Talia Hatkevich

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Evolutionary Ecologist - Williamstown, Massachusetts (US) job with Williams College - Biology Department | 674315 The Biology Department at Williams College, a premier liberal arts college with a strong commitment to excellence in the sciences, invites applicat...

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Evolutionary Ecology
Williams College

Sloan Lab Welcome! Our research focuses on the evolutionary process at the molecular level. In particular, we investigate how a mixture of natural selection and non-adaptive forces create and maintain the amazi...

Please share! Our lab is recruiting a PhD student to join us starting fall 2026. Our group is broadly interested in plant molecular evolution and comparative genomics. More info about our lab and grad programs at Colorado St. is available on our lab website.

sites.google.com/site/danielb...

FEBS Press Using CRISPR-Cas9, we engineered a genetic system allowing the dose-dependent induction of a controllable number of DNA double-strand breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The tool was used to study th....

@morielab.bsky.social proudly presents a tool to induce, in S. cerevisiae, DNA double strand breaks in a site-specific AND in a dose-dependent manner, in a very simple way: just transform two plasmids!!! It allows you to assess many aspects of DNA damage signaling & repair!
doi.org/10.1111/febs...

HPV vaccines help reduce US cervical cancer deaths by 62% New data suggests a dramatic fall in cervical precancers and deaths since the introduction of the HPV vaccine in the USA.

:)

www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

I hope to take a PhD student in the coming application cycle. Please reach out if you are interested in joining our lab in EEB at Yale, especially if interested in working on the natural history/ phylogenetics/ morphology/ population biology/ development/ genomics of siphonophores. dunnlab.org

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

Please sign on and add your voice in calling for an NIH that prioritizes the safety of research participants and public health over political momentum.
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Today, my NIH colleagues and I did something scary but really important. We spoke up about egregious harms we are seeing happen to research participants and public health through thoughtless and politicized policies at NIH. 🧵1/3

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Love this!! Congrats to your student, and yay to making things light in these dark times ❤️

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Innovate Carolina at UNC Chapel Hill is hiring a PhD level Commercialization Fellow. The fellow will help @uncchapelhill.bsky.social researchers conceptualize & commercialize novel technologies. The Innovate Carolina team is fabulous - check out the job posting:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301...

Every scientist should discuss the consequences of the NIH and NSF grant terminations and delays and failure to fund at their home institution at the end of a talk or seminar. Even if a scientist’s own funding is not threatened, I GUARANTEE there is someone at their institution affected.

Perhaps relevant as scientists weather a range of attacks, our team (led by UW research scientist Rachel Moran) published a paper describing how a slew of public records requests impacted our work & what that means for collaborative research in adversarial spaces & times: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

Let’s stand up. I don’t know if it makes a difference, but I gotta try.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Government | Harvard University Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.

Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education.

Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE.

I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America".

They even asked me my Gender.

pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

Is there a germ cell BlueSky starter pack?

End of Keynote speech where Dr. Joshua Hall received a gift

I was PREP cohort #1. Today was the LAST UNC PREP symposium. Watching Dr. Joshua Hall, who was the Director my year and 11 years after, give the closing keynote was 😭🥹

But what was built cannot be undone. Our community is strong and all 137 of us are not going anywhere 💪🏾

Good question. Another important question: in this current environment, is every position in America important?

I don’t know the answer to either question.

Another important question is: if there are, are they actually desirable positions in the current environment?

Someone give us hope 🫠

@peiferlabunc.bsky.social - thoughts?

Are there going to be positions in the fall for tenure-track Assistant Professors? (Cell biology, reproductive biology, molecular biology, genetics...)

Asking for a friend. Well, myself and a lot of my fellow postdoc friends.

. @pnas.org just published the final version of our manuscript on how generation time and effective population size interact to shape vertebrate germline mutation rates, led by Luke Zhu and Annabel Beichman: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Scientists--Share your story! We need the nation to know what is at stake if the NIH is gutted. It's therapeutic and takes just a few minutes

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

At yesterday’s University of Michigan Regents meeting, I was promoted to full professor, effective July 1. 🎆

Full professor is the highest rank in US academia. 26% of faculty are full. Among those, 4% are Black; 2% BW.

Started my PhD 20 years ago this fall. What a journey! A fantastic voyage.

Photo of Sekelsky lab Biology majors graduating with Honors in 2025.

Congratulations to Nina Wozniak, Ilan Socolovsky_Hull, and Josh Ponder, who all earned Honors in Biology for research they did in the Sekelsky lab! (Also to Sasha Sagar; her degree is Neuroscience so a different venue.)