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Opinion | You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish.

You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

If you are or you know people on an #H1B, get in touch with your U international office to get guidance and know what you/they should/should not be doing.
I just received the information below from #AAUP. Feel free to share and check in with your immigrant friends/colleagues. They are not doing ok.

Image showing Hobson Lab logo (with parakeets, a social network, and R code), two Monk Parakeets, and several individually-marked parakeets with the text "Now recruiting PhD students!!"

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

AMNH is hiring a #curator! We are searching for an “Assistant Curator in #Climate #Physics: #Atmosphere or #Ocean”! Join us! careers.amnh.org/postings/4579 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Lo and behold which study is the most read paper currently at JEB, congratulations @bleavell.bsky.social!!

Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness Summary: The degree to which calling male túngara frogs defend themselves from eavesdropping frog-biting midges alters their attractiveness to females and predatory bats, though the sensory mechanisms...

Thanks for reading!

Article open access here 😀:

Fringe-lipped bat mid-flight, eavesdropping on the calls of male túngara frogs, which it uses to find its prey. Photo by Christian Ziegler.

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨

Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness

*Open Access!* in @jexpbiol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

w/ Dineilys Aparicio, Hoover Pantoja-Sánchez, Rachel Page, & @xebernal.bsky.social

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Photo by Christian Ziegler

GREAT news everyone!

The Onion is hiring! For a bunch of new positions.

Sports Editor (yes, we're bringing it back): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...

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And a Staff Writer (!): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...

Apply or die!

Editorial: Biotropica Announces a New Paper Category: Synthesis Click on the article title to read more.

Hey! Biotropica has a new paper category devoted to SYNTHESIS of research programs. We are looking for manuscripts from one study site or group that represent integration of long-term insights and understanding.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

UAB Neurobiology is hiring up to 4 new tenure-track faculty as part of 3 new open-rank searches. Come join our vibrant, supportive, and growing neuroscience community!
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‘It would be seen as political’: why the Royal Society is torn over Elon Musk Many fellows feel the billionaire has breached its code of conduct, but others say scientific neutrality is at stake

It would be *spun* as political, but the challenge to the RS is whether it has the courage to stand by the values of science its code of conduct requires of all Fellows. Without that, how can it maintain its claim to speak for the wider scientific community? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Trump, McMahon, Musk, and MAGA Republicans are threatening every student, educator, family, and community in this country. They are attempting to destroy public education as we know it—cutting funding and spreading hate instead of creating opportunities for students to thrive. It’s unconscionable.

Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists Questions remain over whether further action will be taken after resignations and calls for the Tesla CEO to be expelled

Dear @royalsociety.org, the University of Lausanne can only manage, but never erase, the stigma of giving Mussolini a doctorate honoris causa in 1937. Act now, or be for ever the scientific society which kept a fascist leader as a member.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.

Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists

https://go.nature.com/4koFGpq

This is quite a kicker in Thomas Edsall’s latest op-ed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm David Fotouhi, a lawyer who recently challenged a ban on asbestos, worked to roll back climate regulations and water protections while serving in the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s fir...

David Fotouhi's confirmation hearing is tomorrow - the man who could by #2 at EPA and recently tried to overturn the agency's ban on asbestos.
Stay tuned...
www.propublica.org/article/davi...

Elon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientists Questions remain over whether further action will be taken after resignations and calls for the Tesla CEO to be expelled

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

US science agency reclassifies hundreds of workers as probationary, US lawmaker says National Science Foundation administrators reclassified hundreds of employees from permanent to probationary status in violation of labor contracts, according to a U.S. lawmaker and agency employee.

"It is absurd to mindlessly decimate the workforce that has led the world in science over the past 75 years, and to willingly give up excellent scientists and talent," Beyer wrote.

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Public comment period is <30 days. COMMENT!

“This interim final rule removes the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from the Code of Federal Regulations.”

www.regulations.gov/document/CEQ...

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti...
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YouTube video by anne churchland Science update with Anne and Alex 02282025

The latest science update: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEf...

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YouTube video by anne churchland Science Update With Anne And Alex Feb 25 2025

I’ve been overwhelmed trying to keep up with everything that’s happening at the NIH. I wondered if others were likewise overwhelmed so I am going to start regularly posting videos with what I know. Pls feel free to leave suggestions and comments. youtu.be/MvgNHWSJtH0

ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention?

www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

Royal Society must choose between Musk and its integrity - Research Professional News When science itself is under attack, neutrality becomes complicity, says Kit Yates

Royal Society must choose between Musk and its integrity.

When science itself is under attack, neutrality becomes complicity, says Kit Yates.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

I will keep the letter open until 3rd March, the date of the meeting called by the Royal Society to discuss principles around the public pronouncements and behaviours of its fellows.

So one more week to add your voice to the call for the RS to stand up for its values.

Tweet from Musk reads “Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”

The email Musk referred to in his tweet reads: “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments. Deadline is this Monday at 11:59pmEST.”

Management by harassment?

National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.

www.wired.com/story/nation...