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Anthropological geneticist 🧬 Boricua 🇵🇷✊🏽Assistant Prof at University of Minnesota 🏛️Opinions are my own 🧠 I like 📚🍷🐕‍🦺👩🏻‍🔬🎶
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Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!

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The NSF helped fund the tech in your phone, the models that forecast deadly storms and 268 Nobel prize-winners. The Trump Administration has proposed cutting its budget by 55% – and 1400+ grants are already terminated.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Cutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms. Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.

submitted 9 days ago • 36 comments

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF! Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Our Media Tool can help you get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

#WithoutNSF I wouldn’t be a scientist. I studied thanks to an NSF fellowship. NSF funded my PhD and postdoc, and funds the work of my students today. W/O NSF our team couldn’t do the ancient DNA studies that teach us about our ancestors and their legacies. #SaveNSF www.nievescolonlab.org

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🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

submitted 19 days ago • 27 comments

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 76 days ago • 37 comments

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days. We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

submitted 40 days ago • 8 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 52 days ago • 669 comments

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org

submitted 54 days ago • 20 comments

My review of computational methods for anthropological genetics with @kwittadna.bsky.social is out for the Yearbook issue of AJBA. We talk about all sorts of cool methods that YOU could use too! Also check out this great figure we commissioned from @janey1216.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajpa...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

For AnthGen folks at @bioanth.org: Our Annual Business Meeting will be held TONIGHT from 8.30 - 9.30 PM in the Grand Ballroom, Salons I-II. The agenda, minutes from the 2024 meeting, and the Treasurer's Report for 2024 are available in your email if you’re a member! See you there!

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

"Rejecting the...advice of shared governance bodies and neutering the faculty’s ability to collectively speak up, particularly at a moment when senior leaders may lack the courage or willingness to do so, would be not just wrong and misguided but a betrayal of their obligations to the institution."

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

Super excited to be at #AABA2025 this week! Our lab’s presentations and posters this year focus on aDNA, modern genomics and community engagement 🧬💀🤝 from projects in 🇵🇪 🇵🇷. All scheduled for this Saturday 🗓️ and featuring work by stellar trainees 🧑‍🔬 ! Come say hi and nerd out with us @bioanth.org 🤓

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.

submitted 101 days ago • 15 comments