Happy #WorldSnakeDay from your mates over at @squamatespod.bsky.social! 🐍🧪

Ongoing academic position lecturer in terrestrial animal ecology at JCU Australia. Deadline 8th August 2025. careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

Good morning Australasian reptile genomics folks (that seems very specific). The Open Consortium on Squamate Genomics has a presentation by Arthur Georges (Uni Canberra) on Telomere-to-Telomere reptile genomes, this morning at 9am AEST. Join us for some dragon chat! bsky.app/profile/bren...

How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new @pnas.org paper addressing these questions in collaboration with @rokaslab.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, and the Pennell lab! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Thanks @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social for a great summary! It was a pleasure working with @keoghlabanu.bsky.social, Emma Sherratt, Scott Hocknull and Andrew Amey on this paper. I counted a lot of vertebrae...

Many elongate species show a positive correlation between body size & number of vertebrae (pleomerism), but some groups lack it entirely, the reason for which we don't yet understand. Snakes, being long, are good model species for investigating this...a 🧵(1/3) 🧪🌍🐍 @puttert.bsky.social

Congratulations to this year’s Dobzhansky Prize recipient, Dr. Emily Roycroft! She will give the Dobzhansky Prize talk at #Evol2025 in Athens, GA in June. Learn more about her work here: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @emilyroycroft.bsky.social

A recent paper claims, opposed to what conservation science has known for decades, that there is no evidence that foxes and cats were a major driver of Australia's mammal extinctions. Turns out there are quite a few issues here. Strap in for a looong thread 🧪 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Helping @austevolsoc.bsky.social advertise! careers.deakin.edu.au/en/job/57142...

I'm opening a K-12 learning centre in Canberra! We'll offer after-school courses in STEM, digital art, public speaking, and maths & English tutoring. It's been my dream to contribute to children's education, and I'm excited to open in just a month. ivlearning.au 🧵1/3

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Checkout our @aunz.theconversation.com article for 5 strategies that can help safeguard #GeneticDiversity for resilient populations 🧬🐸🌲🦅🦒🍄🐝🐠

New preprint from myself and @snaildit.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... We looked at how domain adaptation can overcome errors caused by model violations when using neural networks to test for introgression between two populations. (1/7)

HOW TO... hold a conference for thousands of attendees in person and hundreds of people online in a way that worked for both sets of people. The cost of hybrid was covered by online attendee registration, and substantially increased the reach of the meeting.

🌟JOB ALERT🌟 We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’ That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour Deadline: 24th Jan 2025 bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

The IMPRS for Evolutionary Biology at Max Planck Institute Plön, Germany, offers funded doctoral positions starting Sep 2025. Applications open until Feb 26. More info: http://www.evolbio.mpg.de/imprs #gradstudent

A reminder that we have two open PhD projects on Bayesian phylogenetics in the lab: One with the new TREE Doctoral Landscape Awards: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/int... (deadline 20th Jan) And another with CSC: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (deadline 29th Jan)

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Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Job alert 🔈 We are seeking 3 postdocs in #statistics, data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, quantitative biology or related discipline for the Analytics for Australian Grains Industry collaboration. #agriculture #databs See more information here: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

I am looking for a postdoc! Pls share #postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions genomicsofoutbreaks.com/?page_id=141

A new method for trimming alignments in #phylogenomics — PhyIN. It identifies and trims regions with high phylogenetic discord. Able to trim well even on single loci — an advantage for gene tree/species tree studies. #evolbiol #phylogeny 🧪http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18504 Some backstory... 🧵

We are looking for a PhD student to work on "Faunal diversity dynamics of the Seychelles using environmental DNA". Your primary supervisors would be David Gower (NHM, London) and Julia Day (UCL). For more details of the project and funding see trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/fau... 🐍🧪🐸🔬

Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Andrew R Weeks et al. 📷: Wikimedia commons

Awesome preprint @microbemik.bsky.social and co ! Looking forward to more of this!

