Jeff Conner
@jeffreykconner.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist and Interim Director @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social; opinions not necessarily my own. He/his
Thank you @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social's Theoretical Ecology Section for the Best Theory paper award for our @science.org paper on eco-evo emergence of macroecological scaling!
esa.org/theory/award...
esa.org/theory/award...
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Learn about seed dispersal, enjoy a cash bar, free desserts, visit informational booths all at our FREE Dessert with Discussion event, Nov. 6. Doors open at 6:30. Register today!
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Learn about seed dispersal, enjoy a cash bar, free desserts, visit informational booths all at our FREE Dessert with Discussion event, Nov. 6. Doors open at 6:30. Register today!
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Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
www.scientificamerican.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” Via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
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Now seeking associate editors for 2026! AEs receive free membership in SSE and free registration to the annual Evolution meeting. Indicate your interest in this short form by September 30: forms.gle/JwAmeM4YV9Fv...
September 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Now seeking associate editors for 2026! AEs receive free membership in SSE and free registration to the annual Evolution meeting. Indicate your interest in this short form by September 30: forms.gle/JwAmeM4YV9Fv...
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This just might be the coolest thing you see today. And without @npr.org, I may have never known it existed. Give it a spin, then check link in the comments for the backstory.
#Queen #Zulu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gblj...
#Queen #Zulu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gblj...
Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version
YouTube video by Ndlovu Youth Choir
www.youtube.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This just might be the coolest thing you see today. And without @npr.org, I may have never known it existed. Give it a spin, then check link in the comments for the backstory.
#Queen #Zulu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gblj...
#Queen #Zulu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gblj...
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MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu
August 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
I wanted to share this photo essay that Gavin Hutchings, the KBS 2025 external communications intern, wrote on the Shah lab's work at the KBS Pond Lab facility. It's a lovely piece that showcases some members of the wonderful group we had this summer!!
www.kbs.msu.edu
August 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Excited to share our new paper led by @alexlewanski.bsky.social showing largely positive, multi-decadal consequences of translocations in Red-cockaded woodpeckers at Avon Park Air Force Range in central Florida: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
August 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A highlight of the day at #Botany2025: learning about CAM in the carnivorous genus Pinguicula from Daniel Mok of @msupri.bsky.social. So cool to see hypotheses from 1991 confirmed in 2025!
July 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Sophie did do a lovely job! Dedicated to our late friend and co-author Steve Tonsor @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social @xavierpico.bsky.social @gbradburd.bsky.social @quercus62.bsky.social @avawobbles.bsky.social
Sophie Buysse's paper on short stamen loss in Arabipsis is published in this month's Evolution issue!! academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... @journal-evo.bsky.social
Evaluating the roles of drift and selection in trait loss along an elevational gradient
The evolutionary mechanisms underlying loss or retention of traits that have lost function are poorly understood. Short stamens in Arabidopsis thaliana pro
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July 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Sophie did do a lovely job! Dedicated to our late friend and co-author Steve Tonsor @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social @xavierpico.bsky.social @gbradburd.bsky.social @quercus62.bsky.social @avawobbles.bsky.social
@datanuggets.bsky.social origin and home base: @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social
Day 2 of our Walder Foundation and NSF sponsored Data Nuggets @datanuggets.bsky.social workshop was also a big success! We had preservice, middle, and high school teachers from throughout Chicago and from several other states. Huge thank you to @eschultheis.bsky.social @kjelvikm.bsky.social and Sam.
July 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@datanuggets.bsky.social origin and home base: @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social
Well deserved, congrats Christine! And you do have a great lab, almost as cool as mine @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social
Very honored and humbled! Thanks to MSU and KBS for creating the space for me to conduct meaningful research! A special thanks to PRI for submitting the nomination! Most importantly - thanks to my lab- as they are so often the ones on the ground executing our research in meaningful ways.
Congratulations to @sprunger.bsky.social on being selected by the World Food Prize Foundation as a 2025 Top Agri-food Pioneer for her work in regenerative agriculture and soil health that has transformed sustainable farming systems worldwide! Learn more about #FoodPrize25 at: bit.ly/46dbskz
June 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Well deserved, congrats Christine! And you do have a great lab, almost as cool as mine @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social
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Good. This is an honor roll.
June 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Good. This is an honor roll.
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“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
June 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
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We're hiring a field research technician! This position involves work on the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER), Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) projects at KBS.
Learn more and apply: careers.msu.edu/jobs/technic...
Learn more and apply: careers.msu.edu/jobs/technic...
