I am looking for PhD students and postdocs to join my lab at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2027. Anyone excited about urban evolution, hummingbirds, & community engagement, please reach out! And/or find me at #AOS2026 this week! More info here: www.valentina-alaasam.com

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In the millions of years before fungus evolved to consume cellulose, all the trees that died and fell in the forest were backlog.

New study on mammoths from Upper Paleolithic Kraków Spadzista, Langmannersdorf & Dolní Věstonice compared w/ non-anthropogenic contexts to learn about people who relied on them 🧬 Great coverage (in Polish!) www.national-geographic.pl/historia/kra... Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Zaskakujące wyniki DNA. Nasi przodkowie wybierali samice mamutów

Jak polowali ludzie w epoce lodowcowej? Najnowsze badania genetyczne setek mamutów przynoszą zaskakującą odpowiedź. W miejscach obozowisk ludzkich przeważają szczątki samic. Ważną rolę w tych wnioskac...

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Check out our new paper about the oldest molecular evidence of smallpox in the Americas!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …

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Typeset version of new paper out in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social. Link: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... We identified segmental duplications in genomes from 117 vertebrate species (thanks to @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social ). We describe the properties and evolution of segmental duplications.

Genomes From 117 Vertebrate Species Reveal Rapidly Evolving Segmental-Duplication Landscapes

Abstract. Segmental duplications are major drivers of evolutionary innovation; yet, their dynamics across vertebrates remain poorly understood. Here, we id

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The prestigious Miller Research Postdoctoral Fellowship is open! University of California, Berkeley This is a postdoc fellowship with substantial support and independence to be hosted at a lab at Berkeley, reach out with interests! miller.berkeley.edu/nominate-app...

“The Trump administration hates academic science funding, hate where that money goes, and hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them steer yet more money and more power back into their hands” www.science.org/content/blog...

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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“I’m sorry I forgot inglés,” I’ll say, “but I’ve watched veinte hours of fútbol every día for cinco weeks. And also El Señor de los Cielos, a telenovela that advertises constantemente during the Copa Mundial on Telemundo.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

I Watched the Copa Mundial Non-Stop on Telemundo for Cinco Weeks and Now I Don’t Hablar Inglés Anymore

“Hola, Chad aquí, de Greenwich, Connecticut, a muy blanco área of los Estados Unidos. A few weeks ago, I decidir to watch Estados Unidos vs. Paraguay in fútb...

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Maybe they’ll be a second half time show with Vanilla Ice

Someone score please. Do it for Marty.

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

ODYSSEUS WILL RETURN IN CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S THE AENEID

Does the winner get the Malvinas/Falklands? #worldcup2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Four hours left. Do it. Two or three paragraphs of your own text are enough.

Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦@merz.bsky.social · 3w ago

There are only a few hours left to comment on the proposed OMB rule that would eviscerate American science. This is the single best summary, and guidance for how to write a comment, that I have seen. PLEASE submit something, even if it is only 2 or 3 paragraphs.

There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4w ago

Comments due by Monday on the attempt to politicize science/aka kill American research as we know it. Do it at the link (counter the ton of Heritage-foudnatoin-prompted comments): www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’

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My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.

Andy Lee, PhD@andylee.bsky.social · 4w ago

In our Viewpoint (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...) we synthesize the gametic definition (outlined by Janicke et al below) and other definitions of sex (e.g., multivariate definition). We contend that is NO consensus on “biological sex” (maybe a consensus isn’t actually necessary…)

There’s a small enclave of Argentinians in Boulder Colorado. I did not see the goal or the replay from the sea of people cheering between me and the tv.

Portugal must be salty that all the other colonial bad guys are getting through

Hey team - it’s looking very likely that I’ll be hiring not one but two four year postdocs! We’re a fun lab with tons of theoretical and applied pop gen projects - broadly in polyploid, conservation, and human evo. Competitive salary, sunny San Diego! Do share with your about to defend grads!

If you're a PI, post-doc, or grad student, write about what this means for you. This guide helped me write a personalized message and it might help you: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne... Perfect is the enemy of done here. We have two days.

What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)

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

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Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 4w ago

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

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No models. No satellites. Just 50 years of Burgundy harvest dates: ~4.1 days earlier every decade. Climate change, written on a cellar wall. 🍷 🇫🇷 🧫

Days like today I feel lucky I got the job I got. CUB campus is gorgeous. And feel lucky that Colorado Shakespeare is set on CUB campus.

Okay that was insane. The most emotionally charged game of this World Cup. I for sure thought Messi was finished. #worldcup2026 The annulment was questionable but those 12 minutes of back to back goals. Holy shit.

And I though 'inferior Neanderthal FOXP2 is the reason they went extinct and we didn't' would be the upper end for FOXP2 pseudoscience nonsense...I was wrong. So wrong.

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · last mo.

25 years ago, we implicated rare variants of the FOXP2 gene in a severe speech disorder. I’ve spent much time stressing that FOXP2, while interesting, is not the mythical “gene for language”. Weirdly, on occasion I also need to explain why it’s not “proof of aliens”. Full disclosure in this 🧵. 1/n 🧪