postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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Our paper is out in @Science! The Atlantic silverside spans Earth's steepest latitudinal gradient in coastal sea-surface temperature. Despite high gene flow, populations show clinal genetic variation in multiple locally adapted traits. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The genomic response to drought across spatiotemporal scales in Amaranthus tuberculatus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.02.679894v1

Thrilled to have a new paper out where we use 12+ years of monitoring data to document the impacts of inbreeding on fitness in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Inbreeding reduces fitness in spatially structured populations of a threatened rattlesnake | PNAS

Small and fragmented populations are at high risk of local extinction, in part because of elevated inbreeding and subsequent inbreeding depression....

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So great to get out on the water, see some beautiful kelp beds, and learn more about kelp microbiome sampling!

Dr. Brooke Weigel@brookeweigel.bsky.social · last yr.

Super fun #kelp genetics & microbiome 🧬🦠 fieldwork day yesterday with my amazing interns & UCSC collaborators @meaghansaurus.bsky.social Always nice to be on a boat! 🌊

I'm beyond words at this point. If I wanted to literally straight-up destroy any efforts at basic biology research in the US, this is exactly how I'd do it.

On this week’s ep, Kevin Bird (@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social) explains the events of the last 3 months, how science is funded in the United States, why it is being attacked so aggressively, and the ideologies behind these attacks. Found everywhere you get podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/0E9l...

Is science political? - with Kevin Bird

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I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

Mike Wagner@prowag.bsky.social · last yr.

Friday Night Massacre of accurate information. A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

To expand on this, right now ~200 postdoc fellows directly funded by NSF are locked out of their salary &research funds right before the first of the month. No doubt other NSF funded grads &postdocs are affected as well. All requests for funds put in before the freeze are slowly being cancelled

Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 2y ago

As of now, NSF does not appear to be changing course at all given the temporary restraining order or the rescission of the memo. I can't help but feel that the NSF director is failing us and his handling of this is indefensible. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

As of this AM, it is uncertain how NSF postdoc fellows will be impacted. If you are on an NSF PRFB and not a member of the slack group, send me a message.

Ethan White@ethanwhite.weecology.org · 2y ago

Has anyone heard anything about the impacts of the OMB memo on fellowships administered directly by federal agencies. E.g., NSF (at least used to) pay(s) postdoc fellowship stipends directly to the postdocs