Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Day 26 Forage - #sciartseptember Leaf cutter ants can travel up to 100m (330ft) from their nest to collect or forage for leaves or other materials. (ignoring the people part)

Day 27 - Bounded #sciartseptember. In the deep sea a pair of shrimp will begin living in glass sponges and remain trapped inside the sponge once they get larger, the shrimp will be bound to the sponge for the rest of their lives.

Survivor 11x14" charcoal (black and white) on toned paper Just finished today.. this medium works well for gray animals :) #drawing #sciart

For bounded, the devil’s hole pupfish #SciArtSeptember

URGENT! Write your Democratic Senators and Reps with a plea to stand firm in the budget negotiations. If we don’t prevail now, we will end up with huge budget cuts to public health programs and workforce and loss of health care access for millions. No surrender! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Hello #fish 🐟 🐠 researchers and PIs of tomorrow! We would be excited to sponsor you for an Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) Presidential #Postdoc Fellowship application @michiganstateu.bsky.social. Application deadline is Nov 10, so get in touch soom! #EndlessFishMostBeautiful

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

Stickers coming soon 😎

This squirrel knows only rage and the desire for treats #art #sketch #pencildrawing #drawing #sketchbook

U-M researcher @friedmanlab.bsky.social helps identify the first time fish evolved a toothy, tongue-like structure, an early innovation in the way fish eat. #Science Learn more: https://news.umich.edu/310-million-year-old-fossil-takes-a-bite-out-of-fish-evolutio

Thousands of laid-off federal workers in DMV struggle to get enough food, report shows wjla.com/news/local/s...

#SciArtSeptember 22 - Fellowship For as long as we have had imaginations and languages to convey them, humans have been seeing our fellow creatures as more than just food. Here, an elderly neanderthal is pondering an unusual injured bird - a yellow-breasted bunting, today critically endangered.

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes 1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible. 2. "alignment with Administration priorities" 3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem. a brief 🧵 w/receipts www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

...And done. Once again colored pencils on black paper, this time also with some silver and gold ink. A3, probably around 20-25 hours. #art #fantasyart #space #leopard #traditionalart #drawing

Day 14: Mimic of #sciartseptember. Cant resist doing a quick sketch of one of my favorite marine critters the Mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus) who is well known for changing its body shape and texture to mimic a variety of wildlife including lionfish, flounder, and sea snakes.

#SciArtSeptember Day 16: Rift Lakes form in many ways—volcanic craters, cauldrons, glacial scours—but some of the world’s deepest appear where tectonic plates diverge. 🚣‍♀️ 💙 Lake-nerd-alert 🤓 I've some old blog posts on some lake formations here: www.braeunerd.com?s=lakes #SciArt

#SciArtSeptember Day 20: Glacial The Southern Ocean is home to several unique orca subspecies, including these C type orcas. - #orca #orcawhale #whales #sketch

24. Numbered. Nine spined stickleback. #SciArtSeptember #SciArt

#SciArtSeptember: Reef Threadfin butterflyfish #Art

26. Forage. A numbat. #SciArtSeptember #SciArt

#SciArtSeptember: Fellowship Humans and feral pigeons, a long story. #Art

#SciArtSeptember Day 25: Tireless At first I thought the Monarch butterflies flew tirelessly until reaching their overwintering grounds, but since finishing this drawing and looking it up I've learned they do take breaks. But still, +100km a day for a total of 4000 km?! Tireless! #SciArt

Sneak peak inside my 2026 nature-loving wall calendar collab with @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Each month covers a different animals and Sept's is the Anglerfish! These calendar sales help support @skypeascientist.bsky.social 2026 native plant project! Pre-order: www.etsy.com/listing/4366...

For forage, a very familiar face 🐰 the eastern cottontails are always out and about #SciArtSeptember

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.

2nd year grad students are no longer eligible to apply. Currently enrolled grad students must be in their first year, whether in a MS, BS-MS, or Ph.D.

Curious about lakes? It's never too late to go back to school! Enrollment is now open for our 🏅award-winning🏅 Introduction to Lakes Online course! Class starts at the end of January. www.canr.msu.edu/courses/intr...

Hello carp #sciart

Onychostoma alticorpus / qulih balay/ kuau / ’eou / lalingaw / saiiahlʉ / 高身白甲魚 / 鮸仔/ Taiwan ku fish is a traditional food species for many of Taiwan's Indigenous cultures. For #SciArtSeptember #Forage theme. #TaiwanFishes #台灣魚類 Day26/30 🦑🐡🧪

Check out this awesome video summary of a recent paper on endothermy in fishes from my former lab mate Fernando Melendez! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qnw...

It seems the GRFP solicitation is FINALLY released (like 5 minutes ago)! Due dates have also been pushed back, thankfully! 🧪 🔭 www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

My favorite part of the apocalypse has been the constant fatigue

k-mer-based diversity scales with population size proxies more than nucleotide diversity in a meta-analysis of 98 plant species. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...

Mobula alfredi / hāhālua populations are numbered, but thanks to numbers of dedicated volunteers and researchers, individual reef mantas are being identified and numbered in regional catalogues around the world, including Hawai'i. For #SciArtSeptember #Numbered theme #HawaiianFishes Day 24/30 🦑🐡🧪

quick sketch of the Manocherian's catshark (Apristurus manocheriani) to redeem my cursed past... Finally, a somewhat proper illustration of this species! #shark #sciart #digitalart

Falling behind in schedule, but #SciArtSeptember 21 - Reef Currently, our ocean life is threatened by the climate crisis. Fossils tell us it’s not the first time: in the past, many species have been wiped out by heating. This one is set in the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic, 201 million years ago.

ICB Celebrating @lizlagomorph.bsky.social 's #SciArtSeptember & @lampichthys.bsky.social 's #SundayFishSketch spotlight on @nicholeangell.bsky.social who shares her #art & her thoughts on the intersection of #science and art. integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/a...

“Fish” can refer to a single individual, or multiple individuals from the same species. “Fishes” refers to multiple species. 🐠 Fish 🐠🐠🐠 Fish 🐠🐟🐡 Fishes

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

New: There was an "emergency" all-hands meeting inside part of NOAA today basically to tell people they have no idea what to expect re a potential shutdown. "Even less than usual," per one source. There is no guidance yet available and no info on what specifically the OMB memo means. So that's cool.

Day 25 - Tireless #sciartseptember. A quick sketch based a little bit on this upcoming year. With my defense approaching next Spring/Summer the long nights into my research are definitely piling up.

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/

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

For tireless, a bar-tailed godwit. These guys fly without stopping from the arctic to NZ/Australia for their migration which is frankly crazy #SciArtSeptember

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

The National Archives under the Trump administration released @mikiesherrill.bsky.social full, unredacted Navy personnel file to Jack Ciattarelli's campaign. This is an unprecedented and illegal weaponization of the National Archives and private, personal records to attack a political opponent.

Ah yes I love the increasing sense of doom that we might have a government shutdown, it’s filling my calendar with Sept. 30th meeting invites. The will we won’t me is my favorite 🥴

The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan is looking for a new faculty colleague at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...