I love the texture on this Holcoponera fingerprint ant. Ecuador.
Here's my new story about guidelines from the National Academy of Sciences for studying human genetic diversity. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/science/race-genetics-research-national-academies.html
Too tired to comment on this ;).
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00633-w
Yet more terrible academic news. It would seem that, if you share your drafts with people rather than hiding your work in the cupboards, people can give you feedback to improve the work and result in stronger contributions overall.
Devastating.
RT @EconomicPolicy
Don’t let the name fool you, “right-to-work” laws are designed to diminish workers’ collective bargaining power by making it harder to form unions.
Michigan is ready to make history by becoming the first state in 60 years to repeal the anti-worker law. https://www.epi.org/blog/why-right-to-work-was-always-wrong-for-michigan-restoring-workers-rights-is-key-to-reversing-growing-income-inequality-in-michigan/
Just rename it the State of Fascism.
(And BTW, WaPost, tenure is not a "perk".)
Florida bills would ban gender studies, transgender pronouns, tenure perks https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/05/florida-bills-would-ban-gender-studies-transgender-pronouns-tenure-perks/
@alexwild this will come to Texas and Oklahoma next
What's next? Evolution again? Of course climate change.....
@danielbolnick
Have fun!
In shameless self promotion here is a link to my book on Male Mate Choice again. It just came out as paperback in England, the US has to wait again for a few months.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/male-choice-female-competition-and-female-ornaments-in-sexual-selection-9780192872586?lang=en&cc=us
@Carl_Zimmer. This is so awful.
In today's science news: George Santos is reportedly going to serve on the Science, Space and Technology Committee https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/nyregion/santos-business-committee-space.html
Evolutionary Ecologist. Opinions may be strong and are strictly my own.