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Yolanda Chen @yolandachen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

New paper with former Phd student Erika Bueno @insect-phd.bsky.social!

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Wiebke Arlt @wiebkearlt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Six postdoc positions in two brand new team science projects on mechanistic biology in the overlap area of ageing and sex differences @mrc-lms.bsky.social in London - apply now!

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Yolanda Chen @yolandachen.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Please reshare! My department at the University of Vermont is hiring for an Assistant Professor of #Soil #Ecology! Here is the link: www.uvmjobs.com/postings/83858

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Assistant Professor of Soil Ecology

Officers of Instruction - Tenure Track

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

We’re recruiting for a multi-university (and ECCC) cross-city project on urban biodiversity, connectivity, and ecosystem services: 1) a Concordia or U Laval MSc student (PhD possible), 2) a UBC MSc student, 3) a postdoc. I’ll link to each position below. Please share broadly!

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 03/06/2025

🔔Trump’s Fool’s Gold EO is facing MAJOR backlash. THOUSANDS of scientists, academics, & physicians - including us - are speaking out against this political assault on science. Our Open Letter is featured here: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...

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The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

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Lisanne Petracca @lisannepetracca.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We are hiring an Assistant/Associate Prof of Quantitative Ecology! I'm on the Search Committee for this one. If you have any interest in the position & want to learn more about living in this v. cool part of the country, pls reach out! tinyurl.com/2h6bdece

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Assistant/Associate Professor in Quantitative Ecology

Job TitleAssistant/Associate Professor in Quantitative Ecology Agency Texas A&M University - Kingsville Department Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute Proposed Minimum SalaryCommensurate Job Locat...

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Christopher Douse @chdouse.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Come to Lund! We are looking for a postdoc to join the team. #transposons #epigenetics

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Gabrijela Dumbović @gabrijelad.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

📣 Our lab is looking for a PhD student to join us in exploring RNA biology! Details in the announcement. Feel free to reach out with any questions—and please RT!

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Yolanda Chen @yolandachen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Pleased to join @balachaudhary.bsky.social, @khadlily.bsky.social, and @wocineeb.bsky.social to remind Science why racial affinity groups help scientists of color to find support and belonging.

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Alexandra Klein @naturealexk.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Postdoc Opportunity in #Pollination Research The @uni-freiburg.de is hiring a Postdoc for the EU project VALOR, exploring the ecological and economic values of pollinators. 📅 Deadline: March 1, 2025 📅 Start date: June 1, 2025 💰 Salary: TV-L E13 (100%), 3 years 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

February 18, 2024
TO:
Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH
CC:
John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH
Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH
FROM:
Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH
SUBJECT: Resignation
Dear Dr. Memoli,
On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment:
I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included:
• For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual

nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system.
• Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats.
• Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them.
• Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn.
• Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity.
I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind.
As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha…

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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

"The Department of Agriculture employs entomologists, botanists and mycologists — experts in insects, plants and fungi, respectively — who inspect agricultural products for pests and pathogens. Many of those specialists were also let go on Friday."

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Trump Administration Has Fired Health Inspectors at Some Border Stations (Gift Article)

Scientists worry that the losses may open the door to human, plant and animal diseases that would otherwise have been caught.

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Yolanda Chen @yolandachen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I am using this episode of Hidden Brain in class to discuss the importance of debate and dialogue for developing the most creative and robust solutions. It is particularly timely right now to be able to separate a task conflict with a relationship conflict. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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You 2.0: How to Open Your Mind

Podcast Episode · Hidden Brain · 08/29/2022 · 52m

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Dr. Cynthia Chang @drcynthiacchang.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The committee on Science, Space, and Technology are collecting testimony of Federal employees fired in the past days. Please share with your colleagues and friends. The more testimony, the better we can argue against this injustice.

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Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 16/02/2025

If you're an entomologist who lost your position in this nonsense, please message me. If you're an organization seeking a taxonomist or a broadly trained entomologist, reach out. I'm also looking for professors seeking PhD students, globally. #entomology 🧪

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Meredith Wadman @meredithwadman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees | Science | AAAS brought to you by @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘Wrecking ball’: RFK Jr. moves to fire thousands of health agency employees

Supervisors deliver bad news across NIH, CDC

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 14/02/2025

Today, the USDA lost experts in Psylloidea, Thysanoptera, Cerambycidae, Hymenoptera, Pseudococcidae, and Malacology. This is a devastating loss of expertise, occuring without warning. Their union's official statement on the issue can be found here: aginspectors.org/2-14-2025-a-... #entomology 🧪

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2/14/2025: A message from the NAAE about the mass termination notices – National Association of Agriculture Employees | NAAE

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

USDA firing the newest hires across the board means they are purging experts relevant to new and emerging threats; e.g., people who combat the Citrus Greening disease that's collapsing Florida's citrus industry. Just the dumbest strategy imaginable. Unless the goal is to collapse the US.

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Yolanda Chen @yolandachen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Stand up for Science! www.standupforscience2025.org/STAND-UP-FOR...

