No takers yet 🤞🏻🤞🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🧪

"a total of 119 applications of white PIs funded from 34-59th percentile. A score range at which ZERO applications were funded to Black PIs...119 white PI applications funded at worse scores is 46.5% of the total number of applications funded with Black PIs" drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/m...

Love this quote: "We used to make fun of Edgar Anderson by saying that he was finding hybrids under every bush. Then we realized that even the bushes were hybrids." academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

This is a long shot, but is anyone willing and able to review a micropublication (i.e., short and sweet) about how senescent-associated β-galactosidase accumulation influences the lifespan of a particular species (a fish, if it matters)? We can't find a reviewer and we've tried so hard. 🧪

SIGN YOUR SUPPORT for the Reinstatement of the National Science Board at this link: zurl.co/UPf5g 1/3

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Seeds of annual & perennial populations of #Mimulus guttatus exhibit differential responses to cold stratification New #AJB research by Alec Chiono, Elisabeth Sellinger & @ncemery.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower

❗❗ New Python Notebook For USGS Data❗❗ There have been multiple requests to get the Streamflow data from the USGS National Water Dashboard. Well this notebook will do just that. It will get the data, plot it, AND provide a KMZ to be loaded into your systems. Go and play! github.com/jjrennie/usg...

"We uncover somatic embryo clones have a >3,500% increase in mutation rates & exhibit whole chromosome duplications, large-scale deletions, somatic recombination events, & increased TE activity... This work raises concerns about the genetic integrity of plants used for biotechnology approaches." 🧬

It's good to see Science publishing this Open Letter to Jay Bhattacharya, by @dereklowe.bsky.social Derek did not come to play 👏

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

Screaming to the abyss: #ColossalBio did not resurrect the dire wolf and they're probably just going to make an antelope with methemoglobinemia to give it a bluish color. Their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign is just a pyramid scheme because #ExtinctionIsForever 🧪

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

Congratulations to @jrossibarra.bsky.social on being elected to the National Academy of Sciences! We'll be popping some corn in his honor www.ucdavis.edu/news/nationa...

📰Published📰Hotspots on cold mountains: hot flowers as pollinator refuges in mountain ecosystems⛰️ buff.ly/hN4jSFd 🧪🌍️

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Ben sums it up well. "When scholars outside TX and FL declare that colleagues should quit, they risk turning a complex set of personal, professional and ethical choices into a too-tidy litmus test. They also risk erasing the agency of those who choose to stay out of commitment, not complacency."

BREAKING: Trump has apparently fired the National Science Board (NSB).

New paper out in @natureportfolio.nature.com @commsearth.nature.com! A major bottleneck in coral restoration is that newly settled corals rarely survive. We show that simple engineered substrates can increase early-stage survivorship by ~4×. Link to paper: rdcu.be/femTN

The first annotated edition of the book that shocked the Victorian world and continues to generate controversy today. Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man, edited by James T. Costa and Elizabeth E. Yale, is now available. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

Here's a way to us Helen Sword's "Writing BASE" exercise to think differently (and better, I think!) about mentoring students in writing. Mentoring writing is really hard! Finding ways to make it easier (and better) is worth a bunch of thought.

If you're in the Southeastern US or nearby, keep an eye out for one of these 600 wing-tagged vultures. Email sightings to Scott Rush at [email protected]. Every observation helps. I talked to Scott for a story on black vultures a few years ago. #birds #vultures newschannel9.com/sports/outdo...

URGENT: The US House is expected to vote on the ESA Amendments Act on Weds., Apr 22. The bill would gut the wildly effective Endangered Species Act to serve mining, logging, oil/gas and other corporate interests. Earth’s species are facing huge declines and even extinction due to human-caused...

A paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports insights into how ancient plants lived around 252 million years ago at the time of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, the most severe loss of biodiversity in Earth’s history. go.nature.com/4cGiEY5 #PlantScience 🌍🧪

wow. wotta shot! Jellyfish being devoured from outside in by these plough shells (Bullia sp.)South Africa #molluscmonday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Bruce is a New Zealand parrot missing his top beak. It’s a serious disability, but he has managed to become the alpha of his group, through creativity. Here’s my story about Bruce and the mostly mysterious natural history of disability. Gift link: nyti.ms/4cwVGT5

👋 👋 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!

Interesting. Modulation of microphysical environments by the plant biodiversity. At least at smaller scales, environment&biodiversity relations are bidirectional. 🧪 ⚒️ #Ecology #Geology #Botany

Thrilled to have been able to review 'The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict', a volume edited by @arvidagren.bsky.social & Manus Patten. "...the reality that complex organisms function at all feels like pure magic, with the powers of molecular evolution behind the curtain."

Save the US Forest Service from destructive “restructuring” peer.org/letter-tell-...

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives." www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more

Losing SLACs (small liberal arts colleges) is absolutely a sign of American academia's decline and the gutting of the humanities in particular. I'm pretty sure SLACs are a uniquely American phenomenon. Most countries don't have hundreds of small, non-research-oriented colleges dedicated to teaching.

Does conservation slow global extinction rates? Find out in our Proceedings B Georgina Mace Review: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Ecological change may be a common initiator of evolutionary pollinator shifts Agnes S. Dellinger @the-kunsze.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A short review from us on the easiest way to make an allopolyploid. It was a lot of fun writing with these two. We hope you will enjoy the Pac-Man inspired allopolyploidy maze!

In another massive data set of more than 1.5 million children ‌born between 1997 and 2022, the use of Tylenol during pregnancy was NOT associated with autism, even after accounting for ​individual risk factors. Autism was diagnosed in 1.8% of children exposed to Tylenol and 3% of the unexposed group.

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

“There is no indication that the Endangered Species Act is currently, or even will in the future, be responsible for halting oil and gas development in the Gulf of Mexico.” But that's not stopping the Trump admin from invoking "national security" to put vulnerable wildlife at risk:

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

Cool: "Package adapt 3 is available on CRAN and can be used to study the nature and stability of ecological interactions, the mechanics of natural selection and even speciation." besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #EvoBio #Ecology #Macroecology #Paleobio

Atmospheric dust is a global nutrient source for plants via foliar uptake Anton Lokshin, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Illegal trafficking of insects (endangered and otherwise) is a growing problem that tends to fly under the radar. "Levels of criminalisation for wildlife trafficking often vary based on the species, **attitudes towards them** and country legalisation." 🪲🪳🌍 theconversation.com/seizure-of-2...

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

A group of Japanese researchers confirmed that Rapaza viridis, a eukaryote, sends proteins derived from its own genes to chloroplasts it takes from green algae to have them then conduct photosynthesis.

🌡️ RESEARCH 🌡️ Non-optimal cold/warm temperatures inhibit germination of morphologically dormant seeds by distinct mechanisms; heat blocks within-seed growth of the underdeveloped embryo, while chilling slows down embryo growth to reach the critical size required for germination - Walker et al.