RIP 🤍 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

The new #NSF #GRFP application now excludes 1000’s of students, including those who were told they could apply this year, or who planned to apply next year. We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Check out our new preprint! This was such a great paper to work on with @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social and the rest of the team!

(trailer voiceover) this halloween, grass touches back

My department is hiring an associate/full professor of Early Modern/Modern Jewish History. Please apply and please share within your networks. I have been told to say we're very interested in the early early modern. Note: I am not involved in the search but am happy to answer general questions.

ONT seq folks: If you only loaded libraries from 1 DNA sample (across 4 barcodes) on a MinION run, is there any reason you can't grab the unidentified/unindexed reads (or reads mistakenly called as other barcodes) to use in your analyses?

I really enjoy seeing unexpected connections between disparate things I love. So spotting an alternate universe version of the hosts of @empirepoduk.bsky.social making a cameo in @aptshadow.bsky.social's Days of Shattered Faith was ... nothing short of perfection.

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

Honestly one of the better decisions I've ever made about social media is just populating my feed with illustrators. It's just nice to see pretty things and the people who love making them in among all the chaos of the world.

Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

This is a good line without context. (Honestly it'd be a pretty good line for any place / region / state. "Oh crap now I have to explain Connecticut kill me now.")

Another job, this one for someone around the end of undergrad careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

I guess it's always a good day when the thing making me whimper "No. Why?" is just another day in sciencetown?

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

I don't know what a Jorbo is but this is a very good Jorbo.

Firsthand accounts of the current disruptions to science www.firsthandaccounts.org

I'm finding it very hard to accept that Giraffatitan is a dinosaur and not a Pokémon. ... Also, what iS WITH that preview graphic?! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Little known fact: placing these stamps on letters lets all those letters communicate with each other and warn each other of potential postal mishaps...

Plants phylogeny is a mess anyway Credit : @xkcd.com

I came to Canada for a postdoc with @stepheniwright.bsky.social, who is currently once again recruiting a postdoc. Stephen and the U of T department are great, as is Toronto. Feel free to reach out to me to learn more.

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

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

Zwei Hasen chillen in meinem Garten 😳🥰 Foto aus dem Küchenfenster.

Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

The brief adventures of Wavy Dave: defector.com/the-brief-ad...

“What can you do, resourceless as you are, with freedom withering in a bone-stripping sirocco of stupid, wasteful fascist oppression? You have been writing warnings for a decade.” – @swordsjew.bsky.social I'm also using books as a coping mechanism.

Job alert! I am looking for someone who would like to join my lab as a senior researcher, permanent, with teaching included. My lab is new, I still have startup money, just sayin. DM or email me with questions. Deadline Aug. 11th, interviews in september. Ad here: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/c...

This is really cool but for a second there it looks like that thing is swimming across some unlucky dude's hairy arm and that is wigging me out!

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

I got two of his albums as gifts when I was ten. When other kids had KidzBop or the Spice Girls, I had Tom Lehrer. This was ... an interesting parenting decision, but I'm really sad he's gone.

iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/

I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos. I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NEW PAPER: Same-sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data. ➡️ vist.ly/3n99bk6 #ornithology #birds #same-sexbehaviour #review #partnerships @tashgillies.bsky.social @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social Illustration: @bertillemohring.bsky.social

I have a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position starting in January to study the evolution of seed gene networks using the fern Ceratopteris! Interested? More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNU179/r... Closing date 31st July. 🙂 #PlantScience #PlantSciencejobs

Developmental biologists - can anyone explain what's up with this mutant Calendula?

Calling it now: US climate policy will ultimately proceed via prosecutions for felony weather manipulation.

roundboi is round!!!

Just saw one of my cats force the other cat off a windowsill by sticking her butt into her roommate's face and backing up, like an inexorable butt-plow. Stay classy, critters.

I'm recruiting a US PhD student to come to Canada to work on the genetic and neural basis of female mating behaviour. Fellowship of ~$40k per year. Contact me if interested in submitting an application. Details of eligibility here! grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

okay, since my first grad students arrive in just about a month (!!!), anyone have recommended reading for first-time grad advisors? i've been working on mentorship plans for awhile, but since my own personal grad school advisor experiences left something to be desired, i'm worried about fucking up

Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

Happy #CanadaDay! This is a complicated country with a complicated history and its own problems. And I'm really happy to be here, and it has been a great home for me and my partner.

Non-science - check out my short story (in excellent company) in this issue of On Spec!

Me! So excited!!!

A bit of advice for iNaturalist. They ought to gather data on user sentiment about generative AI, and especially about their expert user sentiment, before they make large moves to deploy technology that is...let's say, *spiritually* at odds with a significant part of their community.

When the world gets too weird you can just go outside and look at bugs.

We are launching the Fourth Edition of the Evolutionary Biology Crash Course ⭐ @evobiocc.bsky.social ⭐. There will be three weeks covering a myriad of topics in evolutionary biology with many practicals. Please RT to reach as many students as possible. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I am really excited about this new article series in Systematic Botany. It's a great opportunity to draw attention to plant biodiversity and natural history, plus rally communities around clades that need more work or have particular ecological / economic significance. www.aspt.net/news-blog/20...