Preprint up now! With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social, we found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity across the altitudinal range of the cutleaf monkeyflower. This experiment was a HUGE personal undertaking. If you give it a read, Iโd love to hear your thoughts!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Picture via a CNN reporter of a banner with Trumpโs face going up on outside of DOJ building
Biden wouldโve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakinโ Department of Justice building
What we are doing to these children is criminal. ๐
Les esperamos este jueves a las 5:00pm. #COLEVOL
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
Weโll let the childrenโs words speak for themselves. ๐งต
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Are you passionate about democracy? WEAR IT!
And where Texas and Florida go, so too will Oklahoma and the rest.
I was on an H1B at the university of Oklahoma.
The thing that gets me is the relative silence of the Democrats on this. Its not on any kind of list of policy priorities either, for them, to redress the damage being done to higher ed
Keep applying pressure.
Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: โYesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. โToday, we demand accountability. โIn the immediate aftermath of Alexโs killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a โdomestic terrorist.โ Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving Americaโs veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. โOur demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alexโs needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
Interested in pangenomics ? This paper just out from Alan Beavan (not on socials), @blackpassiflora.bsky.social and @jomcinerney.bsky.social is a must: doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
"Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE."
We are collecting information on terminated SAMHSA grants at Grant Witness: grant-witness.us/submit-samhs...
If you worked on one of these programs, please let us know at the link! And please share with your colleagues. We need a comprehensive record of these terminations to fight back!
A graph showing daily temperature anomalies since the 1940s
Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
A riddle wrapped in an enigma: parasitic lice as clues to the evolutionary puzzle of Sapayoa (Aves) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #BiologyLetters #Evolution #MolecularBiology #Taxonomy
Once again, Trump is using hunger as a political weapon. In other contexts this would be called a war crime. In this context, you can just call it evil as all fuck.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...
Background checks donโt happen until after people start work? For the Department of Homeland Security?
Absolutely thrilled to share the latest work from my lab focused on the variation and evolution of human centromeres among global populations! We assembled 2,110 human centromeres, identifying 226 new major haplotypes and 1,870 ฮฑ-satellite HOR variants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Looking for the truth about what it was like inside CECOT?
Earlier this year, we spoke to the men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador. Hear about what they endured, in their own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
By the time Tor Topโs mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for two weeks.
He bundled her into a rented canoe and paddled toward the nearest hospital, eight hours away.
Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...
This is lunacy. I am more and more sad for America every day.
Rafael Veraza, 25, said he pulled into Samโs Club with his wife and baby on a weekend grocery run on Nov. 8 when he saw a commotion surrounding what looked to be unmarked vehicles full of immigration officers in Cicero, west of Chicago. The family decided to leave the area without shopping, he said. On his way out, he believes a passing agent mistook him for one of the protesters who have followed immigration officials throughout Chicagoland in an effort to warn residents and document their operations. Verazaโs wife happened to be filming the parking lot scene on her smartphone because they wanted to one day show their 1-year-old the turbulent times she was born in. She aimed her camera at a passing SUV and captured the moment when an officer filled the familyโs vehicle with a mist of pepper spray.
Video shows the moment Rafael Veraza says federal agents shot pepper-spray into his car, where he was with his wife and 1-year-old daughter. (Video: Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post) Veraza and his wife poured water on their crying babyโs face and rushed to the hospital. A doctor called in a poison control specialist for an expert opinion because theyโd never seen such a young person pepper sprayed, Veraza said. They advised bringing the child to a specialist for follow-up visits to gauge potential long term damage to the childโs lungs and eyes. McLaughlin denied that federal agents pepper-sprayed anyone outside of Samโs Club in a statement issued after the incident to the news media. She did not offer an explanation for what is shown in the video.
ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.
The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.
These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.
We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyoneโs papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Before flowers evolved with attractive colors and scents, what did plants use to attract insect pollinators? Heat may be one ancient strategy.
Valencia-Montoya and colleagues report their study of cycads in Science. Journal link in first comment.
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#pollinators
New paper out. If you like colorful birds, hybridization, and phylogenetics, read on! ๐งตhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003501
I have a new preprint demonstrating a genome-architecture-aware approach to inferring species trees and introgression landscapes from a small number of genomes. If you are interested in phylogenomics, birds, or hybridization, this is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
