Jeremiah Henning

We are hiring a full time lab technician to assist with several long-term richness/biodiversity/microbe/drought/restoration manupulation experiments at the KU field station. Applications due this week! Please share.

Job Posting - Research Technician share.google/GsSTtiW4rIm5...

Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

If you're a scientist who's had to cut or cancel your field season because of US budget cuts, DM me here for an oped I'm working on. 🌏🧪

Based on the titles ~6 independent postdoctoral research fellowships were canceled (including my own), along with ~4 postdoctoral training programs. For those of us affected, it's not just our research -- it's our entire salary.

“Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences” is available for pre-order! If you find mentoring and teaching writing difficult, mystifying, or time-consuming, here are two important things you should know: You’re not alone. In our experience, most scientists find teachin…

Do you find teaching and mentoring writing difficult, time-consuming, or both? Our new book (that's @bgmerkle.bsky.social and me) is what you need - and it's now available for pre-order! scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/t...

Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence

National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety.

This won’t go well—we love our parks.

Recruiting a fully-funded PhD student interested in coastal plant-fungal interactions, can be dune-mycorrhizal or salt marsh-dark septate endophyte focused. Lots of flexibility in project development.

My dept is searching for a tenure-track faculty in cellular/molecular biology. Research discipline is wide open, ability to develop computational upper level and graduate courses a big time plus. Message for any questions www.southalabama.edu/departments/...

Real-time data show the air in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ is even worse than expected A new study of Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' finds levels of the carcinogen ethylene oxide that are 9 times higher than the EPA’s models.

When it comes to the impact humans are having on our home, the news is rarely better than we thought. And much often, as in this case below, it is much worse.

It’s also nearly always true that those causing the problem are not those suffering the brunt of the impacts.

Grad DBER course-led paper "Education Racial and Gender Disparities in COVID-19 Worry, Stress, and Food Insecurities across Undergraduate Biology Students at a Southeastern University", was highlighted as an @ASMicrobiology Top Cited paper in 2023. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Job alert! Come be my boss!!! The dept of Biology at the University of South Alabama is looking for a Dept Chair. Feel free to DM me any questions. Full job ad here: www.southalabama.edu/departments/...

Writing Resources Writing is a huge part of any career in science, and for many writers – no, for most writers – it’s a daunting challenge. But it’s not a challenge that you have to tackle alone. That’s a les...

Your semi-regular reminder that I have a curated list of resources for scientific writers: books, blogs, and much more. It's here: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/writing-reso...