Allen J Moore

(1/4) New paper in which we identify sex-linked candidate genes for egg coloration in a brood parasite and detail the cascading genomic consequences of selection on those genes. Link at the end of thread (yes, trying the teaser method)! I

Billions of our hard earned tax dollars that were meant for science funding went unspent. The money will be spent on whatever Trump's priorities are, not basic research. Brought to you from party of waste, fraud of abuse. 🧪 cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

Quite.

BREAKING: Major shakeup in NSF leadership. Brian Stone, who has been performing the duties of NSF director since April 2025, is retiring on Dec. 31. Rebecca Keiser, who has been acting chief of staff, is also retiring, Oct. 31. Unclear who will replace Stone, since O'Neill's nom hasn't moved.

Good report on a frustrating situation by @kvasquez.bsky.social cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

CSUN Biology seeks a "Bird or Mammal Biologist" studying extant, non-model birds or mammals, and having experience in collections management, to teach Avian Ecology and/or Mammalogy and help steward our natural history collections (showy examples pictured) careers.pageuppeople.com/873/nr/en-us...

Some of my thoughts about the surge in AI-generated papers, why this feels like a completely new kind of problem, and what this means for how we evaluate science in biology. Out now in PLOS Biology: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Deadline to apply for full consideration for our faculty position in Evolutionary Biology is Oct 21. We will start reviewing applications later this week. Please share and/or apply ASAP!

We need to have the discussion, to give real thought to how AI will (not might) change practice.

fully funded PhD position studying salt marsh ecology & resilience in the Kostka Lab at Georgia Tech! Start date August 2027 (+ working with Bald Head Island Conservancy)

This is so cool. Great to see given the US only does research that enriches tech bros.

University of Helsinki is hiring tenure track Assistant/Associate Professors. A main theme is Future Food and candidates with plant and crop breeding and genomics profile are encouraged to apply. Please share to potential candidates! The call closes November 16th. www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...

This is exactly the right approach — openly mock the bigots as small-minded and cowardly and weak and proudly embrace diversity as a sign of our strength and success

Less than half a Scaramucci. Impressive.

"BU Asst Prof position in urban ecology, behavior, & evolution. Candidates whose work addresses pressing biological challenges @ intersection of ecology, evolution, & society encouraged to apply. Areas of interest include: nature-based solutions to climate change & biodiversity loss..." #evobio 🧪 ⚒️

You know a gene is selfish when its DNA twists the wrong way, as demonstrated by the left-handed double-helix proudly adorning the 50th Anniversary Edition of the multimillion copy bestseller on this topic.

October 15, 2017 marks the nine-year anniversary of the Me Too movement. Me Too went viral with millions of women’s stories, & that movement began with Tarana Burke, while Alyssa Milano asked women to utilize the simple hashtag #MeToo. Nobody understood just how many of us there were. Nobody #Pinks

Dear Trump voters, You wanted mass deportations. Well, hundreds of thousands of people have been deported. NOW WHAT? • Did you get that job they supposedly took from you? • Did grocery prices drop? • Is rent cheaper? • Did your health insurance premiums drop? #TrumpsAbuseOfPower 🧵

NSF: we support Nobel Prize winning scientists and economists. Also NSF: cut support for economics by 100% and IceCube by 50%.

When we face abuses of power and corruption of this magnitude, literally unprecedented in the history of the American presidency, as members of Congress, we have an obligation to investigate and to ensure that those facts become public and that there's accountability for misdeeds.

Opportunity to work with an outstanding institute.

It’s true…

Journal of Evolutionary Biology virtual collection on Phenotypic Plasticity: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ph... Nice photo @horacezhl.bsky.social ;)

LSU is hiring an Assistant Professor in Behavioral Ecology! Please see the job posting here and share. Application review begins November 15th. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

🚨Exciting project alert!!🚨 Are you interested in data and code sharing in Ecology and Evolution? @eivimeycook.bsky.social and I are running a hackathon to quantify data and code availability and sharing quality across 90 society journals, and looking for people who want to be involved.

🗳️ PINKS | BEYOND THE BALLOT Virginia voters face three constitutional questions on November 3: reproductive freedom, marriage equality, and voting rights restoration. Three questions. Three decisions with lasting consequences. Know what’s on your ballot. #Pinks 🌊

This is how you write a headline.

Starting tomorrow, Marlene Zuk has 3 events on book, Outsider Animals: -10/12 at 7:30 pm BST at @brighthink.bsky.social. Tickets: buff.ly/mj6GKe8 -10/13 at 5:30 pm BST at @newcastleuni.bsky.social. Register: buff.ly/0W87uxU -10/15 at 6 pm BST at @linneansociety.bsky.social. Tickets: buff.ly/g54mfmf

1. CRISPR came from basic research on bacteria. 2. Optogenetics started with a discovery in algae. 3. The GFP protein comes from jellyfish. The biggest breakthroughs all trace to scientists following their curiosity, and this is one huge reason why we must keep funding basic research!

Please RT: Do you use math to address interesting biological problems? Join us at Vanderbilt BioSci! We are conducting an open-rank TT search in Theoretical Biology: apply.interfolio.com/194619. We are a friendly and collaborative department with interests spanning a range of biological disciplines!

Johns Hopkins Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in computational genetics and genomics. Applications due Nov. 8th: apply.interfolio.com/194924 In my experience, this has been an incredibly supportive environment to build a lab. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

Trump announced $100M to train U.S. citizen scientists only. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... These are not new funds. NSF underspent its education funds by $100M this past year. Of course, it pales in comparison to the $560M lost due to terminated NSF education grants: grantwitness.org/nsf 🧪

Anyone calling it Super Intelligence tells you everything you need to know.

A lot of excitement on here about the article in Science summarising the discoveries of @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and Brian Sutton, just published in the Journal of the History of Biology. Some people have asked, so here is what I think they show, and what are the implications:

📣 PhD opportunity in my lab 📣 Are you interested in the effects of climate change on social behaviour? 🌡️🔥 This PhD project will examine these effects in the amazing burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Informal enquiries welcome. Please share widely!

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

Reposting for the morning crowd my mini-thread from yesterday on the new Sponsel & Sutton paper on Rosalind Franklin's work. tl;dr: Why didn't Franklin find the double helix? Because she wasn't looking for it! She had her own DNA project that had nothing to do w/ the gene.

Read this letter. Is this the country you want to live in? Land of the?

I’m recruiting a grad student to join our lab at CU-Boulder in Fall 2027. I’m especially interested in students excited about insect community ecology and biodiversity, sp. interactions, and landscape connectivity. Please share with students who may be interested! www.colorado.edu/lab/resasco/...

Absolutely nothing will stop me 👇

I have modernized and enhanced the NSF COA generator tool. Results now update dynamically • Published under more than one name? Covered! • Other people share your name? No problem! • You prefer searching by ORCID? Go ahead! Give it a try. Feedback, bug reports, feature requests are MOST welcome! 🧪

Today marks the 25th anniversary (😯) of our publication on discovery of FOXP2. To commemorate, I’ll repost a few prior threads about the gene. Here’s my explainer of how we tracked down FOXP2 & implicated it in speech/language deficits, in the days before completion of the human genome project.🗣️🧬🧪👇

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

🧪 "Mr. Trump’s science adviser, Michael Kratsios, has criticized the agency’s system for deciding which grants to fund ... He also argued the N.S.F. should ... bypass external review panels.” Kratsios lost 90% of assets while CFO of Clarium Capital. Do you trust him with the US science portfolio?

Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.