Jessica R. Glass, PhD
@jessicaglass.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Research Associate at SAIAB.
Using genomics to promote sustainable fisheries and communities. Wyandot Nation of Kansas. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
www.theglasslab.org
Using genomics to promote sustainable fisheries and communities. Wyandot Nation of Kansas. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally
www.theglasslab.org
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EMERGE Alaska | College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
www.uaf.edu
🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social
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Still a few days left to apply for this Assistant Professor position in our department at NYU: apply.interfolio.com/175592
Please pass the word around, if you know of someone at the interface of ecology, evolution, and disease!
Please pass the word around, if you know of someone at the interface of ecology, evolution, and disease!
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November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Still a few days left to apply for this Assistant Professor position in our department at NYU: apply.interfolio.com/175592
Please pass the word around, if you know of someone at the interface of ecology, evolution, and disease!
Please pass the word around, if you know of someone at the interface of ecology, evolution, and disease!
I recently rewatched Jurassic Park and was so excited to share this clip with my Genomics and Bioinformatics class to teach how critical it is to understand Unix/Linux after Lex saves everyone from the velociraptor by rebooting the security system! 😂🦖🦕👩🏼💻
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I recently rewatched Jurassic Park and was so excited to share this clip with my Genomics and Bioinformatics class to teach how critical it is to understand Unix/Linux after Lex saves everyone from the velociraptor by rebooting the security system! 😂🦖🦕👩🏼💻
🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social
www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...
www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...
EMERGE Alaska | College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
www.uaf.edu
October 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social
www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...
www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...
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The University of Alaska Fairbanks has been awarded a $1.9 million federal grant to support 12 new Ph.D. students at the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. 🧪🌊🦑 @alaskaepscor.bsky.social @uafairbanks.bsky.social @jessicaglass.bsky.social #EPSCoR
www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
New federal grant will support UAF doctoral students
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has been awarded a $1.9 million federal grant to support 12 new Ph.D. students at the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. The program, Enhancing Marine Ecosyste...
www.uaf.edu
July 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has been awarded a $1.9 million federal grant to support 12 new Ph.D. students at the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. 🧪🌊🦑 @alaskaepscor.bsky.social @uafairbanks.bsky.social @jessicaglass.bsky.social #EPSCoR
www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
Super excited to be able to announce this opportunity! We'll be recruiting 12 PhD students to start at UAF CFOS between Jan–Aug 2026 w/ 3 years of full support. Please repost and share with your students who received honorable mentions on the GRFP in the last 3 years.
www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
New federal grant will support UAF doctoral students
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has been awarded a $1.9 million federal grant to support 12 new Ph.D. students at the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. The program, Enhancing Marine Ecosyste...
www.uaf.edu
July 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Super excited to be able to announce this opportunity! We'll be recruiting 12 PhD students to start at UAF CFOS between Jan–Aug 2026 w/ 3 years of full support. Please repost and share with your students who received honorable mentions on the GRFP in the last 3 years.
www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
Good luck to all of you getting CAREER grants in the final stages!
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July 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Good luck to all of you getting CAREER grants in the final stages!
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Another day testing the limits of resilience.
The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.
Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.
The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.
Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.
The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover
Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...
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June 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Another day testing the limits of resilience.
The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.
Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.
The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.
Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.
The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
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My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
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May 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
Check out my postdoc Yin Hsieh’s new publication out this week in BMC Bioinformatics!
She created an open-source tool to query protein presence and map it to a phylogenetic tree! 🧬
bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
She created an open-source tool to query protein presence and map it to a phylogenetic tree! 🧬
bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
ProTaxoVis—protein taxonomic visualisation of presence - BMC Bioinformatics
Background: Protein presence information is an essential component of biological pathway identification. Presence of certain enzymes in an organism points towards the metabolic pathways that occur wit...
bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Check out my postdoc Yin Hsieh’s new publication out this week in BMC Bioinformatics!
She created an open-source tool to query protein presence and map it to a phylogenetic tree! 🧬
bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
She created an open-source tool to query protein presence and map it to a phylogenetic tree! 🧬
bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is tragic. 😥
NSF GRFPs terminated for those in graduate school and already attending Harvard, too.
All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
May 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is tragic. 😥
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📣 🥳 🧑💻 Our department is hiring:
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark
Deadline June 1st
Thanks for sharing!
mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark
Deadline June 1st
Thanks for sharing!
mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics - BiRC - Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University
mbg.au.dk
May 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
📣 🥳 🧑💻 Our department is hiring:
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark
Deadline June 1st
Thanks for sharing!
mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark
Deadline June 1st
Thanks for sharing!
mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...
