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David Chang van Oordt
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Pardon my late reply, it's been a crazy morning | Disease ecology, wild immunology, animal physiology | Currently 🐁🪱 | Previously 🐦🧫| 🇵🇪🏳️‍🌈 | He/him/él | EN/ES |
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carlzimmer.com
How bowhead whales live for centuries—and how we might borrow some of their biology to extend our healthy lifespan. Gift link to my new column: nyti.ms/4hyD9ry
Bowhead whale. Illustration by Uko Gorter/American Cetacean Society
October 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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obalsiger.bsky.social
Working in eco immunology? Why not submit your next paper as part of our special collection.

In addition to reaching a wide audience you will be actively supporting the immunology community

@discovimmunol.bsky.social
discovimmunol.bsky.social Discovery Immunology @discovimmunol.bsky.social · Oct 17
🌿 Celebrate #BiologyWeek by sharing your ecoimmunology research!

Our Special Collection explores how ecological factors shape immunity in humans & animals. Original research & reviews welcome.

📖 Submit here: https://bit.ly/3WmPhl3

#Ecoimmunology #Immunology
Mouse on branch, ecoimmunology collection
October 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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jlwilliamson.bsky.social
My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.
October 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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sicb.bsky.social
@sicb-spdac.bsky.social competition!
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& to help
From Hypothesis to Holographic: How to Turn Your Scientific Research into Stickers
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see @invertebabe.bsky.social & @noahwithfish.bsky.social art as #stickers
September 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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clattin.bsky.social
Enter the 2026 @sicb-spdac.bsky.social sticker contest! Stickers will be available at the SPDAC booth at the #SICB2026 meeting. Enter submissions by November 3 as PDF or PNG files (>600 dpi; no AI designs). 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place will receive Visa gift card prizes: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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September 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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elcomercio.pe
La estación biológica Panguana bajo amenaza de la minería ilegal: Estado ausente y Amazonía en riesgo elcomercio.pe/peru/la-esta...
La estación biológica Panguana bajo amenaza de la minería ilegal: Estado ausente y Amazonía en riesgo
La estación biológica Panguana, en Huánuco, enfrenta el avance de la minería ilegal. Maquinaria pesada arrasa el bosque y el río Yuyapichis, mientras especialistas advierten que este patrimonio de seis décadas podría desaparecer sin una intervención inmediata.
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October 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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harmitmalik.bsky.social
Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.
September 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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osamet.bsky.social
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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labwaggoner.bsky.social
Co-option of primate-specific retroelements creates an alternative IL-13Rα1 subunit that tunes type 2 immune responses @sciimmunology.bsky.social
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July 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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simonsfoundation.org
There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...
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July 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
Something I've been feeling a lot lately, but haven't heard much about is the grief that comes with being an early career scientist in America in 2025.

I think we all understand that, even if things turn out well, there is no going "back to normal" now.

A (sad) thread /1
June 13, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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mtanichthys.bsky.social
Am I looking at the right table? Is this an 89% cut to DEB? 😰

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May 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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weedenkim.bsky.social
Amidst all the posts about how NSF funds the basic science that (eventually) leads to marketable products, its role in funding data infrastructure is getting lost.

The GSS (1972), ANES (late 1960s), and PSID (1968) are rounding error in the discretionary budget but vital national resources.

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May 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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kzutaustin.bsky.social
Here is what is happening in Florida after reductions in tenure protections. The exodus is measurable. Beware Texas... this could happen here too.
Fight or Flight: The Impact of Post-Tenure Evaluations on Faculty Productivity and Selection
This paper examines the labor market effects of Florida's 2022 post-tenure review policy, which weakened tenure protections at public universities. Using a diff
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May 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
International students upend their lives to join American science, bringing their novel insights that drive innovation.

Now, they are being illegally targeted by Trump, because Harvard won't back down.

Classic bully behavior.

We Stand Up for International Students.

www.npr.org/2025/05/22/n...
Trump administration revokes Harvard's ability to enroll international students
International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."
www.npr.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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davidmalakoff.bsky.social
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
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Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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jamellebouie.net
what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · May 8
Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.
May 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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alexwild.bsky.social
I worry about food. Do Americans know how heavily we’ve been subsidizing Ag to make our food cheap and abundant? Do they know what happens when that system is dismantled?
May 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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relenski.bsky.social
"A report by economists at American University in Washington DC estimates that a 50% reduction in federal science funding would reduce the US gross domestic product by approximately 7.6%."

Science is an amazing engine of economic activity and progress for the US ... or at least it was.
nature.com Nature @nature.com · May 1
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature.

https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
go.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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drgodwit.bsky.social
Come join us for a 2-year postdoc focused on Roseate Terns!!! We're two weeks away from application review. Reach out to me with any questions.
drgodwit.bsky.social Nathan Senner @drgodwit.bsky.social · Apr 18
Love birds and know demographic analyses? My lab is hiring a postdoc for 2 years to develop a population viability analysis for endangered Roseate Terns! Join our team, including collabs from @massaudubon.org & @audubon.org, among others. App review begins 15 May. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Details - Post Doctoral Research Associate - Endangered Roseate Tern | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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May 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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jjinsing.bsky.social
My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday.

I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further.

If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.
April 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
For the next 2 weeks, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social is asking for everyone to call their members of Congress about the cuts to and political interference at NIH by the Trump White House. 1/ 5calls.org/issue/nation...
Defend Scientific Progress and Protect the NIH ⭑ 5 Calls
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest sponsor of biomedical research in the world, driving essential innovations in disease detection …
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April 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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noamross.net
Folks, while much of the attention is on Harvard and Columbia's response to the Trump/Musk/RFK Jr. administration, I'd like to point out how #NIH terminations and funding cuts go far beyond this war with the nations' elite universities. 🧵🧪
April 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM