🔬 Fred Hutch Cancer Center is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in the Basic Sciences Division @basicsci.fredhutch.org. Join a world-class research community in Seattle and help advance discoveries in fundamental biology. Apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/190640

Thanks to the R/V Gemma and the amazing MRC crew for all of their hard work this summer - we couldn’t do it without you! @mblscience.bsky.social

The NIH just released a proposal that will apparently hide peer reviewers’ impact scores and percentiles from the research team, their institution, and NIH program officers. All the better to obscure how funding decisions will be made primarily via political review, I’m guessing.

I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481

Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Slightly damp outside @mblscience.bsky.social

The paper from my postdoc days @mblscience.bsky.social and @zakswartz.bsky.social Lab is available in @natcomms.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41... With Beverly Naigles, @carsten-wolff.bsky.social and @danivoronov.bsky.social

Did you know squid pre-date trees on Earth, and can be found in all oceans, at all depths?? Find out more #squid trivia this week on the Children’s Hour, and with our free squid learning guide at childrenshour.org/squid-learning-guide-pdf/ 🌊🌊🦑

Older than trees on planet Earth, learn about squid with the one and only @sarahmackattack.bsky.social on The Children’s Hour this week. Livestream at 9am MT from childrenshour.org and grab our learning guide to learn even more.

The Children’s Hour Radio Show & Podcast @thechildrenshour.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Did you know squid pre-date trees on Earth, and can be found in all oceans, at all depths?? Find out more #squid trivia this week on the Children’s Hour, and with our free squid learning guide at childrenshour.org/squid-learning-guide-pdf/ 🌊🌊🦑

DEADLINE EXTENDED! There's still time to register for the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting! Great science, great people, big trees! Join us! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

Interested in sea anemone embryos and building skills in molecular biology, biochemistry, imaging and bioinformatics? We are at Amherst College and work within a welcoming and supportive environment. Feel free to share and dm for additional details. amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Amhers...

Please repost !! SANTA CRUZ DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026. Deadline to register your abstracts for the meeting is Monday June 1. Please get those abstracts in ! scdb2026.sites.ucsc.edu

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 3mo ago

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB 2026-10817)

What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice

elizabethginexi.substack.com

A colleague received bad news from her NIH program officer today: my colleague’s grant got a great score, but NIH still can’t pay it, and my colleague will have to closer her lab. The call ended with the program officer (not my colleague) crying. Awful on so many levels.

Octopuses and squid have elaborate brains. How did their intelligence evolve? go.nature.com/4tIg5Mw

Do octopus brains work like humans’ — or is there another way to be smart?

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved.

go.nature.com

If you are going to watch one thing on Earth Day, this should be it. Rachel Carson has always been someone I have admired and this admiration has grown as I learned about her. A remarkable pioneering woman and a hero to the world.

Andrea Devon@andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 4mo ago

She warned the world before it was ready to listen. Rachel Carson exposed the dangers of pesticides and helped launch the modern environmental movement. Scientist. Author. A mind behind the science that saved lives. Her work still shapes how we protect life. #EarthDay #SheShed

Nature research paper: A chelicera-bearing arthropod reveals the Cambrian origin of chelicerates go.nature.com/4m1uyzX

A chelicera-bearing arthropod reveals the Cambrian origin of chelicerates - Nature

Megachelicerax cousteaui gen. et sp. nov. is a large soft-bodied arthropod from the middle Cambrian of Utah featuring massive three-segmented chelicerae, along with five pairs of pseudobiramous prosomal limbs with non-foliaceous exopodal rami, and plate-like lamellae-bearing opisthosomal appendages.

go.nature.com

cover photo from late Roy Caldwell (UC Berkeley) with nice remembrances here: www.science.org/content/blog...

Seeing the world through the eyes of an octopus

Roy Caldwell leaves behind a wealth of fond memories that speak not only to his research, but also to his collegiality, curiosity, and photographic talent.

science.org

@dev-journal.bsky.social does the same!

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Another Society journal doing the right thing! @socdevbio.bsky.social confirms that upon acceptance in @devbiol.bsky.social authors can upload the accepted and unformatted version of your manuscript to the NIH Manuscript Submission system, satisfying NIH and making it available to all

Switching fields or wanting to become an expert in #zebrafish research? The @mblscience.bsky.social 2026 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course offers a fantastic opportunity to learn from leaders in the field! Application deadline: March 2 Please spread the word! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

This is an outstanding essay describing some of the important roles and influences of NIH program officers (from an insider perspective). Read! elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

The Quiet Power of Program Officers

How invisible decisions shape what science gets done—and whether it matters

elizabethginexi.substack.com

Make your spring term unforgettable! 🌊 Join MBL’s Semester in Biological Discovery for an immersive, hands-on dive into parasitology, biodiversity, neurophysiology & more. 📅 Mar 1–May 23, 2026 🗓️ Apply by Dec 12: go.mbl.edu/sbd No research experience required!

I – like Trump and RFK Jr. – do not have a medical degree. So, when questions surrounding medical treatments emerge, I listen to people who do. I get my information from doctors and public health experts – and urge you to do the same.

Thrilled to share that the lab has been awarded a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Discovery Award to keep exploring the evolution of 6-methyladenine #6mA in Eukaryotes. We'll open postdoc (3️⃣) and tech (1️⃣) positions to start in 2026, please share with candidates or reach out if you’d like to join us.

Now Hiring! Whitney Laboratory Assistant/Associate Professor in Marine Bioscience Apply & More Info - explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... We seek a creative, collaborative scientist whose research harnesses or advances cutting-edge tools. Please help spread the word & reach out with any questions!

Hi! Did you know that you aren’t pronouncing axolotl correctly? Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use! Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this:

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

Drosophila Genetic Database

The Drosophila Genetic Database, FlyBase, is on the brink of collapse due to the sudden termination of the FlyBase NIH grant, which includes salaries for 5 literature curators based at the University ...

philanthropy.cam.ac.uk

Calling all cephalopod scientists! The Cephalopod Neuroscience Gordon Research Conference is coming up! To be considered for a talk, please submit your abstract before the September 30 deadline!! www.grc.org/cephalopod-n...

Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u