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Nathan Clark @nclark.bsky.social · 8d

Our Annual Reviews article is finally out!
We aimed to capture a lot of comparative genomics in mammals, while pointing out challenges and new directions.
With @ekopania.bsky.social

Phylogenomic Approaches to Study Adaptive Evolution in Mammals: From Aging to Aquatic Lifestyles | Annual Reviews

The natural world is full of valuable lessons about genetic adaptation as organisms respond to changing conditions around them. Deciphering these changes is a major goal of evolutionary genetics. Adva...

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Emily Kopania @ekopania.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you!

Emily Kopania @ekopania.bsky.social · 20d

So excited to have received a Catalyst award in support of outreach! I'm looking forward to teaching others about the evolution of vision!

Nathan Clark @nclark.bsky.social · 20d

Congrats to lab postdoc, Dr. Emily Kopania, on being selected for a Catalyst Award from the Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine! Her project will develop a Virtual Reality experience demonstrating to students how other species see the world through their differing visual systems.

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Emily Kopania @ekopania.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thank you to @gregschwartznu.bsky.social and @richkramerlab.bsky.social for organizing, and to all the great faculty and TAs who made this course possible!

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Emily Kopania @ekopania.bsky.social · Aug 19

I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the @mblscience.bsky.social Visual Neuroscience course these past two weeks! The MBL is an amazing place to do science and I learned so much to support my vision evolution research.

Emily standing in front of the Marine Biological Laboratory sign.

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Nathan Clark @nclark.bsky.social · Jul 5

Lab on NPR!
High Altitude Mammals Have Reduced Senses of Smell
nclarklab.org/wp-content/u...

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Peter Williams @peterw-ecol.bsky.social · Jun 24

I’m excited to share a new paper with @shannoncurley.bsky.social in Ecography! Winter & breeding bird communities in the NE USA have become more functionally & phylogenetically similar to one another over time. Check out which functions have changed!

doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

#Macroecology 🌎🦃🦆🦅

Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US

Around the world, ecological communities are becoming more similar to one another in a process known as biotic homogenization – an increase in similarity among communities over time. While biotic hom...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 19

What happens when NIH is under threat?
📉 Fewer clinical trials.
💔 No new treatments for cancer, rare diseases.

And long-term? We surrender our global leadership in biomedical research.

NIHers risked everything to speak out, b/c the stakes are life and death.

Stand with them here⬇️
zurl.co/OArEE

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Apr 25

📣PRESSURE WORKS!📣

The Trump administration has reversed its termination of thousands of students’ U.S. visa registrations, reinstating their legal status after legal challenges and court orders deemed the mass cancellations unlawful.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, DORKS!

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations

DOJ announced the reversal in federal court after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges.

www.politico.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Apr 24

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS

We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.

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ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · Apr 23

Do you love the ocean? It needs your voice now more than ever!

Calling Congress is one of the most powerful ways to protect our blue planet—and it only takes a few minutes! 📞

www.youtube.com/shorts/-X2_N...

Whale you call Congress? | #shorts

YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Apr 19

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

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NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Apr 16

Last one for Tax Day – NOAA 🌊

The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $21/year to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

💡 NOAA turns science into safety — for coasts, communities, & the climate. It helps safeguard lives, property, and ecosystems from rising seas and extreme weather.

A powerful ocean scene shows waves crashing against a row of buildings under a dark, stormy sky. Overlaid in bold white text: “How much would you pay to protect your coast?”

A square graphic with an aerial view of swirling ocean currents in teal and blue. Bold white text reads: “Only $21/year from the average taxpayer helps fund NOAA.”

A square infographic with a dark stormy ocean background. The white header text reads: “Your $21 funds these essential services.” Below are six dark blue boxes, each with a white icon and label:
1. Coastal Mapping – Detailed charts of shorelines, navigation hazards, and more
2. Weather Monitoring – Vital data for tracking storms, extreme heat, and drought
3. Marine Resource Management – Conservation of ocean life and sustainable fisheries
4. Coastal Resilience – Infrastructure that withstands storms and rising seas
5. Storm Research – Studies of severe weather patterns and impacts

The graphic uses clean lines, oceanic tones, and emphasizes the small taxpayer cost for these vital environmental services.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Apr 8

📣 GET IN, DORKS!
We are going protesting...AGAIN! 📣

This time we are standing up for our core value of academic freedom and asking university leadership to STAND UP WITH US against Trump's attack on higher ed ✊

#StandUpWithUS

Register/find an event: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

NATIONWIDE CAMPUS ACTION
STAND UP WITH US
because science, higher ed, and democracy are for everyone.
Where: YOUR COLLEGE CAMPUS
When: YOUR LAST DAY OF CLASSES
StandUpForScience2025.org

It’s time for a Summer Send-Off

Stand Up, Fight Back - TOGETHER!

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Eoin Brodie @elbrodie.bsky.social · Apr 11

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18.
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

US Applicant Week

www.grad.ubc.ca

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 6

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!

To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 2

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?

Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!

#standupforscience2025

Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · Feb 22

🚨PA colleagues:

"Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania."

"If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC

Get out your Other Support and share that info!

Microsoft Forms

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Emily Kopania @ekopania.bsky.social · Feb 20

Today is Day of Remembrance of the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. It's more important than ever to remember this history and defend the rights of immigrants and minorities.

Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · Feb 19

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which authorized the US military to forcibly remove over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry and launched their mass incarceration into concentration camps during World War II.

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · Feb 7

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender

President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...

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Emily Kopania @ekopania.bsky.social · Feb 7

DEI efforts benefit science!

NPR @npr.org · Feb 7

If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.

'Unprecedented': White House moves to control science funding worry researchers

If the Trump administration continues targeting DEI in science and seeking to slash funding, American science will look fundamentally different.

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Emily Kopania @ekopania.bsky.social · Feb 7

I'm excited to share the first paper from my current postdoc work with @nclark.bsky.social on the evolution of the visual system, now out in Evolution Letters! I also wrote a blog post summarizing our findings and featuring some fun museum photos: evolutionletters.net/looking-forw...

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Nathan Clark @nclark.bsky.social · Feb 3

Why the NIH matters and why weakening it would weaken us all.

NIH funding in Pittsburgh: What does it look like?

As federal funding to scientists across the country remains in limbo following White House directives, the ripple effects are already being felt in Pittsburgh. One...

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André K. Isaacs @drdre4000.bsky.social · Jan 12

Happy to announce I will be guest editing a special issue highlight PUI research! Please share

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Call For Papers: Undergraduate Research as the Stimulus for Scientific Progress in the USA | ACS Publications Chemistry Blog

This Special Issue will highlight the significant research activities at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) in the United States and their unique focus on fostering student engagement in STEM...

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Nathan Clark @nclark.bsky.social · Jan 2

New lab pub:
Our part, led by Dr. Sarah Lucas, argues that Marsupial mole eyesight degraded stepwise over millions of years...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unearthing the secrets of Australia’s most enigmatic and cryptic mammal, the marsupial mole

The marsupial mole’s genome unearths their phylogenetic status and insights into convergent evolution in subterranean mammals.

www.science.org

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