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Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour @cbehav.bsky.social · May 19

We’re thrilled to welcome Raghavendra Gadagkar from @iiscbangalore for our next CASCB Summer Seminar Series talk! 🐝
Join us at 12:00 to explore how nutrition shapes caste and social roles in a primitively eusocial wasp.
📍ZT 702 & online @uni-konstanz.de
www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-b...

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Iain Couzin @icouzin.bsky.social · May 20

I’m thrilled to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. What an honour! Would not have happened without the mentors, postdocs and students who I’ve had the great privilege to learn and collaborate with throughout my career. @uni-konstanz.de @maxplanck.de

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · May 20

We are pleased to announce the 90 outstanding researchers from across the world who have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society this year. The group includes trailblazers from AI and electron microscopy to global health and neuroscience. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/news/2025/05...

Exceptional scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society

Over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.

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Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.bsky.social · May 22

NEW: Under Trump, the National Science Foundation is awarding grants at the slowest pace in decades. We took a detailed look at every area of science affected by the funding lag. Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · May 22

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research.

NSF Astronomy was cut by 53%

Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79%

Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO.

#GiftLink ⚛️🔭

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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

www.nytimes.com

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Pranav Minasandra @pminasandra.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨
The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(🧵 1/10)

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Ecology of Animal Societies @livingingroups.bsky.social · May 19

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · May 2

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year
NASA cut by 24%
NIH cut by 40%
EPA cut by 55%
NSF cut by 56%
Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science

Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.

www.nature.com

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · May 2

I just got word that this federal transportation grant was terminated today, despite us removing the word "climate" from the title. The moral of the story? Obeying orders doesn't keep you safe with this administration.

Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · Feb 10

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · Feb 6

Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.

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Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena @emergencediep.bsky.social · Apr 23

📐Excited to have Vishwesha Guttal @vishuguttal.bsky.social (Professor from IISC, Bangalore) tomorrow 11am for our weekly DIEP seminar!
Vishwesha will discuss the role of stochasticity in biogical systems such as animals 🐼
Interested? You can register here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · Apr 17

Since we've moved platforms, I thought I'd make a new explainer thread for our (Aamir Sadiq, @vishuguttal.bsky.social, Rohini Balakrishnan, and I) recent paper on tree crickets.

Meet Oecanthus henryi. Like in many cricket species, O. henryi males call to attract mates.

#science #evobio 🌍 🧬

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Vishwesha (Vishu) Guttal ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್ @vishuguttal.bsky.social · Apr 6

Lab group pictures, which somehow did not upload!

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Vishwesha (Vishu) Guttal ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್ @vishuguttal.bsky.social · Apr 6

Our lab went for a little field trip retreat. Semi-arid rocky landscapes are absolutely amazing!

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Abhilasha Joshi, PhD @rhythmicspikes.bsky.social · Apr 5

I’m certainly not a superwoman but it’s so exciting to be featured in a comic that I grew up reading 🥳 😇

@ncbsbangalore.bsky.social
#TinkleMagazine

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National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social · Apr 4

#NewComicAlert!
We are back with another inspiring comic with Tinkle Magazine featuring cognitive and behavioural neuroscientist Dr Abhilasha Joshi! 🧠 🐀

Happy reading!
Download your free copy here: bit.ly/ncbsxtinklec...

@rhythmicspikes.bsky.social

#sciencecomics #womenscientists

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Apr 2

NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.

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Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · Apr 1

This hasn't gotten much attention—but new National Science Foundation grants have dropped by almost half since Trump took office, an analysis by @davidimiller.bsky.social shows. www.science.org/content/arti...

(Story by @policyhound.bsky.social)

NSF has awarded almost 50% fewer grants since Trump took office

The reasons aren’t clear—and the agency’s director claims the president’s policies haven’t slowed grant awards

www.science.org

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Apr 1

🚀 Apply now 🚀

The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops.

postdocprogram.mpg.de
#ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram

Early-career reseachers at one of our Max Planck Institutes.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Apr 1

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

PRAMS Shuttered for Good

In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Mar 31

Science & the innovation economy are under threat.

"We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."

Read & share ... 👇

Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Mar 31

Stand up.

Today I join with >1900 members of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine signing this letter, as individuals, decrying the assault on #science by the GOP and Trump administration.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens

TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...

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Vidita Vaidya @viditavaidya.bsky.social · Mar 31

Bombay in spring from the @tifrscience.bsky.social campus - the fleeting window of time before summer descend in full blazing glory!

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Mar 28

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Mar 28

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 23

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 24

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Mar 26

Follow-up #substack post (5 min read) on the consequences of yesterday's ad-hoc termination by HHS of virus research spanning antiviral therapeutics, vaccines, immunology and more. Bottom-line: a bad decision for science and policy.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Mar 26

Michael Lin (Stanford) reports his grant on anti-COVID meds was terminated.

Pandemics become endemic.
Endemic diseases require treatments.
Treatments require research.
Research requires continuity of support.
Continuity of support requires federal funding.

But the WH just doesn't get it.

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