Did you make a billion dollars last year? No? Neither did I. Apparently we did not have the same inside information and ability to manipulate the system as Trump, family, and Christian nationalists.

Job opportunity alert: the Smithsonian is hiring an #ornithology curator! www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Just after presenting our work about how different patterns of parental care can affect immunity in #nicrophorus offspring at the @ece2026tours.bsky.social, it's now published by @insect-science.bsky.social and you can (open) access it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This story was retracted by NPR.

The Supreme Court has dubbed Trump our King. And just days before our nation’s 250th anniversary on July 4th no less. It might sound like I’m exaggerating — but I’m not.

Please repost: I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on projects related to understanding the movement ecology of harmful and beneficial insects in agroecosystems. Applications close on: July 31, 2026 To apply and for more information, visit: lnkd.in/g8gFeB3u

🚨Interested in #evolutionary #genomics and #popgen #theory? My lab just opened a 1+ year #postdoc position to work on sex chromosome dosage compensation. At #CEFE Montpellier 👉 bit.ly/4eMWDIh Informal enquiries welcome to me🙂 or Paul Saunders and Sylvain Glémin at #SMBE2026 Thanks for sharing!

#NSF is replacing the PAPPG with "NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance" (GFA) ("Guffaw"?). A notice in the Federal Register seeks comments, due in 60 days. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Big news this week from The Rogers Lab. We will be moving to GW University in Washington DC, starting August 1st. We will be hiring postdocs and recruiting new students! Email me if interested or come find me at SMBE!

🧬 Exploring the implications of within-organism conflicts for organismal biology with biology We’re welcoming the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation: Mathematical Foundations workshop to NITMB! A huge thank you to the organizers and speakers. We look forward to the week’s discussions!

Rasgon Lab Postdocs are FINALLY formally available. Apply here! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity? I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University). I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat! Link below

A reminder... deadline June 30, 2026 Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution 👇

Said a spokesperson for chimps and elephants, "Fuck you, we're not a problem to solve" www.npr.org/2026/06/07/n...

This is an outstanding paper - unbelievably complete. Nice work.

Ages ago, I asked @mikemelton.bsky.social for permission to use his phenomenal video of the hard-to-see Saffron Crested Tyrant Manakin. You can see it here along with video of the other four manakins whose genomes we sequenced! Thanks again!!!

Right. The deeper issue is that the regulation increases PRESIDENTIAL control of science. And *that* is the major break from the decades of NIH success, where Congress via legislation set NIH priorities and the president mostly stayed out of it. But: /1 🧵

Over the last few days, there has been a lot of discussion about the proposed regulation to increase political oversight of grantmaking. Some have argued this represents increased politicization of science. As someone who studies the politics of science, I think that's the wrong argument to make. 🧵

I’m obliged to pass on our study of light spectrum 🌈 variation in fireflies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... by former PhD student Margot Popecki 😊

Thoughtful review of The Paradox of the Organism book homunculusmusic.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/i... @tomwscott.bsky.social

Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts

Truly fascinating.

This is an interesting analysis of AlphaFold3. I don't claim to understand all of the technicalities, but the conclusion matches our own anecdotal experience that evolutionary depth is important for the most confident AlphaFold predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

please do share widely | University of St Andrews Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) PGR Scholarship www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/schola...

Our new paper is out in Frontiers in Zoology on the molecular basis of parental care. We show that in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, extensive molecular reprogramming already occurs before offspring hatch. Congrats to Julius! #Nicrophorus

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

The positions are based at @uniexecec.bsky.social at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus in Cornwall, and they are funded for 4 and 3.5 years, respectively, with an October 2026 starting date (flexible).

“one can see this in the self-descriptions of the [extended evolutionary synthesis], where the primary goal is the explanation of adaptations, (Moczek et al., 2011), not very different from that of long established mainstream evolutionary theory.”

I am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

“The message, very clearly, they’re sending is, do not speak out on behalf of Chinese postdocs. If you do, you’re going to pay a penalty...It seems pretty obvious that this is an attempt by the current administration to silence people that question their activities." — Roger Innes, IU AAUP member

Outsider Animals by Marlene Zuk is now available worldwide! This book is an entertaining exploration of what raccoons, rats, and other animal intruders teach us about intelligence, adaptability, and ourselves. Find it here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Biology #Wildlife #Animals

Sharing for no reason www.nasonline.org/directory-en...

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Book launch event is tomorrow!! See you there, Boston-area folks? I brought my Party-Planning Mom energy (baked cookies that match the cover) www.harvard.com/event/elizab... @harvardbookstore.bsky.social 🧪

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2026 SSE Lifetime Achievement Award, Dr. Samuel M. Scheiner! Read more about his work as a researcher and NSF Program Officer, as well as his service to the biology community: www.evolutionsociety.org/society-awar...

Indeed - and to Nina Wedell as well. Great choices.

Are you following the law? the board asks NSF. We don’t listen to you anymore, NSF responds.

Marcia McNutt’s tenure at NASEM has been an utter disaster. These people think they’re taking the smart approach to weather the storm and save as much of the system as they can. They think they’re Oskar Schindler when they’re much more Vidkun Quisling.

NAS President Marcia McNutt claims she is being bipartisan by avoiding “topics for which there is a partisan divide.” But this is blatantly partisan. She is doing exactly what one party wants. Worse, in direct opposition to the science in these fields. 🧵1/?

Ever wonder how different burying beetle species vary in terms of immunity, and if the vast differences in larval dependency are reflected? I bet you did! So did we: doi.org/10.1111/eea.... Congratulations to Laura and @leo-theo.bsky.social, and big thanks to @steigerlab.bsky.social!

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

Victory favors those who follow the science.

Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data - Sherbourne - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Wow!

This is ONE of the reasons why Vought did all of those things. Multiple purposes, tragically aligned...

Occasionally as an editor you get something different and fun. This is both - with a nice write up in NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/s...

Science is good. We should fund it.

Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives. The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Trickle-down economics is a hoax.