Maria E. Orive
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Scientist, educator, parent . . . not necessarily in that order. All opinions are mine, mine, mine.
Did the Pope actually quote Tolkien? Apparently, yes.
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The Guardian
2 days ago
Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds
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Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds
Emma Thompson among voices supporting anti-ageism campaign, which has uncovered striking findings in top-grossing UK films over past three years Box office hit films are four times more likely to star a talking animal than a woman over 60, according to a new survey by Age Without Limits. The anti-ageism campaign studied the 100 highest performing films released in the UK in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and found that while five starred an older woman, about 20 featured creatures who chat. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/25/films-more-likely-to-star-an-actor-called-chris-or-a-talking-animal-than-a-woman-over-60-study-finds?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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A beautiful day on the shore of Lake Michigan - visiting Northwestern to see our kiddo in a play
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Alex McMillan
4 days ago
YOUâRE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Jimmy Kimmel
6 days ago
Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbertâs finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.
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Noor Lovelace
8 days ago
Possibly unpopular opinion? I think artists should get to sign the art they make for book covers. It should be right there, on the front, because itâs never been more important to showcase the humanness of art. And also there are many times when I see a beautiful cover and wonder, âWho made this?â
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Joanna Masel
11 days ago
Our paper unpacking "fitness" is out
doi.org/10.1093/gene...
. How to define fitness depends on what question you ask. Selection acts on organismal vital rates, longer-term outcomes make sense for genetic lineages, models link them. "Invasion fitness" = speed, but sometimes probability matters more.
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The point is to move public funds to private, for profit companies.
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Brian O'Meara
12 days ago
Not clear to me that any university team unless granted a ton of independence could qualify to do
#NSF
x-labs; from
sam.gov/workspace/co...
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Jacquelyn Gill
12 days ago
Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for âX-Labs.â
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NSF X-Labs
NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/nsf-x-labs?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
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Patrick Chovanec
13 days ago
Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.
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AAUP
14 days ago
âThe message, very clearly, theyâre sending is, do not speak out on behalf of Chinese postdocs. If you do, youâre going to pay a penalty...It seems pretty obvious that this is an attempt by the current administration to silence people that question their activities." â Roger Innes, IU AAUP member
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A Professor Defended a Postdoc Who Was Deported. Now His Lab Has Been Suddenly Locked Down.
Work at an Indiana University biology lab was halted amid federal scrutiny, affecting dozens of researchers. âThe damage is significant and mounting,â the department chair told The Chronicle.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-professor-defended-a-postdoc-who-was-deported-now-his-lab-has-been-suddenly-locked-down
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Alex Cope, PhD (he/him)
14 days ago
I'm looking for postdoc opportunities for the 2026-2027 academic year. If you're looking for a postdoc with a broad skill set spanning evolutionary genetics, bioinformatics, and various omics methods, feel free to reach out. Some recent pubs: (1)
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Macroevolutionary divergence of gene expression driven by selection on protein abundance
The regulation of messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein abundances is well-studied, but less is known about the evolutionary processes shaping their relationship. To address this, we derived a new phylogen...
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ads2658
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Jitka PolechovĂĄ
18 days ago
New
#ecoevo
paper
@pnas.org
: Evolution of speciesâ range and niche in changing environments. I show that feedback between evolutionary and population dynamics can create a tipping point where genetic variance erodes, and speciesâ ranges contract or fragment
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#popgen
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Jacquelyn Gill
15 days ago
I'm hiring a postdoc to lead sedimentary aDNA reconstructions of alpine plant biodiversity as part of a broader project exploring the mechanisms of alpine plant resilience. Come join a collaborative team working in beautiful places! Bonus: postdocs at UMaine are unionized!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...
https://fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/2704
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nanaslugdiva
16 days ago
Voting rights
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Almost forgot to post this - Happy John Brownâs birthday to those who celebrate. Try not to be the sort of person John Brown would have shot.
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Darcy James Argue
18 days ago
Happy John Brownâs Birthday to all who celebrate.
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Bill Corbett
17 days ago
Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the southâs âPeculiar Institutionâ
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Jennifer Raff
18 days ago
My student won an award for best flash talk!
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Jennifer Raff
18 days ago
Every talk prize should come with giant checks
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Jennifer Raff
18 days ago
Having fun at the KU center for genomics annual conference!
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Iâm sure everything will be fine, right?
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19 days ago
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So how is your day going, fellow academics?
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Jeremy Berg
23 days ago
I found 777 grants with title changes. Here is a word cloud of the words that had been removed. 2/5
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First of this springâs peonies!
24 days ago
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Jae Young Choi
26 days ago
I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can!
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Dan Garisto
about 1 month ago
My story on the NSB terminations:
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Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration
Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01361-7
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scott dagostino
about 1 month ago
UPDATE: Theyâve *all* received the talking points đŹ
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Alex Ip èæž é
about 1 month ago
There was a mass shooting this morning at Indiana University that has left nine injured. The Indiana Daily Student has been facing pressure by Republicans and school administrators to shut down the print edition all year. Why isn't Donald Trump or legacy media corps reporting about this huh?
