Join us in our swanky new pad... @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

New study on the effect of relatedness on larval cooperation in burying beetles: sibs boost growth, strangers boost survival. doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... Congrats to Paul Huber and Daniel Wittmann!

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

#NSF IOS Virtual Office Hour next Thursday 1-2 pm. This month's topic will focus on the panel review process. This is a good topic for newer faculty in your department, so please feel free to let them know about this virtual office hour. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-i...

Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Many of us are using LLMs in coding and scientific writing. They are very helpful tools, but we need to be thoughtful as we integrate them into our work flows to preserve accountability, voice and trust. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan.... An editorial at @evolletters.bsky.social for discussion:

SO proud of first pub by recent Wares lab PhD Margot Popecki!!https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.71927

**SORTEE Meet-up at #ESEB2025 – Barcelona** Come connect with @sortee.bsky.social members and fellow ESEB attendees who share an interest in open, reliable, and transparent evolutionary biology. 📅 Wednesday, 20 August 🕜 1:30 PM 📍 Entrance foyer, Expo Area – look for the SORTEE t-shirts!

For people going to ESEB - this will be Wednesday afternoon!

Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist! wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, writes @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:

Easy to follow, continuously updated... www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

🧪 CRITICAL UPDATE: The House draft version is now out. ✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget. ❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget. 8-page summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Draft bill: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

🚨 Lecturer in Animal Ecology position @jcuofficial.bsky.social. Candidates with expertise in terrestrial animal ecology are encouraged. 📍 Townsville, AU Closes: 8th Aug 2025 🔗 careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

Very pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here: Ecology: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Please.

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

Come talk to me today or tomorrow if you're interested in talking about: 1. Your science 2. My science 3. Writing a review for Proceedings B 4. Virginia Tech 5. Postdocs 6. Anything else #Evol2025

Current Biology just published a Q&A with me where I talk about my journey as a scientist and why I enjoy interacting with artists. OA link: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Advice from NSF: grant proposals can still include outreach, community engagement, and so on. But avoid specifying particular groups

There are so many wonderful sentences here I can’t pick just one to quote. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Jones, @kocherlab.bsky.social @brendanimal.bsky.social et al. investigate gene regulation in the social supergene of the fire ant, finding widespread impacts on chromatin accessibility, enhancer activity, and transcription. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf112 #evobio #molbio #bugsky

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Check out this brand new fellowship from the Simon’s Foundation in Ecology and Evolution. Incoming grad students this year are eligible to apply. No citizenship restrictions. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Our paper on disentangling assortative mating and indirect genetic effects in empirical datasets has just been accepted in @jevbio.bsky.social ! It has been a long process (5 years in the making!) and I am very proud of the result 🥳 academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

This was a tremendous job by PhD student Issi Burger and Postdoc Dr. Mike Itgen, who mentored six (!) undergrads to make these experiments happen!

So I took a deep dive. New research shows public science delivers 140–210% returns and fueled 20% of U.S. productivity growth since WWII. Cuts now = $billions lost later. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

It's a demoralizing time to be a US scientist but that is part of their strategy. My friend Jeff Dangl just emailed our faculty reminding us that NSF and NIH grant review panels are still being held and staff there want us to keep submitting. Stay engaged and keep fighting! 1/n

Just a few spots left in our graduate evolution workshop @mlbs-uva.bsky.social! Join me, @clively.bsky.social, @ldelph.bsky.social, and @corlettwood.bsky.social from Jul 27-Aug 2 for a week of evolutionary thinking, science writing, and time outdoors! mlbs.virginia.edu/evolutionary...

Like most Americans, the NSF celebrated its 75th birthday while dying a preventable death

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Congratulations to @jkpritch.bsky.social, very well deserved! www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...

Are you still shopping with Amazon? Don’t.

New paper now out! 🚀 Evolution isn't just about selection—it's about how each generation changes the environment for the next. We experimentally show evolutionary feedbacks in action in fruit flies. 🧵 (1/) @pnas.org #NSF #SupportNSF

New paper! I introduce mpmsim, an R package for simulating matrix population models (MPMs). Great for exploring life history, sampling error, and teaching population dynamics. Full docs + vignettes to get you started! doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Know any soon to graduate or recently graduated postbac researchers interested in / with experience working with phages? We are hiring a junior specialist/research tech! Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04863 (start date more flexible than stated in ad!)

Race IS a social construct, but what does that actually mean? In the wake of Trump’s scientifically illiterate statements on race, I have written a handy explainer. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

The University of Nottingham seeks a Research Associate/Fellow in Behaviour & Evolution, focusing on three-spined stickleback parental care loss. Full-time post, 48 months. Apply by April 11, 2025: https://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=MEDLS1295 #postdoc

Anytime I encounter one of the "XX and XY only" crowd, I dust off my favorite graphic for them and watch their eyes slowly glaze over.

I'd like to tell you a story about a scientist you may not have heard of, but who shaped a lot of modern health research... 🧵

Especially important this year as non-US citizens travel at their risk to SSE/ASN this summer. I donated.

Worth it. Too many new faculty haven’t been trained in grantsmanship. Learn from the best in a beautiful spot. What’s not to like?

TESLA is LEAST (popular brand ever)

21/35 In our work w/ snowflake yeast, we've seen how entanglement, tetraploidy, and multicellular advection emerged unexpectedly in the MuLTEE. Long-term experiments are discovery machines! www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...