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EMBO @embo.org · 14/02/2025

The EMBO Lab Sustainability Award recognizes pioneers of environmental #sustainability in #lifesciences research. Individuals representing a group initiative can apply until 14 March 2025. www.embo.org/the-embo-com...

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EMBO Lab Sustainability Award – The EMBO communities – EMBO

Recognizing pioneers of environmental sustainability in life science research

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Nicolas Robine 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇸 @nicorobine.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap. Sign and Circulate. Mobilize. Organize. chng.it/LS57Nk7r6k

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This campaign needs you now

Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)

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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Your Action Is Needed! Congress needs to hear from scientists. Call your representatives to oppose funding freezes and restrictions on research. Find contact info at govtrack.us and make your voice heard today! #SciencePolicy www.ascb.org/science-poli...

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Erasure. At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Concerned about the devastating effect of the cut to NIH indirect costs (from >60% at many to 15% for all) on US biomedical research that takes effect tomorrow? Phone the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Chaired by Senator Bill Cassidy TOMORROW morning at 202-224-6770.

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Have/nearly have a PhD? ≤7 years post-doc experience? Working outside UK? Not a UK citizen? BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK! 💷 Includes: Research expenses £12k Relocation up to £8k 🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT) #ResearchFunding

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International Fellowships 2025

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

And in the uk the Newton Fellowships too! royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

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Isabel Almudi @isabelalmudi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Job alert! We are seeking a research technician and lab manager to join our lab and an ERC funded project. If you'd like to work with beautiful insects in beautiful Barcelona, don't hesitate and contact us: www.mayflyecoevodevo.com/joinus

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

"The house is burning. We don’t need a more sophisticated thermometer, we need a fire hose" Dan Janzen & Winnie Hallwachs @paddywoodworth.bsky.social #IrishTimes re. #ACG and the crisis in #Insect #Biodiversity @gdfcf.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Screen grab of article in Irish Times that reads

A shocking collapse: forests that once showed traces of insect life on every leaf often now appear ‘fumigated’
‘The house is burning. We don’t need a more sophisticated thermometer, we need a fire hose,‘ says a resident expert at a unique conservation area in Costa Rica

Resident Expert is Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs

Underneath is the image of a larval stage of the lepidoptera Calydna sturmula

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The western monarch butterfly population is near record lows; fewer than 10k individual butterflies counted this year. xerces.org/press/wester...

graph from 1997 to 2024 showing "total number of monarchs reported" on the x axis, with numbers normally around 150,000-250,000, with 2024 barely registering.

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WOCinEEB @wocineeb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Hey there Blue Sky! We are WOCinEEB, an organization for women of color & non-binary people of color in ecology, evolutionary biology, & allied fields. We offer formal & informal mentorship programs for all career stages & a space for community positivity. Join us & find your people! wocineeb.org

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WOC IN EEB

An online community of women of color and non-binary people of color in ecology, evolutionary biology, and allied fields

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Dr. Bala Chaudhary @balachaudhary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It’s a really great time to find community. Join us!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/01/2025

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

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Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We will host the 3rd Full Circle Symposium for Native Biologists at UCSF on April 3-4! We aim to build community and provide opportunities for Native scientists. If you are a Native biologist at any training stage who wants to speak, please fill this out by this Friday (1/31): tinyurl.com/mm2tswt7

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

NSF review panels being canceled now. #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Review panels run by the National Science Foundation, which bring together outside experts to rate the merit of proposed science research, were canceled Monday, triggering alarm across an already nervous research community.

“We have just been notified this morning that all NSF review panels scheduled for today are to be canceled as the agency is assessing the impacts of last week’s Executive Orders on our grantmaking,” the email said.

A second email from an NSF program director indicated that the pause may be lifted soon, telling scientists they should assume “for now” that a panel scheduled for Tuesday may be held.

The cancellations add to confusion and frustration unleashed last week when study sections that review grants for the National Institutes of Health were paused. The cancellations, which several researchers said were unprecedented, raised questions about the future of the world’s largest funder of biomedical research across a wide array of disease areas, from cancer to heart disease.

NSF spokesman Michael England did not answer questions about which review panels were canceled or when they could be restarted.

A statement released by the agency said: “The U.S. National Science Foundation looks forward to working with the new Administration to ensure long-term U.S. competitiveness in all fields of science and engineering for our economic and national security. We are continuing to review all the executive orders carefully and are implementing them accordingly.”

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Petr Svoboda @svobodalab.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Any slug enthusiasts among my followers? Please RT. Our lab develops a slug laboratory model from Deroceras laeve (genomes, CRISPRs, small RNAs ...) and I am opening one PhD position on "piRNa and genome defense in gastropods". Info & online application here: www.img.cas.cz/kariera/phd-...

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Volné PhD pozice (v angličtině) – Ústav molekulární genetiky AV ČR, v. v. i.

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Yolanda Chen @yolandachen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Lab meetings are more fun with games. 😁

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