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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · Sep 8

Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Group Leader – AI in Biology

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...

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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 18d

The Guardian U.S. is hiring a Washington, DC-based Senior Science Investigative Reporter: workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795/

The Guardian :: Senior Science Investigative Reporter

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 21d

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.

One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

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robin @poconoduc.bsky.social · 23d

Did you send your Quack-O-Gram to your rep yet? Today would be a good day before the next round of deliveries!

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 24d

You asked for it! We delivered Quack-O-Grams to our members of Congress urging them to #ImpeachRFK, and get that Quack out of office!

There's still time for you to get in on this fluffy, feathery action: Send your own duck at zurl.co/W1ZnB and keep the momentum going! 🦆

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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 24d

New faculty position opening at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social . Especially interested in candidates with deep expertise and vision for the future of AI/ML/computational models of biomolecules. Please RT

Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · 24d

Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely!
chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

Faculty Recruitment

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Ryan Gutenkunst @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social · 26d

With two months to go, @alwaysrong.bsky.social is dominating the Genomic History Inference Strategies Tournament leaderboards. Jump into the competition to help dethrone Stephen! Glory, money, and authorship are all on the line! ghi.st

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓

I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.

👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏

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Dr. Mathilde Cordellier @mcordellier.bsky.social · Jul 10

Job alert! I am looking for someone who would like to join my lab as a senior researcher, permanent, with teaching included. My lab is new, I still have startup money, just sayin. DM or email me with questions. Deadline Aug. 11th, interviews in september.
Ad here: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/c...

Research Assistant (m/f/d) - Population Genomics/Evolutionary Genomics

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AAUP @aaup.org · Aug 5

The government is “using levers of power that are completely unrelated to the underlying allegations…Cutting off research for diabetes, cancer, heart disease will not improve the safety of Jewish faculty & students on campus & will not address antisemitism.”

—Mia McIver, AAUP Executive Director

With Grant Cuts, Trump Pressures UCLA to Make Deal

Like it did for prestigious private universities, the administration has cut off federal grants for UCLA, alleging it failed to address antisemitism. The UC system must tell the DOJ by today whether i...

www.insidehighered.com

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Mike Moore @gypsumbotany.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs

jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

Assistant Professor of Biology

The Biology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in conservation ecology. Initial appointment to this po...

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Hakhamanesh Mostafavi @hakha.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm thrilled that my lab at NYU is now supported by an NIH MIRA grant! I'm looking to hire 1-2 senior lab members (outstanding postdoc candidates or experienced staff scientists) with expertise in computational or statistical methods in human genetics or genomics. Please share!

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · Jul 11

JOB ALERT 🚨 Tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics and/or bioinformatics applied to biodiversity monitoring and conservation biology at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Aarhus is super nice y'all. Apply! 🧪 🌍 🧬 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs

tech.au.dk/en/about-the...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Research Using Genetics - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University

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Ariella Gladstein @agladstein.bsky.social · Jul 1

Today I start a new position as project scientist with @amygoldberg.bsky.social at UCLA. After about four years in industry, I'm looking forward to deep diving into some academic research in population genetics!

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · Jun 25

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

www.scientificamerican.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 11

What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??...

Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! -

actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na...

#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StopTrump

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

actionnetwork.org

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Steph Godfrey @stephgodfrey.bsky.social · May 21

We're looking for TWO lecturers (in Conservation Biology & Evolutionary Ecology) to join us in this beautiful corner of the world! Come join our pretty awesome (if I do say so myself!) department! 💚 @zoologyotago.bsky.social

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 13

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

time.com

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Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · May 10

A lot of really great resources here to #saveNSF 🧪

www.savensf.com/take-action

Take Action | Save NSF

www.savensf.com

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fseersholm.bsky.social @fseersholm.bsky.social · May 9

Keen to work on the co-evolution of domesticates, humans and their pathogens? Come join us at Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen! We're hiring a postdoc in ancient genomics for a super cool project on Neolithic Sweden:
employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Please share!

#AcademicJobs #AncientDNA

Postdoc in ancient genomics

employment.ku.dk

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Apr 24

It's not just Columbia, it's not just DEI, and it's not just biomedical research: Trump's war on universities has frozen crucial science at institutions like Princeton, Cornell, Northwestern, and more. Our @nature.com team spoke to some of the affected scientists: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How Trump’s attack on universities is putting research in peril

Scientists have little information as the US government freezes and cancels their funding.

www.nature.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 23

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM

Implementation of Schedule F

This is what a lot of us have been worried about.

This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs.

BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD...

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ALT: the word alert is in a purple circle

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · Apr 23

Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

www.science.org

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Nihil Dev @nihildev.bsky.social · Apr 21

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.

www.ourhealthroi.com

Our Health ROI

Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 18

🧵 Thread on NSF grant terminations 🧪

This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants.

"DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature"

What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?

Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants

The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

www.nature.com

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · Apr 16

Interested in postdoc opportunities in Seattle, WA? Join us May 6th for Seattle DROP, a virtual event about biomedical research in Seattle. Hear from recruiting faculty, finding the right mentor and enjoy lunch on us via a delivery voucher within the US!

Registration: tinyurl.com/seattledrop25

Seattle DROP: Discover Research Opportunities for Postdocs

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