🚨 Registration is OPEN for the 2026 GWIS National Conference! 🚨 🗓 6/13/26 📍 South Dakota School of Mines & Technology 💡 Free to attend (meals included!) 📣 Abstracts due 4/30 🎟 Register by 5/11 👉 Register & submit your abstract: lnkd.in/ezk9BsiE #GWIS

📣SAVE THE DATE! MorphoBank Connects is back for it's 2nd year, Sept 17 & 18 2026 🧪 Mark your calendar and join us for a free virtual conference featuring discussion, presentations, workshops & more! #evolutionarybiology #openaccess #opendata #paleontology #treeoflife #morphology #phylogenetics

Next week I’ll be talking about how FAIR data enables open, reproducible paleontology, and how MorphoBank V4 is helping make that possible. If you're thinking about open science, data reuse, or the future of paleontological data, I would love for you to join the conversation.

Thank you! I’m honored to join Historical Biology as Deputy Editor-in-Chief and looking forward to supporting strong, open, and reproducible research across paleobiology.

I’m excited to see MorphoBank receive a commendation award from SORTEE! 🎉 MorphoBank supports open and FAIR data (images, matrices, and specimen-linked) so research remain transparent, reproducible, and reusable. Open science requires infrastructure - and communities to sustain it. 💚

🎉 2025 SORTEE Commendation Award recipients: EcoEvoApps, Flipping the Script, JuliaPhylo, MacaqueNet, MorphoBank, and Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology (VAMP)! Congrats to all for advancing open, reliable, & transparent practices in ecology and evolution. 🔗 Learn more at sortee.org/awards/

For #LoveData26, let's talk #opendata across #schomcomms. Register ▶️ bit.ly/3ZPzj5p 🧪 Join panelists @richardsever.bsky.social of @openrxiv.bsky.social, Jennifer Meyer of @britishecologicalsociety.org, Wei Mun Chan of @elife.bsky.social and @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social of @morphobank.bsky.social

🌟 We're Recruiting Volunteers! 🌟 🙋‍♀️ We're seeking dedicated volunteers to serve in national leadership and committee roles! 🕒 Most roles involve just a few hours each month. All career stages and backgrounds are welcome. Interested? 👉 lnkd.in/eh4-awHk ❓Contact: [email protected]

In this new episode of #BioScienceTalks, we were joined by members of the #BCoN who discussed the NSF-funded #BIOFAIR project "Integrating biological and environmental data to solve key scientific and societal challenges." bioscience-talks.aibs.org/episodes/bio...

The Biodiversity Collections Network (#BCoN), in partnership with #AIBS, has released a new roadmap for developing an integrated biological and environmental data network. #datanetwork #BioFair bcon.aibs.org/2025/10/15/p...

🎙️ Just published a new episode of BioScience Talks: BIOFAIR to Solve Key Challenges. Have a listen:

🌍 Join SORTEE – A worldwide Open Science community for ecology and evolution! 🌱🧬 🌐 Join trainings, code clubs & our annual online conference 🚀 Help shape the future of Open Science Membership is inclusive and flexible. 👉 Learn more: www.sortee.org/join/ #OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution

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🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Looking for a PhD in aquatic carbon/GHG cycling? Take a look at this fantastic opportunity. Led by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social and with Amy Pickard, Jens-Arne Subke and me. Field + lab components, and lots of exciting science. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT

We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch

Opportunity to give a lightning talk on FAIR biological and environmental data!

🎥 Recordings from MorphoBank Connects are now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@morphobank

GWIS empowers women in science 🌍👩‍🔬 Why join? ✅ Fellowships & grants (no fees) ✅ Network of 1,000+ scientists ✅ Leadership & mentorship opportunities Open to anyone with a degree (affiliate memberships too!). 👉 Become a member today & help shape the future of science. 🔗 www.gwis.org/page/members...

GWIS is looking for leadership roles on its committees. Please reach out to me if you are interested!

📢 Big news: This month MorphoBank surpassed 2,000 project publications! It's been a long journey. Thank you all for taking it with us! #biology #evolutionarybiology #phylogenetics #treeoflife #systematics #cladistics #paleontology #morphobank

🚀 On Sept 29, NASA’s SciX launches 🎉 Expanding beyond astrophysics into Earth, environmental & space sciences 🌍✨. Proud to be a SciX Ambassador helping share this next step for open science. 🔗 scixplorer.org #SciX #NASA #OpenScience #Geology #Astrobiology

🏆 Nominations are open for the GWIS Honorary Membership Awards recognizing research excellence, science education, early career, and science communication. 👉 www.gwis.org/page/honorar...

In this installment of the hashtag #ECRAsks series, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social spoke to @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social about equity, diversity and how scientific research intersects with politics. Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2025/07...

🦖🐌 🌿 🐝 MorphoBank Connects 2025 – Full Schedule is LIVE! Day 1 – Sept 18 👩‍🏫 Presentations ⭐ Keynote 💙 Volunteer Recognition Day 2 – Sept 19 🧑‍💻 Live MorphoBank Workshop 💬 Project Support Office Hours 📘 Program: phoenixbioinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/...

