I’m looking for recommendations on project management tools for research labs. Our group includes students at various training levels, and I need something simple, task-focused, and easy to maintain so it actually gets used. What has worked well for you? Thank you in advance for any insights.

The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for Fall 2026. Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes? Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research. #hybridization #minnows #mudskippers

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

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

Wrapped up the 2025 field season at Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Marked safe from the upcoming Halloween season! Vampires, werewolves, and other monsters will avoid this house at all costs.

The University of Oklahoma is looking for a new Curator of Fishes. #tenuretrack apply.interfolio.com/174674

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...

Now available for preorder: press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Our first extremophile fish microbiome paper is now out! Fish adapted to hydrogen sulfide–rich springs have convergent microbiomes. Plus these microbiomes are similar to those found in deep-sea hydrothermal vent organisms, which also live in high H2S. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 We're hiring! Roles at SHOAL don't come up that often, and when they do, we know they're exciting: are you our new Data Officer? Learn more and apply here 👉 shoalconservation.org/careers/

Who needs more fish tanks? We need more fish tanks! The last stretch of fish room building is finally on its way, with a dedicated cave room forthcoming.

Asexual Amazon mollies differ morphologically from their sexual hosts, resembling P. mexicana when coexisting with P. latipinna hosts, and vice versa! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

There is still lots of time to sign up for our 2025 edition of the #EvoBioCC 🥳💚✨ It is a FREE, online course in Evolutionary Biology, made by students and for students! Please share widely and don't forget to register! 💚💚💚 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Early morning hike to Inkpots

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

🧪🐠🐟 Hello all! If anyone needs or knows a need for a postdoc Trained in genetics, genomics, behavior, physiology, evolution, sexual selection, and fishes. Grant success (Full NSF as lead PI and PRFB) Ran a productive UG lab as VAP for 2 years. I'm looking for any job this fall. andersonevolve.com

Here is a link to the full @60minutes.bsky.social segment! 👀 a nice surprise at 5:25 AND one of our very own, Kristin Weinstein makes an appearance at 9 mins. #StandUpforScience #scienceforall #saveourscience www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

My latest. It’s feelings-forward and was hard to write. “It’s an isolating experience when your industry, the source of your livelihood, is being uniquely targeted by your own government, and many Americans are either completely unaware or cheering on its demise.” www.chronicle.com/article/high...

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

It's spring in the Ozarks, and the fish look fabulous!

🔦 Spotlight on #NewSpecies2024 🐟 Karstsinnectes Cave Fishes 📍 Southern Guizhou and western Guangxi of China A newly described genus of cave-dwelling loaches, now has 7 species identified. Read all about these #NewSpecies and others described in 2024: buff.ly/fwosOuN

The first expedition of the year is in the bag. Thank you to the awesome team for all the hard work exploring caves and springs in the Huasteca Potosina!

It’s the circle of life… on the path unwinding

@eawag.bsky.social 2-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship. 🧬💧🌐🟦🔬🐟🌍🦐 Highly attractive #independent #postdoc position to to conduct relevant and innovative research in aquatic sciences. Apply here: apply.refline.ch/673277/1246/...

I am looking for a Postdoc (3 years, start Mid-2025) to work on conservation genomics of ringed seal in the Baltic. The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations. #conservationgenetics #consgen Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

We have a 4-year fully funded PhD position available! Research topics include but are not limited to 1) Parallel evolution of climate adaptation in Europe and South America 2) The genetic architecture of temperature adaptation 3) The evolution of pathogenicity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

St. Louis is on the map! #StandUpForScience2025 #ScienceForAll standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

The Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference (MEEC) is hosted by the biology graduate students at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. Please help spread the word! Abstract Submission Due: March 28th Conference: April 25-27th www.umsl.edu/biology/meec...

KU Center for Genomics is hiring a postdoctoral fellow! Choose a mentor among the Center's faculty and propose an original project. Two years funding and generous research budget included. Please share, retweet and apply! genomics.ku.edu/ku-center-geno…

Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

Our grad student Soren Johnson was featured in a recent UMSL Daily article. blogs.umsl.edu/news/2025/02...

Based on the way scammers operate on #ResearchGate, they must think scientists are completely stupid (or really vain)

Grad student position at UIUC on weed evolution and adaptation with my former student Asher Hudson. Asher’s a wonderful mentor and a top notch evolutionary biologist.

By popular demand, A Primer of Evolution now includes interactive Shiny apps to explore selection, mutation, and genetic drift—powered by Liam Revell's fantastic learnPopGen package! 🚀 michitobler.github.io/primer-of-ev...

Graduate student recruitment event: $5,000 Water main break: $35,000 Colleagues that roll with the punches and make it all fun: priceless!

-17 Celsius. And Sass is just happy to chill in the sun…

Exploring the Bolson de Cuatro Ciénegas. What a magical place!

Primera llamada para el Congreso Nacional de Ictiología. @prosanta.bsky.social @fishspeciation.bsky.social @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @tobler.bsky.social @mwestneat.bsky.social @natalycastelblanco.bsky.social @xoloitzcuintla.bsky.social @jessicaryates.bsky.social

Getting FOMO just seeing all the SICB posts on here...

Postdoctoral position, Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER. The postdoc will analyze existing long-term (25 y) data sets on plants and invertebrates at ten sites collected by the GCE-LTER. gce-lter.marsci.uga.edu/public/app/a...

Who cares? Fish do. Haven’t had a chance to share that #fish have been under-estimated as parents! They have exceptionally diverse parental care types and males/females have switched between these in their #evolution as per our research led by #UniversityofDebrecen doi.org/10.1093/evol...

✅ Do you use R or Python? ✅ Are you an ecologist/biologist? Then you might find our website ALA Labs useful! ALA Labs is full of how-to articles to visualise or analyse biodiversity data. Some are for beginners, others are advanced/experimental 😀 labs.ala.org.au 🧪🌏 #rstats #python #quartopub

A study of 632 freshwater fish species from 9,989 locations finds climate warming affects fish abundances, with increases at the poleward edges of species’ distributions and declines at the equatorward edges of species’ distributions. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New article in ROM Magazine on the work we're doing to build a specimen-backed, museum-based, environmental DNA reference database for the Western Amazon.

Wrapping up winter sampling in the desert

The desert sun is relentless even in December. But at least there are still fish around!