Please share widely! We will imminently be posting a technician position in our lab group since @rheasood.bsky.social is off to grad school 🙌! If you know of anyone excited about molecular biology, evolution, and functional genomics please have them reach out (schumer at stanford). Start date ~June
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
wapo.st/4euUt1c
Washington Post article on STEM cuts at federal agencies. NSF tops it at -42%!
“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.”
OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.)
NSF at -42%!
Want to support #WomeninSTEM? Don’t hold back an invite for something bc they’re pregnant/ just had a baby/ have a small child. People always say they’ll invite “later” but later never comes- let me lean on my support network and figure it out instead! 🔭🧪
WANTED: Lead Collections Manager. Smithsonian NMNH Botany is looking for a Supervisory Museum Specialist to manage the United States National Herbarium and a top-notch collections team. For more information, visit USAJOBS (www.usajobs.gov/job/864499200). Applications due in two weeks (1 May 2026).
I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here:
mhibbins.github.io
I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!
These news stories are becoming something of a "new normal" and that, obviously, is not good. I don't know how we rebuild the reputation of American public research universities after this www.ipm.org/news/2026-04...
One of Aotearoa New Zealand's greatest gifts to the world has been pioneering rodent eradication technology on islands.
The brodifacoum used for this project was manufactured in Whanganui.
Conservation can be an export industry! Fund it!
🌏
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/rat-era...
The LSUMNS Big Day is a fundraiser to support the research of our Ornithology graduate students. They put a lot of work into making this even happen every year, so please consider donating at give.lsufoundation.org/campaigns/77...
Weecology is hiring a postdoc to work with my long-term, large-scale Everglades wading bird project. We have data on nest effort at multiple spatial scales over 30+ years for multiple species. We also do fun stuff w/ drones. Sound interesting? See our ad! jabberwocky.weecology.org/2026/04/15/p...
Senior professors - if you want to help your junior colleagues in these times, I am begging you, review our papers. I have done 25 manuscript reviews in the last 6 years. But my own manuscript is stalled out waiting for reviewers. Relatedly, I won't be doing any more reviews until tenure. 🧪
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.
Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities
www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
So excited by paper on Bonobo Gal Pals with Kirsty Graham is now out in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology!
🧪 #primatology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I fucking love this. There's so much weird knowledge amongst birders and bird people, just out here experimenting in casually scientific ways and doing all sorts of cool shit just because it makes them happy and interested, and I wish that that was the wider world I lived in
Texas Tech is expanding its prohibition on "gender and sexual orientation" topics to include faculty research and student theses and dissertations.
Our chancellor wants to censor the truth because he knows it topples the hateful ideology of MAGA.
Knowledge is power, so they plan to destroy it.
🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences.
Steps to counter this are in motion.
If you
- have an SBE proposal under review
- serve on an SBE grant panel
You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2
All that’s going on in the science world - remember that US Forest Service is being decimated and people are losing jobs, long term experiments, and (for all of us) control over our national forests.
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
Are you (or something you know) looking for a PhD? Like trait macroevolution but also yearn for an applied topic? Think plants are neat?
Want to live in beautiful northeast Scotland?! 🌊🐬⛰️🏴
I'm advertising a PhD in my lab! Deadline April 22, email me any questions. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Who’s coming to #Evol2026 in Cleveland this June?
I’m going!
Cleveland’s a great town—good food, great lakefront, and plenty to explore between sessions.
Show of hands? ✋
Early registration closes soon ⏰
Flyer of the course on "Introduction to Biodiversity Genomics". All information are also here: https://biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com/
In July, we will teach the 3rd biodiversity genomics course in Latin America, this time in Bogotá, following the COLEVOL meeting. We invite applications from students, postdocs and PIs from Latin America interested in learning how to analyse genomic data. biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com
“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪
This year students have two options: apply directly to our lab or apply through UNC’s new postbac program: PRISM. Interested students can learn more about our lab and work at: tarheels.live/peiferlab/. I am happy to speak with students by Zoom. Drop me an email 7/n
www.med.unc.edu/pbrp/.
If you know a graduating undergraduate looking for the chance to spend 1-2 years in a lab before graduate school, we're hiring! Our lab explores morphogenesis, defining how the cell adhesion & cytoskeletal machinery work together to allow cells to change shape & move tarheels.live/peiferlab/ 1/n RT
Post Doc position alert! Come work with us on the evolution of cannibalism. Full job description in link below. Salary starts at $58k plus benefits. (Please help spread the word)
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I am super excited to share that Yolanda Morbey and I at the centre for @animalsonthemove.bsky.social are recruiting for a postdoc with expertise in analysis of #Motus data! Please help us get the word out! Deets here:
www.uwo.ca/cam/research...
If you’ve been cheering people at Boston University for putting up pride flags in defiance of the administration’s prohibitions, you should know that you can donate DIRECTLY to the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality program!
100% of your gift goes to WGS (not some random uni account)
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I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.
“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
Mary Colwell and Prof Jenny Gill explore gender bias in fieldwork in our latest blog. Read it now:
www.curlewaction.org/the-joke-tha...
