A group of incredible folks sitting in a booth in a crowded bar. The image may be noisy and chaotic but that's part of the charm.
Learning about science is always rad. But as the Animal-Microbe Symbiosis GRC wraps up, I'm most excited about whom I get to do that science with.
Science has published a letter I helped write, as part of Advancing Queer & Trans Equity in Science (AQTES), about why it's important for universities & other institutions to protect trans and gender-nonconforming scientists, and some practical things they can do.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Less than one week until I defend my PhD! If you’d like to learn about coral biology, isotopes or temperate ecosystems please join us on zoom!
my first blue sky post! and fitting that it is my dissertation defense annoucement!! Come learn about the importance of ncRNAs in coral biology on Wednesday (4/9) at 1pm EST: uri-edu.zoom.us/j/97189503831
I was a member of the Crazy Ant Strike Team on Johnston Atoll in 2019
It is sickening that Elon & SpaceX are planning to decimate decades of SUCCESSFUL invasive species eradication, and a truly remarkable rebound of several species of critically endangered seabirds, all for 10 rocket missions
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ICYMI an environmental news roundup. A downer, but it's important to know what's going on.
Important: Most of this isn’t final. It will be litigated in the courts. Stay tuned...
Keep speaking up! Keep pushing your members of Congress! It's making a difference.
open.substack.com/pub/ayanaeli...
I made a website! Come check it out! Get to know me! See cool pictures! Learn that I'm looking for a post doc in fall 2025!
www.derrickkamp.com
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
an email from the society for integrative and comparative biology that reads "Attn SICB Members: The past few weeks have been a stressful time in our scientific community, and we want to make our position clear: The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology unequivocally condemns recent attacks on scientific integrity, funding for scientific research, and the importance of broadening participation in science."
This is how you do it.
Thank you @sicbjournals.bsky.social
Read their whole email to membership here
mailchi.mp/sicb.org/sic...
Make sure they know they are valued and protected, both as scientists and individuals. Ask them about their concerns and how you can use your positions of power to help. This is not the time to go back to a former, broken, status quo for the sake of your science.
A reminder to US scientists: yes, your research is at risk. It's terrifying. But these efforts are systematically targeting programs meant to broaden access to science. This is the time to check in with BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, and international students and colleagues in your departments.
It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
NEW: President Trump announced an executive order targeting health care for trans people under 19 — a disturbing attempt to put the federal government between families and their doctors.
This is NOT implemented yet. We will provide updates and ways to fight back as we learn more: hrc.im/equalityhub
Gender affirming care saves trans and non-binary youths lives. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order threatening to override families with transgender youth and shut down access to gender-affirming care for trans people under the age of 19 nationwide.
This order will not take immediate effect, and we will not allow this policy to stand.
Make them tell you, specifically, what you're not allowed to do. Don't make changes you guess that they want. Don't offer them a menu of things that you infer they might be telling you not to do. Do the work you proposed, and received funding to do, unless instructed otherwise in specific detail.
Give me the .CSV file, Spotify. I wanna make ggplots.
Congrats! Such an impressive body of work!
🚨New Preprint🚨: A Single-cell Atlas of Coral Bleaching! 🪸🦠🔥. We show the microbial ecology of coral bleaching from the gene expression of host and symbiont cells to the shifts in the bacterial and protist communities within the holobiont! #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🧪
How does environmental variability affect coral calcification? 🪸🪸🪸 Check out our new paper:
The Alker lab at the University of Rhode Island is hiring (students, postdocs and lab staff)! We use cutting edge tools in microbiology to investigate marine animal symbioses. Email or DM for further inquiries
🚨 The Alker Lab is starting at the University of Rhode Island in early 2025 and we will be hiring! 🚨
If you are interested in marine microbiology, bacterial genetics and/or symbiosis, please consider reaching out! Repost to help spread the word 🪸🧪🧬🌊
Is your institution hiring?
Please read these guidelines proposed by members of our Advancing Queer and Trans Equity in Science (AQTES) Consortium to have inclusive hiring processes.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002919
Please share it with your colleagues!
#MicroSky
Out today, open access: Chromosome-level genome assemblies and genetic maps reveal heterochiasmy and macrosynteny in endangered Atlantic Acropora
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
From @ibaums.bsky.social Lab, led by Nicolas Locatelli, Sheila Kitchen, and Kate Stankiewicz
Folks who are mentoring undergrads looking into PhDs:
Encourage them to pursue programs with Grad Student Unions.
Healthcare and other benefits are union granted. In the next few years, collectivist action is going to be vital, and the encouragement that others are on your side is indelible.
Reposting this due to the large number of new people here. Join our growing Native American and Indigenous Studies group! This is a broad call for a tenure track faculty position at UConn. The call is based on discussions with Native tribes in CT, and will be the first new hire in our new dept, SCI.
Many of the (great) starter packs focus on faculty in different fields. In an effort to help #EarlyCareerResearchers in #marine biology, ecology, evolution, & related fields (re-)connect, here is a list of ECRs. Please give them a follow (and reply to be added or suggest people). go.bsky.app/KhWvT4u
🪸 Recruiting a postdoc to work on coral cell cultures, oxidative stress and 3D bioprinting (NSF funded project 👌), more info ➡️ sms.asu.edu/About/Employ... Coral NanoBio #coral #postdoc
I'm looking to hire a postdoc in coral genomics - $66k/yr plus benefits - follow link for more info - review of apps begins Nov 10 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
And check out the ECR spotlight associated with our article here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Really excited to share the first paper from my PhD! We use corals 🪸 to examine the variability in biological responses of marine inverts to climate change, focusing on high-resolution methods of measuring environmental parameters and biological responses journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
