Carole Hom
@clhom.bsky.social
Retired academic; still a scientist, educator, and geek.
Trump announced $100M to train U.S. citizen scientists only. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... These are not new funds. NSF underspent its education funds by $100M this past year. Of course, it pales in comparison to the $560M lost due to terminated NSF education grants: grantwitness.org/nsf 🧪
That time I put almost all the chipmunk species in the western USA on one map. Did you know there’s 1 species of chipmunk in Asia, 1 in eastern USA & >20 in western USA? (I’m not the crazy one here. The chipmunks are the crazy ones.)
How a handful of oysters, a joke about a bottle of hot sauce and decades of patient research by @ucdavis.bsky.social and partners is becoming a new model for bringing a native species back to California's coast. 🦪🌊 @ucdmarinescience.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
Restoring California's Native Oyster
What began with a handful of remnant oysters, a joke about a bottle of hot sauce and decades of patient research is becoming a new model for bringing a native species back to California's coast.
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Trump admin struggles to prepare for possible disease outbreak. If only we had some kind of Center whose job was to Control Diseases. That hadn’t been decimated by… <checks notes> … um, Trump www.cnn.com/2026/10/06/p...
Facing stonewalling from Russia, Trump admin struggles to plan for potential plague fallout | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is struggling to get clear answers about the death of a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague, amid days of stonewalling from Russian offi...
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🌡️ A prolonged, dangerous heat wave is expected to continue for much of Coastal Southern California up through the Bay Area and Central Valley through midweek. Be sure to protect yourself and others by following proper heat safety tips. For an update forecast visit www.weather.gov
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Check out this lovely profile of the University of California, Davis’s Peter Wainwright, whose lifelong fascination with fishes inspired a remarkable career in research and teaching. Peter was my postdoc advisor years ago when he was at Florida State University, and is awesome dude and mentor.
Among the Academies: A Lifelong Fascination With Fish
For Peter Wainwright, the academic path was simple: he simply followed his fascination with fish.“I dare say there wasn't a lot of deep thought about what direction I should go in my life,” he said. “...
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I'm hiring a postdoc to help build tools for inferring complex speciation histories with genomic data. strong computational skills are a must, but this is a training opportunity. 60K$+ salary, 2 years, details flexible. please reach out! (and repost) ad here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/53150
Postdoctoral Researcher
The Department of Ecology at Montana State University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Scholar as part of NSF-funded research on speciation under alternating cycles of gene flow and isolation (fundi...
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Ethan Linck@elinck.bsky.social · 2mo agograteful to have received the lab's first NSF grant to study cyclical processes of speciation with new theory and tools (applied to Melanesian birds). ad to come, but I'll be looking for a postdoc with computational biology chops—please reach out! (and repost) www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
I became a biologist because of a museum exhibit. Real artifacts tell stories that are more powerful than anything we can get from scrolling. They are part of our engine for training the next generation of scientists. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/the-awesomen...
The awesomeness of museums
Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.
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Seasonal job opportunity in Northeastern Oregon with some of the cool people I work with! Spend your summer chasing woodpeckers and hiking around some beautiful country 😊 jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
USFS Wildlife Technician | Natural Resources Job Board
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The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783
For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu
The fight isn't over yet! Please keep calling, emailing, and making your voices heard. Suggestions for action items can be found here - save-the-academy.org Ecologists, evolutionary biologists, botanists, etc - please distribute throughout your professional networks!
Save the Academy of Natural Sciences
Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.
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Regina Fairbanks@reginafairbanks.bsky.social · 4w agoI will not stop talking about the closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum until the closure has been cancelled! Here's me on a field trip to the museum in second grade. I now have a Ph.D. in Population Biology. Every evolutionary biologist and ecologist should be bleeting about this!
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Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 2w agoA telling quote in this @npr.org analysis: "I think it was clear to just about every observer, left, right, and center, that the NIH of recent decades is a very unhealthy institution and has really desperately needed substantial reform." -Ian Banks, Foundation for American Innovation 🧵
Please repost/share We're hiring! UC Davis Plant Pathology seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in plant health & microbiomes. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904 My department is full of great colleagues, and we look forward to recruiting our new colleague!
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Two positions in my department at Virginia Tech in Molecular Microbiology. Come be my colleague! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...
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A quarter of this year's ~2000 incoming UC Davis Bio majors are transfer students. It's an incredible set of programs across the UCs and a big part of the impact of the University of California.
Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2w agoNot only does the U of C educate traditional four year matriculants but it also has a robust pipeline for community college transfers. There's a lot of quibbling about math preparedness and SAT scores etc but don't miss that there are thousands of CA kids reaching Bachelor's degrees ever year.
🚨NSF seeks community input on future ocean observing priorities 🌊 Read the NSF Dear Colleague Letter here: spklr.io/63326ErWSG Submit your response by 9/30 using this form: spklr.io/63328ErWSy
Request for Input on Future Ocean Observing Priorities
Dear Colleagues, On June 18, 2026, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced its intent to continue operations and maintenance of the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) and to issue this Dear Colleague Letter soliciting perspectives on what ocean observation capabilities NSF should provide.
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Pete Hegseth is covering up the deaths of American servicemembers and contractors. It’s a betrayal of the men & women who have served and sacrificed for our country. I’m leading a new bill to prevent the Pentagon from manipulating government data on troop casualties. wapo.st/3SPycmE
U of U Biochemistry is hiring! See links below -- we're searching for a cell biologist and an AI/ML/data scientist, both broadly defined. Reach out if you have any questions about our supportive and collegial department. utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208... utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...
Assistant Professor - Cell Biology
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We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...
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Apparently AI is not coming for the geographer’s jobs
Tessa Hill@tessahill.bsky.social · 3w agoOut of curiosity, I asked Gemini to fetch a map of the SF Bay Area for me, with UC Davis and Bodega Marine Lab labeled. This is what it came up with. Y’all keep using AI to “improve workflows”. I’m off to make a map…
Jay used our clonal mollies to ask does increasing environmental variation increases phenotypic variation? Turns out.... it doesn't! Mollies reared with pred cues swim more slowly & hide more but the magnitude of individuality remained the same! It seems individuals are unique no matter what...
Jay Gallagher@jay-gallagher.bsky.social · 3w ago🐟🚨 New paper! 🚨🐟 Where do behavioral differences come from? Early life environment clearly matters... ...or not? Early environment affected behavior, but NOT how different individuals became from each other. Those differences were seeded before birth through factors OTHER than genetic variation 🤯
Princeton EEB is running a very broad faculty search at the Assistant Professor level. Please consider applying to join us! This is a wonderful, collaborative, cohesive department with diverse interests and amazing colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/193474
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So excited to share that the Department of Biology @emoryuniversity.bsky.social is hiring an open-rank faculty member in the area of ecology. Happy to answer any questions. Please share! 🧪 apply.interfolio.com/191783
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The Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin has two open positions for assistant professors, one in evolutionary biology and one in mechanistic processes. Please share. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193270
