MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

📢 Announcing the speakers for the @aarc-community.bsky.social TikTalk seminar for January 2026! Look forward to hearing from @tatianafeuerborn.bsky.social and Arianna Weingarten, presenting on their work on Greenland Sled Dog 🐶 and Middle Pleistocene (!) horses 🐴 respectively. Exciting! Join us!

Some people think science is just for nerds, but science is the foundation of the modern world and science is what made America great. Even though many of us don’t work directly in space science, we were inspired to become scientists by NASA. Destroying it makes zero sense.

just hours away from Christmas break and my brain has been broken upon discovery of the recent taxonomic splitting of one of my favourite genera (Acipenser)… fair enough!

What's that? 5 ancient doggy papers in 10 days is too many dogs? Can I interest you in some cats? Perhaps a complete retelling of cat domestication, dispersal, and replacement across Eurasia? As you wish! Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Our paper is out! Although wolves and dogs can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, hybridization between the two is rare. We found that most dogs today have low but detectable levels of post-domestication wolf ancestry that has shaped their evolution in human environments. tinyurl.com/yt4x4r7n

⏰ The clock is ticking❗ LESS THAN 10 DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts (30th Nov). Do it here👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org/abstracts/ Many of you are asking for the registration fees 💸. We are still working out the details, but we estimate 400-500€ for regular attendees and 300-400€ for students.

1/🧵 Today at #BOUasm25, I’m presenting on the ‘ō‘ū 🦜 a parrot billed-like #Hawaiian #honeycreeper, last seen in 1989. We dive into its population ecology and investigate – did it interbreed with other parrot-billed Hawaiian honeycreepers prior its extinction? doi:10.1098/rsbl.2025.0265 #ornithology

1/6 Today I will be presenting my masters research on the #phylogeny of the waterfowl family Anatidae via the #BOUasm25 conference on BlueSky. What came first, the duck, the goose or the swan? #ornithology #systematics #waterfowl #ducks #geese #swans 1/6

Cassie Stoddard'a talk was really insightful and colorful: "sure, we're living exciting times to study the genome, but also to study the phenome, the birds' phenotypes using collections" #BOUasm25 #ornithology #evolution @bou.org.uk

A PhD project on historical genomics in the declining red squirrel in Britain is available in my group, through the @aries-dtp.bsky.social. Use historical genomes to track the effects of decline and genetic rescue in this charismatic species. aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

Exciting fully-funded PhD project in my group, working with #ChelseaPhysicGarden @acmjulier.bsky.social to explore plant-insect interactions in urban gardens, and for urban planting schemes. Funded through NERC TREES DTP, all details here: tinyurl.com/mr3u42b8 Pls repost + email me if interested!

looking forward to presenting at this NHM event next month! 🦜

🌱 Applications are now open for the @ukri.org NERC TREES DLA! Join a vibrant research community tackling key challenges in environmental science, from climate change to biodiversity and geospatial analysis 🔗 Apply now: trees-dla.ac.uk/apply #PhD #EnvironmentalScience #Climate

"In Aotearoa New Zealand, hapori Māori (tribal groups) are the kaitiaki (guardians) of many threatened taonga (treasured) species. There is growing international interest in the resurrection of some of New Zealand’s extinct birds...despite Māori concerns." theconversation.com/return-of-th...

New funded PhD opportunity at Kew Gardens/LSE: Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century. Closes 14/1/26: www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

This is extremely cool: 700 years worth of archaeological artefacts being collected from old nests of bearded vultures (strong contender for the best vulture) www.popsci.com/environment/...

What an amazing woman, at last honoured for her work. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Join us on 31st October to celebrate Día de los Muertos with some #ancientDNA from Mexico! Two very exciting talks on 🦣 and 🪴, by Federico Sánchez-Quinto and Marcela Sandoval-Velasco of LIIGH UNAM. Note the later 3pm London time! #aDNA @aarc-community.bsky.social

grateful for the opportunity to present in this fantastic session on plants animals and epidemics at ISBA last month @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution! Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/see... advertising this with @vorontsovams.bsky.social sign up to SEEDS mailing list (links below) if interested in applying to internship scheme, DM one of us for project-specific details! 🌾

Hi Bluesky! While some of you are already on holidays (and others waiting to start them), here is a reminder about our awesome #AaRCTikTalks for this month. Save the date!

Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds. Well who knew. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scientists used archaeological remains to reconstruct Atlantic sturgeon populations from 200 CE to today. The findings show stark genetic differences between fall and spring spawning groups. buff.ly/tofO1HL @natalia-asp.bsky.social & Logan Kistler, Smithsonian Institution #archaeology

This #TaxonomistAppreciationDay we're celebrating the long list of taxonomists that have worked hard to name and classify plants the world over. Without #Taxonomy, species #Conservation would be impossible.

PRESS RELEASE 👇 A research collaboration between Professor Robin Allaby and colleagues, has shown that thousands of years of farming myths and cultural traditions have been key to the survival of the cassava crop (the source of tapioca). bit.ly/4i8aqcB

Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don't realize it - The Conversation US theconversation.com/coastal-econ...

🌾🌱🌍🍄🌺🌳🧪 Less than a week to go for #BUC2025! The 31 - YES, THIRTY-ONE teams in Round 1 will meet Dr Chris Dixon asking multiple-choice questions. Streamed YouTube botanicaluniversitychallenge from 14:00 GMT Weds 12 Feb. Watch live or later recording! @thebotanist.bsky.social

🔬 Exciting postdoc opportunity at @NHM_Denmark! Working on reconstructing ocean plastics history (1950s-70s) through sediments & foraminifera. 2-year position in geology dept. Deadline Jan 17! Details: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli... Please boost! 🌊 🔬

prospective PhD students: curious about grasses? 🌾 keen to gain skills in population genetics? 🧬 and to explore the past as context to the climate transition? 🌍 with @vorontsovams.bsky.social we are advertising for a TREES PhD project www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/und... please share!