Jay Gallagher

@jay-gallagher.bsky.social

Postdoc at UC Davis • Evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist 🦗🐟 I study the processes that generate phenotypic variation, from individuals to populations. Composer • Cellist • Game designer • Tennis player jameshgallagher.weebly.com

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

Exclusive: NIH, which 1 year ago was slammed by a federal judge for illegally terminating more than 1700 grants funding research on health disparities and other politically sensitive issues, is again killing ongoing projects on those topics. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4pF6Mvy

NIH is again terminating grants that the Trump administration dislikes

Animal contests determine access to resources. Come by to my talk today (21 July) in Londra at 3pm to see one of the few animal contest talks at #ISBE2026 and in no other than the biomechanical marvel, the mantis shrimp! Cool videos guaranteed!

Title slide for a talk titled "What lies within: burrow scarcity drives increased aggression in mantis shrimp contests", authored by Jon Aguiñaga, Miya L. Ball, Hannah R. Reeb, Liam R. Healy, and Patrick A. Green. The official Brown University Logo sits at the top right corner, and picture credits to JA are in the left corner. The photo is of a green mantis shrimp sitting next to a white cylinder PVC burrow, both resting on top of white rock substrate.

Wow. “The three directorates are being required to pull back NSF proposals that have already passed peer review and have been recommended for funding. Some of the funds will be funnelled to another project, a brainchild of the White House OSTP.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency’s budget is already squeezed and it struggling to clear a backlog of grant applications.

nature.com

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