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Maria E. Orive @meorive.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

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Maria E. Orive @meorive.bsky.social · 1d

I really need Dolly to stay here with us.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 1d

I hope this reaches you.

To a Life in Despair

Don't. Don't go to the bridge.
Don't wake in your coat in the morning light
and carry those stones into the river.
Don't find your father's pistol
in the attic, hidden in the family albums.
Don't. Don't pour the pills
into the whiskey, the walls dissolving
like your childhood. Don't, just don't choose
not to wake.

Stay. Just stay.
Tell yourself you'll do it tomorrow.
You can always walk alone into the darkness.
But not yet. Not yet. Not this soon.
I don't have a reason
to give you. All I have
is the morning, and the autumn wind,
and the child you once were
in the darkness, looking at the new moon
through the ruins, saying
save me, save me, save me,
and the moon looking back
with her vacant
face
saying I promise, I stone-
cold promise
that the face of utter
hopelessness
is the face of something just about to change.

—Joseph Fasano

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Maria E. Orive @meorive.bsky.social · 2d

And this is a society journal - from the Society for Modeling and Theory in Biology @smtpb.bsky.social !

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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to this! A non-Elsevier alternative to Theoretical Population Biology / Journal of Theoretical Biology

Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 8d

Population Biology Modeling & Theory (PBMT) is a peer-reviewed journal reporting advances in modeling and theory within population biology. Its scope spans demography, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, and phylogenetics. PBMT will be online soon.

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 8d

Population Biology Modeling & Theory (PBMT) is a peer-reviewed journal reporting advances in modeling and theory within population biology. Its scope spans demography, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, and phylogenetics. PBMT will be online soon.

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Maria E. Orive @meorive.bsky.social · 7d

I know you are making a thoughtful point, but my brain is all “cuuuuute puppy!”

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 7d

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 7d

The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky is hiring a Microbiologist (broadly defined). Microbial eco-evo folks, this is your sign to come work with us. Not in the search committee, but happy to answer questions.
ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...
#microbiology #ecology

Assistant or Associate Professor in Microbiology

The Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor le...

ukjobs.uky.edu

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

Jane Goodall, one of the world's most renowned conservationists, first found fame in the early 1960s for her paradigm-busting work as a primatologist. In 2021, David Marchese interviewed her about making the world place and the usefulness of hope in the face of fear and anger. nyti.ms/3KvuvOn

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Vox @vox.com · 7d

Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while touring the country to deliver an urgent message about nature and human existence.

“We’re destroying the planet,” she said last week during the Forbes Sustainability Leaders Summit in NYC.

Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — message

Her final interviews are essential listening for everyone.

www.vox.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 7d

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

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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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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 9d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 9d

30% drop year over year!

Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison

This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.

www.jsonline.com

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Maria E. Orive @meorive.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve taught about Huntingtons for decades in introductory genetics - the thought that we may finally, finally have a treatment makes me so emotional.

Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 12d

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular:

The joy.

One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

Huntington's progression slowed by experimental gene therapy

An experimental gene therapy slowed Huntington’s by up to 75 percent in a small clinical trial. While not a cure, it may give patients longer lives.

www.sciencenews.org

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10d

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

www.nytimes.com

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Tony Antonellis @sequenceman.bsky.social · 13d

The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan is looking for a new faculty colleague at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share!

careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Asst Professor | U-M Careers

careers.umich.edu

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Maria E. Orive @meorive.bsky.social · 18d

Love that!

Maria E. Orive @meorive.bsky.social · 18d

I feel like the show would be called Mind the Collar Gap.

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Don Vinh @donvinh.bsky.social · 20d

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Science Magazine @science.org · 19d

A cloud of uncertainty hangs over the heads of many agricultural scientists, as USDA continues to postpone grant decisions and fails to announce many new funding opportunities. https://scim.ag/3KaOXDV

USDA funding delays under Trump compromise agricultural research

Sharp drop in grant awards leaves researchers frustrated

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 19d

Indiana University offers 2 NIH traineeships in reproductive diversity, focusing on sexual reproduction and development across species. PhD in relevant fields required. More info: https://reporter.nih.gov/search/tkwkKtadrUm6rFCBMUaEnw/project-details/11137703. #postdoc

RePORT ⟩ RePORTER

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 19d

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing.

#twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Illinois professors face threats after landing on Charlie Kirk group watchlist

An online database compiled by a group affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk identifies close to 50 Illinois college instructors it labels "radical professors."

www.wbez.org

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adepsis @adepsis.bsky.social · 19d

Pew Research looks the same:

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Georgii "Yegor" Bazykin @gbazykin.bsky.social · 20d

Now hiring a computational postdoc (evolutionary genomics, molecular evolution) in my lab at Emory University.
If you’re interested in population genetics, fitness landscapes, and viral evolution — get in touch.
faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/151181/...

Careers | Emory University | Atlanta GA

faculty-emory.icims.com

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