This fall, the Dept of Ecology and Evolution @ the Univ of Lausanne will be looking for an associate professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution. If that sounds like you, please apply. CH is an outstanding place to live and work. ⛰️🚄🔥 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Vought is using the NSF to weaponize research grants in service of the President’s agenda. Register for our webinar to learn about the key NSF changes, analyze their implications and draft strong public comments: zurl.co/uZgiw Then leave your public comment: zurl.co/IutuN

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

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This is a terrific blog essay...read it!

Kymberley Chu@dialecticprimates.bsky.social · 5d ago

For @scbsswg.bsky.social, I wrote an essay on why policing strategies such as cost-driven language and punitive measures don't work in human-primate conflict and other conservation projects. Read here: scbsocialscience.org/why-policing... #conservation #politicalecology #humanprimateconflict

New paper out in our special collection on scientific racism: "Using the REED (Racial & Ethnic Equality & Diversity) Ecological Network as a case study, this paper examines how grassroots initiatives can advance racial and ethnic inclusion in academic and professional institutions"

A Four-Pillar Framework for Advancing Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in the Life Sciences | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

A Four-Pillar Framework for Advancing Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in the Life Sciences

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For @scbsswg.bsky.social, I wrote an essay on why policing strategies such as cost-driven language and punitive measures don't work in human-primate conflict and other conservation projects. Read here: scbsocialscience.org/why-policing... #conservation #politicalecology #humanprimateconflict

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

It is hard enough to be an international student in the US right now, but the administration is determined to make it even more difficult: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation

The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.

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I consider myself an interdisciplinary scientist. A post on LinkedIn challenged the idea that we should mentor our students to be more interdisciplinary. Here are my thoughts on what that means in my new APS Presidential column. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Is Interdisciplinary Science Worth It?

"You don't want scholars answering to two or more disciplines. You want them to enrich and integrate their own discipline with ideas drawn from others."

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Thoughtful piece: “as a field, we seem to have given up on our representation issue. We know about it, we say we care about it, but the decisions we make (from what demographic data to collect to what papers to publish) suggests to me that we've become apathetic about it all”

The Psychologist@psychmag.bsky.social · last wk.

Representation in Psychology – just another impossible problem? Megan E. Birney (University of Birmingham) considers a WEIRD, but worryingly pervasive, research issue. Plus a response from the British Psychological Society's Academic Publications Team. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

“It’s just frustrating,” Dr. Blumstein said, noting that he should be dedicating time to writing papers or working with students. “But we’re doing this,” he said, “which is kind of silly in the long run.”

Esther Schindler@estherschindler.bsky.social · 2w ago

Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/s...

This review essay was quite fun to write! It's based on a course I have been teaching @usc.edu for the past few years. My main argument is that examining the relationship between humans & nonhumans/animals offers a productive way to investigate power structures. OA here: doi.org/10.1111/aman...

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library

What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more-than-human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, a...

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📢New #blog alert! Our latest post on 'The Social' by Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social explores why policing people who feed #monkeys may not help-and why #ethnographic, collaborative approaches matter: scbsocialscience.org/why-policing... #ConSocSci #conservation #humandimensions

“this epistemic exclusion (in)visibly shapes the academic community, determining whose voices are heard and what kind of knowledge is shared and taken seriously” academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...

Forum: The Passports They Carry: Global South Scholars and the Global Academic Mobility Divide

Abstract. Passport inequality is more than a simple logistical inconvenience; it is a fundamental injustice that undermines the ideals of fairness and equa

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He was a young dad, working to give his daughter a stable life, before he was shot and killed by ICE after an attempted traffic stop. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

He was a young dad, working to give his daughter a stable life, before ICE killed him

Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was remembered as a devoted family man “with many dreams to fulfill.”

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The Battle of Algiers at 60 conference in Cambridge. CFP deadline 4 August 2026. This will be a great conference on an important anticolonial film. Gutted that France missed this train too. Why can’t French academia celebrate/remember their history?! Sigh! www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/51930/

The Battle of Algiers at 60 - CRASSH

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

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Call for Papers: the Routledge Companion to Octavia E. Butler call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/...

Russell Vought is working to advance a key part of his Project 2025 agenda by giving political appointees unprecedented authority over federal science funding decisions. Fight back by leaving your public comment by visiting this link: zurl.co/hdmlB Article: zurl.co/ijSUz

Trump administration proposal would all but end scientific merit in grant funding, critics say

Proposed in late May, the rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over federal grants for research, education and infrastructure.

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Excellent post explaining why it’s not possible to breed criminality out of human populations, a claim beloved of eugenicists. Did not realise the source of this particular claim 👇 was a paper published in Evolutionary Psychology

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.

Kymberley Chu, fifth year PhD Candidate, presented her research on urban infrastructure and "green connectivity" in Kuala Lumpur at the 21st Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies held by ARI, National University of Singapore. 🔗 bit.ly/4pdHvZn

I presented my dissertation chapter on Malaysia's competing visions of green connectivity and infrastructural forms as state developmentalism ambitions at the 21st Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies. Thank you panelists for a generative conversation! #urbanisms #ecology #NUS

Last few days left to submit your idea for a Workshop for our 2028 programme. Send us your proposal by 29 May 2026 at www.biologists.com/workshops/pr... #BiologistsWorkshops

Grants managers at two of the U.S. government’s largest funders of scientific research have recently placed unprecedented limitations on the ability of U.S. scientists to publish with co-authors from other countries, researchers say. https://scim.ag/3Pvyv4i

U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators

NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication

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Writing for the STS India Network, I reflect on the structural barriers, power dynamics, and collaboration opportunities that Global South-based scientists encounter in ecology. The uneven, circulatory flows of capital and labor are never abstract. stsin.org/redefining-i.... #ecology #GlobalSouth

Redefining Integrative Ecology in the Global South: From Disciplinary Silo to Landscape

Kymberley Chu Image Description and Credits: A photo of a rhinoceros at the Kaziranga National Park. Pexels, shot by Ravi Mittal On the winding roads through mountainous terrain on the way to Kazir…

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horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Polish off your May Day protesting with this *essential* read by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I implore everyone to read this brilliant book review of Kathryn Paige Harden new book on the genetics of criminality. It cuts right through the bullshit to state plainly what Harden's project really is: eugenics bullshit and grifting lareviewofbooks.org/article/orig...

Natural Election | Los Angeles Review of Books

Kathryn Paige Harden’s new book offers a defense of a kind of Scientific Calvinism that converges with the eugenicist ideals of the contemporary Far Right.

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The JHI Blog has released a call for submissions to its forum on the “Conceptual History of Technology.” Pitches are due on May 7.

Call for Submissions: Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology

by Zac Endter and Jonas Knatz

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Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

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"It is time to speak up — clearly, structurally and unapologetically. Time to build sideways, not upwards. Time to lift others without replicating the same extractive ladder." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

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