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Jason Toy
@evologist.bsky.social
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Marine evolutionary ecologist 🧬🐟🪸
Can also be found riding motorcycles, camping, or shooting hoops
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nature.com
Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake

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From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
Nature - In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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klangin.bsky.social
Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP

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‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry
The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded
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September 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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propublica.org
The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.

A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Screenshot of article excerpt: The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant. “I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.” ProPublica obtained a copy of the grant application and confirmed that those words were included.
September 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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trevorabranch.bsky.social
IT'S ADORABLE!
New fish species just dropped: the bumpy snailfish at 10,000 ft down in the ocean
gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...
September 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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drk-lo.bsky.social
Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
This infographic describes the main results from a survey of members of 14 scientific societies. There is a pie chart showing that both academic (58%) and non-academic (42%) responded to the survey. It lists statistics: 85% of respondents reported uncertainty about the future; 71% reported federal training programs were "very" or "extremely important"; 83% reported negative impacts or irreparable harm on their field of science. There is a word cloud summarizing open-ended responses with the largest words "student research fund federal grant". Eight major themes in the responses are listed: disruption of research with societal important; concerns of closure of the USGS Bird Banding Lab; Early Career Bottleneck; Restricted Freedoms including travel and speech; Decline in Government Efficiency and Expertise; Concerns about Biased/Removed Data and Data Gaps; Concerns about the Ability to Meet Legal Mandates; and From Positive Impact to Irreparable Harm. There are icons for each participating society and a QR code for website and data availability.
August 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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science.org
Dragonflies use “crazy turning” to dry themselves off after a cooling dip in water.

Learn more on #NationalWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/3Vw2Df1
September 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
evologist.bsky.social
Seasonal upwelling in the Gulf of Panama failed in 2025 for the first time in at least 40 years… www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Unprecedented suppression of Panama’s Pacific upwelling in 2025 | PNAS
The Gulf of Panama’s (GOP) seasonal upwelling system has consistently delivered cool, nutrient-rich waters via northerly trade winds every January–...
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September 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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astrokatie.com
The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
September 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Our new paper on population genomics of black surfperch. I am incredibly happy, decades in the making....
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Population Genomics, Local Adaptation and Cryptic Speciation in a Temperate Reef Fish, the Black Surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, Using Genome‐Wide Resequencing
The black surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni , exhibits limited dispersal due to its lack of a pelagic larval stage and offers a unique model for studying local adaptation and potential cryptic speciation...
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August 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
evologist.bsky.social
📢New paper out in Molecular Ecology!📢
We provide evidence of cryptic/incipient speciation in the Black Surfperch occurring on coastal islands. Popgen and phylogenomic methods show 5 distinct groups and evidence of repro barriers! @embiotoca.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Population Genomics, Local Adaptation and Cryptic Speciation in a Temperate Reef Fish, the Black Surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, Using Genome‐Wide Resequencing
The black surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni , exhibits limited dispersal due to its lack of a pelagic larval stage and offers a unique model for studying local adaptation and potential cryptic speciation...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM