It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

Dartmouth’s response to the Trump admin’s corrupt contract, short and sweet: “You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.”

Thank you to the career federal employees, who show up to work every day and improve people's lives across the country.

Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help!

We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.

In a crumbling four-story wada in Pune’s old quarter, an upstairs room stayed stubbornly off the grid.

There, a small woman in a plain cotton sari wrote longhand by daylight or by kerosene lamp.

This was Hema Sane, a botanist who turned her life into an experiment in ecological consistency.

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

📖Published📖

Pappalardo et al. developed taxon-specific confidence thresholds for eukaryotes at different taxonomic levels to optimize the accuracy of BLAST-based taxonomic assignments for metabarcoding 🧬 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

We used to call reverse DEI "racism"

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

A disaster for ocean and climate research is unfolding before our eyes. #NOAA 🌊
"The White House Office of Management and Budget is pulling back $239 million in funds Congress already provided. The biggest hits fall on climate and ocean research."
oceanpolicy.substack.com/p/roundup-un...

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
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My latest on the Health Sec who promised to figure out what causes autism and the autism research that's been stopped along the way www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

🚨🚨We’re hiring a postdoc!🚨🚨

Min two year contract; start in 2026 (flexible) & contribute to this project focused on understanding the link between bleaching recovery and disease in cnidarians!! Opportunities to work on side projects too!

Deadline Nov 1!

Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem

The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket.

It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok.

We must speak up now.
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not my job to see the "utility" of AI; NOT MY JOB.
If I am ALLOWED TO DO MY ACTUAL JOB of teaching history/humanities to my students and supported the way my students deserve to be supported, they will know enough to know when AI will fail them/be critical of the tech/use it wisely, if at all.

ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT

“People find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races. It’s complete bullshit…We’re a naturally social, altruistic, democratic species and we all have an anti-dominance intuition.” [?]

🧪 A new DOE climate report, used by the EPA to justify rolling back regulations, is under fire. Multiple scientists cited in the report say their work was cherry-picked and fundamentally misrepresented to downplay the risks of climate change. #Climate

A very interesting idea....
#skybrarians #academicsky #APC #openaccess

🌊 Oceans overheated in 2023

Marine heatwaves hit record highs in 2023: hotter, longer, and wider than anything seen in 40+ years.

These extreme ocean temperatures put sea life, weather, & coastal economies at serious risk.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

#ClimateCrisis #Oceans #SciComm 🧪

NSF's Alexandria Declaration takes the form of a letter to Congress

Science coverage

www.science.org/content/arti...

1. From the FDA to the NSF’s new priorities to Chan-Zuckerberg’s recent pivot, there’s a massive push — particularly on they political right — to hand off as much of the scientific process as possible to AI.

It’s not about competing with China in AI. Not while gutting the US research ecosystem.

one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution