I am looking to hire a postdoc at Drexel to work on urban evolution and population genomics. The postdoc will be working with me on a multi-city study of urban lichens, but there are opportunities for independent work as well. Please spread the word: careers.drexel.edu/en-us/job/5039…

2 manuscripts, 3 separate journals. Each time one reviewer has ghosted causing major delays (1 ms currently in review for 4months) as the editors scramble to find a new reviewer. What’s going on out there in reviewer land?

GEORGIA VOTERS: If you’re in line, stay in line! If you're in line by 7pm, you have the right to vote. 🔵Cobb County Civic Center 🔵Sugar Hill Church, Gwinnett 🔵Swint Elementary School, Jonesboro Your vote matters! RT/share this post so others stay in line.

The goal of Trump 2 is to bring all federal agencies (that aren't completely eliminated) under the direct control of Donald Trump's whims. The first step is firing all the dedicated nonpartisan lifetime public servants in government, and replacing them with Trump loyalists. 4/6

When the first thing you do after being elected is threaten the security of your allies to protect one of your biggest donors, we usually call that corruption

Out today in Science Advances. We trace the evolutionary history of a trait under sexual selection in a genus of dancing manakins. Co-led with HC Lim. science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest, with rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaging large parts of a biome that’s a critical counterweight to climate change. to.pbs.org/3Pf1tBz

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Egg prices are way up. Medicaid and cancer research are shut down. Just what people voted for.

One of the most importantly depressing pieces of research we have produced to date: birds in pristine central Amazonian forest are not doing well. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed as the USA’s Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this role he will manage approximately 90 thousand workers and a budget of $1.7 trillion. 1/11

Substack version here: chasewnelson.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-confi…

Reading Liam Revell & Luke Harmon's books on comparative phylogenetics, our team knew there would be important applications to comparative oncology --and the broader evolutionary medicine field. We explore these applications in our new preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

tried to make sense of how both the nature of science and the history of intellectual work in America have led to the current moment

Happy to share our recent publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution, with Kim Rosvall, Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler, and many more! nature.com/articles/s4155…

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced. scim.ag/3F9BeuO

Now the DOGE scumbags are coming for the Bird Banding Laboratory (part of USGS). They just lost two senior staff members and are going to be stretched extremely thin. Without their office, bird research does not happen.