Two Assistant Professor Positions in Evolutionary Biology and Mechanistic Processes - including microbes! faculty.utexas.edu/career/191568

Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

nytimes.com

And… I am SO excited to share the first research preprint from my group! In this paper we determined several cryoEM structures to visualize the entire cell-to-cell bridging complex formed by TAM receptor and ligand, bringing into 3D a common graphical depiction. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very jealous though i do get to visit Miami for the first time in almost 50 years Sunday -Tuesday. Anyone with suggestions for near the University of Miami campus, please share them

Hanging out with the best people in a great restaurant in Paris. (One should be so lucky) @antoinemolaro.bsky.social Ines Drinnenberg

Hello fly and chromosome people in Paris! I’m giving a seminar on Friday October 2nd, kindly hosted by Marie-Anne Felix at IBENS (salle Favard, IBENS 46 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris) at noon. Come to hear the latest from the lab (although we’re evolutionary biologists so sometimes things move slowly) 🫠

The trick… is to never generate any useful data

Jason Rasgon@vectorgen.bsky.social · 2d ago

I am going to be buried with all my data, like the Pharaohs of old

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

Newsweek@newsweek.com · 3d ago

A Michigan nurse is accused of helping an injured immigration detainee escape from a hospital while in federal custody.

Deep sigh!

Cambodia also announced a 6th human case in 2026 a few days ago bsky.app/profile/fla-...

Mike Coston@fla-medic.bsky.social · 5d ago

AFluDiary Blog `#H5N1 in Utah Mink (Updated)' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/09/h5n1...

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

thecut.com

It's done! 😊

www.sltrib.com/news/2026/09...

‘Watch them die’: Bird flu is ravaging a Utah mink farm, killing 80% of the herd. State agriculture officials have no clear plan.

It’s the first documented outbreak of bird flu in captive mink in the U.S., and an advocacy group is raising concerns about Utah’s response.

sltrib.com

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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This

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 3d ago

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

Katie Britt watching Eric Schmitt destroy his career, brought to you by Larry David.

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

abetterscientist.wordpress.com

ABSOLUTELY WILD THE LEVELS of incompetence on display here Meanwhile I lost sleep for several days from a reviewer pointing out a paper I should have referenced in a manuscript 🫠

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

Americans need to recognize that the coup already happened, and is mostly complete.

TPM@talkingpointsmemo.com · 4d ago

The White House is steamrolling Congress' power of the purse — its constitutional power to decide how taxpayer money is spent — zeroing out programs that legislators wrote into law while pouring money into airing Trump campaign ads on television

“You don’t have to stretch to paint this picture: OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company.”

Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect

OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.

prospect.org

Here it is...by delegating decision to non transparent AI models we generate an incentive for grant applicants to use AI writing to tweak system and the vicious/absurd feedback loop is set (which all started by an overload of grant application driven by AI writing). www.science.org/content/arti...

U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed

The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns

science.org

The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

New paper out with @kaylastoy.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."

C. Brandon Ogbunu@cbo.bsky.social · 5d ago

In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus: "If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?" I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication. undark.org/2026/09/25/o...