U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Miles off the coast of New Jersey and New England, two major forces are converging: the rapid expansion of offshore wind energy and some of the most valuable fisheries in the United States. A new editorial published in Fisheries Oceanography takes stock of what... Read more at tinyurl.com/mupxerv3

A new study mapping online U.S. amphibian sales found 8,500 listings covering 301 nonnative species. Researchers flagged 44 species with no matching import records, suggesting possible illegal trade. They urge buyers to choose responsibly bred amphibians over wild-caught ones.

iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling. Highlights: 🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80% 🔺Fixed-term for 2 years 🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L 📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

Mapping Your Data with ggplot2 in R with Basemaps and Insets oliverstringham.com/blog/data-vi...

Biologist kidnapped in Mexico news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪🌎

Trump's new executive order will ban, over the next three years, more than 140,000 spouses, fiancés, and minor children of US citizens and legal permanent residents. Nearly 100,000 nuclear family of US citizens. Unconscionable

This is fucked. I had one of these to support my research in grad school, and I was on the review panel after I became a professor. (Also, there was a review happening like right now—I wonder what is happening with those proposals?)

Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact www.nature.com/articles/s42...

We’ve released two new tidymodels #rstats packages for feature selection: filter and important. tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

Ecological Engineers & Delivering Integrated Catchment Planning  📅 27 November 11:00-12:00 (GMT) A webinar on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in ecological engineering, specifically in the water industry. There will be a Q&A session. Register -

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective subjectivity, to the inner life of a country in the throes of deep pain and uncertainty. n.pr/4864WeG

🧪For anyone interested in EBV in autoimmunity, I strongly urge you to read this incredible study by @shady-myounis.bsky.social, Bill Robinson, and @tobiaslanz.bsky.social. It is not only a scientific tour de force, it has a deeply provocative discussion that everyone in the field should consider 1/

Trade in wildlife crosses borders, and so must the effort to protect it. From Ethiopian mountain vipers to Brazil’s Pernambuco tree, over 30 species could soon receive special protection under the #CITES Convention. Learn more via UN News: news.un.org/en/story/202...

📢New Publication! @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social just published our review paper on virtual laser scanning of dynamic scenes (VLS-4D). @bernhardhofle.bsky.social #3DGeo Paper: doi.org/10.1111/2041... Blogpost: giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de/2025/11/13/n... Demo: 3dgeo-heidelberg.github.io/vls-4d/

Social media data can be valuable for identifying ecological patterns. Cats are a major predator of wild animals worldwide, including invertebrates, and this study documents new observations of cat-arthropod interactions #RESInsectConsDiv resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I'm surprised I only came across it now, but this review on improving communication in data visualization is excellent. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The recording of my #rstats posit::conf talk ✨ practical {renv}✨ is available! 🎉 I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩 youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?... Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...

I normally use camcorder for previewing plots as @libbyheeren.bsky.social suggested but it's not quite working with the latest version of ggplot2. The ggview package does a similar thing: github.com/idmn/ggview

Rutgers University is hiring a Post Doctoral Associate on Applied Climatology! To apply, visit our website or contact Dr. Shope. Applications received by December 1st will be given priority!

Thousands of small pools and streams of melted water sitting on top of Greenland’s massive ice sheet are absorbing more heat from the sun than scientists previously realized, according to new research. This discovery means the ice sheet could be melting faster... Read more at tinyurl.com/57j3jsd4

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

Está invitado para CIENCIA EN ESPAÑOL I am hosting an event where University of Arizona scientists will speak about their science in Spanish. It is meant to be a community event with a Zoom option, so share with family too! events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/... #CIENCIAENESPAÑOL

If you're stressing out about tomorrow, there are now over 400 local immigration groups listed on this spreadsheet across all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico - take a minute, find one near you, and commit to spending an hour volunteering with them.

Job Alert!! Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Biodiversity and Renewable Energy rcei.rutgers.edu/post-doctora...

The magnitude of legal wildlife trade and implications for species survival www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The pet trade of native species outside of their natural distributions within Australia is a biosecurity risk. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Want to learn more about the CARE principles? This town hall at #AGU24 will discuss utilizing Indigenous data sovereignty principles in the scholarly publishing ecosystem. 🔗agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meet… #AGUPubs

I am looking for a guest lecturer for a Data Viz class on the morning of March 6 at the University of Washington. Do you have any suggestions of people to reach out to? #dataviz

Acabo de crear un starter-pack para ecologós en América Latina - !!! favor de sugerir más gente !!!! go.bsky.app/BdhnF3f

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

I found this paper, written by 10 doctoral students in Stockholm, quite interesting: Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values #academia link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Enhancing monitoring to promote early detection and eradication of invasive species https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07105 #ENM #SDM #Rstats

I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution. If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐 go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS

Please follow my list of Indigenous scientists! I accidentally deleted my first starter park -- but recreated it with even more names. Who else needs to be added? go.bsky.app/9LhnuCY

My iNaturalist year in review www.inaturalist.org/stats/2024/o...

We wrote an introductory Essay for the issue, which explores ways to make wildlife trade research and practice more inclusive. It includes this figure that took me ~3 hours, because there were so many great silhouettes of traded species to choose from conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨"Navigating #ethical challenges in online #wildlifetrade research" in #Conservation Biology by Morcatty et al @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social @dice-kent.bsky.social 💻 #illegalwildlifetrade #wildlifecrime #wildlifetrafficking #ethics #governance doi.org/10.1111/cobi...