1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology? 2) Are you in the US? 3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa? 4) Are you available to travel September 4-6? If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.

Late-stage PhD students: We want to bring you to NYU Biology to meet peers and make connections with potential postdoctoral mentors. Apply to be part of our Emerging Scholars Symposium!

Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

🧬📝🚨 Out today: A genomics learning framework for undergraduates We hope this will be one more tool to help integrate genomics into undergraduate education by supporting evidence-based curriculum design with a set of standardized concepts. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Our next VP: “Never underestimate a public school teacher." "While other states were banning books from their schools, we were banishing hunger from ours.” “Even if we wouldn't make those same choices for ourselves, we've got a golden rule: Mind your own damn business."

Nice benefit of sabbatical - got to see Kamala Harris and Tim Walz tonight in Philly! #HarrisWalz #PhillyForHarrisWalz

🧪🌎 Calling all Biology postdocs in the Mid-Atlantic! West Chester University would like to invite you to give a seminar in our series highlighting diverse early-career biologists. Register your interest here: forms.gle/WwT5DZJSvHTk... Please share widely!

The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. This is for those who are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology, evolutionary biology, etc docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I'm recruiting a graduate student this year - please help me spread the word! Research in our lab integrates field work, genomics, statistical methods, and mathematical modeling to test evolutionary theory and to predict species responses to climate change.

🌎💧🧪Are you a PI in Ecology/Evolution/Marine science and are recruiting grad students for Fall 2025? Help spread the word and enter the details about your positions in this Google Form. The results are being shared around with potential students docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sorry about beating the drum constantly but I’ve got basically everything riding on this thing and I’d greatly appreciate if you can share it around. It’s gonna be a great book I think! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

My department at U Bath is hiring 6 new posts in Microbiome Research! 2 x Prof; 2 x Asst/Assoc Pof; 2x Prize Fellows www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/jo...

"We will not look back and regret this decision. Although we were wrong about not admitting women, abolitioning racial quotas, US involvement in Vietnam, and divesting from apartheid South Africa, we are confident that this time is different."

I am so excited to share the advance online version of our new paper "Do genetic loci that cause reproductive isolation in the lab inhibit gene flow in nature?" Bret and I really enjoyed thinking about these ideas and we hope others find the discussion useful! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Couple of days left to apply for our postdoc position! If you want to chat in person, I will be at #TAGC24 #PEQG24 next week

I got Helix & CRISPR-Cat9 collars with AirTags, in anticipation of transatlantic travel (to sabbatical in Philly!!!) Looks like they joined some weird cat cult (or modern bow ties?)

I'm advertising two awesome macroevolution-y PhD projects (at the University of Aberdeen) with upcoming deadlines: 1. On the global vertebrate pet trade, due Jan 17: quadrat.ac.uk/projects/tra... & 2. On parental care in fish, due Jan 30: findaphd.com/phds/project... Join us!

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for Summer 2024 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES, BIOLOGY at the American Museum of Natural History. Application Deadline: January 31st 2024 www.amnh.org/research/ric...

Excited to share this cool paper from the Delmore lab! 🧪 @kdelmore.bsky.social I enjoyed contributing a bit as a coauthor. #birds #ornithology #evosky #evolbiol www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Don’t let money go by. Supplements are one way to support individuals in your lab. www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

Xmas decoration in Bath is impressive this year!

Current starting point for postdoc salaries at Oxford University is just over £36k - £2.7K under threshold. According to The Royal Society 62% of postdocs are non-UK nationals (5/6 in my lab). Two things: (i) postdocs are underpaid; (ii) UK science is screwed royalsociety.org/-/media/poli...

Captain Georg von Trapp-crushers everywhere: listen, for the first time in nearly 60 years, to Christopher Plummer's original vocals on "Edelweiss"! He actually has a perfectly nice voice that there was no need to dub. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Ta...

