Allen J Moore

How Scientific Empires End And what it means for America

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, writes @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:

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FY 2026 R&D Appropriations Dashboard | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Easy to follow, continuously updated... www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

🧪 CRITICAL UPDATE: The House draft version is now out.

✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget.

❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget.

8-page summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Draft bill: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Lecturer, Animal Ecology - Townsville, QLD, Australia James Cook University (JCU) is creating a brighter future for life in the Tropics and beyond, through education and research that makes a difference locally and globally.  We now have an opportunity a...

🚨 Lecturer in Animal Ecology position @jcuofficial.bsky.social. Candidates with expertise in terrestrial animal ecology are encouraged.

📍 Townsville, AU
Closes: 8th Aug 2025
🔗 careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

Opportunities — ASAB

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.

More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities

Very pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here:

Ecology:
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Genomics:
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Please.

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

Come talk to me today or tomorrow if you're interested in talking about:

1. Your science
2. My science
3. Writing a review for Proceedings B
4. Virginia Tech
5. Postdocs
6. Anything else

#Evol2025

Current Biology just published a Q&A with me where I talk about my journey as a scientist and why I enjoy interacting with artists.

OA link:
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We will fund. How much? Hard to say right now. Depends on the amount appropriated by Congress.

Advice from NSF: grant proposals can still include outreach, community engagement, and so on. But avoid specifying particular groups

Although “successful politicians and flamboyant preachers routinely focus on the development of false narratives, also known as alternative facts, repeating them enough times to convince the naive that the new message is the absolute truth.” ain’t bad.

Complexity myths and the misappropriation of evolutionary theory | PNAS Recent papers by physicists, chemists, and geologists lay claim to the discovery of new principles of evolution that have somehow eluded over a cen...

There are so many wonderful sentences here I can’t pick just one to quote. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The Fire Ant Social Chromosome Exerts a Major Influence on Genome Regulation Abstract. Supergenes underlying complex trait polymorphisms ensure that sets of coadapted alleles remain genetically linked. Despite their prevalence in na

Jones, @kocherlab.bsky.social @brendanimal.bsky.social et al. investigate gene regulation in the social supergene of the fire ant, finding widespread impacts on chromatin accessibility, enhancer activity, and transcription.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf112

#evobio #molbio #bugsky

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

Check out this brand new fellowship from the Simon’s Foundation in Ecology and Evolution. Incoming grad students this year are eligible to apply. No citizenship restrictions. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Sure. But reviewed alongside other proposals so the science has to appeal.

Disentangling non-random assortment, indirect effects, and joint plasticity as causes of phenotypic (dis)similarity between social partners Abstract. Social partners frequently resemble each other. These correlations between the phenotypes of interacting individuals (e.g. social partners, group

Our paper on disentangling assortative mating and indirect genetic effects in empirical datasets has just been accepted in @jevbio.bsky.social ! It has been a long process (5 years in the making!) and I am very proud of the result 🥳
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Fabulous! All your pictures are excellent, but this is special.

This was a tremendous job by PhD student Issi Burger and Postdoc Dr. Mike Itgen, who mentored six (!) undergrads to make these experiments happen!

Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually Economists find public R&D drives a quarter of U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

So I took a deep dive.

New research shows public science delivers 140–210% returns and fueled 20% of U.S. productivity growth since WWII.

Cuts now = $billions lost later.

www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

It's a demoralizing time to be a US scientist but that is part of their strategy. My friend Jeff Dangl just emailed our faculty reminding us that NSF and NIH grant review panels are still being held and staff there want us to keep submitting. Stay engaged and keep fighting! 1/n

Flyer with images and text describing the environment, goals, and details of the workshop.

Just a few spots left in our graduate evolution workshop @mlbs-uva.bsky.social! Join me, @clively.bsky.social, @ldelph.bsky.social, and @corlettwood.bsky.social
from Jul 27-Aug 2 for a week of evolutionary thinking, science writing, and time outdoors! mlbs.virginia.edu/evolutionary...

Like most Americans, the NSF celebrated its 75th birthday while dying a preventable death

Please do. We can’t show demand, need, and value without submissions.