Technical Aide - In State, Michigan, United States
Position Summary(Basic Job Function) This is a temporary or an on-call position. Provides technical support. Responsibilities may include computer programming or operations; research support; medical…
careers.msu.edu
June 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We're hiring a field research technician! This position involves work on the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER), Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) projects at KBS.
Learn more and apply: careers.msu.edu/jobs/technic...
Learn more and apply: careers.msu.edu/jobs/technic...
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🌳Nature-based climate solutions such as conservation agriculture and forestry can partially offset the global warming caused by deforestation, while natural forest regeneration is capable of a complete offset
@kbslter.bsky.social
Read more here 👉: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
@kbslter.bsky.social
Read more here 👉: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate the radiative forcing that follows deforestation - Communications Earth & Environment
Nature-based climate solutions such as conservation agriculture and forestry can partially offset the global warming caused by deforestation, while natural forest regeneration is capable of a complete...
www.nature.com
June 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🌳Nature-based climate solutions such as conservation agriculture and forestry can partially offset the global warming caused by deforestation, while natural forest regeneration is capable of a complete offset
@kbslter.bsky.social
Read more here 👉: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
@kbslter.bsky.social
Read more here 👉: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Though our recent #NSF grant was terminated, the @datanuggets.bsky.social program still continues through support from the @kbslter.bsky.social and other sources! We're searching for future funding opportunities and will continue to help share authentic datasets and science stories with students!
June 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Though our recent #NSF grant was terminated, the @datanuggets.bsky.social program still continues through support from the @kbslter.bsky.social and other sources! We're searching for future funding opportunities and will continue to help share authentic datasets and science stories with students!
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Welcome to our first @kbslter.bsky.social Artist in Residence for summer 2025 - Mikayla Thompson! Mikayla is with us at @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social this week. Mikayla explores grief, love, and joy through her poetry depicting relationships between herself, her loved ones, and the natural world.
June 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Welcome to our first @kbslter.bsky.social Artist in Residence for summer 2025 - Mikayla Thompson! Mikayla is with us at @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social this week. Mikayla explores grief, love, and joy through her poetry depicting relationships between herself, her loved ones, and the natural world.
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At @asn-amnat.bsky.social it now easy for faculty to buy a gift membership for a student. Go to the member subscription page:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals...
select "Student Member Gift" - only $25/yr. Includes access to student research and travel grants, discounted registration & more
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals...
select "Student Member Gift" - only $25/yr. Includes access to student research and travel grants, discounted registration & more
Journal subscriptions for The American Naturalist from the University of Chicago Press website.
Journal subscriptions for The American Naturalist from the University of Chicago Press website.
press.uchicago.edu
May 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
At @asn-amnat.bsky.social it now easy for faculty to buy a gift membership for a student. Go to the member subscription page:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals...
select "Student Member Gift" - only $25/yr. Includes access to student research and travel grants, discounted registration & more
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/journals...
select "Student Member Gift" - only $25/yr. Includes access to student research and travel grants, discounted registration & more
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🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc:
Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).
Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).
May 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc:
Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).
Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...
Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).
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Congratulations to this year's Hamilton Award finalists! 🎉 Join us Thursday, May 29 to hear these outstanding student talks. See the full schedule on the meeting website: www.evolutionmeetings.org/program-over... @evolmtg.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Congratulations to this year's Hamilton Award finalists! 🎉 Join us Thursday, May 29 to hear these outstanding student talks. See the full schedule on the meeting website: www.evolutionmeetings.org/program-over... @evolmtg.bsky.social
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Fun event coming up in Kalamazoo this Saturday. KBS researchers Kadeem Gilbert, Alisha Shah and Lauren Sullivan will be among the local scientists featured. Join us for a kid-friendly morning of doing experiments and increasing our scientific literacy!
May 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Fun event coming up in Kalamazoo this Saturday. KBS researchers Kadeem Gilbert, Alisha Shah and Lauren Sullivan will be among the local scientists featured. Join us for a kid-friendly morning of doing experiments and increasing our scientific literacy!
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New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts.
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Thoughtful and thorough analysis.
1/n
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Thoughtful and thorough analysis.
1/n
Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
www.forbes.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts.
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Thoughtful and thorough analysis.
1/n
www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Thoughtful and thorough analysis.
1/n
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Economists warn: Trump’s science cuts threaten the U.S. economy.
Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future.
We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future.
We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
Economists warn Trump's research cuts could have dire consequences for GDP
President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.
www.npr.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Economists warn: Trump’s science cuts threaten the U.S. economy.
Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future.
We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...
Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future.
We all pay the price when science is defunded.
www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...