My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In Tehran, panicked residents rushed home to shelter and terrified children poured out of classrooms as U.S. air strikes hit the capitol. n.pr/4l0tKuA

I've been to all 254 TX counties, and Big Bend is the very best of Texas. The stunning, expansive desert landscape still feels untouched. It deserves to stay that way. It breaks my heart thinking about it being needlessly ruined for a f***ing wall. Here's some photos I've taken there. 🧵4/4

A reminder that Girl Scouting of America has welcomed trans and nonbinary girls from the first one that asked, has always had lesbian and bi members and adults, never declared bankruptcy to avoid paying for sexual assaults, and never poached the other side to recover from said bankruptcy.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

Not spending money that is appropriated for science is a tricky subject to explain, but for people in limbo (like myself, as I mentioned yesterday), it can have cause serious career harm. Many celebrated the NIH budget bill. It’s not supporting science when an unchecked bottleneck still remains.

The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”…… /1

Breaking: IPost has obtained CCTV footage showing a Border Patrol van dropping off Nurul Shah Alam at a closed Tim Hortons last Thursday. Shah Alam, nearly-blind & unable to enter the shop, then wandered the city for days. He was found dead Tuesday. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties

CASSIDY: Would you encourage Americans to take the flu vaccine? CASEY MEANS: I do think it's important as a physician and to rebuild trust in public health to make sure patients are encouraged to have informed consent with their doctors before getting any medication

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

starting March 1, 2026, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are prohibited from using central government funds to pay Article Processing Charges for high-priced OA journals, specifically Nature Communications and Science Advances.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Appears as though Rep. Al Green was already removed:

Harmful interactions in geoscience field settings are prevalent, and more action needs to be taken. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

instantly assumed this was a kaiju situation

I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961

Trait discovery is one of the most difficult parts of our work here at @kwsgroup.bsky.social. Thus, we need help: We are looking for a Scientist in #QuantitativeGenetics & #Biostatistics for Trait Discovery. This is a full time, permanent position here in Einbeck. #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs

President Donald Trump’s choice to lead NSF, financier Jim O’Neill, lacks an advanced science degree and any experience managing a large basic research enterprise. That makes him a cipher to most of the U.S. academic research community—and could lead to problems. https://scim.ag/4kUgjfU

Read the whole thread, too.

Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life in prison for his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024. n.pr/3ZFDZLj

This aged pretty well.

Is this a evolutionary psychology?

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Trump said to select Thiel protégé as NSF director President Donald Trump is planning to nominate a libertarian protégé of billionaire Peter Thiel with no research experience to be the next National Science Foundation director, according to reports today in the New York Times and elsewhere. 1/7

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Olympics Dog was chasing the motorized camera they have to capture the competitors at the finish line, then decided to chase some competitors instead

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

🚨We are hiring🚨 We are looking for an early-career computational evolutionary biologist with a PhD in comparative genomics, phylogenetic methods, or related fields. We are part of @eawag.bsky.social a research insitutute of the ETH Domain in 🇨🇭

Apparently faux-moa will be browsing generalists and help restore NZ's impenetrable bush back to what it was 800 years ago. (Paul admitted moa were not actually deer though.) But they'll also be in captivity, so go figure.

The superbloom is just getting started. I'm seeing flowers sprouting in places I've never seen or noticed before in Death Valley in my 35 years of travels here. And Lake Manly still persists! #deathvalley

The Bart Lab at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc. Please share!

Many parasitic plants produce tiny seeds as light as dust: you can barely even see them. But zoom in with a powerful enough microscope, and suddenly they reveal a hidden trove of jewels. (Thanks to Renata Piwowarczyk for the photos; microscopy by Justyna Kasińska)

Join us tomorrow! Arrive earlier for cookies and coffee, bring your mug!

Cheatgrass is reshaping western ecosystems, but research shows its spread follows locally adapted genotypes. By understanding how traits like flowering time shift with climate, scientists can better predict movements and guide smarter ecosystem management. Read more here https://nature.ly/45k1mNM

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!

I unfortunately have a different story. I served on a hiring committee which initially failed. A late candidate then emerged with a superb publication record. There were reports of sexual misbehavior as a PhD student circulating but they were now married with kids. I voted yes 1/n

As always, the most courageous in the room are young people so thank you to student journalists at Columbia for being the only outlet to cover Greene’s self-made fall from grace. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...

It is beyond insulting for @aaas.org to plan to host Brian Greene, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, for a plenary talk at #AAAS2026, then cancel it the day before, only for the replacement to insist Greene was a “good scientist” and that he wished we could all hear from him.

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

I'm super excited to share that this article was published today in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... All made possible by the fantastic group of donors, volunteers and scientists at The American Chestnut Foundation (tacf.org), HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and our collaborators.