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Carole Hom

@clhom.bsky.social
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Retired academic; still a scientist, educator, and geek.

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc to help build tools for inferring complex speciation histories with genomic data. strong computational skills are a must, but this is a training opportunity. 60K$+ salary, 2 years, details flexible. please reach out! (and repost) ad here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/53150
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Postdoctoral Researcher
The Department of Ecology at Montana State University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Scholar as part of NSF-funded research on speciation under alternating cycles of gene flow and isolation (fundi...
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...
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The awesomeness of museums
Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.
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Max M. @ambystomax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seasonal job opportunity in Northeastern Oregon with some of the cool people I work with! Spend your summer chasing woodpeckers and hiking around some beautiful country 😊 jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
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USFS Wildlife Technician | Natural Resources Job Board
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu
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NER430 @ner430.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gift link wapo.st/4AyAxDh
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Regina Fairbanks @reginafairbanks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fight isn't over yet! Please keep calling, emailing, and making your voices heard. Suggestions for action items can be found here - save-the-academy.org Ecologists, evolutionary biologists, botanists, etc - please distribute throughout your professional networks!
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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences
Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please repost/share We're hiring! UC Davis Plant Pathology seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in plant health & microbiomes. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904 My department is full of great colleagues, and we look forward to recruiting our new colleague!
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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two positions in my department at Virginia Tech in Molecular Microbiology. Come be my colleague! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A quarter of this year's ~2000 incoming UC Davis Bio majors are transfer students. It's an incredible set of programs across the UCs and a big part of the impact of the University of California.
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AGU Science Policy @aguscipolicy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨NSF seeks community input on future ocean observing priorities 🌊 Read the NSF Dear Colleague Letter here: spklr.io/63326ErWSG Submit your response by 9/30 using this form: spklr.io/63328ErWSy
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Request for Input on Future Ocean Observing Priorities
Dear Colleagues, On June 18, 2026, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced its intent to continue operations and maintenance of the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) and to issue this Dear Colleague Letter soliciting perspectives on what ocean observation capabilities NSF should provide.
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 18/09/2026
Pete Hegseth is covering up the deaths of American servicemembers and contractors. It’s a betrayal of the men & women who have served and sacrificed for our country. I’m leading a new bill to prevent the Pentagon from manipulating government data on troop casualties. wapo.st/3SPycmE
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Tyler Starr @tylernstarr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
U of U Biochemistry is hiring! See links below -- we're searching for a cell biologist and an AI/ML/data scientist, both broadly defined. Reach out if you have any questions about our supportive and collegial department. utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208... utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...
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Assistant Professor - Cell Biology
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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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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Apparently AI is not coming for the geographer’s jobs
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jay used our clonal mollies to ask does increasing environmental variation increases phenotypic variation? Turns out.... it doesn't! Mollies reared with pred cues swim more slowly & hide more but the magnitude of individuality remained the same! It seems individuals are unique no matter what...
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Bernard Kim @bernardkim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Princeton EEB is running a very broad faculty search at the Assistant Professor level. Please consider applying to join us! This is a wonderful, collaborative, cohesive department with diverse interests and amazing colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/193474
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Jaap de Roode @jaapderoode.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So excited to share that the Department of Biology @emoryuniversity.bsky.social is hiring an open-rank faculty member in the area of ecology. Happy to answer any questions. Please share! 🧪 apply.interfolio.com/191783
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 15/09/2026
The Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin has two open positions for assistant professors, one in evolutionary biology and one in mechanistic processes. Please share. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193270
Two Assistant Professor Positions in Evolutionary Biology and Mechanistic Processes

Description
The Department of Integrative Biology at The University of Texas at Austin seeks to fill two faculty positions in the areas of Evolutionary Biology and Mechanistic Processes, broadly defined. We are looking for candidates who are advancing (1) evolutionary biology or (2) the mechanistic understanding of organismal processes. These positions will be filled at the level of Assistant Professor.


Qualifications
Candidates should be using innovative approaches in evolutionary biology and/or the mechanistic understanding of whole-organism processes. Mechanistic processes include, but are not limited to, behavior, biomechanics, cognition, physiology, and development. The phylogenetic scope of the Evolutionary Biology position may include eukaryotes, prokaryotes, viruses, and the scale may include individual molecules to entire ecosystems and beyond. Candidates for either position may employ experimental, theoretical, or computational frameworks, or a combination thereof. Special consideration will be given to applicants with demonstrated potential for integrating across our target disciplines. 

