The Lula administration is bypassing environmental laws to renew a highway.
Scientists warn paving this road through the Amazon could push it to a tipping point. The move has already triggered the resignation of top Brazilian environmental officials.
@nandawenzel.bsky.social report for #Mongabay.
Buenos Dias from Colombia! 🌺
Around 50 nations will meet here to discuss fossil-fuel transition.
They have already been circulated a draft report recommending that they “halt all new expansion”, according to an exclusive by me for @carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-sci...
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%!
That time of year again! If you'd like an example of job apps in academia or industry, here's a good resource. If you got a job in industry or academia in the last few years, please consider adding yours! github.com/RILAB/statem...
seriously. When you’ve sent invoices for two-figure sums, this shit is a no-brainer
@hhmi-science.bsky.social's
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Postdoc opportunity in plant systematics + phylogenomics 🌿 my lab at the University of Michigan is recruiting for a Research Fellow working on species delimitation in neotropical myrtles. Full details + apply here (deadline April 30) careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Copy pasting from copyrighted works: plagiarism 🚫
A tech company making a machine that does advanced copy paste using a vector embedding of language: allowed ✅
This makes sense because they can apply their shoe design knowledge to build an AI data center, which is very similar
🎶It’s the final countdown! Abstracts due tomorrow!🎶
Our premier graduate student award symposium takes place during the virtual meeting. If you are doubtful about your ability to physically attend #evol2026, you can still put in an application. There are no geographic restrictions on this award!
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Tomorrow!!
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Congratulations to QRB Editor-in-Chief Liliana M. Dávalos (@labdavalos.bsky.social), who spearheaded a Fulbright Amazonia paper that recently won a 2025 Editor’s Choice Award from the journal Environmental Research Letters.
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I’ve almost given up on this one. It’s so widely misused I’m not sure anyone knows about the logical fallacy anymore.
Don't forget to register! Early bird registration closes in 1 week (4/15). And you can apply to be a volunteer for the virtual+in-person meeting until 4/10.
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That would be former @qrb.bsky.social EIC, Craaford laureate George C. Williams!
No more car payments because public transportation, for instance.
For anyone wondering, global sales of internal combustion vehicles peaked in 2018. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
Proposed cuts to BIO are higher, closer to 72%
Table of proposed cuts to NSF funding
Clearer numbers here, in NSF's full request to Congress. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
Are these previously funded radical DEI projects in the room with us? /s
When I told him about The New Yorker's very human fact-checking process, he crowed that "a lot of that is going to go away." To which I said, NO, AI means we need MORE fact-checking, because AI has flooded the web with bullshit. It certainly can't be trusted to fact-check itself, or anything. /
A land reform project in Brazil planted 10 million trees in the Atlantic Forest. With a jaguar sighted for the first time in 2024, this project proves that ecological corridors can restore biodiversity and bring wildlife back: 174 bird and 29 mammal species have been recorded in reforested areas.
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🧪Thrilled to share that our Fulbright Amazonia 🌎 climate team paper has been selected as Editor's Choice Award-Emerging Regions!! @ioppublishing.bsky.social @ecoconexao.bsky.social @anealencar.bsky.social iopscience.iop.org/journal/1748...
Excited to have two weeks of box turtle surveys scheduled for this spring with a bunch of local partners and an incredible wildlife detection dog team!
These are turtle shells from just one of my sites last season! All this variation in shell pattern and color from just one site is incredible.