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jessamine finch @seedystudies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

📣 post-doc opportunity w/ Georgia Native Seed Network @ State Botanical Garden (Athens, GA) 🫘 lead conservation genetics research supporting restoration across the southeastern U.S. 🧬 50% molecular lab work, 30% research, 10% field, 10% training & development www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/503...

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GNSN Postdoctoral Research Assistant

The State Botanical Garden of Georgia at the University of Georgia is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to lead conservation genetics research supporting native plant restoration across the so...

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And remember, this entire media witch-hunt was whipped up by Nathan Cofnas -- an academic fraud himself who's entire "career" was writing bullshit race science essays. I wish Cofnas nothing but pain and misery

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Checking with Cornell folks about this now that it's a decent time on the East coast. A lot of Universities have rolled back support for Indigenous programs (student support, depts, etc) but Cornell should have had resources to fight against anti-Indigenous movements. This is... disturbing.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Aboriginal rangers have wiped invasive fire ants off an Australian island. After 22 years, the Tiwi Rangers have eradicated tropical fire ants from Melville Island, hunting and baiting nests one by one. The ants had been eating turtle hatchlings and nesting birds. buff.ly/MYFv9ok #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Tiwi rangers eradicate invasive tropical fire ants in Australia’s Melville Island

DERBY, Australia — While Spanish sailors packed in dirt to stabilize the bottom of ships sailing from the Americas in the 16th century, they were unaware that they were also helping tiny stowaways…

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

RIP Miwa. You drove Mishima deeper into madness with a withering insult, portrayed one of detective fiction's most iconic villains beautifully, and produced rare footage of Miyazaki actually smiling. Your power was immeasurable.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

If you are going to comment on the proposed changes to how science is done in the US, please use this guide. The rules specify that you have to mention the number associated with the proposed changes, and this blog has those. Here is where to comment: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

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Penn State Department of Biology @psubiodept.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🌱 We’re hiring in Plant Biology at Penn State! The Department of Biology at Penn State University Park is searching for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor in any area of plant biology.

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Evolution Students @ssegrad.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🚗 Ride-sharing alert! Connect with fellow Evolution attendees for travel or room sharing: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Feel free to share what you’re comfortable with—details will be visible to others.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/04/2026

Since I don't remember if I shared it, here's my talk "Fascist Bullshit: How ‘Generative AI’ Enacts & Enables Authoritarianism and Eugenics" at the symposium "Virtual Power: AI, Ableism, Racism, and Fascism," at the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 conference, from January of this year:

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Day 2 Session 3 - Symposium: Virtual Power: Al, Ableism, Racism, and Fascism

YouTube video by Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Current grad students: Submit your research proposal by May 18th to be considered for a Graduate Research Excellence Grant! Learn more about how to craft a strong proposal on our website: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

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Rachel Kruger @rachelkruger.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Ecologists, rejoice! 10% off for this incredible company's birthday! Very proud to know one of the co-founders, and proud of the work she's done! Great chance to get some supplies for #fieldwork this summer or swag for looking sharp at #Evol2026! #Ecology

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STRIVE @strivestn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

🌻 Next STRiVE seminar: Loren Rieseberg (UBC) explores SVs, adaptation & speciation—from wild sunflowers to 1000+ species! 🗓️ Apr 29 | 9am PDT / 6pm CEST ✉️ Zoom link via mailing list: groupes.renater.fr/sympa/subscr... ℹ️ Info: structuralvariantsstn.github.io/about/

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 23/03/2026

Email your senators to urge them not to confirm Jim O’Neill as Director of the National Science Foundation. He's not a scientist, has no relevant expertise, promoted vaccine misinformation, and he helped gut the CDC. Email your senators here! : tr.ee/NoToONeill (1/2🧵)

Graphic with photo of Jim O'Neill reading: "No to O'Neill for NSF, Email your senators at tr.ee/NoToONeill, STAND UP FOR SCIENCE"

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Proposals are due May 18 for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! Up to $2500 for 1st and 2nd year grad students and $3500 for 3rd years and above. Evaluation criteria and sample proposals available online: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants, Apply by May 18, 2026.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We’re not talking enough about what’s happening in Vermont. There’s no excuse for this brutality. None. Law enforcement has a right to do their job, but their job is to de-escalate, not assault people. Video credit: Itisu Siru

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Plant Editors @planteditors.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Just added to our #PlantScience journals, societies, and institutions starter pack: @forestryjfr.bsky.social @botsocscot.bsky.social One more spot left, who's in! #SciComm go.bsky.app/Q9QiX9C

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Janelle Talavera @janelletalavera.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Hi all! I’m a PhD candidate in the @lindseyswierk.bsky.social and Powell labs at Binghamton University. I use #PopGen, #BehavioralEcology, and #VisualModeling to study the #evolutionary & #ecological processes of #divergence in a semi-aquatic #Anolis lizard species complex. #speciation #evolution

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Ecology Supplies @ecologysupplies.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

We are excited to start off 2026 with some BIG NEWS! For the first time, we are offering free shipping for orders > $200! (only available within the contiguous US).