We seek applicants with a strong record of high-quality research, publications, potential for extramural funding, and a commitment to excellence in teaching and mentorship. A PhD or equivalent is required at the time of appointment, and postdoctoral research experience is strongly recommended.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Marianne Seiman, contemporary crochet artist (via Instagram) #Womensart #September
Photo of twelve different and colourful toadstools and mushrooms created from crochet against a black background
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ucdavisnews.bsky.social @ucdavisnews.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
UC Davis has selected Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century for the 2026–27 Campus Community Book Project, with civil liberties as this year’s theme. www.ucdavis.edu/news/next-book-proj…
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Next Book Project Title is ‘On Tyranny’
The 25th title in the Campus Community Book Project is On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, a 2017 book by University of Toronto historian Timothy Snyder that provides instructions for Americans who want to protect democracy from authoritarianism, the selection commit
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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Alex Taliadoros @alexctaliadoros.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just in: the 4th Circuit has struck down ICE’s mandatory detention policy. This is huge for DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Now, immigrants detained in these states who pose no danger to the community and no flight risk will be able to seek bond release.
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Appeals court rejects ICE detention policy, setting stage for SCOTUS
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compared ICE’s policy to Japanese internment.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Amazing news, thanks to decades of unrelenting advocacy by the Yurok, Karuk and Klamath Tribes. It’s heartening to see the collaborative nature of the salmon restoration effort reflected in this paper’s authorship, which includes all three Tribes, state & federal agencies, NGOs & private entities.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch. Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.
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Adam Steinbrenner @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley Submit applications by Sept 30 Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522
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Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Carole Hom @clhom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What’s up? A rain of valley oak acorns. Looks like a mast year in the southern Sacramento valley.
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Heather Physioc / HP Conservation @heatherphysioc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Wildlife conservation, hunting, and fishing are perfectly compatible with proper land management, agency funding and a supported workforce. Instead, the USFWS has lost 36% of its workforce under the second Trump administration. ourpubliclandsandwaters.substack.com/p/us-fish-an...
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Has Lost 36% of Its Workforce Under the Second Trump Administration
Meanwhile, even with fewer staff, the agency just completed the largest expansion of hunting and fishing access in its entire history
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🌊 Calling marine biology educators! Scripps Oceanography at @ucsandiego.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor of Teaching for its Marine Biology Program! We’re looking for expertise in marine systems, cell biology and more. 🧬🔬📊 Learn more & apply by 9/10: bit.ly/3TePLMX
Sunset at Scripps Pier with text overly: Join Our Team
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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canyonbirds.bsky.social @canyonbirds.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#FossilFriday
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UCSF PROPEL @ucsf-propel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Applying to graduate school can be expensive. Did you know you may be eligible for fee waivers? Check out our fee waivers guide for more info
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UCSF PROPEL @ucsf-propel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Looking for accountability buddies during this application cycle? Attend our co-working sessions and get support from peers
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UCSF PROPEL @ucsf-propel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are you applying to graduate school this cycle? PROPEL has a series of workshops dedicated to helping you with this process!
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Carole Hom @clhom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
One vote shy of unanimous.
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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale
Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Tenure-track assistant professor position in #ecology at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington: apply.interfolio.com/190454
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
One thing about the Trump regime. It never hides its fundamental value: White supremacy.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our outrage is simmering. It needs to be at a boil. joycevance.substack.com/p/about-liam...
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About Liam Ramos
Everyone remembers Liam Ramos.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/09/2026
The world will zoom well past its target for global temperature rise in the next few years, a new United Nations report warned, exposing people and ecosystems to profound climate impacts that nations had pledged to avoid.
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The world is certain to overshoot a critical climate threshold, U.N. warns
In a first-of-its-kind report, leading scientists describe a narrowing path for coming back from catastrophic warming.
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Sonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Come be my colleague!! 🎉 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Developmental Biology at UCSD! If you’re doing exciting work in development or regeneration, come join us!! Please spread the word and apply! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04591
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Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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DisabledInSTEM @disabledinstem.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What happens when barriers unrelated to scientific ability determine who gets to do science? I wrote about accessibility, mentorship, and the experiments we may never know were possible in my new piece for The Node, The Experiments We Never Run. #DisabledInSTEM thenode.biologists.com/the-experime...
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The Experiments We Never Run - the Node
Somewhere, there’s a paper that will not get written. Before there’s a scientific paper, someone has to be there to ask the right question, design the
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Carole Hom @clhom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Good news and bad news. Bad: I have to tell 3 talented undergrads tomorrow that the creative GRFP projects they envisioned aren’t eligible for funding. Good: they have time to regroup and write on something different. But still…🥺
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 31/08/2026
This exactly!!! The damage the Trump admin is doing to science won't just bite us back now. Join us in the fight for science by visiting the link in our bio 🧪
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 29/08/2026
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT (serious one) Pass this on, it's sort of important... This is how you can check to see if you're [still] registered to vote. EASY. iwillvote.com
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I Will Vote
Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 28/08/2026
“This is so ridiculous, it makes you sick,” said Don Neubacher, a former supervisor at Yosemite. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Trump Administration Looks to Give a Swath of Yosemite Park to Developer (Gift Article)
The proposed land swap would allow easy access to the crown jewel of the national park system. Democrats and former Park Service officials are incensed.
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Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I am delighted to announce that The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is continuing a multi-year recruiting initiative for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share and consider applying! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...
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