Sears Lab
@searslab.bsky.social
Sears Lab at UCLA, posts by PI Karen Sears.
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NIH is considering changes in supporting publication costs--some ideas are quite radical and would endanger our ability to publish at all. I don't love the cots from the big for-profits but it does cost$ to run a journal. Please repost. Comment at:
osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form....
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August 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
NIH is considering changes in supporting publication costs--some ideas are quite radical and would endanger our ability to publish at all. I don't love the cots from the big for-profits but it does cost$ to run a journal. Please repost. Comment at:
osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form....
osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form....
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📣Call for Papers! Why are some individuals and taxa more resilient than others? Our latest Special Issue on Organismal Resilience aims to answers this question! Submit your research or register for our one-day symposium below 👇🌍🧪 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p... @linneansociety.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
📣Call for Papers! Why are some individuals and taxa more resilient than others? Our latest Special Issue on Organismal Resilience aims to answers this question! Submit your research or register for our one-day symposium below 👇🌍🧪 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p... @linneansociety.bsky.social
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In @mcsweeneys.net with @madelinegoetz.bsky.social talking about the Disney canon
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...
I Am the Servant in the Beast’s Castle Who Was Turned into a Chamberpot, and Nobody Ever Asks Me to Sing
Hey, everyone, I couldn’t help overhearing in this giant, nigh-deserted, echoey castle that you were doing an elaborate musical number where everyo...
www.mcsweeneys.net
April 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In @mcsweeneys.net with @madelinegoetz.bsky.social talking about the Disney canon
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...
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We are looking for a new post-doc to join us. If anyone is interested, please contact me.
April 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We are looking for a new post-doc to join us. If anyone is interested, please contact me.
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@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article)
The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.
nyti.ms
April 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
@katrinamillerphd.bsky.social & I took a look at over 400 active National Science Foundation grants that got killed in the past few days. Here's our story (gift link) nyti.ms/4jp4aOx
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Thrilled to see our work featured in Science, all thanks to the individuals and institutions that make the science and conservation possible.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
These two biologists found purpose—and love—trying to save Nigeria's bats
Benneth Obitte and Inoro Tanshi’s efforts have documented a major hot spot of African bat diversity
www.science.org
April 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Thrilled to see our work featured in Science, all thanks to the individuals and institutions that make the science and conservation possible.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Coming up this #MammalWeek we have the Great Linnean Bat Hunt at Crystal Palace! Armed with bat detectors, torches, and some bat poo for good measure, learn more about these fantastic creatures hiding in the dark and how to identify them.
Book your tickets now: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Book your tickets now: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
April 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Coming up this #MammalWeek we have the Great Linnean Bat Hunt at Crystal Palace! Armed with bat detectors, torches, and some bat poo for good measure, learn more about these fantastic creatures hiding in the dark and how to identify them.
Book your tickets now: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Book your tickets now: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
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This hasn't gotten much attention—but new National Science Foundation grants have dropped by almost half since Trump took office, an analysis by @davidimiller.bsky.social shows. www.science.org/content/arti...
(Story by @policyhound.bsky.social)
(Story by @policyhound.bsky.social)
NSF has awarded almost 50% fewer grants since Trump took office
The reasons aren’t clear—and the agency’s director claims the president’s policies haven’t slowed grant awards
www.science.org
April 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This hasn't gotten much attention—but new National Science Foundation grants have dropped by almost half since Trump took office, an analysis by @davidimiller.bsky.social shows. www.science.org/content/arti...
(Story by @policyhound.bsky.social)
(Story by @policyhound.bsky.social)
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An Artibeus jamaicensis covered with pollen at UWI in Trinidad. These bats are fruit bats but also add other components in their diets like insects or pollen. Except for a few species, while there are clear adaptations to certain diets, they are not necessarily strict.
March 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
An Artibeus jamaicensis covered with pollen at UWI in Trinidad. These bats are fruit bats but also add other components in their diets like insects or pollen. Except for a few species, while there are clear adaptations to certain diets, they are not necessarily strict.
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New deadline for our special issue. Please share. Also happy to answer questions.
March 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
New deadline for our special issue. Please share. Also happy to answer questions.
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The Fig-eating Bat is nocturnal but has a functional OPN1SW color vision gene, unlike many of its close relatives among noctilionoid bats. It's not just gene loss in this lineage—changes in gene expession (usage) play a role as well #2025MMM elifesciences.org/articles/37412
March 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The Fig-eating Bat is nocturnal but has a functional OPN1SW color vision gene, unlike many of its close relatives among noctilionoid bats. It's not just gene loss in this lineage—changes in gene expession (usage) play a role as well #2025MMM elifesciences.org/articles/37412
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New deadline May 15th - would love to see your contributions to this important special issue ...