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LIVE UPDATES: At least 5 wounded by bullets, fragments during Kirkwood shooting, no suspects in custody
A press conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. at City Hall.
https://www.idsnews.com/article/2026/04/breaking-shots-fired-on-kirkwood-avenue-iu-notify-alert-states-bloomington-indiana
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public health guy
about 1 month ago
unrelenting
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Chris Hanlon
about 1 month ago
Meet âASU Atomic,â a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.
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Mark Hamill
about 1 month ago
He's the worst thing that ever happened to America. I despise him BECAUSE I love my country. đșđž
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The Washington Post
about 1 month ago
Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nationâs nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.
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Trump ousts National Science Board members
Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/04/25/national-science-board-members-dismissed/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Prosanta Chakrabarty
about 1 month ago
Trump just fired much of the National Science Board that guides the National Science Foundation - another blow to the NSF.
#savetheNSF
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
https://www.wired.com/story/usaid-whistleblower-says-it-was-even-worse-than-people-knew/
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Today was an exceptionally trying day. And then I got the following very kind email from
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
, and I felt a lot better: Dear reviewer (with apologies for the mass email), Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into your AmNat review . . .
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Dr. Becca
about 1 month ago
Those of us doing research related to womenâs health have been hit particularly hard by the govtâs sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing.
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
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Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trumpâs first year
The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/04/19/science-research-funding-cuts-trump/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzc2NTcxMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzc3OTUzNTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzY1NzEyMDAsImp0aSI6IjU5MzZlYTQxLWMxNDUtNDdkNy04ZjVkLTNhODhjYTljNzdkMSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9zY2llbmNlLzIwMjYvMDQvMTkvc2NpZW5jZS1yZXNlYXJjaC1mdW5kaW5nLWN1dHMtdHJ1bXAvIn0.BcUq8OxwHhrLHfOt_2ttd1FPqb5pMEP-yCtndSMqarU&itid=gfta
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Leslie Rissler
about 1 month ago
âBetween January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.â OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.) NSF at -42%!
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Eric Schuettpelz
about 1 month ago
WANTED: Lead Collections Manager. Smithsonian NMNH Botany is looking for a Supervisory Museum Specialist to manage the United States National Herbarium and a top-notch collections team. For more information, visit USAJOBS (
www.usajobs.gov/job/864499200
). Applications due in two weeks (1 May 2026).
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Every day, like clockwork, have to turn off Copilot on my iPhone Outlook. Every day, it turns back on. My hatred of
@microsoft.com
grows each time.
about 1 month ago
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Gina Baucom
about 1 month ago
đ đ SSE members, I hope you'll join me May 21 for the virtual SSE Presidential Symposium: Navigating Uncertainty: Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology Pls RT to help get the word out!
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DocLB2
about 1 month ago
âThatâs all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I donât know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that wonât matter if we donât survive these times.â â Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
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Aiyana White
about 1 month ago
I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.
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Prosanta Chakrabarty
about 1 month ago
Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today
theonion.com/biologists-c...
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Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today
STANFORD, CAâCalling it a âpretty slow oneâ as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. ...
https://theonion.com/biologists-confirm-not-much-evolution-happened-today/?fbclid=IwZnRzaARN6GlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeghWJbgnOZDvFCEHM9HVMA-jXp2HcNX5Q71HiMcB20EoSnobTNdGqrvK3i-o_aem_-RkyEUQVYrb4NwpPyJuGjQ
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Gina Baucom
about 1 month ago
đ± Super excited to be named as a Guggenheim Fellow!! đ±
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Sigh. Destruction of democracy with a side of grift?
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Jocelyn Colella
about 1 month ago
We need your help transcribing KU Mammalogy's historical field notes to makes these data available to the global research community! Join this week's "expedition" on Notes from Nature. We are 18% of the way through W. C. Stanley's field expeditions to Kansas and Mexico.
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W.C. Stanley's Field Notes 1961 - 1963 | Notes from Nature - Ranges: Mammal Traits from western North America | Zooniverse - People-powered research
The information we extract from these images will help scientists to better understand the remarkable diversity of mammals and how they live their lives. These data will transform our comprehension of...
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/md68135/notes-from-nature-ranges-mammal-traits-from-western-north-america/classify/workflow/31379
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The New York Times
about 1 month ago
Breaking News: The Trump administration agreed to allow the rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall monument in Manhattan, reversing its earlier decision.
nyti.ms/4c8DEry
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Sarah E. Bond
about 1 month ago
I love this photo of Saint Luke with piles of manuscripts in his lap from the Gospel Book of Otto III (c. 1000 CE) (Manuscript (Clm. 4453), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich). Probably projection, but he looks traumatized by all the reading he still needs to do before the end of the semester.
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