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/...

Here's an image that requires a second look. It looks like a creature with big dark eyes is peering at you: it's not. You're looking at a FROG'S BUTT (you pervert). Let's meet the Cuyaba dwarf frog (Physalaemus nattereri). Maybe we should start with seeing the front of it? (📷: George Grall)

This only happens to you once

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...

COULD BE BUGS

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

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

FYI: Despite recent info suggesting otherwise, my lab at CU Boulder is in fact accepting grad students fall 2026! Reach out if interested in insect systematics, phylogenetics, life history, insect-plant interactions.

Come and work with us 5-year position available for a University Researcher in Bioimaging 1.11.2025-31.12.2030 abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

We love jumping spiders because they are smol, cute, active, friendly and always looking around curiously with their huge eyes. But do you know they’re also masters of mimicry? Check out the bugs they pretend to be (and some of those are really good)!💚💚

Timeline Cleanse. Four-spotted #Mantidfly, Dicromantispa interrupta #Fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro #MacroPhotography #Photography #invertebrate #Neuroptera #insects

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

Please consider applying to our open faculty position call that includes Ecology! apply.interfolio.com/172075

Mummified Palaeogene millipedes from southern France onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology

Mr Admestina tibialis, small derpy long boy 🤍 #EmotionalSupportSpood

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

the ordeal of trying to find a caterpillar exactly the right size for the vial (for exhibit purposes)

Dept of Plant Biology at UIUC hiring in any subdiscipline of Mycology and/or Plant-Fungal Interactions tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level. Apply by Oct 31, 2025. For complete details including salary and benefit information, visit go.illinois.edu/PlantBiolfac...

Interested in joining our lab (dunnlab.org) as a postdoc to work on siphonophores, processes that structure diversity in the open ocean, or natural history? If so, please reach out to discuss a nomination for the Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellowship - yibs.yale.edu/donnelley-fe...

I somehow missed that @dradriansmith.bsky.social put out a new slow motion insect flight video last week. These are always sublime.

My department (ecology and evolution) is hiring a core bioinformatics/comp bio person (not TT but the last person retired after 25+ years). It's a great place to work!: stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersectio...

After three years of searching for one, Machampigatr is finally mine 🥰

Ohio State is searching for an entomologist at the Associate/Full level! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

I am recruiting graduate students to begin August 2026. Apply by Nov 15th!

Sharing some artwork for #InverteFest. This is a felted spider that my wife made for me. It is loosely based on an iNaturalist observation I made of a male Phidippus whitmani, which is one of the species of jumping spiders that mimic mutillids wasps. 🕷️🌿 www.inaturalist.org/observations...

OSU insect systematics chair!! This sounds like a DEEPLY cool job with a fantastic collection attached: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Posted today: AMNH Invertebrate zoology is hiring a new collectuons manager (curatorial associate).

Good morning! For day 2 of #Leptember here is one of natures finest, an Oleander Hawk-moth (Daphnis nerii). A home reared specimen, held by my daughter just before its release.

Telamonia dimidiata #Invertefest

A wonderful #InverteFest visitor! Giant Ichneumon Wasp 🌿

Museums aren’t just collections — they’re classrooms. 🦋🏛️ @corriemoreau.bsky.social's #Scopes100 talk shows how exhibits make #evolution accessible & engaging. https://loom.ly/vFnwcRo#Scopes100#evolution @ncse.bsky.social

Painted Bunting at Caw Caw Interpretive Center, South Carolina #birds #nature

Portrait of an Australian trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus cephalotes.

Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Look how cute. like a bunny-shark. I ❤️ Notocera www.inaturalist.org/observations...

How do tiny ripple bugs surf raging rivers? Check out our new work in @science.org Work led by Victor Ortega-Jimenez, Dongjin Kim, Sunny Kumar, Changhwan Kim, Je-Sung Koh, and Saad Bhamla - a collaboration between UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and Ajou University. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I love the small world! There’s so much beauty! Congratulations! Magnification of a beetle foot:

A couple of days ago I ran into this huge Mantis (Stagomantis sp)which had just captured a large Bush Cicada (Megatibicen dorsatus) Such a cool encounter… although I felt sorry for the beautiful cicada #insects #wildlife

My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined). Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions. apply.interfolio.com/171625

A picture of a female from Google, as mine is at the bottom of her burrow with a juicy roach.

Mature male Chilobrachys natanicharum (electric blue) 😍

📷Happy #WorldPhotographyDay! 🎉To celebrate, we’re sharing a few macrophotography images taken by Janelia Research Specialist Igor Siwanowicz. 🔬Siwanowicz's images have placed 20+ times in the Nikon Small World & Olympus BioScapes competitions & were featured on US Postal Service stamps in 2023.

Like woodpeckers? Like pretty colors? Like genomics of pretty colors in woodpeckers? Then this is for you! "Biochemical and Genomic Underpinnings of Carotenoid Colour Variation Across a Hybrid Zone Between South Asian Flameback Woodpeckers" Lead author: Rashika Ranasinghe doi.org/10.1111/mec....

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

Saturnidae moths are 🤌🏽🤌🏽🤌🏽 The second picture reveals the severely underexplored and often ignored camera-type (or “simple”) eyes.

Por esto se les llama ARAÑAS SALTARINAS 😉

Final call: Applications close September 2! KI is recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...