After a long and frustrating discussion with the Cell Press ”help”-desk, led by Ben and Tom, the paper is finally made open access (in line with what we had requested and expected from the beginning) 😅

New paper led by @yadirapga.bsky.social! Opossums have babies at 6-months of age, but are still highly male-biased in their mutations academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

I'm hiring a postdoc... By combining samples that are more than a million years old with the short generation time of small rodents, we hope to gain a unique window into evolution unfolding across millions of generations!

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Conservation Genomics course (ConGen) this December in South Africa This course is always a lot of fun, and will be great for grad students, postdocs, or anyone else wanting to dive into applications of genomics for conservation and management of wild populations. www.umt.edu/congen/africa/

Wyoming deer are heading to the high country, some will travel up to 150 miles. Amazing - and necessary - movements across vast swaths of YOUR public lands. Follow along for weekly updates!

This is admirable www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

We really did live through a world-historical scientific and technical effort to contain a pandemic, decide that we don't ever want to do that again, and conclude that means tearing down everything and everyone involved in containing a pandemic

Save the date, follow ICP2026, update your ABBA playlist, and come join us in Stockholm next year! This is going to be fun!

Unethical and illegal orders that come from a legitimate leader are still unethical and illegal. Many high ranking federal officials seem to not recognize this.

….whatthefuck.

If you are privileged enough to be a tenured Prof at a US university, here is an opportunity to lend your voice to media. Sign up if you are willing to talk to the press about what the war on science means for education and for our society.

EO directs federal scientists to account for uncertainty, be transparent about methods and data, use weight of evidence in interpreting results… like this isn’t already done in every agency. The only thing new is an order to essentially abandon the precautionary principle in rule making. 🧪

I commented. You should too!

So many of us now have the previously unusual experience of having a mad man lay waste to our careers and contributions to society. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

📣📣📣📣 Please consider submitting a comment! Only 3 days left. The Trump administration wants to exclude environmental destruction from the definition of ‘harm’ in the ESA - reversing decades of progress on threatened species protection.

Fate of Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit staffers — Matt Kauffman, Anna Chalfoun and Annika Walters — remains unclear, but Trump administration cuts have led to widespread suspicion that their days on the job are numbered.

Strong rebuke of NOAA fisheries job cuts from fishing industry commenter John Sackton. Full article here [paywall]: www.seafoodnews.com/Story/130626...

Bears repeating that Congress has not passed a budget or any other legislation that has asked the NSF to do this downsizing, they're dismantling the agency in anticipation of cuts that as of yet have no basis in law

Proud 🧪 post: @iangtaylor.bsky.social, other collaborators, and I have been working furiously despite *waves hands* to produce the best possible science for management of yellowtail rockfish. Today, our draft document (typos and all! 😶‍🌫️) was posted publicly prior to the review 2 weeks from now.

People don't notice the fruits of critical #NOAA science: - wild-caught seafood is reliably brought to market - they don't die from a flood or hurricane they were warned about - wild salmon and marine mammals remain despite humanity's best efforts - warnings of the effects of #ClimateChange

Google AI butchering of Ne: Effective population size (Ne) in genetics IS A MEASURE OF HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS IN A POPULATION CONTRIBUTE TO THE GENETIC DIVERSITY OF THE NEXT GENERATION. IT'S ESSENTIALLY THE NUMBER OF BREEDING ADULTS, and it's often smaller than the total census population size (N).

Google AI butchering of LD: Linkage disequilibrium (LD) refers to the non-random association of alleles at different loci within a population. IN SIMPLER TERMS, IT MEANS THAT ALLELES AT NEARBY LOCATIONS ON A CHROMOSOME ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE INHERITED TOGETHER THAN EXPECTED BY CHANCE ALONE.

Beautiful documentary about a conservation issue and success in Wyoming! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gCP...

Interesting analysis of the effects on US seafood sustainability of Trump's Executive Order "Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness" eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

#consgen @elinck.bsky.social on the dire wolf BS and the ESA

The climate is changing. The questions haven’t gone away. This week, hundreds of scientists were dismissed from the 6th National Climate Assessment. But will the work live on? 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And, last but not least, Trump’s proposed budget shuts down the world’s leading computer models of climate change. “We’ll go back to the technical and proficiency levels we had in the 1950s,” said a former NOAA official. 10/10 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

#WithoutNSF I wouldn't be a scientist. NSF grants funded my undergrad research experiences, graduate and postdoctoral projects, and years of work in my own lab. The funding freezes and cuts we're seeing mean my students probably won't have similar opportunities lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...

I wish the public could read the heartfelt goodbye emails I received from colleagues leaving the federal service this week. The brilliance, kindness, and dedication of the U.S. federal civil service is unmatched. Their departures are a loss for me, but also the entire American public. 💔

This looks absolutely awesome 🧪

Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌊🔊Underwater sound recordings confirm endangered North Pacific Right Whales use of historic habitats 🐋 Scientists find that Aleutian Island passes & the northern Gulf of Alaska remain key feeding grounds for this rare whale. Read more on @noaa.gov Fisheries⬇️ www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

Baby salmon head out to sea. Then they do something unexpected, new research shows www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

🧪 #consgen

More neat work coming out of research on the Olympic Peninsula. Link to the paper (in press) here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Plus peep the pictures of the LEKT and NOAA crew deep in Deep Creek!

He had an appointment with his conscience

Today NOAA posted this. I guess this is no longer a nonpartisan account.

A ridiculous amount of very careful work by @jahemker.bsky.social and coauthors gave a clear answer - one needs ultra-long and not just long reads to call SVs correctly in Drosophila. Now we are ready to quantify evolutionary impact of Drosophila SVs. Let us know what you think!

Our cover this week.

Several of us share thoughts on the dire consequences of ripping NOAA apart: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

USGS does some of the most important fish and wildlife research in the US. Shutting it down w would be it et another massive loss.

Our country relies on @noaa.gov for everything from daily forecasts & severe weather warnings to protecting marine habitats. I toured their Western Regional Center in Seattle and my message to Trump and Elon? Keep your hands OFF NOAA.

I received this letter, sent to 11 Republican members of Congress this weekend from anonymous NIHers. 1/n .