Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

Glad to be part of this wonderfully written article by @meghanbartels.bsky.social along with @saverygo.bsky.social and others on the devastating & unseen impacts of HPAI on wild birds and mammal populations. So many species are still being impacted by mortality and this virus is not going away.

Virus researchers! Please consider participating in this project - it would be a huge help to our lab, and we think it'll lead to some really exciting synthesis. Plus, you'll get an invitation to participate in a workshop later in the project! 🦠😷

H5N1 isolate from a dairy farm worker in Michigan in ferrets: airborne transmission, moderate pathogenicity, including limited extrapulmonary spread, without lethality 👉 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

You're invited to inform science policy this summer with the AIBS Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits. This event enables scientists to meet with their federal or state elected officials in their home state. Sign up by July 14!

NSF is undergoing a massive shake-up: over 80 senior staff cut, remote work banned, the equity-in-STEM division eliminated, and hundreds of research grants scrapped. This isn’t budget efficiency—it’s a direct attack on U.S. science, education, and equity. www.eenews.net/articles/nsf...

For decades, the US raced to be the best in STEM. Now, while we are in a race to literally sustain human life on this planet, the US has benched its starters and canceled all training camps. It won’t just end our country - it may cause the extinction of our species. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you are a person who cares about the future of science in the US, please take actions this week to #SaveNSF. @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social are leading a week of action - here is a Media Support Tool from the societies docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🧑‍🔬🧬🖥️🦑

"It’s like I have to choose between my life and my career." The personal stories of 5 scientists affected by Trump's assault on science. www.science.org/content/arti...

Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF! Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts. We must make noise! Pls RT!!!! #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

When the U.S. withdrew from WHO, prominent voices in public health reached for the wrong talking point - "Okay, you're right, WHO is flawed / inefficient, so, reform it." My undergrads now repeat this back to me, with no understanding of why they believe that. This can't happen to NIH/NSF. Instead:

🚨 Another major round of #NSF terminations today 😞. Please report and encourage your colleagues to as well! We need this info to shed light on the damage caused, and to organize and advocate for science that includes and benefits all. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... 🧪

More great work by J. Weitz and colleagues.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

🚨 Weather Forecasts Are Already Being Compromised 🚨 Former NOAA Administrator Dr. Rick Spinrad revealed that forecasters at the Dallas-Fort Worth office were unable to warn of recent tornadoes in West Texas because “the people who did that had been fired.” #SaveNOAA

1500 hundred dead just in Indiana richardconniff.substack.com/p/bird-flu-m...

BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.

Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

This is an attack on US science. NSF staff provide critical support for scientific infrastructure and global excellence. These are valuable dedicated public servants. Please contact your reps, write letters, make noise! Are there any plans for rallies at NSF headquarters? Journalists: COVER THIS!

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! Dr Jessie Isabelle Price (1930-2015) was a veterinary microbiologist who worked for Cornell University and the USGS to develop vaccines for avian diseases and studied environmental impact on diseases in water fowl. #Avian #Science #USGS @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

Louis R. Purnell became well known as a #Tuskegee Airman during WWII, before earning his Bachelors and working at the Smithsonian as a Museum Specialist of #invertebrate #paleontology and #paleobotany #collections. siarchives.si.edu/history/feat.... #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

ah cool, an archive of all CDC data before they tampered with it

Folks wanting updates from NSF, they just posted this: new.nsf.gov/executive-or... Stop work order for "conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant selection, and any other grant activity that uses or promotes the use of DEIA principles and frameworks..."

Wild birds, mainly Ross’s and snow geese, are dying by the thousands in Idaho, USA, from highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1. Clinical signs include coughing, lethargy, and gasping for air. Despite this virus epidemic, waterfowl hunting is still permitted. www.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/art...

Grateful that @nytimes.com @emilyanthes.bsky.social covered H5N1 impacts on wild birds H5N1 isn't going away “We should take this lull as just that — a potentially normal part of this process — but really be prepared for these viruses to burn through animals again” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/s...

The devastating toll of H5N1 on wild birds is hard to fathom, and sadly, they're not alone. Honoured to contribute to this @nytimes.com story alongside colleagues* working to understand this crisis. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/s... * @duckswabber.bsky.social @johannaharvey.bsky.social

I am rotating off the SSE-DC committee after serving for 3 years. If you want to improve and make a positive impact for the society and field I recommend applying! Such a rewarding experience! Dec 15 is the deadline to apply

Great to see the first results from the Australis expedition to survey Antarctica for HPAI. Ten sites visited, HPAI detected in Skuas at 4, including at a skua breeding colony. One sheathbill also positive. 👉https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01868-7

A cool new paper delves into possible mechanisms of migratory culling (where infected individuals have lower migration success). The % malaria-infected birds blown off course and predated by falcons in the Canaries was higher than in birds departing Spain for Africa. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 detected in Hawaii. Although it was present in the USA since 2021 and subsequently spread across the Americas, it is the first time it has been detected in the Hawaiian Archipelago, 3,200 km southwest of mainland USA. health.hawaii.gov/news/newsroo...

Applications now open for the 2024 R. C. Lewontin Early Awards, which provide up to $2500 in research funds for 1st and 2nd year PhD students. Deadline: February 23 www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Disentangling Elements of Human Activities and Invasive Parasites on the Health of Darwin’s Finches UConn researchers are studying how humans impact wildlife, inside and out today.uconn.edu/2023/11/dise...

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

✨I can't believe it!✨ My collaborative groups submitted 4 manuscripts in 5 weeks for review. These are projects I care so much about and I'm so honored to work with such amazing people. 💚