Federal funding cuts are having real consequences for biomedical research — including at PNRI. Long-term studies can’t simply be paused. Through Dec. 31, every gift is matched dollar-for-dollar. 👉https://bit.ly/4j1GTma #raredisease #T1D #supportscience #genetics

Check if your property is in the floodplain: skagitcounty.net/GIS/Document... Following evacuation orders and other guidance from local officials is critical.

The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Honest question: When they say AI will “do science” what on earth are they actually talking about? Do they think LLMs will control armies of robots doing PCRs and running gels and doing cell culture and animal work and field work?

Today is #GivingTuesday. Funding cuts threaten the #raredisease + #type1diabetes research families rely on. Your gift helps protect lifesaving science. Give today: pnri.org/support/scie...

How is it that the bidet signed by the Berserker Blothar is only at $5,000?! Not that I am actually going to bid on it or want it in my house, but it gives me a warm feeling knowing this exists, (and that it will benefit pbs) e.givesmart.com/events/LYw/i...

A mysterious virus may be linked to mass die-offs of Pacific oysters. Curtis Suttle and Kevin Xu Zhong discuss the discovery of a previously unknown nidovirus and its potential implications for global aquaculture in the latest PNAS Science Sessions episode. Listen now: https://ow.ly/oRT750XsRNN

CAN LLMs write about science? @science.org decided to find out, and they did it the curious, scientific way. They did an experiment. Love this thoughtful convo. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/11/12/w...

Our first Crow Gift! (Crumpled foil from Halloween candy that appeared on our doorstep right after I put out some peanuts)

I just learned that the @burkemuseum.bsky.social has a new giant clam fossil named Chowder! www.biology.washington.edu/news/news/17...

Spoke recently to the great folks at the science foundation on their efforts to fund curiosity-driven science. They have a new RFA out for catalytic awards (up to $10K). Take a look if you’re itching to expand or try out a new idea. science-foundation.org

📢 EvoMG-DN PhD applications are now open! Join our EU-funded MSCA network and explore evolution, ageing, and disease. 👉 www.evomg-dn.eu 📅 Apply by 30 November 2025 #PhD #DoctoralTraining #MSCA #HorizonEurope #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology #BiomedicalResearch#EarlyCareerResearchers

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

You too Onion? theonion.com/biologists-a...

We have two fantastically well-funded #PhD studentships available through the @evomg-dn.bsky.social #EU doctoral network (led by brilliant @mirimiam.bsky.social, @crg.eu). These enable students to move to the UK and come and work with us @icr.ac.uk to exploit #cancer #evolution for patient benefit.

Congratulations to Drs. Ramsdell, Brunkow, and Sakaguchi! I actually didn’t realize until today that PNRI’s David Galas was a part of the project to identify the genetic basis of the “scurfy” mice that led to Tregs. (@pnrigenetics.bsky.social) David’s legacy has touched more than I can imagine!

@sse-evolution.bsky.social just announced the following: Call for Proposals: Research Synthesis Working Groups The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) invites proposals for sponsored Research Synthesis Working Groups at the 2026 Evolution meeting (up to two in-person and one virtual). ...

I am happy to share some good news from the lab! Our paper on the outcomes of Bivalve Transmissible Neoplasia is out this week in PLOS Pathogens! doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Hey US scientists, the NY Times wants to hear from you if you've had your funding cut. 🌊🧪

Before there was the Matrix doorknob shot…

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Two new positions are available at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology to support development of our genomics facility. Both stand to become permanent. Both offer a ton of opportunity to engage in a wide range of creative science. Pls repost 🙏 www.evolbio.mpg.de/3838377/job_...

Naive question for someone trained in molecular biology and infectious disease: What makes a question or a study ecology v. evolution or vice versa? I find myself following interesting infectious disease questions into evolution and ecology and stepping on field boundaries without realizing it.

Advice: download PDFs of any documents you might need from government websites. The NIFA website went offline during the government shutdown during my PhD

I don’t mean to shame anyone’s artistic chooses when making children’s book illustrations, but I just looked closely at this T. Rex on the Dino book my toddler loves…

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Kicked off a series on #Drosophila TE discovery and naming. The first post covers elements that predate the term "mobile element", and more. artemilin.dev/posts/te_nam...

We created a story about what the dodo looked like and how it behaved, and that story wrong was very wrong; which version of the dodo will #ColossalBio model their #Deëxtinction efforts on, v1 or v2‽ What if there is an even more accurate v3? 🦤 🧪 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

News reporting on the screwworm fly threatening Texas livestock focuses on cattle, but if it arrives here the pest will mostly likely first be seen on wildlife like deer. Texas A&M has assembled a useful guide:

Our labs are making strides in cancer research that were unimaginable even a decade ago. Their work is irreplaceable in the fight to find a cure. We talk often about Trump’s anti-science admin endangering lives now, but the impact of defunding research will reverberate for generations to come

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Bummer of a week in Seattle—we are losing both an awesome coffeeshop, and one of the few open past 5pm (Distant Worlds) and an amazing toy store (Clover). You have until the 31st for both of these if you have never been. Support the things you want to see in the world and in your neighborhood!

The stupidity of the phrase "PhD-level intelligence" aside, maybe the most important thing that distinguishes undergrad from PhD training is learning to say "I don't know" when you do not know, rather than bullshitting a string of semi-coherent jargony words and hoping for partial credit.

Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.

We are so proud of our sea star wasting work that came out today. This interactive article is very complete and includes beautiful videos. Unmasking the Sea Star Killer www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

BUSCO v6.0.0 has been released. busco.ezlab.org

Deadline for applying for this #postdoc has been extended. You'll work with Erika Burioli, as well as @metzgerm.bsky.social and me, on long reads and Hi-C data of mussel transmissible cancers. Contract is for 18 months, but possibility of extension. #PopGen #MarEvol euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894

Someone seriously needs to invent a topoisomerase for garden hoses.

My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator. 🧪🌎

ICYMI: After years of hearing complaints that it's hard to get good career advice in marine biology, I assembled an expert panel to answer your questions about graduate school, where to find jobs, what skills are needed, and much, much more. 🦑🧪🌎🦈🐟

This does look like a really great opportunity! Spread the word to anyone applying to grad school this year in ecology and evolution!

Sharing a really exciting postdoc opportunity to work on genomic analysis of transmissible cancers in bivalves with an awesome group in Cambridge (the one not in the US). Adrian is an excellent scientist and he will be a great mentor on a really fascinating project! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51236/

A strong statement about the importance of NIH on @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy Sunday Morning (Part 1)

Minor issue, but does anyone know if NCBI is still indexing bioRxiv preprints? They used to automatically show up but one from April never did (and the bioRxiv does list NIH funding)...

Spineless in Seattle! What a great lineup to be part of for @seattleaquarium.bsky.social Lightening Talks with @vikingbooks.bsky.social. #spineless, #invertebrates, #nudibranchs, #crabs, #seastars, #sponges, #marinelife, #tidepools, #aquanaut www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVAp...

Anyone interested in a postdoc with any lab in Washington State should apply to the WRF postdoc fellowship! Applications due June 26, so there is still time! www.wrfseattle.org/grants/wrf-p... please repost and spread the word

We don’t always know what questions will change the world. But public science has a way of answering them anyway. Federal science funding isn’t just lines in a budget. It’s a vote for progress, for possibility. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

If you’ve ever wondered about the statistical significance of differences among mutational signature profiles, check out our new Aggregate Mutation Spectrum Distance (AMSD) preprint co-led by Sam Hart and @alisonfeder.bsky.social with @nalcala.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...