Iz collection gig!!

Every tear, on every face, tastes the same www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW0k...

Dear Friends, Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest. Deadline is April 17. drawdown.org/careers/clim...

This is the Tri-society meeting: SSE, SSB, and ASN. Always thought provoking and fun! G'head and register!

Who's your Plankton Match? Swipe to meet them 👉 then tell us your match below 👇 #MarineBiology #Plankton #Copepod #Diatom #Dinoflagellate #MarineLife #OceanScience #MBA

As our university is undergoing restructuring, its partnership with the natural history museum where I work, the Academy of Natural Sciences, is in jeopardy. If you value the involvement of science museums in the community, please consider checking out this petition. c.org/Db5WKdZSQ8

GSAC is gathering anonymous input on how funding uncertainty is affecting grad students and postdocs, including challenges and helpful strategies. Responses will be shared in aggregate to inform advocacy and discussions at Evolution. Share your perspective by May 1, 2026: forms.gle/c63zpSkwK3HT...

Snailies! 🐌🐌🐌

#dandelions The sacred geometry of dandelions.

I made my (amazing) book group read this a few years ago. I am now banned from choosing the book, but am also the recipient of sheep-themed swag, so I'm calling it a win. (Will be doing a movie watch event together, naturally)

It's 3/19 in Belgium already, so @marinespecies.bsky.social has dropped the Top Ten marine species of 2025! These incredible animals represent effort and expertise from a whole crew of taxonomists. Thank you to these and all other taxonomists on #WorldTaxonomyDay🎉

(1/2) In labs, museums, fieldwork etc., taxonomists are busy collecting, cataloguing, identifying, comparing, describing and naming species new to science. About 350 taxonomists globally give their valuable time to keep @marinespecies.bsky.social up to date. #taxonomistappreciationday

(1/10) The Dragon Nematode is the first of its kind to be described from chemosynthetic environments. www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... @willetal.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #deepsea

(2/10) The Sponge Ambusher Worm sets its trap in a glass sponge. www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #deepsea

(3/10) The Golden Glow Zoantharian is the first documented deep-sea cave species to bioluminesce. www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean

(4/10) Far below the Pacific Ocean, in a world without sunlight, something glitters: Iskra’s Glitter Worm. www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... @scrippsocean.bsky.social #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #deepsea

(5/10) The Good Luck Flatworm only lives on the critically endangered guitarfish. www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean

(6/10) Does this stern looking creature remind you of someone? Meet the Darth Vader Supergiant Isopod. www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean

Apply for up to £1,500 for systematics/taxonomy projects via LinneSys. Members of The Systematics Association or the Linnean Society are eligible. Deadline: March 27, 23:59 GMT+1. More info: https://systass.org/linnesys/

10 days remaining to submit your Mini-ARTS award! These awards are for revisionary taxonomy and systematics. Up to $4,000 is available per award. For guidelines and to submit your application, see our website www.systbio.org/mini-arts-aw...

Do you (or have you ever) worked with natural history collections? Are you trans or non-binary? If you said "yes" to both of those, @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and I want to hear from you! Please consider filling out our survey and please share with others! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐛🦕🦴🌿 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is incredible. The person in charge of social media deserves a massive raise

Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The first two articles of Volume 5 of the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists are now published at ssbbulletin.org.

it would be entirely within modern naming conventions to name a girl Kingdom and a boy Clade and I think the life sciences need to get ahead of this

Finally, all these awards for students don’t simply appear out of thin air. Enormous thanks to our Awards Director, Dr. Rebecca Chong. Want to help give awards for great science? Consider reviewing applications! Instructions here: www.systbio.org/reviewing-aw...

🚨Awards Alert 🚨 Its award season here at SSB! First up: Graduate Student Research Awards. Due March 20, these awards are for collecting data or otherwise enhancing your dissertation. Open to graduate student society members Apply here: www.systbio.org/graduate-stu...

Coming to #evol2026 this summer? The SSB Early Career Travel Funds competition is now live! Apply by February 27 for this years’ Tri-Society meeting. More info: www.systbio.org/early-career...

Proposals due March 2 for the Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach! This program awards up to $1,000 USD for a variety of evolution education and outreach projects, workshops, and events. Apply now! shorturl.at/I8HqO

Great opportunity for small grants for systematic research!

Today in things where I can't decide if it's brilliant or horrifying 🍑🐄

Asked my Intro Plant Bio students to make Valentine's day plant meme using what they learned in class so far, and dang, it gives me SO MUCH joy seeing all the submissions. Some of my favs here: #valentinesday #ib103 #iamabotanist #plantjoy @botsocamerica.bsky.social l @plantteaching.bsky.social

A thread (with audio) that reminds us that curiosity and creativity are fundamental to science and The human experience.

So proud of @lsu.bsky.social 's CURE program - allows our undergrads to get a real taste of research. Plus our grad students get practice leading a research team. @lsuscience.bsky.social

This is the AI engine in Meta platforms like Insta and FB. This word is Latin for hand, and also the portmanteau that @pcart.bsky.social and I made up for the one-stop orefice of cnidarians. So if what comes out of it is more partly digested goo, rather than handy, the name remains apt.

Not emphasized in this story: OSU has seen more (and more competitive) undergraduate & graduate applicants, better retention and graduation rates, increased research output and federal funding, and higher ranking concomitant with this more diverse faculty.

Really great new paper & 🧵diving into taxonomic disparity of scientific attention. "Focusing intensely on only a few species to act as exemplars may have significant impacts on our conservation efforts, as well as our general understanding of the anatomy and physiology of taxa"

As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.

Me, this week.

That exodus…represents 14% of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or health fields employed at the end of 2024 as then-President Joe Biden prepared to leave office.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Are you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration? Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor! Deadline for applications is February 19. Please spread the word. www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

We work down the hall but don't usually get so much time to hang out and talk science! So a real treat to eat etouffee and hang with @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social @bryanccarstens.bsky.social and their labbies at #SSB2026

Big exciting news! The next Cnidarian Model Systems Meeting, better known as Cnidofest, will be held at the Marine Biological Laboratory from September 23-27, 2026. Mark your calendars!!! After two land-locked meetings, we are returning to an ocean view!!! 🌊🪸 @mblscience.bsky.social

Make good on a new year's goal of supporting colleagues doing the hard & fascinating work of taxonomy! 🌊🪸🐬🦐🐌🦑🦈⭐🦞🦀🐙🧜🌊 Go to the fom below to nominate the most compelling marine species described in 2025 . form.vliz.be/en/form/worm... @marinespecies.bsky.social @oceancensus.bsky.social

This is a wonderful program! Pass it along to evolution- and biodiversity- curious undergrads!!

Come learn with us! #REU!