Check out our new deer mouse paper @sse-evolution.bsky.social! A truly collaborative effort with @drgodwit.bsky.social, @mstager.bsky.social, and Zac Cheviron. academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Behind the scenes at @mobotgarden.bsky.social WashU students toured the Oertli Hardy Plant Nursery with Dr. Matthew Albrecht to see how research meets conservation. Thanks to MOBOT for opening their doors (and greenhouses). 📸: Sean Garcia, WashU #WashU #InSTLforSTL #botanicalgardens

Friends: I'm recruiting at least one PhD student to join our lab in Atlanta in the Fall of 2026. Information about our research can be found at the link below. Please pass along to any students interested in the quantitative study of speciation, secondary contact, and the build-up of biodiversity!

New look, same mission! 🌿🦋🌎 We’re proud to introduce our new logo. Our new logo celebrates the diversity of life and the power of collaboration. Together, we advance knowledge and conserve biodiversity—because sustaining life on Earth takes all of us.

A study in Nature Climate Change shows that dragonfly species with mating-associated wing ornamentation have disproportionately gone extinct and lost habitat because of climate change and wildfire. go.nature.com/4nvkfDS 🔒

Interested in measuring trees and branches from Lidar data? Don't want to use Matlab? (who does). Take a look at our new Python package for reconstructing trees from point cloud data using quantitative structure models (QSM's). Fun with @jefferybcannon.bsky.social! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

@americanforests.bsky.social is #hiring multiple positions to support post🔥 reforestation 🌲 on USFS lands. Come work with a really great team doing amazing work. Reach out if you have questions! www.americanforests.org/job-opportun...

This is an absolutely *awesome* small meeting for those of us working in the Rockies. Can't recommend highly enough for all career stages

Last call for GREEBs registration & talk submissions. We might have space for 4 additional talks. Poster submissions are closed. Registration will close Wednesday Sept 17th.

We’re thrilled to announce the Society for Freshwater Science 2026 Annual Meeting! 💡Gathering to Build Resilient Watersheds and Communities 📍 Spokane, WA 📆 May 17–21, 2026 Explore our meeting website for program details, travel, accommodations, field trips & more: 🔗 www.sfsannualmeeting.org

MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects! @stfx-university.bsky.social

Do you like cichlids? Fossils? Fossil cichlids? Would you like to study them as part of a graduate degree at the University of Michigan, joining an NSF-funded project? Get in touch.

These hairy spiders spend almost all of their lives underground. But when it's time to mate, they must brave the great outdoors before they perish.

New paper! PhD student Julie Rej found that invasive brown anoles are more aggressive than native green anoles across a wide range of temperatures. The difference is greatest when it's hottest, ie, heat amplifies the aggression of an invasive species! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire Read more #Warming #Wildfire #Climate

Climate change and wildfires are disrupting dragonfly mating traits, increasing extinction risk and potentially impacting entire ecosystems that rely on these key insect predators. doi.org/g927xj

xkcd absolutely nailing what it's like to be an entomologist. xkcd.com/3140 Except for "horrifying", read "fascinating". Entomologists are hard to horrify. About bugs, anyway.

new paper from my lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social in @natclimate.nature.com, led by @sarahnalley.bsky.social! Dragonflies with dark mating ornaments on their wings are disappearing from parts of the United States that have had more warming and wildfire over the last 40 years 🧪🌍🐙 rdcu.be/eFm7e

🚨 New paper! 🚨 We present thermal imaging evidence that blue-spotted salamanders partake in breeding migration at sub-zero body temperatures that are way below their known supercooling point. ❄️🥶 Why take such a risk? Come check the paper: doi.org/10.1139/cjz-...

Me and my Ecology students to a trip out to Hoosier pass to learn about the climatic drivers of tree line and work on our field identification skills. We brought our class mascots Clarke and Tony with us to boost morale!

Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Cool new paper by Laakso et al. More ornamented damselfly species heat up faster and reacher warmer temperatures in the lab and the field www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Feel free to reach out to any of us here at GT if you have questions! On bluesky: me, @wcratcliff.bsky.social, @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social, @sepl.bsky.social, @seananderson.bsky.social, @digglelab.bsky.social, and everyone else here: biosciences.gatech.edu/people

As an Associate Editor, this is what I'm going through. It can take *months* just to get 2 people to agree to do a review. Many don't respond to the invitation at all, prolonging the process further. People are busy, that's understandable. Please respond, and if "no", suggest alternative reviewers.

PLEASE respond to review requests! Saying "No" as soon as you can is helpful so we can move to the next invitation. Each ignored invitation can delay the process by around 2 weeks. Be considerate of your peers relying on this process!

