Two independent origins of XY sex chromosomes in Asparagus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674532v1

Excited to share the first paper from my PhD!

We looked at what traits help Aneides salamanders excel at climbing using museum specimens, CT scans, SEM, and more! No claws or toe pads, so how do they do it? In short, with long limbs, big feet and grippy toes! 🦎🧪

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I would simply hire 5 actual real life graduate teaching assistants for classes

Wake up, babe, a new phylogeny and classification of coelacanths just dropped. 🐟🧪

*ahem*
Kentucky, West Virginia, I’m gonna need you two to look at your voting, look at your Medicaid usage, look deep in your soul and get right with the Lord.

Y’all didn’t use to be like this, and your coal miner granddaddies are spinning in the ground.

Excited to launch a new State Wildlife Grant on the newly-described Plethodon pauleyi. An impressive undergrad team’s habitat analysis from last fall is helping us locate new pops of this enigmatic species, w/ almost 20% of all of Virginia’s known individuals of the species recorded in the last week

dude what the fuck

My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday.

I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.

If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.

Yesterday I was awarded $10k in research funds, today the grant was terminated by NSF. Would love someone to explain how this is making America great again…

Really enjoyed speaking with @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social at @motherjones.com for this piece on Helene's impacts on #Appalachia. The story discusses our long-term river restoration work & how ongoing attacks on science by the Trump admin might impact regional conservation efforts.

I’m so angry & heart broken. My NSF CAREER grant was stolen today; dream project supporting science teachers/students as climate justice action researchers, tackling urban heat. Truly transformative, the culmination of my life’s work, we won’t stop, not in this climate crisis. Gonna fight like hell!

Muy buena oportunidad para estudiantes internacionales interesados en un doctorado en US.

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In case this is helpful to someone out there: I'm moving to Ball State University this August, and I'll have a support for MS students over the next three years (RAs/TAs)

If your lab has talented students graduating this spring, I welcome them to reach out and talk about the opportunities.

Saying it’s ‘about hate,’ Beshear vetoes ban on DEI in Kentucky public higher education kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/20/s...

Colleagues, including my partner, with years of service at the agency. Some Permanent POs reclassified as Probationary. Exceptional scientists who were former professors at major institutions, and came to NSF to serve the community and ensure science thrives in the US.

I'm giving away EVERY Masters set EVER! It's Masters Masters!

I'm giving TEN PEOPLE each one box of Masters from the entire history of Masters sets as a thank you!

Just donate in multiples of $4.00 to
@translifeline.bsky.social until Feb 15 at 11am PST!

Donate---> give.translifeline.org/tolarian

Rhiannon Hall @rhall01.bsky.social tackled a split poster for both chapters of her MS work: landscape genomics of two bumblebee species in North Dakota and occupancy modeling to understand bumble bee nest selection out at the Central Grasslands Research and Extension Center. 3/6

they’re PRIVATE

My student's diversity F31 has been pulled from study section even though it's the SAME APPLICATION as regular F31s, normally reviewed together in the same panel. Throwing out all the applications from URMs while the ones from white/privileged students get to be reviewed is blatant discrimination.

Bumping this because some issues with text formatting in the figures were fixed! The trees in the paper should be more legible now 😅

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

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The dismantling of American Science continues. The Organismal Response to Climate Change grant call has been cancelled. The NSF Director is a disgrace

I'm begging a major news org to cover the fact NSF is defying the courts to enact Trump's unconstitutional executive order