Queer Science! 1 day *free* conference for high school students. Participate in science and engineering activities, see UConn labs, hang out with queer scientists. June 6 at Storrs. Registration tinyurl.com/QueerScience...

Interested in a population genetics that uses a trusted text (Hartl & Clark) but also has a flipped lab component where students do R-based bioinformatics work with real human genomics data (from the 1000 Genomes Project)? Look no further: bsky.app/profile/anth...

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Hey professors and instructors! 🧑‍🏫👨🏾‍🏫 Are you stressing about lecture prep? AAAG has a bank of syllabi and teaching materials to support courses in genetics, anthropology, and related fields! 🧬🏺🦴 You can access these materials through our webpage with an active AAAG membership 🤓! anthgen.org/Education

Hey professors and instructors! 🧑‍🏫👨🏾‍🏫 Are you stressing about lecture prep? AAAG has a bank of syllabi and teaching materials to support courses in genetics, anthropology, and related fields! 🧬🏺🦴 You can access these materials through our webpage with an active AAAG membership 🤓! anthgen.org/Education

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And that’s a wrap for #aaba2026! Congratulations to the winners of our Outstanding Trainee Presentation Awards 2026 👏🏽🏆🥇We hope everyone had a wonderful conference and look forward to seeing you at the next meeting. Follow us for more updates throughout the year incl. AAAG events at other meetings. 🧬

Fun times at AAAG cocktail hour! #AABA20/6

Join us for some good DNA themed conversation! #AABA2026

Join us for the AAAG cocktail event at historic Wynkoop Brewery 🍻today from 8 - 11 pm. We will have appetizers, cash bar and nerdy conversation! #AABA2026 directions below 👇 maps.app.goo.gl/1jx5FPsGDdK6...

Want to learn what DNA from animals🐕🐟🐋, insects🪲, worms 🪱 & microbes🦠 tells us about human evolution? Join us for today's AAAG/AABA Joint Symposium: Human-Associated Genomes in Anthropological Genetics organized by VP Andrew Kitchen starting 8am in Plaza A #AABA2026 www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program...

Thanks to all the speakers who participated in our symposium today! If you weren’t able to make it ,watch this account for a thread 🧵 coming soon linking to our speakers’ work and discussing all we learned about domestication, metagenomes, tapeworms, woolly dogs and more! 🤓 #AABA2026 #aaba2026

Hey #AABA2026 are you interested in ancient DNA 🧬💀? Check out AAAG members' posters in today’s Session 12 on Ancient DNA and Population Histories starting at 4:30 pm www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program... #aaba2026

We're excited to be recruiting an NSF funded postdoc to work in the Villanea lab at CU Boulder. We're specifically interested in candidates who want to work at the intersection of population genetics, ancient DNA, and computer modeling. Please RT jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.

🧬 NEW JOB: @york-bioarch.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc in Ancient DNA Work on the RoBMobS project to explore mobility and diversity in Roman Britain using genomic data. 💰 £37k - £39k ⏳ 34 months 📍 York, UK 📅 Apply by 24 March 2026 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Can't wait to see everyone at #AABA2026 😃 in Denver🏔️! AAAG 🧬has a great event lineup this yr including a cocktail event at Wynkoop Brewing 🍻 on Fri. Mar 20 🗓️! RSVP for this event here: aaag.wildapricot.org/event-6597192

Good morning AABA! ☀️Don't miss AAAG members at Session 3 - Symposium: Post-Contact Evolution: Selection, Admixture, and Health in American Populations starting at 9:30 am in Plaza F #AAABA2026 #aaba2026 www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program...

Today: Learn how AAAG members reconstruct human history and population dynamics in Session 12 starting at 1:30 pm in Plaza A #AABA2026 www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/program...

Opinion from a plant science PhD. student in Wisconsin who grew up in Sacramento, attended UC Davis, and is worried the Trump administration is killing science "STEM careers at risk: NIH funding cuts impact the sciences | Sacramento Bee" share.google/BfnM7qnrFt1j...

I became a scientist, but I don’t know if my career will exist in five years | Opinion

“The opportunities I had as an aspiring researcher are gone. The path to a better life for kids in Sacramento is slipping away.”

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not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific

A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

I’ve been studying gene regulation in primates for over 20 years, and using RNA-seq since 2008 to compare expression across species. We thought we were being careful. We used curated orthologous exons to minimize alignment bias and focused on biologically meaningful comparisons. We were wrong.

🧪 White nose syndrome in North American bats appears to have been introduced from a cave system in the Ukraine back in 2006. Fantastic new research shows that European bats are affected by two separate clads of the fungus, but only one clade has (so far) been introduced to N-America: rdcu.be/epN7x

Two distinct host-specialized fungal species cause white-nose disease in bats

Nature - The identification of two cryptic species of the fungal pathogen that causes white-nose disease in bats highlights the need to integrate studies of genetic variability in pathogens into...

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We're thrilled to announce that the FIRST International Conference on Palaeogenomics will happen in Stockholm, Sweden, June 23-26 2026! Topics will span from humans to wildlife and sediments 🧬🦣💀🦠 bring it on! Save the dates! Follow @palaeogenomics.bsky.social for news 👉icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace

We're looking for TWO lecturers (in Conservation Biology & Evolutionary Ecology) to join us in this beautiful corner of the world! Come join our pretty awesome (if I do say so myself!) department! 💚 @zoologyotago.bsky.social otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

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As of yesterday using publicly available data via Grant Watch grant-watch.us/nih-data.html: 05/24/2025 word cloud depicting 165 unique words or phrases, flagged 10904 times, within 2118 terminated NIH grants. @standupforscience.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

The @upshot.nytimes.com has put together a vivid illustration of how the Trump administration has hollowed out American science. Gift link: nyti.ms/4kBTVql

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

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New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...

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