Hiring two positions to begin October 2025 (or sooner):
1) Postdoctoral Associate – Cadmium Toxicity Project (PhD required)
2) Research Associate – Firefighter Health Project (BS required)
Skills: zebrafish, behavior, histology, molecular assays, integrity
Apply here: forms.gle/uD3UuxnhCWPi...
Figure from article, “Restoring Landscapes and Communities: Insights from Critical, Urban, and Plant Ecology” depicting the relationship between socio-political determinants (in a box labeled determinants), HOLC graded neighborhood disparities (in a box), and plant-based remediation (in a box). All boxes are on a blue circle with an arrow pointing from determinants to disparities and an arrow pointing from disparities to remediation.
Review just dropped with me, Karlisa Callwood, and @schoolingadream.bsky.social titled, “Restoring Landscapes and Communities:
Insights from Critical, Urban, and Plant Ecology”
We discuss historical impacts on current landscapes and how plant-based technologies can help.
doi.org/10.1016/j.es...
Image of the logo for the Zebrafish Disease Models Conference (ZDM18). Text that reads 'ZDM18 Boston, MA, USA 2025' and two silhouettes of zebrafish that are black and red.
Attention ZDMS Members and greater fish community:
A message from the Local Organizing Committee for #ZDM18!
The Zebrafish Disease Models Society is excited to host ZDM18 in Boston in October! Read this thread for more about the conference and its upcoming deadlines. (1/8)
New Notice on No Cost Extensions (or lack thereof)
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
It has been a while since I advertised some of the tools we have released to help researchers analyze the zebrafish genome. So a brief Bluetorial on our zebrafish genomics UCSC public data hub and the bigger effort led by @ferencmueller.bsky.social to create a zebrafish ENCODE project (Danio-CODE):
The 2025 Call for Nominations for the IZFS Board of Directors is open! Submit your nominations before Monday, April 7th, in order for them to be considered: forms.gle/tnTQYbGF5qAW...
Congratulations to Jessica Okutsu on being awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2025 NSF GRFP. She was the only one in her division awarded an Honorable Mention, and there were only two awards made in her division. Thank you to her letter writers.
A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile removed by employer Indiana University, & had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.
arstechnica.com/security/202...
Celebrate International Women’s Day by following our two Starter Packs with kickass Scientists from the #zebrafish community! 👩🔬 🧪
Volume 1: go.bsky.app/4BegEjv
Volume 2: go.bsky.app/VoebYrt
I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
The bloodbath at NOAA apparently included meteorologists with the National Weather Service; scientists inside what’s simply known as NOAA Research, or the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) more formally; technicians that keep up the country’s weather instrumentation;
3. How can I help?
Here is our hot take: 1) Engage in the political process by expressing your opinions loudly and often. 2) Form your trusted communities, establish safe ways to communicate and coordinate; 3) Resist. However feels right to you, to the degree you are comfortable.
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
Canada doesn't allow convicted predators into our nation. This initiative from NDP leader Jagmeet Singh to bar Trump from the G7 will send a clear message.
I study how pollutants affect social behavior across generations in domestic and wild zebrafish. Can you add me?
scholar.google.com/citations?hl...
Remember this when you see losers arguing for eugenics (that suffering people have “bad genes” that must be stamped out): while genetic variation impacts human health, it is much more dependent on our access to good nutrition, safe neighborhoods, clean air and water, living wages…
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
"Now is the time for science, not silence." The war on science isn’t just politics, it’s our planet's future & the stakes have never been higher.🦈🪸🌊 As climate scientists, we must advocate & defend evidence-based policy.📄🌏 #ClimateAction #ScienceMatters www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
There is an entire DOGE Congressional committee, but Congress has yet to hold a single hearing about DOGE that puts a single DOGE rep under oath to explain what they are up to. They are aiding and abetting.
Goodnight beds, goodnight feds,
Time to rest your tired heads
Goodnight shoes, goodnight blues,
Take a break from following the news
Goodnight fears, goodnight tears,
AltCDC will still be here
Rest well everyone, we'll see you tomorrow!
When NWS forecasters can't communicate with Canadian forecasters, things like plane accidents happen.
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
JOB: Conservation Data Analyst, @bcparksfdn.bsky.social
* Full-time, salary $58k-64k/yr
* Based in Vancouver, hybrid
* "... use geospatial technology and other analytical tools..."
* No deadline given and no date posted. I suppose apply ASAP?
lnkd.in/grVGCtCy
#ConservationJobs #GISJobs
Hi Ben, Thanks for taking my call just now. Attached are the two notices I have seen from colleagues at peer institutions about the removal of the No Cost Extension form (and potentially the entire process) from eRA Commons. I also have heard the Johns Hopkins Research Council has some information that unobligated balances will no longer be allowed on NIH grants. As I said, this is a common mechanism that Colorado researchers (and those across the US) use to be able to plan and execute federally funded biomedical research. Research gets delayed for numerous reasons so extensions are crucial for the work we do here and to keep people employed. I appreciate you passing this along to Peter so that Congressman Crow's office can look into this. Best regards, Laura
eRA service desk response regarding NCE unavailability
UNC Chapel Hill notice from office of sponsored programs regarding the NCE initial request form being removed from eRA commons, with an expected memo to be sent out regarding the change (ETA ????)
Here is a sample follow-up email I just wrote that might be useful for researchers contacting their legislators about the removal of the no cost extension form from eRA commons. Use/share/adapt freely. My gut says this one is a winnable fight, and house offices are picking up the phones for me.
never made calls? need info or a script? use 5calls.org (or download their app) — it makes it all super easy.
sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
Both NIH Reporter and ERA Commons are back online Sunday morning. With all what was going on with NIH since Friday evening it is good to see this was unrelated “routine maintenance” on a Saturday night.
I thought it was my browser. I checked with a few colleagues. They reporting the same.
NIH reporter is down.
