This is incredible. The person in charge of social media deserves a massive raise
Valuable and necessary content. 🌊
Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The first two articles of Volume 5 of the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists are now published at ssbbulletin.org.
it would be entirely within modern naming conventions to name a girl Kingdom and a boy Clade and I think the life sciences need to get ahead of this
Finally, all these awards for students don’t simply appear out of thin air. Enormous thanks to our Awards Director, Dr. Rebecca Chong.
Want to help give awards for great science? Consider reviewing applications! Instructions here: www.systbio.org/reviewing-aw...
🚨Awards Alert 🚨
Its award season here at SSB!
First up: Graduate Student Research Awards. Due March 20, these awards are for collecting data or otherwise enhancing your dissertation. Open to graduate student society members
Apply here:
www.systbio.org/graduate-stu...
Coming to #evol2026 this summer? The SSB Early Career Travel Funds competition is now live! Apply by February 27 for this years’ Tri-Society meeting.
More info:
www.systbio.org/early-career...
Proposals due March 2 for the Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach! This program awards up to $1,000 USD for a variety of evolution education and outreach projects, workshops, and events. Apply now! shorturl.at/I8HqO
Great opportunity for small grants for systematic research!
A keeper!!
Today in things where I can't decide if it's brilliant or horrifying 🍑🐄
Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions.
Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social
A thread (with audio) that reminds us that curiosity and creativity are fundamental to science and The human experience.
So proud of @lsu.bsky.social 's CURE program - allows our undergrads to get a real taste of research. Plus our grad students get practice leading a research team. @lsuscience.bsky.social
Your labbies are wonderful.
This is the AI engine in Meta platforms like Insta and FB. This word is Latin for hand, and also the portmanteau that @pcart.bsky.social and I made up for the one-stop orefice of cnidarians. So if what comes out of it is more partly digested goo, rather than handy, the name remains apt.
“Leave them alone for a few days. Let the sun shine on them, let the rain fall on them. Then your seeds will start to grow.”
#Ohio
What a great name!! This was such a fun campaign 🎊
Not emphasized in this story: OSU has seen more (and more competitive) undergraduate & graduate applicants, better retention and graduation rates, increased research output and federal funding, and higher ranking concomitant with this more diverse faculty.
The Alt text here both does its job as description and adds to the experience. Wonderful.
Tempting you over into the invertebrate side of the house!! 🤪 🐙
Love to see nature when it's so❄️❄️ here
Really great new paper & 🧵diving into taxonomic disparity of scientific attention.
"Focusing intensely on only a few species to act as exemplars may have significant impacts on our conservation efforts, as well as our general understanding of the anatomy and physiology of taxa"
This is great work! Thank you for sharing it and providing the 🧵! 🐟🐚🪸
As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused.
So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.
Me, this week.
That exodus…represents 14% of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or health fields employed at the end of 2024 as then-President Joe Biden prepared to leave office.
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
Are you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration?
Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor!
Deadline for applications is February 19.
Please spread the word.
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