"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm"
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm"
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
$1 BILLION a day for a war.
That same $1B could instead could in the US:
- Fund ~40% of the U.S. HIV treatment program
- Feed ~5.6 million people for a month through SNAP
- Equal ~¼ of the entire federal homelessness budget
Every. Single. Day.
I've just registered for EuroEvoDevo 2026 in Glasgow, and they've extended the abstract submission deadline! www.evodevoconference26.com
09.03.2026 17:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Registration will open soon! Our current president, Michael Nachman (www.nachmanlab.org), has put together a great line up of speakers covering various topics in polygenic adaptation.
Full list of speakers can be found on our homepage: https://theaga.org
#AGA2026
Applications now open for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Proposals due May 18.
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
Here is the petition you can sign in support of the California Science and Health Research Bond Act (Senate Bill 895, Wiener) www.fundcascience.org/%F0%9F%A7%AA...
08.03.2026 04:03 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
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.
We found a viral Trojan Horse: a virus can hide inside another virus.This one surprised us: deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it.
A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author @viroscope.bsky.social and co-authors !
A centromere but not just a centromere: structure and evolution of a selfish chromosomal supergene in monkeyflowers www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
06.03.2026 20:27 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
2nd- or 3rd-year PhD student? Applications for @hhmi-science.bsky.social's #GilliamFellows Program open 9/1! Robust dissertation support, an incredible community of scientists, tailored professional development (for you *and* your faculty thesis advisor), & so much more. Bookmark bit.ly/4qQArRh!
04.03.2026 21:10 — 👍 9 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Postdoc in evolutionary genetics with @mbhufford.bsky.social isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...
03.03.2026 19:03 — 👍 16 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
Come join us!
We are looking for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London.
Details 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Post funded by UCL Health Strategy.
To increase the use of gene editing in corals, we have made a comprehensive methods paper describing the protocol. We hope this helps the field of functional genetics in corals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
02.03.2026 17:54 — 👍 45 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
Are you a grad student attending #Evol2026? Submit your talk for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation! Finalists will present their talks during the virtual portion of the meeting. Apply during registration. Deadline April 15! shorturl.at/qDIP4 @evolmtg.bsky.social
02.03.2026 12:22 — 👍 14 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
Call for Applications - Max Planck Postdoc Program, apply now!
The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer
STANFORD STAND UP FOR SCIENCE NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION RALLY LOCATION WHITE MEMORIAL PLAZA, STANFORD UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
STANFORD!!! Visit this link:
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to learn more about your local SATURDAY MARCH 7TH RALLY
to TAKE BACK OUR SCIENCE!
See map for location! Rally starts at 11am!!
#March7Stanford
#standupforscience
#science
#savescience
It's a crime and a violation of the U.N. charter to attack another nation when you're not in imminent danger.
Congress must reassert itself: it alone has the power to declare war. I am running to make Congress the dominant branch of government. Help me do that: secure.actblue.com/donate/sam4nj
Faculty position in Plant Molecular Biology (Associate Professor or Tenure-Track Assistant Professor) at Aarhus University, Denmark
mbg.au.dk/aktuelt/ledi...
Flatlining of US Science. Massive self inflicted wound.
01.03.2026 23:43 — 👍 49 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 1
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
🦋✂️🧬 🧪 New preprint! Led by @donyaniyaz.bsky.social CRISPR‑Cas9 knockouts of ABCG transporters across butterflies & moths reveal how pigment pathways shape color during development. #CRISPR #Lepidoptera #pigmentation
Feedback welcome 👩🔬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Huge congrats to @reginafairbanks.bsky.social who was just awarded a Chicago Fellows postdoctoral position to go work with @jmkreiner.bsky.social on the population genetics of adaptation in Amaranthus!
27.02.2026 23:17 — 👍 40 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
Not spending money that is appropriated for science is a tricky subject to explain, but for people in limbo (like myself, as I mentioned yesterday), it can have cause serious career harm.
Many celebrated the NIH budget bill. It’s not supporting science when an unchecked bottleneck still remains.
@annaryba.bsky.social's paper on the neural underpinnings of intraspecific behavioral variation is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social
Highly recommend! -> Paper identifies neural substrate for variation in promiscuity among Drosophila melanogaster strains🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Grateful to have worked with such an incredible team on this project. Excited to finally share this story about Top2 evolution and hybrid incompatibility in Drosophila. More to come!
24.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
DEADLINE APPROACHING!
Apply to Zebrafish Development and Genetics by March 2. This two-week course is designed advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and independent investigators.
Financial aid is available.
🔗More info here: go.mbl.edu/zebrafish
This is the true State of the Union, such as it is
26.02.2026 03:23 — 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0