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

📣 We seek to appoint a Chair (with rank of professor) within the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar of international standing in the field. 🗓 Closing Date: 23 March 2026 Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

🚨 Pre-announcement! 🚨 We’re hiring for 2 x two-year, full-time roles to join me and the wider @palaeoverse.bsky.social team @es-ucl.bsky.social. - Research Software Engineer (REF: B04-06999): lnkd.in/eNRBiPnP - Community Engagement Coordinator (REF: B04-06998): lnkd.in/ejUACCzn

"Change propagates unevenly, ricochets off institutional boundaries, and is often refracted by actors whose behaviour is shaped as much by fear and habit as by instruction".

An illustration of the 'commission-based' theory of evolution. The Pilot Whale www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil...

wonkhe.com/blogs/whatev... have we ever really believed in geographical equity in higher education? Excellent and thoughtful.

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

Awesome postdoc opportunity with a fantastic PI! Phylogenetic comparative methods, morphological diversification, and biodiversity of fish: how cool is that?!

Interested in Historical Ecology and Conservation Palaeobiology? 🪸🦀 Steve Pates and I are offering a PhD project on Unlocking Palaeo-Historical Biodiversity Data to Inform Ecological Baselines @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social 🗓️ Apply by 19th January 2026 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Excellent piece by on the ebb and flow of creative work and the inevitability and importance of fallow periods. “What I failed to notice: that the fallow periods were doing something too. They were composting… The harvest seasons, when they returned, drew on seeds I hadn't remembered planting.”

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

Check it out... 🧪Post Doc opportunity. #stability #biodiversity #ecology

Sign up! I've been an Assoc Editor @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social for about a year; it's a way better experience than some other places I've been AE. Really great submissions & fantastic editorial & admin support. Free admission to the @britishecologicalsociety.org annual meeting is an added bonus!

💭Are you a researcher or practitioner with an interest in publishing? We are looking for Associate Editors who can help advance outstanding ecological research by joining the Editorial Board for one of our seven Society-owned journals.

ppgm: an R package for integrating neontological, palaeontological & climate data in a phylogenetic comparative framework onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SVP2025 @alexh-palaeo.bsky.social @datadryad.bsky.social @tamueccb.bsky.social

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...

A PhD opportunity to work with me, @spissatella.bsky.social and our friends through CENTA - biogeography and vulnerability of exploited bivalves, with possible spin-offs about fishery sustainability and environmental economics: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

okay, the figure on the right for this paper reminds me of @palaeoiris.bsky.social art in the best of ways! #paleoart #palaeoart #QueerInPaleo #QueerInSTEM 🌈🧪

Help us spread the word! PhD offer @creaf.cat #islands #fossil 🏝️

Simon Wood, the GOAT of generalized additive models & creator of the mgcv #rstats package, has an Annual Review of Statistics essay on GAMs, available open access #statssky #mlsky www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Worrying long term hidden fiscal drag The family income threshold at which English students maintenance loans start to get reduced is just £25,000/yr. It has been this level since the 2008/2009 academic year. We have had 64% (CPI) inflation since then. So it's been slashed hugely in real terms

this slide is from a colleague's introductory stats course, I think it fits many statisticians' experiences

🌊 I’m hiring! Research Scientist in Marine Ecology & Machine Learning at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK). Got experience with machine learning techniques applied to marine ecology, biogeochemistry or climate change? Apply by 5 September! careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

This should be a lot of fun! Help us find out if BES journal data and code sharing policies are actually working, with a little side bonus quest about data equity 🤓

The final paper of my UoS postdoc is out now in PNAS! How to detect developmental plasticity in the fossil record: Featuring @tomezard.bsky.social @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @katsamenis.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social among others www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hiring a marine biology lecturer at @universityofessex.bsky.social! Permanent position. Deadline to apply= 20 Aug. We have aquaria, lots of mass specs/genomic facilities, field trips to Crotia, Indonesia, Scotland and a super collegial department. Pls share! vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Very proud of this project! Scanning thousands of forams was no small feat, but five years on, the team is delivered something truly groundbreaking. @tomezard.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/muvisx...

Our researchers have conducted a groundbreaking analysis of prehistoric plankton 🔬 They have revealed how these microscopic organisms adapted to their environment not just across generations, but on a day-to-day basis. Find out more 👉 tr.ee/1ESp0h @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk

New paper led by @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social using x-ray CT and laser ablation to detect plastic environmental responses in fossil individuals www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421549122 featuring @jamesmulqueeney.bsky.social @clivetrue.bsky.social @thefosterlab.bsky.social

This is gold.

Interesting piece, full of learning on the importance of institutions

Don’t learn AI because it can replace you. Learn AI because, whether it works or not, your boss is trying to replace you with it anyway. The more you understand the flaws, the better your chances of fighting back.

Loved @geodianna.bsky.social's and @clivetrue.bsky.social's inspiring inaugural lectures this evening on topics spanning the breadth of planetary health work that folks in FELS do

Charles Elton wrote his classic book "Animal Ecology" nearly a century ago (1927). Much of it remains insightful, and the Conclusion still resonates.

I am thrilled to be granted a CAS year (Centre for Advanced Studies 2026/2027) in Oslo to work on population dynamics using the fossil record. Looking forward to hosting Steve Ellner, @tomezard.bsky.social Tiago Quental, Stephen De Lisle and others cas-nor.no/news/announc...

Good piece. I broke my record this month (now: approached 16 people to get 2 reviewers) #supportsocietyjournals

Yes has been my pre-interview song since forever (the first of many academic rejections). www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... is lovely

Such a good column

Pretty cool to get interviewed for this with a bunch of people I respect: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️29th May 2025, 16:00 UTC🗓️ Join us for next week’s talk given by Dr Allison Hsiang from Stockholm University, on “Automating large-scale morphometric data generation using AutoMorph and deep learning” Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Micropal (Foraminifera) postdoc position 😎 available at Köln University (Germany), with Patrick Grunert. 🌊 🧪 academicpositions.com/ad/universit...

Second job alert! We just opened a tenure-track junior professor position at @cerege.bsky.social focusing on Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironments and population dynamics. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C... Contact me if you are interested!

We are looking for a research ecologist to join the Board of @britishecologicalsociety.org. This influential role will help to set the strategic direction and priorities of the Society. Deadline 30 June with the role to start in December.

Since we are still talking about interactions, I worked with some ecologists a couple of years ago on measurement scale, interactions and interpretation issues. I think some problems arise from failure to distinguish prediction from inference, a chronic problem in ecology imo doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

(You also do fundamentally need to understand why students cheat, why they don’t perceive it as cheating, what they think the point of higher ed actually is, what other pressures they’re facing around and on top of their studies… to defeat AI we need a cultural shift in what education is *for*)

Happy to share my new article on how morphological diversification proceeds during evolutionary radiations: "The diffused evolutionary dynamics of morphological novelty" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵 1/12