How can research institutions welcome scientists who come out as LGBTQ+? And what does being ‘out’ in an academic context mean? Shannon Bros and Kihana Wilson tell Adam Levy how academia can better support LGBTQ+ researchers: spklr.io/63325EMv0X #LGBTQSTEM #LGBTSTEM #PrideInSTEM 🌈

Really nice piece on statistical workflows. Most of us do 2 of the 4 steps, but, really, it's time to start thinking about the rest! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/article...

Happy start to pride month! This is still one of my favorite talks I've created even if the first version was over 5 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkJX...

It was great to co-author this piece with @adeflamingh.bsky.social, Joshua Diaz, Alyssa Bader, and Ripan Malhi. Thank you for the leadership, Alida, and for organizing and creating this great perspective on biobanking ethics and considerations. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Lots of promising queer history books to look forward to in 2026. Here are just a few coming soon . . . 🌈📚🗃️ www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh... www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu... manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/ utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Check this out: https://ow.ly/9kEg50XNiQz Last spring, Southern Plains Land Trust organized a bird workshop in collaboration with Cornell. The three-day workshop was packed with information about bird conservation and bird monitoring techniques for Land Trusts.

Since 2022, #BlackMammalogistsWeek has partnered with ASM to support Black & Indigenous folks interested in mammals, made possible solely from the generosity of private donor-created funds. No membership dues or conference registration fees are used. Our sincere gratitude to the gifts of many.

It was great to talk with Marigo Farr for this article, and it’s great to be quoted amongst other great researchers and even friends. www.nwf.org/Home/Magazin...

Come listen to me discuss gophers in Illinois through the Everday Environment podcast extension.illinois.edu/blogs/everyd...

2025. #DEI - Language, economic and gender disparities widen the scientific productivity gap journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

Stop using MAXENT for invasive niche modeling. Instead embrace mechanisms. Check out this great review on mechanistic niche models for invasives from ‪@erolafenollosa.bsky.social‬ in ‪@ecography.bsky.social‬ 🌐 #ecology #invasivespecies nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The “evo” perspective that sex is solely gametic makes me really question how they are determining sex of their study species. Cause…. Well, I don’t do that to mine… 👀

Lighting and composition study in @unrealengine.bsky.social using marketplace assets, inspired by western painters like Mark Maggiori. Some breakdowns here: lnkd.in/gvE_DEX5

If you’re at the @mammalmeetings.bsky.social, I’ll be giving a talk on oryx distribution expansion on Tuesday morning! I’m in and out prior, but hope to see folk there

Check out our latest blog post in celebration of #Pride 🏳️‍🌈 In this post, @zoomingbio.bsky.social‬ shares fieldwork advice for researchers with marginalized identities. Read the post here 👉 buff.ly/rJhjheF #RainbowResearch

Our blog for @egu.eu is out now as a follow up to our webinar last fall. It was great to collaborate on this piece with the co-presenters and the folk at EGU. blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2025/...

Getting ready to present at the International Association of Landscape Ecology-North America Conference in Raleigh, NC. Looking forward to some good landscape ecology talks

A resubmission of a grant to NSF that had previously received reviews of 2 excellents, 1 very good, and 1 good/fair got returned without review because “No basic science questions are being posed.” I have some non-science questions to pose NSF.

Nice write up incorporating some of our recent literature review on avian disease in the Great Lakes greatlakesecho.org/2025/03/26/c...

Our next author shortlisted for the 2024 Robert May Prize is @maeliskervellec.bsky.social 🏆 Head to the Methods Blog to find out more about her research and journey in ecology 🌎 🧪

This is a nice angle and perspective on textbooks- particularly in the context of courses that rely heavily on them such as intro courses esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Last year, Republicans silenced her. This year, many stood beside her and defeated four anti-trans bills. This is the power of standing up for your beliefs and for what's right, and good trouble. National Democrats, take notice. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Guardian is reporting that Trump is openly violating a court order, and has transferred multiple transgender women to men's facilities. We know in Florida, transgender women are having their hair shorn, feminine items confiscated, and pulled off medication. This is inhumane and illegal.

1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills. While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation. Watch their speech. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

Hey @npr.org, research getting caught in the "DEI search term" dragnet is an important thing to mention, but it is so totally besides the main point that we have congresspeople making authoritarian and fascist lists. www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

Ken Klipperstein leaked full passport guidance for trans people: - X markers will be a focal point - Existing unexpired passports will remain good - No guidance on confiscation, but it doesn’t seem like they will - Renewals less clear but it looks like they will use “a preponderance of evidence”

At least 30 people at my university are being laid off due to the closure of the USAID Innovation Laboratories. The bulk of their mission was to make it easier for folks in food-insecure regions like Sub Saharan Africa to grow protein-rich, locally adapted soybeans. 🫛🫛🫛 youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8?...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Super excited to announce that I was one of the winners of the 2025 Women of Fisheries Gives Back! award through the Women Of Fisheries! 👩🏻‍🔬🐟 Check out the announcement to learn more about me and my history in fisheries! womenoffisheries.org/announcing-t...

Cool! Translate your software documentation into your language of choice using the #rstats 📦 {lang}!

@illinoisnres.bsky.social researchers developed a decision support tool that takes into account environmental, economic, and social suitability for 🌳#agroforestry 🌳 practices throughout the Midwest. Check it out: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... My story here: aces.illinois.edu/news/new-agr...

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

If we can’t talk or write about it, guess we’ll have to show it.

Genotype D1.1 of H5N1 confirmed in Nevada cattle, which is the one circulating in birds and not B3.13, causing the wider cattle epizootic in the U.S. In other words, this is a second observed jump from birds into cows. Keep rolling the dice, shall we? www.feedstuffs.com/agribusiness...

So, if NSF is using this list of terms to decide whether projects are threatened by EOs, it's worth noting that "underrepresented" comes from language Congress specifically used in the Broader Impacts mandate that is encoded in law bsky.app/profile/jbyo...

Several hundred ducks found dead from suspected bird flu along Lake Michigan Read the full story in the Chicago Sun-Times. Hundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been found either dead or sick over the past few days along Lake Michigan in Chicago and into the northern suburbs. Officials suspect…

Excellent paper using individual-based models to explore management options for invasive trees Modelling alternative management strategies of invasive tree species at the expansion front: Ligustrum lucidum as a case study 🌎🌐 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: Supporting Equitable and Effective Teaching. From the US National Academies. Society will not fully benefit from STEM if we do not provide full access & opportunity to engage in effective STEM education. #TeachBio nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2826...

So, if we know NSF is in violation of the CHIPS Act, are there any societies or institutions seeking legal recourse? It seems like NSF is in direct violation of its legislative mandates.

Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care. The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care. This one at UVA Hospital.

The Lavender Scare lasted from the 1940s/50s through about 1973. It ended through courts deeming the civil service commission overstepped, but only after 25 years (and ethical-ish courts). I’ve been reflecting on the complacency of institutions, the associated impacts, and timelines this week.

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

Governance of Indigenous data in open earth systems science www.nature.com/articles/s41... by @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social et al.!!!!! cc @oceanlani.bsky.social

Great news. A transgender woman will NOT be transferred to a men's prison facility and forcibly detransitioned, at least for now. Trump administration has been enjoined from doing so by a judge. First win in court, as the case continues.

Turns out the 2010 America COMPETES Act contains language I recognize because I've cribbed it from NSF's Grant Proposal Guide for every proposal I've sent to NSF www.congress.gov/111/plaws/pu... It's encoded in 42 USC 1826p-14 uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r... R: the 2010 Act, L: the GPG