Greg Ragland

Job Opportunities - American Forests The movement to create healthy forests is growing daily as more people recognize the role of trees in slowing climate change and advancing social equity. Be a part of it.

@americanforests.bsky.social is #hiring multiple positions to support post🔥 reforestation 🌲 on USFS lands. Come work with a really great team doing amazing work. Reach out if you have questions!

www.americanforests.org/job-opportun...

This infographic describes the main results from a survey of members of 14 scientific societies. There is a pie chart showing that both academic (58%) and non-academic (42%) responded to the survey. It lists statistics: 85% of respondents reported uncertainty about the future; 71% reported federal training programs were "very" or "extremely important"; 83% reported negative impacts or irreparable harm on their field of science. There is a word cloud summarizing open-ended responses with the largest words "student research fund federal grant". Eight major themes in the responses are listed: disruption of research with societal important; concerns of closure of the USGS Bird Banding Lab; Early Career Bottleneck; Restricted Freedoms including travel and speech; Decline in Government Efficiency and Expertise; Concerns about Biased/Removed Data and Data Gaps; Concerns about the Ability to Meet Legal Mandates; and From Positive Impact to Irreparable Harm. There are icons for each participating society and a QR code for website and data availability.

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

2025 - Hypoxia PhD job ad The Moore lab at the University of Colorado Denver is searching for 1 Ph.D. student to study the elevational limits of dragonflies in Colorado (http://moore-evo-eco.weebly.com). This position is fully...

Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains?

My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙

Apply by Nov 1!

Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Western University launches program to capitalize on shrinking U.S. research funding | CBC News Western University is looking to capitalize on massive shifts in the academic landscape of the United States with a new initiative designed to turn a difficult situation into a brain gain for both the...

Are you a PhD student, have an offer, or have had an offer recently rescinded from a US university? If so, Western (in London, ON, Canada) has a new scholarship program for you! Check out this news story. I can vouch for this university! You will love it.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm a professor at the flagship university for the fourth whitest state in the US. Over 80% of our students are white.

The biggest barrier to access here is that due to lack of state funding, we have top 10 highest tuition per capita of public unis in the country.

We also have a food pantry.

A professional job announcement flyer from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln advertising the position of Assistant Professor in Insect Systematics. The flyer is divided into sections detailing the job description, required qualifications, and responsibilities, including research, teaching, service, and collaboration. The layout uses red and grey colors, includes a university logo, and prominently features a vibrant photo of an orange and black butterfly resting on a plant. A QR code is present for easy access to application details.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hiring an Assistant Professor specializing in insect systematics. Opportunities like this are rare and valuable! (Not many jobs like this out there!) Spread the word to anyone who might be interested or benefit.
#entomology #science #sciencejobs #bugsky 🧪

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

The legendary Janzen & Hallwachs on the collapse of insects. “It’s the same sheet, same lights same place, looking over the same vegetation. Same time of year, same time of the moon cycle, everything about it is identical... There’s just no moths on that sheet.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I have a print on canvas of the pictured illustration (Limenitis) in my office, a nice parting gift from the KSU Entomology department where I worked for several years. These prints are fantastic, great opportunity to support the grad club and hang some amazing scientific illustrations on your wall!

Looking for a postdoc on bacterial-insect symbiosis, combining evolution and molecular mechanisms? I'll have one open in my lab starting Sept 2025. If interested contact me (or find me at the GRC on Animal-microbe symbiosis if you'll be there). #SymbioSky

Job! 3-year research position in Australia for a Coleopterist, to work on longhorn beetles:

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

Come join us for a 2-year postdoc focused on Roseate Terns!!! We're two weeks away from application review. Reach out to me with any questions.

We are hiring. If you have strong stats skills & are passionate for access to education, please apply…https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mike-sears-741a56142_senior-academic-researcher-activity-7316510462060179459-d3Sf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAACKu2aEB08g85G9Gu9-ma6WpsZ2pmKqEUg4

‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

Just when you think it can't get any worse, The White House endorsed scientific racism today. Their order on the Smithsonian states that the institution, "promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating 'Race is a human invention'." Race is a human invention.

“The love for our parks, we go camping.”

“I’m a field botanist. I come to do plant ecology.”

“I come out here when I’ve had rough moments in my life. It provides peace.”

“They’re taking futures away from kids like me who want to be a park ranger.”
#ProtectOurParks
@resistancerangers.bsky.social

Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada Visit the post for more.

Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.

www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...

This was a fun review to work on with James deMayo. We highlight genome-enabled studies from the last ~20 years that provide lab and field perspectives on (often rapid) thermal adaptation. Thanks to JEB for fantastic editorial support!

A spotted-winged fruit fly on a flower. Photo credit: Katja Schulz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fruit flies originated in the tropics, but many species have colonized colder regions of the globe. Moos & co recently discovered that instead of accumulating cryoprotectants, most species change the makeup of their cell membranes to combat the cold

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
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Winters have been warming rapidly in the contiguous US over the past 50 years. There are now on average 13 fewer days where temperatures get below freezing (0C, 32F), with some places seeing nearly full month that no longer gets below freezing: www.carbonbrief.org/...

ICB's Tuesday blog
Out in #Nature: #LGBTQ+ Experiences in #Fieldwork with Field #Inclusive, Inc.
by @sicb.bsky.social
Mangum blogger/#scientist, @tabhenry.bsky.social integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/o...
& read ICB's Shayle Matsuda's free doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Join Denver Stand Up for Science on March 7!

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

Damn.

National Park Service will fire 1,000 employees — but hire 5,000 seasonal workers The two decisions underscore the confusing — and at times contradictory — nature of the new administration’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I was just waiting for the next commercial to drop 'Born in the USA'...

Trump White House rescinds order freezing federal grants after widespread confusion President Donald Trump’s budget office rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country, accordi...

Trump White House rescinds order freezing federal grants after widespread confusion apnews.com/article/dona...