PhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬
Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution?
Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Deadline 22nd of May!
Thrilled to have been able to review 'The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict', a volume edited by @arvidagren.bsky.social & Manus Patten.
"...the reality that complex organisms function at all feels like pure magic, with the powers of molecular evolution behind the curtain."
Huge congrats to my student Elle, who won an award for Outstanding Presentation at UAA's student showcase today for her poster "Accuracy, Bias, and Confidence in Two LLM Models When Queried on the Topic of Evolution"! So excited for her to get some well-earned recognition!
The Evolution conference w/ @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social is in Cleveland this June. It's an excellent conference center, in a town with many good restaurants.
But wait, you'll say... weren't we just there a few years back?
Here's why...
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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...
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”
This is NUTS
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...
NOT WITH MY TAX DOLLARS.
It’s not just that this is a memorial Trump is building to honor himself. It’s the size & the location.
Twice the size of the Lincoln Memorial, and towering over Arlington National Cemetery, where two presidents and thousands who died in service to this country are buried.
Is this the same lady? 🤷🏼
Nyx my melanistic jeweled lacerta
Heard you guys like cool lizards
Why only two? Also Spain, Portugal, Japan at least
GUARDIAN: "Viktor Orbán is now speaking at Fidesz’s election night and he says the election result is “clear” as he concedes defeat." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
art of the deal, baybeeee
The Hilton Boston Park Plaza has flight information in the lobby, but with old airline logos.
Peep the old Air France, Delta, JAL and a bunch of other logos here:
#Avgeek
You guys, I just love this garden so damn much. Six months ago, this was a dying lawn!
Why have at least half the accounts I've seen defending this have an @ profile icon?
Update: site cleaned up and former house residue removed plus new top soil added. Seeding happening soonish.
Fine if wages keep pace which is not happening right now
Sure but boundaries still exist, lineages eventually become fully isolated
How are so many people reposting this AI slop? This is more obvious than most. are folks less discriminating of animal videos?
Why post this AI garbage?
A picture of two chimpanzees sitting on the ground
A three-decade long study of chimpanzees has revealed a primate version of a bloody civil war. It's now at risk of getting eliminated due to cuts at the National Science Foundation. My story here (gift link): nyti.ms/4mhr5NQ
We've driven from Cleveland to Chicago and Cleveland to Cape Cod in one day trips in our Ioniq 5 multiple times. On the freeway it's no problem, DC chargers at almost every rest stop in new York indiana and ohio and just off the bus in Mass
In recordings obtained exclusively by the Daily Beast, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein bragged about his close friendship with both Donald and Melania Trump.
I wish science could explain what’s happening.
IMPORTANT ARTEMIS II HOT SAUCE UPDATE
Thanks to Carlie Kollath Wells’ reporting out of Axios New Orleans (which I confirmed via email since there are two versions of the article out) ….
WE HAVE OUR LIST.
It’s these 4 pictured, plus Heinz Hot Taco Sauce!
www.axios.com/local/new-or...
Impeach him just for this.
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 ⏰
“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“🧪
