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Well I just lost all my NSF grants

submitted 14 hours ago • 18 comments

Fantastic paper in @science.org today revealing: 1. strong selection for cold tolerance in Beringia 2. gene-flow across the strait around 5ky 3. diversification of S. American lineages into 4 groups ~ 14k-10ky 4. followed by population crash of >40-80%

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"technology is neutral"

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Excluding and degrading people is a choice. Erasing non-dominant languages is a choice. These choices are motivated by bigotry, not common sense. An appeal to common sense is simply how you sell your bigotry to voters.

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Do you teach a course on cultural evolution? The @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social is offering Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... $4000 award. Apply for up to 3 courses. Less than 30min per course submission.

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Culturally appropriate resources and information about genetics and genomics created by the Australian National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (NCIG) ncig.anu.edu.au/resources

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An extraordinary story about how scientists in the US are afraid to speak up as the entire science research ecosystem is demolished at the hands of the Republican administration. Without our voices, how will people understand the scope and generational consequences of the ongoing destruction?

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

The U.S. is facing an unprecedented dismantling of science, research, and higher education. As scientists are fired + research is frozen, so too are all the resources and outcomes that would have benefited society. In their own words, the stories of scientists whose work has been abruptly ended:

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The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

devastated to discover Cheddar Man was lactose intolerant

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Just one day left for abstract submissions for #ESHE2025 in Paris! 🌏Note that remote/virtual presentations are also possible 🌍. www.eshe.eu/abstract/

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While most linguists use the 'Comparative Method' to subgroup languages, others resort to the 'Imperative Method'. #linguistics

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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me, a Bayesian: burn-in

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My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you Merovingian cursive:

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

"we are really really close again to the embarrassing point where you will be paid more as an 18-year-old apprentice on the training wage, than as a full-time postgraduate researcher (a Marsden PhD stipend funds PhD students to work full-time on a specific research project)."

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Here it is! Bonsai. Now there is really no more excuse for using t-SNE/UMAP. Bonsai not only makes cool pictures of your data. It actually rigorously preserves its structure. No tunable parameters. Incredible work by @dhdegroot.bsky.social. I'm so excited about this! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Join us in congratulating Robert Boyd, a SHESC professor and research scientist with the @asuiho.bsky.social, who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences — one of the highest honors a researcher can receive! 🌟 news.asu.edu/20250505-uni...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Oh good. Two of the world’s nuclear capable countries are throwing things at each other. 2025 keeps getting better ☢️

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Cool!

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"At a time when forces are trying to distract and disrupt the scientific enterprise, doing the important work of finding and sharing the truth is now a great act of resistance." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Some grim updates on NSF grant terminations. ❌ ~1,382 grants terminated over a 15 day period ❌ $1.07 billion in total grant value ❌ Half (441 / 902) of the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM portfolio is gone No indication terminations have stopped. grant-watch.us/nsf-data.html

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

I love this. High art indeed. I've had many a passive-aggressive editing standoff about oxford commas (I'm the one quietly removing them). cc @treiceratops.bsky.social

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Besides the gorgeous journal cover, the article it links to uses 724 classic Chinese poems to estimate the range contraction of the Yangtze finless porpoise over 1400 years. These animals are threatened by human activity, have intelligence comparable to a gorilla & are critically endangered.

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I love how constructive and collaborative linguists are.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Special Issue: Animal Culture: conservation in a changing world royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

* Academic BFD alert * We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Māori scholar Mākereti Papakura formally matriculated to Oxford University in 1927 to read Anthropology at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Tragically, Mākereti died in 1930, just weeks before she was due to present her thesis.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Are dance & infant-directed song human universals? Like many people, I've long thought so. But in a new paper in Current Biology, Kim Hill & I report that the Northern Aché (Paraguay) lacked both behaviors, likely losing them after cultural collapse. Open-access link: www.cell.com/current-biol...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Hey @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social can you make sure this is available?

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment