"If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lower your expectations for fairness before you read through the comments." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...

Please circulate: I will have a postdoc opening soon, ideally with a start date sometime this summer or fall. If you're interested in empirical population genetics, computational methods development, and/or evolutionary modeling via simulation, don't hesitate to reach out. For more info on the lab:

My kindergartener’s school was threatened Thursday. My sweet 6 year old was huddled in behind her teacher’s desk with her friends trying not to make noise. The same day, an instructor at her dance school was murdered in a mass shooting.

Still accepting applicants for a postdoc! Here's the evoldir link if you're interested: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... Please reach out! Share with a friend!

A reminder to all that Early Bird Registration for the Evolution conference (SSE, ASN, SSB societies) is still an option today or tomorrow. Prices go up after Apr 15. www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration... I hope to see a number of you in Cleveland this year.

Applications for our international Master‘s programme in Evolutionary Biology open again soon! We offer teaching and exciting research in molecular and experimental evolution, behaviour, ecology to genomics, bioinformatics and modelling. Come join us at JGU Mainz!

We are offering a fully funded two-year postdoctoral position focused on sex chromosome evolution and speciation in the *Jaera albifrons* species complex. Please find the advertisement attached. We welcome applications from interested candidates. Join us :-)

I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961

Out with the Old: Contrasting Histone Marks are Associated with Dosage Compensation on the Ancient and New Z of a Moth with Complex Sex Chromosomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.702263v1

good to see Marcus Freeman on hand to check out the state of Indiana's premier football program

One day, I would love to edit a book with us all sharing anonymous short stories from faculty interview visits. Everyone except white men. (This request brought to you by my faculty field tour w/dozens of new faculty, when the men were like WAIT WHAT HAPPENED AT YOUR INTERVIEW??)

Are you an undergrad interested in ecology, evolution or related fields? Apply by January 20 for our Undergraduate Community at Evolution program! This program provides funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...

Non-canonical sex chromosome evolution revealed by extreme heterogeneity in homomorphic Y chromosome differentiation in the common frog https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.31.697208v1

Advice I now give to grad students and postdocs in the sciences: Don’t just try to meet and impress senior scientists. They’ll retire soon. Get to know your fellow students - make friends where possible, be colleagues at least. These are the people you’ll be sharing the field with for decades.

Come learn with us! #REU!

Looks cool, @adriatica.bsky.social

New preprint!

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Why do males and females often differ in traits? The expected answer: selection. But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Join us! 👇

new work from the lab. Degeneration of Y chromosome does not seem to be one-way street. As a refugium of transposons @Alex Suh @valentinapeona.bsky.social , Y chromosome can recruit some genes by accidental TE burst: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1673852725002243

So excited to have this #dragonfly paper out! #Odonata systematics: past, present, and future: a review of the phylogenetic works in #Anisoptera (dragonflies) url: academic.oup.com/isd/article/... @ethantolman.bsky.social

Cannot stop laughing at this

Helsinki-Vantaa. Hushed, calm, piped birdsong, a garden, a museum, blond-wood daybeds -- daybeds! -- at the gates; last-minute reindeer pastrami; Eero Aarnio "Ball" armchairs in the lounge. Amazed anyone gets on a plane.

Fieldwork!

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

Priceless! 😆 For all you #paleobiology parents.

Happy to see this out online! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great science. Great person. Great opportunity.

As work ramps up, we've created a Starter pack to follow members of the consortium. go.bsky.app/QjiXdsc Please comment below to be added!

Do you work with equids, camelids, or aardvarks? We need lice from them for a research project. Please reach out if you might have access to those lice, I would love to tell you more about our project & collaboration guidelines! #mammals #lice 🧪