Episode 145 "Evolution at the speed of life" is out now! In this episode, David Reznick, talks about studying adaptation in the wild, eco-evolutionary dynamics, and placental evolution in live-bearing fish.

Meet our most recent guest, David Reznick.

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Check out our conversation with David Reznick about his influential research on Trinidadian guppies

Hear more from David about this fascinating study system in our most recent episode “Evolution at the speed of life” 🎧️ #science #scicomm #biology #sciencecommunication #bigbiology #evolution #evolutionarybiology

How do bacteria deal with double costs? And how costly are unusual levels of mistranslation anyway? In short - antibiotics are more of an issue than less/more mistranslation, but the latter changes how populations deal with antibiotics. For the long story, check out our new paper!

Today the members of the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior graduate program at Indiana University celebrated the upcoming retirement of Dr. Ellen Ketterson. Ellen was a bastion of civility and scientific excellence. The program would not be what it is without her presence over these past decades.

Multispecies pangenomes reveal a pervasive influence of population size on structural variation | Science www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

New paper alert!! This project has been a favorite idea in the lab for many, many years! So excited to see this out. Huge congratulations to first author @gwelsh.bsky.social on her awesome work!

Our new paper is out today in Journal of the Royal Society Interface (link below). All about eggshell roughness: "Scratching beyond the surface: examining macroecological patterns in avian eggshell texture". Congrats first author Marie Attard, and thank you @leverhulme.ac.uk for the funding.

"por una ciencia que cuide. Que cuide los cuerpos, los tiempos, los entornos y las personas que la hacen posible"

Are you coming to #SICB Portland? sicb.org/events/upcom... You'll be able to see S09: Spotlighting the role of #behavior in a rapidly changing world Organizers: Kimberly Sheldon www.biogeographyresearch.org Martha Muñoz www.marthamunoz.com Elizabeth Derryberry & 11 other #symposium

This is a great read!!

The Undergraduate Community at Evolution program provides travel funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. Please share with undergrads in your lab! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ... @asn-amnat.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social

The SSE Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach program provides up to $1000 USD for a variety of evolution education & outreach projects, workshops, and events. Submit your proposal by March 2nd! shorturl.at/I8HqO

The T. H. Huxley Award recognizes an outstanding evolution education resource and provides funding for the awardee to attend the Evolution or NABT conference to present their work! Apply by February 2nd: bit.ly/2kP2pPM

How to Pivot to a Nonacademic Job Search

This will be of interest to a lot of early career researchers

Clayton Glasgow also writes about his experience applying to grad school in a time of uncertainty around funding and support for grad students in science. 🧑🔬 bigbiology.substack.com/p/52782596-f...

Read the newest Big Biology blog based on our conversation with Dr. Katie Lotterhos, Associate Professor in the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University. 📖 #science #sciencecommunication #sciencefunding #biology #sciencepodcast

This is a reminder that @asn-amnat.bsky.social publishes abstracts in both English and your native language, using your native alphabet. You can see and read those online. Here is a screenshot of a great example. Love seeing this in my favorite journal.

These 2 wombats seemed mad at each other and showed it the way wombats do. By digging.

Raise a glass to freedom... for science to work! 🧪👨‍🔬

How is functional variation at large-effect loci maintained in natural populations, even as environments change? In a paper led by @mkarag.bsky.social, we tracked known pesticide resistant alleles in outdoor 𝘋. 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 cages & inferred selection and dominance from temporal sequencing data.

I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

Interested in thermal biology? Please join our new and growing grass roots initiative, the Thermal Ecology Alliance, initiated by @patricepottier.bsky.social. 🧪🐟🦑🌡️ Sign up here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#participation Check who already signed up: www.thermalecologyalliance.org#community

We're hiring! Post-doctoral fellow in evolutionary ecology w/focus on ecophysiology. Uncover why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild birds. Work with @cyanistesnord.bsky.social 👏 Please apply no later than 25 November. 👉 lnkd.in/dkAh9jnc

We are hosting a session at ASLO-SIL in Montréal (www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-2026/) May 2026, and are soliciting talks or posters for the session Eco-evolutionary feed-backs in limnology and oceanography Organizers: Derry, Hendry, Fisher, Beaulieu, and Fortin-Archambault Deadline: 19 November 2025.

Episode 141: Vulnerability in Science and in Genomes Cover Art! 🌟 Tune in to our newest episode to hear from Dr. katie Lotterhos as she talks federal funding cuts on science. Stay tuned to take a deeper dive into population structure, genomic adaptation, and vulnerability!

Look out @3rdreviewer.bsky.social - AI is coming to review your manuscript. Listen to our conversation with @odedrechavi.bsky.social about his research and the AI review platform q.e.d.

You might know @odedrechavi.bsky.social from his funny posts on social media, but do you know about his research? Listen to our conversation with him @bigbiology.bsky.social

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Check out our conversation with Mike Lynch!

ICB A Systems Approach to #Homeostasis: What Euryhaline #Fish #Teach Us About #Organismal #Stress Responses Mauro, Velotta @cam-g.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #biology #physiology #osmoregulation #ecology #endocrinology #evolutionary #science

Very excited to see this work in press! I think there is a reason to believe that this is a common means of stabilizing large-effect polymorphisms in general and might be an important reason for why diploidy is so common. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Have you ever wanted to be the next David Attenborough? Check out our conversation with Rae Wynn-Grant and read about her path from wildlife biologist to host of Wild Kingdom.

The origin of us...

Had a wonderful time at #ESEB2025!! Thank you to all the people who worked so hard to put together such a great conference.

Like many 'populations' the great tits in Wytham are a meta-population, with extensive immigration. We know very little about who & what immigrants are - here @andreaestandia.bsky.social et al use genomic data to try to understand origins & consequences of immigrants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Recalling Margaret Bryan Davis, Pioneer in Paleoecology and Trailblazer for Women in Ecology 1931–2024 🌐🧪🌾https://url.usb.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ZPIWCl8WJltzmqyLRtLS3izhToI?domain=el.wiley.com

ICB A Systems Approach to #Homeostasis: What #Euryhaline #Fish Teach Us About Organismal #Stress Responses Mauro, Velotta , @cam-g.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #ecology #biology #physiology #osmoregulation #environment #evolution

@sicbjournals.bsky.social 👍

Congratulations 🙌 @jpvelotta.bsky.social & @cam-g.bsky.social We made sure to tag our journals as well 👍

Check out our new perspective on homeostasis and stress! Led by @evoecoalex.bsky.social with me and @cam-g.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/icb/advance-....

Excited and honored to have my first solo paper out in Am Nat!! @asn-amnat.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/736225

I'm looking for some colleagues interested in helping to start an initiative to seek private salary funding for Evolutionary Biology grad students, in collaboration with scientific societies like @asn-amnat.bsky.social . reach out if interested

New research paper out about how fishes acclimate to different water temperatures! 🐟 It's in @conphysjournal.bsky.social and OA! 🔓 doi.org/10.1093/conp... We looked at the role of blood plasma factors and skin temperature sensation in this study 🩸 ♨️ Recap in the threat below for those interested 😊

What a great working group!

San Francisco Bay’s Only Marine Lab on Verge of Closing, Threatening Decades of Coastal Research www.kqed.org/news/1203861...

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n