Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding.

NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

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The Influence of Bee Movements on Patterns of Pollen Transfer between Plants: An Exploratory Model Synopsis. Most—if not all—pollinators make foraging decisions based on learning and memory. In interaction with environmental conditions and competitive pr

New paper out! 🍾 Using a simple, cognition-based model of pollinator movement, we show how learning can have striking effects on plants' mating patterns. Led by the brilliant Juliane Mailly! 🐝 🌺 🐝 🌸 @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...

Glyphosate : la plus vaste étude animale conduite à ce jour met en évidence des risques accrus de diverses tumeurs Une équipe internationale de chercheurs a testé les effets du célèbre herbicide sur plus d’un millier de rats de laboratoire à différents dosages. Dans tous les cas de figure, les scientifiques ont en...

Une équipe internationale de chercheurs a testé les effets du glyphosate, célèbre herbicide, sur plus d’un millier de rats à différents dosages - considérés comme sans effets par la réglementation européenne. À chaque fois, ils ont enregistré un surcroît de cancers. www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference

Entire board of Fulbright, the most prestigious American program for international educational exchange, has resigned.

As someone who benefitted from a Fulbright fellowship, this is heartbreaking.

La France malade du cadmium, une « bombe sanitaire », alertent les médecins libéraux Les Français, en particulier les enfants, sont massivement contaminés par ce cancérogène présent dans les engrais phosphatés, à travers la consommation de céréales, de pain ou de pâtes. Santé publique...

Hyper important: les Français, en particulier les enfants, sont massivement contaminés par le cadmium, un cancérogène présent dans les engrais phosphatés, à travers la consommation de céréales, pain ou pâtes. Il y aurait un lien avec l’explosion des cancers du pancréas www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

🚨URGENT RESPONSE CALL🚨

You’ve seen the bad news. Now it’s time for us to flood the zone.

Over 400 NSF grants — gone. Trump’s cronies are cutting science funding and betting we won’t notice. But we’re not powerless. We’ve got 24 hours to make noise.

Here’s how 🧵(1/3) ➡️

There are 3 grants from @ucdavis.bsky.social that are on this list as being terminated as of right now (and possibly more that haven't made it on yet). I just made my calls to @schiff.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov and @mikethompson.house.gov

There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

... qu'il peut attirer par son titre des gens qui cherchent à compenser, et qui au final par les chiffres donnés peuvent se rendre compte d'eux-mêmes que ce n'est pas réaliste.

Je suis d'accord avec vous que rien ne se compense. Nous sommes dans une urgence qui nécessite la réduction, pas la compensation. Là où je me questionne est sur la pédagogie, car le concept de compensation est très présent dans les esprits. Ce que je trouve intéressant dans l'article du Monde est...

Justement, je pense que l'effet de l'article est de se rendre compte que ce n'est pas possible. Il donne des comparaisons d'ordres de grandeur très utiles. Par exemple, il m'a permis de me renseigner face à des personnes qui pensent que leur végétarianisme "compense" leurs vols en avion.

Le gouvernement propose de réautoriser le plastique dans les cantines scolaires sous la pression des lobbys Un projet de décret ouvre la voie à un retour des couverts et de la vaisselle en plastique dans les cantines scolaires, afin d’éviter un nouveau recours des professionnels de la plasturgie.

"Le gouvernement propose de réautoriser le plastique dans les cantines scolaires sous la pression des lobbys"

@stephanemandard.bsky.social

www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Call for abstract is now open, until March 28! 🧪

The Ecology & Behaviour annual conference is organised BY and FOR young researchers. In 2025 it comes back to Montpellier @ the Center for Functional & Evolutionary Ecology.
Highly recommended to PhD students & postdocs - come to share your science, make new friends & meet your future collaborators!

Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...

Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Seriously, I tried other ways, and for me that's by far the easiest and most efficient when you don't have a lot of plants to deal with :-)

For me, the best way to get rid of black aphids is to remove them mechanically, i.e. with your fingers.

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

Of the 4000 researchers at NIH, only 20% are tenured. They’re going to fire all the rest as their contracts come up for renewal, absolutely decimating research at the NIH. This is catastrophic, not just for Americans, but for the whole world.

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

Nouvelle enquête, nouvel appel à témoignage. Cette fois, je m'intéresse aux difficultés, dilemmes, questions et attentes qui traversent les parents au moment de choisir un mode de garde pour leur enfant. Un immense merci d'avance pour vos réponses et vos partages ! framaforms.org/trouver-un-m...

[ #VeilleESR #OperationPostes ] Un moteur de recherche super bien fichu des postes ATER, MCF et PR ouvertes au concours.

sciences.re/postes/

well this shit has me rethinking my vacation plans

See the Adorable Video of Wisdom, the World's Oldest Wild Bird, Tending to Her New Chick at Age 74 First banded in 1956, the Laysan albatross has become a mother once again at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

File under "best news you've heard in a while". Wisdom the albatross has a new baby ❤️ #birds 🌿 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

FFS!

𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs

There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc

Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying

Mon conseil principal est un peu évident : consulter et éviter si possible les jours de forte affluence.

Bonjour. Quel âge a votre enfant ? Je trouve le Parc Asterix très pratique pour les groupes d'âge mélangés car il est dense (facile de se séparer et de se retrouver) et il y a une zone centrale avec plein de manèges pour jeunes enfant (La forêt d'Idefix).

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Oxford University extends paid paternity leave to 12 weeks | In a significant enhancement to its Family Leave scheme, the University of Oxford now offers extended paid leave to eligible new fathers and partners of new mothers.

Oxford University has extended paid paternity leave from 2 to 12 weeks. It says “this new scheme reflects a progressive approach to supporting new parents, ensuring that employees can fully embrace this life-changing moment with fewer financial or professional concerns”. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...