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Ah! Here's the framing I've been looking for: “Science as we know it is under attack, but we have a chance to remake science even as we fight for it. People have long pretended science is apolitical, but..."

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

"Information Architectures: A Framework for Understanding Socio-Technical Systems" is in press at npj Complexity. Normally I might wait until publication to share, but given the relevance to our rapidly-changing world, it seemed worth sharing now. osf.io/preprints/so...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

The black-footed ferret has been coming back from the brink of extinction thanks to the work of US government scientists. They just got fired. www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

I am recruiting 1-2 postbacs for my parakeet sociality & cognition project! This position is for people finished with undergrad but who have not yet started grad school. Must be totally fascinated by parakeet social drama (there's a lot of it!)🪶🧪 Job ad here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

We all need a space to feel we belong and where we are supported. Help our Flocks take flight! Support our joint effort with @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social & @fieldornith.bsky.social! Every bit of help makes a difference. gofund.me/b82daffb

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Job alert🐦 2yr post-doc position with Prof. Sue Healy on project "Mistakes in Action: From the Normativity of Goal-Directedness to Novel Investigations of Avian Nest Construction"🪺 Start asap. Contact: sdh11[at]st-andrews.ac.uk @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

The Animal Behavior Society supports science and our members. Please share this message with our community and beyond. Read the full letter here: myemail.constantcontact.com/ABS-Supports...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

Help our Flocks Project take flight! We all need a space to feel we belong & are supported. This is what our Flocks Project—our joint effort with Wilson Ornithological Society & Association of Field Ornithologists—aims to do for ornithologists. Donate today! www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 11 days ago • 68 comments

Today was the saddest day of my professional life. To see amazing scientists terminated from the NSF because they had worked there fewer than 2 years. The scientific enterprise is deeply wounded by these and similar actions across the government. Science denial will never make a nation great.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

We have an exciting new position in our lab for a PhD on parrot tool use! See below

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

If you haven’t ordered your last round of free Covid home tests, get ‘em now before they’re destroyed. special.usps.com/testkits

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

There is a lot going on, and in the face of this uncertainty @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social , AOS and AFO are working to keep our Flocks going to support ornithologists in affinity groups. And we need help raising the funds to make it happen. Can you help us? 🧪🪶🌎 www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

How different birds would act on a first date...a thread. (From us to you this #ValentinesDay) 💕👇

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

Remember: just because you pelican does not mean you peli-should. Photo by Mark Smith

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

We describe a new species of poison frog from the Pacific coast of Colombia -- Epipedobates currulao. A long time in the making. Describimos una nueva especie de una rana venenosa para la ciencia de la costa pacífica de colombia doi.org/10.3897/zook... Media links below | entrevistas abajo 1/5

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Cuts to the NIH are a strategy to strangle research universities not “reduce waste”

submitted 22 days ago • 29 comments

Total NIH funding cuts by state. This can be helpful when talking to your representatives www.datawrapper.de/_/Y0Pnk/

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

submitted 23 days ago • 75 comments

🚨Academic scientist friends who are members-ideally leaders- of scientific professional societies, I need your help. 🚨 There is a sign-letter being prepared that will speak out against recent politicization of scientific funding and demonization of scientific researchers. 🧪🌎🦑

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

Glory be! A flash of joy for Wisdom. This 74 year old Laysan Albatross laid a fertile egg half way around the world from where I am. Now she and her mate have successfully hatched this wonder egg.| It is cold & snowy here but I'm feeling the warmth from the middle of the Pacific! #birds

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Indeed, the MOSAIC program, just months ago hailed as a major success by the NIH, has been terminated. We are still waiting to hear what happens with previously funded grants. I discussed this recently in my interview with BBC Science in Action: t.co/I67IDPuRwE

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing? DON'T DO IT. If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT. Document, document, document. Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document

submitted 24 days ago • 164 comments

“An evolutionary biologist ought to embrace variation and diversity rather than discarding it.” THIS Also if you want to read something as a balm to Dawkins, may I suggest Bitch by Lucy Cooke

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

submitted 24 days ago • 168 comments

Anyone need a hug today? This was a mother lynx with her paws wrapped around her kitten after a full afternoon of catching hares and stalking squirrels. I laid down in the snow with them and we all napped together for a bit before I left them alone for the evening.

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Moment of levity away from the news, in case anyone needs it… I joke that the parakeets I study sometimes plot how to ruin my research: I now have photographic proof! My evil birds are actively disassembling their flight cage - unscrewing screws & then flying around showing off their souvenirs 🧪🪶

submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

If you're an NSF PI like me, you might be wondering: Will my grant be suspended or terminated next week? A few key things to know: First off, remember that NSF is congressionally mandated to evaluate broader impacts. And laws like CHIPS and Science supersede EOs. But also... 🧵 thread

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

Elon Musk’s government contracts.

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

Hi all, I am in contact with a reporter at Science magazine who would like to talk with a trainee or mentor who successfully applied for an equity/DEI-related NIH training grant or a training supplement but have not received the Notice of Award and probably won't get the grant.

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

📢Our latest contribution is finally out in MEE! 'baRulho', an R package developed to facilitate the implementation and analysis of sound propagation experiments. A huge effort, brilliantly led by my good friend Marcelo Araya 🇨🇷 Check it out!

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Another funding opportunity is gone. NSF archived the the Career-Life Balance program which provided supplemental funding when researchers are on family leave. The small strides we had made toward improving representation in science are being undone so fast. new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

"grants are being reviewed independently by two staff members instructed to indicate any potential violations of Trump’s orders" As the article says, these orders will likely be found illegal. Why is the NSF expediting this and why is anyone agreeing to reviewed already reviewed grants?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

One of the cruelest things about the NSF/NIH situations is that federal funders have been asking for acknowledgment about disparate impacts, inequality, etc. for years. To get a grant at all you had to (rightly) address those things. Now is the punishment for both caring and following the rules.

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

The WIRED news team is now Officially Verified on Bluesky go.bsky.app/Acr6kiY

submitted 28 days ago • 42 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 27 days ago • 1699 comments

We are hiring! We look for a person with programming skills in R and/or Python. Application deadline is March 14th 2025. All details here: www.ab.mpg.de/654153/job_f...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits. He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt. Congress must investigate.

submitted 29 days ago • 2291 comments

Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

submitted 29 days ago • 362 comments