Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!

Our annual symposium is now open for registration! This year’s theme is Unicellular Diversification of Cell Types and Division. Abstract closes on Oct 1st.

Abstract submission is still open until June 13th for CanFunNet's virtual meeting! Register here: conference.has.uwo.ca/Register/def...

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How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

From over 300k to less than 100k. A picture of smaller, reduced science.

"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger” an $18 Billion cut Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...

The Republican administration has halted all student (and postdoc etc) VISA interviews. I've written a lot about soft power here. The attacks on foreign students in the US not only undercuts the funding stream for US universities; they hemorrhage US soft power.

Another incredibly shameful move from the Trump administration. Upending the lives of so many young people to score cheap political points is absolutely unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

. @pnas.org just published the final version of our manuscript on how generation time and effective population size interact to shape vertebrate germline mutation rates, led by Luke Zhu and Annabel Beichman: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“Cutting basic science doesn’t save money.”

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

Trump’s war on science is an attack against anyone who has ever loved someone with cancer. The American people do not want us to slash cancer research in order to give more tax breaks for billionaires.

Lux Capital providing funding opportunities for academic biomedical research aligned with interests 👏 www.luxcapital.com/news/our-hel...

I am excited to share a new version of svglite for #rstats with the world. It includes support for all the new features in the graphics engine as well as providing a more powerful and polished experience for embedding web fonts in the file. Read all about it her:

If you care about the NSF and science, now is the time to make your voice heard! The evolution tri-societies are running a Week of Action for NSF! We MUST make some noise -join us!! @sse-evolution.bsky.social members will see the below email in their inbox today, spread the word! Pls RT!

EU augments opportunities for scientists around the world to launch or re-launch their careers in Europe.

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Deep cuts to EPA, CDC, FDA, NIH, NSF, NOAA, USDA, education & more will damage health and shorten life spans, especially w/ cuts to healthcare for those w/ limited means. Is this the goal, to reduce "entitlements" by killing people? Well, it sure won't make the wealthy any more comfortable.

So Happy for the warm welcome or our PopGen bookclub! Each month, at IBE, we review a new chapter of @gcbias.bsky.social book, which is totally open-source! We encourage you to take a look at it! Link: github.com/cooplab/popg...

Trump proposes massive 44% NIH budget cut and reorganization | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Application deadline extended to Apr 15 for this summer's #Yeast #Genetics & #Genomics course at @cshlaboratory.bsky.social July22 - Aug12! Get a comprehensive education in all things yeast, from classical genetics through up-to-the-minute genomics. Don't miss out! meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

Chilling to see this list of terminated NIH grants. Research on Alzheimer's, HIV, rare diseases, vaccines -- gone. Cancer centers closed, training grants & fellowships terminated. Young scientists stranded. Patients waiting for treatments that'll never come. Just sad. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

There’s a google doc trying to keep track of funding/grad school admission/hiring freezes & status please share 🧪 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bluetorial: The announcement to move scientific review out of the institutes and centers into the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) and its potential consequences

Science impacts communities nationwide. Ongoing efforts by the WH to dismantle American leadership in science will ripple outwards: risking lives, well-being, and the economy. Stand Up For Science - March 7, 2025 #standupforscience2025 standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

Proud that the Philosophy of Science Association @philsci.bsky.social is among the signatories of this letter, organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), to members of Congress demanding they protect federally funded scientific research & federal scientists. I hope more join. #HPS #STS 🧪

Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠 www.science.org/content/arti...

ATTENTION The Washington Post is collecting data about funding issues. Please consider contributing. thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...

We are looking for a postdoc in #EvolutionarySystemsBiology. Exciting science, amazing team, wonderful city! landrylab.ibis.ulaval.ca/research-opp... #evolution #synbio #systemsbiology #genomics

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

A freeze on meetings of expert panels that peer review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health is kicking in this week. Follow Science’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s impact on U.S. research and science globally. ⬇️ scim.ag/40XtSSi

From NSF’s website: ‘Our investments account for about 25% of federal support to America's colleges and universities for basic research: research driven by curiosity and discovery.’ More than 95% of NSF’s budget goes back out the door to fund science. Cutting staff won’t save much tax payer money.

Trump & Elon are putting lifesaving research on life support with a massive funding cut based on an uninformed and illegal whim. Every Senate Democrat is joining me in demanding HHS stop the political games and allow researchers to keep up their important work, uninterrupted.

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

(Sorry I took a brief timeout for uncontrollable weeping) In other NIH news, I have heard from multiple sources that NIH plans to fire most, if not all, probationary employees this afternoon. The numbers I am hearing are >5000. Lots of folks extramural staff, intramural scientists, etc.

Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs. It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.

This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

To add to this excellent thread, an entire ecosystem is needed for someone like me to carry out research. My current NIH grant pays for a research associate, part of my salary (this is required), and a few consultants. It does not pay for my office space, the grant manager who..

Dear All, I believe that this thread will become one of my most important contributions to the fly field (I hope I will make other contributions)! Here, I introduce the Soy Milk Machine Fly Food Method, a.k.a., DeepCook!#Drosophila#NewPI

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Really appreciate Jonathan Lambert pointing out that NSF grants are congressionally mandated to weigh how grants broaden participation in science, putting the administration's executive order against DEIA in conflict with, and potentially undermining, congressional legislation

If you can go, go. 5pm today. Last night's cutoff of federal funding by 47 doesn't just mess with the recipients, it violates the Constitution and seizes powers that belong to Congress. It's a dictatorial attempt at consolidation of power in the presidency. www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

Trump is unconstitutionally freezing federal funds that Congress sent our constituents and dismantling the democratic system. This isn't business as usual—Congress needs to stop it. I will not support any Trump nominee who will do his illegal bidding. I urge my colleagues to join.

Undergrads: apply to NYU's Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Biology! 10 weeks of research in a structured setting, featuring terrific mentors, exciting biology, housing in New York, and a stipend. as.nyu.edu/biology/outr...

I made an interactive worksheet that provides a basic introduction to the R language. Meant for people that may be familiar with Python or other languages and want to understand some of the core concepts of how R works. wilkelab.org/SDS366/works...