There's a stand-up comedian, Nish Kumar, who has a great bit about how the ideal level of fame is to be the drummer from Coldplay: youtu.be/_4xxbx7ALSA?...

Came across my dad's stash of postcards from other scientists. 50 years ago this is how you had to get a print of any papers you wanted. He saved ones from 14 different countries.🧪

Are you of African or African Caribbean heritage, based in the UK, and have an idea that you would like to develop into an academic book but are unsure where to start? Check out the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship: bit.ly/3sPnWxB

Are you an early career scientist who wants to pursue a research project in the lab of a Fred Hutch Computational Biologist mentor? If yes, then the Mahan Fellowship is for you. Apply by Dec. 1, 2023! Learn more: bit.ly/3YWS2e8

#evosky #evoeco

Not enough people know about bioicons.com Open source vector graphics. Free alternatives to BioRender.

Highly recommended! 4 Young Researcher positions available at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI). And there are more to come

This is really cool - using the distribution of cells in a pipette tip for CFU quantification: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"The Government prepared a secret dossier on an academic’s social media posts supporting transgender rights, Black Lives Matter, lecturer strikes and criticisms of No 10 amid a free speech row with universities, [i paper] can reveal" inews.co.uk/news/governm...

One person's garbage is another person's treasure. Awesome paper by Dario Galanti from Oliver Bossdorf's lab: unmapped sequencing reads from wild plants allow for mapping parasite resistance genes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Double rainbow!

Man, we needed some good news and this is *really* good news. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/h...

Need a visa to register for the Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montreal, Canada (aka Evolution 2024)? Registration is now available *for those needing a visa*! www.evolutionmeetings.org #Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social (1/4)

As pointed out in the replies, the whole thing is a total pile of shit…but one things that’s *super*-sketchy about this is the fact that she’s been tipped-off about people’s social media profiles (AND NAMED THEM) and she’s been monitoring UKRI’s EDI efforts over a long period of time. #ToriesOut

It took weeks, or months, or more than a year for UKRI to respond to EDI concerns around lack of funding to Black researchers and bias in how doctoral funding is awarded. But this gets an response within hours - on a Saturday afternoon, no less - and promise of an immediate investigation. Shameful.

Salaries are low and cost of living high in UK - hard for our grads and tougher to recruit international PhD students/postdocs.

Hello, BlueSky 👋 Let’s try a thread. We need to talk about UK graduate wages, and the idea that Britain sends too many people to university. American readers should stick around for the UK/US comparisons 👀 First up: the UK graduate wage premium has fallen substantially over the last 25 years

The field of microbial defence systems is a crazy place to be right now! Competitive #PhD opportunity (SWBioDTP) with me at Life Sciences in Bath in collab with Edze Westra at Exeter ESI (Falmouth): Aiming to explore regulatory control of multiple defence systems. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Maintenance loans are too low! Cost of living makes Unis in expensive Bath, Bristol etc less accessible for working class students, and adds major challenges for those that come. www.theguardian.com/money/2023/o...

PhD project available to work on spider eye development, evolution and vision with me @laurensr.bsky.social and @viveknityananda.bsky.social iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships... Please RP.

🚨 Pop up Oxford! 🚨 A (free!) microbial genomics conference, with a focus on ECRs - abstract submissions now open 🦠

I'm looking to hire a postdoc in coral genomics - $66k/yr plus benefits - follow link for more info - review of apps begins Nov 10 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

It’s been 3 yrs since CRISPR-Cat9 gotcha day! Such a sweet and handsome kitty boy…with pretty good editing skills…and gets much better teaching evaluations than his human.

A massive thank you to everyone who has donated codes. We need more requests for codes, so we can distribute the codes to anyone who wants them. Please share this request link as widely as possible. Thank you. forms.gle/cfopfrE7igpU...

We are offering grants of up to $1,000 for marine science and conservation education! 🧪🦑🐡 Details here: conbio.org/groups/secti...