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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · 12d

Friday afternoon after a long week: cave-dwelling lifestyle sounding appealing? Dr. Misty Riddle interview may be of interest!

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How the cavefish lost its eyes — again and again

Mexican tetras that got swept into pitch-black caverns had no use for the energetically costly organs. They lost their eyes in multiple ways — and gained some nifty traits too.

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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · 14d

@unevadareno.bsky.social Biology Assistant Professor Misty Riddle featured in this career profile in @dev-journal.bsky.social!

(We love the shout-out to former Biology Facilities Manager Lou Christensen!)

Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 27d

Transitions in development – an interview with Misty Riddle.

We caught up with Misty from @unevadareno.bsky.social to find out about her path from the vet clinic to the lab bench, her research into cavefish and her transition to becoming a group leader:

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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · 15d

The rumors are true, "Nevada Plants: An Annotated Checklist of the State’s Botanical Diversity" is now out!

This represents the hard work of Jerry Thiem and Jan Nachlinger and all sales benefit the @unevadareno.bsky.social Museum of Natural History! 🌱

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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions

We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · Aug 15

Congratulations Biology Prof. Dr. Misty Riddle on her new #NSF CAREER award! 🦠+ 🐟 = 🎉

www.unr.edu/nevada-today...

Evolutionary biologist Misty Riddle receives NSF CAREER Award | University of Nevada, Reno

Riddle will explore the genetic basis of host-microbiome interactions

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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · Aug 11

We are hiring! Tenure-track position in Neurobiology in the Department of Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno @unevadareno.bsky.social. 🧪🧠 #neuroscience #neuroskyence

jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/674336/a...

Assistant Professor, Neurobiology - Reno, Nevada (US) job with University of Nevada, Reno - College of Science | 674336

The Department of Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno, is looking for a tenure-track assistant professor to join us starting July 1, 2026. We...

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · Aug 11

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution

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Dan Gruner, Ph.D. @dsgruner.bsky.social · Nov 14

NSF is seeking a permanent Program Officer in the Population and Community Ecology cluster, Division of Environmental Biology.
If you are a mid-career academic ecologist still in love with science, but not so much with academia, this could be a great position for you! 🌎
www.usajobs.gov/job/759052000

Biological Science Administrator (Program Director)

<p>The National Science Foundation is seeking qualified candidates for a Biological Science Administrator (Program Director) position for the Population and Community Ecology Cluster within the Direct...

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Kyle J McCulloch (he/him) @kypodseyepods.bsky.social · Jul 25

I am looking for a postdoc! Please share with Evo-devo-neuro-sensory people who might be interested.

We have multiple projects available so don't feel like you are not qualified to apply if you don't check every single box on the job ad!

Apply here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

University of Florida - Details - Postdoctoral Associate

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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · Jul 21

We're hiring! Tenure-track position in Neurobiology at UNR jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/674336/a...

Assistant Professor, Neurobiology - Reno, Nevada (US) job with University of Nevada, Reno - College of Science | 674336

The Department of Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno, is looking for a tenure-track assistant professor to join us starting July 1, 2026. We...

jobs.sciencecareers.org

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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨🚨🚨PUI TT Job Alert!!

My dept at TCNJ is hiring a tenure track cell and molecular biologist. Come join my supportive colleagues, helpful staff, & fabulous students!

We're surprisingly well resourced w/excellent equipment (confocal, SEM etc) and research w/students counts towards our teaching load!

Assistant Professor - Biology

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Annie Leonard @annieleonard.bsky.social · Jul 14

Sad news from UNR Biology @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social: longtime faculty Dr. Jeanne Zeh has passed away.

An impactful #animalbehavior and #evolution researcher, she created popular courses on #epigenetics.

To help fund a scholarship in her honor: tinyurl.com/mv9suehw

Obit: tinyurl.com/269844jf

Donate to the JAZ memorial scholarship, organized by Adrian Zeh

Jeanne Zeh carried out research at the interface of behavior, genetics and evolution… Adrian Zeh needs your support for Donate to the JAZ memorial scholarship

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jul 8

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

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Annie Leonard @annieleonard.bsky.social · Jun 28

Now out in @royalsociety.org Open Science! Anna Tatarko explored how site of origin affects wild bumble #bee responses to pesticide combos! Collaboration with Rachel Vannette and Steve Frese allowed her to also look at the gut #microbiome 🐝🦠🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A snapshot of the map from the study showing the location of an alpine, shoreline, and suburban site in Northern Nevada (USA) where Bombus vosnesenskii were sampled from

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Paula Whyman @paulawhyman.bsky.social · Jun 22

It's not going to "vanish," it's going to be eliminated by the current administration.
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Bees are collapsing in the U.S. A key to their secrets might vanish.

