Michel Ohmer

Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙

Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details

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"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our new paper led by @alexlewanski.bsky.social showing largely positive, multi-decadal consequences of translocations in Red-cockaded woodpeckers at Avon Park Air Force Range in central Florida: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

2025 - Hypoxia PhD job ad The Moore lab at the University of Colorado Denver is searching for 1 Ph.D. student to study the elevational limits of dragonflies in Colorado (http://moore-evo-eco.weebly.com). This position is fully...

Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains?

My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙

Apply by Nov 1!

Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Opinion | Why Scientists Need Your Tax Dollars Logan G. Havard writes about how federal funding cuts affect scientific research that could otherwise benefit people at the local and national levels.

OPINION: "Anyone who has used GPS, read a weather forecast, received a vaccine, or eaten U.S.-grown produce has experienced the long-lasting benefits of federally funded scientific research and development," Logan G. Havard writes.

"In our study, we find that urbanization speeds up tadpole development and increased behavioral plasticity. However, exposure to urban conditions also decreased tadpole size, which may cause adult frogs to become smaller and less attractive for mates"
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/FxGf8KD

🚨 Fall Internship Alert! 🚨
The @stlzoo.bsky.social Endocrinology Lab is accepting applications for its Fall 2025 internship! 🧪🦁🧬

Apply today
🔗 Info: livingearthcollaborative.wustl.edu/items/saint-...

#scienceinternships #endocrinology #SaintLouisZoo #globalconservationfutures #conservationcareers

I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word

www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

NSF funding is under threat — and students, postdocs, early-career scientists are to lose the most! We should stand together! Get informed and mobilized from today, by joining us in this Week of Action for NSF.

Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU

#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!!

But...good news and bad news.

👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.

👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%

(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)

See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

Check out our big new meta-analysis looking at plasticity and changes in physiological rate variance under climate change. Huge effort with a great team of fantastic thinkers! @itchyshin.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social Frank Seebacher and Alex Bush

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked).

Thank you, Senator.

Booker finally yields after more than 25 hours of speaking 👏👏👏

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Join Us! | King Lab Are you interested in joining the King Lab? More information here!

Come join us at beautiful UBC! The King Lab is recruiting a Post-doc Fellow to develop mathematical theory on infectious disease evolution and emergence, together with Ben Ashby (SFU) #zoonoses #biodiversity www.zoology.ubc.ca/kinglab/join...

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

sciencehomecoming.com

New paper in @nature.com led by @patricepottier.bsky.social! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? See thread🧵

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

Devastating to hear from disappointed undergrads about all the summer programs being cut. NSF, NIH, and the complete cancelation of Mosaics in Science national park internship program focused on broadening participation. NSF REUs were crucial to my start in science www.science.org/content/arti...

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

Forty-seven scientific societies have signed a letter organized by the @ucsusa.bsky.social urging Congress to protect federally funded research and federal scientists:

www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

This Pioneering Black Zoologist's Insights Were a Century Ahead of Their Time Charles Henry Turner conducted trailblazing research on the cognitive traits of bees, spiders and more

Dr. Charles Henry Turner was from Ohio; he earned a BSc and MSc from the University of Cincinnati. He was the first African American to earn a PhD in #entomology, which was at the University of Chicago in 1907.

#28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory
#BlackHistoryMonth

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.

Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science. Story by @heidiledford.bsky.social & @humbertobasilio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.

This does away with awards based on underrepresentation, student support services based on race, scholarships, etc. Let me explain, pre coffee (wrote this morning, no time to update, you're getting a cut n paste), why this is a bad idea. 🧵

www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Week 3 Figuring out what to focus on now & what to focus on next in science and higher ed

Here’s @lizneeley.bsky.social’s latest newsletter, documenting the ongoing attacks on science and higher ed, and figuring out what to focus on: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Craig Franklin to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Craig Franklin Craig Franklin is the current Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Experimental Biology and former President of the Society for Experimental Biology. Based at The University of Queensland, Australia, Craig is a comparative and ecological physiologist, with a particular focus on conservation physiology. #100biologists #biologists100

Our next extraordinary biologist is Craig Franklin, current Editor-in-Chief of @jexpbiol.bsky.social and former President of the @sebiology.bsky.social. Craig is a comparative and ecological physiologist at the University of Queensland, Australia.
#100biologists
@craigefranklin.bsky.social