Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Someday I will successfully train my family to brave that last, seemingly insurmountable and highly challenging journey between the counter above the dishwasher and the dishwasher itself! On that day I will be so very proud. 1210
Reposted by Britt KoskellaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Build child care centers. Build health centers. Build community centers. Not data centers. And not ICE detention centers. 17598182803
Reposted by Britt KoskellaJon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026NEWS @status.news: The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance. The full story: www.status.news/p/white-hous...status.newsThe Source Behind The BanThe anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned. 17623203
Reposted by Britt KoskellaNoah Houpt @noahhoupt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026*PLEASE RE-POST* Applications for the trainee-focussed GRS immediately preceding this meeting are also now open! We will begin accepting applicants on *January 15th, 2027*. We will expedite our review for applicants requiring Visas, so please submit ASAP. www.grc.org/microbial-po...grc.org2027 Microbial Population Biology (GRS) Seminar GRCThe 2027 Gordon Research Seminar on Microbial Population Biology (GRS) will be held in Andover, New Hampshire. Apply today to reserve your spot. 11418
Reposted by Britt Koskellabeckybart.bsky.social @beckybart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley currently has two open Assistant Professor positions (aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 & aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522). Interested individuals are welcome to apply to one or both searches.aprecruit.berkeley.eduAssistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial BiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 02022
Reposted by Britt KoskellaWill Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 15/09/20261/17 Submissions are now open for the 2027 Microbial Population Biology GRC! We expect this meeting to be extraordinarily oversubscribed. If you want to come, time is of the essence--apply ASAP! June 27–July 2 • Andover, NH www.grc.org/microbial-po... 310472
Reposted by Britt KoskellaJenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Unlawfully stealing from our future health to fund a war that never should have happened. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...democrats-appropriations.house.govDefense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense ActivitiesHouse Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute... 16740
Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Yes, tenure letters take up a whole lot of time (that doesn’t exist) but it is also super fun and a privilege to get a chance to write fan mail to scientists who you’ve watched smash the field wide open!  0311
Reposted by Britt KoskellaProf Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026For the record, the proportion of professors at Cambridge who are Black is 0.4%. The number of Black people in the UK population is 4%. So the number of Black professors at Cambridge is ONE TENTH of what you would expect in a meritocracy. 221964617
Reposted by Britt KoskellaHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Vote like your life depends on it, or the life of a friend, relative, or neighbor. Because it does. We’re the decoys now. 340164295445
Reposted by Britt KoskellaSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The company that killed bookstores is now killing books, literally. 5879433
Reposted by Britt KoskellaMichael Le Page @mjflepage.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Roman accounts of women in Britain ruling and having multiple partners were dismissed by some later historians. But the largest study yet of DNA from Iron-Age Britain backs those accounts £ 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2584...newscientist.comDNA reveals a society organised around women in pre-Roman Britain | New ScientistDescent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals from north-east England suggests 02417
Reposted by Britt KoskellaSociety for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 10/08/2026We received almost 300 applications to our Graduate Research Excellence Grants this year. We expect to fund around 50 proposals. Help us fund 10 more grants by making a tax-deductible donation to our GoFundMe campaign today! www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...gofundme.comDonate to Support Students on their Scientific Research Journey!, organized by SSE CommunicationsThe Graduate Research Excellence Grants are awarded by the So… SSE Communications needs your support for Support Students on their Scientific Research Journey! 02117
Reposted by Britt KoskellaBrittany Sutherland @sutherlandbl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Anybody else miss having a functional USDA and CDC?wylr.netScrapie detected in the U.S. – Wyoming Livestock Roundup 618969
Reposted by Britt KoskellaAlbert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026We're hiring an ecologist at UC Berkeley! The Dept. of Integrative Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ecology. Plants/algae, invertebrates, microbes, or marine systems a priority. Come join us!! Apply by Oct 5, 2026. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489 PS: Please share!aprecruit.berkeley.eduAssistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative BiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 2136163
Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Tell me which key you hit the most without telling me. Hint: mine is in the top right corner :-)  090
Reposted by Britt KoskellaJeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 28/07/2026Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD 06080
Reposted by Britt KoskellaSophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026No models. No satellites. Just 50 years of Burgundy harvest dates: ~4.1 days earlier every decade. Climate change, written on a cellar wall. 🍷 🇫🇷 🧫 310848
Reposted by Britt KoskellaRafal Mostowy @rafalmostowy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Klebsiella phages often modify the bacterial capsule instead of degrading it, stripping acetyl groups. Nobody's traced how this evolves. I'm hiring a computational postdoc to find out — Kraków, apply by 21 July. mostowylab.com/job-postdoc-... 11410
Reposted by Britt KoskellaJan Gogarten @jangogarten.bsky.social · 10/07/2026New study 🚨🚨🚨 Using fecal samples collected over 17 years, we tracked antibiotic resistance genes in wild chimpanzees in Taï National Park; one of the last remaining chunks of primary rainforests in West Africa. Study out now in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/isme... 22614
Reposted by Britt KoskellaNational Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org · 09/07/2026Support #microbiology research by nominating a scientist for the 2027 Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology!🦠Preference will be given to early-career scientists and those whose work hasn’t been recognized by other large prizes. Learn more: www.nasonline.org/award/selman... #NASaward 136
Reposted by Britt KoskellaDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 08/07/2026You can also listen to my thoughts on this potentially disastrous rule change in this short video, which is excerpted from a longer conversation during a recent livestream event:youtu.beThe new proposed OMB rules would be a disaster for American science, technology, and healthIn this excerpt from a recent livestream, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains with the newly proposed rules from the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) would be a disaster not only for American science, but also for everything from disaster response to public universities to can 08222
Reposted by Britt KoskellaAndy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Botany friends: cool job alert. We're searching for a new Director for the UC & Jepson Herbaria here at UC Berkeley. Share with nice people. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405 🌿🌺🌵aprecruit.berkeley.eduAssociate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley HerbariaUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 38177
Reposted by Britt KoskellaTiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 09/07/2026ICE murdered Lorenzo Araujo in Houston Texas this week. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...thebulwark.comHe Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor. 054
Reposted by Britt KoskellaThiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 09/07/2026'I would not be talking about the fish that my team discovered if we didn’t have long-term funding that allowed me to fail and learn from failures. The only way I was able to learn from failures was to have long-horizon funding, when I wasn’t being measured from year to year'issues.org“I Am an Unabashed Optimist About the Long-Term Future of Science.”The new president of the National Academy of Sciences talks about learning to see as a scientist and communicating science in a noisy information landscape. 02714
Reposted by Britt KoskellaHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Coming late to this story: Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/w...arstechnica.comSuspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says. 34726
Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Postdocs and early career folks - this is a truly wonderful opportunity to spend time in Berlin, gain time to think, and expand your network! call.wiko-berlin.de/procedure/65...call.wiko-berlin.deWiko Application Platform 01416
Reposted by Britt KoskellaScience Magazine @science.org · 06/07/2026Damage to the century-old Palladin Institute marks a “disaster for biological science in Ukraine.” scim.ag/4p2ND6mscim.agMajor Ukraine research center damaged in Russian strikesDamage to century-old Palladin Institute marks “disaster for biological science in Ukraine” 02510
Reposted by Britt KoskellaAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 30/06/2026The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order. 358106783324
Reposted by Britt KoskellaMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/06/2026This is remarkable. 912766773
Reposted by Britt KoskellaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I want to propose a toast to Sergey Brin, who's unintentionally making the case for a billionaire tax better than anyone else could. 461674540
Reposted by Britt KoskellaNature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 24/06/2026Out Now! Phages tame plant pathogens #MicroSkygo.nature.comPhages tame plant pathogensNature Microbiology, Published online: 23 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02395-3Predicting infection heterogeneity requires looking beyond the host. Phage–bacteria coevolution in tomato fields maintains diverse bacterial strategies and explains uneven disease occurrence across plant populations. 02818
Reposted by Britt KoskellaAbbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026. 236168337554
