The president’s border wall plan could damage or destroy ‘the oldest-known books in North America’

[18 August 2026] Part 1 of 2 in this month's roundup of #ConservationJobs in Canada: Land and wildlife. Part 2 will focus on climate and communications. Multiple positions pay $100K+, have flexibile l...

The order builds on the Trump administration's efforts to reshape the childhood shot schedule under HHS Secretary RFK Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic.

Stengl-Wyer Postdoctoral Scholars Program in Biodiversity at the University of Texas at Austin

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

With more than five months left in the year, 2026 is the worst for measles in 35 years. Public health officials have warned that falling childhood vaccination rates have left more communities vulnerab...

The denial of tenure to Dr. Chaar López has become a national concern because it raises questions that extend far beyond one faculty member or one institution. Scholars across disciplines depend upon ...

The egg recall comes just weeks after the cyclosporiasis “explosive diarrhea” outbreak.

I thought we do science here, not fiction or romance

Hundreds of thousands of scientists, including Nobel laureates, warn that changes to the way federal grants are approved would greatly damage American science

Trump’s White House OMB director has quietly institutionalized the government demolition agenda set in motion by Elon Musk’s wrecking crew.

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Alejandro Arteaga’s efforts to identify and protect tropical reptiles and amphibians have entangled him in controversy