Jason Gallant

New online! Biologists should embrace Earth’s biodiversity as a library of solutions

Woot, my new perspective piece on the importance of leveraging earth's biodiversity to solve biology's most pressing questions was just published! Let me know if you'd like a copy!

The Braasch Lab @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social will soon post a position to replace manager of our *Ancient Fish Facility* at Michigan State. Looking for aquaculturist excited for unusual 🐟 species (gar, bowfin, paddlefish, polypterus) + zebrafish. Pls send candidates our way (DM or braasch@msu.edu)!

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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Whats up Athens!?? #evolution2025

American science isn’t just under siege—it’s officially occupied territory today. Trump’s NSF plan? Abolish 37 divisions and cut the budget to the point it is a glorified science fair run by politicians. 75 years of world-leading innovation? Poof. We’re trading CRISPR for leeches and witch trials.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

The end of NSF and American science expertise as we know it is here.🧪

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Exclusive: ‘I have done all I can’: NSF director announces he is resigning Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led the agency since 2020, leaves amid mass firings and grant terminations

Exclusive: The director of the National Science Foundation announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science. scim.ag/42vc3fn

A vaccine expert worries child measles deaths are being 'normalized' Ousted FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks talks about the current administration's policy on vaccines, and how that is impact its response to the on-going measles outbreak in the southwestern U.S.

Heard today on the drive home:

"There is no reason in the United States for us to have a single child die of measles." -- Peter Marx, until last month, the top vaccine regulator at the CDC.

NATIONWIDE CAMPUS ACTION STAND UP WITH US because science, higher ed, and democracy are for everyone. Where: YOUR COLLEGE CAMPUS When: YOUR LAST DAY OF CLASSES StandUpForScience2025.org It’s time for a Summer Send-Off Stand Up, Fight Back - TOGETHER!

📣 GET IN, DORKS!
We are going protesting...AGAIN! 📣

This time we are standing up for our core value of academic freedom and asking university leadership to STAND UP WITH US against Trump's attack on higher ed ✊

#StandUpWithUS

Register/find an event: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.

International students’ visas have been revoked, MSU says - The State News At least some international students at MSU have had their visas revoked by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a university spokesperson confirmed Monday.

You can’t defend freedom while attacking the people who make discovery possible.
When you target scientists, you don’t protect America — you weaken it.

Shame, shame, shame.

Pic of about 50 protesters in Keyser,WV, pop 4850. The deepest of red territory.

Love seeing all the people who care. Big cities are amazing, but this bravery is what makes my heart burst.

Are steps at the Michigan State Capitol ADA compliant 🤔

You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere. People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.

The message is: crowd large.

Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.

Events like this puncture that delusion.

Protesters in Lansing, MI today joined me to say #handsoff our science.

YouTube video by Jason Gallant Standing up for science in Lansing

I got to speak at a political rally (video below). Today, I stood up for science in Michigan at the Hands Off Day of action in Lansing. Inspired talks and one hell of a crowd!! @50501mi.bsky.social

Did you ask for a fish fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🐟

Electrosensitive rostral appendages that can detect prey items have evolved multiple times within mormyrid fishes, and one of these organs is called the Schnauzenorgan.

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Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds.🐟🧪

Tired: “due to ongoing uncertainties about federal funding…”

Wired: “due to President Trump and his administration’s illegal seizure of funds to American educational institutions…”

Awesome work from awesome scientists! @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social and @sternarchella.bsky.social !! What a face!

Genetic, developmental, and neural changes underlying the evolution of butterfly mate preference Few studies that link genetic variation to behavior also dissect the neural circuits that underlie the arc from sensation to action. This study of the architecture of mate choice behavior in Heliconiu...

Great work!!!

We are hiring a fixed-term faculty member in the MSU Integrative Biology department to teach our core courses in Genetics, Evolution and Ecology! Check out the full ad here! Please RP! #sciencejobs #BlackinSTEM #LatinxinSTEM #diversityinSTEM

Wow-- signal/noise ratio is vastly improved over here! See ya, X!

Assistant Professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!

Assistant Professor job (Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology) at U California- Riverside | aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01509

Yang lab logo A red strawberry poison frog. Behavioral Ecology, Animal Coloration, Sexual Selection, and More!

My lab at the University of South Florida is looking for a postdoc to collaborate on a project on the evolution of poison frog color, behavior, and learning! Happy to answer questions, and I will be at #SICB2024 to chat - come join us!! Details on how to apply: shorturl.at/uwxIU
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