Environmental Sciences @uvaenvisci.bsky.social at University of Virginia searching for an endowed Full Professor in the natural sciences. Paul Tudor Jones Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished University Professor of Climate and the Environment www.imsearch.com/open-searche...

University of Virginia Environmental Sciences @uvaenvisci.bsky.social search for an Associate Professor or Professor focused on innovative application or development of artificial intelligence (AI) methods to advance the study of Earth's environmental water systems www.imsearch.com/open-searche...

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Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

Because these chemicals can linger in water, soil, and even the human body. The public will have less data about potential exposure. The EPA will take public comments for 45 days before deciding whether to finalize the new exemptions.

The EPA has proposed easing some reporting rules for “forever chemicals,” known as PFAS man-made compounds found in many products that don’t break down in the environment. The plan would exempt certain cases, like very small amounts of PFAS (under 0.1%), chemicals made only as byproducts, and

Come join us in July 2026 for the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology in Graz, Austria! Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org #ECMTB’26 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social

Environmental Scientist position available with the City of San Diego #WSN2025 www.sandiego.gov/public-utili...

If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...

Kimberly-Clark, the personal care product giant, will buy Tylenol maker Kenvue for $40 billion. Consolidating markets like this, especially in the medical industry, can lead to price gouging, life-threatening shortages, and mass layoffs. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.

There's a lotta silliness and falsehoods in this statement, but I'm going to focus on the bigger issue: It is immoral to make low-income folks and their hungry children political pawns. Need is need.

IRS officially saying Direct File is dead. This was clear from back in April when they told engineers to stop working on the project (and the leaders of that team have since left government). Here is what I wrote then. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Who could have foreseen this except everyone?

Great article from @virginiagewin.bsky.social showing that across the Federal science ecosystem, research that benefits the American public is being delayed or completely halted, and remaining programs are being consolidated under close partisan political control. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An important new story on the quiet gutting of one of NASA's most important laboratory campuses, during the federal shutdown. Via @ellanilsen.bsky.social & @jackiewattles.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/... In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈

The Dobzhansky Prize recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The awardee will present the Dobzhansky Prize plenary at #Evol2026. Apply by December 1! shorturl.at/p70wY

Australia has so much clean energy they're literally giving it away. Meanwhile, GOP is in all-out war to stamp out solar www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

2 new jobs working with our FinBio.org project @sthlmresilience.bsky.social Social-ecological systems and Natural capital Postdoctoral fellow su.varbi.com/what:job/job... RA, full-time 12 months: su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

For those of you who enjoy the TundraCam, we're happy to announce it's back online after some much-needed TLC. nwt.lternet.edu/news/the-tun...

🌊 Postdoc Opportunity: Ocean Biogeochemical Modelling Alessandro Tagliabue at the University of Liverpool is hiring a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Associate @altagliabue.bsky.social 🔗Details & apply www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p... #Postdoc #Oceanography #Biogeochemistry #AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs

Thank you @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social's Theoretical Ecology Section for the Best Theory paper award for our @science.org paper on eco-evo emergence of macroecological scaling! esa.org/theory/award...

What's a good open access journal that will take an opinion article that is a bit long (4,500 words)?

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

The University of Hamburg has opened 14 PhD positions focused on ecological and evolutionary research, including climate change impacts on aquatic populations. Details here: https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/grk2530/openpositions.html #phd

The Microbial Ecology Section will host its second virtual Journal Club meeting on Friday at 1:00 PM ET. They will be reading this OA paper by Rain-Franco A et al. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.01403-24 Contact Ilana Cohen to be added to the registration: [email protected].

"This trend is the total power of Boards of Trustees — self-appointed, self-reproducing, and answerable to no discernable public or regulatory scrutiny... the growth of the power of the board is one of the most important transformations in American colleges ..." www.chronicle.com/article/rese...

Hello! Could you help me advertise this PhD position on seagrass physiology and conservation? Thanks

Bobcat at Pt Reyes Wednesday ...

TWELVE open PhD positions - what a fantastic opportunity for aspiring ocean scientists! UAF is a fantastic university with really amazing faculty, and Fairbanks is a beautiful place for outdoorsy people.

These videos of a rat hunting and eating bats will haunt my dreams. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙 Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details

The under-performing, mission-skewed industry that is US healthcare, leading us to the some of the highest cost and lowest performance among economically developed countries… #IDSky #MedSky #healthcare www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Hello! we have a new paper out today in @science.org reviewing Calcifying Plankton : from Biomineralization to Global change 🌊🧪🐚 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

SS082 Mesocosm-based approaches for tackling grand challenges in aquatic ecosystems With @aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social members Cihelio Alves Amorim, Anna Schmidt, Gabriela Ágreda-López and Gülce Yalcin

Registration and abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations are now open for #ASLOSIL2026 ! Don't miss this opportunity to share your insights at the ASLO-SIL 2026 Joint Meeting 12-16 May 2026 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 🇨🇦 @aslo.org

Nominate your outstanding senior colleagues for the Ecological Society of America's Eminent Ecologist Award! Nominations due Nov. 13. esa.org/about/awards...

I'm excited about the Ecological Society's new Fakhri A. Bazzaz and Steward T.A. Pickett Mentorship Award for Enhancing Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Ecology. Nominate your colleagues who have been outstanding mentors! Due Nov. 13 esa.org/about/awards... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

Just 2 days left to submit your proposal for an invited paper session for #ESA2026! These are: *Symposia *Organized oral sessions *Inspire sessions Learn about each type & how to make a successful submission & a major impact on the meeting program! https://esa.org/saltlake2026/call-for-proposals/

... including recent work with Ophelia Venturelli, Tyler Ross & colleagues on mutualism-driven population cycles in theory and in the lab! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market. Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army. Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Interested in resource competition theory, mutualism, spatial patterns or temporal dynamics? I'll be giving a talk in the IITE online seminar series tomorrow summarizing our recent work on microbial cross-feeding that includes all these ingredients.

#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍 Apply 30th of November su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Our experimental design workshop had ~40 participants from >15 countries! @raviranjan.bsky.social and I focused on refining ideas, estimating parameters precisely, leverage in linear & nonlinear regression, and using simulations to compare designs. Presentation & R scripts in next post:

Call for Abstracts: The #ASLO_ECC invites #ECR to apply for the next "Amplifying Voices" webinar on interdisciplinary approaches to enhance understanding of aquatic systems. Share your work globally! 🗓️ Webinar: 20 Nov (10 AM / 6 PM EST) Abstracts due Oct 20: www.aslo.org/amplifying-v... #ASLO

PhD available in my group to work on polar nitrogen fixation www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

New post: With Malice Toward All and Charity for None: Oct. 10-11 CDC (Un)Firing Edition joshuasweitz.substack.com/publish/post...

I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.

1/ So pleased to share our paper on genetic adaptation to micronutrients in humans! Our biggest conclusion? Trace minerals in the diet have shaped human evolution far more than previously appreciated 🧬🌍👇 www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...