Sign in

Jeremy Van Cleve

@vancleve.theoretical.bio
2.6K followers 2K following 416 posts

Associate Professor @ University of Kentucky. Evolution / Ecology / Math. Biker. Aikidoka. #BlackLivesMatter Editor in Chief of Theoretical Population Biology vancleve.theoretical.bio

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 2h
The @standupforscience.net Foundation is releasing the first part of our report on forging a new future on the science and technology ecosystem. To get where we want to go, we need to understand what has happened and the forces at work that enabled it. Resilience requires reflection.
standupforscience.foundation
Advancing science for the public good.
12210
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 8h
“Is it my week?” my Sensible Fall Jacket will ask. “Has it finally come?” “It has, old friend,” I’ll say. “What would you like to do with your one wild and precious week of Actual Fall?” buff.ly/hotsd0n
buff.ly
What I’ll Do with the One Week I Can Wear My Sensible Fall Jacket
“I am there to dress for the most elusive weather of all—uninterrupted high forties.” 9/22/24 9/21/25 9/30/26
010012
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 9h
Oh I shd add: Deisseroth’s work was (say it w me!) supported with public funding through federal science agencies incl NIH, NSF, and DARPA. And I daresay few political deciders in 2004 would have been excited to put algal proteins in HEK cells or neurons. Scientists knew, though.
17327
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
nytimes.com
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
191762878
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
151445527
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Highly corrupt Lukoil deal NYTimes: “raises questions” DOJ prosecutor: “This is an alarming and very concerning set of entanglements,” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
nytimes.com
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
021
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).
9488303
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Devistating. And against Congress's directive. SBE was included in the 26 budget and the NSF section states that "no directorate shall receive more than a 5 percent reduction relative to the fiscal year 2024 enacted level."
010751
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
NSF-Simons NITMB @nitmb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Don't forget to submit your NITMB scientific workshop proposal today! We are scheduling workshops beginning in October 2027, and today is the deadline for the next round of proposal reviews. Additional review rounds for 2028 will take place in 2027 Learn more at www.nitmb.org/workshops/
011
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Ellen Leffler @ellenleffler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My department at University of Utah is recruiting new faculty, with "Human" and "Genetics" broadly defined. It is a fantastic place to start a lab, with collaboration, creativity and conviviality encouraged. Applications due Oct 16. Please share and apply! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...
01532
Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio · 30/09/2026
💯😂
000
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Seth Finnegan @sethf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program is accepting applications until November 1. If you're a finishing Ph.D student or recent grad interested in coming to Berkeley to work on a project in paleobiology/paleoecology/geobiology please feel free to reach out! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/
ppfp.ucop.edu
University of California | President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
02334
Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio · 30/09/2026
The acronym has some historical hiccups... 😳
120
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
781557638
Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio · 29/09/2026
Danke!!
011
Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio · 29/09/2026
My group is recruiting a Ph.D student for Fall 2027! We're a friendly group of mathematically-minded and computationally-inspired biologists studying topics including social evolution, host-pathogen interactions, genetics, and demography. See vancleve.theoretical.bio for more info!
vancleve.theoretical.bio
van cleve research group
Van Cleve Research Group – theoretical evolution & ecology at the University of Kentucky
05370
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A great overview of how the Trump admin cultivated fear inside NIH to force compliance, even with harmful, unethical & unlawful orders. Also covers origins of the Bethesda Declaration community. From my friend & co-organizer Dr. Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
psychologicalscience.org
NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts
Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.
110856
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783
2115145
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu
Front page of the website
3150141
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.
04791
Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio · 29/09/2026
Congrats Dan!
020
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 28/09/2026
I show the receipts. #NIH
psychologicalscience.org
NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts
Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.
02010
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gave my first public lecture on the return of eugenics and race science this week at the British Science Festival. Reassuring to see how much interest, and concern, there was in the room
316939
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I need everyone to understand a few things: 1. People in positions of power at ✨establishment✨scientific institutions are HEAVILY incentivized to maintain the status quo of the scientific ecosystem…even though it doesn’t benefit us, the public, or innovation. Sorry! It’s the truth.
1335
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.
1104101
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My @epi.org colleagues @elisegould.bsky.social & Hilary Wething put together a banger of a chartbook on wage suppression--the single biggest cause of the affordability crisis. Some of the charts are among EPI's greatest hits & some are new (at least to me). www.epi.org/publication/...
epi.org
Wage suppression in 10 charts
Wages for typical workers lag far behind productivity growth. It hasn't always been this way and does not have to be this way. These 10 charts outline the historical context of workers’ wage trajector...
03317
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Many people are obviously interested in this report in the context of Claude's capabilities. Given that it was guided by experts, and that another human team had already made more progress on a similar system, I think this case study does not say much about Claude's current independent capabilities
1133
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Update on Vought’s #ScienceDeathPanels: The administration is reportedly backing away from the promised EO that would have furthered political oversight at NIH. Looks like our advocacy has worked (for now). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u... When we fight, we win!
nytimes.com
Trump Backtracks on Plan for New Controls on N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.
17325
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We're hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology in my department at the university of Houston @uh-ecoevo.bsky.social Come be my colleague careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
careers.uh.edu
Assistant or Associate Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Biology and Biochemistry Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston seeks to hire an evolutionary biolog...
37290
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please help spread the word! We are recruiting multiple Postdoctoral Fellows as part of the recently launched Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative (BCBI) at UC Berkeley and UCSF. BCBI website: bcbi.berkeley.edu Apply by Nov 1, 2026: berkeley.infoready4.com#freeformComp... (1/n)
bcbi.berkeley.edu
Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative | Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative
12836
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So very, very happy to see this out @plosbiology.org : Ancient inversion polymorphisms associate with sexually selected traits across natural guppy populations. Beautiful work by two very clever and talented coauthors, Yuying Lin and @vdbijl.bsky.social . journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 1/
journals.plos.org
Ancient inversion polymorphisms associate with sexually selected traits across natural guppy populations
Genomic inversions spanning many genes can persist for millions of years. This study of Trinidadian guppy populations reveals how both ecological conditions and mate choice help maintain this hidden l...
17536
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...
8554277
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com · 11/08/2026
As simulations grow in complexity, a set of non-trivial issues emerge: diminished identifiability as free parameters become too numerous relative to exp. constraints & difficulties grasping causality. In our new 📄, we point to potential avenues to move #CellBio forward 👇 arxiv.org/abs/2608.06998
arxiv.org
Simulating is not always understanding: When model complexity obscures biology
In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...
310635
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are you into mathematical modelling of ecological and evolutionary systems? Look at this job ad for a senior lecturer in Lund. I've visited many times, splendid compact city, splendid department! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
lu.varbi.com
Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology
Lund University welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. Gender equality, equal opportunities and diversity are fundamental principles in all parts of the University’s activit
04157
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Tadashi Fukami @fukamit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Systems Ecology, a new journal launched today, "run by researchers, for researchers, and is free to read and free to publish, with no article processing charges" systems-ecology.org/index.php/se...
systems-ecology.org
Systems Ecology
15927
Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio · 21/09/2026
Is bad!! 😩
020
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.
573329940
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026
Several reports this wknd of Trump and Vought trying to impose control over NIH grants—that is, politicizing US cancer and dementia cure research. Big picture: that is just the same unitary executive logic they tried to impose on NIH months ago via regulation. We need to strike back at the root…
1186
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Mickey Rottinghaus @golfsobad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have submitted my comments and urge you to do the same. We can't let RFK Jr. mess things up any worse!!
057
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Excellent article by @jessicaglenza.bsky.social at @us.theguardian.com that highlights how the Trump-Bhattacharya NIH grant terminations undermine trust built in communities and waste public resources by terminating critical, rigorous cutting edge science. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science
Participants in Pittsburgh may never learn the results of their cognitive tests – and funding cuts that target ‘DEI’ have the potential to delay vital diagnoses
26124
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The White House budget proposal for FY27 slash NSF funding by more than 50% and would drastically reduce support for PhDs, postdocs & investigator-initiated research. Selling something is not the same as doing something. Science is hard. This 'new golden age' won't make it easier.
US NSF announces

