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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 51m

NIH is considering changes to how grant review results are reported, including eliminating numerical overall impact scores. Comments are due Oct. 13. Learn more and make your voice heard: www.ascb.org/science-policy/nih-pro…

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 2h

UConn EEB is hiring a tropical horticulturalist for our greenhouses! It's an awesome collection of both research+teaching/public display, and you get to work with pretty amazing folks (I may be biased). Job listing: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49... Closes 10/14! 🌴🌿🌵🌺

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UConn Careers | UConn Careers | University of Connecticut

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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 7h

Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 3h

I predict that a year from now we'll be seeing the same stories about BMW that we saw about Ford this past summer: after AI fails, they'll be trying to re-hire all of the people they fired. www.forbes.com/sites/joetos...

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Ford Hiring 350 Engineers After AI Failed Shows Human Value In AI Era

Ford rehired 350 engineers after AI systems failed to maintain quality. The decision is attributed to lead in JD Power's ranking for the first time in 16 years.

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 20h

Applications are now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend the 2027 Evolution meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico! Funds cover registration, travel, meals, and lodging. Submit your application by November 1st! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social

The San Juan coastline. Text: Evolution 2027, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 25-29. Society for the Study of Evolution International Travel Stipends, Deadline: November 1.

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 5h

Nominations now open for the ASN/SSE/SSB IDEA Award! This award recognizes a person or group at any career stage who has strengthened the ecology and evolutionary biology community by promoting access and inclusion in our fields. Deadline: November 1. www.evolutionsociety.org/society-awar...

A glowing lightbulb. Text: American Society of Naturalists, Society for the Study of Evolution, Society of Systematic Biologists, IDEA Award, Nominations due November 1.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 7h

This is pretty bad, and getting shared a lot. www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the... The only thing I would say is that during this period, in my experience, the problem has been the extreme consolidation of platforms much more than anything I can imagine AI doing right now?

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 15h

We have long known that certain kinds of genes (e.g., immune genes) tend to evolve faster than others. Instead of using gene ontology for this, a new paper by @mariarodgers.bsky.social & team shows that single-cell RNAseq can be a useful way to define gene types for pop gen analyses of selection. /t

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23h

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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The Economist @economist.com · 21h

His government’s own figures show the cost of electricity from onshore wind and solar over their lifetime is now lower than that of natural gas. Yet Donald Trump is unconvinced

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Donald Trump’s least favourite thing

The president’s disdain for wind is not killing it, yet

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Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio · 22h

My group is recruiting a Ph.D student for Fall 2027! We're a friendly group of mathematically-minded and computationally-inspired biologists studying topics including social evolution, host-pathogen interactions, genetics, and demography. See vancleve.theoretical.bio for more info!

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van cleve research group

Van Cleve Research Group – theoretical evolution & ecology at the University of Kentucky

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Trump administration blocked the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium from reapplying for funding, terminating at least 2 clinical trials for children's brain cancer treatment.

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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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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So I normally keep my personal life quiet on here, aside from the occasional photo of my backyard. But I got married today. So that’s a thing.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oddly my garden has been producing September strawberries.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We will expel the warmongers”???? Yes please. Trump started wars with Iran, Venezuela, and threatened wars with Greenland/Denmark, Canada and more. Expel Trump.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russia struck the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. In broad daylight! People are climbing out of windows to avoid burning alive. Freaking barbarians!

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren calls for the removal of climate denier Matthew Wielicki as head of the US govt's climate research office. Wielicki has no training in climate science, and regularly uses AI to invent non-existent sources to support his claims.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026

Ignore for a moment the question about whether Anthropic trains on user sessions. I am I right in reading this as saying that Anthropic's "never-before-discovered" reverse transcriptase was *patented* three years ago?

Dr. Mestre first encountered the enzymes in jumbo phages in 2022 while searching for new reverse transcriptases. He worked briefly as a consultant for ReNegade Therapeutics, which filed a patent in 2023 on a number of reverse transcriptases, including the ones Dr. Mestre found. He is listed as a co-inventor on the patent filing.

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The Economist @economist.com · 28/09/2026

Widespread adoption of AI has fuelled concerns about the impact the technology might be having on learning. Our charts help explain its educational effects

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Does AI stop children from learning?

New data show the peril and promise of the technology

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚨We're hiring!🚨 Join us as a laboratory technician to work on acquired metabolism, from tree-fungal mutualisms to the evolution of protistan photosynthesis. Apply by Oct. 7 at careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMP...

