Dávalos Lab

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Ah, I just saw. It’s hard to keep track!

I disconnected and now it’s red as far as the eye can see. Which ‘policy’ is this?

🧪Two weeks left to apply to this position! Note that posted starting date is a target and can be worked out. Questions? Contact me!

A small bird with a black cap, white throat and chest, bright yellow belly, and dark wings perched on a branch against a blurred green background.

A male White-collared Manakin here at Casa Bentbill. This species loves the young forest here as there are lots of thick vegetation for them to hide and nest in. I hear their snaps and chirps as the lek around the house.

#birds #nature #costarica

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Screenshot of a web page, showing a table with admission percentage, yield percentage, average price, and other information for three selected colleges

Prediction page showing where people from Delaware get Biology degrees: over 40% from the U. of Delaware, for example

Table showing where people get PhDs in Ecology: UC Davis, Colorado State, and more

Table showing comparison of UC Berkeley vs similar colleges in teaching: undergrads per tenure track instructor, undergrads per all instructors, total instructors, and more

Just a reminder as people start considering college / grad school: I made a website pulling federal info on colleges, free to use (made it for my kids). Gives characteristics of schools, info on degrees awarded, #rstats shiny prediction on where people may get their degree, etc.

collegetables.info

Is there anything untouched by human caused climate change? 🤦🏽‍♀️

Add to these low costs all the carbon emissions…/s

EPA Director Lee Zeldin is a climate denier: “You have many on the left who will say ‘carbon dioxide is a pollutant’ and they won’t talk about all of the many reasons why carbon dioxide is actually necessary for life here on our planet,”
thehill.com/policy/energ...

I was, and it is.

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‘It’s heartless, it’s careless, and it’s deeply damaging’ says former NIH director on cuts to medical research | CNN Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, speaks to Christiane Amanpour about his decision to leave the agency and what he says is the Trump administration’s crackdown...

Straight talk from Dr. Francis Collins on the devastating - and politically motivated - cuts to science and public health in the United States.

Anybody who cares about their health or the future or science, technology, and innovation in this country should watch this.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/T...

Liquid nitrogen tanks in a cryogenic facility

Door sign for the cryobank

Success!! We just moved our tissue collection into a brand new cryogenic facility. Top infrastructure to preserve Colombia's genetic resources, one of the most biodiverse countries on Earth #institutohumboldt

Stunning how quickly finders have pivoted to that bandwagon…

Most Americans really have no clue how far the US is being left behind.

Those were in, but how to set the price? Who benefits and who doesn’t? How does that influence how prices are set for taxes, where clean up efforts are concentrated, etc. all those were off limits. Especially in the international scene.

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Perhaps the most frustrating part of my environmental economics education was how the key questions we asked as students were out of scope, out of reach, all were part of a whole other discipline: political economy.

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

“More than 140 employees of the National Science Foundation have signed a letter denouncing what they described as efforts to undermine one of the country’s main science funding agencies. … Out of fear of retaliation, all but one of the employees’ signatures are redacted.”

Reupping this, calling all natural scientists with experience in Madagascar 🇲🇬, apply!

But also the mugwort, I’ve been fighting a losing battle with it on Long Island.

Right?

Look at New Jersey though…

(1) This is of course absolute catnip for me;
(2) I am SO disappointed in Washington state, do better, people;
(3) You really can see the White-Tailed Deer Hegemony in the Northeast;
(4) Fascinating that milkweed states are not also monarch butterfly states;
(5) The green anole/brown anole line!!

Oh New Jersey, I feel for you!

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💯science is highly social, as is intelligence, BTW

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NSF website says it is expecting "record level submissions" of CAREER proposals: www.research.gov/research-web.... Make sure your research office is on top of this and everything is set to go.