NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
Anyone near Buffalo, NY in April??
Come learn about the Galapagos and our research!
I have a Nat Geo Live show on April 21st in Buffalo NY at the Kleinhans Music Hall.
If we've only interacted here or on Twitter, I'd love to meet IRL!
kleinhansbuffalo.org/event/galapa...
If the link below doesn't work for OA, try this one! It should be available until December and then goes behind a paywall.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lwve5Eb1x...
I haven’t been on social media much but I wanted to share the limited OS link to our new review in Trends in Parasitology.
Net positive effects of early-life parasitism on wild animal host fitness
@ashley-love.bsky.social
The link will work until Decembet!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
If you're a scientist who's had to cut or cancel your field season because of US budget cuts, DM me for an oped I'm working on.
HUD has been touring the building for months. NSF says nothing…”nothing to see here”.
I’m quite sick of gaslighting, bullying, and lack of respect for science and academia. It’s getting harder and harder to take.
My 2026 opening National Geographic Live show has been announced! 🎫
On 03/13/2026, find me at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, CO, where I'll be talking about one of my favorite places in the world, Galapagos Islands! 💚🐢🐧🦎🏝️🪹
www.lctix.com/shows-ticket...
Anyone heard anything new about NSF PRFB? 👀
I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values
This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties.
The Trump admin is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process.
This is an attack on our Constitution and basic freedoms — and we will push back.
Interested in other approaches to measuring selection on gene expression?
The incomparable John Kelly and I have written a perspective piece describing why one might want to measure selection on gene expression, and exploring a few ways one might use to do it.
✨My Nat Geo Live journey begins soon!✨
First, we will be traveling the Islands on a Lindblad Nat Geo Boat! Open my start packer with me! 🎁
www.tiktok.com/@knutie_taki...
I was offered the opportunity by 🚨 Nat Geo Live 🚨 to help them create a film about the Galapagos Islands! 🇪🇨
I've created a TikTok account to take you on the journey with me!
Check out my first video + learn how to pronounce my name 😜
www.tiktok.com/@knutie_taki...
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/17/building-a-neuro-inclusive-workplace/?informz=1&nbd=2c3ba725-522d-483c-adde-f4c077e7412c&nbd_source=informz
It's #NeurodivergentCelebrationWeek !
SICB is eagerly anticipating 2026's
#Disabled & #Neurodivergent Perception, Community, & Identity in the #Biosciences
with
@taorminalepore.bsky.social
@sarahknutie.bsky.social
Brooke Fitzwater (@)oceanfilly & read @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social post
SICB journals helps celebrate
#NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek !
See ICB co author
@sarahknutie.bsky.social 's blog
#Neurodiversity in #Academia
integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2024/07/30/n...
& ICB publication
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
& be sure to follow Sarah 👍
I am reeling from the cuts at NSF- a close friend and colleague, who was an outstanding PO and absolute asset to the evolutionary biology community, was just fired. This is simply because he COULD be- he was still in the 2 year probationary period after changing jobs at NSF.
Goddamn it.
Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
Firings happening right now at the NSF.
Peaceful morning vibes in the field. 🥰
Galapagos cotton flower
Darwin's cotton (Gossypium darwinii) is only found in the Galapagos Islands (in other words, it's endemic!)
The flowers are in full bloom right now on San Cristobal 💚
Isa and Elizabeth
Beautiful first day at our natural site!
It’s still too dry for much breeding but we did find some nest builds! 🪺
Below👇 are two amazing Galapagueñas: Elizabeth Tituaña (field tech; left) and Isabela Vargas (Grad student; right) after we found our first nest!
Good morning! ☀️
Sunset in the Galapagos
Darwin's finch nest in cactus
The crew conducting field work.
Back in the Galapagos for my 16th year of research! 💚
Fingers crossed for a great finch nesting season! 🐣
A watercolor painting lays on a wooden surface with two tubes of watercolor paints and brushes to the left. The painting features Swallowtailed gulls soaring above the viewer through a starlit sky.
Taking a page from @seanhollowell.bsky.social ‘s book, I’m also posting something blue for my first Bluesky post.
Swallow-tailed Gulls in a Starlit Sky. Watercolor on cold-pressed paper.
I need cis people to understand that I have a persistent fear that a student or (more likely) the parent of a student will decide that a trans person teaching a required course for their major violates their religious liberty or whatever. This is what being visibly trans in education is rn.
New Research Highlight: citizen science observations shed light on how anthropogenic food sources influence wildlife disease - https://buff.ly/48C9ucE 🦠
🧪 🌏
Congrats to @uconneeb.bsky.social student
✨✨ Lorraine Pérez-Beauchamp ✨✨
who received a
Sigma Xi GIAR & UConn El Instituto grant
for her work on the role of parental behavior in the relationship between Darwin's finches & their invasive parasites! 🪰🐦
@sigmaxi.bsky.social
Today!!
Today!!!!
