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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 9d

Please spread widely and quickly - the more signatures we get the better chances we have of cajoling NSF into changing course on this small but very impactful item

Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 9d

NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
and please spread the word!!!!

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 11d

Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share

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CoreyWelch_STEM @coreywelch.bsky.social · 12d

Attending SACNAS conference? Sign up ->

10th Annual SACNAS 1-on-1 Mentoring Workshop. Need 100+ mentors. Oct. 30th, 5:30 - 7:00 PM, N. Short Ballroom

Mentors Link (Faculty/Postdocs/Staff): 1 min to fill out forms.gle/daTSoT8yniJ8...

Each mentor is assigned 1-2 students.

Sign-up to be a MENTOR: "10th Annual 1-on-1 Mentoring with a SACNAS Leader" Mentoring Undergraduates using a modified-IDP

Meet for 35-40 minutes with an Undergraduate/Postbac/Grad student to discuss their career goals. You will meet with 1-2 individuals during the 90 min session. We have a much bigger space this year so ...

forms.gle

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Thom Sanger @thomsanger.bsky.social · 28d

I am one of a growing number of voices encouraging the scientific community to engage with people and policymakers outside of our typical professional circles. Our professional organizations, including @sicb.bsky.social, also need to engage with new audiences by making their science accessible.

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · Sep 8

This was such a fascinating talk at #SICB25 so excited to see it published www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Evolution of thumbnails across Rodentia

The unguis (hoof, claw, or nail) of the first digit (D1, also known as the thumb or pollex) of the tetrapod hand exhibits numerous functional adaptations, but its macroevolutionary association with ec...

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · Sep 4

Read this and sign it!

Stacy Farina @stacyfarina.bsky.social · Sep 2

Trump's very first example of the Smithsonian's "corrosive ideology" was an exhibit that correctly stated "Race is a human invention." How is scientific consensus (that biological races don't exist in humans) corrosive? We are asking scientists to co-sign our statement: forms.gle/kqKQF9CZ3jPB...

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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · Sep 3

Excuse me, what?

Nature @nature.com · Sep 3

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species

go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

go.nature.com

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · Sep 1

This looks super interesting!

Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · Sep 1

Excited to announce that the 1st paper from my postdoc is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! Using a large dataset of 3D preserved fossils, we explore the diversification of jaws in early bony fishes. 1/15
www.cell.com/current-biol...

Macroevolutionary role reversals in the earliest radiation of bony fishes

Troyer et al. examine lower jaw evolution in Silurian-Devonian bony fishes and find substantial differences in patterns of morphological disparity, rates of shape evolution, and functional diversity b...

www.cell.com

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YokaiCafe @yokaicafe.bsky.social · Aug 30

💙 I'm SO doing this! 💙

🧠🪱🐤 SHARE, SHARE, SHARE 🧠🪱🐤

🦋 @standupforscience.bsky.social 🦋

act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yep!

A graphic of large Rubber ducks invading Washington DC that’s says “send your hour representative a message: impeach and remove the quack. $3 = 1 rubber ducky hand-delivered to your rep by a man in a duck costume” stand up for science.

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · Aug 28

As most science PhD programs are at least 5 years this is going to be a massive problem.

Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · Aug 28

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · Aug 27

It was great to collaborate with you Joao on making some justice to the memory of the Elisabeth "The Great" Vrba and contextualizing her contributions as one of the "three musketeers" of the macroevolution!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology #Geology #EvoBio

Venn diagram of the conceptual innovations and theoretical overlaps between the ideas of the “three musketeers” of macroevolution

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · Aug 20

No I am skipping SICB this year!

Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · Aug 20

My whole lab is going - who else will be there?

Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · Aug 19

Calling all natural history/museum collections folxs

The theme of the @systbiol.bsky.social breakout meeting in Baton Rouge is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'

The LSU Museum of Natural Science will host some events. Hope to see you there, Jan 9-11, 2026.

ssb2026.github.io

2026 SSB Breakout Meeting

ssb2026.github.io

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · Aug 18

I’m excited to finally be able to attend one of these SSB breakout meetings!

The Society of Systematic Biologists @systbiol.bsky.social · Aug 18

Are you ready for #SSB2026? See below to register for SSB’s break out meeting in January. This is a smaller meeting than the annual evolution meetings, capped at 200 registrants!

Jeremy M. Brown @jembrown.bsky.social · Aug 18

Registration is now open for #SSB2026!

I'm so excited to see many of you here in Baton Rouge in January! We're going to hear great talks, discuss the immeasurable value of natural history collections, and continue to strengthen our scientific community.

ssb2026.github.io

@systbiol.bsky.social

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hey @timmiller.bsky.social @thebulwark.com @maddow.msnbc.com @rbreich.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @atrupar.com @motherjones.com @clarajeffery.bsky.social

We are up to some good trouble! Can you help us reach 100k signatures to IMPEACH THE QUACK???

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Aug 14

🚨BREAKING NEWS: RFK Jr. is a danger to this nation. Don’t give in to Trump & his cronies: we are NOT trading innovation for ideology. We demand the immediate IMPEACHMENT and REMOVAL of RFK. Stop the quack. Protect Science. Protect Democracy
Sign & share here: zurl.co/PEPyD
#StandUpForScience

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · Aug 13

Nice find on our dog walk this evening! North American luna moth.

Large yellow green moth with long tails on its hind wings and dark brown leading edge of its forewing sitting on tree bark.

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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · Aug 11

Introducing the 1,000 Flower Collection 🧬🌹

I’m creating 1,000 genetically designed flowers each crafted with new colors, patterns, and shapes.

Here’s how I’m making it happen… and how you can join me on this journey 🧵(1/7)

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · Aug 9

Naturally!

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology!

Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions.

(Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.)

lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...

Postdoctoral Researcher

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Aug 8

I am really excited to be a part of this team. We took our time writing this, putting a lot of thought into how our journeys as #NativesInSTEM were affected by different aspects of Universities and looking for commonalities across the world. I hope folks in academia appreciate this work.

Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · Aug 8

New article led by Tara McAllister & co-authored by Lelani Walker, @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, myself, Bradley Moggridge, Serena Naepi, Brittany Kamai and @napaaqtuk.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them

Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

www.nature.com

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096...

Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples!

#rstats #geology #paleontology

Plot of global benthic δ18O data for 0 – 5.3 Ma (Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005) with geomagnetic polarity subchrons displayed on the top x-axis and planktic foraminiferal primary biozones plotted on the bottom x-axis using the deeptime package.

A mammal phylogeny (Garland et al., 1992) plotted in the fan layout using the ggtree and deeptime packages. The greyscale concentric circles in the background indicate geological stages, whereas the linear colored timescale indicates geological epochs.

Early tetrapod occurrence data (Jones et al., 2023) plotted as a taxonomic/biostratigraphic range plot using the geom_points_range() function from the deeptime package.

A stratigraphic column of Cretaceous lithostratigraphic units from the San Juan Basin, USA. The deeptime package has been used to add pattern fill which indicate the primary lithologies of the units as reported by the Macrostrat API (Peters et al., 2018) via the rmacrostrat R package (Jones et al., 2024).

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · Aug 4

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990

World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

theconversation.com

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Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social · Aug 2

Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Jul 31

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...

Senate committee endorses NIH budget increase, rebuking Trump administration’s proposed 40% cut

Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday

www.statnews.com

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