To the #Evol2026 folks, I am recruiting MSc/PhD students (with or without their own funding) - please send people my way if you know of anyone interested in blending ecology & evolution!

Indeed: www.evolutionmeetings.org/online-progr... From the app or online program, you can also export a PDF of your itinerary, and print if you’d rather have paper copy

Recently I reviewed for a journal & recall being offered a discount on page charges for future publication with that journal in appreciation for the review. However, I don't remember the journal & can't find evidence that it really happened. Does anyone know of journals that do this? 🧪

Museums hold collections for a reason: “Perhaps, he says, the next big breakthrough in charting our solar system’s deepest history won’t come from exploring some distant world but rather from studying samples of space rocks …from a drawer in a museum.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/rare...

Anyone else watch that women's US and Brazil match? It's wild ⚽️ So many red cards 🟥

Bonus entomology: lac/shellac is from our friend Kerria lacca, which is of course a scale insect just like the new world's fave dye source, Dactylopius. Different families but both coccoids!

I am recruiting PhD students for my new lab housed in the Sam Noble Museum at University of Oklahoma! If you are interested in fish macroevolution, geometric morphometrics, specimen-based research & phylogenomics please reach out. More info here: fishdiversitylab.weebly.com Please share widely!!!

our neighbours are getting solar panels so the scaffolders showed up last week, and proceeded to install the scaffolding on the wrong house, so they came back today and dismantled it and are now reinstalling it on a different wrong house

Updated with comments from California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife: The agency "has been clear with the federal government that border wall construction poses serious risks to protected wildlife, including bighorn sheep. This is another tragic reminder of those concerns."

Happy ’Old Croone Day’ - scientists celebrate 4 June 1662 when Dr William Croone presented the Royal Society (London) with “…two embryos of puppy-dogs, which … were put in spirit in a glass-vial sealed hermetically...” marking the beginning of fluid preservation of animals still in museums today

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

[New paper] A whale carcass found off Tanjong Pagar in September 2025 has been identified as an Omura’s whale—one of the world’s least-known baleen whales. This is Singapore’s first recorded stranding of the species. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Fellow Californians! Don't forget tomorrow is voting day. Also, best to vote in person or drop your ballot into a ballot box or at a polling location.

I posted this and somehow forgot to point out the #collectionsareessential aspect. We don't know if these mice are still on the island, but we definitely wouldn't know they were there in 1939 if we didn't have collections!

Here is the roundup of all of the movie, video game, and book reviews from my little website. Forza Horizon 6 and Mandalorian and Grogu are a couple of the highlights from the month.

Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

New paper out today! I had the good fortune to work with this crew, @mabscientist.bsky.social, Susette Castañeda-Rico and others, on a project that discovered previously unknown introduced mice on the Channel Islands in California.

Our #evol2026 cheatsheet is live, coinciding with the program release. Your one-stop shop for all the Society events during the meeting. Bookmark it and check back often in case of updates! www.systbio.org/evolution-20...

NEW PREPRINT: You may recall Joshua trees started flowering fully four months early this year. Was that due to climate change? Well, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I called in Chris Callahan to formally test that hypothesis, and the answer is... it probably wasn't! doi.org/10.64898/202...

It's DAY 2 of #BlackBirdersWeek and we’re Following the Flyways! Today we honor Memorial Day and the heroes who gave all for our freedom. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Our new paper led by Christian Weinrich (PhD student, Andrew Forbes' lab at University of Iowa) is out in Insect Systematics and Diversity. We used unsupervised machine learning + UCE data to infer species limits in eurytomid parasitoids on US oak gall wasps—all initially thought to be Eurytoma.