Send us your manuscripts on “Mobilizing Natural History Collections in the Global South” 👇🏾
Reminder @irorotanshi.bsky.social and other are putting together a special issue of the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @linneansociety.bsky.social titled 'Mobilizing Natural History Collection in the Global South'
Details available here: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p...
Details available here: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p...
March 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
New deadline May 15th - would love to see your contributions to this important special issue ...
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Huge thank you to Chancellor May and our wonderful @ucdavis.bsky.social donors for choosing me as a Chancellor’s Fellow! The UC Davis SVM did a lovely write up if you are interested in learning more about me and this award! www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/news/crystal...
Crystal Rogers Honored as Chancellor's Fellow
Associate Professor Crystal Rogers is one of eight faculty members who comprise the newest class of UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellows, given to early career academics doing exemplary work in their fields.
www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu
March 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Huge thank you to Chancellor May and our wonderful @ucdavis.bsky.social donors for choosing me as a Chancellor’s Fellow! The UC Davis SVM did a lovely write up if you are interested in learning more about me and this award! www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/news/crystal...
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Truly a must-read…and holy hell is it bleak 👇🏻
I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Truly a must-read…and holy hell is it bleak 👇🏻
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Send us your manuscripts on “Mobilizing Natural History Collections in the Global South” 👇🏾
Reminder @irorotanshi.bsky.social and other are putting together a special issue of the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society @linneansociety.bsky.social titled 'Mobilizing Natural History Collection in the Global South'
Details available here: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p...
Details available here: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/p...
February 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Send us your manuscripts on “Mobilizing Natural History Collections in the Global South” 👇🏾
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this website from the House Democrats on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee is surveying the impact of the Administration’s mass firings of federal employees from science agencies—share with friends you know have been affected
Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
democrats-science.house.gov
February 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
this website from the House Democrats on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee is surveying the impact of the Administration’s mass firings of federal employees from science agencies—share with friends you know have been affected
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I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.
February 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.
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NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more.
Thanks to NIH, we have:
💉 Cancer immunotherapy
❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins
🩸 Insulin for diabetes
Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.
Thanks to NIH, we have:
💉 Cancer immunotherapy
❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins
🩸 Insulin for diabetes
Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.
February 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more.
Thanks to NIH, we have:
💉 Cancer immunotherapy
❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins
🩸 Insulin for diabetes
Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.
Thanks to NIH, we have:
💉 Cancer immunotherapy
❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins
🩸 Insulin for diabetes
Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.
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This is not business as usual.
It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.
Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.
Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
www.science.org
January 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is not business as usual.
It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.
Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.
Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
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To our many American friends. The National Academies have assembled a package of resources for researchers facing threats or attacks in the US
www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...
www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...
www.nationalacademies.org
January 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
To our many American friends. The National Academies have assembled a package of resources for researchers facing threats or attacks in the US
www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...
www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...
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I gave an interview to the BBC at midnight while the #LAfires were raging outside and I couldn't sleep. Turned into one of the most thorough and well-researched articles on wildlife and wildfire I've had the pleasure of contributing to.
How wildlife survives after wildfires
The biggest danger for wildlife is the aftermath. But many species have evolved to rely on the opportunities created by others.
www.bbc.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I gave an interview to the BBC at midnight while the #LAfires were raging outside and I couldn't sleep. Turned into one of the most thorough and well-researched articles on wildlife and wildfire I've had the pleasure of contributing to.
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Calling vertebrate morphologists around the globe!
Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals!
📋 Symposium proposal guidelines: isvm-icvm.org/proposal-gui...
🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET
📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: Nadia.froebisch@hu-berlin.de
Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals!
📋 Symposium proposal guidelines: isvm-icvm.org/proposal-gui...
🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET
📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: Nadia.froebisch@hu-berlin.de
Symposium proposal guidelines | ISVM
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November 16, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Calling vertebrate morphologists around the globe!
Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals!
📋 Symposium proposal guidelines: isvm-icvm.org/proposal-gui...
🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET
📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: Nadia.froebisch@hu-berlin.de
Call for 2025 online ICVM Symposia Proposals!
📋 Symposium proposal guidelines: isvm-icvm.org/proposal-gui...
🗓 Deadline: Dec 9, 2024, 5 PM CET
📧 Send proposals to Nadia Fröbisch: Nadia.froebisch@hu-berlin.de