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

It’s me! Is this everyone who eventually does the professor thing? 😂

Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients Into Clear Quantities - Julia M. Rohrer, Vincent Arel-Bundock, 2026 Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear model...

Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!>

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

CIPRES is shutting down at the end of June: www.phylo.org .

It's been such a good resource for the phylogenetics community. Thanks to #NSF and Simons for funding it and for all the people who have worked to grow and sustain this for so long.

Arsinoitherium skull with two giant horns

We’re looking for researchers in any discipline of natural history: if you have a paper coming out and you want to pitch @pbseons.bsky.social on a potential episode about it, send me a DM! #scicomm #paleosky #FossilFriday

(Arsinoitherium says please and thank you!)

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

i can and will make "sorry for acting out due to my unresolved trauma" cards. just venmo me $10, tell me where to send it, and whether you want it to be normal, or very weird

In the footsteps of Linnaeus: scientists share their passion for species from tiny wasps to hairy plants – in pictures For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linneaus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic syste...

This is lovely:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#science #biology

There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting!
www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

Why scientists are nervous about fungi They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them.

They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resistance to medications that treat them. n.pr/4sEdj9w

As one of the few naturalized citizens to serve in Congress, it is difficult to constantly listen to the anti-immigrant rhetoric coming from Republicans.

The reality is that immigrants contribute so much to our communities. I'm grateful to everyone who understands that.

Proud graduate of the public University of California system- undergraduate UCSC (in state tuition means I left without crushing debt), PhD UC Berkeley, postdoc UC Davis. Now asst prof at (the public Land Grant side- yes that exists) Cornell University. Public institutions/education is the way.

Opinion | A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality

Lafarge, one of the world's largest cement makers, and two executives were found criminally liable for financing terrorism in Syria by knowingly paying terrorist groups to keep their plant running.

I hope this sets a precedent for holding fossil fuel companies liable for climate change.

A brownish-black insect with four yellow spots ion his elytra and a pair of pincer protruding from his abdomen. He is standing on a white sheet.

We found this amazing earwig at a bug light last night. This one is a male, they typically have larger pincers. There is not much info available about the genus so I'm not sure why he has those strange protrusions from his abdomen.
(Ancistrogaster sp.) Intag Refugio, Ecuador

Nyakatura-Lab for Comparative Zoology | News See what’s been happening in the Nyakatura Lab. News: discover our latest publications, recent events, and research highlights.

2 PhD Opportunities! 🤩
We are recruiting two highly motivated PhD students to join an ambitious project advancing Robotic Paleontology—a rapidly emerging field that fuses paleontology, biomechanics, simulation, and robotics.

nyakaturalab.com/news/

Please share!!

This is a great opportunity! Johannes is a brilliant colleague that does very exciting research in the field of metabolic modelling 👇

LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...

TEN post-doc openings at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. Yes, you read that right. TEN.

the “combing through and finding weird little details that interest me” part of research is so crucial

I ate lab-grown salmon. It was nothing like I expected Wildtype uses a plant-based scaffolding to coax the cells to assemble themselves into a piece of actual fish.

Lab grown smoked salmon on bagels with cream cheese now!

Hype cycles and haters aside, cell ag the single coolest food technology and I really badly want it to succeed.

www.fastcompany.com/91513827/i-a...

Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging Researchers are weaving Native practices with western methods to revive ecosystems and reclaim food sovereignty

Nice article about former @scrippsocean.bsky.social PhD student Marco Hatch and his work on importance of Indigenous knowledge in managing marine resources. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

U.S. Forest Service unveils extensive closures of research facilities Cost-cutting move is expected to cause resignations and turmoil

U.S. Forest Service unveils extensive closures of research facilities | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

A climate activist and a gas executive walk into a bar — Outside/In How a first-in-the country geothermal project brought a pair of unlikely allies together.

Electric heat pumps are the main way to outgrow air and climate pollution from burning fossil fuels to heat buildings. Air-source heat pumps are the most cost-effective technology in most settings today, but in the coldest, densest cities, networked geothermal heat pumps may make sense. Quick🧵

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

UCLA's Most Decorated Ecologist Just Got Fired : Here's the sequence In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.

Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...

Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

Read this before bed. It’s one thing to see this in stories where genAI use leads to absolute harm, but it’s another to see it catalogued in a subset of the general population. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for Th...

Great stuff from @espiers.bsky.social:

White House releases FY27 budget proposal, continuing plan of massive cuts to Earth science, including elimination of NOAA Research NOAA grant data shows agency awarding grants at a much slower rate than previous years, likely showing administration strategy to reduce scientific spending through budget execution

Trump regime again tries to shutter all NOAA labs in its 2027 White House budget. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

New blog post!🚨

The BIEN working group give the story behind their new paper "BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data"🪴🌍 🧪

Read here 👇
buff.ly/PZcecxJ

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
☀️🌍🚀🌕

A knight in full armor, a green cape and sword is riding a majestic fluffy white cat who has a human skull tied to a green ribbon around its neck. A Waffle House sign shines in the distance with illuminated windows in the building. There are big mountains looming in the background.

I’ll just leave this right here. I never thought any piece of art I owned would be this relevant to the current news cycle. We live in weird times. Thanks art of Danial Ryan #WaffleHouse (www.instagram.com/artofdanialr...)