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🇺🇦 Lead Faculty EVOLVE Research Group Bioinformatics UNCC. Now with **NEW** R1 status! Editor at JEB and MBE. Genetic Novelty. PopGen. Genomics. Conferences 2025: PAG(past), Evolution, ESEB
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Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!

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If you are an NC resident you may want to call to voice your support for this move from Tillis.

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Trump wants 100% tariffs on Hollywood movies shot in other countries

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Josh McLaurin (of UGA fame) launches a bid for Lt Governor in Georgia! www.ajc.com/politics/dem...

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Bermuda.

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Jet setting again.

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Cyborg cicadas play Pachelbel’s Canon. Such insect-computer hybrid speakers might one day be used to transmit warnings in emergencies. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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Does anyone know whether the justification will be changed? Items not considered indirects normally can be billed as direct costs. Or is this a flat refusal to pay for the real costs of research? (e.g. computers can only be bought on direct costs if not included under indirect costs already)

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The average American has 3 friends

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Literally gets worse every day 🫠 I just want to train some students and do some science that hopefully helps people. That was already hard enough to actually do before Jan 2025 🫤

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The average American has 3 friends.

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The goldfish I lovingly raised would react when I walked in. But they would go absolutely nuts when the department admin came into the room. Because she over-fed them all the time.

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#editorbio @ellarson.bsky.social

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Morning duckies. 🦆

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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.

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Masters level position in our Biosafety Office. jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/62703

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"I would not have dared to dream that metastatic melanoma would become a treatable disease in my lifetime. Yet here we are today, with 43% of people diagnosed with metastatic melanoma living 10 years or more, due to treatments that we broadly refer to as cancer immunotherapy." Barry P. Sleckman, UAB

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New England scientists are in the House (literally) advocating for #NSF #NIH #NOAA funding with @aibsbiology.bsky.social #AIBS2025CVD

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Anybody else tries to add something to my schedule this, week, the answer is just 'no'.

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Crazy times, but I'll be advertising for a 2 year postdoc to work with me on new comp. methods to estimate evolutionary history soon - specifically to develop methods to handle missing data (e.g. ascertainment bias, allele dropout). Are you a comp. biologist graduating with a PhD soon? Reach out!

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If I'm doing the same analysis on different populations can I just write "ditto" for Aim II and Aim III? It will be fewer pages for Reviewer 3 to read (and trash).

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This is the kind of university leadership we need among the chaos of scientific funding challenges.

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Amy Angert & I are recruiting 2 field technicians for demographic surveys of scarlet monkeyflower in late summer-fall. Please spread word to any potentially interested candidates! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/217...

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In its ongoing mission to shrink the federal government, the Trump administration is now proposing a more than 40% budget cut to the National Institutes of Health - the crown jewel of American medical research. 60 Minutes, Sunday.

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Just because 99/100 scientists agree that it's bad to open a portal to the hell dimension doesn't mean we should immediately discount the opposing views of the scientist employed by Open A Portal To The Hell Dimension Inc.

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Fantastic Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HHS and NIH. @lastweektonight.com youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs?...

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There's an open call for editors (5-year terms) at Applied and Environmental Microbiology, for those of you who might be interested: journals.asm.org/journal/aem/...

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Movies you’ve seen six or more times, no Star Wars or Trek or LOTR.

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TV watching recommendations The lead story on 60 Minutes tonight is about NIH and concerns about damage done and continuing during the current administration. 1/2

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Big congrats to my friend Liz Cooper who got her official Tenure Letter today!!!

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And we will just run the exact same pipeline on new data and it will just wor---- Fwmph!

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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) just emailed constituents that he supports bipartisan solutions for housing and child care costs. He also comments against tariffs. Senior Republican leadership crossing the aisle may be a positive sign for the future amidst widespread chaos.

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ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

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🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

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Trump has slashed the NIH and NSF budget, hired an anti-vaxxer as head of Health and Human Services, and filled the government's web page with crazed conspiracy theories. Here's why we just published a volume on the left's war on science. by Lawrence Krauss and Steve Pinker.

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Chinaza Nnamdi presenting on SV calling with pangenome graphs at EVOLVE.

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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

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Embracing the nihilism and plugging ahead on a grant draft.

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