There needs to be a giant billboard in every major American city that touts this. In any other era except this suicidal science administration, this would be a miraculous, wondrous thing.

Large brown and mottled Moth clinging to a car tire

Wonderful tulip tree silk moth in Tennessee #Saturniidae

🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders?
In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo

How Portland Creates A Sense Of Place (better than your city) YouTube video by Fourth Place

How Portland Creates A Sense Of Place - I definitely feel this in exploring PDX by bike
youtu.be/U7rlGZh04Hc

mad neuroscientists marching in Berkeley

Help support the formation of a new tool library in Vancouver!
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Bridging developmental and statistical approaches to variation and evolution | PNAS Phenotypic variation is the raw material for evolutionary diversification and adaptation. However, a critical gap remains in evolutionary theory be...

How does development shape the variation evolution can act on?

In our new paper in @pnas.org , we bridge developmental dynamics and quantitative genetics, linking dynamical models of phenotype formation with the statistical parameters used to study evolutionary change

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Me, wearing my MARCH FOR SCIENCE hat.

Didn’t make it to a rally today, but yes I Stand Up for Science! 🧪 #chemsky

V. important perspective piece by @madeline-eppley.bsky.social & @andylee.bsky.social on biological sex and why a lack of scientific consensus should not be used to dictate human rights doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧪

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

Just submitted my FCC public comment on Reflector and SpaceX's bonkers proposals to choke low Earth orbit with satellites and expose us all to constant ALAN
Get your comment in ASAP!
darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Ant queen frozen in time: New ant species found in Dominican amber A study by Dr. Gianpiero Fiorentino and his colleagues, published in the Journal of Paleontology, describes the identification of a new species of ant, Hypoponera electrocacica, belonging to the genus...

ANT

Outdoor fridge!

The Origins of Agar First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium.

I’m embarrassed to find how little I knew, or thought, about Agarose. Despite its efficacy, ubiquity & essential nature in labs.
Nor did I know anything about Fanny Angelina (another example, whether intentional or not, of the Matilda Effect) & Walther Hesse.
This is absolutely fascinating.

This article is crazy. These men think "I was just looking for funding for my research" is a defense? So you express "congeniality" for your convicted sex offender donor by asking him to party when he gets out of prison so you can get some funds he made trafficking victims...? That's your defense?

Why Congress’s ICE “Reform” Proposals Won’t Work Right now, Congress is offering hollow gestures and symbolic reforms.

Congress’s ICE “Reform” Proposals are largely symbolic and lack teeth for enforcement; we must demand instead that this unaccountable agency be dismantled (see end of post) open.substack.com/pub/campaign...

2 Olympic athletes on a curling team

@i-jasonalexander.bsky.social A long journey from Minsk to Milan

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

Big props to @ctranvancouver.c-tran.com and @trimet.org for free bus/train rides to celebrate Rosa Parks' birthday

River and beach view with a mountain in the background

Wetland area with small lake

View of a river from a bike path

Took a partial day off to do a big bike ride around the peninsula between the Willamette and Columbia rivers in Portland. Totally worth it #bikeday

Figure of Western U.S. snow cover area from 2001 to 2026 illustrates a staggering decline in current coverage compared to historical norms. While the historical data for mid-January typically clusters between 400,000 and 600,000 square miles, the line for 2026 sits in unprecedented territory at the very bottom of the graph. On January 15, 2026, the snow cover area plummeted to a record low of 142,700 square miles—less than one-third of the median and the lowest point in the entire 25-year satellite record. This visual gap emphasizes a severe "snow drought," with the 2026 data point trailing significantly behind even the previous record lows, highlighting an extreme and alarming anomaly in winter precipitation.

The western U.S. faces its lowest snowpack on record despite average or above-average rainfall. Warmer temperatures mean more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, and will worsen droughts in areas like the Pacific Northwest and the Colorado River Basin.

science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

Portland, Maine

www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/l...

Salary to living wage plot with only 4 programs falling aprove the 1:1 line and paying a living wage.

Happy recruitment/interview season for PhD students! Recruiting students in ecology & evolutionary biology? Make sure your department's stipend is accurate in our database: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

Volume 80 Issue 1 | Evolution | Oxford Academic Evolution, the official journal of the Society for the Study of Evolution™, publishes articles in all areas of evolutionary biology focused on broadening...

Be sure to check out all the excellent research from the January issue!
academic.oup.com/evolut/issue...

Overwintering drives rapid adaptation in Drosophila with potential costs to insecticide resistance Abstract. Winter is a formidable challenge for ectotherms that inhabit temperate climates. The extent to which winter conditions drive rapid adaptation, an

Happy to see our paper out now in the January edition of #Evolution 🧪 !
Using #drosophila in outdoor mesocosms, we found evidence for adaptation over a winter period and for putative trade-offs between resistance evolution and overwintering performance
doi.org/10.1093/evol...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

The dog or the bus?

Dispatch from the occupation What life is like in Minneapolis now

Reposting this blog:
A clear account of the scope of the operation and effects to citizens and all ppl in #Minneapolis
Dispatch from the occupation
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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