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Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!)

link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.

This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Colossal about to announce another timely de-extinction project

If you’re about to make fun of Colin Wright, I implore you to stop and come up with something 10x meaner

Neural posterior estimation for population genetics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...

OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.

This is horrible news.

www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...

If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.

We have 60 students signed up and 42 mentors so far.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

The Word: Shhhhhh! YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Colbert resurrected his character from "The Colbert Report" and it's glorious www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxL...

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

Fellow academics: Have any of you heard about concerns regarding the use of NIH funds to support travel to trainee-focused conferences like SACNAS and ABRCMS (e.g. on an R25 where travel was budgeted)? I have heard indirect rumblings about concerns, but have not gotten any specifics. Thanks!

Anthropic AI Class Action: Important Information for Authors - The Authors Guild Earlier this summer, a federal court in California issued a major ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic, one of the copyright class action lawsuits involving AI. The court held that a trial should occur over w...

Are scientific societies (that own their journals) keeping an eye on the Anthropic settlement? Maybe the settlement could fund at least a travel award!

I think we've figured out the right solution at the Evolution Meetings: Bang for your buck, a virtual meeting two weeks before the in-person is the most cost-effective way to involve remote participants.

A couple thoughts 🧵

This mammoth is a huge blow for Colossal

Good morning, America

Fleas on a noble hound. What a POS take

"You're taking civilization for granted and not contributing" says man whose only contribution is doing youtubes and tweets as a job.

An authoritarian, corrupt president who changed the constitution to get reelected 20 years ago was just sentenced to 12y for fraud and bribery. This seemed absolutely impossible in Colombia at some point! Seems like relevant optimistic news for other countries

look who crawled out from under a rock

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In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”

figure showing nine data points (each for a distinct publisher) in a graph where Y-axis is our open science index and X-axis is academia friendliness (=proportion of published journals co-owned by an academic entity); strong positive relationship

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint.

This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.