Kim Rosvall

Biologist folk (especially in evolutionary biology and/or ecology, but it don’t matter):

Can you give me your favorite examples of trade offs in biology? Organism or system don’t matter. Primary literature or reviews preferred.

Did ceratopsian (horned) & ankylosaur (armored) dinosaurs walk together? Newly discovered dinosaur tracksite in Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta CA) suggests they did, similar to modern multi-species herds. News item includes comments by Yours Truly. 🧪🦖🐾

P.S. Quite a day for cool fossil finds!

My feelings exactly

We're hiring! Remote work on red wolf behavior 🐺🧪
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

🍂 🏛️ 🧪 National Science Foundation Letter of Dissent Against the Administration's Actions

Tree swallows have high extra-pair paternity, with half or more of nestlings having a genetic father that’s different from the social father.

Super excited about our first analyses on extra-pair paternity in tree swallows! New results coming soon.

This. 90% of my job is writing. It's basically almost all I do

Concerned about the potential impacts of how taxonomic biases in our research affect the broader generalizations we draw? If not, maybe we should be.

If you saw @sekharma.bsky.social 's poster at ABS, you can find the pre-print here: doi.org/10.32942/X2X...

w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social

#ABS2025

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At ABS 2025, join us and @aibsbiology.bsky.social July 9 at 12:15 PM for a workshop on communicating science to non-technical audiences! We'll focus on influencing policy and public understanding—perfect for making your science matter beyond academia.

Sign up here: fs10.formsite.com/spltrak/gdrr...

Exclusive: NIH still screens grants in process a judge ruled illegal Directives by the Trump administration are still being applied to grant applications despite court order.

SCOOP: NIH appears to be disregarding last week's court order to stop screening grants using a process a judge ruled illegal.

This has many NIH staffers confused and worried about the legality of their actions.

Diagnosing confounded Bateman gradients Abstract. The Bateman gradient is a fundamental metric of sexual selection, often interpreted as the fitness advantage individuals gain by increasing their

How to interpret sexual selection using Bateman gradients? When are these not informative & how should researchers identify, deal with confounded gradients? We simulate anisogamy & sperm competition to provide a guide for using Bateman gradients. Out in Evolution

academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Good thing I put my senator on speed dial back in January. Already left angry voicemail.

Judge Young on NIH grant terminations cont.:
"I have never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable, I have sat on this bench now for 40 years, and I've never seen government racial discrimination like this, and I confine my remarks to this record, to health care."

Trump vs. Birds: Proposed Budget Eliminates Critical Research Programs • The Revelator Experts say there’s “no substitute” for the Bird Banding Laboratory or the Breeding Bird Survey, which help reveal the health and status of avian populations across the country.

Thank you, @rheisman.bsky.social for writing this piece about the BBL and BBS at USGS!

therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

YouTube video by CNN NIH employees publish ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration policies

Here is a link to a good CNN story including an interview with two of the NIH folks who wrote the #BethesdaDeclaration and stood up.

More bravery facing the cameras.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD8y...

The absurdity of “catching” a cavity nester

I tried that— gave it abstracts and asked for themes and emerging insights. But it was kinda awkward so I’m going with my own stuff.

Writing one's promotion dossier is basically a lot of googling oneself. 🙃

Nest building and circulating testosterone dynamics in male zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata Despite its fundamental importance for avian reproduction, the hormonal mechanisms supporting nest building remain poorly understood. While nest build…

🚨Our new paper ‘Nest building and circulating testosterone dynamics in male zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata’ is out!🚨

With @simonemeddle.bsky.social and @cogwild.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The snake got around our predator guard too. A very resourceful fellow!

Also not doing behavioral observation here anytime soon.

Suffice it to say, we are not going to be able to do the behavioral observation at this nest today.

When the government cancels your research grant, here’s what you can do The mass cancellation of US federal grants marks yet another escalation in political interference in science, but there are ways to keep crucial research going.

So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The cover!!!!

I’ll reimburse mileage

Do you have a bird banding (sub)permit? Interested in a short-term contract in Bloomington, IN? 7-30 days, starting asap. Our crew is looking for paid temp help banding & sampling blood from tree swallows. Pls share, esp in Midwest. 🦉@instbirdpop.bsky.social @amornith.bsky.social

Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

📣Get ready for the next Cutting vEdge Tools webinar in our series on ecological databases! On May 9 at 14 CEST, Jens Kattge will talk about the widely known TRY plant trait database. Join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... only 100 places!

One of my biggest takeaways from my day out with @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @drcatmac.bsky.social and The Field School team is that science is such a refuge.

When the world gets to be heavy, the burnout hits, and you need an infusion of hope, tapping into that inner kid wonder about the world 1/x