Phylogenetic analysis confirmed South Africa speciated from a Canada-like ancestor! 🇨🇦🇿🇦 🧪 #science #phylo #biology

Although my poster only had space for some of the pop gen results, the rest is available as a preprint! We surveyed wild eastern oyster genomics from 40 pops across thousands of miles of seascape to characterize genetic structure, adaptive loci, structural variants, and human mediated impacts. 🦪🌊

1) They shot up a car with a baby in it 2) I know the "shoplifting" spiel is being challenged but even if that were what was happening & even if it were only adults in the car, "It's fine to kill people for petty theft (if they're Black)" is the police premise here

Happy World Sea Turtle Day! Recently had a chance to chat about my latest pub 👇 Many thanks to journalist Emily Dougherty for a great write-up and my lab mate @jenna-n-palmisano.bsky.social for the lab photos! All sea turtle handling and research done as part of permitted research activities 🌊🐢🧬

9/ This is an enormous reminder that eradication isn't permanent without continued investment. We eliminated screwworm. I said it last week and I'll say it again- keeping threats at bay requires funding, surveillance, expertise, and long-term commitment. Prevention only works when we keep doing it.

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Hello media people there is a whole library of images you can use to report on the current heatwave instead of melting ice creams and deck chairs. See Climate Visuals: climateoutreach.org/what-we-do/c...

a story in three panels of tonight's little garden visitor be sure to leave some water outside for the little bug friends during this heatwave 💧🪰

this article does a great job calling out rubio for his bullshit. he knows he's more responsible for this than everyone he's trying to blame

I think more of us env scicomm folks need to present our work through old-timey, vaguely-horny Men's Adventures magazine covers like this. Absolutely immaculate vibes from our girl Rachel (who I can only imagine was mortified?)

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

“Before the industrial revolution comment, Caulfield praised Jeff Bezos for his passion and use of Amazon as a “stepping stone” to his real dream: spaceflight. Rattled after the crowd’s reaction, she continued her speech: “Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives.” The crowd cheered.”

People have got to wake up to how bad the situation in US science is right now

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

This is now published in G3: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... 🧪

Neo-Nazis have shut down the entire federal funding office for social and behavioral sciences so they can spread election, war, and health disinformation without accountability, and we have to suffer the final indignity of the tongue-in-cheek lie we might be able to debate them into decency

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

GSAC is gathering anonymous input on how funding uncertainty is affecting grad students and postdocs, including challenges and helpful strategies. Responses will be shared in aggregate to inform advocacy and discussions at Evolution. Share your perspective by May 1, 2026: forms.gle/c63zpSkwK3HT...

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

Always enjoy reading a dissertation - I try to give it time and respect. We are all so rushed, but somebody worked their f**king ass off for this, and I'm so pleased for the person defending their work this week. So, diving in ahead of time.

One biology grant awarded in Feb by NSF

Awesome intertidal oyster restoration work underway on Dauphin Island thanks to the @disealab.bsky.social Studies of Marine Ecology & Evolution lab, with @leesmee.bsky.social & missmarinebio.bsky.social & some muddy volunteers You can check it out at the Christopher Blankenship Eco-Tourism Area 🌊🦪🛶

Chilling

Practicing writing is practicing thinking

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/...

Second chapter is published :)

I wrote about the Olympics defector.com/which-other-...

Concentration camps are the defining issue in public health right now. Measles and TB outbreaks, healthcare being withheld as punishment for your race. It is not enough simply to turn the grants tap back on. To do so would make us the same as the Nazi scientists who discovered smoking causes cancer

New round of NSF GRFP declines without review. If you were affected: 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter This is the link to the post: bsky.app/profile/noam...

Black History Month spotlight. Dr. Robert D. Bullard wrote 18 books on environmental racism and climate justice. Dumping in Dixie shaped environmental justice 35 years ago. Read more: https://ow.ly/FTsB50Y8LXS #BlackHistoryMonth #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalRacism #HBCUs

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money. And he was still threatening to kill someone.

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

There is no reforming DHS. There is no educating our way out of the white supremacy, criminality, and cruelty baked into DHS. Abolition of ICE, CBP, and the whole DHS is the only way to keep people safe.

What is this absolute garbage

Counterpoint: immigration enforcement has no fucking business anywhere near higher education, and administrators, faculty, and students should say so

I first saw the heretical combination of the subheading of "ECOLOGY" and title, "The beauty of slag," and I swooned. Check out this terrific and fun story in UChicago Magazine about the novel ecosystem/slag research we're working on locally! #WildCalumet mag.uchicago.edu/science-medi...

In this thread I’m providing you links to the names of photographers who are on the ground with me, who I trust and like, and whose work I admire. If you don’t like Instagram, I don’t really know what to tell you but there’s nothing I can do. Sorry. You’ll have to figure that one out on your own!

One of my neighbors was murdered in the streets today by ICE agents motivated by this sort of race science propaganda.

bsky.app/profile/harm... I've been stewing on this question all week, and I finally have my answer: you've gotta figure out how you're gonna fight for what you love and what brings you joy. You've gotta be willing to put them on pause & fight to preserve the systems that make those things possible.

Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework? Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.

This is a little ancillary but I recently talked with Sam Scheiner (recently retired PO) and he gives good advice for junior scientists etc about maintaining science in the face of uncertainty www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...

Needed this tonight ngl

Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026

many of you are the right person to write this hint hint hint hint hint HINT HINT

at some point, someone needs to write something in lancet about how basic human rights principles and norms are being broken left and right with how ICE is going after and weaponizing health services

I’m kinda laughing to myself about how to email collaborators about this. “Hey can we push this deadline back again? My region is being occupied by violent federal forces, and I’m only a *naturalized* citizen, and it’s been impacting my sleep and executive function for some reason.”

I carry around my passport with me even though I know that doesn’t matter. I have a specific little bag for it, and I think about whether the way I reach for it would be interpreted as a threat.