Genetics, genomics, and evolution research scientist (then: humans, now: nematodes), reproductive freedom advocate, mom, scientific inclusion promoter, Atlantan. She/her. Views my own.
Avery Davis Bell
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Still all quiet on the #NSF front. No new awards in the past week.
REMINDER: We still are hearing of trickles of terminations, suspensions, and money being held back from grantees, which NSF isn't reporting. We need your help - please report! 🧪
grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...
The ability to speed up, slow down, and pause talks in the recordings is a (weak) counterbalance to the FOMO #PEQG26
I'm doing an East Coast time mix of watching #PEQG26 talks live and catching up with ones at too late times via the recordings, which means when it's 6am at Ansilomar I'm watching @jnovembre.bsky.social 's keynote from Tuesday afternoon.
"So I get to take the blame for our country’s tanked economy
While fighting for my basic rights and bodily autonomy
In short, I’m fucked in matters from the vital to the trivial
I am the very model of a modern-age millennial..."
A recently finished undergraduate (with lots of research time in my lab) applied for 60 research tech jobs with no luck... And this week I talked to an undergrad (son of a family friend) looking unsuccessfully for summer research in evolutionary genetics - AS A VOLUNTEER.
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Happy to share work from my lab tonight: an attentive grad student found that intra-species F1 🪱 hybrids have high nondisjunction - thus more XO males. Maybe speciation in action! No data on mechanism yet - what's your best guess? 🧐 Look for tic-tac-toe poster 205W: the next move is yours! #PEQG26
The US truly seems to be pushing eager young scientists to reconsider their life goals of research & higher ed. I'm sure these anecdotes are being repeated for many of you & am curious what systematic efforts are underway to catalogue & measure this deterrent effect on future talent
