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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 51m

Lost science series is documenting the research that is being cut in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c... 🧪

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 1d

This is so cool - mysterious, rare loud booms come from this large lake near where I grew up and scientists are studying why. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Why Is This Lake ‘Burping’?

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 27d

This deep-sea worm creates a toxic yellow pigment found in Rembrandt and Cézanne paintings.
Paralvinella hessleri is the first known animal to create orpiment, which was used by artists for centuries. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🦑

This deep-sea worm creates a toxic yellow pigment found in Rembrandt and Cézanne paintings

Paralvinella hessleri is the first known animal to create orpiment, which was used by artists for centuries.

www.nature.com

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 28d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s... today in my Evolution class we will be discussing just how many undiscovered species there are. Scientists think there are as many uncharacterized vertebrates as there are characterized. Here's a new one - deep sea bumpy snail fish! 🧪🦑

A New, ‘Adorable’ Deep-Sea Fish Swims Into View

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Aug 11

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary simulations across multiple chromosomes and full genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669155v1

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Anna Brüniche-Olsen @annabruniche.bsky.social · Aug 4

Long runs of homozygosity are reliable genomic markers of inbreeding depression 🧬 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Long runs of homozygosity are reliable genomic markers of inbreeding depression

A long-standing goal in ecological, evolutionary, and conservation genetics is to identify genomic correlates of fitness and inbreeding depression. Over the past several years, a growing body of theor...

www.cell.com

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Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · Sep 2

Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier.
Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET)
How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs.
Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity

Nicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · Jul 10

3-year #postdoc position at Centre de synthèse et d'analyse de la biodiversité (CESAB) in Montpellier to work on how taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS

FRB｜Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité @frbiodiv.bsky.social · Jun 4

[📢 Postdoc offer in Montpellier] Work on intraspecific diversity & translocation in Nature-based Solutions 🌿

Join the EVOLUTION Knowledge-Hub at the #FRB-CESAB

🔗 More informations: bit.ly/43uRz6Z

@cnrs.fr @inrae-france.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Sep 5

www.npr.org/2025/09/05/n... what ICE can legally and not legally do during arrests. Know your rights

What ICE agents can and cannot legally do during arrests

Tactics by immigration agents attempting to arrest undocumented immigrants have shocked the public and led to protests. But what is, and isn't, allowed by law when it comes to ICE arrests?

www.npr.org

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Apr 18

Pacific oysters have been introduced widely to satisfy human tastebuds. A statistical model based on genotyped oysters suggests six other species likely hitchhiked on the bivalves, including the shell-boring polychaete, Polydora hoplura. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Feral Pacific oysters (Magallana gigas) in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

CREDIT: Gen Kanaya

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Dan Yocum. Ugh. @yocum137.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · Aug 27

Do you have questions about the near-future and COVID vaccination access? (I do.) Fortunately for us, my colleague @meghanbartels.bsky.social has answers. I'm so grateful for the information she pulled together in this article. www.scientificamerican.com/article/who-...

COVID Vaccines Are Still Saving Lives—But They Will Be Harder to Get This Year

Many questions still surround COVID vaccine access this fall, but here’s what we know so far

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

The survey delivers the first systematic evaluation of how policy changes have disrupted scientific work that supports American interests and serves the public good. Read the full technical report at: www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Open-ended responses were along a continuum from positive impacts to irreparable harm. Respondents who thought the harm was irreparable cited disruptions to time-sensitive data collection or trainings, and harm to constituents caused by loss of institutional knowledge in the federal government.

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

There reports of declines in government efficiency and loss of institutional knowledge in the federal workforce, such as delayed funding decisions, delays in collaborative research, and increased waste associated with the cancellation of projects that were in progress.

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

...Participants reported that federal cuts and uncertainty caused a severe narrowing of the job market, cancellations of undergraduate training programs, cuts to graduate admission programs by universities, rescinded offers, and cuts to merit-based fellowship programs.

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Most respondents reported that US federal training programs were important to their development as scientists, with 71% reporting it was "very important" or "extremely important". Respondents from different career stages were concerned about an early career bottleneck...