👀 A new experience is headed to NHM later this year, and we want YOUR opinion! Have a few minutes to spare? Share your thoughts: nhm.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The best weekend of the year is here! If you’re in LA, come check out @nhm.org’s 40th annual Bug Fair. I’ll be there today sharing incredible specimens from our entomology collection and chatting about all things bug. nhm.org/bugfair

Meet IOB co author Allison Shultz. The Shultz lab seeks to understand the #evolution of #bird diversity. Along with being a #scientist, Allison is an incredible #artist: & www.allisonshultz.com/projects-8 & read Shutlz's co authored work doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

Well this is delightful: a woman getting her Masters in Archives and Preservation reached out to me because she's creating a digital collection of pictures of birds on statue heads taken from around the world. You can submit yours here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

When is a bird a mystery? When it’s an (a)enigma. Meet 𝘚𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘢 𝘢𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘮𝘢, a little green bird found in a thin slice of tropical rainforest cutting through Central and South America, including Colombia, the most bird-biodiverse country on the planet: go.nhm.org/lice-lens

Please repost: My department at USC is hiring for a teaching-track faculty position. We are looking for someone principally to teach statistics for biologists, but there will be opportunities for other courses in statistics & algorithms applied to biology usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Permanent job in Sacramento! Sr environmental scientist in a good unit. Manage acoustic data, implement automated approaches for aggregating and summarizing wildlife data, carry out advanced quantitative analyses that integrate multiple data sources. calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

This feels emblematic of #museumlife

Remember that Golden Orb? #MarineLife is cool, and Exploration is key to learning the stories of species, every one of which is fascinating. with @echinoblog.bsky.social @megdaly.bsky.social @abcollens.bsky.social and others. www.noaa.gov/news/scienti...

SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

I am hiring a popgen postdoc! Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed. Job add & details 👇🏽 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Jewelry! My amazing stepsister makes beautiful jewelry and bolos, some with salvaged bones. I always get questions & compliments (they make great conversation starters) when I wear some. www.feral-elegance.com/shop?page=2

Applications for the ASIH Raney Fund are due in 10 days! Please spread the word if you know a student that could use funding for fishy research. I'm chairing the committee for the awards this year and am happy to answer any questions about it

Getting down to the wire on dorms. Dorms are one of the harder parts of the meeting to organize, but they are really important for cost and accessibility Don't wait if you need dorm housing!

Hi! I am Alex goldman and I used to host Reply All. Currently I host a show called Hyperfixed. We are completely independent and supported by listeners, so I would love if you would become a member or at least listen! Hyperfixedpod.com/join

It's looking increasingly likely that I'll be hiring a 3-year computational pop-gen postdoc/PhD-level scientific programmer to start this Fall (2026). If you or someone you know is defending soon, and looking for a position, please DM/write to me! Thanks!

Nice coverage of our study in the LA Times! www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story? Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of. Ready? Off we go, then.

As antithetical to every part of my personality it may be, posting on Instagram/tiktok/here/etc has been the driver of unprecented member growth over the past couple weeks. I’m hoping that I can keep that momentum to ease the pressure on the show and pay my staff better. So here it is one more time.

Hello my name is Alex Goldman and I used to host the Reply All podcast. A lot of people liked that show. Now I make @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social which if you liked reply all you’d probably like well. The thing is that a lot of people who liked Reply All don’t know my new show exists.

Read this whole thread! Good for informative content and entertaining.

I’m finishing my tenure as Chief Meeting Organizer for the Evolution Meetings. Apply to replace me! Without a doubt, this is my favorite service I’ve ever done. In trying times, it was a real balm to get together weekly with a group devoted to making the best meetings we can for students.

After closing the bedroom window, I have determined that the cricket is in fact under the dresser, not outside.

The deadline for our NHMLA Student Collections Study Award is coming up really soon. There are still a few more days to apply!

🔬 Final weeks! Are you an undergraduate or graduate student interested in studying the #NHMLAC Collections? If you’re currently enrolled in an accredited degree-granting program, apply for our Student Collections Study Awards now through April 1—details: go.nhm.org/study-award

🦫 Look into the real-life ecosystems of beavers as National Geographic and Dr. Christine Wilkinson (Assistant Curator, Community Science) show Host Michelle Khare and the star of Pixar’s “Hoppers”, Piper Curda, how this incredible species shapes its environment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9GX...

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

🏅 This month's Editor's Choice article by Megan Barkdull and Corrie Moreau: "Phenotypic plasticity in turtle ants has opposing evolutionary consequences for genes and regulatory loci" academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... @corriemoreau.bsky.social @meganbarkdull.bsky.social