Wolak research group in Auburn, AL, USA
@qgevoeco.bsky.social
Science, evolution, ecology, quantitative genetics
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In his #ParentCarerScientist case study, Professor Ben Sheldon FRS talks about navigating crises at home and at work, and why it's important for leaders to set an example when it comes to balancing work with caring responsibilities: #CarersWeek #AndAScientist royalsociety.org/about-us/who...
June 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In his #ParentCarerScientist case study, Professor Ben Sheldon FRS talks about navigating crises at home and at work, and why it's important for leaders to set an example when it comes to balancing work with caring responsibilities: #CarersWeek #AndAScientist royalsociety.org/about-us/who...
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Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.
www.richmondscientific.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
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The biggest "meta-analysis" ever? - 17 million effect sizes - elifesciences.org/articles/95857
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
May 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The biggest "meta-analysis" ever? - 17 million effect sizes - elifesciences.org/articles/95857
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
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Non-profit journals are on the critical list.
The cause: academics obsession with the Nature brand, coupled with the APC $ model.
Some will argue it doesn’t matter (“all as bad as each other”). But the fact is undeniable and it’s good guys who put money back into science like COB who are losing..
The cause: academics obsession with the Nature brand, coupled with the APC $ model.
Some will argue it doesn’t matter (“all as bad as each other”). But the fact is undeniable and it’s good guys who put money back into science like COB who are losing..
Thanks @mitodynamics.bsky.social for the fun interview and for saying it like it is:
“…JCS and other community journals are being crushed by the mega profit-making journals, which just seem to proliferate and spit out new journals by the day…we must all make an effort to move away from this…”
“…JCS and other community journals are being crushed by the mega profit-making journals, which just seem to proliferate and spit out new journals by the day…we must all make an effort to move away from this…”
In our Special Issue: Cell Biology of Mitochondria we interview Guest Editor Heidi McBride @mitodynamics.bsky.social Heidi discusses her career path, the past, present & future of #mitochondria research & her role as guest editor at JCS.
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#JCSMitoSI
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#JCSMitoSI
May 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Non-profit journals are on the critical list.
The cause: academics obsession with the Nature brand, coupled with the APC $ model.
Some will argue it doesn’t matter (“all as bad as each other”). But the fact is undeniable and it’s good guys who put money back into science like COB who are losing..
The cause: academics obsession with the Nature brand, coupled with the APC $ model.
Some will argue it doesn’t matter (“all as bad as each other”). But the fact is undeniable and it’s good guys who put money back into science like COB who are losing..
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#Postdoc Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication?
Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids
Details: shorturl.at/EHOeJ
Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids
Details: shorturl.at/EHOeJ
May 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#Postdoc Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication?
Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids
Details: shorturl.at/EHOeJ
Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids
Details: shorturl.at/EHOeJ
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You have 2 days left to comment (by May 23 at 11:59 pm)!
Go to the link if you don’t want your NSF or NIH program officers who took an oath to the constitution (not a political party) to instead be subject to the whims of a president and fired if they don’t “conform”.
Go to the link if you don’t want your NSF or NIH program officers who took an oath to the constitution (not a political party) to instead be subject to the whims of a president and fired if they don’t “conform”.
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
You have 2 days left to comment (by May 23 at 11:59 pm)!
Go to the link if you don’t want your NSF or NIH program officers who took an oath to the constitution (not a political party) to instead be subject to the whims of a president and fired if they don’t “conform”.
Go to the link if you don’t want your NSF or NIH program officers who took an oath to the constitution (not a political party) to instead be subject to the whims of a president and fired if they don’t “conform”.
Fieldwork Friday 🐢 Wish this itty bitty was in a trap, but we didn't mind watching it while measuring and marking many of its friends
May 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Fieldwork Friday 🐢 Wish this itty bitty was in a trap, but we didn't mind watching it while measuring and marking many of its friends
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🧪😲☝️ New data insight: A DOGE-fueled National Science Foundation has now terminated at least dozens of awards for **especially** bogus reasons.
Who this applies to: Terminated NSF grants first awarded BEFORE Nov 12, 2020.
This gets a bit wonky, but this is important, so let me explain. 🧵
Who this applies to: Terminated NSF grants first awarded BEFORE Nov 12, 2020.
This gets a bit wonky, but this is important, so let me explain. 🧵
May 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
🧪😲☝️ New data insight: A DOGE-fueled National Science Foundation has now terminated at least dozens of awards for **especially** bogus reasons.
Who this applies to: Terminated NSF grants first awarded BEFORE Nov 12, 2020.
This gets a bit wonky, but this is important, so let me explain. 🧵
Who this applies to: Terminated NSF grants first awarded BEFORE Nov 12, 2020.
This gets a bit wonky, but this is important, so let me explain. 🧵
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Well done @sauvedrew.bsky.social
@hthomp.bsky.social ! Great paper on applying fitness surfaces to species conservation programs!
@hthomp.bsky.social ! Great paper on applying fitness surfaces to species conservation programs!
New review article out in Molecular Ecology today! We outline how fitness surfaces might help improve species conservation programs! It was a lot of fun to write this with @hthomp.bsky.social, Amy Chabot, & @denisreale.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Well done @sauvedrew.bsky.social
@hthomp.bsky.social ! Great paper on applying fitness surfaces to species conservation programs!
