Mark Holder
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Our annual fundraiser is officially open from Nov. 3–Dec. 3, 2025! These funds directly support our grad students and their amazing work in the lab, the community, and beyond! To support our students, find us at Launch KU or follow the link below!
launchku.org/campaigns/20...
launchku.org/campaigns/20...
2025 KU Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Grad Student Fundraiser - LaunchKU
The Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student Organization (EEB GSO) is seeking your generous support to help our student biologists pursue opportunities for professional development and eng...
launchku.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Our annual fundraiser is officially open from Nov. 3–Dec. 3, 2025! These funds directly support our grad students and their amazing work in the lab, the community, and beyond! To support our students, find us at Launch KU or follow the link below!
launchku.org/campaigns/20...
launchku.org/campaigns/20...
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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I'm honestly floored and moved to see this announcement of a call to service.
I have seen the integrity of @kolyin.bsky.social in his legal reporting and advocacy against grifters and conspiracy theorists. He would be a great public servant.
colinforkansas.com
I have seen the integrity of @kolyin.bsky.social in his legal reporting and advocacy against grifters and conspiracy theorists. He would be a great public servant.
colinforkansas.com
Home - Colin for Kansas
Colin for The Big First District
colinforkansas.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I'm honestly floored and moved to see this announcement of a call to service.
I have seen the integrity of @kolyin.bsky.social in his legal reporting and advocacy against grifters and conspiracy theorists. He would be a great public servant.
colinforkansas.com
I have seen the integrity of @kolyin.bsky.social in his legal reporting and advocacy against grifters and conspiracy theorists. He would be a great public servant.
colinforkansas.com
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1 week left to get your image in for Evolution 2026 logo contest! www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo-co...
September 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
1 week left to get your image in for Evolution 2026 logo contest! www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo-co...
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Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word.
sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Postdoctoral Researcher - University of Kansas - Job Details
Job Details: The IRACDA Program at the University of Kansas (KU) is accepting applications for postdoctoral scholarships. W
sjobs.brassring.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word.
sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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Kansas Public Radio ‘Research Matters’: featuring Reb Bryant, ecology & evolutionary biology @KU_EEB
kansaspublicradio.org/podcast/rese...
kansaspublicradio.org/podcast/rese...
Graduate researchers like Reb Bryant are trying to preserve what remains of our Tallgrass prairie and restore retired farm lands with help from something unexpected. Fungi!
Graduate researchers like Reb Bryant are trying to preserve what remains of our Tallgrass prairie and restore retired farm lands with help from something unexpected. Fungi!
kansaspublicradio.org
August 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Kansas Public Radio ‘Research Matters’: featuring Reb Bryant, ecology & evolutionary biology @KU_EEB
kansaspublicradio.org/podcast/rese...
kansaspublicradio.org/podcast/rese...
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Calling all natural history/museum collections folxs
The theme of the @systbiol.bsky.social breakout meeting in Baton Rouge is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
The LSU Museum of Natural Science will host some events. Hope to see you there, Jan 9-11, 2026.
ssb2026.github.io
The theme of the @systbiol.bsky.social breakout meeting in Baton Rouge is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
The LSU Museum of Natural Science will host some events. Hope to see you there, Jan 9-11, 2026.
ssb2026.github.io
2026 SSB Breakout Meeting
ssb2026.github.io
August 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Calling all natural history/museum collections folxs
The theme of the @systbiol.bsky.social breakout meeting in Baton Rouge is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
The LSU Museum of Natural Science will host some events. Hope to see you there, Jan 9-11, 2026.
ssb2026.github.io
The theme of the @systbiol.bsky.social breakout meeting in Baton Rouge is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
The LSU Museum of Natural Science will host some events. Hope to see you there, Jan 9-11, 2026.
ssb2026.github.io
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New piece on why it’s unhelpful to characterise COVID debate as ‘lockdowns are bad’ vs ‘lockdowns are good’ when it was really about people who claimed that COVID was 100x less fatal than it was + optimal to have a massive epidemic immediately before vaccine… vs those who sense checked these claims.
