Leigh Anne Riedman

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Ohio State is searching for an arthropod biologist (e.g. entomologist) at Associate/Full Professor level. They will join our Museum community and oversee the Triplehorn Insect Collection. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

If our votes didn't matter, they wouldn't work so hard to suppress them or spend so much to buy them. #VOTE

I needed to know what day the semester ends at my own university; it only took me a web search and 8 separate clicks to find

New #ISEPpapers! Morphological, Molecular Phylogenetic, and Mitochondrial #Genome Characterization of a Deep-Branching Marine Flagellate, Katablepharis ulleungensis sp. nov. ( #Cryptista ) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Genomics #Protists #Microbes

#HPS Funded Fellowships in History of Science at Bodleian. Deadline 27 November 2026, 5pm (GMT).

Ending routine vaccination for hepatitis B at birth, as health secretary RFK Jr. has proposed, would increase the number of chronic infections by as much as 83 percent. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/h...

Rudists, forming the rocky shore of the Adriatic, from Istria (Croatia) #MolluscMonday

Come be my colleague! UNL has an open-rank position in Plant Metabolism. See more details in the link below. #botany #botanyjobs employment.unl.edu/postings/102...

A large Solitary Rugose Coral fossil. County Donegal, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Rejected logos by Herb Lubalin and associates via alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com/2013/04/crea...

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

Full time job opportunity for a scientific illustrator to work with us at the U-Michigan museum of zoology and herbarium! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

At the close of trading today, exchange rates: 1 Scaramucci = 2.2 Zacharias Or 1 Zacharia = 0.4545 Scaramuccis www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

PhD position in arctic protists at the Natural History Museum in Oslo #arctic #marine #protists #diversity #ecology #metabarcoding

NEW PALEO JOB!! The Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) in Johannesburg is hiring a Director. Famous for human origins, dinosaur evolution, and most importantly (😅) Permo-Triassic tetrapods, this is a huge opportunity to lead one of the world’s greatest paleo institutes. Please share!

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.

A bionformatic study by @tonigabaldon.bsky.social and his colleagues revealed that eukaryotes are genetically "assembled" not from two, but from four ancestors. One of them is a "bacterium with a cell nucleus" 🧪🦠🧬💻 How did it help our cells become complex? oxylipins.substack.com/p/two-additi...

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Tenure track assistant/associate professor positions open in my university. Within life sciences, INCLUDING PLANT SCIENCES. Please RT jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Only 3 more days to apply for our Assistant Professor in Arthropod Biodiversity position! The application deadline is October 9, 11:59pm! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05523

YES on 40 NO on 41 NO on 42 for all CA friends out there

Are you interested in learning how genomes of weird fungi and protists evolve and are you looking for an exciting PhD opportunity? Jolien van Hooff and I are looking for an enthusiasic PhD candidate at Wageningen University: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... #TEworldwide #Fungi #Protists #Genome

🗺️ The California Geological Survey is hiring 2 positions in our GIS and Publications Unit - a GIS and Publications Supervisor and a GIS Specialist! Spread the world!

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

Would be curious if they're winding down other divisions in a similar way but on a slower time table. The number of grants provided by the Geosciences division was halved this year compared to prior years, the *explicit expectation* is for it to be halved again next year. Comparing notes is good.

There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.

I was having personal date night A mild evening Candles A juicy red Cheese and crackers I don’t know why i felt it necessary to bring a half pound of cheese outside… it felt necessary My zero gravity chair broke and i went flying backwards while enjoying my cheese

Re-evaluating molecular clock maximum age calibrations revives pre-Ediacaran divergence estimates for animals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

LA is HOT. But does it have to be this hot? Did you know shade from a single tree can drop temps by 20° or more? Yet working-class neighborhoods like South LA, East LA, and the Valley get the least tree coverage and bear the brunt of extreme heat. Let's finally cool things down for everyone.

Lehigh University is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Earth & Environmental Sciences specializing in solid Earth geosciences. Field-based research on lithospheric processes, critical resources, natural hazards & energy encouraged. 🔗 geosociety.co/JobBoard

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

Exciting news! We here at the LSU Museum of Natural Science @lsumns.bsky.social and Dept. of Biological Sciences are looking for Curator and Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Paleobiology! Come work with us! We are fun, supportive and active! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

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