@hthomp.bsky.social ! Great paper on applying fitness surfaces to species conservation programs!
Resources for anyone (though intended for Academics) about legal help, privacy, digital security and protection from harrassment academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/informatio...
Information Is the Antidote to Repression
Resources for fighting for academic freedom.
academicfreedomontheline.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Resources for anyone (though intended for Academics) about legal help, privacy, digital security and protection from harrassment academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/informatio...
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Estimating the additive genetic variance for relative fitness from changes in allele frequency https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653886v1
May 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Estimating the additive genetic variance for relative fitness from changes in allele frequency https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653886v1
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🧪 The head of NSF's computer science directorate, Greg Hager, just resigned.
"My ability to carry out my vision, to provide a voice for computing research, and to provide authentic leadership to the community are diminished to the point that I can have more impact outside NSF than within it."
"My ability to carry out my vision, to provide a voice for computing research, and to provide authentic leadership to the community are diminished to the point that I can have more impact outside NSF than within it."
A Letter to the Computing Research Community from Greg Hager
Last week, CRA shared the news that Greg Hager would be stepping down as NSF Assistant Director for the CISE Directorate. As a follow-up to that announcement, we are sharing the following letter fr…
cra.org
May 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
🧪 The head of NSF's computer science directorate, Greg Hager, just resigned.
"My ability to carry out my vision, to provide a voice for computing research, and to provide authentic leadership to the community are diminished to the point that I can have more impact outside NSF than within it."
"My ability to carry out my vision, to provide a voice for computing research, and to provide authentic leadership to the community are diminished to the point that I can have more impact outside NSF than within it."
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JEB publishes Methods Articles:
✅ credit for innovations in your research
✅ increase transparency and reproducibility
✅ advance your field
#wetlab #newapproach #software #statistics #computational
✅ credit for innovations in your research
✅ increase transparency and reproducibility
✅ advance your field
#wetlab #newapproach #software #statistics #computational
May 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
JEB publishes Methods Articles:
✅ credit for innovations in your research
✅ increase transparency and reproducibility
✅ advance your field
#wetlab #newapproach #software #statistics #computational
✅ credit for innovations in your research
✅ increase transparency and reproducibility
✅ advance your field
#wetlab #newapproach #software #statistics #computational
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All this plastic is making my head spin. I don’t think one can grasp the amount of our own produced junk you can find in sable shearwaters. All the pieces here (60g - 778 pieces) were in one (1!!!) chick. That’s roughly 20% of its body weight. @adriftlab.bsky.social @thelabandfield.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
All this plastic is making my head spin. I don’t think one can grasp the amount of our own produced junk you can find in sable shearwaters. All the pieces here (60g - 778 pieces) were in one (1!!!) chick. That’s roughly 20% of its body weight. @adriftlab.bsky.social @thelabandfield.bsky.social
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Bears repeating that Congress has not passed a budget or any other legislation that has asked the NSF to do this downsizing, they're dismantling the agency in anticipation of cuts that as of yet have no basis in law
NSF officials announced they are essentially abandoning the use of “rotators”— scientists on leave from academic positions who help the agency choose the best research to fund. NSF also plans to reduce the number of administrators classified as senior executive service employees. scim.ag/3EKnxmc
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
scim.ag
May 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Bears repeating that Congress has not passed a budget or any other legislation that has asked the NSF to do this downsizing, they're dismantling the agency in anticipation of cuts that as of yet have no basis in law
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On NSF Grant Terminations- even if your termination letter says that you cannot appeal, there is a legal basis for you to appeal within 30 days in PPAPG www.nsf.gov/policies/pap... and in Uniform Guidance 200.340 www.ecfr.gov/current/titl.... Appeal and send a message!
Chapter XII: Award Administration Disputes and Misconduct
www.nsf.gov
May 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
On NSF Grant Terminations- even if your termination letter says that you cannot appeal, there is a legal basis for you to appeal within 30 days in PPAPG www.nsf.gov/policies/pap... and in Uniform Guidance 200.340 www.ecfr.gov/current/titl.... Appeal and send a message!
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Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
May 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
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NSF funding is under threat — and students, postdocs, early-career scientists are to lose the most! We should stand together! Get informed and mobilized from today, by joining us in this Week of Action for NSF.
Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF!
Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Our Media Tool can help you get started:
shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!
Our Media Tool can help you get started:
shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
May 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
NSF funding is under threat — and students, postdocs, early-career scientists are to lose the most! We should stand together! Get informed and mobilized from today, by joining us in this Week of Action for NSF.
Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
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A new paper from our lab
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
All meta-analysts can use this to get extra insights
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
All meta-analysts can use this to get extra insights
May 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A new paper from our lab
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
All meta-analysts can use this to get extra insights
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
All meta-analysts can use this to get extra insights
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I'm looking for a graduate student (master's level) to join my lab starting Fall 2025. If you know any undergraduates interested in termite behavior and evolution, please let them know!
November 22, 2024 at 7:41 PM
I'm looking for a graduate student (master's level) to join my lab starting Fall 2025. If you know any undergraduates interested in termite behavior and evolution, please let them know!
Whelp, they did it: new NSF awards will have a 15% indirect cost rate
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate
www.nsf.gov
May 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Whelp, they did it: new NSF awards will have a 15% indirect cost rate
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...