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The quarter isn’t starting for a few weeks and I already had a nightmare that I forgot to show up to teach my large evolution class #teaching

Fall 2025 International Student Enrollment Outlook and Economic Impact NAFSA: Association of International Educators is the world's largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education and exchange.

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs.

Just want to shoutout a new study from the Wessinger Lab by my colleague @trinitydepatie.bsky.social. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... She investigated the repeated evolution of personate flowers within Penstemon by examining patterns of introgression, topological discordance, and

Why Universities Must Not Capitulate to the Trump Regime Colleges that settle with the Trump administration have no guarantee of safety from further retaliation.

"Columbia and other colleges are trapped in a no-win situation, but even difficult moral dilemmas have wrong answers, and that’s what Columbia’s leadership has chosen."

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

You link #phenotype 🦜 to #genotype 🧬 with #comparative #genomics 💻?

This #review is for you 📜: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

We review new #methods, remaining #challenges and #future directions and highlight recent key studies.

Thanks @hillermich.bsky.social!

Please share! 🙂

The beginner's guide to a career in science writing Science writers Brittany Trang and Brianna Barbu walk you through the big questions you'll face when beginning your career in science communication.

This is very good!

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As is this, from @carlzimmer.com
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Nanoscale cuticle mass density variations influenced by pigmentation in butterfly wing scales Nature Communications - Here, the authors investigate the interaction of pigment distribution and cuticle density within butterfly wing scales. They use ptychographic X-ray computed tomography to...

Here is a very detailed examination on how pigmentation in the cuticle of a butterfly wing scale changes the density and refractive index of chitin and, thus, also alters structural color. rdcu.be/eyUwS

Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) is seeking ten taxonomic specialists in Collembola or any of the following insect orders - Blattodea, Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Trichoptera!

graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca/postdoctoral...

Assistant Professor: Population and Disease Dynamics of Cereal Pathogens The Department of Botany & Plant Pathology invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure track Assistant Professor: Population and Disease Dynamics of Cereal Pathogens position.We a...

Come join me at Oregon State! We’re hiring a new assistant professor in population and disease dynamics of cereal pathogens. Our department is dynamic and fun, our building is newly renovated, and Oregon is wonderful! jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/171...

I highly recommend joining GSAC if you have thoughts or ideas for the future of SSE. We had the opportunity to participate in a lot of the planning for the Evolution meeting. It’s fun and rewarding.

One week left to apply!

The NSF grants suspended at UCLA total $179M, half of which was still outstanding: CAREER grants, a major math institute, and basic science research and training of all types.

More at grant-witness.us/posts/UCLA-n..., thanks to GW member Mally Shan, with grant-level details in our database.

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

Brace yourself. This one is sobering, difficult to watch and read, but absolutely critical. I tried reading and watching earlier today with my kid, age 8, and had to stop. It’s heavy.

Bravo @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

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Evolution of a novel left-right asymmetry in organ size by co-option of a tissue rotation process

A Research Highlight showcasing new work from Bénédicte M. Lefèvre, Marine Delvigne, Aurélie Camprodon, Josué Vidal, Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo, Michael Lang

journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...

Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...

Suspension of all grants to UCLA www.latimes.com/california/s...

Antisense transposon insertions into host genes trigger piRNA mediated immunity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.667215v1

I sent a letter to Bhattacharya while listening to the mark-up.

More to come from this interview...

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Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

"between one-half and one-fourth as many grants will be funded for the remainder of this fiscal year" Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

TODAY, 1 pm EDT📣 Evelyn Valdez-Ward & Bear Ulrich from the ReclaimingSTEM Institute lead a hands-on workshop on values, influence, and setting boundaries that support your wellbeing. Don't miss it!

Register now: buff.ly/7B8A9fp

You'll need a GSA account to register; membership not required.

Adding a little zest to your day with the lemon jelly—Aegina citrea. 🍋

The lemon jelly is different from other jellyfish because it has only four tentacles extending from its bell. Although jellies in the genus Aegina are relatively well known, they can evolve unusual forms or colors in deep water.

Whitman Fellow Designs Genomic Tools to Study Horseshoe Crab Eye Development | Marine Biological Laboratory They may be famous for their striking blue blood, but horseshoe crabs have an award-winning vision system.   In the 1930s, Haldan Keffer Hartline produced the first single-cell recording of a photorec...

Despite their history as model organisms, scientists understand little about horseshoe crabs at the molecular level, and “pretty much nothing" about how their eyes develop, said Gui Gainett, a Whitman Fellow at the MBL.

📷 Dee Sullivan
Read the story: bit.ly/3TS20Me

Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Is there a spreadsheet with a list of grant organizations? I remember seeing one in the Twitter days but cannot find it. 🌎🌏🌍🗺️

Tsunami watch issued for California coast after massive Russian earthquake A tsunami watch was issued for the California coast after an 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the western coast of Russia.

Tsunami watch issued for California coast after massive Russian earthquake

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Neurons use built-in ‘backup batteries’ that fuel the brain under stress A new Yale study reveals that neurons store their own sugar reserves that kick in to keep the brain functioning during metabolic stress.

In a new study published in @pnas.org, the lab of @dacolon.bsky.social at @yaleneuro.bsky.social shows how brain cells store their own sugar in a "backup battery" that kicks in to keep the brain running in times of high metabolic stress.

a thin butterfly with black and orange patterns on its long, lobed wings is at rest on the shiny surface of a leaf next to what might be small eggs

A new study tracks the recent and rapid diversification of glasswing butterflies, which evolved within the last two million years in the tropics of South America.
Story:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/geno...

Study:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

✨Dream job alert!✨ Come join our Oceans Department at Stanford University! We are hiring an Assistant Professor. This faculty search focuses on 3 major areas: Oceans & global change, Ocean technologies & solutions, or Human dimensions of oceans 🌊
facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

I like this idea. Potentially having it be part of the IDP that students fill out & we review together, so that we can be a little more realistic about how to support their long term career goals.