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Three postdoctoral fellowships in quantitative biology are available as part of a new Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland. Best consideration date: 3/14 Job Ad: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j... Department: biology.umd.edu/people

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Post-Doctoral Associate

Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks applications for three quantitative biology postdoctoral fellow po...

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

Ice planning to acquire $38 billion in warehouses to create detention centers all over the U.S.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Dendrochronology and paleoclimatology of the Stradivari's violins: "...the majority of soundboards were crafted from Norway spruce (Picea abies) that grew at very high elevations during the severe climatic conditions of the Maunder Minimum" 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Climate

The left map shows the spatial distribution of the set of the 197 reference chronologies used for cross dating. Different colours highlight the tree species. Regional references were assigned to the centroid of the area. The four maps on the right highlight the position of the three highest matches resulting from the dendroprovenancing of the larger violin groups (G1, G2, G3, and G4).

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Joe Yracheta (A ∩ & ∪ Ω) @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

NYT Told it in the 3rd (he built) person but there were many of us fighting this fight across 7 institutions, including our Great GREAT PARTNERS Stanford University and all of our Indigenous colleagues and allies at OSU, UW Seattle, UW Madison, UC Santa Cruz, ASU and the Tribes in RADx UP

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 27/01/2026

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

There appears to have been another ICE murder in Minneapolis this morning. [CW: graphic video] www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

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From the Minneapolis community on Reddit: Another ICE murder in front of Glam Doll Donuts

Explore this post and more from the Minneapolis community

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

More people need to read up on the history of slavery in the Americas and the lengths enslaved women went to to avoid bearing children into slavery. Look up flos pavonis, cotton root, all the other tools used to prevent or end pregnancy - a key form of resistance to sexual and reproductive violence.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Here is the 60 Minutes segment Bari is trying to keep you from seeing. They keep getting taken down so watch asap

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Harriet Mason @harriet-mason.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN! harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in... You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats

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Colin Purrington @colinpurrington.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If you're bored and use iNaturalist, here's a link to a tool that displays which of your observations were the first recorded for a taxon. I apparently have 16 (out of 3,395). I need to get out more. 🌿 #inaturalist #nature #insects #spiders glauberramos.github.io/inat/first-o...

List of 8 species names and observation dates next to a small thumbnail of my photograph. Here are the species: Deuteragenia sayi, Phytoplasma asteris, Chionea scita, Caenolampis robertsi, Anaptomecus longiventris, Galapaganus conwayensis, Nesocastolus, and Eumicrota socia.

List of another 8 species with pics: Eurythrips, Ischnodemus variegatus, Philodromus barrowsi, Aprostocetus fidius, Colaspis pseudofavosa, Mycosphaerella impatientis, Cymindis planipennis, and Heinrichiessa sanpetella.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/11/2025

Springer-Nature statement “Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.” How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?

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Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town

Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?

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Haley A Branch @stressedbranch.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

New #mimulus preprint! We found grandparental environments exhibit strong effects on the fitness of their grand-offspring and whether this was positive or negative depended on the historical environment, showing TGP is locally adaptive www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Transgenerational plasticity affects fitness and mediates local adaptation

Transgenerational plasticity (TGP) could be as decisive of a factor in phenotypic outcomes as allelic variation and within-generation plasticity. While TGP is often associated with priming offspring t...

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Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

New paper by PhD student Aly Van Natto! 🌾🧪 Ever wondered if a plant's early start (seed vs. clonal fragment) affects the rest of their life's trajectory? We did! So we tested it over 3 yrs. Seedlings grow & flower fast but die young, while clones play the long game #PlantScience #ecology #evolution

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Allie Martin, PhD @alliemartin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I’m very proud to have published the article referenced here, which constituted one of my dissertation chapters. It was certainly a labor of love!

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Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

New paper by former MSc student @christeinecke.bsky.social! ⭐ A behemoth effort to apply artificial selection on clonal reproduction in #Mimulus guttatus. We show that clonality evolves quickly, but not symmetrically in both directions, and multivariate life history traits are altered too! 🧪🌾

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Lena Ting @lenating.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Sign the petition to restore eligibility of 2nd year grad students to the NSF GRFP. They are being robbed of the opportunities to advance their innovative science. @chubicki.bsky.social

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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers

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Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers

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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life: music and cats." —Albert Schweitzer

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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

We're on a roll: Super proud of this paper lead by Dr. Megan Frayer & GS Hagar Soliman (with a major contrib from GS Pia Schwarz): Introgression and Parental Conflict Shape Repeated Occurrences of Postzygotic Isolation @hybridzones.bsky.social @hagarsoliman.bsky.social @pfschwarz.bsky.social

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2025

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers @plantpollinator.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Folks on LinkedIn - you might notice an email about using your data and your content to train generative AI. If you'd like to opt out, the clicky button is here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference... (you'll need to be logged in of course)

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LinkedIn Login, Sign in | LinkedIn

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

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James Bonfield @jbonfield.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The threat men like him create for people like me is not theoretical. It's real. Daily. There is a direct line from their words to the fact I dare not step outside my front door in my home of 35 years. I need you to understand that, before issuing gracious platitudes on what reaction is "right". 6/6

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