstice to those in the northern hemisphere!