Always excited for an increased salary submission! Congrats to the Department of Biological Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Tech for their stipend increase! This union-based win brings the pay almost to the 1:1 line! Update your department and find out more here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

@rcthayer.bsky.social et al. used three D. melanogaster populations with expression divergence in seminal fluid proteins to test for coevolution in the female post-mating transcriptome. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf210 #evobio #molbio #drosophila

I still think this #SciComm deserves a #Pulitzer. #InsectApocalypse www.reuters.com/graphics/GLO...

Pleased to share our latest pub! Dave’s lab found specific fly populations with evidence of pronounced, recent, asymmetric evolution in male seminal fluid protein gene expression. We figured this was a great system to test ideas in the literature... 🧵🧪 1/n 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf210

#HappyFluorescenceFriday! #microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications! Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars - defector.com/neither-elon...

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

It’s Trivia Tuesday! 🤓 Claude has a skincare routine! Once a week, Claude’s biologists will give him a scrub to help remove any algal buildup. Claude loves these scrubs and they only take place if he wants them. So, if he’s looking extra green one day, assume he just wanted to skip this week.

I like this thread listing things that actually are looking up and love how many of them are from the life sciences

MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects! @stfx-university.bsky.social

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

Biology Department xkcd.com/3140/

Looking for a PhD? I am advertising two industry sponsored PhD projects. One on black soldier fly genetics with #betabugs and another on searching insect biodiversity for novel enzymes #Syngenta. Get in touch if you are interested!! bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/available-ic...

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

Happy that our latest paper about the macroevolutionary dynamics about female colour polymorphisms and the ecology of sexual conflict is now finally published in @PNASNews #damselflies #Odonata #EvolutionaryBiology https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2503400122

John Oliver: "While get the appeal of thinking just one more concession, one more payoff might safeguard your independence or let you live to fight another day, it's worth asking at what point have you compromised so much that the thing you're supposed to be defending is gone."

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

Yay for the new bookmarking button!

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I just finished my favorite lecture of the year, in which I give my 105 students their first homework assignment (that I stole from Dave Jablonski): present the history of the Earth scaled to something with a distinct beginning, middle, end, etc. I made an example using Bohemian Rhapsody. There are…

"Why is it called a hanging thief?" www.inaturalist.org/photos/10502...

ok ok I've read the paper and as expected it is really freaking cool the queens are effectively hijacking androgenesis! so they store the sperm of the second species, and then clone that into their eggs so that the clonal males have a nuclear DNA from their og species but mito DNA from their mother

Since classes start this week here at Laurier I thought I would share my Generative AI policy for #BI393 Biostatistics! What do you think? thelonglab.blogspot.com/2024/08/my-g...

Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529

Are there similar numbers for life sciences?

Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti... #Reproducibility

Aw, I want a maglev train :(

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

If you are a researcher whose lab uses FlyBase, consider a tax-deductible personal contribution. A lot of $100 contributions would help bridge the gap until we can set up a user fee system, and even $10 donations send the folks there the message we're behind them. Please share

I led a “punk science” activity for our incoming freshman biology majors at our orientation event. They made zines and fliers on any topic they chose. Here’s a sample:

Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna

Very nice resources for arguing that studying flies is a good investment

From @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social's book, Good Bones. #poem #books #writing

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

🎉 I’m delighted to share that the final paper of my PhD is out! We studied how heat stress affects male and female fertility across reproductive stages in Drosophila melanogaster. @StefanLupold @anDeNardo @KomalMaggu, Viktor Kovalov, Benjamin Eggs 🥳🥳🥳🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Research active faculty teach classes that are significantly closer to the knowledge frontier.

This working paper looks really cool. "The Education-Innovation Gap" 🧵🧵🧵

Hot Dam-selfly! So male damsels have all the color, right? Nope. Collage of four different female Emma's Dancers (Argia emma). As summer goes on, these lovely ladies go from khaki to RAINBOW! Bottom right is from yesterday - this Ms. turned the vibrance slider up to 11! #inverts #becurious

“Scientists have discovered a giant new species of stick insect in Australia, which is over 15 inches long and researchers say may be the heaviest insect in the country.” Via ABC News

How predictably does complex trait adaptation proceed over space and time in wild populations? doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @skylerberardi.bsky.social, @paulrschmidt.bsky.social et al. 📷: Dr. Rush Dhillon

I should have said too that our department welcomes applications from people that use experimental systems including (but not limited to) worms, flies, and mice to study these questions!!

Everybody working on social insects: the IUSSI has a fancy new website and they're building a map of all the labs that focus on social insects. Is this you? Add yourself to the map: www.socialinsects.org/map IUSSI = International Union for the Study of Social Insects

The NIH can’t award ANY grants to outside researchers under new WH restriction, reports @wsj.com. The pause came in the form of a footnote from OMB Director Vought, in a document that doles out federal funds to the NIH. Prelude to rescissions, especially after his comments over the weekend?

West Coast shore friends, there's a tsunami watch been issued if you haven't caught it already due to a big fucking quake in eastern Russia. You've got a watch from Alaska to the Mexican border (and probably past it, honestly) www.tsunami.gov

With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