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Isn’t that his job? It is hard enough getting a NSF grant in our disciplines, now it is OUR responsibility to also tell the public in addition to do the work, train the student, publish the paper, etc.?
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We used the Unreal engine years ago to visualize landscape scale pollen movement in forest trees. I gave a presentation to the board of visitors and the app crashed. The startup screen for Unreel at that time had ‘Barbarian men and women’ in states of skimpy outfits…. Embarrassed…
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Primatologist, conservationist, animal advocate, and educator Jane Goodall passed away today. We lost a true champion. #AcademicSky #Edusky
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danielbolnick.bsky.social
Please spread widely and quickly - the more signatures we get the better chances we have of cajoling NSF into changing course on this small but very impactful item
danielbolnick.bsky.social
NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
and please spread the word!!!!
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
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amydevlin.bsky.social
Wow!

What a breakthrough moment for these women.

#WRWC2025 #RWC2025 #RUGBY
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drjennings.bsky.social
Received a truly classic Reviewer #2 comment today: "Having read the revised manuscript and my review from the first round, I am surprised that my first review was as positive as it was."
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I think the last thing that I would like to have is my grubby little fingerprints all over my Mac laptop screen the way are over my tablet screen. I don’t get it.
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You would think that a story like this would be outside the paywall…
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corriemoreau.bsky.social
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
docs.google.com
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Cora Ella Hind travelled 10,000 kilometres every year to survey crops in Western Canada.
She was so good at her predictions, farmers called her the Oracle of Wheat.
To them, she was the most trusted voice in agriculture.
This is the story of her fascinating life.

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The black-and-white historical photograph depicts E. Cora Hind, a pioneering Canadian agricultural journalist and the renowned "Oracle of Wheat," standing in a wheat field. She is dressed in period attire, including a wide-brimmed cowboy hat, round wire-rimmed glasses, a high-collared shirt, and a long woolen coat, with her hair pinned up. Hind is shown in profile view, facing slightly to the side with a serious expression, as she examines and holds a sheaf of mature wheat stalks in her hands, illustrating her hands-on method of crop yield assessment. The background consists of a vast expanse of wheat field under an open sky, emphasizing her fieldwork expertise.
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thurstoncounty.bsky.social
Would be nice if it were open access….
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Florence Seibert | American biochemist

She earned her PhD in biochemistry from Yale in 1923 and is best known for her work in the 1930s that enabled the development and use of a reliable TB test. She died #OTD in 1991 at age 93. #WomenInSTEM
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It is ALWAYS TOO EARLY FOR PUMPKIN BEER
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I’m waiting for the “This is all baked in…” responses from the talking heads
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So basically, “…I’ve had nothing to do with that pedophile since he stole all of my teenage masseuses.”
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