Academics in the U.S.. be honest. If you were graduating with a PhD in the next year, would you pursue an academic career? It's becoming harder & harder to do this work every day. Specifically interested in hearing from folks at smaller schools, private unis, or community colleges.

New academic year, new ecoevojobs site. Already >200 faculty / permanent jobs! ecoevojobs.net

New research from @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social & P. Cushing in #RESInsectConsDiv High & hardy: Cold-tolerant #generalists inhabit extreme elevations in Rocky Mountain #Pardosa #spiders doi.org/10.1111/icad.70011 @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com Photo: Rocky Mountains, Colorado (credit M.Moore)

Today is the National Park Service’s birthday! 🥳🏞️ You know what would be a great birthday gift? Not firing staff or cutting funds from the agency responsible for keeping our public lands pristine and accessible!

🎉 New publication alert! Read the full article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 📸 Amazon-to-Andes elevational gradient, Peru (photo credit: Wake Forest News) #ManuscriptMonday #ClimateChange #TropicalForests #Amazon #Andes #Biodiversity #ForestResearch #GlobalChange

Early view: we find that brown anole lizards are one of, if not the most, lead tolerant vertebrates known to science combining measures of field exposure, responses to lab dosing, performance assays and functional genomics. Led by PhD student Annelise Blanchette www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you’re looking for a science packed conference with research on all the things, #SICB2026 in Portland, OR is the place for you! Planty people, come join the fun! 🪻🤠🪻

🍄 UGA Plant Pathology is hiring TT faculty in Mycology/Fungal Biology/Fungal Ecology at the Asst/Assc level! Please pass along this opportunity to anyone you know who may be interested. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. 🍄 www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

Submit to @jevbio.bsky.social, we’re the coolest! ;)

I’m not as good about this as I should be, but tremendous thank yous to the researchers that suggest alternate reviewers if they themselves can’t review a manuscript

A big congratulations to William Farhan-Rios on this paper in @pnas.org, featuring a study of tropical-forest change over four decades along the Amazon-to-Andes elevational gradient in Bolivia and Peru 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐 @mobotgarden.bsky.social @livingearthcollab.bsky.social 1/3 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just found out about this, but looks like a great PhD research project, and Denver/Rocky Mountains are great to work in!

Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains? My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙 Apply by Nov 1! Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

new paper out with Paula Cushing @denvermuseumns.bsky.social in @royentsoc.bsky.social! We explore elevational distributions of 🕷️ in Colorado Species that live at extreme elevations tend to be cold-tolerant generalists that can live anywhere 🧪🌍🐙 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We're hiring TWO (two!) tenure-track assistant professors in my Biology department: cellular/molecular biology and plant biology. Within those categories, we are very open to research focus. Come work with me! And please spread the word! fa-exer-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

I’m at #ESA2025! But just for today. I’m giving an inspire talk this afternoon on urban evolutionary ecology. Come find out what I think about when people ask me “if wildlife are adapting to cities, will evolution solve all our problems?”

We will be in the exhibition hall @eseb2025.bsky.social! ✅ Meet our editors ✅ Support your society journal @agonzalezvoyer.bsky.social @maxreuter.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @vakirlis.bsky.social @arnaudlerouzic.bsky.social @francescaraffini.bsky.social @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social

Excited to be heading to #ESA2025 soon! Let me know if you're going and would like to connect!

Ahead of Print in AmNat: Sexual Conflict in Resident Species Can Facilitate Establishment of a Maladapted Invader by Gómez-Llano et al. Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I have gotten several notifications that people are signing up for BlueSky using this! Happy to see it gaining some traction! go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

Ever wonder whether older genes contribute to more processes than younger ones, or whether gene duplication might break up pleiotropy over evolutionary time? Does it matter if we're talking about dev. vs. immune genes? Check out our new paper, headed by postdoc Reese Martin: doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Hey! New faculty! Your annual reminder to keep track of *everything* you do in some way or another. I just dump stuff into a Google doc, nothing fancy, but saves a ton of time when working on promotion & tenure docs. (Ask me what I'm working on right now...!) 🧪

Yes yes yes! I use a big spreadsheet for this, with tabs for various categories (talks, institutional service, outreach/knowledge transfer, publications, funding, supervision, teaching, media, etc…) I also have a sheet where my students track all of *their* stuff so we can track lab accomplishments

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE JUST RELEASED! Sex unfolded: sex, asex, sexes. Read the introductory editorial by Guest Editors D. Roze, S Glemin, @thomaslenormand.bsky.social & K. Van Doninck here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/7 Fantastic cover art by Caroline Blanc.