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evolutionary bio postdoc at Hólar University. fish stuff mostly, but not exclusively. Skip emeritus of Colgate University curling team. Formerly: McGill, W&M, Colgate Bethlehemite (PA) gehaines.weebly.com
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Ahem. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

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Some top notch auroras tonight

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I know it's small in the whole scheme of things, but the bloodbath at NPS in Hawaii is almost certainly going to lead directly to the extinctions of no fewer than 4 native Hawaiian songbirds in the next 4-5 years.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Hey #TeamFish Just keep swimming .. POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER OPPORTUNITY IN ICHTHYOLOGY: ON CRYPTOBENTHIC CORAL REEF FISHES www.fishsystematics.com/postoc

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

While we’re yelling at satellite mapping websites, I think we should demand that they include bathymetric maps of waterbodies.

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Yesterday: 1st bird flu case in a human in Ohio announced Ohio Department of Health website today:

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Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

🧪Surprise, I'm back with another #breakingnews request. If you work in biomedical research (infectious disease, chronic disease, food safety, drug safety, vaccines, etc.), I'd love to hear (very soon) about how you think your field will fare under RFK's leadership of HHS. Please share widely!

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

What it looks like when you are trying to trade in your job at the serious part of Stanford for a job that pays twice as much at the Hoover Institution.

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This is going to set up a major conflict with the states, and I am not seeing much acknowledgement of that anywhere, which seems bad

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I now demand of you to speak out

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

ASLO comments on the recent executive orders in the United States. Read our full statement here: www.aslo.org/aslo-comment...

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I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

submitted 16 days ago • 35 comments

🚨Paper alert Steve Campana et al rewrite the history of Atlantic cod and the #Iceland ground fishery A must read! #Fish #Fisheries #OceansPast Mortality drives production dynamics of Atlantic cod through 1100 years of commercial fishing | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Somebody please tell me this is a parody account

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Apply now for the ASN Student Research Awards by March 14! Ten awards of $2k each will be given to research that advances the the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, or behavior. More info here: bit.ly/asn_grant_25

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My letter to ASM leaders that I sent is too long to be posted here, so I'm going to post highlights in case anyone else needs information for their letter. 🧵

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👎👎👎👎👎 @asm.org this is pathetic

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@altnih4science.bsky.social #NIHFundsGreatScience My lab is NIH funded, to study the genetic basis of fibrosis activation and recovery (a thread). Fibrosis is the build up of connective tissue (eg scar tissue) that can be caused by inflammation. Fibrosis plays a role in many sources of mortality

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Never seen this many people on the ol’ job board before 😬

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Call your Democratic Senators tomorrow and tell them to put down their work on nominations until OMB withdraws its power grab on appropriations. No more nomines go through. None.

submitted 25 days ago • 70 comments

A few geomorphology-related images from the last few years that I'm using as examples in my terrain analysis and visualization class tomorrow. 1. Dunes and beach ridges on Lake Michigan, at Pointe aux Chenes, Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

If the goal of science is to understand how people relate to their environment and each other, it is not true that science is apolitical; it never has been, and never can be. More narrowly, science is deliberately a liberal process that cannot function well, if at all, under illiberal regimes.

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Some fresh snow in Hjaltadal today :)

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