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Our 1st Biodiversity Science-Policy 'starter pack' is now full (150 accounts). Access at: go.bsky.app/LjV86zg There's a 2nd starter pack already filling up: go.bsky.app/GzM8eok NB: these are mainly IPBES authors & stakeholders regularly engaged with IPBES work. Please follow & share widely! 🌍🧪

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Call for Applications: Editor-in-Chief, European Journal for Philosophy of Science. Editorship begins 1 September 2025 (negotiable) & renewable term of 4 years. Submit applications to the secretary of @epsaphilsci.bsky.social M. Amine Mansour at [email protected]. Deadline is 15 May 2025. #philsci

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I am on the steering committee of the European philosophy of science association and we are looking for a new editor or our journal: the European journal for philosophy of science. #philsci

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Wondering if your study section cancelled? I update this sheet daily. As of today, 56/124 study sections that should have met since Jan 2, 2025 have "not met as scheduled." docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Some history and philosophy of science about into why this matters- traditionally medical and biological research has studied male animals much more than females. To this day there is still a skew 1 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

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Another #naturalhistory collection may be orphaned. Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York ("top 5 such collections in the country") @corriemoreau.bsky.social estimates PRI has produced more female paleontologists than most other institutions www.science.org/content/arti...

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Call for Nominations for Officers: International Society for History, Philosophy, & Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) President-elect (2025-27) who then becomes President (2027-29) Council members (2025-29), 3 vacancies Program Co-Chairs (2025-27) for 2027 conference Deadline March 14 #HPS

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Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.

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Philosophy in the Wild invites abstract submissions for the 5th annual conference. Topic: Environmental Philosophy, broadly construed. Philosophy in the Wild conferences are motivated by the idea that a shift in environment can engender a shift in perspective. 16 Mar deadline.

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Philosophy in the Wild 2025 July 25-27, Sideling Hill Creek State Park, MD, USA Submit 500-word anonymized abstracts on environmental philosophy to: [email protected] Deadline: March 16 #philsci msidzinska.wixsite.com/philwild2025

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Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

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Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

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Does anyone have a running list of universities that have paused or slashed graduate admissions? We’ll add it to ours if it doesn’t exist

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Hardwood xkcd.com/3051

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This is, I think, pretty big given what we know about the statutory basis for Broader Impacts: “NSF continues to apply the statutorily required Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts review criteria, as well as any solicitation-specific review criteria.”

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Firing experts 🧪 who can identify agricultural pests 🐛 early on might not be the best thing if you really wanted to lower food prices. But maybe that was never the point ...

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Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

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PhD students in social sciences studying "metascience" and AI: This looks like an AMAZING opportunity. Fully funded research postdoc that can be housed at whatever university you can find an appropriate mentor. sloan.org/programs/dig...

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The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed.

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I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit orgs to take over the Open Access Tracking Project and the open-source software on which it runs. Details in this Google doc: bit.ly/TransferOATP Contact me <[email protected]> if you have any questions or any level of interest. #OpenAccess

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Just out "Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of viruses across Drosophilidae host species"; 35 host species * 11 viruses. Work led by Ryan Imrie together with Megan Wallace in @evolletters.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle...

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BREAKING: Nevada confirms state's first human case of bird flu in a dairy worker. Meanwhile One person in Louisiana died who had been hospitalized with the D1.1 genotype.

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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

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“I grew up visiting museums my entire life and it made me want to be a scientist,” Cavanaugh said. “I want other kids and people in the community to have that opportunity. … [The Museum of the Earth] changes how people think and it ultimately can make someone change career paths completely.”

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Exciting news! My paper "Can Chemical Substances Be Natural?" is out now doi.org/10.1080/0002... #philsky #philosophy #philsci #chemistry

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Based on what @blackamazon.bsky.social ‘s been saying about Babbage and the plantation, I went and found this essay. I don’t know enough about Whitaker to stand behind her, but this essay is an okay primer if you’re completely new to these ideas. logicmag.io/supa-dupa-sk...

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Say goodbye to the US as the best place in the world to be a scientist. 🧪

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Clear air zones work. #ShareGoodNewsToo www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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SCOOP: Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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Oh look at this! @harvardlil.bsky.social just released their archive of data.gov today. Thanks for your work! #datarescue lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

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Who is working on helping explain the role of technology in what's happening with the federal government agencies? How can we put our expertise on the social and technical dimensions of infrastructure to work for the public?

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Updates to google doc: a spreadsheet for data at risk (It is a WIP). Info from ICPSR about their efforts. Added headings for accessibility. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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If you are doing a "datathon" like this, please contact us so we can coordinate efforts. We'd like to know what you are doing. The CDC has gotten much-needed attention, but we are concerned about more. Don't stop there. @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/02/05/n...

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

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The ASU Biocollections is hiring a new vertebrate collections manager! Please share widely and apply to join our awesome team! asu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/ASUStaffCare... biokic.asu.edu #evobio

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Thoughtful piece by Greg Gibson pushing strongly back on the "Heritable polygenic editing" article genomestake.substack.com/p/genome-edi...

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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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@lizneeley.bsky.social is publishing a weekly newsletter to track the ongoing attacks in science and higher ed. If you want to keep abreast without drowning in the news, I recommend it: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.

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Tenured position for a zoologist at my museum in Oslo. Think: organismal, systematics, evolutionary, genomics/phenomics. Deadline 23 Feb 25. Ad says needs scando language but scroll to end of ad for small print. And if u had a postdoc stint, u can apply! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Repost!

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Doing public philosophy in a difficult times. Unfortunately, due to health considerations I'm not as active as I once was but I hope that these tips, which I gained through experience being someone engaged in projects relating to the public good and disseminating philosophy for a big audience 1/

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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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