Congrats Margo! What a crew! 🚀✨

The Endangered Species Act at 50: experts weigh in on different aspects of the law- genomics, gene drives, indigenous perspectives, assisted migration, & more. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Really insightful. #conservation SCB G-BIKE_COSTAction GEO BON Center for Biological Diversity

50 years ago, the United States enacted the Endangered Species Act. In a new #SciencePolicyForum, we invited experts to discuss how the Act has evolved and what its future might hold. Read their takes: scim.ag/5kX

Climate change has killed at least four million people. I wrote this because I felt like I was the only one who had noticed. If you ever read and share anything I've written, I hope it'll be this short piece, out today in Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are hiring a Bioinformatician to join our #ERC synergy BatProtect team (w Emma Teeling Linfa Wang Björn Schumacher) to understand bat’s exceptional longevity & disease resistance. #Genome assembly, annotation, alignment, analysis & more. Please RT sgn.one/0rd

Nice piece indeed, and want to point out that I am the leading author of the preprint cited that explores over 100 mammalian genomes. It has been a massive team effort, so proud of this dream team! Hannah Thomasy, PhD Michael Hiller Emma Teeling Bat Researcher - A.Prof. Aaron Irving Arinjay Banerjee 🦇

🚨Job Alert 🚨 The Mind in Development Lab at Smith College (P.I. Me!) is hiring a new lab manager! Our lab focuses on how early life experience shapes neural and cognitive function in young children. Apply by May 6th. More info here: tinyurl.com/4ytv4drm. Please retweet!

Would love to host a #SmithFellow interested in genomics & Endangered Species Act implementation, perhaps with a special focus on bats. Reach out if interested :)

We are hiring! Join the Neuroscience program Smith College and enjoy working with our talented students! We balance teaching with research and we enjoy the beauty of Western Massachusetts. apply.interfolio.com/152435 I am happy to answer questions about this tenure track position!

Review date soon! Join us! 🙂

Biodiversiy is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.

The Lauterbur EvoEco Lab at UVM Biology is recruiting Fall 2025 PhD students! Interested in computational evolutionary ecology and how animals adapt to pathogens, toxins, and other threats OR interested in hacking complex biological systems with creative code? Please reach out!

Margo Weber is using bat biology to understand how we can increase human protein stability as we age. By studying these proteins and processes in little brown bats, she’s uncovering insights that could reshape human health. Dive into her journey: timeinitiative.org/blog/margo

Nearly every scientists I know talks about how their interests outside of the lab influence their work in it. And yet the message we are sending undergraduates interested in research careers is that they don't have time to develop these interests at precisely the time most of us

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

Professor Alex Erwin’s (Alex Erwin) research, featured in FIU Research Magazine, examines how genetic engineering and law can align to protect biodiversity and regulate efforts to save imperiled species. Read below 👇 news.fiu.edu/2025/genetic-e…

NEW: NSF confirmed that they fired 168 employees today, out of their staff of ~1,500 feds. This includes some people who had recently finished their 1 year probationary period, but their probationary status was extended to 2 years without explanation last month.