#DarwinDay is celebrating how Darwin’s scientific work, perseverance and intellectual bravery made biology the scientific field we know today, united through the concept of #evolution 🧪🐡

Several years ago, I managed to come up with this blue seeded variety of beans. Since then, I've been trying to figure out how to make a blue bean with a paler color. Something like a sky-blue shade.

I am looking for someone interested in a 6-month post as research assistant, ideally to start at the beginning of March. The job is to conduct an experiment with flowers and robotic actuators to study buzz pollination. Job description and application here: uu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Free access to our paper on how plants dose their pollen when visited by buzz pollinating bees. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8WWHWE...

New #PhD on #bees (BeeHd?)! Despite the ad saying "UK Students only", a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!

Not a bad day for being out. This is Hammarskog natural reserve. You can ski here from Uppsala. Haven’t tried to do that yet though!

Do it! It's a great university set in a lovely city, and the Evolutionary Biology Centre is world class. The photo is genuine, not AI, and is not narrowly framed to show the only pretty part of town; Uppsala really does look like that.

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Jacaranda trees (Jacaranda mimosaefolia, Bignoniaceae) have been flowering in Nelson NZ for several weeks and I took these photos today. It's just as well I did a dissection, because what I thought was the stigma isn't. Explanation in ALT. 🇳🇿🌱 #bloomscrolling

⚡️Fully funded #PhD position in my lab at Stockholm University / SciLifeLab! If you’re interested in #lichens, #symbiosis, fungal biology, or meta-omics, please apply. Deadline Feb 1. Read more here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

These are the champions. Four bees and one hoverfly. The five most abundant pollinators in Cazorla, which account together for ~14% of all individuals and flower visits, yet they represent a tiny 0.6% of all species (845). [Yep, no honeybee, lucky me] Their names in the response post.

Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Deadline extended! You now have more time to apply for our Communicating Your Science workshop (15–17 April). Apply today and take your communication skills to the next level: genetics.org.uk/grants/comm-...

Discover eco-evolutionary assembly processes within Oceanic island systems in this perspective, published as part of our #SpecialIssue "Evolution on Islands"! 👇🧪🌍

I am convinced I recently saw a paper on heat + humidity effects on wild bees with heat waves having little effect except within the presence of altered humidity. Anyone have a reference? Or am I imagining stuff?

Special Feature: Can we predict the future of evolution? In this review, Jackson et al. dig into genomic analyses of change over time to determine if and when evolution can be forecast using genomic methods. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Here is the newest Ferris Lab preprint as promised on the genomic basis of divergence in photoperiodic flowering across and elevational gradient! See first author @jillmlove.bsky.social ‘s post below for the link. Check it out folks!!!! #Mimuluspropaganda #WomeninStem #ProudPI

Currently reading this by Otto Plath, father of poet Sylvia Plath. The son of a blacksmith, Plath emigrated from Germany to the US as a 15yr old. His grandfather financed Plath's education on condition that he would become a minister. He eventually dropped out & later became a successful scientist.

PhD opportunity in Prague, Czech Republic, to study reproductive skew in Xylocopine bees!

For #BlueMonday an electric turquoise and cerulean Blue Cuckoo Wasp from the fabulous walled garden @kneppwilding.bsky.social #bluebugs #bugsky @ashwhiffin.bsky.social @waspwoman.bsky.social

Flowers of centaury, Centaurium erythraea (#Gentianaceae). Stereo pair (instructions in ALT). #bloomscrolling 🌱🇳🇿

Hiya, I have 4 more school fact file sheets for #FossilFriday: #Tianyulong, #Darwinopterus, #Oregramma, and #Caytonia! These are really relaxing to do, and I plan on doing more plants next! I hope you like them! #paleontology #paleobotany #paleoart #sciart #scicomm #schoolwork #publiccommunication

Just noticed that our paper is on the cover of Trends in Plant Science - that was unexpected 😅 The illustration is really cool 💙

This year, why not publish your research with a Society Journal? The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and groundbreaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience.

