Oh, NOW he has a sense of what might go wrong.

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for a minute for a string of announcements, please share widely!!! 1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each) nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

For fuck’s sake . . . not only is the leader of our country a wanna be dictator, he is a whiny jealous little baby. I know, on the grand scheme of horrors, this is rather minor, but I’m ashamed to be on the same continent as this loser.

Misjudged a step when taking my dog down the back steps, stepped down hard on one leg and now my hip and back are killing me. Positives: didn’t go tumbling down the steps and break something. Negatives: being old sucks.

Seems like a good time to reshare this resource: www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

We mostly all know the drill: - 5calls.org for rep and Senators' numbers, favor local offices - "I'm [name], a voter in [town], zip code NNN" - "I'm calling to ask you to oppose Trump's plan to break up the Nat. Center for Atmospheric Research, critical infrastructure for global weather science"

I can't believe this still needs to be said (and more loudly): Trans rights are human rights.

Sweet Jesus. Things are so much. Hope you all are ok.

Americans are living under a totalitarian regime.

"Previously, proposals for research grants were generally required to undergo at least three external reviews by scientists from outside the agency. Now, two reviews are enough and, under some circumstances, one can be an internal review by a scientist at the NSF." 🧪

NSF plans to streamline merit review to heal self-inflicted staffing wound www.science.org/content/arti...

13 years ago today.

Today is the 13th anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, which resulted in 26 deaths, 20 of them 6 and 7-year-olds. That we did not limit access to guns after Sandy Hook, once and for all, makes the deaths at Brown University all the more heartbreaking. We must end this now.

Every time a see another post about “anti-DEI” I want to ask people if they are for homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion. I know they are - I just want to hear them say it out loud instead of hiding behind “anti-DEI”.

Hey KU students — we’re hiring! 🐍 Join us as a Herpetology Curatorial Assistant and help organize, prepare, and catalog specimens in the KU Herpetology Collection. Must be able to work 4 hrs/week & be comfortable handling fluid-preserved amphibians and reptiles. Learn more & apply ➡️ rockcha.lk/nzq

Oyster names at FishHouse - like an odd poem.

That’s a pretty frog.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

If you are a chair of a department or supervise grad students, it might be important to collaborate with your colleagues on ways to strategize when a "problem essay" comes down the pike. It's one small way of protecting each other.

A fungus called Cladosporium sphaerospermum thrives at Chernobyl: “Some scientists think its dark pigment—melanin—may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.”

Meet two heroes of our times.

Bowie’s first snow - does one ear up mean “yay” or “nay”?

Today is World AIDS Day. Don’t forget those who died.

Fun in downtown #LFK

Flowers for the table ready - and a fair bit of prep complete. Happy Thanksgiving Eve!

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!! 2. ASN Early Career Investigator awards are now open for application. Self-nominations okay! Due Jan 5 nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

From the drive to Manhattan, KS, to drop off my son last night.

The Undergraduate Community at Evolution program provides travel funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. Please share with undergrads in your lab! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ... @asn-amnat.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social

Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...

In at 8:30 today, just left work at 7. Did I get to spend many hours advancing science? No. Ah, well, did I at least work tirelessly to support and protect higher education? Also no. Sigh.

the only "honor" Watson's getting from me is that i've built a lab full of outstanding students who are everything he hated: Black, Indigenous, female, trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and beyond. he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.

The microwave oven that we have used for almost 30 years just stopped working. I guarantee you that the one we replace it with won’t last a third of that time. Sadness.

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

I learned a lot about Nancy Pelosi this week — including her very early advocacy for AIDS patients. She visited them in SF General’s AIDS ward and convinced the Reagan administration to allow the AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed on the National Mall in 1987. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Good news for Kansans. apnews.com/article/redi... legislators won't have a special session to join the US redistricting battle

Vote tomorrow, friends!

Today, I officially started my new position at @ The University of Kansas as a KU Center for Genomics Fellow and NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology. I'm excited to be joining the lab of Dr. Maggie Wagner 🌱 🌽 #PlantSci #PlantScience

We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

UGA Genetics is hiring! Please share! An ideal candidate will employ genetic models of disease in a research program with an emphasis on epigenetics, aging, chromosome biology, gene regulation, systems biology, or drug resistance mechanisms. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675651/a...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Even as the U.S. government advises other countries to end a cruel practice, at home we preserve what amounts to legally sanctioned statutory rape,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes about child marriage.

Babies dying of whooping cough. This is breaking my heart.

It's becoming chillingly clear: an administration that gleefully dismantled USAID and consigned countless people to slow death by starvation and preventable disease will not hesitate to inflict hunger on tens of millions of Americans by cutting off SNAP funds.

This is heartbreaking & heartwarming in equal measure. The courage and kindness of many of my fellow Americans has been sustaining these past few months. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...

NOAA retirees “volunteering” including one who is working as an “unpaid intern” in order to help. I would like to never again hear anyone bitch about civil servants’ work ethic tyvm.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has become a campaign of discrimination against Latinos,” writes the Times editorial board. “American citizens are living in fear of a government that is sworn to protect their liberties and keep them safe.”

“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the President’s main priority.” — Karoline Leavitt Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown. A ballroom.

Hear what panelists enjoy about their role, how they learned about their job, & hear advice about finding full-time positions. Panelists will include individuals who work in the sciences, primarily outside of academia (working as a professor) or direct patient care in healthcare.

they are stripping this country for parts