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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 3d

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world.

That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness.

And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 5d

🎃 How are you celebrating spooky season? Help usher in Halloween with this blog post of some of our spookiest publications this year... If you dare! 👻🧪

🏰 Read the blog here: appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/10/30/2...

To help usher in Halloween, let’s take a look at some recent articles from Journal of Applied Ecology that explore different spooky animals and their environments! Bats are probably the first creat…

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 4d

This is an incredible effort among Amazon employees to pressure their employer:

"We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth."

www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...

AI Open Letter — AECJ

Sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Every single signature makes our message stronger.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 4d

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 8d

"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic", says a conservation manager about the growth of a colony of 2,000 sooty tern seabirds. Previously, invasive rats had destroyed their eggs, making it impossible for the native birds to persist on the islands. www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/inv...

Scientists stunned by results after removing 1 harmful creature from island chain: 'The transformation is dramatic'

The successful removal of an invasive species of rat saw nature spring back to life on two islands in the Marshall Islands.

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 11d

The Indigenous Pakayaku in Ecuador’s Amazon have kept mining, logging & oil out of their community's forests for generations

@mongabay.com's reporter visited to meet their 45 women warriors who patrol 99,000 acres of rainforest to detect incursions

Few have been allowed to witness this until now:

Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador’s Amazon forests

PAKAYAKU TERRITORY, Ecuador — Deep in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon, where the Bobonaza River winds through ancient forests in Pastaza province, Sacha Gayas spreads out a hand-drawn map across her woo...

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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 11d

the IUCN have passed the Longevity Conservation motion put forward to them by @kellerfish.bsky.social and @pili-scotland.bsky.social and based on the paper we wrote on the value of older individuals in animal societies.
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Global body adopts policy to protect Earth’s old, wise and large animals | Charles Darwin University

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recognised Charles Darwin University-led research into the Earth’s oldest animals with the adoption of the ‘Longevity Conservation’ global...

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 11d

Postdoc position available at NYU Anthropology to work on topics related to longitudinal aging in the long-running (>80 years) study of rhesus macaque biology on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico 🧪 #primates #academicsky

apply.interfolio.com/173938

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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 12d

Research, wildlife and conservation are in the crosshairs.

More than 2,000 jobs could be cut at Interior during shutdown - High Country News

Research, wildlife and conservation are in the crosshairs.

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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 13d

POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California

2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.

ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003

Fredston Lab: Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

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Nature @nature.com · 13d

People being treated for certain deadly cancers lived longer if they had received an mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19 than if they hadn’t

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People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine

mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 13d

You are the co-owner of 45 million acres.

For the past 25 years, they have been protected under the #RoadlessRule (a conservation policy over 1.6 million Americans submitted comments supporting).

Now, you're about to lose them all.

Get the rest in our Southeast Director's op-ed ➡️ bit.ly/47gWB7B

The Verde River, below Camp Verde, in the Coconino National Forest, Arizona. The camera is positioned close to a section of the river containing rocks. White water swirls around the rocks. Mountains and evergreen trees are in the background.

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Leila Fouda @leilafouda.bsky.social · 13d

North Atlantic right whale numbers estimated at 384. An increase in eight whales from last year - report today by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Slow population growth trend over the past four years gaining more than 7% of their 2020 population. 🦑🐋🧪🌍
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year

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Julie K. Young @drjuliekyoung.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 Hiring a field technician! Help us live-trap (for GPS collars) and camera-trap mesocarnivores in Wichita, KS! See details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 🧪🦊🐱

Tech position - urban mesocarnivores

Field technician: Utah State University, Department of Wildland Resources Project: Mesocarnivore urban ecology. Description: We are seeking a field technician to capture and fit GPS collars on coyotes...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 14d

Please pass along - Our CAMBIUM NSF NRT provides fellowships to support new PhD students at @uarizona.bsky.social To train & prepare a new generation of scientists to harness the revolution in biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate the impacts of climate change. cambium.arizona.edu 🧪🌐🌾

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 14d

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 14d

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
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Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025

Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 14d

People often don't believe me or other repro health experts when we say this admin and its supporters (ahem, Heritage) are absolutely trying to remove access to WOMEN'S ABILITY TO CONTROL THEIR OWN REPRODUCTION.

And this isn't about raising birth rates. It's about restoring the gender hierarchy.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14d

The American Mind, a Claremont publication, is coming for birth control, declaring in a new article by Scott Yenor that the birth control pill has had “grave consequences for our society...” 10/20/25… 1/ americanmind.org/salvo/rfk-sh...

RFK Should Grill the Pill

Though the perceived benefits of birth control are loudly and publicly celebrated, its costs need to be fully exposed.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 14d

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15d

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

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It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 18d

Scientists have detected microplastics in the digestive systems of red howler monkeys living in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, marking the first evidence of plastic ingestion by a tree-dwelling primate, according to a recent study.

Microplastics found in the stomachs of Amazon tree-dwelling monkeys

Scientists have detected microplastics in the digestive systems of red howler monkeys living in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, marking the first evidence of plastic ingestion by a…

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Gerry Flynn @geraldrflynn.bsky.social · 20d

Depressing that the IUCN's confirmation that an endangered species is in fact endangered is the closest thing I can provide to "good news."

Latest for @mongabay.com shows how a concerted effort by the biomedical research lobby to downgrade the IUCN listing of long-tailed macaques has failed.

IUCN upholds long-tailed macaques’ endangered status after complaint

BANGKOK — The long-tailed macaque will remain on the Red List of the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, despite objections from the biomedical industry arguing the designation hampers r...

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 22d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 21d

Source: Charitie Ropati, Intersectional Environmentalist, and Feminist reporting on Typhoon Halong ravaging western Alaska

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 22d

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

Large model of a green caterpillar, the back of which is covered by dozens of white cocoons. Wasps can be seen emerging from some of the cocoons.

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