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

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

This is Boise, Idaho one of the most Republican states in the US joining millions of protestors. The people have had enough of the Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

Stopped on my way home from Democracy Fest and the No Kings rally in Hays, Kansas to admire Kansas and talk about why I'm running for Congress. #colinforkansas #nokings #election #kansas

About 1,000 people lined the edges of Watson Park and spilled throughout the surrounding sidewalks of downtown Lawrence today to protest what they argue is an overreach of power by the Trump administration. lawrenceks.news/4ovnfAM

#nokings in Topeka, Ks!

Strong #NoKings showing in Chelsea, MI

Houston #NoKings

#NoKings Topeka, KS!

#NoKings Topeka, KS represents!

#NoKings - Topeka, KS. Here I declare myself a proud member of Amphifa. Democracy! Not Tyranny!

#Topeka #NoKings #KSLeg

Topeka, Kansas, turning out for democracy! #NoKings #Indivisible

No Kings in Topeka, KS. Not sure of official crowd estimates but I’d guess 2500. @indivisible.org

Showing up for #nokings in Topeka, KS with @bethp.bsky.social 🎉🙌

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

If you're in Kansas hit our site to sign up for campaign updates and volunteer opportunities. If you've got a buck to spare, we'll use it to make the election-denying incumbent regret burning down USAID for Trump. www.colinforkansas.com

I'm in Hays, Kansas on a tour of the towns in the district where I'm running for Congress. After our speeches and hearing from the people here we're heading out to our local NK. Red states are full of people who want better for their neighbors and their country.

A university that signs the “compact” is one that acknowledges its own inability to compete and succeed based talent and merit. It would signal insecurity and mediocrity to current and future students and faculty. Say no. Recruit the best people, protect their freedom and support their hard work.

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Maud Menten was born in Canada in 1879 and completed her UG and MD education at University of Toronto. As a research assistant with Leonor Michaelis in 1912, they wrote the classic paper describing the “Michaelis-Menten” model of enzyme kinetics.. #WomenInScience

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

A supporter reminded me the other day that Trump ran on the promise that he'd be his supporters' retribution. They were worried that if we take the same approach, we'll lose our soul. I think that's right. Our promise is to rebuild, not revenge. Accountability, not retribution.

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Beautiful.

I really need Dolly to stay here with us.

I hope this reaches you.

Looking forward to this! A non-Elsevier alternative to Theoretical Population Biology / Journal of Theoretical Biology

Population Biology Modeling & Theory (PBMT) is a peer-reviewed journal reporting advances in modeling and theory within population biology. Its scope spans demography, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, and phylogenetics. PBMT will be online soon.

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky is hiring a Microbiologist (broadly defined). Microbial eco-evo folks, this is your sign to come work with us. Not in the search committee, but happy to answer questions. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600... #microbiology #ecology

Jane Goodall, one of the world's most renowned conservationists, first found fame in the early 1960s for her paradigm-busting work as a primatologist. In 2021, David Marchese interviewed her about making the world place and the usefulness of hope in the face of fear and anger. nyti.ms/3KvuvOn