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The discovery of Sivulliusalmo alaskensis — the genus is named from the Inupiaq and Latin words for “to be first” and “salmon,” respectively — adds another 20 million years to the fossil history of the salmon family.
www.uaf.edu/news/new...
www.uaf.edu/news/new...
New ancient fish species earliest known salmon ancestor
A new paper published this week in the journal Papers in Paleontology has named three new species of fish from that time period, including a salmonid, dubbed Sivulliusalmo alaskensis.
www.uaf.edu
May 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The discovery of Sivulliusalmo alaskensis — the genus is named from the Inupiaq and Latin words for “to be first” and “salmon,” respectively — adds another 20 million years to the fossil history of the salmon family.
www.uaf.edu/news/new...
www.uaf.edu/news/new...
New pre-print from the Glass and López labs showing strong genomic differentiation between Pacific Herring in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea using whole genome data, plus mitonuclear discordance in the Gulf! 🐟
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
May 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
New pre-print from the Glass and López labs showing strong genomic differentiation between Pacific Herring in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea using whole genome data, plus mitonuclear discordance in the Gulf! 🐟
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
It was a dream come true today to present my lab’s research at the American Museum of Natural History! I am floored by the enthusiasm and amazing research of the PhD students in the Richard Gilder Graduate School! 🐟🧬
April 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
It was a dream come true today to present my lab’s research at the American Museum of Natural History! I am floored by the enthusiasm and amazing research of the PhD students in the Richard Gilder Graduate School! 🐟🧬
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🚨 Just a few days left before the next review date!🚨 The Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute at @ucdavis.bsky.social is searching for a Director to join us.
View the full position description and apply by April 27th: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044
View the full position description and apply by April 27th: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044
April 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🚨 Just a few days left before the next review date!🚨 The Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute at @ucdavis.bsky.social is searching for a Director to join us.
View the full position description and apply by April 27th: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044
View the full position description and apply by April 27th: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07044
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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
So humbled and honored to have been the invited speaker for the Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley yesterday. I loved meeting with the PhD students and am blown away by the amazing and impactful research they’re doing!
April 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
So humbled and honored to have been the invited speaker for the Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley yesterday. I loved meeting with the PhD students and am blown away by the amazing and impactful research they’re doing!
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"Effective today, sources tell Science, NSF’s division of grants & awards is returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding and awaiting final signoff to program officers who oversaw the initial review. In the meantime, according to those sources, NSF will not make any new awards."
April 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"Effective today, sources tell Science, NSF’s division of grants & awards is returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding and awaiting final signoff to program officers who oversaw the initial review. In the meantime, according to those sources, NSF will not make any new awards."
Despite all of the chaos in the US, I’m excited to be in the phase where my lab is starting to crank out super cool results - too many to fit into a single seminar! I have to pick and choose what story to tell out of multiple interesting stories! The years of hard work are starting to pay off. 🙌🏼🧬🐟
April 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Despite all of the chaos in the US, I’m excited to be in the phase where my lab is starting to crank out super cool results - too many to fit into a single seminar! I have to pick and choose what story to tell out of multiple interesting stories! The years of hard work are starting to pay off. 🙌🏼🧬🐟
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Have you met @soffox.bsky.social? They are one of the awesome graduate students conducting research with @uafairbanks.bsky.social fisheries genomicist @jessicaglass.bsky.social, one of the Interface of Change research leads!
Hi everyone! I’m Sof (they/them) and I’m a MS Fisheries student at UAF! My project uses transcriptomics to look at responses to environmental stressors in farmed Pacific oysters here in Alaska :)
I thought I’d reintroduce myself since I’ve gained some new followers and am trying to post more! 🦪🦑
I thought I’d reintroduce myself since I’ve gained some new followers and am trying to post more! 🦪🦑
April 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Have you met @soffox.bsky.social? They are one of the awesome graduate students conducting research with @uafairbanks.bsky.social fisheries genomicist @jessicaglass.bsky.social, one of the Interface of Change research leads!
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On the ancestry and evolution of the extinct dire wolf https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.09.647074v1
April 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It’s devastating to see the number of GRFP awards cut in half. These are already so competitive to get. My heart goes out to my students and all the others that put their hearts into their applications and deserved this award.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half
US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It’s devastating to see the number of GRFP awards cut in half. These are already so competitive to get. My heart goes out to my students and all the others that put their hearts into their applications and deserved this award.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...