When I attended community college, I was VP of an atheists & agnostics club and a member of the science club. When the bible club invited a speaker to talk about Intelligent Design, we didn't post signs on the door directing our members to a safe space. We attended the talk,

map shows how old are Czech borders!

This Microscope Monday 🔬 for your #limnological curiosity we have our latest article by Glen George describing the pioneering work, including spatial distribution of #zooplankton, carried out at Ireland’s #LoughDerg laboratory 1921 – 1923. Full article 👇 fba.org.uk/articles/lough…

My all-time favorite C&H!

Having run one of the world’s most effective human-rights groups for three decades, Kenneth Roth has sparred with more nasty regimes than most people could name. In a new book he distils his hard-earned insights econ.st/43NZnRE

Upcoming deadlines: March 21 is the deadline for applications to the ASN Graduate Student Travel Award, and for Volunteer Travel Awards. More information here: evolutionmeetings.org/participation-… @ASNAmNat SSE Society of Systematic Biologists #Evol2025

Thanks to Julia E. Musto at The Independent for highlighting our recent publication! We need broad-scale research to understand why some lakes are more vulnerable than others to climate-driven changes🍃🌡️ the-independent.com/climate-change… #Climate #Science

Body clocks rely on bright light in the morning and an absence of it in the evening. Daylight saving, which lengthens evenings, takes people further away from this natural cycle. It’s time to scrap it econ.st/3RopBTD Illustration: Cristina Spanò

Critics have long said admissions tests like the SAT or ACT favour the wealthy and disadvantage black Americans. Are they right? econ.st/42Bym1F

"When condescending experts get their basic facts wrong, it feeds into the notion that academics put activism ahead of objectivity." Opinion | The Great Transgender-Mouse Debate chronicle.com/article/the-gr…

Everyone who has ever found something to love in a river should find something to cherish in “Is a River Alive?”. The book is a masterpiece econ.st/44R1J2z

It stops raining. Then, when the clouds hear me ask my dogs “Do you want to play frisbee?” they start raining again.

🧑‍🎓 What makes students want their professors fired for political beliefs? A new analysis from HxA shows the motivation doesn't fall as neatly along the left-to-right political framework as often assumed.

I’m excited to share that I will be joining the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Fall 2025. I really appreciate the invaluable support and guidance from my mentors, including Aaron, Ruben, Clyde, and Mary.

Today I asked Anthropic's #Claude #Sonnet4 how to interpret a 260/280 ratio of 2.18. Claude correctly explained that a ratio of 1.8 was ideal, and up to 2.0 was good enough for a reaction. It then added that my value of 2.18 was excellent and was therefore very pure.

Deleted my BlueSky account today. Life is too short to deal with hostility online, especially over the most innocuous of dissenting viewpoints. Disappointing that it’s so common there (and that there is so little science and technical content there too).

🎓 NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya speaks to academic freedom in a new interview with Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.. Bhattacharya explains that “Stanford failed the academic freedom test” in its treatment of him after he co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration during the pandemic.

Left-wing LGBT activism has not only fallen flat with the public — it’s driving away LGBT moderates: queermajority.com/essays-all/the… | Mathew Giagnorio

I found that a long written discussion I had with Adam Gopnik about the ability of science vs. the humanities to produce truth has been archived (it disappeared several years ago). I was glad to find it again. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/08/12/a-d…

Once again, I'm on the search committee for an Assistant Professor my department is hiring. This time, the field is Evolutionary Genetics. Spread the word! sc.edu/study/colleges…