calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

New study led by Sean McHugh (@phyllurus.bsky.social) now out in @systbiol.bsky.social! Sean's approach models how species gain and lose biome affinities over time, both in terms of where they *do* live (e.g. movement) and where they *could* live (e.g. adaptation) doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

My PhD paper on my beloved cycads and beetles on the cover of Science!!! Check out how we studied thermal infrared as a pollination signal, from molecular mechanisms to the wonders of behavior... science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Evolutionary Clues Reveal How a Key Hearing Protein Adapted for Function 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @treyjscott.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardoeb.bsky.social @currentbiology.bsky.social

New perspective on the evolutionary potential of symbiotic interactions! Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work? academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

PERSPECTIVE: The evolutionary potential of symbiosis Is symbiosis is a source of innovation? Which evolutionary mechanisms could explain how symbiosis drives or hinders innovation? @treyjscott.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

NEW PAPER with @arvidagren.bsky.social and Manus Patten on evolutionary reversions in individuality now out (as an advance article) at @jevbio.bsky.social (see academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...). Thread below! [1/8] .

He’s primarying one of the 7 who voted to fund ICE today

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Fact check: false. Eciton burchellii is the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere.

Nice to actually do some reading around the holidays.

I spy with my little eye, a brand new...butterfly? Found hiding from Panama to Colombia, whole-genome sequencing uncovered this new species as part of the tribe Phocidini! doi.org/10.1093/zool... @linneansociety.bsky.social

A specialized appendage responds to female sex hormones, allowing male octopuses to find their sex organs in the dark. https://scim.ag/4roFry3

Disinformation presaging a coup: a metaphor from ants.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

So much time, ink, & nonsense spilled explaining why the smallest pandemic/inflation-driven anti-incumbent backlash in the entire democratic world was a Paradigm Shifting Tidal Wave Of Crisis For The Democrats. Incredibly parochial in so very many ways. econbrowser.com/archives/202...

ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Just an absolutely horrific self own, depleting the US of amazing students from all over the world who contributed to what used to make America great: its diversity, its openness, and its leadership in education.

I literally hate to give Newsom credit for anything, he's a snake when it comes to transgender issues, but he's legitimately doing a good thing here. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Please spread widely and quickly - the more signatures we get the better chances we have of cajoling NSF into changing course on this small but very impactful item

This is the best explanation of the weird new ant paper.

It bears repeating that nearly the entire US enterprise in science and technology has been irreversibly gutted. This is shocking. All this loss has occurred without any real benefit to the average US citizen. Except we now have the biggest, best funded secret police force perhaps ever. Yay for us!

This EO is literally banning the scientific consensus that sex is, in fact, not binary since intersex people have always existed and there is even a biological explanation for it

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

So Science retracted the arsenic life paper because it was wrong? If that's the new standard for retraction, I think they've got a lot of work ahead of them

New pooter technology for all you aspirator-heads out that that are totally litter critter-pilled!

Without exaggeration, the last 50+ years of biological research completely discredits every race science claim. It is the single biggest indicator of being a malicious dullard and a reactionary ideologue. The fact I’ve had to dedicate a single minute of my career to addressing it is absurd

trump’s big beautiful bill is designed to family annihilate the united states

In a lot of ways this is the thing I'm the most scared of. I'm so scared of it I can't even think about it. We're legitimately on our way to actual, literal Nazi Germany type stuff.

Dear Science Journalists, Please mention when your write-ups covers work that was funded by federal agencies that are now being dismantled, defunded, and censored. The public needs to know what is being lost, and if you don't tell them in the context of Cool New Science, who will?

We're thrilled to announce the 2025 class of Jane Coffin Childs Fellows! See our latest blog post and "look book" to learn more about our newest Fellows and their exciting research! www.jccfund.org/blog/the-jan... www.jccfund.org/wp-content/u...

Specific molecules produced by bacteria in rotting food can activate these sucker sensors, causing octopuses to discard food or eggs that would make them or their offspring sick. Learn more: scim.ag/3G8Kv6Z

Sending the military to attack Americans on our own soil is dictatorship.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Congratulations to David Queller on his induction to the US National Academy of Sciences in Evolutionary Biology! #NAS162

As someone directly affected by this, let me be clear: I'd rather lose my job because Harvard chose to fight than keep my job and see a generation of white supremacists parade its corpse around like a war trophy.

"“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” said Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, in a statement to the university" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

“Harvard now faces one of the most consequential choices in its history: Submit to extortion and make itself complicit in the most profound assault on academic freedom and constitutional governance of our time—or go to court. The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.” (Fixed link)

Every time he says this the first question a reporter asks should be "how do you expect to beat Barack Obama?"

im all set to graduate Columbia University majoring in " Cowardice " , with a minor in "Kissing Fucking Ass" a nd "Prostrating myself "

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

Reading the Iowa Wikipedia page is absolutely heartbreaking.

“This bill is pointless, unnecessary and unbelievably cruel. Transgender Iowans are our friends, our neighbors and our coworkers. We deserve the same fundamental rights, dignity and respect as anyone else. This legislation will not improve the life of a single Iowan.”

Beautiful caterpillar found around Brisbane.

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council