U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

Trump fires NSF's oversight board

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

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NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change

The agency is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences.

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Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers

A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

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Miles off the coast of New Jersey and New England, two major forces are converging: the rapid expansion of offshore wind energy and some of the most valuable fisheries in the United States. A new editorial published in Fisheries Oceanography takes stock of what... Read more at tinyurl.com/mupxerv3

A new study mapping online U.S. amphibian sales found 8,500 listings covering 301 nonnative species. Researchers flagged 44 species with no matching import records, suggesting possible illegal trade. They urge buyers to choose responsibly bred amphibians over wild-caught ones.

Online ads reveal scale — and gaps — in amphibian pet trade into US

Much of the pet trade in amphibians is conducted online, but it’s not well understood. Herpetologist Devin Edmonds with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recently mapped out the trade in…

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iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling. Highlights: 🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80% 🔺Fixed-term for 2 years 🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L 📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

Mapping Your Data with ggplot2 in R with Basemaps and Insets oliverstringham.com/blog/data-vi...

Mapping Your Data with ggplot2 in R with Basemaps and Insets | Oliver C. Stringham

Personal website of Oliver C. Stringham

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Biologist kidnapped in Mexico news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪🌎

Biologist kidnapped in Mexico

In the mountains of central Veracruz, scientific work is rarely abstract. It means walking narrow paths through cloud forest, speaking patiently with communities, and learning to read landscapes that…

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Trump's new executive order will ban, over the next three years, more than 140,000 spouses, fiancés, and minor children of US citizens and legal permanent residents. Nearly 100,000 nuclear family of US citizens. Unconscionable

This is fucked. I had one of these to support my research in grad school, and I was on the review panel after I became a professor. (Also, there was a review happening like right now—I wonder what is happening with those proposals?)

Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact www.nature.com/articles/s42...

We’ve released two new tidymodels #rstats packages for feature selection: filter and important. tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

Two New tidymodels Packages

Two new tidymodels packages focus on supervised feature selection.

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Ecological Engineers & Delivering Integrated Catchment Planning  📅 27 November 11:00-12:00 (GMT) A webinar on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in ecological engineering, specifically in the water industry. There will be a Q&A session. Register -

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The UK’s surprising ‘wallaby boom’

The Australian marsupial has ‘colonised’ the Isle of Man and is now making regular appearances on the UK mainland

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Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective subjectivity, to the inner life of a country in the throes of deep pain and uncertainty. n.pr/4864WeG

New poetry stresses that our stories are more precious and urgent than ever

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective subjectivity, to the inner life of a country in the throes of deep pain and uncertainty.

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🧪For anyone interested in EBV in autoimmunity, I strongly urge you to read this incredible study by @shady-myounis.bsky.social, Bill Robinson, and @tobiaslanz.bsky.social. It is not only a scientific tour de force, it has a deeply provocative discussion that everyone in the field should consider 1/

Joe Sabatino@jsabatino37.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Epstein-Barr virus reprograms autoreactive B cells as antigen-presenting cells in systemic lupus erythematosus www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Trade in wildlife crosses borders, and so must the effort to protect it. From Ethiopian mountain vipers to Brazil’s Pernambuco tree, over 30 species could soon receive special protection under the #CITES Convention. Learn more via UN News: news.un.org/en/story/202...

At-risk mountain vipers and iguanas, in rare company at key wildlife talks

Renewed efforts to protect the world’s most exotic and endangered animals and plants from illegal traders, overexploitation and extinction are set to begin at UN-partnered biodiversity talks in Uzbeki...

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📢New Publication! @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social just published our review paper on virtual laser scanning of dynamic scenes (VLS-4D). @bernhardhofle.bsky.social #3DGeo Paper: doi.org/10.1111/2041... Blogpost: giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de/2025/11/13/n... Demo: 3dgeo-heidelberg.github.io/vls-4d/

Social media data can be valuable for identifying ecological patterns. Cats are a major predator of wild animals worldwide, including invertebrates, and this study documents new observations of cat-arthropod interactions #RESInsectConsDiv resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Social media highlights the overlooked impact of cats on arthropods

The impact of domestic cats on vertebrate biodiversity is unequivocal; however, we still know little about their effects on arthropods. By analysing over 17,000 photos and videos from social media p...

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I'm surprised I only came across it now, but this review on improving communication in data visualization is excellent. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works - Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah, Jeffrey M. Zacks, Jessica Hullman, 2021

Effectively designed data visualizations allow viewers to use their powerful visual systems to understand patterns in data across science, education, health, an...

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The recording of my #rstats posit::conf talk ✨ practical {renv}✨ is available! 🎉 I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩 youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?... Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...

Practical {renv} (Shannon Pileggi, The PCCTC) | posit::conf(2025)

YouTube video by Posit PBC

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I normally use camcorder for previewing plots as @libbyheeren.bsky.social suggested but it's not quite working with the latest version of ggplot2. The ggview package does a similar thing: github.com/idmn/ggview

GitHub - idmn/ggview: Ggplot picture previewer

Ggplot picture previewer. Contribute to idmn/ggview development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Rutgers University is hiring a Post Doctoral Associate on Applied Climatology! To apply, visit our website or contact Dr. Shope. Applications received by December 1st will be given priority!

Thousands of small pools and streams of melted water sitting on top of Greenland’s massive ice sheet are absorbing more heat from the sun than scientists previously realized, according to new research. This discovery means the ice sheet could be melting faster... Read more at tinyurl.com/57j3jsd4

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Opinion | I, Human (Gift Article)

We know who we are, at least in part, by finding the words — messy, imprecise, unexpected — to tell others, and ourselves, how we see the world.

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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

Está invitado para CIENCIA EN ESPAÑOL I am hosting an event where University of Arizona scientists will speak about their science in Spanish. It is meant to be a community event with a Zoom option, so share with family too! events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/... #CIENCIAENESPAÑOL

If you're stressing out about tomorrow, there are now over 400 local immigration groups listed on this spreadsheet across all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico - take a minute, find one near you, and commit to spending an hour volunteering with them.

Joe Katz@joekatz45.bsky.social · 2y ago

To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations. Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.

Job Alert!! Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Biodiversity and Renewable Energy rcei.rutgers.edu/post-doctora...

The magnitude of legal wildlife trade and implications for species survival www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...