Restrictions had unequal impacts, but the pandemic itself did too. - Boston Review
Adam Kucharski responds to Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee.
www.bostonreview.net
June 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
New piece on why it’s unhelpful to characterise COVID debate as ‘lockdowns are bad’ vs ‘lockdowns are good’ when it was really about people who claimed that COVID was 100x less fatal than it was + optimal to have a massive epidemic immediately before vaccine… vs those who sense checked these claims.
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Congratulations to @ku-eeb.bsky.social graduate student Austin Nguyen for receiving the @sse-evolution.bsky.social R.C. Lewontin Award!!
Congratulations to this year’s R. C. Lewontin Early Award recipients!
www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
May 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Congratulations to @ku-eeb.bsky.social graduate student Austin Nguyen for receiving the @sse-evolution.bsky.social R.C. Lewontin Award!!
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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...
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More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...
Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!
Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer
ssb2026.github.io
Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!
Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer
ssb2026.github.io
May 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ...
Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!
Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer
ssb2026.github.io
Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge!
Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections'
@jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer
ssb2026.github.io
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“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”
The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy
The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.
www.forbes.com
May 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”
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The deadline for the @systbiol.bsky.social Early Career Travel Funds to attend the #Evolution2025 meetings is coming up! (Mar 31). Get your application in soon!!
March 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The deadline for the @systbiol.bsky.social Early Career Travel Funds to attend the #Evolution2025 meetings is coming up! (Mar 31). Get your application in soon!!
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The Johnson lab within the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas is recruiting an Assistant Researcher to support research in plant ecophysiology. employment.ku.edu/staff/29921BR
Assistant Researcher - University of Kansas - Job Details
Job Details: The Johnson lab within the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas is recru
www.employment.ku.edu
March 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The Johnson lab within the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas is recruiting an Assistant Researcher to support research in plant ecophysiology. employment.ku.edu/staff/29921BR
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My op-ed about my senator, but it could be about so many senators.
www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...
www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...
Sen. Marshall, here’s what I wanted to ask you at the Oakley town hall you fled from | Opinion
This constituent would have been very interested to hear why you split from Sen. Jerry Moran, who understands that Ukraine aid dollars are spent in Kansas. | Opinion
www.kansascity.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My op-ed about my senator, but it could be about so many senators.
www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...
www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...
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If organs of state security and demagogues and mob leaders are acting in concert to crack down on dissent it is unequivocally fascist. I don’t mean this to be a polemic: it's the only appropriate term from political science and theory for this practice.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-abduct...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-abduct...
The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil
“..the first arrest of many to come.”
www.unpopularfront.news
March 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
If organs of state security and demagogues and mob leaders are acting in concert to crack down on dissent it is unequivocally fascist. I don’t mean this to be a polemic: it's the only appropriate term from political science and theory for this practice.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-abduct...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-abduct...
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New paper in Systematic Biology with cool dude @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
The consequences of budding speciation on trees
Abstract. Paleobiologists have long sought to explain how alternative modes of speciation, including budding and bifurcating cladogenesis, shape patterns o
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February 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
New paper in Systematic Biology with cool dude @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
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Season Two starts NOW! 🚀
Dr. @meorive.bsky.social joins us for #WomenInScienceDay and shares her academic journey - from finding her path in science to earning tenure✨ This convo is full of honesty and thoughtful insights! Share with friends and colleagues!
Listen now! 🎧 pod.link/1715048894
Dr. @meorive.bsky.social joins us for #WomenInScienceDay and shares her academic journey - from finding her path in science to earning tenure✨ This convo is full of honesty and thoughtful insights! Share with friends and colleagues!
Listen now! 🎧 pod.link/1715048894
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Season Two starts NOW! 🚀
Dr. @meorive.bsky.social joins us for #WomenInScienceDay and shares her academic journey - from finding her path in science to earning tenure✨ This convo is full of honesty and thoughtful insights! Share with friends and colleagues!
Listen now! 🎧 pod.link/1715048894
Dr. @meorive.bsky.social joins us for #WomenInScienceDay and shares her academic journey - from finding her path in science to earning tenure✨ This convo is full of honesty and thoughtful insights! Share with friends and colleagues!
