Karla L. Vargas

A rare jaguar roams Arizona. Border wall expansion imperils its future. The sightings highlight the importance of the San Rafael wildlife corridor, which faces threats from a proposed border wall expansion.

This is jaguar #4! 🐆
Do you want to meet the cats detected by our cameras in southern Arizona?

Visit our website: www.wildcatresearch.arizona.edu/meetthecats

#WildCatResearchUA #WildlifeConservation #ArizonaWildlife #SonoranDesert #Jaguars #citizenscience

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Jaguar image from a Wildlife Camera by the University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center

🐆 First jaguar sighting in southern Arizona in almost two years! Recorded by the University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center with the help of nearly 40 amazing citizen scientists, adding to 200+ detections since 2011!

New Arizona jaguar sightings a 'positive sign' despite border wall, UA researchers say Recent sightings of wild jaguars — including 'Jaguar Number Four' on Wednesday — show Southern Arizona is still in the apex predator's range, University of Arizona researchers said.

Citizen scientists who volunteer with the Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center at @uarizona.bsky.social spend hours at remote Sonoran Desert sites checking wildlife cameras. 🐾

#WildCatResearchUA #WCCArizona #CitizenScienceUA #SonoranDesert #WildlifeConservation

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Jaguar spotted by U of A trail cameras A jaguar has been detected on trail cameras in Arizona, making it the fourth one observed by the University of Arizona's Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center.

For almost 15 years, the University of Arizona’s Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center has been monitoring wildlife across southern Arizona.

#WildCatResearchUA #WCCArizona #WildlifeConservation #ArizonaWildlife #SonoranDesert

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YouTube video by News 4 Tucson KVOA-TV Multiple jaguar sightings in Southern Arizona

As apex predators and keystone species, jaguars play a vital role in maintaining healthy ecosystems and biodiversity. 🐆

#WildCatResearchUA #WCCArizona #WildlifeConservation #ArizonaWildlife #SonoranDesert

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UA researchers: Arizona jaguar sightings a 'positive sign' despite border wall For University of Arizona researchers, the latest sightings show that Southern Arizona is still in the apex predator's range.

The UA Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center, with nearly 40 amazing citizen scientists, recorded the first jaguar sighting in southern Arizona in almost 2 years, adding to more than 200 detections by the WCC since 2011. 🐆 Proud to be part of the team!!! www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Barbara McClintock portrait

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬

Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

New vacancy in my team!

PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture.

Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :)

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Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑
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Full text April 3, 2025 Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders, including but not limited to: E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025), Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy; E.O. 14151 (Jan. 20, 2025), Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing; E.O. 14168 (Jan. 20, 2025), Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government; and E.O. 14190 (Jan. 29, 2025), Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling. The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration, and due to exceptional circumstances, adherence to the traditional notification process is not possible. Therefore, the NEH hereby terminates your grant in its entirety effective April 3, 2025.

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30.

“Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government”

They are so afraid of us.

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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

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If you haven’t this week, reach out to your pre-tenured faculty. Especially the ones pre-3 year review. It’s a …. It’s been a lot 🥲

Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.

I'm trying to think of creative ways to advertise a research technician position (digitizing/deciphering 40 year old bird observations).

Wanted to make a detective-themed one ("calling Sherlock Holmes") but was struggling to think of modern fictional detectives, despite watching B99 every evening.

NEW resources on our website: Flyer Template (Canva) • Marching 101 • Know Your Rights • Find a Protest • Host a Protest • Digital Safety • Virtual Actions

Head to www.FiftyFifty.one to join the movement!

#50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy @polrev.bsky.social

Git and GitHub for R Users, Wed, Apr 23, 2025, 11:00 AM | Meetup In this workshop, attendees will learn how to use GitHub in conjunction with RStudio. Contents * Understand why version control is necessary and useful. * Be able to coll

Please join us on April 23rd at 11am CST for Git and GitHub for R Users with @nrennie.bsky.social!
Free and online! #rstats #rladies
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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

If you are an NIH or CDC scientist that lost your job, we have a home for you at UTHealth. I’m hiring physician scientists and we also have transplant ID fellowship slots open. Contact me. #IDSky #MedSky

No job ad yet, but I'll be hiring a postdoc at Purdue in population genetics/quantitative genetics/genomics in plants. DM if you have relevant experience and are potentially interested.

Santa Cruz Watershed Day of Connection flyer

Santa Cruz Watershed Day of Connection
February 15 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Connect with volunteers and conservation organizations at the Day of Connection with Tucson Clean & Beautiful, in Tucson, AZ.

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The no cost extension button is back and at least some are being granted. If this applies to you, go for it.

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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

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SCIENCESHOTS What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx

Mom and daughter in the lab wearing lab coats

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science !

Let's celebrate all of the female scientists we know! Who is the woman in science that inspires you the most? :) Recommended reading on Women in Animal Behaviour and Welfare: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11047719/#B10-animals-14-01184

Let's celebrate all of the female scientists we know! Who is the woman in science that inspires you the most? :)

Recommended reading on Women in Animal Behaviour and Welfare: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Gene pools are getting dangerously shallow for many species. We found 5 ways to help Genetic diversity is being lost across many species – especially birds and mammals. But you can help stop the decline.

How can we maintain genetic diversity? another popluar Science Article in @theconversation.com referring to our meta-analysis #consgen 🦤🌏🧪 by @cegrueber.bsky.social , @robynshaw.bsky.social @katefarquharson.bsky.social

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Technological advances have enhanced and expanded conservation genomics research but are yet to be integrated fully into biodiversity management Conservation genetics and genomics examines the role of evolutionary and genetic processes in the persistence of organisms, and its research is intend…

Although the volume of #ConsGen peer-reviewed science is increasing, Linda Neaves, Stephen Sarre, et al. show the gap still may be growing between research & application (conservation-genetics gap). They suggest that data co-production may improve the incorporation of the research into application.

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