I am looking for a postdoc! Please share with Evo-devo-neuro-sensory people who might be interested. We have multiple projects available so don't feel like you are not qualified to apply if you don't check every single box on the job ad! Apply here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Resharing - Less than two weeks left until applications are reviewed - Go apply and share with anyone who might be looking!

Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

First, first-author paper alert! “Shedding Light on Patterns of Unconventional Expression of Opsin Genes in Hydra vulgaris” is out and open access in @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... Keep reading for some highlights in the thread below! 🦑🧪

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

The lost jellyfish art of Ilona Richter, from Anita Brinckmann-Voss's 1970 book on jellyfish of the Mediterranean Sea... 🪼🧪🌿🌊

Every time I see these news stories I think of my best find on Depop yet

ha! excellent! #medusamonday h/t @drandrewthaler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

If anyone was wondering, the NC Association of Educators estimates that teachers will spend $1,632 of their own money on their classrooms during the 2025-26 school year. Let's help her get that closer to $0.

A friend's fiancée is a public school science teacher in NC and has an Amazon wishlist for classroom supplies! According to the NC Association of Educators, NC is the second worst state in the US for teachers spending their own money for classroom items. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵

Hey everyone! @sicb-diz.bsky.social is now here! Follow them for all your invertebrate science needs! 🧪🦑🌎

This sea anemone holds some serious stinging power around their mouth! 📷 Transgenic Nematostella where green marks developing and mature stinging cells, which are densely packed around the mouth. 🪸🧪🪸 #StunningStella #ToxinTuesday @stowersinstitute.bsky.social

In the cacophony of crap news, I recalled seeing this lil' bug. A good reminder that nature is beautiful. Here's a female Sylvan jumping spider, clearly dazzled (or maybe pissed off) at the spider-like eyes of my iphone cameras. Pick an issue, get involved, AND pay attention to the beauty all around

Thanks Luis! Come work with marine squishies and light sensing!

#PASEDB2025 First poster session! 😍 Amazing work from grad students, postdocs and faculty members! #evodevo #PASEDB2025 #PASEDB

🥳 Our amazing community reunited to talk about evodevo in our #PASEDB2025! Find yourself in this nice evodevo-ist people puzzle 🐟🪸🐌🐙🐚🪲🦋🐝 #evodevo #PASEDB2025 #PASEDB

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT In #G3journal, @aidemm.bsky.social and colleagues sequenced and assembled the genome of Bougainvillia—a jellyfish, not the plant!—with 28 eyes and identified 20 cnidarian opsins in the species. Read more: buff.ly/MSyC8Aa

There is also a version for students looking for PhD positions: go.bsky.app/EFj87fi

As requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or related fields) who are recruiting PHD STUDENTS! If you would like to be added, feel free to ask! go.bsky.app/Bf4DRFm

Due to popular demand, I am creating starter packs for a) Biology PIs looking for PhD students and b) Biology PIs looking for POSTDCOCs! Please respond saying if which packs you would like to be added to (or if you want to be added to both).

Excited to share our study on sailing siphonophores, AKA bluebottles or man-o'-war! 🌊 we received hundreds of samples from scientists around the world, part of a huge effort to sequence genomes and test for multiple species 🧬 out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🦑🧪📌

Calling all lovers of Non-bilaterian EvoDevo!!💙 Our incredible invited speaker for the Non-Bilaterian Satellite symposia at the #PASEDB2025 Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social University of Kansas Organizers: Athula Wikramanayake, Bill Browne & @natclarke.bsky.social

#Hype4Hydrozoa 🦑🧪

Long shot, but do I know any folks specializing in weird ocean non-animal blobs? What are these? 🌊🧪

@emilylau.bsky.social @ostratodd.bsky.social et al. show that bioluminescent luciferases in brittle stars and octocorals evolved in parallel from haloalkane dehalogenases, highlighting how gene function and genomic availability shape convergent evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb... #evolbio #molbio

#Hype4Hydrozoa @gelatinoussting.bsky.social

Do you synthesize or use biodiversity data? Or make it available for synthesis? LTER, NEON, EDI and GBIF are co-organizing a session (ID: 6799373) at the Living Data Conference in Bogotá, Colombia, October 21-24, 2025. www.livingdata2025.com/index.html

Learn more about our recent @science.org paper and our upcoming work in this segment on @pbsnews.org that aired tonight! m.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Ps...

