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Jason Gallant

@jasongallant.bsky.social
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evolutionary biologist at MSU with a fondness for fish that make electricity

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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
$401 million dollars to MSU Athletics. Meanwhile, entire colleges at MSU are admitting zero graduate students, our buildings are crumbling, dormitories filled with mold. Is the development office out of its mind, or just working for the Athletics program?
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Greg and Dawn Williams make historic $401 million commitment to Michigan State University and Spartan Athletics
Michigan State University today announced a historic $401 million commitment from Greg and Dawn Williams. Made through the university’s “Uncommon Will, Far Better World” campaign and in support of MSU...
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 10/11/2025
New online! Biologists should embrace Earth’s biodiversity as a library of solutions
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Biologists should embrace Earth’s biodiversity as a library of solutions
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 10 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00098-xBiological research focused on canonical research organisms can yield profound insights, but it can also obscure evolutionary context and hinder understanding of biodiversity itself. Biology researchers should tap the underutilized potential of Earth’s biodiversity by matching the biological question to the organism best suited to answer it.
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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Woot, my new perspective piece on the importance of leveraging earth's biodiversity to solve biology's most pressing questions was just published! Let me know if you'd like a copy!
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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The Braasch Lab @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social will soon post a position to replace manager of our *Ancient Fish Facility* at Michigan State. Looking for aquaculturist excited for unusual 🐟 species (gar, bowfin, paddlefish, polypterus) + zebrafish. Pls send candidates our way (DM or braasch@msu.edu)!
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Whats up Athens!?? #evolution2025
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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
American science isn’t just under siege—it’s officially occupied territory today. Trump’s NSF plan? Abolish 37 divisions and cut the budget to the point it is a glorified science fair run by politicians. 75 years of world-leading innovation? Poof. We’re trading CRISPR for leeches and witch trials.
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Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The end of NSF and American science expertise as we know it is here.🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Science Magazine @science.org · 24/04/2025
Exclusive: The director of the National Science Foundation announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science. scim.ag/42vc3fn
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Exclusive: ‘I have done all I can’: NSF director announces he is resigning
Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led the agency since 2020, leaves amid mass firings and grant terminations
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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Heard today on the drive home: "There is no reason in the United States for us to have a single child die of measles." -- Peter Marx, until last month, the top vaccine regulator at the CDC.
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A vaccine expert worries child measles deaths are being 'normalized'
Ousted FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks talks about the current administration's policy on vaccines, and how that is impact its response to the on-going measles outbreak in the southwestern U.S.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/04/2025
📣 GET IN, DORKS! We are going protesting...AGAIN! 📣 This time we are standing up for our core value of academic freedom and asking university leadership to STAND UP WITH US against Trump's attack on higher ed ✊ #StandUpWithUS Register/find an event: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
NATIONWIDE CAMPUS ACTION
STAND UP WITH US
because science, higher ed, and democracy are for everyone.
Where: YOUR COLLEGE CAMPUS
When: YOUR LAST DAY OF CLASSES
StandUpForScience2025.org

It’s time for a Summer Send-Off

Stand Up, Fight Back - TOGETHER!
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.
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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
You can’t defend freedom while attacking the people who make discovery possible. When you target scientists, you don’t protect America — you weaken it. Shame, shame, shame.
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International students’ visas have been revoked, MSU says - The State News
At least some international students at MSU have had their visas revoked by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a university spokesperson confirmed Monday.
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Michigan Mama @mamadoingsomething.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Love seeing all the people who care. Big cities are amazing, but this bravery is what makes my heart burst.
Pic of about 50 protesters in Keyser,WV, pop 4850. The deepest of red territory.
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SPARC MI @sparcmi.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Are steps at the Michigan State Capitol ADA compliant 🤔
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/04/2025
The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.
motherjones.com
You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.
People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.
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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Protesters in Lansing, MI today joined me to say #handsoff our science.
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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I got to speak at a political rally (video below). Today, I stood up for science in Michigan at the Hands Off Day of action in Lansing. Inspired talks and one hell of a crowd!! @50501mi.bsky.social
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Standing up for science in Lansing
YouTube video by Jason Gallant
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Did you ask for a fish fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🐟 Electrosensitive rostral appendages that can detect prey items have evolved multiple times within mormyrid fishes, and one of these organs is called the Schnauzenorgan. doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
The craniofacial morphologies present within the mormyrids examined. CS1 = Chin-swelling gain 1; CS2 = Chin-swelling gain 2; SO1 = Schnauzenorgan gain 1; TS+SO1 = tubesnout with Schnauzenorgan gain 1; TS+SO2 = tubesnout with Schnauzenorgan gain 2 (A) The first independent gain of the chin-swelling is represented by Marcusenius ntemensis . (B) The second independent gain of the chin-swelling is represented by Marcusenius livingstonii . (C) The single gain of the Schnauzenorgan is represented by Gnathonemus petersii . (D) The first independent gain of the tubesnout with a Schnauzenorgan is represented by Gnathonemus ec hidnorh ync hus . (E) The second independent gain of the tubesnout with a Schnauzenorgan is represented by Campylomormyrus phantasticus . Photo credits: John P Sullivan
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds.🐟🧪
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Tired: “due to ongoing uncertainties about federal funding…” Wired: “due to President Trump and his administration’s illegal seizure of funds to American educational institutions…”
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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Awesome work from awesome scientists! @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social and @sternarchella.bsky.social !! What a face!
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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Great work!!!
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Genetic, developmental, and neural changes underlying the evolution of butterfly mate preference
Few studies that link genetic variation to behavior also dissect the neural circuits that underlie the arc from sensation to action. This study of the architecture of mate choice behavior in Heliconiu...
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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
We are hiring a fixed-term faculty member in the MSU Integrative Biology department to teach our core courses in Genetics, Evolution and Ecology! Check out the full ad here! Please RP! #sciencejobs #BlackinSTEM #LatinxinSTEM #diversityinSTEM
careers.msu.edu
MSU Careers Details - Inst/Ast Prof - Fixed Term
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Jason Gallant @jasongallant.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Wow-- signal/noise ratio is vastly improved over here! See ya, X!
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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Assistant Professor job (Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology) at U California- Riverside | aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01509
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Assistant Professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
University of California, Riverside is hiring. Apply now!
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Yusan Yang 楊雨珊, PhD @yusanyang.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
My lab at the University of South Florida is looking for a postdoc to collaborate on a project on the evolution of poison frog color, behavior, and learning! Happy to answer questions, and I will be at #SICB2024 to chat - come join us!! Details on how to apply: shorturl.at/uwxIU Please share widely!
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A red strawberry poison frog.
Behavioral Ecology, Animal Coloration, Sexual Selection, and More!
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