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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Smith Bee Lab @smithbeelab.bsky.social · 22d

The Smith Bee Lab is HIRING! 🐝🐝🐝
- Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date)
- 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026)

No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply!

(no jerks, plz)

Advertisement for applying to the Smith Bee Lab

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 11d

What are you gonna do, tackle him?

Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 11d

Holy shit. A 360lb receiver. 😬

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Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 14d

Surprisingly, the phylogeny implies (equivocally, to be sure) that the Elegans Supergroup of species, which includes C. elegans, is derived from American ancestors, and that a lot of the groups diversification may have taken place in Oceania, prior to subsequent invasions of Asia.

Biogeographic ancestral area reconstruction, with pie-charts at the nodes of a phylogeny indicating estimated marginal probabilities for each region. This phylogeny excludes a bunch of species whose distributions reflect human activity and whose pre-anthropogenic-movement distributions are unknown. The main result is that there's a lot of red (Oceania) in the deeper nodes of the Elegans Supergroup. There's other colors too, to be sure.

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Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 14d

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

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Paula Adams, PhD @peadams.bsky.social · 16d

My experience (also alabama) was that they're giving covid vaccines no questions asked here.

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Cientifico Latino, Inc. @cientificolatino.com · 29d

Applying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline?

We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨

🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks

#NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Sep 8

Vaccines are battle training for your immune system. If you could give it intel on the enemy, why would you withhold that? Give me ALL the vaccines! I want to be prepared for everything!

Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Sep 8

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

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

Obligatory sharing of John Oliver's take on this administrations fight against research and Universities #academia

youtu.be/xk94il8L820?...

Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

youtu.be

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Paula Adams, PhD @peadams.bsky.social · Sep 6

Was able to walk in to Kroger and get both with no appointment and no questions asked just now in Alabama.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Nearly all PhDs take 5 years--with finishing in 4 a rare outcome. This is deliberately designed to eliminate the international powerhouse that is US postgraduate training.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Aug 29

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students

Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.

www.forbes.com

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Paula Adams, PhD @peadams.bsky.social · Aug 27

I remember being able to grade by question in blackboard (all answers to question 1 on the same page). But cant do that with canvas 😢.

Canvas is better than BB for pretty much everything else though.

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Paula Adams, PhD @peadams.bsky.social · Aug 27

That makes sense. I taught a class 2 years ago with 35-40 and I could grade that no problem. But the ~185 is challenging. And canvas makes it more difficult than it should be 😅

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Paula Adams, PhD @peadams.bsky.social · Aug 27

What's your class size? Struggling to grade anything that's not multiple choice on canvas with large class.

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Aug 19

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · Aug 8

There are a lot of details in yesterday's sweeping executive order, but the bottom line is that it gives political appointees immense power over scientific grants, which have until now been stewarded by career civil servants and experts.

My reporting:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants

Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.

www.nature.com

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Kelly Lane @aklane.bsky.social · Aug 8

@emilydriessen.bsky.social and I wrote a letter in Science calling for us to lean into our communities and increase support for change agents during this time of adversity and funding cuts.

#DBER #BioEd

Community support for inclusive US education | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Community support for inclusive US education

The Trump administration is working to dismantle inclusive education efforts by opposing diversity, equity, and inclusion (1); encouraging divisive actions in K-12 schools such as banning books (2) an...

www.science.org

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Aug 6

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Aug 1

Why isn’t bell hooks’s writing around men and love not seen as a progressive text on how men can get laid, i.e., form healthy romantic relationships with people in their lives?

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jul 30

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names.

Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 18

STEM ed has been foundational to NSF's mission & mandated functions ever since its founding in 1950.

Ex: Remember the Magic School Bus? NSF funded that.

Bill Nye the Science Guy? Zoom? Reading Rainbow?

NSF was a key funder in all those [with others like the imperiled Corp for Public Broadcasting]

PBS - The Magic School Bus Ending Credits and Fundings

YouTube video by RoadRunnerCoyote2015

www.youtube.com

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · Jul 11

Normally write whatever comes to mind, but the editors specifically requested, if I had the time, to breakdown the meteorological factors that caused the Texas Floods. Here’s my take on 5 key ingredients

www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

5 Key Weather Ingredients That Led To Texas Floods

A meteorologist breaks down five key ingredients that led to the tragic Texas flooding on July 4th.

www.forbes.com

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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · Jul 10

To Craig's point, I always bring up the CRAZY stat buried in Morgan et al. '22:

Babies of profs become faculty ~9.5% of the time, while the overall prob a STUDENT IN A PHD becomes faculty = ~12%. One would hope ≥20 years of work & commitment toward a goal puts you far ahead of babies, but no.

Combining these quantities, we estimate that the probability of becoming a faculty member given that one’s parents hold a Ph.D.
is 9.5%, indicating a strong degree of both educational heritability and substantial professional advantage.

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · Jul 5

My deep dive on whether there were adequate weather warnings for the catastrophic flooding in Texas. Mentions Alan Gerard Balanced Weather and Jordan McLeod. I am really interested in your thoughts on my take.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Catastrophic Flooding In Texas - Were There Warnings?

Deadly flooding in the flash flood alley of Texas is raising questions about warnings. Here's a preliminary (but not conslusive) analysis.

www.forbes.com

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · Jul 2

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

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