Attention!! The @ku-eeb.bsky.social GSO is hosting a fundraiser this Thursday, May 8th. Please join us for dinner and order off the special menu to support graduate students!! @kubiology.bsky.social @kunewsservice.bsky.social

Join us this afternoon to support Arezoo Fani as she presents her thesis, Adaptive Transgenerational Plasticity and Priming in Mimulus platycalyx in Response to Neighbor Density, at 2pm in the English Room in the Union or on Zoom!

Fun Q&A with Curr Bio in which I discuss mammoths, Don Quijote, and why you should not fall in love with a hypothesis authors.elsevier.com/a/1l2MF3QW8S...

#Invertefest is almost over, so I'll finish off with a tiny octopus riding a jellyfish into the sunset*. Pic from Anilao. 🦑 #Blackwater * OK, it was a couple of hours after sunset, but close enough. Call it poetic license, or something.

What better time to celebrate #InverteFest than during plankton season! Check out some of the wonders we found last week while sampling in the Norwegian fjords 🔬🌊 How many species can you identify? @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

A lot has changed in the world, so my colleagues and I at the @fordschool are opening up a special emergency admissions cycle for folks who want to start a Masters of Public Policy this fall. Deets are here: fordschool.umich.edu/masters-prog... I hope to see you in class in September!

My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday. I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further. If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.

Divers!! Recreational, professional, scientific, SCUBA, freedive, and everything in between: I want to hear about your favorite traditions / activities / events that got you into diving. 🤿🦑

Happy #Invertefest! Celebrate invertebrate biodiversity 🐛💕

Why model organisms? "At first glance these creatures might seem unrelated to humans, but they share surprisingly similar genetic makeup to us. Because of their simpler biology and rapid life cycles they have provided critical insights into everything from how cells divide to the origins of cancer."

Watching animals eat is like my biology crack. I don’t need it, I don’t have to do it, I don’t even always like it, but there’s just something about critters noshing on one another that leaves me gobsmacked. And nothing does it like the comb jelly Beroe [Thread 🧵] 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkN...

HAPPY TAX DAY! How much would you spend on a year of tornado warnings? The average US taxpayer spends only $4 a year to help fund the NWS. It’s a smart investment—every $1 invested in NWS yields approx. $73 in social benefits. 🌪️❄️ Support science. Support the NWS. Stay tuned for more this #TaxDay

Tax Day next up: NSF! 🛰️ $40 a year. That’s what the average U.S. taxpayer pays annually to fund the National Science Foundation. 💡 Science isn’t luxury - it’s infrastructure. From disaster prediction to cybersecurity to the tech in your phone, NSF powers the systems that keep society running.

Today’s Tax Day! That means it’s a good day to remember this: 🔬 Science is a public good. 🏛️ And you fund it. From vaccines to clean water to cancer breakthroughs — here are just a few examples of #ScienceYouPaidFor!

I want to tell you a story, and it begins with this VERY WEIRD animal: Meet Thetys vagina... [a thread 🧵] 📸 m_patton bit.ly/2Mgw8Sf 🌿🧪🦑🐙🌊

Are you a computer vision expert looking for a challenge?? Help us identify marine life! 🦑🧪🌊 Thank you @fgvcworkshop.bsky.social @kaggle.com for the support!!

One of our MARC scholars shares her thoughts on NIH cancelling her funding. Students in defunded Haskell, KU programs prepare to present their research projects lawrencekstimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

“The programs also help pay for the undergrads’ tuition; for many of them, they’re the reason they’ve been able to stay in college.” HT @needhibhalla.bsky.social lawrencekstimes.com/2025/04/04/k...

Can anyone recommend a thread or article that explains all of these different NIH- or NSF-funded biomed training programs and what has been lost with their cancellation ?

Federal funding for KU programs that enable Haskell and KU students to conduct scientific research, further their studies and launch their careers has suddenly been terminated. lawrenceks.news/3FWulNK

Excellent coverage by @mclarknews.bsky.social , @lawrencekstimes.com on the termination of our Bridges, MARC, PREP and IRACDA programs.