Ok, we're down to the last 10 (!) spots available to register for #SSB2026 in Baton Rouge in January. Who's in? ssb2026.github.io @systbiol.bsky.social

Reminder that this meeting is filling rapidly! If you need travel funding to come, make sure you fill out the travel award application by Sept. 30! www.systbio.org/early-career...

We're thrilled to see such an enthusiastic response for SSB 2026! 111 spots are already claimed, with a cap of 200. Be sure to register soon, if you're planning to join us! ssb2026.github.io #SSB2026 @systbiol.bsky.social

48 confirmed attendees already for #SSB2026, within a week of registration opening. Remember that the meeting attendance cap is 200. Register today to join us in January! ssb2026.github.io @systbiol.bsky.social

My whole lab is going - who else will be there?

Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology! Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions. (Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.) lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...

Calling all natural history/museum collections folxs The theme of the @systbiol.bsky.social breakout meeting in Baton Rouge is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' The LSU Museum of Natural Science will host some events. Hope to see you there, Jan 9-11, 2026. ssb2026.github.io

Registration is now open for #SSB2026! I'm so excited to see many of you here in Baton Rouge in January! We're going to hear great talks, discuss the immeasurable value of natural history collections, and continue to strengthen our scientific community. ssb2026.github.io @systbiol.bsky.social

Another exciting #SSB2026 workshop to highlight: A Primer for Phylogenetic Causal Inference with @oschwery.bsky.social & @pseudacris.bsky.social Also, lots of new info on the website and more soon: ssb2026.github.io Follow for the latest updates! @jembrown.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social

Today's featured #SSB2026 workshop: the Open Tree of Life with @snacktavish.bsky.social and @mtholder.bsky.social! opentreeoflife.github.io Registration opening soon. Keep an eye here for updates: ssb2026.github.io Hope to see you in Baton Rouge in January! @systbiol.bsky.social

Job alert! Sam Noble Museum (OU) seeks a Collection Manager for the Recent Invertebrates collection (insects, mollusks, arachnids & more). You’ll team up with the incoming Curator (👋 me). Apply via jobs.ou.edu, Job # 251244. DM questions. #museumjobs #arthropods #collections

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

Registration for the SSB breakout meeting in Baton Rouge, LA in Jan. 2026 will be opening soon! Registrants need to be SSB members, so make sure to check on your membership today and join/renew if needed: www.systbio.org Check here regularly for updates: ssb2026.github.io @systbiol.bsky.social

We're excited to kick off another year of LAGNiAppE! 🎉 Welcome to our new cohort — we can't wait to see how they grow as researchers and individuals. Stay tuned as their journey unfolds! @tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social @jembrown.bsky.social #postbacc #RaMP #training

🎉 Congratulations to Our Amazing Scholars! 🎉 What an incredible year of research, growth, and achievement! ☀️ Thank you for your contribution. Looking forward to see you shine. Wishing you all the very best! #postbacc #NSF #RaMP #proudofyou❤️

Another day testing the limits of resilience. The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels. Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels. The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.

#evol2025 First day of talks! When you aren’t in talks, come hang out with SSB! We’ve got our members forum at 1:30 and our coffee mixer at 3:30! www.systbio.org/evol2025-che...

We hope you had a great time learning about some our early career members. We’ve collated all the society-sponsored events in one handy cheat sheet on the website: www.systbio.org/evol2025-che... Consider it your one-stop shop for the big events, as well as links to archived virtual #evol2025 ones

Packing for #Evol2025? Bring your new and gently used field gear and clothes that you no longer use to donate to the Field Gear Swap! Hosted by the tri-society Diversity Committees - drop by their booth to donate or pick up! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @evolmtg.bsky.social

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is hiring a Collections Manager in Invertebrate Zoology. Come work with us!

In case you missed it: SSB is hosting a breakout meeting Jan 9-11. Thinking about hosting a workshop or tutorial? Email @jembrown.bsky.social for more information - or find him at the in-person #evol2025 in two weeks! ssb2026.github.io

High winds can't stop us from learning about phylogenetic networks from Claudia Solis-Lemus! The power is out, but we still have internet and zoom. #MOLE2025

So proud of all these outstanding early-career scientists! I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to collaborate with and/or teach six of them. #GeauxSystematicBiology #evol2025

Congratulations to all our speakers in the Mayr Session today! And congrats to everyone who contributed to this year’s virtual meeting. See you in Athens next month, #evol2025!

In case you couldn't bear to read all the way to the end (understandable), here is the proposed picture for the BIO Directorate.

We covered all the timescales and tree sizes yesterday at #MOLE2025! @lauraeme.bsky.social took us way back to the origin of eukaryotes. Peter Beerli walked us through coalescent processes in single popn's. Then @snacktavish.bsky.social guided us through genomes and a comprehensive tree of life!

