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President Trump directed staff to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency, setting in motion a $20 million contract that used funds from the Department of Homeland Security, according to people familiar with the matter. nyti.ms/4jBqx63

President Trump stands in a dark suit and red tie. A crowd of people and a large American flag are in the background. A headline reads: "Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency." Photo by Doug Mills for The New York Times.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 14h

Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 20h

I am delighted to share our new preprint, led by the amazing @stressedbranch.bsky.social! This paper was a real Herculean effort by four amazing postdocs across three labs and a small army of extremely talented undergraduates. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/n

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Amesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 13h

“The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to an email asking when the website is expected to work again.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-fl...

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Looking for vaccines? Vaccines.gov won’t help

A CDC-run website for finding vaccines is not currently functioning.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19h

You're gonna need a bigger chart

Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the latest spot right at the top of the chart

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 20h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · 20h

For the past three years, I’ve interviewed scientists selected as MacArthur Fellows for @science.org newsletter—and this year, much of their work runs counter to the administration’s revised U.S. research priorities. Read that and more in #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Holly Jean Buck by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 22h

Culebra island after the evolution meeting in Puerto Rico?

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 22h

Question is, at Davis or at a coral reef somewhere?

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@tjnear.bsky.social and I were talking about the idea of a WainwrightFest symposium of his students/postdocs etc.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Peter and I collected Epibulus in Palau together in 2022 and it was EPIC.

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Check out this lovely profile of the University of California, Davis’s Peter Wainwright, whose lifelong fascination with fishes inspired a remarkable career in research and teaching. Peter was my postdoc advisor years ago when he was at Florida State University, and is awesome dude and mentor.

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Among the Academies: A Lifelong Fascination With Fish

For Peter Wainwright, the academic path was simple: he simply followed his fascination with fish.“I dare say there wasn't a lot of deep thought about what direction I should go in my life,” he said. “...

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Mark Bitter @markcbitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New Perspective w/ @petrovadmitri.bsky.social and Paul Schmidt! We ask what evolution-in-action studies tell us about an old question: what genetic variation matters for fitness, and what maintains it? ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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Common, consequential, and actively maintained: a neo-balance view of genetic variation

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I suppose, The great thing about campaigning on fictional problems is one can then claim to have fixed it because no more evidence can be found.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This in turn highlights the degree to which Trump II's entire agenda has been a series of crusades against invented crises: ICE rounding up criminal undocumented immigrants who don't exist, DOGE rooting out fraud and waste that's not there, DHS finding voter fraud that hasn't happened, ...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026

Breaking news: The Trump administration is airing campaign-style TV ads using money Congress approved for border security upgrades, efforts to combat drug trafficking and memorials for officers killed in the line of duty, according to records.

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Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials

The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NSF announces a new branding page. "You shared your feedback — we listened!" WTF content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USN... At the end of FY 2026, NSF has made 6218 awards compared to 11,387 average in previous years. Thx @grantwitness.org If you're listening NSF, how about doing your job?

Graph of NSF awards for FY 2021-2026 showing that at the end of FY 2026, NSF has made about half the usual number of awards.

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VAW Glaciology @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Switzerland's glacier report 2026 is out. Swiss glaciers have lost 5% of their ice volume this year. Only the last 5 years accounted for nearly 20% of the total ice loss across Switzerland. The numbers are devastating. Full report → doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously I’m happy to reboot specific ones for you or share the code.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/10/2026

“You would just never imagine that bright young students—at an Ivy League institution, of all places—could be capable of such grotesque behavior.” — Kara Lanchester, Missouri resident

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Nation Horrified To Think Sexual Assault Could Happen On College Campus

WASHINGTON—Expressing shock and disgust that an unspeakable crime could occur at a place of higher learning, the U.S. populace was reportedly horrified this week to think that sexual assault could hap...

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I ran from my driveway to the pondside to appreciate the sunlit fall color in the trees, didn’t spot the heron 5m away for a few minutes. Surprised I didn’t scare it away.

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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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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Glyphosate-based herbicide exposure triggers genetic adaptation but not diversity collapse within bacterioplankton species (reposting with the article title and a gratuitous glam shot of the lake these bugs called home until we rudely plopped them into experimental ponds...)

Screenshot of the article title: Glyphosate-based herbicide exposure triggers genetic adaptation but not diversity collapse within bacterioplankton species

Photo of a beautiful blue sky with some clouds reflected in a lake. The surrounding hills are dappled with red and gold fall foliage.

Photo credit: Akhil Kholwadwala

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Got home from my day at Yale to this sunset color. Didn’t spot the heron till after I took the picture (see it?)

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mind blowing that the negative effect Trump policies have on visitors to the US is nearly as large as the drop in visits due to the COVID pandemic.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I can also switch out which ones are mothballed and which ones are active if you need certain apps, on certain sets of dates. It’s good to know that somebody’s using these, sorry to have yanked them unannounced.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was paying several hundred dollars per year out of pocket to host them, and wasn’t teaching this year (sabbatical) so I mothballed them. Are there specific ones you are counting on? I can host I think 5 at a time for free and can reopen what you need. Or can share the code so you can host your own

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The SSE Education and Outreach Committee is seeking speakers for the Evolution 2027 Education and Outreach Symposium titled “Evolution in a Changing World.” Nominations are due November 1! Learn more: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

This work has been a long time in the works, and it is great to finally have it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Thanks to @moorefound.bsky.social for support that led to this, as a spin-off of our intestinal organoid work (the scRNAseq began to characterize intestinal cell types)

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Rates of Evolution Differ Between Cell Types Identified by Single‐Cell RNAseq in Threespine Stickleback

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

allowing us to ask whether the genes that distinguish different cell types, evolve at different paces. As you might surmise, immune cell clusters tend to be characterized by genes that tend to evolve faster, than the cell-type-diagnostic genes of other cell clusters (in multiple tissues)

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Using #stickleback (several different tissues) we use single cell RNAseq #scRNAseq to define genes that distinguish particular cell types. We merge this with population genetic data on among-lake variation, and phylogenetic data on among-species divergence...

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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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