In an MOU, Trump's administration has set the stage for the federal government’s renewed use of M-44 cyanide bombs on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. This action, carried out discreetly and quietly, was outrageous to those of us who know what this diabolical device does to animals.

The Biology Department at Syracuse University is hiring! Please share with anyone you think might be interested. www.sujobopps.com/postings/112...

Paleontology Collection Manager position at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln employment.unl.edu/postings/100...

The current status of the invisible hand.

Trump is trying to create a brownshirt slush fund.

Literally looting the federal treasury to hand out more than a billion dollars to the January 6 insurrectionists and other cronies and henchmen

NSF is devoting a large chunk of increasingly scarce resources to people who are not affiliated with universities. My first read on this is, it's just corruption. It'll be a lot easier for grifters and politically connected dipshits to get their hands on public cash through this mechanism.

Here's what the US National Science Board wanted to say about competing with China before its members were fired www.science.org/content/arti...

The tech industry is gutting our public science infrastructure and hijacking the NSF to be their own R&D department. Not paying taxes is apparently not enough; they need both hands in our pockets. (There’s nothing wrong with funding those fields; it’s funding them only at the expense of others).

The entrepreneurial postdocs funds early career students “so they can participate in innovative entrepreneurial activities at some of the nation’s most promising startup companies.” You know, the ones with millions in venture capital.

Correction: while not listed on the main postdoc page, the Biology postdoc does exist…but only if you work with AI. bsky.app/profile/sedg...

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

According to @NPR.org, some states are moving towards limits on student screen time. Will other states follow? buff.ly/EU0JxIh #EduSky #AcademicSky

We are launching the Biodiversity Futures Working Groups. The call supports small, focused synthesis groups addressing frontier questions in biodiversity science. We welcome proposals from researchers at any career stage. Deadline: 30 June 2026, 23:00 CET www.maraujolab.eu/2026/05/09/2...

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Hi! I'm not here very often, but I just launched my brand new lab website! I'm also hiring a !!! three-year !!! Postdoc. Interest form link can be found under "The Team" section. (Current domain name is temporary haha. FormorphologyLab dot com coming soon!) badger-mustard-h5jf.squarespace.com

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

57 Forest Service research stations in 31 states are slated to close in the next few months. “This is not a serious effort at reorganization, it’s an attack on America’s public lands,” said Sen. Patty Murray of Washington.

There is no reason for the U.S. to fall behind in its investment in science and technology and in training a science-savvy citizenry. It's a choice being made that will have consequences. theconversation.com/china-surpas...

🌊 It’s a sad day for @cmarinescience.bsky.social A lot of world class scientists (and me) have likely lost their life work as our main building surprsingly caught on fire today. We don’t know the scale of the loss, but it’s certainly very very bad. www.fox13news.com/st-petersbur...

Also for #FossilFriday - the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social has released this statement re: the US administration's recent decision to dismiss all members of the US National Science Board. 🧪

Shirley Meng, a prominent U.S. battery scientist, is relocating to Singapore to become vice president for innovation and global affairs at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). She cites the Trump regime’s immigration policies and lack of commitment to decarbonization as factors in her decision.

Simons Graduate Fellowships in #Ecology and #Evolution #science #scienceSky #evoSky www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Update The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) has moved from Least Concern to Endangered on the IUCN Red List, with climate change reducing food availability. #WeAreSSC #biodiversity #conservation #IUCNRedList

Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Please repost: My department at USC is hiring for a teaching-track faculty position. We are looking for someone principally to teach statistics for biologists, but there will be opportunities for other courses in statistics & algorithms applied to biology usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

I’ve been experimenting with embedding a Shiny app directly inside my Quarto presentations. Instead of moving through static slides, the audience can now actively engage with data in real time. It changes the dynamic from “here’s what I found” to “let’s explore this together.” #RStats #Quarto

Trump’s New Wildfire Agency Is Betting on a Risky Firefighting Strategy https://gizmodo.com/trumps-new-wildfire-agency-is-betting-on-a-risky-firefighting-strategy-2000749651

Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.

If you believe that science is important, for our economy and our ability to innovate into the future, this is a good week to call your Senators and House of Reps and ask them to find a way to provide oversight over the President’s actions against the National Science Foundation.

The Trump administration actively dismantling American leadership in science, a nihilistic legacy that will stretch for years as long as political ideology supplants evidence as the basis for policy making, oversight, and funding. 🎁 wapo.st/3P3DSY2

More evidence of solar plus batteries eliminating the need for diesel generators. This is incredibly good news for the people who live in these communities. “We used to depend on diesel and lamps,” said Waldemir da Silva....“Today we have electricity 24 hours a day, without noise or smoke.”

In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/more-than-...?

Wanna know what one of the poster children for data center noise sounds like? Turn sound on to hear Vantage’s VA2 in Sterling, Virginia. Reports indicate the noise is from gas turbines operating on site for off-grid power.

I spent Earth Day in Virginia’s Data Center Alley visiting one of the poster children for noise from data centers. Smack in the middle of a residential area, with no pathway to quiet. My latest for @heatmap.news explains how little we’re doing to stop one of the worst parts about data centers.

I know everyone wants there to be a Giant Cretaceous Octopus but after looking at methods and tables, I really don't think this is a reality.

We're looking for a junior specialist to work on a fun project exploring seagrass local adaptation across the whole state of California! It should be a good mix of field and molecular work. Please share with folks you think would be interested! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07605

looking a lot like El Niño now: pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

This Earth Day, I’m spending it with some incredible denizens of the deep that are all unknown to science . 🦑🧪😍 You can too by joining us on the @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive stream: www.youtube.com/schmidtocean.... #onwardsanddownwards #DesigningTheFuture3

Who needs fireworks when you have siphonophores and lasers?!! 🌊🦑🧪 #DeepPIV #siphonophireworks #DesigningTheFuture3 @schmidtocean.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social

Congrats Maya on an excellent finishing talk 🥳🥳 @reginafairbanks.bsky.social @sethf.bsky.social

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

This shows how far the carbon combustion complex will go to protect the fossil fuel industry. Basically rewriting the rules of SCOTUS. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more