Anyone getting in? I’m stuck in the waiting room.

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

We've got hundreds of signatures in five hours... but if we can cross 1000 by morning when I send this to NSF that'd be great. The stories from past, current, and future applicants in the comments section are hearbreaking. Keep up the pressure, and please please sign!!!

I’m in the same boat. My students in my class started working on this in the spring and were getting together their last drafts and now none can apply. Seriously who can apply this late in the game?

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

I’m absolutely furious. No warning. What in the world.

I hope to take a PhD student in 2026 to study siphonophores. Please reach out if you are interested in applying this fall. For examples of recent lab projects see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.

They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.

(🎥 AP)

Another immunologist here & I second what @drandrealove.bsky.social love says…Bobby worm brain has no fucking clue what he is talking about

NSF brings back 84 fired workers after judge blocks White House–ordered dismissals Reinstatements follow scientist’s testimony on how Office of Personnel Management overrode science agency’s decision to retain probationary workers

www.science.org/content/arti...

Plus I saw it with my own 👀.

A wave curls and crashes from left to right as it swells toward the shoreline in Monterey Bay. the water is blue and the foaming wave front is white.

Protecting the ocean has always been a bipartisan effort, in Congress and across multiple White House administrations. In the face of ill-conceived attacks on @noaa.gov, it's time to raise our voices. My thoughts in defense of NOAA and #OceanScience: mbayaq.co/4k8vEsx

Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

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Dear dept head,

My accomplishments last week are:

1. I have climbed highest mountains
2. I have run through the fields
Only to be with you (X2)

3. I have run, I have crawled
4. I have scaled these city walls
Only to be with you (X2)

But I still haven't found what I'm looking for (X2)

Sincerely,

Dear Manager

1) I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
2) I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,
3) I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
4) I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
5) in short, I was afraid.

It's one thing to be reminded that "elections have consequences," but quite another to insist that the best response to the abuse of authority is to be restrained, demure, neutral. For university leaders the exception is their opposition to endowment taxes. On this topic, they're inclined to be positively brat.

Corporate and educational leaders must not put on a demure face and stay silent while civil society is undermined by the diktat of executive orders. We must not sacrifice academic freedom and a healthy civil society for the short-term gains of anticipatory compliance. We must instead cultivate in our institutions the ability to bring different kinds of people together in common purpose, the will to protect the vulnerable, and the resilience needed for our institutions to successfully pursue their missions. Their missions, not the agenda of whoever controls the powers of the central government. Let's hope that the 2025 word of the year isn't "submissive."

Not all university presidents are cowards. This, from the pres of Wesleyan, should be mandatory reading for leaders.

“It's 1 thing to be reminded that "elections have consequences," but quite another to insist that the best response to the abuse of authority is to be restrained, demure, neutral.” +

There is a group of faculty currently working on their tenure packages (myself included) who began their assistant prof journey in the middle of a global pandemic and are prepping for tenure in the middle of this…
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Again, the two most impactful lies of the past half-century have been “Trump is a good businessman” and “Republicans are the good-at-economy party”

This is an excellent legal analysis of the administration's recent anti-DEI actions (the executive order and last week's "Dear Colleague" letter). Faculty and school admins take note.

tl;dr version: If you like your school's DEI programs, you can keep your school's DEI programs.

Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings 🧪

A Lady Professor with brown hair and glasses, wearing a scarf in red, green, yellow, & black, a gift from an incredible lactation consultant, sitting in in front of cactus.

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist.

And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.

A 🧵:

Urge Congress to Institute Scientific Integrity Protections for Federal Scientists Scientists working for the federal government need safeguards to do evidence-based work and to inform our nation’s policymaking without political interference. Urge Congress to support the Scientific ...

1/ Within one week of releasing our action alert, almost 10k UCS supporters have sent emails to their members of Congress to support the passing of the Scientific Integrity (SI) Act. Looking for a quick way to add your voice and support for Scientific Integrity? Use the link below!

From a friend at NSF:

"We need lots of public support and outcries."

Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

A proposal:

Academic researchers and folks in similar positions, consider writing an op-Ed, or at least a letter to the editor, in your local paper about what these horrific decisions will do to jobs and services *in your local community*.

I train scientists to write op-Ed’s and I can help.

Trump administration directs agency heads to fire most probationary staff Terminations should happen within two days, according to four people familiar with internal conversations.

Tens of thousands of feds are being fired. Please, if you're a fired fed or a fed whose colleagues were fired, help us report what the consequences will be for the American public:

Hannah signal (202) 580-5477
Emily signal (202) 412-9091 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.

We need to stage an all university walkout across the US.