Temporal niche partitioning through olfactory cell type evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.04.749392v1
Michael Sheehan
@sheehanmj.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Cornell Neurobiology and Behavior. Social behavior, evolution, neuroscience. Paper wasps and mice.
The crowd to open the GOP midterm convention … 📸 Liz Landers
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2y agoApple is aiming to release a foldable iPhone in 2026 📱 (via WSJ)
Here is our draft definition of 'artificial intelligence' from 1981. It was written by a lovely human.
Silent movies often featured chase scenes, which were often the most exciting/interesting scenes. So, ‘cut to the chase’ came to mean “get to the important part.”
Some resources and advice for those considering applying to the NSF GRFP this year (3 year grad school stipend: first year grad students, post-bachelor, and seniors might consider applying): brianomeara.info/posts/grfp_2... 🧪 #AcademicSky
Really nice coverage in the inquirer of our rally to keep the academy of natural sciences open. Br sure to read the part where 10 year ago old Ryan Sumner-Lee is quoted. share.inquirer.com/ZP7zHY
Hundreds rally to protest the planned closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum
The crowd was decidedly intergenerational.
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Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.
Today’s rally to save the academy of natural sciences was incredible. Hundreds of people turned out. This is only the beginning. Follow along with save-the-academy.org
I better see you tomorrow morning. We got a stage and ASL interpreter and everything 😎
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 6d agoAttention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
Snail Facts! Get your snail facts heeeeere! Scratch a shell a day for a fact about snails! There's been a lot of talk this week about university and government failure to fund critical institutions. Keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social afloat while having fun learning about snails 🐌 SquidFacts.net
Come out to the rally on Tuesday at 10am in front of The Academy of Natural Sciences! RSVP here luma.com/1qwnrqz2 Read more here: whyy.org/articles/phi...
Supporters plan rally to protest closing of Academy of Natural Science Museum
The nearly 200-year-old museum is the oldest natural history museum in the Americas.
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Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...
A bit more than a decade ago, Florida passed a bipartisan law, sponsored by a woman who'd go on to be DeSantis' Lieutenant Governor, which offered in-state tuition to Dreamers and other undocumented youth. It's depressing how quickly the pendulum swung towards total exclusion.
Tampa Bay Times@tampabaytimes.bsky.social · 6d agoFlorida bans students without legal residency from public universities
ALSO, we're hosting a poster making party at @indyhall.org on Sunday, noon to 2pm! luma.com/567osi4m (Shout out to @absolutely-not.bsky.social for coming up with that slogan, damn that's good)
Save the Academy Rally Poster Party · Luma
Let's make some posters for our Save The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum Rally! Sarah will provide art supplies!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 6d agoAttention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
In 1947 10yr old Richard Allen of San Francisco spent a week at the movies
For all the politicized mess that is Texas higher ed, we are extremely lucky enough private money floats around that our deparment can partially offset the loss of federal funding with endowments.
Stengl-Wyer Fellows Program
Stengl-Wyer Fellows Program in Biodiversity at the University of Texas at Austin
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Today, I started the day debate prepping with my team, then watched my daughter’s soccer game, went grocery shopping, watched my son’s football practice, and made us all dinner. But yeah, I’m totally a “radical lunatic.”
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP
Have you discovered the magic of Merlin? ft.trib.al/3BdaMNF | opinion
Have you discovered the magic of Merlin?
A free app has propelled birdwatching into the mainstream, offering a portal to a hidden world
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Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this!
Noam Ross@noamross.net · 3w agoThree more days to comment on NSF's attempt to smuggle in OMB's already-rejected policies of terminating any grant without cause, gutting civil rights obligations and restricting international collaborations. Submit your comment today! Then call your representatives. 🧪
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine has SUCCEEDED in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. Phase III trial results in MORE THAN 1,100 patients shows the vaccine SIGNIFICANTLY extended the time patients lived without their melanoma returning AND reduced the risk of metastasis.
Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial
A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in a late-stage melanoma study, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.
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New Paper: Ornaments evolve faster than weapons Combining a new theoretical model of sexually selected trait evolution with comparative analyses across ten clades, we suggest that drift in female preferences accelerates the rate of ornament evolution. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Ornaments evolve faster than weapons
Abstract. We investigate the evolutionary dynamics of sexually selected traits using both a mathematical model and comparative analyses, focusing on the re
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This is such a cool and clever paper addressing a fundamental question in population genetics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single Generation
The relative importance of genetic drift versus selection to evolutionary change has long been debated. This debate has mainly focused over long-time-scales (e.g. hundreds of thousands of generations)...
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