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Paul Hohenlohe

@phohenlohe.bsky.social
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Evolutionary and conservation genetics/genomics at University of Idaho Science: hohenlohelab.github.io Music: moscowmulesmusic.com

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“If the move survives expected legal challenges, it could also prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.” Absolutely fucking demonic. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
NYT headline: E.P.A. Expected to Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The reasonable response to this letter is FUCK OFF
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It's not about trust in science or higher ed. It's about corruption, cronyism, brute force, hatred by authoritarians (stop calling them populists) for independent thought, knowledge. Derek Lowe from Science Magazine nails it. This is all BS. To say otherwise is to make excuses for these monsters.
Full text here: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/assault-science-funding-continues
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/07/2026
28. To everyone who should know better but is still saying "actually, I agree with this one point in the report" or "to be fair Kratsios is right about this" — I give you Derek Lowe's reponse.
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The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20/07/2026
This combination, two days apart, will serve for future historians as an effective shorthand for the lunacy of the moment.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
That means TODAY! Do it! It's not that hard and science will love you for it (and the love of science is a glorious thing).
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...
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Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It's not the thing that's caused the most death and harm, but pointlessly and maliciously torching our deep-rooted relationship with our closest national friend and neighbor is, in terms of history and national character, one of the most depressing aspects of the broader catastrophe.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/06/2026
another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:
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The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America
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Paul Hohenlohe @phohenlohe.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
science In this country will need to be built back up from the roots “We're now engaged in tearing all of that down, and it's a crime against this nation, against its people, and against the rest of the human race“ www.science.org/content/blog...
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The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026
Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Your perpetual reminder that this is textbook fascism. It’s the “Us vs. them” play where the regime draws arbitrary lines everywhere they can in a society. (And yes, America has done this before…)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/05/2026
Lots of good stuff in here:
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We need to talk about the anti-science movement
6 lessons scientists under siege learned the hard way, and how we all can fight back
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Science Magazine @science.org · 30/04/2026
When federal agents came to the home of David Morens on Monday with an arrest warrant for allegedly concealing federal records related to the debate about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, they behaved as if the 78-year-old retired scientist was a violent criminal. scim.ag/4cIEXhc
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Guns and bulletproof vests: How federal agents arrested Fauci aide
David Morens, 78, was stripped and handcuffed for email violations
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The Stand Up for Science Foundation (a nonpartisan 501c3) is launching a new Institute to craft and implement policy that will address the damage to federal agencies and institutions, recenter evidence-based decision making, and reestablish the United States as a global leader in science. 2/7
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is already an indelible stain on our national history, culture, consciousness, influence, standing And EVERY SINGLE member of the group that could STOP THIS immediately—the Republican members of the House and Senate—stands there in the dock of history's judgment, like quislings of other eras
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
“…our nation (and the globe) faces increasingly grave danger by allowing this man to continue to control the levers of America’s awesome power…the responsibility resides not just with Republicans but with every member of Congress…to remove Trump from power.” www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump Needs to Be Removed
He is becoming increasingly dangerous and unable to perform the duties of his office, requiring the invocation of the 25th Amendment
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I'm movin' on... @alyssonfergison.com · 04/04/2026
Just a quick reminder that Ronald Reagan yanked the solar panels off the White House. If America had remained on the path Jimmy Carter set us on, nobody would be talking about the Strait of Hormuz or gas prices right now. Republicans have been fucking America and the world for decades.
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a man with a mustache is sitting at a table with his eyes closed and says these people .
ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting at a table with his eyes closed and says these people .
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 02/04/2026
Between January 20, 2025, and March 6, 2026, we tracked and categorized 562 unique attacks on science… and we’re still counting. UCS’s @jbd-phd.bsky.social breaks down the impact of these attacks and how you can help defend scientific integrity:
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One Year in, the Anti-Science Agenda of the Trump Administration Is Evident
We are now more than a year into President Trump’s second stint in the White House, establishing a grim and undeniable record of attacks on science. Every month that has passed since his inauguration day, there have been multiple actions that target science, scientists, and science-based policies. T
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It's going to be impossible to regain all we have lost. Heart breaking. Gifted wapo.st/47wflRz
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U.S. panel votes to exempt Gulf of Mexico drilling from Endangered Species Act
In its first meeting in three decades, the Endangered Species Committee voted to revoke protections for the endangered Rice’s whales and sea turtles.
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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/03/2026
Shoot all these people into fucking space.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Heather Clendenin🐾🧬 @littlemuseums.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This project started with results that made me go, “Huh…” & led me on a lil deep-dive into wolf ecology, behavior, & patterns of recolonization (I had fun 🤓). In the end, I can’t shake the impression of wolves keeping the deed to the homestead in the family link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Genetic structure in a previously extirpated population of gray wolves following reintroduction and natural recolonization - Conservation Genetics
Conservation Genetics - Genetic structuring in wildlife populations is driven by barriers that restrict gene flow as well as the history of population demography. Mechanisms driving genetic...
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Heather Clendenin🐾🧬 @littlemuseums.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Kudos and MUCH appreciation to my co-authors, Dave Ausband, Jennifer Adams, @phohenlohe.bsky.social, and Lisette Waits!!
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/02/2026
As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org
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There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding
The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”
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Joachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
We have compiled a special issue for @evolappjournal.bsky.social on Effective population size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring, dedicated to the late Michael W. Bruford. This SI is a must read for everyone who struggles with what "effective population size" means. #consgen
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The Importance of Effective Population Size in Conservation and Biodiversity Monitoring
Effective population size (Ne) is a key concept in biology and conservation. Stripped to its bare essentials, it reflects how much genetic drift a population experiences, expressed as a number of ind...
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Today we won. A U.S. District Court ruled that the administration violated federal law when it secretly convened a group of climate contrarians to produce a thoroughly debunked report to overturn the Endangerment Finding. The science still matters. We won't stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...
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A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
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Howard Pelling @howardpelling.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I fear for this country. Not because the president is a madman, but because the people who could stop him aren’t.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/01/2026
For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply. Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
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The Purged
Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
If you are a Republican, I do not think you are a fascist. I *observe* that you are a fascist.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The most pathetic man alive.
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Pam McElwee @pammcelwee.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It is a blow but US climate scientists will stay engaged. We have to.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/01/2026
The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NONE in Life science?! NONE?!
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Christopher Witt @msbbirds.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This plan is utterly insane and would cause catastrophic environmental degradation and loss of outdoor opportunities throughout the west — it would accelerate the decline of forests and wildlife, and seriously restrict hiking, camping, fishing, birding, hunting, etc.
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