Listen now! 🎧 pod.link/1715048894
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There is one week to apply for the 2025 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA!
More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io
Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Application deadline: Jan. 29th
Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st
More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io
Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Application deadline: Jan. 29th
Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st
Workshop on Molecular Evolution
Since 1988, the Workshop on Molecular Evolution at Woods Hole has provided essential training in the theory and methods of molecular evolution.
molevolworkshop.github.io
January 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
There is one week to apply for the 2025 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA!
More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io
Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Application deadline: Jan. 29th
Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st
More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io
Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Application deadline: Jan. 29th
Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st
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I’m going to talk about pages 11, 12, and 13 of this brief in depth, because that is the part where the Trump DOJ tries to defend the Trump Executive Order.
The lawyers here so deeply misrepresent some of the cited material that it should be cause for sanctions in any just world.
(Thread)
The lawyers here so deeply misrepresent some of the cited material that it should be cause for sanctions in any just world.
(Thread)
FYI — Here is the filing DOJ submitted overnight opposing the Washington-led plaintiffs' TRO request: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I’m going to talk about pages 11, 12, and 13 of this brief in depth, because that is the part where the Trump DOJ tries to defend the Trump Executive Order.
The lawyers here so deeply misrepresent some of the cited material that it should be cause for sanctions in any just world.
(Thread)
The lawyers here so deeply misrepresent some of the cited material that it should be cause for sanctions in any just world.
(Thread)
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For Undergraduates/Postbac students attending #2024NDiSTEM SACNAS conference: They will be matched to a mentor in their field.
1 min to fill out the form. forms.gle/mWm7LnTRBtxj...
We do allow some graduate student matching, but we limit these slots around availability.
1 min to fill out the form. forms.gle/mWm7LnTRBtxj...
We do allow some graduate student matching, but we limit these slots around availability.
Student Application for "9th Annual 1-on-1 Mentoring with a SACNAS Leader" Workshop
Get advice from Faculty and STEM Mentors on Planning for your Science Career.
Matches will be based on your interests and career advise need. Meetings with mentors are in-person 1on1 meetings (Hall ...
forms.gle
October 8, 2024 at 3:07 PM
For Undergraduates/Postbac students attending #2024NDiSTEM SACNAS conference: They will be matched to a mentor in their field.
1 min to fill out the form. forms.gle/mWm7LnTRBtxj...
We do allow some graduate student matching, but we limit these slots around availability.
1 min to fill out the form. forms.gle/mWm7LnTRBtxj...
We do allow some graduate student matching, but we limit these slots around availability.
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KU EEB is on Bluesky! And we are delighted to announce the Charles D. Michener Assistant Professor/Curator position in Bee Biodiversity and Evolution at the U. Kansas. Please spread widely and apply if you work on bees!
www.employment.ku.edu/academic/290...
www.employment.ku.edu/academic/290...
September 27, 2024 at 2:10 PM
KU EEB is on Bluesky! And we are delighted to announce the Charles D. Michener Assistant Professor/Curator position in Bee Biodiversity and Evolution at the U. Kansas. Please spread widely and apply if you work on bees!
www.employment.ku.edu/academic/290...
www.employment.ku.edu/academic/290...
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Infectious disease epidemiologist here. Some thoughts on the weaponization of infectious disease by Donald Trump and JD Vance. 1/
September 15, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Infectious disease epidemiologist here. Some thoughts on the weaponization of infectious disease by Donald Trump and JD Vance. 1/
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Trump repeating lies about haitians he saw on tv shows how his strategy relies on vile smears about vulnerable groups that can travel unchallenged on post-2020 social media networks, commandeered by the far right to spread racist lies as far and fast as possible www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump Will Believe Anything
As long as it’s cruel, politically expedient, and on TV
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Trump repeating lies about haitians he saw on tv shows how his strategy relies on vile smears about vulnerable groups that can travel unchallenged on post-2020 social media networks, commandeered by the far right to spread racist lies as far and fast as possible www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...