Light-colored peppered moths right now

The earliest reptile body impressions with scaly skin Cabarzichnus pulchrus n. igen. n. isp. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Join us! @ssenese.bsky.social. @drgodwit.bsky.social jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Please repost! We are looking for two field technicians to work on our deer mouse project in the Colorado Rockies this spring-fall. Learn about physiology, ecology, and evolution, all in one project! Not to mention that you get to be in the ⛰️. Reach out if you have any questions.

all right Marius! great job leading this v cool effort to test ideas about elevational migration at global scale

It’s been a cold, snowy winter here in Cleveland. In 2923 and 2024, we caught our first salamanders around February 10th. I am now wondering if we won’t see them until late March this year? What’s your guess?

why do males defend territories in some species while pairs or family groups defend territories in others? then-undergrad Shreyas Arashanapalli did a fantastic project to find out, analyzing 3177 playback experiments on 264 species the best predictor? latitude academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Heat can make #fruitfly males sterile at temperatures below their lethal limits. We explore if tissue-specific heat shock protein expression can explain why using 6 #Drosophila species: @chsmithson.bsky.social et al. @ejduncan.bsky.social @amandabretman.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

New perspective on the evolutionary potential of symbiotic interactions! Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work? academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social y.social: Warm waters undermine cryptic female choice! We find ovarian fluid only has a positive effect on sperm function at colder temperatures and that sneaker males have faster sperm than dominant nesting males at warmer temperatures. (1/3)

Happy to see our paper out now in the January edition of #Evolution 🧪 ! Using #drosophila in outdoor mesocosms, we found evidence for adaptation over a winter period and for putative trade-offs between resistance evolution and overwintering performance doi.org/10.1093/evol...

"You don’t have to, like, put a blanket on them." 🥶🦎🥶🦎🥶🦎 www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...

Have questions about the UW–NPS Small Grants Program RFP? 📣 Join our RFP Q&A event hosted by staff from AMK Ranch. We’ll cover program history, RFP details, and open the floor for your questions! Tomorrow @ 5:30! Join our mailing list for more info: uwnps.org/mailing-list/

When you're working with a mentee's draft manuscript, what kind of feedback should you give? To be both efficient and effective, we suggest suppressing some of your instincts... scientistseessquirre... 🧪

Pro-tips: You can make pretty decent website in Google, please do so using your personal account, not one attached to wherever you happen to work right now - y'know, just in case...

I'm consistently surprised at the number of postdocs who have no website

Editor here: I recently suggested five early career scientists who I know personally and knew would be good reviewers for a paper. We were only able to find current contact info for one of them.

This has also been an issue for talk invitations. Lab pages need emails, and grad student need websites.

Shout this from the rooftops! ALSO: PIs who must decline reviews, please nominate the qualified students and postdocs from your lab!

As someone who is getting her promised alumni "email for life" yoinked in short order (budgets...), I will have to rely on gmail going forward. One way to add legitimacy would be to add this email address to a website outlining professional work, your ORCID account, and other such profiles

I'd echo what some of the other folks have said. I feel like I can usually figure out who is an ECR and so I won't think your not-legit with a gmail. & FWIW I personally don't care where you work/don't work. I'm looking at what you've done. If it's recent & relevant I'm going to reach out

New work in #RESEcolEnt by S.Park, @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social & @allikpierce.bsky.social finds heat is deadlier than hypoxia for #Euxoa auxiliaris, an elevationally #migrating #moth. doi.org/10.1111/een.70057 @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social Photos by M.P. Moore

A plea from an editor: postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍

Hot off the press! New paper in Biology Letters (@royalsocietypublishing.org) showing that heatwaves impair female but not male fertility in burying beetles 🐞🌡️ Huge congratulations to Izzy (@izzygrieve.bsky.social) on her first first-authored paper! 🥳🙌 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

📣Deadline approaching - Monday 19th January! Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors! Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...

It's easier to tear down than build up, and in science we have a bad case of that. So: how to lead a journal club that actually finds value in what you read. scientistseessquirre... 🧪

Just a week left to apply for a position in our Editorial Board!

Just a PSA that @drscottataylor.bsky.social, who is an excellent science communicator and hilarious human being as well as an ornithologist, is starting a new podcast called "Okay, But... Birds" and you should definitely check it out. www.okaybutbirds.com

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

It’s official: I’m joining the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of Iowa as an assistant prof starting Fall 2026! I’ll be recruiting multiple grad students and postdocs to join my lab, so if you’re into disturbance ecology and conservation science… watch this space!

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/s... great article about this work in @nytimes.com too! 🧪🌎

The genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper-scissors game | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper from my lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social, led by HIGH-SCHOOL student Serene Park! We studied a moth that migrates from the Great Plains to the Rocky Mts (and back) each year and tested if they are harmed more by extreme heat or low O2 🧪🌍🐙 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New Job Search Announcement: Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: careers.share.nm.gov/psc/hprdcg/E...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is now advertising for the position of Assistant Professor of Marine Biology. See the position description below. careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...

We're hiring! The Dept. of Environmental Conservation @umassamherst.bsky.social is looking for an Extension Professor in Biodiversity Conservation. Reviews start Feb 1. I am on the SC and absolutely love working in the ECo Dept. Come join us! DM me with questions. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

I am recruiting a MS student in Biology at New Mexico Tech with an anticipated start date of Fall 2026 to work on the applied evolutionary genetics of wild populations with conservation or management concerns (butterflies, bighorn sheep). Please see the attached advertisement for more info.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨

Preprint now, submit to journal in January

For the life of me, why do people submit manuscripts now? My EIC inbox has rarely been fuller, and there's no way I'm sending these to Associate Editors until 2026. Friends don't let friends submit in late December.

100%!! As an AE, it’s vastly more inconvenient to have someone ignore an invite than decline it. Just say no!

Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐 Applications due Feb 5 Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1

Every year #ESEB distinguishes a young evolutionary biologist with the John Maynard Smith Prize! 📣Nominations for the 2026 prize are due by January 15th!📣 Find out more here: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!! 📣 The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits. For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

I am so very excited to share the first data paper from my new lab, online now! We show that sex and reproductive condition shape thermal acclimation strategies in a plethodontid salamanders. This raises many new and intriguing questions! 🤓 doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

This is excellent: Tips and Tricks for Writing Constructive Peer Reviews Perhaps the most excellent part is this subhead: "Remember that peer review is not meant to crush souls". Right? Peer review should improve papers (and OK, gatekeep a little) - not make an author regret their career choices!

I’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me

Or just don’t use acronyms. Acronyms are almost always bad for readers because of the cognitive and memory load. Acronyms are nice for typing when you’re in a hurry and don’t want to keep repeating lots of words. So just use find and replace to clean up your manuscript before submitting.

It’s reached that time of year again where I gently suggest you hang on to your manuscripts and submit them early in 2026. Otherwise they’re likely to just sit on a virtual to do list for the next 3 weeks sending auto-reminders to editors/reviewers. 🎄

Exciting update - we're featured on the cover! Always happy to show off flies at ALL life stages 🪰🪰