Applications open for several research positions here in Cambridge including evolutionary genetics, genomics and population genetics. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/

I’ve finally gotten around to analyzing the data from my long-term side project on lowland copperhead biology and human-snake conflict. If you’re attending the #ESAus2024 conference, come watch me talk about it on Monday 9th (tomorrow) at 4pm in room 103 (Methods in Ecology 2).

The first chapter of my PhD has finally been published in Systematic Biology! “Discordance Down Under: Combining phylogenomics & fungal symbioses to detangle difficult nodes in a diverse tribe of Australian terrestrial orchids” - advance access link below 1/🧵

Very happy to be up there alongside my fellow ANU RSB alumni!

This is a good recommendation. In addition, for bar plots or other plots where you're coloring large areas, add some transparency. The viridis colors are too dark and saturated for large areas. They were designed for points and lines(*). Compare left versus right.

We have a project on Bayesian phylogenetics: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/int... with @zihengyang.bsky.social

That’s a wrap! From the AES executive committee, we’d like to sincerely thank all attendees of #AusEvol2024 for a wonderful 3 days in Perth

Decoupling of species richness and morphological diversity sounds always like a important step in understanding the multidimensional nature of biodiversity ! 🧪🌍🌐🦑

I want to follow more Asian EEB scientists but I’m drawing blanks. I know there are so many more us out there. Please repost (re-skeet?), make suggestions, or proudly ask to be added!! 🧪 🐟 🦎 go.bsky.app/E1ppJra

Time to move. I don’t think I can handle another day of reading Elon’s endless childish taunting on X. If you are interested in: Evol Biol; sexual selection, behavioural ecology, Southern Africa; University politics then please follow me so I can follow you back and build a new timeline. Thanks!

For those based in Australia or anticipating being in Australia in 2025 and would like to give a seminar at the ANU, @alexskeels.bsky.social and I are putting together a schedule. Please reach out!

If you're interested in character displacement in novel environments, lizards, and evolution, this paper is for you. Thanks @jameststroud.bsky.social for involving me in this awesome study.

The "Spags🍝 and snags🌭" study is officially out in @journal-evo.bsky.social w/ @alexskeels.bsky.social and Scott Keogh Shout out to Stephen Zozaya for this amazing photo of the Kimberley shallow-soil blindsnake Check it out at: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... more in this series of post 👇

Saw this on twitter, could be useful to sharing it here github.com/Yunuuuu/ggal...

For those of you in Australasia, the AES conference early bird registration deadline is closing on the 31st Oct. Come along for a great conference in Perth! aes.corsizio.com/event/6696f5...

Earlier this year, @arvalis.bsky.social commissioned me to build a muscle model of a Komodo Dragon. Lizard anatomy is well studied, but many resources are hidden in literature often unknown/inaccessible to artists. The mission was to make an idealised, artist-friendly reference for lizard muscles.

We are searching for an animal physiologist who wants to join the faculty at UMN Duluth! Please share and check out more information here scse.d.umn.edu/about/facult...

Our lab is thrilled to share new research published today in Biology Letters on the function of water anole 'bubble breathing' ! 💧🦎💧 #lizard #HERper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Are you looking for a postdoc or assistant professor position in evolutionary biology? New jobs just added to our jobs board: bit.ly/SSEJobBoard

The UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoctoral fellowship is now being advertised. This is a great opportunity to come join our wonderful community of Evolution & Ecology here at Davis. Please RT & post to your dept listservers cpb.ucdavis.edu/cpb-postdoc-...

Apply for the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB at MSU! Collaborate with multiple EEB labs on your own project(s). Fellowships are 2 years, $65k/year + benefits, moving expenses, and research funds. International apps welcome. Deadline: 11/4/24 eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Awesome visualisation by @daxkellie.bsky.social as usual

Full instructions are now available for the 2024 Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants, part of our Graduate Research Excellence Grants, provide up to $3500 US in funding for PhD candidates. Submit your research proposal by October 15! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...