Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...
John Wares
@johnwares.bsky.social
I hope everyone knows I’d rather not post about the theft of my country. Ride your bike. Have a burrito. Study benthic diversity. Have a beer. UGA Professor. He/him. PRO diversity. PRO equity. PRO inclusion. www.wareslab.net
In the continuing saga of "how Franklin IT messed up my computer through their management software" I can now see that Microsoft Defender is using 11Gb of RAM on my 64Gb machine :(
There must be systematic reinvestment to not only counterbalance the last 2 years, but the decades before that. And if people don't have the stomach for *eyes open* reparations for exactly whose careers were harmed, then pour money into research for the communities being left behind.
New pre-print led by the amazing @patricepottier.bsky.social - very little evidence for evolution of life history traits in response to warming, even in insects. Rapid adaptation is unlikely to mitigate the continuing impacts of climate change 🔥🔥🔥
EcoEvoRxiv@ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 6d agoLife-history traits do not always evolve in response to changing thermal environments doi.org/10.32942/X20...
Shout out to @kamlager-dove.house.gov for introducing articles of impeachment against the lawless and cruel Russell Vought. kamlager-dove.house.gov/media/press-... Let's make sure he is not able to harm people further! actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...
Kamlager-Dove Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against OMB Director Russell Vought
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37)introduced articles of impeachment against Office of Management and Budget (OMB)Director Russell Vought after the administration
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Intact #ecosystems provide countless benefits. A new study by Justin Suraci & team shows that presence of #pumas changes deer space-use such that collisions with cars become less likely. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Large carnivores shape road safety through effects on prey space use
Suraci et al. show that large carnivores can make roadways safer by affecting prey space use and diel activity. Deer-vehicle collisions are reduced by up to 76% and shifted to daylight hours where pum...
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This is the difference between a winner and a loser. “Yeah you wanna try? Go ahead and fucking try. I’m gonna kick your ass anyways, and if I lose, I’m coming back twice as hard. If you’re on my team, we’re gonna smoke em.” vs. “WAAAH WAAAAH WAAAAAH” <fifth place benchwarmer diarrhea noises>
Your Evil Twin, Skippy@twinskippy.bsky.social · 4d agoGolden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
Justin J. Pearson has won his primary election for Congress in Tennessee. His campaign is built on one idea: government should work for everyday people — not the rich, and not corporations. That's not a slogan, it's a fight he knows well. And he's ready to take it to DC.
Fun when you transferred remains from the funeral home receptacle to one you prefer, and then the receptacle is in the trash, and you empty that trash, but the only thing that sticks in the trash can is that receptacle, so you get to think about it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uer4...
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My god, they hate us all. Republicans hate that others exist and learn and grow unless they exist to deliver Amazon packages.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 4d agoThe Trump administration is proposing new guidelines that would overhaul Head Start and could change how it’s run across the country. https://to.pbs.org/3RUJIwf
This is super random but please enjoy this picture I took in 2010 of a Marine Iguana Crossing sign on the island of Isabela, Galápagos, Ecuador.
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!
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Grad students who leave their code in such good shape that a year later I can just open up the .Rmd and update that visualization in a few minutes are AWESOME PEOPLE. Thank you Peyton!
Congratulations to Andy Lee @andylee.bsky.social, winner of the 2026 Harry Smith Prize for his work on the genetic basis of adaptation in a range-expanding marine species with high dispersal. Andy recently defended his PhD at Purdue University. Read More: buff.ly/w8GY8u1 (1/2)
It keeps dissolving. It keeps dissolving.
Kelcie Moseley-Morris@kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 5d agoMy sister was informed today that the career she's devoted 21 years of her life to at the National Resources Conservation Service (under the USDA) as an ecological site specialist is over, as they are dissolving her position.
My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”
Rain affects my rein on the Wares Chair of Aquatic Evolutionary Ecology. I always thought having a chair position in academia would be fancier.
It's pretty weird that this one guy gets to say 100 things every day that make no sense at all or are wrong in like 12 different ways and he still gets to be in charge of everything
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump: "An outlier is a person that doesn't have a chance" (That's not what 'outlier' means)
We cannot solve supply chain challenges by bulldozing living ocean ecosystems based on incomplete data. The DOI's evaluation process needs rigorous scientific scrutiny. Read @cpaullinva.bsky.social's full coverage in @insideclimatenews.org here: insideclimatenews.org/news/3107202... 5/7
As Trump Promotes Critical Mineral Mining, a Company Eyes the Seafloor in Coastal Virginia - Inside Climate News
A proposed mining project off the Delmarva Peninsula is after minerals in heavy sands. Locals worry it would harm an important ecosystem.
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🌊 Real Economies at Risk: Virginia’s waters sustain a $1.3B seafood industry & thousands of local jobs. Katie Dawson, who has run a commercial fishing biz for 40 years, sums it up: “It totally destroys a way of life that we depend on.” 4/7
🧵 Are you following what could be this year's most consequential East Coast ocean story? Odyssey Marine Exploration is asking the Dept. of the Interior for a lease to mine ~2,500 sq. miles of seafloor off Virginia's coast. Here is why this raises major red flags: 1/7
I cannot move forward drafting Aim 3 without snacks. It appears to be snack run time.
astrovandalism, add that to the trash he leaves in our oceans and the polluted air for poor communities. and the many thousands of people dead, unemployed, or broken because of his actions just in the last 18 months. he's a super villain, and we have no Superman.
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 5d agoMoon's definitely haunted now lol
