So excited for new #NERRS Science Collaborative project on #seagrass seed-based #restoration methods!

Interested in / doing #eelgrass restoration using #seeds? Be on the lookout for online survey, hybrid workshops & open-access repository! DM for details. https://nerrssciencecollaborative.org/resource/2023-funding-announcement

Looking forward to partnering w/ #ConnecticutNERR, #PadillaBayNERR, & #SouthSloughNERR, & collaborating w/ a great team of #seagrass scientists, including Lillian Aoki, Jeff Gaeckle, Alicia Helms, Ryan Mueller, Fiona Tomas Nash, Jamie Vaudrey, Sandy Wyllie-Echeverria & Sylvia Yang!

So excited for new #NERRS Science Collaborative project on #seagrass seed-based #restoration methods!

Interested in / doing #eelgrass restoration using #seeds? Be on the lookout for online survey, hybrid workshops & open-access repository! DM for details. https://nerrssciencecollaborative.org/resource/2023-funding-announcement

A wonderful job opportunity in a terrific lab with an outstanding PI - two-year research technician position in @hugheslab at Northeastern University Marine Science Center. I have been lucky to work for/with Randall for the past 10 years and I am so grateful! https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Nahant-MA/Lab-Technician---Marine-Biodiversity---Conservation-Biology_R115430

It’s time for our 5th annual United States of Science Challenge!

This is a friendly competition between regions of the US. The first region to fill their bubbles wins!

Each bubble on this map represents classrooms we’ve matched with scientists this year. $10 donations fill bubbles!

Some states got a head start last night 👀

Let’s kick this year off right!
Fill bubbles by donating here 👇🏻
givebutter.com/US_Science_2023

Job ad: TenureTrack Genomics – Montpellier France
#Job #TenureTrack #France
#evolution #genomics #plants
@jobsecoevo

"Structural variants in the adaptation of plants to climate change"

Tenure track position + startup package of 300k

https://evoldir.tumblr.com/post/722074796913033216/fwd-job-umontpellierplantadaptationgenomics

We made these by special request some time ago but Disability Pride month seemed like the perfect time to share them. We say it a lot but it's worth repeating, anyone can do science⁠
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#Disability #DisabilityPride #DisabilityPrideMonth⁠
#cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #instacomic #instacartoon ⁠
#academia #science #research ⁠
#errantscience

To optimize performance of Covid rapid tests, if negative 👇
Asymptomatic—3 times at 48 hr intervals
Symptomatic —2 times at 48 hr intervals
From a prospective study, largest to date, paired rapid tests and PCR https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-0385

New to the LTER Network?

Next Thursday, July 6, we're hosting an LTER Network Orientation!

We expect this to be particularly valuable to LTER #REU students, but all are welcome!

https://lternet.edu/stories/lter-network-orientation-for-reus/

Within my own lifetime, the last 50 years, nearly 80% of the CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels, and close to 60 percent of all GHG emissions have been released.

There's been a near 70% decline in populations of existing wildlife species; and across the 8 million animal and plant species on earth, the human-induced extinction rate is now estimated at tens to hundreds of times greater than natural rates.

#BiodiversityDay reminds us that the profound crises we confront are just different sides of the same coin, and that our future is truly in our hands. The planet doesn't need us: we are the ones who rely on it for all the air we breathe, the water we drink, the resources we need. That's why our choices matter more today than ever: the path to a better future lies through these crises.

Read my essay here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/one-planet-two-crises-tackling-climate-change-and-biodiversity-in-the-fight-for-our-future/

JUST PUBLISHED: "A second unveiling: Haplotig masking of the eastern oyster genome improves population-level inference" #Evolution #Genomics #PopGen #oyster https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1755-0998.13801

A haplotig in an assembly occurs when a single region is split into two places in the reference. We had them everywhere in our first eastern oyster assembly! This causes a bimodal distribution of coverage. This study shows how haplotigs affect pop gen inference and how to improve the reference by masking haplotigs.

Listening to Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a wonderful gift - one I’m so grateful to have received. Thank you, Dr. Kimmerer for inspiring the Colby College community & many more w/ your beautiful writing, thoughtful insights, & integration of Indigenous knowledge & Western science.

Graduate students! Curious about careers outside of academia?
Join us to meet agency ecologists from around the nation and learn about their career paths, backgrounds, job responsibilities, benefits and challenges, and ‘a day in their life.’

Bring your questions and join a lively discussion.

April 25, 2023 at 3:00pm ET/12:00 PT. Panelist and registration list at the link!

https://lternet.edu/stories/federal-agency-career-forum-april-25-2023/

There were less than 5% of attendees wearing masks. Really wish conferences kept mask requirements, at least for the presentation rooms. Seems like a small sacrifice to make things more inclusive. Maybe it would be a good idea to stop serving food and drinks in poster sessions.

To all of those out there who are immunocompromised or who live with or love someone who is, in-person conferences are still a risk. If you go, assume when you come home that you are infected until proven otherwise.

RT @hughes_lab
Very excited that this paper led by @torrance_hanley is now out! Oyster genetic identity determines micro- and macro-parasite community structure on restored reefs in RI. Highlights the value of designing restorations as experiments to facilitate learning https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2560

We're hiring! @jobsecoevo

Applications are invited for an NSF-funded postdoctoral position with Carla Staver in EEB at Yale in collaboration with Tyler Faith at the University of Utah. We are seeking a candidate with an interest in interactions between grazing (and herbivory more generally), fire, and climate as ecosystem processes. We will consider candidates with diverse qualifications and experiences, ranging from ecosystem ecology to paleoecology to geochemistry to modeling and beyond.

I just added our science blog (https://jabberwocky.weecology.org/) to the wait list for https://rogue-scholar.org/, which will automatically archive and provide DOIs for all of our blog posts!

Very excited to see this effort by @mfenner, especially after years of watching key platforms for science blogging turn over and many excellent science blogs largely disappear from the web.

The deadline for the Moynihan Public Scholars Fellowship is (just over) a week away! The Fellowship offers unrestricted awards of up to $100,000 to academics, journalists, non-fiction writers, or public servants. Apply by Thursday, Jan 12!

Fellows will spend a year at CCNY writing, teaching, debating, and, above all, inspiring the next generation of public scholars and public servants from among the ranks of students who represent the diversity of NYC and the world.

https://moynihancenter.ccny.cuny.edu/public-scholars-fellowship-2022/

Folks, we are hiring six (!) postdocs as part of our NSF funded collaborative community engaged STEM research. 70k plus research funding to partner with Indigenous communities.

Review of applications will begin Feb. 1, 2023 and close no later than June 1, 2023.
Positions to begin on or before Aug. 15, 2023. All successful applicants will be funded to attend an orientation session in Summer 2023.

Position Details: MSU Job number 835465. https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/513394/research-associatefixed-term

@Kyt_thatsme I have appreciated your voice on social media this past year. I quietly shared some of your experiences, including making one tiny human this year (no comparison!), changing academic positions, going on the job market… and wow am I tired. Thank you also for helping to curb misinformation on (and share frustration with) all things Covid, vaccines, and masking. I hope next year brings you happiness, balance, and rest - plenty of rest.