GWIS is looking to fill 3 more leadership roles: Editor ✍️, Parliamentarian ⚖️, AAAS Rep 🔬

🌟 Our first GWIS National Council Meeting of 2025–2026 is this Sunday! Excited to kick off the year with our leaders and welcome new voices into open roles: Editor ✍️, Parliamentarian ⚖️, AAAS Rep 🔬. 💫 #GWIS #Leadership #WomenInSTEM

Which methods are most useful to you? (vote below) 1️⃣ PAUP 2️⃣ TNT 3️⃣ MrBayes 4️⃣ RevBayes 📊 Show results

Advancing FAIR Data Management through AI-Assisted Curation of Morphological Data Matrices https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.08.663621v1

SSB newsletter highlighting #SSB2026 (January 9-11; Baton Rouge) is out! Miss it? ✅✅ Your member email on our website: www.systbio.org/my-account.h... You can still access the content of the newsletter below:

Congratulations to our 2025 Honorary Membership Awardees! This is the highest honor that GWIS bestows, and it recognizes outstanding women scientists. Nominations are welcome and are not limited to GWIS members, so if you know an amazing woman, go to our website today!

Join us Sept. 18 & 19 for the first ever MorphoBank Connects virtual conference! Connect with other researchers, discover new work, and meet the MorphoBank team. 🧪 READ MORE: bit.ly/MorphoConnec... REGISTER: bit.ly/morphobankconnect #evolutionarybiology #paleontology #phylogenetics

🌐 Join us for MorphoBank Connects 2025! September 18–19 | Free Virtual Conference ✨ Keynote by Dr. Maureen O’Leary ✨ Talks on morphology, FAIR data, and open science ✨ Hands-on workshops & curation office hours 👉 Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Thank you @sortee.bsky.social and @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about open science, DEI, and the current challenges facing researchers. Honored to be part of this important conversation.

Abstracts for MorphoBank Connects due this Thursday! It's a free, virtual conference - reach out if you have any questions.

Back from a week on the Kootenai River collecting data for nutrient research. Land use & river management are shifting N & P availability with big impacts on ecosystem function. #Fieldwork #AquaticEcology #WaterQuality

Today we are celebrating the first anniversary of our amazing MorphoBank volunteers! 🎉 Together, they have added hundreds of phylogenetic matrices, engaged in curation sessions, & continued learning through seminars. Here’s to growing our #CitizenScience community & powering research together!

New Data Note in @historicalbiology.bsky.social featuring a curated morphological matrix of 52 lucinid + 58 shell characters + notes. Supports phylogenetics & host–symbiont systems. 📂 Data: @morphobank.bsky.social Project P4896 dx.doi.org/10.7934/P4896 🔗 Article: doi.org/10.1080/0891...

Call for Abstracts: MorphoBank Connects 2025! 🗓 Submission Deadline: July 24, 2025 📨 Acceptance: August 7, 2025 ⏰ 15 min Talk + 5 min Q&A ✍️ Abstract (≤250 words, no refs/images) 🔗 Submit: phoenixbioinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/x/BACLFg ❓ [email protected]

Thanks so much for featuring Stewartia floridana @historicalbiology.bsky.social! 🎉 This bivalve holds a special place in my heart - it was the focus of my M.S. thesis. From its first appearance in the Late Pliocene to its survival today along the southeastern U.S. coast. 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fevo...

I’m delighted to serve as Historical Biology’s new Data Editor. As we transition to an Open and FAIR data sharing policy, please feel free to reach out with any questions about your submissions!

Grateful to @advancejournal.bsky.social for the chance to reflect on the lessons from 3 years of building faculty programs and policies that foster equity & inclusion in academia. 🔗 www.advancejournal.org/posts Thank you to all who were part of the journey. #HigherEd #ADVANCE #WomenInSTEM

Check out our new data note (still awaiting peer review) on one of the first published genome sequences 🧬 from a member of the Lucinidae family 🔗 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-... Thanks @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social for including me in this research!

Excited to speak at Oglala Lakota College’s Friday Lunch & Learn on April 25 at 12PM MT! I’ll share about @morphobank.bsky.social, a #FAIR, #Open morphological data repository in evo bio & paleo.

👩‍🔬 GWIS is recruiting for 2025–26 National Council positions! #WomenInSTEM #SciLeadership Elected: President-Elect, VP, Secretary Appointed: Treasurer-in-Training, Development Committee 🔗 Join GWIS: www.gwis.org/page/how_to_... 🔗 Apply: www.gwis.org/page/open_po...

📢 Join us Monday, April 14 at 3 PM Eastern for a talk by Juan Liu at UC Berkeley: 🧬 Integrating Morphology, Genome, and Fossils: A Case Study of Combined Evidence Phylogenetic Analysis 🧬 👉 Interested? Email [email protected] #Phylogenetics #EvolutionaryBiology #Fossils #MorphoBank

Join us on April 7 at 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT as Jacqueline S. Silviria presents:Challenges in resolving the 'species-level' phylogeny of the earliest archaic ungulates 🦌 Interested? Email [email protected] for the event link. #Paleontology #Phylogenetics #MorphoBank #Evolution

Save the date for MorphoBank Connects 2025—our first virtual conference on September 18-19! 🎉 It's free and packed with workshops, a hackathon, presentations, and more. Stay tuned for details! #MorphoBankConnects

Proud to share our new @advancejournal.bsky.social paper "Empower Through Inclusivity: Developing Pathways to Success" on #HigherEd faculty success through #Mentorship and #Advocate programming & policies for #InstitutionalChange 📖 Read it here: www.advancejournal.org/article/1335...