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Excellent opportunity to learn about the incredible diversity of spiders (& their relatives) at the Southwestern Resesrch Station in the beautiful Chiricahua Mountains. @ibycter.bsky.social & I did the spider course there in 2015 & it was fantastic.

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Last call for conference registrations! Final opportunity to register for the conference! Applications for travel assistance will close on Monday, February 24th, 2025, at 11:59 PM! If you haven't signed up yet and intend to seek travel support, you have 2 DAYS LEFT!

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PhD position split between Bristol and Macquarie University with myself, Rachael Dudaniec, and @chrisleduck.bsky.social Please email me with any enquirers 🐝 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

submitted 5 days ago • 1328 comments

2 PhD students recently met at a conference & Trump's slashing of research & science bound them With only 3 other scientists they started a movement that's growing around the country On March 7 in Washington DC, and state capitals, "Stand Up for Science" will take place All details below & bravo!

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Royal Society must choose between Musk and its integrity. When science itself is under attack, neutrality becomes complicity, says Kit Yates. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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“Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know…” Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of “DEI woke shit” I know BlueSky is supposed to be all nice and positive, etc, but more people should be reading about stuff like this… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

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If you want to experience something that previous generations haven't, here it is: The last 10 years have been the 10 warmest years on record.

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"As US retreats, Australia advances on gender equality" www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

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Bugfriend spotted this gorgeous little man (Habronattus decorus) yesterday and it made us both very happy. I hadn't one in a year or two, she'd never seen one. 🖤🩷 #EmotionalSupportSpood

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I gotta admit I don't understand the scientists still posting to twitter as that site's owner slashes all their funding and mass fires thousands of their colleagues.

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Time to stop using Airbnb? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Climate change is moving faster than scientists projected & they're not totally sure why. One possible explanation is declining cloud cover. If that's true, we may be entering a feedback cycle that accelerates warming much faster than we've modeled.

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Three things you can do to combat Brian Tamaki & his hate. 1) Check in on your transgender friends & family. Ask them how they are doing. 2) Write to the PM & Minister of Police to tell them you want stronger action against this violence. 3) Donate to your favourite rainbow charity 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🌈

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Mump wants US universities white , will they comply?

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Extreme weather is our new reality. We must accept it and begin planning | Gaia Vince

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all. time.com/7216299/nih-...

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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

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Use this form to tell us how the new US administration is affecting your research, or suggest future coverage https://go.nature.com/4aYn9Me

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This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

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"The best time to make the right decision was yesterday, but the next best time to make the right decision was today." Corewell Health is reversing its decision to stop providing trans healthcare. This is wonderful! michiganadvance.com/2025/02/12/m...

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When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies. Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE. Funny how that works, huh?

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Bee snack

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Coup.

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We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

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It’s never been more important to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩‍🔬 Here’s a collection of posts from last year about some of the remarkable historical #WomenInSTEM in the animal field:

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looking to find folks who have current access to identified specimens (can be live or dead and well preserved) of many mosquito species. there are 3500ish described Culidae out there - anyone know anyone who might have specimens from 50+ species? please get in touch if so!

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✨We are hiring!✨🧪🏛️🧬 The @nhmdk.bsky.social at the University of Copenhagen is seeking a permanent, full-time Molecular Biology Lab Manager to help us establish and run our National Facility for #Museomics in the heart of one of Europe's most beautiful cities! Please reskeet!

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Do you have any wolf spiders (Lycosidae) collected in the last couple of years? If so, I am looking for specimens from any species and any location in the world to add to a genetic study of the family. Let me know if you think you can help!

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Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science

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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

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Dr. Alvin Simmons is an #entomologist working on agricultural pest species and their management. He served as the first Black president of the Entomological Society of America in 2020! www.usda.gov/about-usda/n... #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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I want to expand on the extent to which IDEAA materials have been purged: I wrote an article last year for women’s history month on the history of women in antimicrobial development….DELETED.

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Pitting the environment against the economy is a terrible mistake. Expanding Heathrow airport will lock in millions of tons of carbon emissions and move the UK even further off track from legally binding climate targets. Pls tell your MP that you oppose it! act.clientearth.org/page/165247/...

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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

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On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science. The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people. The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.

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It occurs to me, for no reason in particular, that I should put this starter pack back in circulation go.bsky.app/3h6n3YC

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Reminder that if you see someone trying to figure out how to contact their reps, you now have the INCREDIBLY easy to remember URL to give to them: reps.fyi Tell your friends! Tell strangers! Print stickers and put them on things! Crash every voicemail every day. ❤️ (thank you @gregpak.net!)

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RIP scientific freedom, freedom of speech, and public health. "Also missing are guidelines on contraception and the diagnosis and prevention of H.I.V. and sexually transmitted infections, as well as vaccine information sheets that doctors typically give to patients receiving the shots."

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Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her. 🧵👇

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How true and important! More chaos and less order in the farmland and our gardens for our nature 🌿🦎🐸🐍🐌🦋🐛🐜🐝🪲🐞🕷️🪰

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Ordering the NIH, NSF, and CDC to erase any mention of "LGBT", trans people, gender... We are watching Magnus Hirschfeld's research institute be burnt down by Nazis all over again This is why people see transness as a fad. We were erased from history! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realise that one cannot eat money”

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1. Yesterday, Trump's executive order crossed a new line. No longer are the NYT Op-eds, thin veneers of pseudoscience, and false claims about trans people needed to justify discrimination. We enter an era where our humanity itself is officially questioned. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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