"Science: A New Golden Age Summit"

Washington
Discover the frontier
39153
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump's attacks on US higher ed, and Chinese scholars in particular, has been a gift to China's efforts to surge past the US on science and innovation. One report from Renmin University summed it up: "Thank Trump." 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...
donmoynihan.substack.com
China: “Thank Trump”
The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival
19961366
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
ukybiology.bsky.social @ukybiology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For more information about this position, click the link below. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/646...
015
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Really cool site. www.lostfunds.org
lostfunds.org
Lost Funds — $177 Billion Gone
Track the Trump administration’s federal funding disruptions state by state — what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court.
13826
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
facultypositions.stanford.edu
Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...
5151191
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026
When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement
904654842
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026
Short thread: 18 months ago, as part of their assault on higher ed, Trump/DOGE/Vought terminated my friend Kelton Minor's NIH Director's award that would have allowed him to take a faculty position there. Without the funds, Columbia ultimately rescinded the position. Kelton moved to Denmark.
5614241
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
US policymakers must avoid the temptation to rebuild US science by mimicking China and going all in on STEM. That would be a mistake. We also need social science and humanities that makes sense of great technological change like AI. Thats part of US scientific tradition worth keeping.
For example, Henry Farrell argues that the social sciences arose from and are designed to make sense of moments of great social upheaval, which is exactly the moment AI is creating right now. Focusing only on investing in AI technology, without understanding the deeper implications of the changes it brings, would be a deep failure of science.

Farrell quotes Alondra Nelson, who has been thinking carefully about the impacts of AI for years:

AI is not an external force acting upon society from outside but an internal phenomenon constituted through social processes, institutional choices, market dynamics, and political struggles. Its effects are neither uniform nor preordained. They vary with context, design, and the distribution of power that determines how these technologies are built, deployed, and contested.
520048
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026
Today, with backing from the ACLU, Kelton and twelve other named researchers filed a class action suit against the NIH under director Jay Bhattacharya for censoring their research and violating their First Amendment rights.
aclu.org
Researchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties Union
Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research
4692143
Reposted by Jeremy Van Cleve
James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wayne was my MA thesis and PhD dissertation adviser at Mizzou. He is kind, and good, and represents the best of what Mizzou is and has to offer. The Missouri state law that seeks to criminalize even the discussion of DEI is shameful, and so are those who support it. abc17news.com/news/educati...
abc17news.com
University of Missouri investigating professor after video alleges DEI sympathies
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri is investigating allegations of staff violating federal and state laws against diversity, equity and inclusion practices after a video reportedly showin...
016257