These orcas are on the brink, and so is the science that could save them (Featuring @uwsafs.bsky.social professor Amy van Cise) www.scientificamerican.com/article/thes...

The authoritarian, violent, and anti-science actions of the Trump admin over the past week show clear contempt for democracy and the public good, endangering people in the US and around the world. Congress must uphold its constitutional responsibility and hold the administration accountable.

Our latest preprint revisits the classic model of mutation-selection balance. Do human recessive genes fit Haldane's 100-year old model? This work is by the wonderful @jonj-udd.bsky.social, and co-mentored by @jeffspence.github.io www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

in a week, I'll start reviewing applications for this postdoc. come work with me in Santa Cruz, CA on fitting Bayesian hierarchical models to whale tag and photo datasets. position starts in fall 2026. ask me questions and apply here: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003

Our Editorial for our upcoming special issue in Molecular Ecology: Conservation Genomics—Making a Difference onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals. The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry. Where is the MAHA outcry?

To be clear: he is in no way a "man in science." The entire premise here is laughable.

🧬 Out now! This study on the endangered eastern Massasauga rattlesnake reveals 218 candidate genes linked to disease response, highlighting genetic factors that may influence resistance to Snake Fungal Disease. (Photo from the Gibbs Lab)

How bowhead whales live for centuries—and how we might borrow some of their biology to extend our healthy lifespan. Gift link to my new column: nyti.ms/4hyD9ry

More geniuses at work! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...

Removing building blocks. one at a time. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...

All those questions about inbreeding in conservation that you were afraid to ask. A bunch of early career scientists is here to explain something that even Wright and Fisher couldn't agree on, the (not so) simple question of what is inbreeding. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.

📣📣📣 CONSERVATION GENETICS WORKSHOP - Few more spaces left! ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course 🧬💻💡 University of Pretoria, South Africa 🌍 7-14 December + field trip to Kruger NP! 🦁🐃🐘🐆🦏 More info & registration here: www.umt.edu/congen/africa/

For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.

1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005 How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.

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