A Viewpoint in #BioScience by NSCA Board members: Duke's herbarium merits continued enhancement, not dissolution academic.oup.com/bioscience/art… #CollectionsAreEssential Bthiers Trina Roberts Rebecca Rundell Gunter A. Fischer Scott V Edwards John Bates @ebsessa ZaspelLab

Incredible video here from Violet Wu. Apparently this is Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab’s top-rated video of 2024. Featuring the GOAT duck- Torrent Duck.

A record 23.5 million Americans have signed up for health care through the Affordable Care Act. If you haven't already, go to HealthCare.gov to sign up by January 15.

Changes in lighting & putting a film with a pattern of little dots on windows at McCormick Place in Chicago reduced bird mortality from window collisions by more than 95% this fall. Huge victory at previously very dangerous building. This should be emulated at other buildings.

The AOS Conservation Committee is offering seven grants of up to $5K each to support early-career scientists from Latin America & the Caribbean for conservation-related research on migratory or resident birds in those regions. Apply by 3/3/25. americanornithology.org/awards-grants/… #ornithology

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This after House Republicans spend all day defending it at their retreat.

The sheer amount of misinformation about USAID on this app is downright alarming. So let’s set the record straight: USAID (United States Agency for International Development) was created in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy via executive order, after the Foreign Assistance Act

AIBS has joined 43 other organizations in urging House and Senate appropriators to significantly increase the FY 2026 allocation for the Agriculture, Rural Development, U.S. FDA , & Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee. #policynews #aibs aibs.org/news/2025/2502…

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For more than two decades in Congress, Raúl Grijalva was a fierce advocate for the environment and putting quality, affordable health care within reach for more Americans. Arizonans could not have asked for a better voice in Washington, and our thoughts are with Raúl’s family and

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This is the post I never wanted to have to make. Earlier today, news arrived that my position as a history professor for US Army CGSC has been eliminated in accordance with DOD cuts. There is no chance of reassignment, and the entire Fort Belvoir campus will be stood down.

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE protest is taking place in downtown Chicago for the "Hands Off!" movement against Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Not ☝️, but ✌️on the All-ECHL First Team. Congrats Peter Bates & Michal Stínil 💪💪 wichitathunder.com/news/2025/04/b…

Ask your Representative to sign the bipartisan Neguse-Fitzpatrick Dear Colleague Letter in support of $10.2 billion in funding for the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2026. #scipol #actionalert #aibs #policynews takeaction.io/aibs/action-al…

Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman was a friend who worked with Gabby to stop gun violence. We’re thinking of her children, who've now lost both their parents, and we’re praying for Sen. Hoffman and his wife, who are still fighting for their lives. Stay strong.

This 15-story data tower in the heart of the Amazon collects vital climate data that is shared with Americans in California and across the country. The Trump Administration can ignore reality and worsen the climate crisis, but California will never stop fighting for our future.

So sad. And so bad for America's reputation in the world, and thus U.S. national interests.