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

83% of respondents said that federal policies since Jan 20, 2025 had "extremely negative impact" or "irreparable harm" on their field of science

Respondents were asked to indicate the degree and direction of the impact of federal and state policies since January 20, 2025 on the categories of: “Impact on my field of science”, “Impact on my Department and Institution”, “Impact on my research”, “Impact on my career prospects”, and “Impact on my personal life”. A percentage of respondents reported positive impacts in each category (~1-2%). 83% of respondents said that federal policies since Jan 20, 2025 had "extremely negative impact" or "irreparable harm" on their field of science (Figure 3, top row). 83% of the respondents also reported that the effects on their department/institution were slightly negative to extremely negative, with 8% reporting no impact and 8% reporting irreparable harm (Figure 3, second row). Most respondents reported slightly negative to extremely negative effects on their research (76%) and career prospects (71%), with about 20% reporting no impact and 5-8% reporting irreparable harm in both categories (Figure 3, third and forth rows). A majority of respondents reported slightly negative to extremely negative effects on their personal life (83%), with 7% reporting irreparable harm and 9% reporting no impact (Figure 3, fifth row).

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

and concerns about the future of long-standing federal programs such as the Bird Banding Lab, a 100-year federal program www.usgs.gov/labs/bird-ba... that "runs all federal bird permits and maintains the data for all birds banded (captured, measured, marked, and released) in the United States".

Bird Banding Laboratory

www.usgs.gov

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Respondents reported restrictions on free speech and travel, chilling effects on free speech and travel, censorship of scientific terms, concerns about the ability of the government to comply with legal mandates, reports of biased or removed information from federal sources, removal of climate.gov

Most respondents reported that federal policies caused uncertainty about the future (85% of respondents) and increased stress and anxiety (79%). Almost half of respondents reported being impacted by a chilling effect on free speech (48%), funding freezes (48%), cuts to the federal workforce (46%), and budget cuts (46%). About a third of respondents reported being affected by changes to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies (38%), hiring freezes (36%), cuts or threats of cuts to indirect costs (36%), concerns about human rights violations (35%). A proportion of respondents were affected by changes to international research and funding (25%), deletion of public data (21%), restrictions on research (20%), cancellations of solicitations (19%), cancellations of an awarded grant (17%), and cancellation of a training program or internship (14%). Threats to visa status were reported by 8% of respondents (117 respondents) and 1% of respondents reported visa revocation (18 respondents). A percentage of respondents reported no negative impact to them or their research (6%).

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Participating societies also include @entsocamerica.bsky.social , American Society of #Ichthyologists and #Herpetologists ,@cerfscience.bsky.social ,and @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social ,

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Participating societies include @asn-amnat.bsky.social ,@sse-evolution.bsky.social , @systbiol.bsky.social @official-bweems.bsky.social , #WOCEEB , American #Genetics Society , @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social ,@amornith.bsky.social ,Western Society of Naturalists #WSN ,@scbnorthamerica.bsky.social

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

Almost 1400 members participated in the survey. Respondents to the survey were geographically distributed across the US and spread across career stages, as well as spread across academia, the federal government, non-profits, and industry. www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

Impacts on Science - 2025 July Survey

A technical report on the impacts of federal policies since January 20, 2025 on Ecology, evolution and marine science: Summer 2025

www.firsthandaccounts.org

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

This infographic describes the main results from a survey of members of 14 scientific societies. There is a pie chart showing that both academic (58%) and non-academic (42%) responded to the survey. It lists statistics: 85% of respondents reported uncertainty about the future; 71% reported federal training programs were "very" or "extremely important"; 83% reported negative impacts or irreparable harm on their field of science. There is a word cloud summarizing open-ended responses with the largest words "student research fund federal grant". Eight major themes in the responses are listed: disruption of research with societal important; concerns of closure of the USGS Bird Banding Lab; Early Career Bottleneck; Restricted Freedoms including travel and speech; Decline in Government Efficiency and Expertise; Concerns about Biased/Removed Data and Data Gaps; Concerns about the Ability to Meet Legal Mandates; and From Positive Impact to Irreparable Harm. There are icons for each participating society and a QR code for website and data availability.

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · Aug 20

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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Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · Aug 20

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

An anole extends its dewlap, which says "call for scientists!"

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