Eric S Haag

Evolutionary and developmental biologist, music fan, and taco aficionado

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

Why do we have sex and sexes? Why do male humans pee standing up? Why do women menstruate? Why are there straight people and queer people? Why does patriarchy exist? You will find some provisional answers in my book, out this November. Please enjoy.
https://t.co/zjzu2Lm4ar

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

As the last 20 days have unfolded, it is clear @elonmusk is a sworn enemy of our constitutional democracy. He is an immigrant we welcomed, and his tech henchmen were mostly educated in the very institutions he is now trying to wreck. From where does such malice come? In any case, as every tweet gives him a tiny bit of ad revenue, this will be my last. See you on bluesky?

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

@mbeisen I don’t see how even a fully nonprofit publishing system can ever be free. Editors and their assistants need to eat.

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

Happy to see this job posting @UMDscience. Those currently foaming at the mouth about the evils of DEI should consider that its literal opposite is HUE (homogenous unfair exclusion). Go Terps!

[UMD Department of Computer Science @umdcs]

📢 We're Hiring 📢 @I4C_UMD is seeking a #ProgramManager to lead impactful diversity and inclusion initiatives in computing for our local K-12 community.

🔗 Apply now: https://t.co/ycLvWg3ssH
📅 Best consideration date: Feb. 21, 2025

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

@AnteEcho @MrAndyNgo @USAO_DC @Reddit @bluesky Wow, “auditors”’is quite a charitable description. Inguess the Brown Shirts were social workers…

[Shannon @AnteEcho]

@MrAndyNgo @USAO_DC @Reddit @bluesky This is unreal. What kind of brainless NPCs mobilize to murder auditors exposing corruption? It’s like seeing radical terrorists popping out of the grass from nowhere. It’s like finding out half the country are Manson Family cult members.

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

US Presidents do have real power, but it has limits. “DOGE” is not “a thing”—no law created it, and it cannot magically snuff legally created entities (like USAID) just because @elonmusk has a lot of money. That assessment is not “woke,” but rather Schoolhouse Rock-level basic USA democracy. If you don’t like it, feel free to move to the DPRK.

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

Re. #USAID, do the unelected wise men of “DOGE” really think a foreign aid policy conceived of and wholly implemented by purity-tested assholes helps our cause? For someone who can bring a reusable rocket into reality, it seems kinda dumb, @elonmusk.

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

I'm trying to save them.

You can find the deleted docs at https://t.co/8XlteewbRp - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

Very happy to share this paper out today, connecting sperm competition within species to reproductive isolation between. Pretty pictures, plus back stories of remarkable trainee perseverance by @VanGoorJ and others. Please enjoy, free for the next 50 days... https://t.co/UZmgAneze9
#Celegans #speciation #evolution

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

Recent email to NSF PIs from Director Panchanathan asks us to happily lop off our own noses. I am disinclined, and I hope my school’s higher-ups agree. Make them come after the money already transferred—don’t do the job for them.

[Allison Lopatkin, PhD @AllisonLopatkin]

Just got the email that all charges to my open NSF award are paused. I imagine NIH is coming soon. What happens to students everywhere when we can’t pay their salaries, even if it’s only a few weeks of a gap (at best)?

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

Been thinking Elon would make a banger first dean of the PW Botha School of Structural Inequality.

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

Day 4 of Trump, The Sequel: “Whee, breaking stuff is fun!”
I hear Kristallnacht was also a hoot…

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

This is timely and worth a read. WRT to bathroom access, there is no safety impact of gender inclusivity (https://t.co/bMfMHqpMoH). Meanwhile, the list of trans women being murdered by cis men is tragically long. https://t.co/w4m0q1uazi

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

Let me be among the first to predict that hoovering LCA will backfire, probably horribly.

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

Big news: Rare back-to-back studies @Nature provide evidence a bile acid called LCA mediates the health & age slowing benefits of low-calorie diets, and may be the elusive endogenous SIRT1 activator that resveratrol mimics. Details below 🧵
https://t.co/lsiepgMgkM

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

Our local NPR station is giving away AC/DC tickets. No further evidence is needed of impending Gen-X geezerhood…

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

It's blatant horn-tooting, yet I can't resist sharing the nice piece written by @UofMaryland's Emily Nuñez: https://t.co/zdeOuK1Hsw Thanks to @ColumbiaUP for making a dream come true.

[UMD Science @UMDscience]

Why do we have sex, and sexes, at all? In his new book "The Other Big Bang," Biology Professor Eric Haag explores the two-billion-year history of sex.

At Science on Tap on Wednesday, November 20, Eric will give an informal talk on his new book. RSVP here: https://t.co/gHAxAJkrkz

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

A fox in every henhouse. https://t.co/ubRW9EXRK5

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

@ravenscimaven One should be careful with self-publishing. For starters, getting honest feedback is a key to a great project. To tweak the legal adage, “an author who serves as her own editor has a fool or a client.”

[Eric S Haag @EricSHaag]

@rafeequemavoor @NIH Man, I gotta find a way to work that moose into my next C. elegans paper!