Ding Tut and Danielle Nagaito are both May graduates of the STEM Scholars Program. iowastater.iastate.edu/summer-2026/...
Iowa State First-Generation Students Turn Challenges into Opportunity - Summer 2026 - Iowa Stater
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CoreyWelch_STEM
@coreywelch.bsky.social
Director, STEM Scholars Prog. Iowa State; Training STEM professionals; Former Zoologist; Facilitator, SACNAS Leadership Institutes; Member of ◆Northern Cheyenne Nation◆ + 1st Gen/Pell; My views. I’m waay more fun live than online.
so much I wanted to quote here about why we as scientists seem to find ourselves in this current political situation: “When and why powerful and wealthy outsiders chose to pluck scholars and ideas from obscurity should be of key concern to those of us interested in the independence of science.”
Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d agoI wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...
this is key to the findings: "the team [added] Spanish-language papers, papers from smaller journals[,] and samples from a museum in central Mexico" to English sources, doubling their dataset. So much info out there if people are willing to investigate non-English records!
Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 5d agoDid you know North and South America used to have a sea between them? South America was the Australia of the early Miocene, marsupials and all. Then, they joined at the Isthmus of Panama. And mammals from the north flooded south. Uh oh... www.sciencenews.org/article/mamm...
From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation iucn.org/news/202607/...
From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums
The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...
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New IPEDS data are available for institutional characteristics, 12-month enrollment, and completions. Notably, there do not appear to have been revisions to the prior year's data, which is typically the case.
Use The Data
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), established as the core postsecondary education data collection program for NCES, is a system of surveys designed to collect data from all p...
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95+% of my Bluesky blocking is of centrist Democrats/pundits and AI promoters. #Winning
UC Davis will no longer pay the difference so that GRFP recipients earn the same as other students. So mid-PhD students will lose nearly 25% of salary & new students will make less than their peers. Apply for the GRFP, it’s a wonderful help to your career. Just don’t come here if you get one.
@dereklowe.bsky.social lets loose again (and I am still here for it). www.science.org/content/blog... 1/2
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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“The National Institutes of Health admitted to using an internal search tool to flag UC grants that mentioned “health equity,” “work force diversity,” “structural racism,” and “sexual orientation.” The NIH alone suspended or cancelled more than 1,000 UC grants…”
Remember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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In case you were wondering, I did not miss my 5 year sales goals by 90%.
Happy to see nearly a dozen, how appropriate, quote post responses with Tobias Fünke.
Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 3w ago
Every time I teach Evolutionary Genetics, I assign the students to write a Digest in the style of the journal Evolution and encourage them to submit it if they are eligible. This past spring, an undergraduate student, Henry Ayers, decided to submit his, and it just got published. Way to go, Henry!
Digest: Longitudinal striping in rodents
Abstract. Why do some rodents exhibit longitudinal dorsal stripes rather than the much more common monochromatic pelage coloration? Caro et al. (2026) inve
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v good article, a longstanding problem for vertebrate paleo as well as insects in amber
Kate Wong@katewong.bsky.social · 3w agoToday at 10 AM EDT Sotheby's will start the live bidding on its natural history auction featuring one of the largest, most complete skeletons of T. rex ever found. It could fetch $30M+ and go to a private collector. Here's what science--and the public--stand to lose. My story for @wired.com 🧪
Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.
Karen R. Lips@karenrlips.bsky.social · 3w ago
My review of Evolution. The BBC series, not the concept. But to be fair, I'm a big fan of both. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c6c0...
Why new BBC series Evolution is a giant leap forward for science on TV
Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it
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Trump to sign order as soon as Monday to dismantle Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments www.abc4.com/news/politic...
President Trump expected to shrink Grand Staircase and Bears Ears National Monuments as soon as Monday, sources say
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to shrink the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments as soon as Monday, three sources with knowl…
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Development that degrades or destroys a species’ habitat is no longer considered “harm” to their survival or recovery.
Today, the federal government finalized a major change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to remove vital habitat protections for endangered species.
HHMI released the official 2027 Gilliam Fellowship details, and a lot changed. Deadline's earlier this cycle: Oct 27. Int'l & MD-PhD students now eligible. Stipend up to 50K. New postdoc pathway adds up to 7 yrs of support. No Journal names!!!! www.yaelcourtney.com/resources-an...
2027 HHMI Gilliam Fellowship: New Deadline, Eligibility, and Award Changes — Ya'el Courtney
HHMI's 2027 Gilliam Fellowship guide is out. What changed: an earlier October 27 deadline, expanded eligibility, a higher stipend, and a new postdoc pathway.
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How it started / how it's going, Lena Wen edition. I appreciate the change of heart but I'd be substantially more sympathetic if it hadn't been breathtakingly in March of 2025 that Bhattacharya is utterly unsuited for the job.
A thorough documenting of the statistical shenanigans in the embryo selection company Herasight’s claims about genetic IQ prediction. The paper was published in a new Intelligence journal against the reviewers’ protest that the proprietary prediction model was not disclosed and so was unverifiable
Herasight: Latent Promises, Observed Failures
Many make the mistake of rejecting Herasight on ethical grounds, but doing so gives them too much credit.
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“There's a piece of NIH's mission Atlas never mentions, because it doesn't fit his story: NIH doesn't just fund experiments, it funds people. Training grants, fellowships, career development programs, and research project grants that carry graduate students and postdocs through their formative yrs”
@hellabores92.bsky.social · 4w agoExcellent response from Dr. Bertagnolli to the article from Scott Atlas www.linkedin.com/pulse/dont-a...
This is such an important thread as we face a growing crisis in higher education. So many public universities are being taken over by people who treat them as a business and not a public good, and those are fundamentally different philosophies. And it’s destroying the road to upward mobility.
Kate Clancy@kateclancy.bsky.social · last mo.What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:
New for @undark.org: Mathematicians have signed the Leiden Declaration for AI. I argue that the life sciences needs one: built for noisy, context-dependent systems, w/ disclosure, human accountability, wet-lab validation, & rules that evolve as fast as the tools do. undark.org/2026/07/02/o...
Biologists Should Articulate Their Position on AI
Opinion | In the Leiden Declaration, mathematicians issued a treatise on how AI challenges their field. Others must do the same.
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This doesn't surprise me. People work harder and faster with skin in the game. Also, getting paid adds prestige to the process; you're being valued for your time.
Alison Hoens@physioktbroker.bsky.social · last mo.Paying journal articles reviewers results in faster and higher quality reviews 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Next week on You’re Dead To Me we’re exploring the history of Eugenics — sadly, it’s not confined to history 👇
Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · last mo.Twitter is going kind of crazy about crime and genetics right now (What's new?). My next post is a deep dive into a paper behind a widespread claim that brutal execution in Medieval Europe selected for reduced aggression, allowing civilization to develop. The title says it all, really.
Remember how CDC “Director” Jay Bhattacharya abused his power and blocked the CDC’s journal, MMWR, from publishing a paper showing the clear benefit of COVID19 vaccination among healthy adults? Well, it was just published by a very reputable journal. Hope you enjoy the humiliation, Jay.
Interim Estimated Effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults
This case-control study estimates vaccine effectiveness of 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccines among adults with COVID-19–associated emergency department or urgent care encounters and COVID-19–associated hosp...
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