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!

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

Some highlights about an important study of contrast-enhanced mammography for cancer screening in women with dense breast tissue.

We celebrated #WorldSeaTurtleDay with a trip to the Seville Aquarium.

YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

Fascism. Right here... This is fascism. The words that Noem was using are fascist. The actions to remove a duly elected senator from California in this situation are fascist. Fascism is here folks. You ask yourself what you'd do in response to fascism when it showed up? Now is your chance.

I've always been a bit embarrassed by my poor "naturalist" skills, especially as an ecologist surrounded by folks who can identify every tree and every sandpiper. Posting this, I've learned I'm not alone - and I feel better. scientistseessquirre...

I am a co-author on a paper that was just accepted. I appreciate the reviewer who took time to point out every single line number where "Gulf of America" occurred with a recommendation to change it to "Gulf" (>50 times). The lead author is a government employee, so unfortunately it remained GoA.

A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/avi...

Dilly Dally, a loggerhead turtle who survived a run-in with a predator that ultimately cost her a flipper, has been rereleased into the wild. 🐢

Hmm...does anyone remember what the Florida Board of Governors was up to about five years ago?

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Ariadna Arnau successfully deployed three satellite transmitters on loggerheads at Wassaw Island, Georgia last week. Stay tuned for updates. We are particularly interested in their internesting habitat use and indicators of feeding status.

Proposed cut to NSF Biology budget is 70%. 70%. Seventy. Call your senators & reps nonstop. Give them numbers on NSF impact for state/district. tableau.external.nsf.gov/views/NSFbyN... explain this will decimate the economy if their districts, especially if it has a major research univ. 🧪

In case anyone needs a refresher on good file naming procedures…

Nothing irks me more than being sent a file name with "final" in the title. How are you so confident that what you are sending me is truly the final version? I found the excellent version control instructions created by @brunalab.bsky.social and sent them in response.

Upset about federal funding cuts in the US? Want some ideas of what to do? I wrote a long-ish blog post about it here ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com summarizing things I learned meeting with Senate & House aides this week with the @aibsbiology.bsky.social Congressional Visits Day event.

ACOG is deeply disappointed by HHS’s move to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in pregnancy. The science is clear: COVID-19 remains dangerous in pregnancy and vaccination protects both patients and newborns. The vaccine is safe and protects families. Read our full statement: buff.ly/OGue7sO

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

🚨 URGENT RESPONSE CALL 🚨 Trump’s Fool’s Gold Science EO is a dangerous sham. It gives his appointees the power to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with his agenda. We’ve launched an open letter. SIGN & SHARE NOW: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Hundreds of National Science Foundation staffers turned out for a group photograph to celebrate the besieged agency’s 75th anniversary—despite efforts by NSF officials to prevent the picture from being taken. scim.ag/4jcGpIt

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

“Nakedly authoritarian and retaliatory” — statement from Harvard’s @aaup.bsky.social chapter on the termination of Harvard’s SEVP certification.