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We are looking for a postdoc in #EvolutionarySystemsBiology. Exciting science, amazing team, wonderful city! landrylab.ibis.ulaval.ca/research-opp... #evolution #synbio #systemsbiology #genomics

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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A small glimmer of hope is that some of the fired feds are giving off some serious Obi Wan vibes. Truly inspirational.

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I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

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Huh. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

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Hey #ornithologists or really anyone. Help Flocks Take Flight by donating today: www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...

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🦊 Friday was my last day working at 18F. It was a team of extraordinary people, but a few things happened that made me realize I had to leave. Everything happens so much these days, so I thought I’d write down for myself what happened, and how I made my decision: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leavin...

submitted 8 days ago • 76 comments

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who'd finished their 1-year probationary periods, which were extended to 2-years last month without explanation. More to come.

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

I'm starting to hear that NSF firings have begun. If you're affected and want to talk, please reach out via signal @jonlambert.12

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CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 12 days ago • 599 comments

State-level public-good-focused research institutes. California can afford an in-state CDC / NOAA / etc. Protects research and researchers, grows goodwill, prevents international brain drain, easy linkages with California universities. Ditto Mass. Surely people thinking about this already?

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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

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Friends in the DC area: I will be giving a Profs and Pints talk about the science of sustainable seafood. It's based on my upcoming book on the topic. Please share with interested folks! Get tickets here: profsandpints.ticketleap.com/net/ 🧪🦑🌎🐟

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How about a little good news in this gestures around... you can now get ebooks via bookshop.org, including THE AI CON! (Available May 13, but you can pre-order now.) bookshop.org/p/books/the-... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social

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The Oath of Office taken by me and my colleagues at the NSF - “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; …”

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FYI - this page will be updated regularly new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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Our recent pre-preprint rapid review of epidemiological parameters for H5N1 influenza in humans, and implications for potential outbreak clusters: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Interested in attending #Evol2025 but need help with caregiving costs? Apply for the SSE Caregiver Award, which provides up to $500 for caregiving costs while attending virtually or in person. Deadline: March 15 https://buff.ly/4ayQxbG @evolmtg.bsky.social

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Hugely important paper reflecting on the material reality of biodiversity research in low-resource settings, versus the (often colonial) narrative of 'unexplored' parts of the world: peerj.com/articles/185...

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NOAA does so much amazing and important work. It’s funny what ends up going viral. 🦑 www.noaa.gov/news-features

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How your email finds me..

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Did you know that today is the first annual world waterfowl day? #worldwaterfowlday? www.waterfowlday.org

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Burke Hill Farms is a wild blueberry farm in Downeast Maine with regular delivery schedule in much of New England - a truck makes brief scheduled stops so you can pick up pre-ordered 5lb boxes of 🥶 berries www.burkehillfarm.com/orderblueber...

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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

submitted 49 days ago • 619 comments

The average user doesn't want AI, and these companies have FAFO'd with it. But sadly they'll continue to push it because capitalism and goodness forbid they take a loss on a very poor investment.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Since my kids have grown, I read a LOT. This year was no different. I read fiction, non-fiction and in particular, science themed non-fiction in form of physical books, ebooks & audiobooks. Allow me to share my "read" list for 🧪📚 in 2024: 83 science themed books, 36 written by women. 🧵

submitted 57 days ago • 25 comments

This data illustration, particularly the breakdown on energy use by AI & crypt0 is why bitc0in has quickly gone from the laughing stock of the internet to an absolute menace in 2024. Scroll down to the last section. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

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Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com

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I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the University of New Orleans starting in Fall 2025. Research topics will focus on building and using phylogenies to study the diversification of birds, with an emphasis on Neotropical bird radiations. Contact me if interested.

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A very interesting preprint. The same is likely true for closely related bat species with great phenotypic differences maintained in the presence of massive gene flow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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hey people who teach Ornithology - would you be so kind as to share your syllabus with me? I'm proposing a new Ornithology course here, and would be v helpful to have examples as I make a syllabus... @evornithology.bsky.social @clarkrushing.bsky.social etc etc

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

So this is fun - My #nerdnite book “How to Win Friend and Influence Fungi” has made the top 100 nonobvious book list! www.nonobviousbookawards.com/2024/

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Wikipedia remains extraordinary in a world full of misinformation. Its rules work, but its information is only as good as what knowledgeable editors provide. Theoretical evolution/ecology/epidemiology/demography people, please sign up for this initiative, where I'll help you learn to edit.

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Interested in Evolutionary Behavioural Genetics ... come join us by the Bavarian lakes in February! @chorlnev.bsky.social and I are organising a symposium on current advances to link molecular and behavioural variation across a broad range of animal taxa. Please Re-post! www.bi.mpg.de/etho-2025

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Calling all #genomics researchers! The small, diverse, friendly Dept of Biological Sciences at Lehigh has a #tenuretrack position: bit.ly/3CYRb5B. App review starts 12/2 (not a hard cutoff). Please join our awesome team!

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New paper alert 🚨check out our new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution on anglerfish trait evolution led by the fantastic @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Did you know there was a recent NSF DCL (Dear Colleague Letter) for Advancing Research at the Intersection of Biology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML)? NSF 24-131. If not, now you do! 😉 Check it out! iosblog.nsfbio.com/2024/09/19/r... www.nsf.gov/pubs/2024/ns...

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A little starter pack for fans of biological systematics. I’d love to gather more people and organisations- if that’s you please let me know :) go.bsky.app/GCP9Um

submitted 98 days ago • 41 comments

Congrats to HC Lim, Kevin Bennett and co on this cool, new paper, highlighting the complex dynamics and mechanisms of color in a hybrid zone and among closely-related manakin species. (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Thrilled to announce Boltz-1, the first open-source and commercially available model to achieve AlphaFold3-level accuracy on biomolecular structure prediction! An exciting collaboration with Jeremy, Saro, and an amazing team at MIT and Genesis Therapeutics. A thread!

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If you're interested in the evolution of sex determination, check out this opinion piece from Tom Kocher, @tonygamble.bsky.social , @behrenskristen.bsky.social , Will Gammerdinger, and me. We argue that genetic variation in sex determination is probably more prevalent that most people think.

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