Letter to the Editor

The 2026 cycle of the C. elegans Community Mentor Match is open to graduate students, postdocs, and faculty at any career stage. ⏱️ This form takes only 2–5 minutes to complete depending on your choic...

By David Fay Choosing a lab in which to carry out your PhD is admittedly one of the more important decisions you’ll make in your early scientific career. But it’s important to have some perspective. F...

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

Thank you for providing feedback about your experiences as a mentee, mentor, and peer group member in the last cycle of the C. elegans Community Mentor Match program! Please skip questions that are n...

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

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The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.

Genetic essentialism is a social-cognitive prejudice involving the belief that people of the same race share genes that make them behaviorally, physically, and cognitively uniform and also genetically...

There’s been a fair bit of recent discussion about why most biologists are (uncritically) adaptationists. I don’t dispute this but think it’s worth reconsidering why. Some have argued that this is bec...