Andrew Stoehr

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Haverford College invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Neuroscience.

Haverford is hiring a Neuroscientist! Please spread the word and share with anyone interested in a faculty position at a research-intensive liberal arts college. Motivated students, competitive start ups, hard money, great location, wonderful colleagues!
www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

Only funding pet hypotheses favored by the government is how you end up with Lysenkoism.

(If you’re unfamiliar, it’s essentially a set of disproven ideas about plant growth that led to poor agriculture, famine, and the deaths of maybe 50 million people: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_...)

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Nabokov, clearly.

In my dept. (biology, so for cell bio folks, ecology, etc, i.e. everybody) there was a time about > 12-15 years ago when some of the "old guard" and/or non-science folks felt our papers should be single-authored to fully count for tenure/promotion. Thankfully, no longer true!

Suggestions for good accessible papers (or topic for a "case study") for second-year bio students in an intro ecology & evolution class for a unit on "evolution and medicine" and "disease ecology"? For the latter, I've use Lyme disease in the past. Looking for more ideas! Thanks!!

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Definitely (well, in my opinion) underrated as a song writer.

A restoration ecologist applies herbicide to cut stumps, while a brush mower is visible in the background. Recently cut brush is visible.

A partially mowed, somewhat overgrown prairie reconstruction is visible. In the distance, a restoration ecologist applies herbicide.

A prairie restoration just cut with a brush mower.

Two restoration ecologists clear brush with a brush cutter and herbicide, on a small overgrown prairie restoration.

The woody and brushy stuff on the Butler University campus prairie was too much for little old me and my little old chainsaw so we finally brought in some professionals. Hopefully with some fire and luck we can keep on top of it for a while. (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA).

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

This workshop is going to be great fun, and I really look forward to meeting everyone!

It would mean a lot to me if you signed up!

❗️Our next workshop will be on August 14, 6 pm CEST, on marginaleffects package by
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If I got just $5 from every place that didn't hire me, I could retire from the current job that I actually did get!

No idea. I'm in the US. I just remembered that some Canadian university had made this decision so I dug it up again.

Arbitration decision on student evaluations of teaching applauded by faculty - University Affairs Such evaluations can’t be used for tenure and promotion decisions, arbitrator rules in case involving Ryerson University.

universityaffairs.ca/news/arbitra...

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Indeed. It's really written for students with no prior coding experience at all. The idea, as was relayed to me, is that this book serves as a structure for a first course, with a second course to get into statistical analyses (and they have a book for that too)

This would be (in my opinion) a great starting place for getting familiar with basic data wrangling and graphics. Doesn't include statistical analyses (i.e. "tests"), but that's by design. Several of the authors are here on bluesky, I believe. They could answer questions.

Yes. It had its pros and cons.

Title of paper from Proc B, says "Why are not all chilies hot? A trade-off limits pungency"

Oooh! Taught a whole class on trade-offs this past spring. This was a class favorite (maybe because I brought in a bunch of chilies and the students were all game to try them!)

What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.

The President is taking approx $1B of taxpayer funds from a military project to refurbish a plane given to him by a foreign nation, which he plans on taking with him when he leaves office.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

Boatbuilding young man standing next to partially built wooden catamaran hull.

A partially built catamaran hull, viewed from the top and front.

Two partially built catamaran hulls viewed from the side, sitting in a garage.

Two partially built catamaran hulls viewed from the top and back. They have plywood sides, and plywood supports throughout.

My son is spending his summer trying to build a catamaran in my garage.

In memoriam: Ward Watt 1940-2024

I was hoping to be at RMBL this weekend for a celebration of the life of Ward Watt but I am not able to go.

For more about Ward see

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No, but Hazleton, PA is where my father-in-law grew up. My wife and I stopped to see the old house on a trip once.

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

“More than 140 employees of the National Science Foundation have signed a letter denouncing what they described as efforts to undermine one of the country’s main science funding agencies. … Out of fear of retaliation, all but one of the employees’ signatures are redacted.”

A hovering hummingbird feeds on scarlet red flowers

A hovering hummingbird feeds on scarlet red flowers

A hovering hummingbird feeds on scarlet red flowers

A hovering hummingbird feeds on scarlet red flowers

Ruby-throated Hummingbird feeding on Royal Catchfly in my backyard (Hamilton County, Indiana, USA)

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

Science tells the truth, Donald Trump lies. Firing EPA scientists will mean more pollution, higher energy costs, more cancer, and more lies from Lee Zeldin. EPA scientists protect us from toxics and illness and dirty air and water. Stand up for them because they stand up for you.

Just to get back to where we were as of January 2025, we will need Manhattan Projects across multiple agencies. This particular loss will produce exponentially increasing human injury and economic damage to the U.S. as the ability to investigate and to regulate falls apart.

Apparently the pasteis de natas are typically not ready until about 10am. This is a problem. I mean, I still left with a pastry...

It's kind of addictive too. We've already more than doubled what we started. When I bring in the bison, I will know I've gone too far...