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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22h

Hey US scientists, the NY Times wants to hear from you if you've had your funding cut. 🌊🧪

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

www.nytimes.com

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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 1d

Going forward, preprints will form the basis of @hhmi.org assessments of its researchers’ work.💪

Starting January 1,2026, HHMI will require its scientists to post their research articles as preprints under an open license that allows unrestricted reuse (CC-BY-4.0).
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HHMI Enacts “Immediate Access To Research” Policy For Its Scientists – ASAPbio

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is requiring its scientists to post their research articles as preprints under an open license that allows

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 5d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 8d

Remembering and celebrating Jane Goodall, one of the most impactful conservationists of our time who fought for the world’s most vulnerable species and proved to all of us that one person can make a difference. 💚

Quote from Jane Goodall- "I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom not separated from it."

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ASAB @asab.org · 8d

Sad news. We know Jane Goodall was an inspiration to many of our members. She brought real change not only to animal behaviour, but to the world 🌍

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 8d

BREAKING: Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died.

Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died

Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 13d

Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack

Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Zoology

The Division of Vertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an Assistant Curator in either the Department of Ornithology, Ichthyology, or Mammalogy to start on or after J...

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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 16d

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

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Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 19d

If you are from the US and interested in applying for a PhD with me (or anyone else @camzoology.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social), your deadline for the gates scholarship is October 15!
(You’ll need to write a research proposal, so contact PIs now) www.gatescambridge.org/programme/th...

Postgraduate Cambridge University Scholarship | Gates Cambridge

A fully funded graduate education for future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.

www.gatescambridge.org

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Greg Albery @gfalbery.bsky.social · Sep 8

Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)

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Yuko Munakata @yukomunakata.bsky.social · Sep 8

UC Davis is hiring! A tenure-track assistant professor of psychology, in human cognition or cognitive neuroscience #psychjobs recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Jul 3

Here's a paper with a skeleton of the idea, but there is really lots of research to do on the structure of workflow networks, now to make them robust, how to development diagnostics and calculi for steps within them. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution | PNAS

Cultural evolution applies evolutionary concepts and tools to explain the change of culture over time. Despite advances in both theoretical and emp...

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Vladimir Pravosudov @cognitiveecol.bsky.social · Jun 26

New paper from the lab - the overview of our long-term work on selection on spatial cognition in chickadees.
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Living on the edge: the evolution of spatial cognition in food-caching chickadees | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

There is a tremendous amount of intra- and inter-specific variation in animal cognitive abilities, and understanding the evolutionary mechanisms generating such variation is an important issue in evol...

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HHMI @hhmi.org · Jun 21

“Basic scientific research is so appealing to me because, despite it being very frustrating and a lot of work, the payout is so amazing,” explains @fsantoriello.bsky.social‬, a postdoctoral researcher in HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler’s lab at Princeton.

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · Jun 21

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution?

If so nominate your project for a SORTEE Commendation Award:

More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

SORTEE awards

Awards of Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · Jun 15

The US is now experiencing a brain drain that will be felt for at least a generation.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

‘No way to invest in a career here’: US academics flee overseas to avoid Trump crackdown

Budding scholars pursue overseas jobs amid attacks on education and research, prompting fears of an American brain drain

www.theguardian.com

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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · Jun 15

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Jun 14

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Steven Pergam, MD, MPH @pergamic.bsky.social · Jun 12

"The story of the negative impact on the future of infectious disease research will only become part of public discourse if scientists speak up loudly"

A must read.

One Hundred Days, Incalculable Loses @jidjournal.bsky.social

Emily Erbelding, MD - NIAID/DMD

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One Hundred Days, Incalculable Losses

Emily J Erbelding, M.D., M.P.H; One Hundred Days, Incalculable Losses, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, , jiaf317, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaf31

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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · Jun 6

this paper about measuring dyadic paper in the context of causal inference which makes me weep with joy by @benkawam.bsky.social and is an example of what all should strive for doi.org/10.1101/2024...

A causal framework for the drivers of animal social network structure

A major goal of behavioural ecology is to explain how phenotypic and ecological factors shape the networks of social relationships that animals form with one another. This inferential task is notoriou...

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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · Jun 6

this is a undercited "banger", especially the SI where DAGs abound by academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Social integration predicts survival in female white-faced capuchin monkeys

Hide Do more social individuals live longer? We use an 18-year longitudinal data of white-faced capuchin monkeys’ social behavior to show that adult female

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Jun 8

Registration for the SORTEE conference is now open (events.humanitix.com/sortee-confe...)

@asn-amnat.bsky.social is a sponsoring society and ASN members get free registration to the SORTEE conference

SORTEE Conference 2025

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Jun 8

📖Published📖

A computational framework to characterize and compare the tonal repertoires of toothed whales 🐳 🌍 🧪

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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · Jun 2

URGENT! Contact your senators today to advocate to fund science agencies and programs!

The Senate Appropriations Committee & its subcommittees are writing appropriation bills for the federal FY26 budget now.

Here's how you can help: esa.org/esablog/2025...

the U.S. Capitol building on an overcast day, looking ominous

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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · Jun 2

I called my senators about the NIH and NSF cuts this morning (made easy with @5calls.org)! I'll be calling every day this week and encouraging friends & family to do the same

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · May 31

Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health.

But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science

It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.

www.motherjones.com

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · Jun 2

We just got an email that Hopkins is freezing salaries, hiring, and some construction projects. In addition to the 800 million USAID we lost, we’ve had another 50 million in grants canceled so far. And a 2/3 year over year decline in funded grants despite an increase in submissions

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