Reposted by Britt KoskellaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Ths is flying under the radar, but Russ Vought is advancing a new scheme to give Trump's cronies total control of nearly $179B in federal grant funds. Billions for lifesaving disaster relief and medical research would be subject to Trumpian loyalty oaths. Make no mistake: this is fascism.commondreams.orgAlarm Grows Over Vought Plan to Give Trump Cronies Control of Federal Grant Money | Common Dreams"The test will be a simple one: Are you sufficiently loyal to the president? If the answer is no, it will result in the 25939342333
Reposted by Britt KoskellaPocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 15/06/2026There you have it the headlines for tomorrow. 39973262966
Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 14/06/2026My son (8) who was worried about technology replacing everything. So I asked him what he thinks could never be replaced by AI or technology. His response (without a moments hesitation): the human heart. Probably won’t help shape your investment portfolio, but at least there’s hope yet.everything.soRedirecting... 350
Reposted by Britt Koskella💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 14/06/2026🥳 today is ❤️🧡💜💛💚💙💜 #ObamaAppreciationDay 🎈 304124533979
Reposted by Britt KoskellaKTeaTalks @kttalks2.bsky.social · 13/06/2026What Ivanka & Jared are doing is worse than I thought they are destroying natural wetlands of Albania. The corruption is unpalatable. Ariel Brunner is fighting them tooth & nail and boy oh boy is he angry. As he should be. Ariel Brunner is Europe & Central Asia Director of BirdLife International.aljazeera.comI saw Kushner’s Albania resort up close — it is an environmental disasterThe damage at Vjosa-Narta is not fake news. Bulldozers are tearing into one of Europe’s most precious wetlands. 22773953136
Reposted by Britt KoskellaAndy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 13/06/2026did you guys know they still allowed good newsabcnews.comSolar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time: ReportThe amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow. 10123693426
Reposted by Britt KoskellaShimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 13/06/2026When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story. 13978582509
Reposted by Britt KoskellaKelly “Free Link” McGonigal @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026“Why’s it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?” yeah, undoing every single thing he’s done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it 1789811860
Reposted by Britt KoskellaSen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 09/06/2026Make no mistake: in California, our democracy is working as it should. But our President is doing everything in his power to make you doubt that with constant lies. His baseless, anti-democratic rhetoric has no place in our electoral process. 1481162104055
Reposted by Britt KoskellaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/06/2026This blew my mind. Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people. Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?theguardian.comMajority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit landGuardian analysis finds facilities to be built in some of the driest areas as outcry grows over water needed to power AI 46563803180
Reposted by Britt KoskellaRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/06/2026The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed. 1007286508110
Reposted by Britt KoskellaJohn J. Cullen @johncullenocean.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Someone who doesn't know much about oceanography asked me if the dismantling of ocean monitoring capabilities was stupid and/or evil. It is stupid AND evil. The War on Science continues. As more people see it and push back, maybe the tide can be turned. 🌊🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comDismay as Trump officials to dismantle key ocean monitoring systemOcean Observatories Initiative, $368m network that has provided crucial climate data, latest victim of Trump cuts 3337166
Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Just arrived at the dentist and was checked in by a virtual assistant on an iPad. Is this the future? I REALLY hope not!!!!!! And yes, I am now looking for a new dentist. Human connections matter. 1724042
Reposted by Britt KoskellaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Reminder that banning elected officials from trading stock is a total no brainer. They can use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake — it’s legalized corruption. 224105252924
Reposted by Britt KoskellaEric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Stephen Colbert is a national treasure: The day after his show was canned after 11 years by CBS to appease a tyrant, he shows up on the Monroe, MI public access channel where he did his first Late Show broadcast in 2015.youtu.beOnly In Monroe --- May 22, 2026YouTube video by Stephen Colbert 16083991814
Reposted by Britt KoskellaBlue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Dr. Jasmine Clark PhD microbiology from Emory University, teaching anatomy & microbiology to future nurses, & tracking threats. 2017, watching the new administration removed science funding, public health infrastructure, and the institutions she had devoted her career to, she picked up a campaign. 342155443796
Reposted by Britt KoskellaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/05/2026A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors. 23048652139