Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
Washington Post article on STEM cuts at federal agencies. NSF tops it at -42%!
“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.”
OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.)
NSF at -42%!
I was just complaining about this. I can’t get it to stay turned off, this is making me so freaking mad.
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This is sad news- I’m so very sorry for your loss.
Every day, like clockwork, have to turn off Copilot on my iPhone Outlook.
Every day, it turns back on.
My hatred of @microsoft.com grows each time.
NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology LIGHTNING TALKS: 9:15 - 10:30 AM EDT Focus on the collective: what can our community do in a time of uncertainty? PROTHAMA MANNA, CLEMSON UNIV. MOHAMED NOOR, DUKE UNIVERSITY RUTH SHAW, UNIV. OF MINNESOTA JOSEPH GRAVES, NC A&T STATE UNIV. SCOTT EDWARDS, HARVARD UNIV. EMILY JOSEPHS, MICHIGAN STATE UNIV. ALISON DAVIS RABOSKY, UNIV. OF MICHIGAN WORKSHOP & BREAKOUTS: 11 - 12:30 PM EDT Focus on the individual: how scientists can respond constructively, creatively, and sustainably in the face of instability NELIA VIVEIROS, UNIV. OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS
👋 👋 SSE members, I hope you'll join me May 21 for the virtual SSE Presidential Symposium:
Navigating Uncertainty: Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology
Pls RT to help get the word out!
“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.
I’m petty enough to find a lot of joy in this.
Huge congratulations! You rock!
😱 Super excited to be named as a Guggenheim Fellow!! 😱
Sigh.
Destruction of democracy with a side of grift?
We need your help transcribing KU Mammalogy's historical field notes to makes these data available to the global research community!
Join this week's "expedition" on Notes from Nature. We are 18% of the way through W. C. Stanley's field expeditions to Kansas and Mexico.
Breaking News: The Trump administration agreed to allow the rainbow Pride flag at the Stonewall monument in Manhattan, reversing its earlier decision. nyti.ms/4c8DEry
Sending the good health vibes - lots of them!
Gospel Book of Otto III c. 1000 Manuscript (Clm. 4453), 334 x 242 mm Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich This is another miniature from the Gospels of Otto III (folio 139r). It shows St Luke with a piles of manuscripts in his lap (their bindings studded with jewels) exalting all the Old Testament prophets who foretold the coming of Christ. Web gallery of art image: https://www.wga.hu/html_m/zgothic/miniatur/1001-050/1/1gospel5.html
I love this photo of Saint Luke with piles of manuscripts in his lap from the Gospel Book of Otto III (c. 1000 CE)
(Manuscript (Clm. 4453), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich). Probably projection, but he looks traumatized by all the reading he still needs to do before the end of the semester.
Where to find the link to submit your in-person talk, virtual talk, or poster:
www.evolutionmeetings.org/instructions...
Humans are also capable of wondrous things.
Science is good. We should fund it.
Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.
Headshot of Judith Mank. Text: The Use of AI and LLMs in Scientific Publishing with Dr. Judith Mank. The Evolution Exchange, a monthly conversation series from the Society for the Study of Evolution.
💬 Don’t miss the latest Evolution Exchange, in which SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom talks with Evolution Letters EIC Dr. Judith Mank about the use of AI and LLMs in scientific publishing: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...
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Then why can’t we automatically register people to vote?
Jeremy, I’m so very sorry. I unfortunately had to face this, and it is pretty devastating. Thinking of you, your lab, and Dr. Richardson’s family and friends.
Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news
me: *sees the avignon papacy* pop up in political news
also me: THIS IS MY MOMENT
fine, I will also learn about the Avignon Papacy
I'm thinking about all the people googling "Avignon papacy" or looking it up right at Wikipedia, and I love this for all of us.
It gives me hope.
History is always useful!
But I certainly didn’t have “taking on the Vatican “ on my end-of-American-democracy bingo card.
