Anya Auerbach

For the record, Leading Jewish Group JFREJ is very much in favor of Mayor Mamdani hosting Mahmoud Khalil and his family for Iftar.

Are you a student who wants to visit the NHMLA for your research? Do you advise or know a student who would benefit from visiting our collections? Well, there are three weeks left to apply for the NHMLA Student Collections Award. Help spread the word!

UMN: Don't Close Boynton Dental Clinic! On March 5th, the University of Minnesota announced plans to permanently close the Boynton Health Dental Clinic, which has served the university community for nearly 106 years. This closure will hav...

#UMN has closed their dental clinic with no warning or explanation, and in flagrant violation of their contract with UMN grad workers - this is the only dental care covered by our health plan!
If associated w/ UMN, please sign/share the petition to stop this: actionnetwork.org/petitions/um...

Our AFSCME union siblings have also been laid off in this move. If you're near the Twin Cities campus you can also join the rally at 8:30am tomorrow in front of Boynton Health!

UMN: Don't Close Boynton Dental Clinic! On March 5th, the University of Minnesota announced plans to permanently close the Boynton Health Dental Clinic, which has served the university community for nearly 106 years. This closure will hav...

#UMN has closed their dental clinic with no warning or explanation, and in flagrant violation of their contract with UMN grad workers - this is the only dental care covered by our health plan!
If associated w/ UMN, please sign/share the petition to stop this: actionnetwork.org/petitions/um...

Diversification rate shifts are everywhere. Analyses of phylogenies covering >300k species reveal widespread changes in speciation dynamics across the Tree of Life.
@bjorntko.bsky.social @hoehna.bsky.social @acapomorphic.bsky.social ‬ academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

The moms risking arrest to protect gender-affirming care for trans youth The government wants to ban the care nationwide. Hospitals are shutting down treatment. Parents just want it all to stop.

“I have seen firsthand that gender-affirming care is life saving for teenagers... I really believe it saved my children’s lives.”
19thnews.org/2026/03/moms...

We have published a preprint entitled “Island species as models for small population biology and conservation.” 🏝️🩵🌍

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ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

A major victory! ✊

"This is a member-driven landmark achievement that will have an enormous impact in Kansas. This would not be possible without the courage of our members, who dug in and fought so hard because they knew that a fair contract was possible.”

—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

There is No Consensus on Biological Sex At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr...

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social

We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hundreds of Allina doctors authorize open-ended strike as negotiations enter third year • Minnesota Reformer Some 650 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners authorized their union to call an open-ended strike across 57 Allina Health clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin, as negotiations over a fi...

Hundreds of Allina doctors authorize open-ended strike as negotiations enter third year minnesotareformer.com/briefs/hundr...

But congrats on this officially getting published! It definitely influenced how I approached teaching some topics in Evolution last year.

I think you need a version of the link that doesn’t make you use a umn login for access!

The core-pivotal index: a geometry-first approach to academic impact The defining goal of the academic endeavor is to establish a single perfect value that completely summarizes entire careers’ achievements. Such an index wo

This is an amazing piece of scientific satire by @russcd.bsky.social. The first sentence alone is a banger:

"The defining goal of the academic endeavor is to establish a single perfect value that completely summarizes entire careers’ achievements."

academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

This looks like a great workshop for people interested in learning how to do lcWGS and UCE work! 🧪

Meet ‘Tous’ — an entirely new genus of mammal we identified. Here’s why it’s so exciting A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

More on the Lazarus species from west papua theconversation.com/meet-tous-an...

Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea We use topological data analysis to reveal a persistent morphological gap in a major group of songbirds (superfamily Passeroidea). The gap remained unoccupied for millions of years, even though nearb...

Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea - Chia - 2026 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Comic. [Two people looking at a board with apparent formula (3.1.3.1)/(3.1.2.1)] PERSON: Do mammologists think these are hard? I mean, this one just evaluates to 3/2. [caption] Mathematicians encounter dental formulas

Dental Formulas

xkcd.com/3213/

LLMs as contrast dye for where resources are missing.

What would you think if a hypothetical biology professor at a hypothetical public university in a state starting with an N, who was involved in helping organize a Stand Up for Science Rally this week, and got a visit from their hypothetical Department chair and... 1/2

I tried to put the ! when subsetting in about four different places before finding the right one today, that’s a favorite of mine.

rambaut/figtree Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/figtree - rambaut/figtree

The first version of FigTree was released nearly 20 years ago and it is still widely used (including by me). But there are currently 85 issues on the GitHub repo (github.com/rambaut/figt...) and some of them I don’t really like the look of.

Wildlife group sues to protect rare bird in coastal Virginia, North Carolina The population of Wayne’s warblers, which rely on wetland forests, has precipitously declined in recent years.

Based on genetic work from our lab .. let’s go! 🦉🧪

That is a hummingbird optimized for heat absorption.

Science of sex and gender being misrepresented by Trump officials, experts warn Scientists say crackdown on gender-affirming care could have impact on healthcare of all Americans

Thanks so much to @melodyschreiber.com for not only writing about this issue, but quoting trans scientists as experts!

Yeah, this is why I do what I do.

Evolution is just the most glorious window through which to view the world.

i am so tired of screaming from the rooftops that we have a looming, avoidable crisis of evictions brewing.

everyone knows it, but yet government and philanthropy have no solutions. unpaid volunteers of rent funds are doing the work that the people who control the purse strings refuse to do

OHMYGAWDDD! My heart! Look at this bebe wattled jacana chick!

Come join me and other great colleagues at @ib_unam !! We’re searching for a new orno 🦅 🦢 🦉 systematics researcher/prof. for the largest bird collection in Mexico. See details herein www.ib.unam.mx/ibunam/Convo... Amigxs ornitólogxs! Habemus búsqueda de nuevx investigadorx! Apliquen!