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 🪰🪰

Hello! 👋 I've finally moved here from the dark side and I'm excited to reconnect with all the awesome scientists I followed previously! In our lab at University of St Andrews we study behavioural and physiological responses to climate change (mainly in fish and insects) 🌡️🪲🐞🐟🐠

one thing I've found so curious - not bad or good, just legit interesting and odd - is that evolutionary biologists who study adults hear "development" and think "plasticity" rather than organisms changing over the course of their life

A resurrection study of scarlet monkeyflower populations across the species' range finds relatively little adaptive response to a seven-year drought event, showing that evolutionary rescue is not as predictable as we might hope 🌿 buff.ly/L8o4hhr

Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al: "Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited" doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals

Do ecological thresholds driven by nutrient limitation transfer across biological levels of organization? Our team explores how ecological stoichiometry can help tackle questions like this here! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

So excited to share our new work out in @evolletters.bsky.social today! doi.org/10.1093/evle... Sexual signals and preferences for them often differ across groups, contributing to reproductive isolation. But how do new signals evolve if females already have preferences for existing ones? (1/4)

When you deploy a tracking device, how long do you expect it to last? We all hope for the best, but that's often not reality. 😞 For more information, check out Emily Weiser's new paper with help from many (many) folks in the shorebird community. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

True toads (Bufonidae) originated in South America and invaded Africa via the Antarctic in the Cenozoic! (which was temperate/sub-tropical at the time). Super cool. 🐸🐸🐸 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology: 🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑‍💻🪸🦎 Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi... DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣

EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us! eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/

Writing an Introduction is hard. There are a few ways Introductions often go astray - avoid these. "What your Introduction section isn't" -

📣 Ecologists and evolutionary biologists! Have you ever wanted to be a journal editor? BES journals are having an open call for editors. Details: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl... Happy to answer any Qs! Open to all nationalities. Applications from postdocs welcome :)

*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

🦋 We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌿 If you're interested in contributing to our journals, check the link below for more information 👇 buff.ly/7su8jMf

I'm hiring a full time fixed-term 1yr lab tech to assist with field and greenhouse projects related to floral evolution and plant reproductive ecology. Please share! Ideal start date early 2026. jobs.clemson.edu/psc/ps/JOBS/...

A new #PhD opportunity supervised by @drmambobob.bsky.social and me at the @uniofreading.bsky.social on dragonfly and damselfly evolution! It is competition funded through the CROCUS partnership, and involves a mix of palaeontology and comparative biology. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

"Okay, But… Birds" 🐦🦆🐣 🦉🦜🦩 Listen/watch this science-meets-storytelling podcast about the weird, brilliant, & surprisingly dramatic lives of birds. Hosted by evolutionary biologist Scott Taylor. Premiers Dec 4th www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUV...

Come work with me! The Dept of Integrative Biology at CU Denver @cudenverclas.bsky.social is hiring an asst professor in cellular and molecular biology 🧪 cu.taleo.net/careersectio... We're a friendly and collegial dept in downtown Denver. Bonus, our labs have an unobstructed view of the Rockies

Join us at CU Denver Biology! We have an open search for an assistant professor in cell and molecular biology to support our research and teaching mission. cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Infrared thermography is a useful tool in research on thermoregulation and evolution of heat tolerance doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Erik I Svensson et al.

phenotypic selection on flower thermoregulation depends on air temperature. huuuuge effort by many lab members past and present. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬 We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies. Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

Great new paper by the amazing @noahleith.bsky.social and his colleagues! 🌎🧪🦑 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Available now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! Taking on some big-scale natural history: processed >40k @inaturalist.bsky.social images of Monarda fistulosa using computer vision to query for flower presence and phenotype flower color: doi.org/10.1086/739413

A reminder, to myself and others, as our federal colleagues return to work, the backlog will be huge, and they didn't just come back from vacation, they are coming back from something that has impacted each of them in their own way I know I am eager to talk to many of them, but lets all be patient

NSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS!! New Special Issue on "Foundations of Internal Conflicts": academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca... #internalconflict #selfishelements #meioticdrive #imprintedgenes #reproductiveparasitism

Thrilled to share this paper that started as a summer research project and ended as a co-first author pub with amazing undergrad mentee Naomi 🪰 #evosky 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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...

By combining mark-recapture and genetic parentage data from wild #lizards, we show that the offspring of older parents do not have lower survival or reproductive success than the offspring of younger parents: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Crain et al. 2025

Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... Get in touch if you want to chat!

Spatial and temporal exposure to climatic extremes shape butterfly thermal physiology and vulnerability to recent climate change vist.ly/4dme7 #RangeLimit #ThermalTolerance