Attn folks in Delaware, Nevada, New Hampshire, Maine, & Michigan! Your Dem Senators are also getting a LOT of pressure to cut a deal to end the shutdown- by ditching healthcare. Reach out & let them know healthcare must be fixed first! Names & phone numbers below.

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

I dunno, the prez of the Royal Society maybe called it right. He keeps Elon happy. All he has to weather are strongly worded letters/posts. He might be scared if he were facing public resignations, boycotts of submitting & reviewing for Royal Society journals...but so far what does he have to fear?

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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 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

Job Alert! Assistant Prof of Fish Ecology at @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social, with a focus on freshwater and anadromous coldwater fishes. This is a wonderful and supportive place to work. Please share with your fishy friends! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07351

Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students! caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪 Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

We mapped vertebral shape variation in rabbits, hares & relatives, from within species to across mammals. Patterns differ by scale, revealing new insights into how the spine evolves: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Taewcharoen et al. @anatomygiraffe.bsky.social

Come join us at UF!

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Thrilled to see our PNAS paper out! Such an amazing journey and couldn’t have asked for a better experience working with the Evans Lab 💙🐟

Full of gems, start to finish.

Please pass along to High School Seniors in your life: Stony Brook University seeking applicants for Simons STEM Scholars Program Full Scholarship Funding! More info in link. (PS: then come join the current, rad Simons Scholar in my lab, work on next gen measures of shape in biology!)

Work with us! 👉 Florida Museum Registrar The Registrar oversees the technical and regulatory aspects of collection accessions, permitting, and exchanges. 🔸 Full position info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/caree... 🔸 Apply via UF: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... 🏛️📌 Apply by Oct 31, 2025

Really cool, conceptually simple approach here: cross-referencing grant proposal scores with literature citations and explicit acknowledgments in drug patents to identify patents linked to projects that wouldn't have been funded given a smaller budget

Our Department of Microbiology & Immunology at UCSF is running a faculty search this year for a new Assistant Professor! Please see the ad below for details. Searching for a great colleague, mentor, and scientist! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05807

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

CA Biology job alert My unit at the CA Dep of Fish and Wildlife is hiring a permanent position to write 5 year reviews for species listed under the CA Endangered Species Act. Based in West Sacramento, currently 2x week in office. I am happy to answer questions calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇

Another @stonybrooku.bsky.social 🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Endowed tenure-track job (assistant/associate/higher) in in Physical and Quantitative Biology at the Laufer Center at Stony Brook University. Deadline: December 1. apply.interfolio.com/173357

🚨 1 Week Left to Apply! 🚨 The Krieg Lab is hiring a Research Professional in Plant Ecophysiology & Evolution. 📅 Deadline: October 1, 2025 📧 Sending materials (Cover Letter, CV, References) to: kriegc[at]wfu.edu

Strong community, soft power, clean government, and the power of social work...almost as if all of this is important after all. theconversation.com/can-violent-...

Box turtles are the best!

💥OUR LAB IS HIRING!!💥 We are hiring a research assistant/lab manager to assist with managing our axolotl colony and enabling some kick-ass science! Looking for high levels of organization, collaboration, problem solving and curiosity. Application link: tinyurl.com/3tpvphpm #SciJob #JobAlert

⏳ Only 2 weeks left to apply to our PhD in evolutionary prediction!

So... Do I think free childcare is a good idea because I'm a bleeding heart, woke, "empathy is a weakness, and I have it" type dude? Or do I think free childcare is a good idea because I'm a hustle+grind, LLC bro, business boy, trying to make charts go up and to the right? 🙂🙃 Does it even matter?