We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies... Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc

Looking for a PhD project on sexual selection? Join us at UZH! Application deadline: 9 June 2025. jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Come postdoc in Oslo! 3 years. You design the project! Get in touch with me or others at our museum! Deadline 23 june www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... share and repost !

PhD position alert! Fully-funded PhD in my group to work on avian reproductive microbiomes and immunity. Please RT! Deadline June 29th, reach out for more information. #microbiomes #sparrows #spermbiology

[Please share] 📢‼️ I have 2️⃣ postdoc positions advertised at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: Postdoc on "Theory of adaptive radiation" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... Postdoc on "Homoploid Hybrid Plant Genome Evolution" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear. Our single point of reflection is this: what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?

Pleased to say that @asn-amnat.bsky.social The American Society of Naturalists (and its journal, The American Naturalist) are closing their X account down. If you aren't already following @asn-amnat.bsky.social for great science in evolution, ecology, and organismal biology, do so.

PAPER ALERT: Inbreeding can be detrimental causing inbreeding depression resulting in lower fitness. Here, we track its consequences on sperm, testes, body, lifespan in a 🪲 doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... #mattgage @jevbio.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social

The Biology Anti-racism Committee hosted the first Decolonising Science Public Lecture at St Andrews yesterday. Prof. Joseph Graves spoke about the science of 'race' and racism, with a focus on how racism, not 'race', causes medical disparities. Thanks @gravesjl55.bsky.social for a great talk!

Sperm mtDNA Copy Number Is Not Associated With Midpiece Size Among Songbirds | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Briefly putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social President: The ASN Council has just distributed an updated message to the American Society of Naturalists members with information about actions that can be undertaken to advocate for science, and scientists, within the US:

Excited for a day of talks and posters at the Scottish Fly Meeting! Held in a beautiful old anatomy lecture hall, and the bathrooms are “past the elephant skeletons”. Thanks Jenny and Barry for organising!

SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2025 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Sign up for your free registration code today! https://buff.ly/4hK08PZ @evolmtg.bsky.social

Really looking forward to today's "Women and Girls in Science" conference at Université de Namur 🇧🇪 , where I'll give the first plenary. Can't wait to hear about all the cool science done by #ECR in #STEM ! 🧪👩‍🔬

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Come work with me! #sparrows #microbiomes #reproduction

@asn-amnat.bsky.social has an open call for proposals for a symposium in the Virtual Evolution meeting. It would be especially nice to get proposals that go against current US political trends: on climate, education, underrepresented voices, etc. give someone a lift up.

Looking for recommendations for PhD level courses (in Europe/UK) on microbiomes and shotgun metagenomics for animal microbiomes. Have you or your PhD done a course and would recommend it? Then I would love to hear about it!

Hey BlueSkyers, we’re finalizing a #meta-analysis 📚 on comparative studies examining the link between #SexualSelection and #Speciation. If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not surface in a systematic search, please reach out - we’d love to include them! Please share!

The life of each of us began when a sperm and an egg came together. But what happens at a molecular level? Our latest work in Cell led by @vdeneke.bsky.social & Andreas Blaha reveals a conserved fertilization complex that bridges sperm and egg in vertebrates! (1/11) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

PhD opportunity in St Andrews on plasmids, antibiotics and defence systems, in collaboration with Helen Alexander in Edinburgh. Funding via BBSRC EastBio, please share & pass on to anyone interested! #microsky🦠🧫🧬 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🎉Early Career Researcher Symposium🎉 We're looking for papers from across the field that speak to any aspects of the history of natural history by doctoral and early-career researchers across the globe. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 December Find out more & how to submit a proposal 👇 shnh.org.uk/news/call-fo...

We have a postdoc position available in the lab on post-copulatory barriers in hybridizing crickets. We have genomic data ready to be analyzed and crickets ready for experiments. This is a great collaborative group and a study system with a lot of potential for new projects. Join us!

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking to upgrade my microscope camera! I currently have a 1.5MP camera designed for sperm tracking, which isn't great for taking nice images of sperm. I'd like to get one with better resolution (maybe >5MP) and at least 30fps. Any favorite models? Ones to avoid?

A PhD position is available here at NHM Oslo in the “Sex and Evolution Research Group (SERG)” that I am part of: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... This is a great research environment, so consider applying if you’re looking for a PhD on passerine birds and mate choice. Deadline: 3 March!

New paper: "Synthesis and Scope of the Role of Postmating Prezygotic Isolation in Speciation",where we review mechanisms & importance of barriers acting after mating before fertilization in promoting &/or maintaining species divergence. 🧪🌍🪶🦑🌿🐯🐙#evolution m.cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/earl...

🧪 @emmawhit.bsky.social & I had the pleasure to write a recap of the 16th Biology of Sperm meeting. Check it out for a dive into the amazing atmosphere & exciting science, at the forefront of reproductive #evolutionary biology across animals & plants! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Very much enjoyed reading this recap of BoS16 from @emmawhit.bsky.social and @muriellealund.bsky.social - I wish I was back in Sweden eating cloudberry ice cream! 🍨 doi.org/10.1002/mrd....

After four amazing years we say goodbye to Oslo and we begin the first phase of our journey #SorryTheViewFromTheFerryIsBad

Had lunch at the Montrose basin visitors centre yesterday and had a lovely time watching a kingfisher through their telescopes. I got a commemorative sticker.

I'm finally getting around to doing my intro post. I'm a postdoc interested in the molecular interactions between the ejaculate and the female postmating, and their potential to contribute to reproductive isolation and speciation. 🧪👩‍🔬#HiSciSky #AcademicSky