The top federal lab on native bees is set to close under President Trump’s budget.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Jun 8

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.

“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant

Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

www.nytimes.com

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨Anyone want a job?🚨
We have two #postdocs up for grabs! 🧪
- cell developmental biology/#evodevo/#neuroevodevo
- bioinformatics and molecular biology
Both working on brain evolution in Heliconiini butterflies
Details below! Please repost 🙏 1/n

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · Jun 2

As the US House tax and spending bill goes to the Senate, we encourage those who can to continue contacting your representatives about supporting funding for the NSF, NIH, EPA, and other science agencies. Use our media tool to get started: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · Jun 3

Equally important, I think it's folly to assume things will return to "normal". The NSF is being decimated. Even if Congress were to restore prior funding levels who will administer the $? Tons of people are gone & hiring will be hard because who will trust that job going forward?

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 3

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · Jun 3

I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · Jun 3

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

What are we doing?

Ardem Patapoutian's story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science.

He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino's at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience.

He started a lab at Scripps Research in San Diego with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, discovered the way humans sense touch, and in 2021 won the Nobel Prize.

But with the Trump administration slashing spending on science, Dr. Patapoutian's federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. In late February, he posted on Bluesky that such cuts would damage biomedical research and prompt an exodus of talent from the United States. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to "any city, any university I want," he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · Jun 3

Places with the highest unemployment rates will be hit hardest by the House budget, which kicks 15 million people off of health insurance

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Screenshot of a figure from the linked post showing a binned scatterplot of unemployment rates and Medicaid coverage rates across counties. Counties with the highest unemployment rate are those with the highest share of Medicaid recipients.

The title of the figure is "Medicaid cuts hit hardest in local economies that can bear them the least" and the subtitle is "Unemployment rates and the share of the 19–64-year-old population covered by Medicaid across U.S. counties, 2019–2023."

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Becca Dzombak @rdzombak.bsky.social · Jun 2

The USGS ecosystems research program doesn't just study wildlife. Its researchers work on rangelands and forests, fisheries and aquaculture, and critically, wildfire.

Trump's proposed budget eliminates this program entirely, allocating $0 for 2026.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...

Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut a Major Ecology Program

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Jun 2

One of the worst aspects of the detailed NSF budget request (emphasis on request) is that it eviscerates our ability to train future scientists. Funding for postdocs (PhD scientists doing research w/o permanent jobs) — some of the most productive scientists out there — would be down 91%. 🧪 [1/]

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAMS FY 2026 BUDGET REQUEST TO CONGRESS (Dollars in Millions)

FY 2024 Current Plan $472.52 63.00 284.52 58.00 [144.41] 67.00 $65.03 2.40 3.00 4.12 10.80 8.36 8.25 17.10 1.50 1.50 8.00 $537.55 FY 2025 (TBD) FY 2026 Request $167.22 21.71 127.29 - [112.851 18.22 $5.62 4.12 1.50 $172.84 Change over FY 2024 Current Plan Amount Percent -$305.30 -64.6% -41.29 -65.5% -157.23 -55.3% -58.00 -100.0% [-31.56] [-21.9%] -48.78 -72.8% -$59.41 -91.4% -2.40 -100.0% -3.00 -100.0% -10.80 -8.36 -8.25 -17.10 -1.50 -8.00 -$364.71 -100.0% -100.0% -100.0% -100.0% -100.0% -100.0% -67.8%

Fellowships and Scholarships CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) NSF Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) (H-1B)' Robert Noyce Scholarship (Noyce) Program Postdoctoral Programs Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships Engineering Postoctoral Fellowships (eFellows) Entreprenural Fellowships Geosciences Postdoctoral Fellowships Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships MPS ASCEND Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) SPRF-Broadening Participation SPRF-Fundamental Research STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Total 1 Totals exclude H-1B Visa funded programs (S-STEM).

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · May 31

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

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