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watson in particular did not give Franklin appropriate credit, particularly in his book, but he and Crick did at least indicate they were aware of what Franklin's results were.

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Is it ethical to use customer’s data to try to scoop their customer?” [Buckmaster] later asked on social media.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I’ve heard from a bunch of people in our field who say, ‘Uh oh, are they training on my prompts?’” Dr. Shipman said. “We can’t not think about it.” ... '[A]fter Anthropic’s announcement last week, he is winding down his projects with Claude.' “I’m shutting down everything,” [Dr. Mestre] said.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/09/2026

One of America’s great wildlife recoveries is coming undone. Across the Chesapeake this year, Bryan Watts and his colleagues at William & Mary’s Center for Conservation Biology recorded the worst osprey breeding season they have ever documented.

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Ospreys are disappearing along the East Coast. Scientists think they know why.

At the center of a widening crisis for one of the nation's great wildlife comebacks is a fish most Americans would hardly recognize.

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The Economist @economist.com · 27/09/2026

Reliably Republican counties skew older, but they have significantly higher death rates even after adjusting for age, as our charts show

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In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born

Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus: "If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?" I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication. undark.org/2026/09/25/o...

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AI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ Problem

Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.

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Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

7/8 The bigger question isn't about these papers. If a group repeatedly publishes papers with the many anomalies, who should bear the cost of checking them? Individual readers? Or journals, publishers and institutions?

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been writing the chapter on eugenics (history and present) for my Applied Evolutionary Medicine book draft, and stumbled on a remarkably bad full-on-eugenics essay on how reproductive biotechnology may guide human evolution mankindquarterly.org/archive/issu...

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Can Embryo Selection Save the World?

In modern societies, purifying selection against deleterious mutations has been relaxed and the relationship between reproductive success and cognitive ability has reversed. Early 20th-century genetic...

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Royal Blue Angel @rba11.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🎯🎯🎯WISeR, which stands for Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction, aims to use Al and machine learning to...deny medical care #Blues 👇👇 arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment

Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."

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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump ran a "Paid for by the U.S. government" ad bashing communism while troops smoothed a red carpet for Xi on their knees. Come on. Seriously. That's your tax money. Ask your member of Congress why your paycheck is his campaign fund. #TrumpsCorruptCongress #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I bought “Fire Islands”, an Indonesian cookbook, two years ago. Finally made full 4-course meal and am feeling very very happy.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

U.S. manufacturing jobs are down under Trump, including in the auto industry. His strategy failed, and so will this. Lowering standards will accelerate what he has already been doing: handing the clean tech future to China and forcing Americans to pay more at the pump.

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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 26/09/2026

Trump's taxpayer-funded campaign ads, brazenly labeled "Paid by the U.S. Government," show exactly how little his administration cares about Hatch Act violations they routinely ignore.

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Taxpayer-Funded Trump Ad Violates the Hatch Act...

A television ad boosting the image of President Donald Trump, which was paid for by government funds...

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Blood boys OVER we’re out here Renfieldmaxxing now

He’s on a quest to live forever.
Mr. Emanuel’s morning routine involves waking up at 4 a.m., stretching for 40 minutes and then doing breath work, sauna, meditation, an ice plunge and infrared light therapy before ingesting a protein shake and a cup of live worms to fight off “the bad bacteria in my gut.” He describes a recent lunch with his old CAA boss, Michael Ovitz. Mr. Emanuel writes: “He goes to the gym; he thinks that means he’s taking care of himself. But it doesn’t. I scold him. He hasn’t gotten his blood work done in years, he isn’t doing ice plunges, he isn’t doing daily breath work, he isn’t fasting. And he needs to be eating worms.”

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone watches the new TrumpTV for 24 hours so you would t have to. Their review is savage. Read it. This attempt at cult-of-personality state propaganda is instead a weird unstructured fever dream www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

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Column | I watched 24 hours of Trump TV. Buckle up.

What does the TV president look like without press corps footage?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026

The far-right ideologues and grifters running U.S. foreign policy are the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America but the world, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu reports.

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Donald Trump’s Empire of Grift

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Alright now that I’m home I guess it’s time to officially announce some really good news: I have received an NIH R35 MIRA!! This award will fund five years of research in my group using Aiptasia to study context dependency and GxGxE interactions in animal-microbe symbioses!

Screenshot of NIH status page, stating the project titled: “Mechanisms of Intergenomic Epistasis and Environmental Context in Animal-Microbe Symbioses” has been awarded with PI Lauren Fuess

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