Prez-Elect and council election season may be over, but student rep elections are just around the corner! Get your application in by May 31. Details in the link.

It's back! The Society of Systematic Biologists is running Year 3 of the Mentorship Program! Find community, support your colleagues, and talk trees. Apply by June 10th, 2025. Program info: www.systbio.org/mentorship-p... Application form: forms.gle/QtD22C9dtfRF... @systbiol.bsky.social

Yesterday was Bayes Day at #MOLE2025! Paul Lewis kicked things off with Bayes' Theorem, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), and many related topics. Afternoon and evening devoted to gene-tree inference (me) and divergence-time estimation (@trayc7.bsky.social‬) using graphical models and RevBayes.

More details coming soon, but mark your calendars ... Breakout meeting for @systbiol.bsky.social‬ The Society of Systematic Biologists - will be Jan 9-11 in Baton Rouge! Topic is 'The Importance of Natural History Collections' @jembrown.bsky.social is primary host/organizer ssb2026.github.io

Kicked off #MOLE2025 day 2 with dice-rolling 🎲 simulations of molecular evolution, led by John Huelsenbeck! Dave Swofford now covering how "all models are wrong, but some are useful" (George E.P. Box), and the methods we use to find the most useful ones.

So excited for the first full day of the #MOLE2025 workshop at @mblscience.bsky.social! This morning, we heard from @trayc7.bsky.social about tree thinking and Joe Bielawski about scientific ethics. Now on to likelihood with Paul Lewis! Follow along here: molevolworkshop.github.io/schedule/

🚨Three weeks left for applying to perform independent research @lsubiosci.bsky.social. Join us to learn skills for careers in STEM. 🗓️Application deadline March 16, 2025 (11:59 PM EST). Learn more: linktr.ee/evo_lagniappe #NSF #Postbacc #RaMP @tropicalbotany.bsky.social @invertevoeco.bsky.social

Come work with us! The New York Botanical Garden is hiring a Curator at the Assist. or Associate level. Profile: a productive and FUN Mycologist or Cryptogamic Botanist. Happy to talk to candidates about how wonderful one of the best botanical research centers is, easy. www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

Applications for the next round of Graduate Student Research Awards (GSRAs) are now being accepted! More info here: systbio.org/graduate-stu... Apply here: app.smarterselect.com/programs/985... Deadline is Feb 28, 2025 by 17:00 PM US EST.

There is one week to apply for the 2025 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA! More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad... Application deadline: Jan. 29th Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st

Transformative experience! I always wanted to go and never did 😭. Dont let this opportunity go!

Applications are now open for the 2025 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in *beautiful* Woods Hole, MA! More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad... Application deadline: Jan. 29th Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st

Congratulations to 2024 IDEA Award recipient, Jeremy Yoder! Dr. Yoder was selected for his foundational work recognizing, celebrating, and promoting the inclusion of LGBTQ+ professionals in STEM fields. He’ll present the IDEA Award Plenary at #Evol2025. www.systbio.org

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

Welcome, Sigournie Brock! Sigournie is the newly elected graduate student representative on SSB Council, and a PhD student at Iowa State U. She studies pathogen evolution and phylodynamic methods. As grad rep, Sigournie hopes to increase graduate student engagement in SSB!

Early career researchers - organizing a symposium is a great way to hear from a diverse group of speakers about the topics you care about! And to have SSB pay for it. Definitely consider this, if you haven't done it before.

Attention student members of SSB! The voting for your next Graduate Student Representative has been reopened. Vote here: systbio.org/2024-student... by Aug. 15th. (But really, just do it now.)

Outstanding talk by Dylan DeBaun this morning looking at the drivers of gene tree variation in Malagasy gemsnakes! If you're interested in doing similar analyses, check out CloudForest here: treescaper.github.io Also, feel free to reach out - we're happy to help! #Evol2024

Congratulations to Jerrica Jamison (U. Toronto) and Heru Handika (Louisiana State U.), winners of this year's SSB Ernst Mayr Award! The Ernst Mayr Award is given to the presenter(s) of the outstanding student talk in the field of systematics at the annual meeting. #Evol2024

SSB is looking for its next elected Graduate Student Representative! Deadline is June 30th. The only requirement is being a graduate student who is interested in evolution and evolutionary history. Please consider applying! More details here: www.systbio.org

Our Mentorship Program is back for another year! Each cohort consists of 20 mentoring pairs, and matches between mentees and mentors will be created based on shared interests. The expected duration is one year. Learn more here: systbio.org/mentorship-p... Apply by July 5th!