This specific #leech was collected in Vienna, where it should not naturally occur, likely representing an historical introduction into an artificial pond. This so-called "medicinal" leech was erroneously treated for a long time as H. medicinalis, but now is one of several recognised European species

We've just created an exciting new Phylogenomics Botanist role to join our vibrant team at Botanic Gardens of Sydney and help us build the NSW Plant Tree of Life! Applications close 26 Jan 2026: iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/phylogen... #botanicgardens #nswflora #nswptol #phylogenomics

See how Kendall Lee at HAIB and Veil Genomics is advancing Polyploid Genomics in blueberries using HiFi sequencing. A single Revio cell produces enough data for a high-quality assembly of a single blueberry, or low pass data on 12 individuals for population scale studies. #PacBio #PAG33 #Revio

Join @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social for the first webinar in our 2026 series: "Taxonomy: What is it good for?" Free to all! Join us to hear @sandyknapp.bsky.social's "Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae)" Pls register & share: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Flax Lilies (Genus Dianella) 1-9-26 Bonita Springs, Florida #BlueSkyArtShow #vibrant #ColorADay #GreenSat #EastCoastKin #macro #photography #macroPhotography #art #flowers #nature #botany #gardens #gardening #bloomscrolling

Earlier this week, David Marques, my beloved PhD brother, died after a battle with cancer. He was an amazing person, friend, father, husband, scientist, collaborator, birder, among other things. I am immensely grateful for many years of friendship and close collaboration with him. We miss you!

Does your local association have #members who go above & beyond? Please ask your committee to consider them for one of our awards! Know any #young #beekeepers who deserve to be recognised? scottishbeekeepers.org.uk/about-the-sb... Closing 31Jan #scottishbeekeepers #localheroes

Today marks 247 years since the death of Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). His work underpins modern biology, from placing humans within the animal kingdom to establishing binomial nomenclature still used today (e.g. Homo sapiens). At the Linnean Society, we reflect on his enduring legacy.

Explorer & naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born #OTD in 1823. He independently conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection & was the father of biogeography. His portrait hangs at the Society alongside Charles Darwin, commemorating the 1858 reading of their joint paper on evolution.

Chu et al. (urls.fr/Yeo6-K) estimate that cats kill ~60 million birds per year in Canada (possibly up to 197 M). Outdoor cats pose a serious risk to native birds. Potential responses include bylaws, education, social engagement, and trap-neuter-release programs. Think about it if you own a cat 🧪🌿🌎🦉🦊

We've started the year with fantastic news from some of our Fellows. Bill Bailey FLS and Mike Gunton FLS received Honours in the King's New Year Honours List. Meanwhile, Sandy Knapp PPLS has been appointed Director of Research at @nhm-london.bsky.social. Congratulations from all of us!

🚨 Job Alert! TT Assistant Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks! Looking for a candidate with a focus on coastal ecology. Come be my colleague! Please share. careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

My dad died last night. Here's a story that came out today about his career in politics. newjerseyglobe.com/in-memoriam/...

📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

Cover illustration adapted from Fig. 1 of de Vries & Archibald (2018; doi.org/10.1111/nph....) by Debbie Maizels (www.scientific-art.com). 🧵2/2

Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle began #OnThisDay in 1831. The five-year trek around the world profoundly shaped his ideas about the natural world; he later said the journey was "by far the most important event in my life." #histsci

My final paper from my postdoc with @trevorrife.bsky.social is out! If you've ever manually counted or sorted seeds, sampled tissue with a hole punch, filled tubes or plates with beads/seeds this is for you! dx.doi.org/10.1002/csc2... Get the designs free here: www.printables.com/model/135088...

The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict is now out! Get your copy directly from @harvardpress.bsky.social

I've spent all day struggling to write a single page of a popular science article. I bang away at a word processor; give up; start diagramming on paper. Take some notes; draft a few sentences in pen; return to the computer...and very slowly I figure out what I was trying to say in the first place.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Great talk by @pyhatanja.bsky.social at Uppsala today! Very cool to learn about how polyembriony might allow gymnosperms to selectively support the best offspring.

#PlantResearch Enjoyed writing with @beverleycubg.bsky.social a perspective about wonderful paper by Valencia-Montoya et al. in this week's Science. Cycads use thermal radiation to affect pollinators. Is this why Cycads are not as diverse as angiosperms? share.google/Xj8iH9E4tqvN...

Please help! We are looking for tissue-specific RNA-seq datasets or pubs with both male and female individual gene expression data, not pooled, from animal species. If you know of any relevant resources, please drop a link in the comments or send me a DM. Also, please help spread the word - thanks!