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Daniel A. Olivas @danielolivas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

UT Austin Axes Several Ethnic, Gender Studies Majors The University of Texas at Austin will eliminate four majors—African and African diaspora studies; Mexican American and Latina/o studies; women’s and gender studies; and race, indigeneity and migration. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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UT Austin Axes Several Ethnic, Gender Studies Majors

Some faculty members consider the decision the next step in a broader effort to gut what remains of ethnic and gender studies at the university.

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine @nationalacademies.org · 18/09/2026

The research landscape is changing rapidly, bringing new and complex ethical questions. Our updated "On Being a Scientist" guide helps early-career researchers navigate these challenges while building on longstanding principles of research ethics. 👇

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 18/09/2026

Electric fences caused 14 of 15 recent giant pangolin deaths near Kenya's Nyekweri Forest. To protect the country's last remaining 30 individuals, local landowners have modified 134 km of fencing to allow safe passage, though habitat loss continues to threaten progress. Pauline Kairu reports.

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Electric fences that kill and the Maasai trying to save Kenya’s last giant pangolins

Naserian, a giant ground pangolin, lived for about two years in Kenya’s last remaining stronghold for this animal, Nyekweri Forest. When researchers from The Pangolin Project began tracking her in…

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New book forthcoming next week from @wwnorton.com: Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control by Kelly Lytle Hernández wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Why should educators teach the 100-year history of HS student activism? What can teachers today learn from students about supporting student activism without trying to control it? Find the answers to these questions & more at our TBFS class on 9/28, 100 Years of HS Student Organizing. 🧵 More ⬇️

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One Hundred Years of High School Student Organizing

Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale about student organizing and state repression. This class is part of the Zinn…

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For Hispanic Heritage Month 2026, I am sharing links to essays about my ancestors who came to California from Mexico. I was curious about why they chose to migrate, the economic forces driving them, and the challenges they faced getting their footing in the U.S. My story writing began in the 80s.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Engaging and hopeful [...] this is an important book, highlighting the need for collective action to reduce carbon emissions for our generation and generations to come." @science.org recommends @leahstokes.bsky.social's new book, "The Carbon Wave."

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"[A.I.] creates a product so drastically new that the text as an individual work is effectively destroyed. This less obvious form of erasure is much more hazardous and worrisome than destructive scanning." No. Widespread book destruction will lead to oblivion. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Destroying Books to Build a Mind

Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'll just mention that an key and timely theme of my father's novel is the importance of the preservation of the physicality of books. Right now, as we speak Anthropic and other companies, are slicing the spines off millions of books to train their AIs, then throwing them away after destruction.

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🍐 The butterflies of North America Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884. [Source]

Pear illustration from historical archives

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Wow! Dad (Peter Briscoe) just learned that his book, BETWEEN MEMORY & OBLIVION is a 2026 International Latino Book Award Finalist in the Category of Popular Fiction!!!! An incredible honor to be named alongside these other amazing ILBA finalists! Go dad! So proud.🔥😍♥️ www.amazon.com/Between-Memo...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Look, I know I sound crazy, but WHY WOULD RUSSELL VOUGHT, mastermind behind Project 2025, WRITE THAT OMB CAN CANCEL ANY GRANT FOR ANY REASON IF THEY WEREN'T GOING TO DO EXACTLY THAT?! Mark my words: Agencies will send out blanket grant cancellation emails that will make 2025 look like child's play.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 02/06/2026

Proposed changes by the Trump administration to rules that govern how federal dollars are spent "would inevitably lead to unlegislated reductions in funding and damage US leadership in science, both in academia and industry," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4uK0fBj

Text quote on a black background. The quote reads: "... the White House ... has found new ways to circumvent the will of Congress and starve American science." Below, the quote is attributed to H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief, Science journals.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 31/05/2026

• Submit a comment opposing the destruction of 🇺🇸 science; • Pressure every org, professional body, association, uni, etc. you are affiliated with to submit the strongest possible comment opposing this calamity (highest ROI move for most of us) • Make sure your electeds see those comments 🧪

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Trump's Russ Vought Is Trying To Kill American Science. We Can Try To Stop Him, | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

Trump's Russ Vought Is Trying To Kill American Science. We Can Try To Stop Him, by Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon. Join Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland...

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"The document itself is an odd grab-bag of micromanaging grant processes, assertion of presidential power, and airing of cultural grievances... Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system." 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026...

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Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

AS PROMISED: Stop Vought. Save Science. The @standupforscience.net action center is live: fight2win.standupforscience.net REGISTER for our Emergency Science Meeting (6/2, 4pm et), Call and email Congress, and leave your public comment all in one place! #standupforscience #TakeActionNow

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Stand up for Science

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB 2026-10817)

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026

What we are talking about here goes beyond science — this is the dismantling of the American administrative state as we know it. This is maybe the biggest change in American governance since the New Deal. It is hard to overstate that THIS IS A BIG FUCKING DEAL. 🧪🔭⚛️

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

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It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an evolutionary ecologist at the assistant professor level for fall 2027. Come and be my colleague! jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

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Faculty Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa

Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.

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Craig Kaplan @triggerloop.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Only 102 public comments so far on the biggest threat to publicly funded science in my lifetime. Please comment if you can. I know this sounds like "vote harder" but we have to keep fighting www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 27/05/2026

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

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New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

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Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Jeffrey Brainard @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

U.S. researchers who coauthor research papers with scientists affiliated with foreign institutions are drawing fresh scrutiny from NIH, NASA. #scientificpublishing @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

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U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators

NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication

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@KayTrue (Sarah L. Keller) @kaytrue.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Are you, like me, calling your Members of Congress tonight to ask that they push for reinstatement of the National Science Board? Need an easy, informative script to follow? @standupforscience.net has one for you in their Open Letter at www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter...

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NASEM Open Letter to Congress demanding the restoration of the NSB — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Support NASEM's open letter to Congress by signing your endorsement now!

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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Our Evolutionary Biology graduate program at SDSU is drafting an AI policy that all grad students must adhere to and sign in order to turn in their thesis to the grad college. Does your grad program have an AI policy? I’d love to see examples if you’re willing to share! arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

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AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth...

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

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NSF X-Labs

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Correction: while not listed on the main postdoc page, the Biology postdoc does exist…but only if you work with AI. bsky.app/profile/sedg...

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

These caterpillars envenomate thousands of people in Latin America every year and can kill. There are many species in the genus but only one anti-venom is available. This genome sequence may aid in development of more as well as drugs that fake advantage of the pro- and anti-clotting properties. 2

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Umber skipper seen this weekend. Curious what the flower is.

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Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe @adrianabriscoe.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Look at these two little cuties seen on my morning walk.

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

“No matter how one chooses to act, it’s never been more important to muster collective, sustained action to protect science.” Lessons in resistance from Tim Snyder www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Lessons in resistance from Tim Snyder

Federal grant cancellations, restrictions on immigration for foreign scientists, and attempts to cut the budgets of science funding agencies by 60%—the past 18 months have been tumultuous for American...

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