Many people engaging with today's discourse should really do a little reading on the activism and government response surrounding the Love Canal incident.

Connecticut fought a series of wars against Pennsylvania over what is now Wilkes-Barre

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last wk.

Tell me a fun fact.

Attention 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

Makes no sense to me that the Quaker consortium doesn’t want anything to do with this. None of the 4 schools have a natural history museum, but Swarthmore already has an arboretum and the ANS is just as close to Penn as it is to Drexel.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2w ago

I feel like I’m going to throw up

The largest planned AI data center in New Jersey is being accused of violating federal law after thermal drone footage found the site running dozens of unpermitted gas-powered generators. 🌎 floodlightnews.org/new-jersey-d...

One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law'

Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators

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cannot believe the Phils pulled this off again within a week. most unhinged team in baseball

G Haines@gehaines.bsky.social · 3w ago

Incredible baseball happening

FYI, the Army Corps of Engineers is statutorily obligated to provide flood control for the entire country, and directly manages 609 dams and 275 locks, and inspects 2,000 levees biannually

Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · 3w ago

A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.

We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...

Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...

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To what extent to ancestry and behavior contribute to fish movement in a novel environment? "Correlates of Post-Introduction Displacement in a Conservation Translocation of Threespine Stickleback" Now out in FW Biol led by Alexis Heckley onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Couple thoughts on the recent resurgence of "scientific" racism. 1) This is usually treated as a science=head/humanities=heart problem. It is increasingly clear that this is a false framing. Lot of major players are emerging within the humanities (esp phil. depts). Biosci is largely steering clear

The Phillies?!!!!

Lotta people today becoming negatively polarized into supporting QC’s language laws that have become increasingly draconian over the past decade because a right wing QC nationalist government wanted to target immigrants and historically anglophone universities.

Some really neat work on long-studied traits in stickleback here (and incredible to have this as an undergrad paper, great stuff Alex!).

Daniel Bolnick@danielbolnick.bsky.social · 3w ago

An undergraduate in my lab, Alex Yeung, posted a preprint this week (& submitted for review): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Summary thread: We often use trait-environment correlations to infer adaptive value. For instance, #stickleback gill raker # and length covary with lake size. But... /t

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 ago

Three 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. 🧪

🚨Elsevier forces out Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) Editor, entire editorial board has resigned, current board only handling new submissions until Nov. 14 #econsky

I disagree with the absolutism of this advice and invite more senior academics to not be judgemental on issues like this when evaluating CVs of more junior folks. Manuscript "in prep" means data collection/analyses is done but writing, which could take many weeks with multiple authors, is ongoing

Vinny Costa@vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 4w ago

It’s 2026 and multiple preprint servers exist. Stop listing “in prep” manuscripts on your CV. You are not fooling anyone and it’s almost always going to be perceived negatively. Have letter writers comment on manuscript obstacles/progress.

Most people are not adding in prep manuscripts to their CV because they think it will be viewed as a publication. They are doing it to show you what they are actively working on, and might even be available by the time applications are reviewed. You can simply ignore this info if you want!

Vinny Costa@vincentcostaphd.bsky.social · 4w ago

It’s 2026 and multiple preprint servers exist. Stop listing “in prep” manuscripts on your CV. You are not fooling anyone and it’s almost always going to be perceived negatively. Have letter writers comment on manuscript obstacles/progress.

Wandering around in the Maine highlands yesterday

Five former chairs of a watchdog committee say the Species at Risk Act will become “meaningless” and “merely paper protection” if the government follows through on proposed changes to the act. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

Scientists Warn Carney’s Changes Will Bring ‘Wilful Extinction’ | The Tyee

Proposed amendments to make building ports and pipelines easier could destroy entire species.

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Some tiny little brittle stars at the tide pools today

This is very good and helpful advice. Search committees can also really help applicants and themselves by standardizing application materials and being more clear about what they want. The tweaks that are needed for each app mean a lot of frustrating… bsky.app/profile/geha...

Natalie Wright, Ph.D.@coereba.bsky.social · last mo.

If you’re applying to academic jobs, don’t use AI to write your cover letter or teaching statement. The most obvious reason is that AI writing will invariably annoy at least one person on the search committee. The other reasons are less obvious, but more important.

Excited to share our study has been published in @sicbjournals.bsky.social ! Predator Communities With Invasive Pike Are Associated With Changes in Parental Care and Brain Gene Expression in Wild Alaskan Stickleback academic.oup.com/icb/article/...

Predator Communities With Invasive Pike Are Associated With Changes in Parental Care and Brain Gene Expression in Wild Alaskan Stickleback

Synopsis. Invasive predators can influence prey through direct predation but also via nonconsumptive effects that alter behavior and physiology. Parental c

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WTF!?! universityaffairs.ca/news/propose...

Proposed Alto rail route slashes through Queen’s field biology station - University Affairs

Federal government praises the wilderness station as ‘globally unique,’ considers cleaving it with high-speed train.

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Pleased to share our latest special issue: Feeding biomechanics in vertebrates & beyond! The issue brings together studies spanning insects, fishes & mammals to explore feeding biomechanics anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19328494... Guest Editors: Böhmer & Winkler

In case you missed it, looks like a very interesting paper: Rare jackpot individuals drive rapid adaptation in Threespine Stickleback www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rare jackpot individuals drive rapid adaptation in Threespine Stickleback - Nature Communications

Recombination can speed up adaptation by bringing beneficial alleles together. However, this study shows rapid adaptation in Threespine Stickleback fish depends more on the initial frequency of allele...

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Letter from 5 former chairs of COSEWIC to Canadian gov't expressing alarm over plans to ignore Species at Risk Act and other environmental legislation if they feel like it. Liberals will let orcas go extinct to subsidize big oil, Imagine what a future tory gov't may do 😱 www.sfu.ca/~amooers/sci...

“Louisiana secretary of economic development Susan Bourgeois” seems a bit on the nose

Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.

📰 "It was a form of simple fish farming": Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Norway introduced fish into mountain lakes prior to the advent of agriculture 🐟️ 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via sciencenorway.no www.sciencenorway.no/stone-age-ar...

Introduced fish into mountain lakes 7,000 years ago: 'It was a form of simple fish farming'

People have always had the ability and capacity to influence and change their surroundings, says an archaeologist.

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I don’t code in python, so I can’t figure out exactly how the simulations work, but I feel like more people should know about this account

MLB Deserve-To-Win-O-Meter@mlb-simulator.bsky.social · 2mo ago

⚾ Mets @ Phillies 07/19/2026 Final: Mets 6, Phillies 1 Deserve-to-Win: Mets 94% / Phillies 2% (Tie 3%) #MLB #LGM #RingTheBell

García-Elfring, Paccard & Barrett find that freshwater-associated differentiation in Atlantic Canadian stickleback occurs across contrasting demographic contexts and suggest a role for neurological and behavioral pathways in adaptation @biomcgill.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag083 #genome

Genomic Patterns of Parallel Divergence Across Demographically Heterogeneous Stickleback Populations in Eastern Canada

Abstract. The threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) is a key model in evolutionary genetics, particularly for studies of parallel evolution, yet

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