JOB KLAXON! The @nhm-london.bsky.social is recruiting a micro-CT specialist! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Curator of Education job (tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder! Salary $90-$100K, 9 month full time position. Apply by Jan 21. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Really great to see people quantifying morphological variation across the range of an extant taxon. I saw another paper recently about variation in extant iguanas. It gives us a baseline for what to expect in fossil species academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

What a terrible loss it will be if PRI shuts its doors for good www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...

Looking for a faculty job at one of the world's great research stations? We're looking for a marine invertebrate biologist at UW's Friday Harbor Labs. apply.interfolio.com/178804

If you would like to get a tattoo of my art, that's totally fine with me! I'm honored! In lieu of payment, please instead donate some money to Museum of the Earth. They've almost hit their goal! priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...

Softshell turtle evolution is hard to decode. New analyses of 312 specimens show filtering rare & growth-related variation improves phylogeny—but some branches remain fuzzy. Molecular or total-evidence frameworks still needed🐢 Girard & Joyce: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

UF Biology is searching for an Asst Prof in Evolution, Ecology of Infectious Disease - spread the word! @ufresearch.bsky.social @ufgeog.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I’ve cited this in two reports, written in conversation with it and recommend it to you for further reading.

The administration has resumed its attempt to seize control of medical research funding but has changed tactics: Defunding the NIH has proven politically unpopular, so the new goal is to direct the distribution of federal dollars. www.statnews.com/2025/09/02/h...

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

I’m really excited to be hosting @evoroseman.bsky.social for a 1 hour online workshop for the Biomolecular Humanities group on December 10th (8am to 9am PST : 11am to 12pm EST : 5pm to 6pm CET) on the intersection of evolutionary theory, demography and race/ancestry!

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Patent challenges at USPTO aren’t perfect, but they’re a realistic way to fight junk patents. USPTO is trying to take that option away. Submit a public comment while you still can.

I have also just turned down a reference request from the @royalsociety.org 🧪🔭

#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140

Hey everyone! I’m excited to share that one of my thesis projects was just published in @currentbiology.bsky.social and featured on phys.org! In this paper, we use an old statistical approach developed by the US Navy in WW2 to predict the aquatic habits of various dinosaurs and marine reptiles 🦖🐊

TL;DR We're looking for biology/evolution instructors in the US and Canada to test the impacts of inclusive evolutionary biology educational materials on undergraduate learning (you will be compensated). Pasting the official recruitment info in thread below. sunybuffalo.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Our NY area population genetics meeting is back and "upgraded", as Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org generously agreed to host. Please save the date: March 9, 2026. Look forward to seeing many of you from NY and beyond.

Regretfully (for the sake of the authors and journal staff), I have this morning declined an invitation to review for a @royalsociety.org journal because of the Society’s continued refusal to stand up for its values in dealing with Elon Musk FRS.

The Onion: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process "Big Earl here’s got a masters in sociology from Vanderbilt, and nothin’ makes Big Earl madder’n generational cycles of systemic violence"

For anyone who can live in Flordia, a great opportunity in an amazing collection: FMNH is looking for an experienced full-time Collections Manager II or III as Director of Invertebrate Paleontology Collections within the Department of Natural History. 🧪⚒️🦑 explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

The Fudge Lab at Chapman University is recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Please repost! Apply here: tinyurl.com/4p937dn5

If the original #SVP2025 feed isn't capturing everything you want, you can try this one: bsky.app/profile/did:... (this v2 editable, so send me any suggestions you have for improvement, added tags, etc)

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠 Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy. 📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S

Historical reflection by a legendary biometrician, morphometrists, and statistician F. James Rohlf on the emergence of mathematization of the classification and systematics during his life time. academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

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I am so grateful to all the teachers & students who have participated in the NSF-funded Postcards from the Past project & to my collaborators Tina Miller-Way, JoAnn Mitchell Moody, Nancy Raia, & Linda Hill. Examples of student Postcards are currently on display at the Alabama Aquarium!

I highly encourage folks to apply! I received one in 2015 and it resulted in several publications, including a new species of pinniped (Allodesmus demerei) with Morgan Churchill and a paper on the youngest known "proto-seal" Enaliarctos from Oregon with @ashpoust.bsky.social.

Aaaannnddd I messed up the link. Here it is. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Congrats to Sanaa El-Sayed on her DEEP Award from the Paleontological Society!

Another paleo position open: Professor of Practice and Curator in Charge, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at UT Austin apply.interfolio.com/175702

Ruth Asawa arrived in New York with a monumental retrospective this month, making the largest show dedicated to a woman artist in MoMA's history. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/ruth...

ICB Issue 4 is out including papers from #Pollinator-plant interactions in a changing landscape: embracing integrative approaches across scales from Jordanna Sprayberry & more see more about Jordanna's work via spraylab.bergbuilds.domains & read issue 4 academic.oup.com/icb/issue/65/4 #bees

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇 Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it. Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

“In less than a year, the Blackout Report has tracked more than 15,700 attacks on Black progress - erasing data, banning books, cutting research, and dismantling opportunity...” 1 of 3

I have been waiting for news coverage of this and it’s chilling that the coverage has to come from another country.

Attending #GSAConnects in #GSASanAntonio with @geosociety.bsky.social @paleosoc.bsky.social and more? Skeets now centralized in a custom feed! Find it by searching "GSA Connects" in Bluesky's feed manager and subscribe. Have fun! (PS: if I should add more keywords/accts to populate feed, lmk)

For folks interested in interdisciplinary PhD or postdoc opportunities - catch me on Sunday or Monday, I look forward to meeting you! This talk touches only on one out of many topical foci in my lab at Hopkins - curious? Here's our lab homepage: www.jasminawiemann.com

Mongle, C.S., Orr, C.M., Tocheri, M.W. et al. New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

For anyone who happens to be on Long Island next week, please come...

Strong recommend that everyone follow @sarahtaber.bsky.social . She represents excellence in science communication. She's funny, knowledgeable, and has the rare ability to communicate her research from super simple, tweet sized info, right down to "I wrote the book and taught the class."

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history. A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone. Even the smallest acts can echo through time. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/dcGWTR4

Rutgers is looking for a vertebrate paleontologist: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

Stony Brook is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Marine Molecular Ecology (assistant encouraged, molecular broadly defined, includes microbial omics!): apply.interfolio.com/174869

Join us at the University of Central Florida! 🍊🚀🌴 We’re seeking an Assistant Professor of Plant Physiology! We’ve got growth chambers, hoop houses, greenhouse space, an arboretum, and students chomping at the bit for more plant courses! #PlantPeopleFTW #IAmABotanist jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assista...

Applications for JamCoders, a 1 month free algorithms & programming camp for Jamaican high schoolers, are now open. Head over to jamcoders.org.jm#apply. No programming experience required for students. We're looking for students & teaching assistants. Deadline January 31.

Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