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…

LOOKING BACK in IBIS Evaluation of tag attachment techniques for plunge-diving terns | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Ruben C. Fijn et al | #ornithology 🪶

🧪 PRACTICAL tip for NSF PIs with terminated grants: You're entitled to recover more closeout costs than a DOGE-fueled NSF may lead you to believe. ➡️ Do this NOW: Send fed reg 2 CFR 200.472 on allowable "termination costs" to your sponsored research office: www.ecfr.gov/current/titl... 1/8 🧵

Heard from a former (undergrad) student who just defended her PhD. Students: tell your old profs about your successes and achievements. It's not bragging, and we love to hear about it. It's one of the best parts of being an educator. #academicsky

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

It actually exists! A few copies of my new book just arrived. Nice to see it in person, finally. If you've ever wondered about the ecology or evolution of an invasive population, this one's for you. #evobio 🌏 #bioinvasions #ecoevo

And so it begins — NIH is planning to terminate active grants that no longer meet the agency's "priorities". Grants that were already approved for funding through peer review. The pursuit of knowledge should be apolitical, inclusive, and forward-thinking. 🧪 #PeerReview #DefendResearch

Thrilled to share that my second child was born in January happy and healthy. Maternity leave is flying by and I’m so grateful for this chance to embrace my children at this tiny stage of their lives.

People have no idea how scary this is. XDR-TB is virtually untreatable. Even if you don’t care about others should you support combating infectious disease elsewhere. Pathogens know no borders nor care about your beliefs. 🧪🦠 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Just out of the oven! Today @migueldlm.bsky.social just published his first paper related to his PhD thesis! BFEX is a new Blender tool for making FEA more accessible for biologists and paleontologists! All using open and free software 😱 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Helmeted hornbills are known for their violent head-butting—but how does their skull withstand the impact? Unlike other birds their craniofacial joint is massively reinforced locking into place like a puzzle. New study reveals a skull built not to flex but to endure Schindler et al buff.ly/7FJjheJ

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

Congratulations to my @fieldpalaeo.bsky.social labmates Grace Burton and Juan Benito on their new paper about air space volumes in the hollow bones of birds! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Part of an entire special issue on the avian respiratory system! 🪶🧪 (📷Burton et al.)

With the US Antarctic program in limbo, scientists say foreign countries are "actively recruiting" their colleagues & students. "People have been coming [to the US] to do science my whole life. Now people are going the other way.” Make America Great Again! www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

🚨 COOL BIRD JOB ALERT! 🚨 @cornellbirds.bsky.social is looking for a Research Associate to run their research and student training program at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, focusing on Black-throated Blue Warblers and Ovenbirds. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29599

I am searching for a PhD candidate interested in investigating how knowledge of thermal physiology and ecology of wild pollinators can help promote biodiversity conservation 🐝 Dynamic thermal team at @biologylu.bsky.social. Apply by March 20 👇 I would appreciate a re-post!

PhD studentship funded by the Anatomical Society at the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social. Studying the functional morphology of sheep, goats and their relatives including the fossil island dwarf Myotragus: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... Contact me for more details.

Give a group of scientists the same data and the same research question, and they should come up with similar answers—in theory. But they don’t. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @cathleenogrady.bsky.social)

📢 Job available here at University of Birmingham for a CT scanner experimental officer to run and manage our micro-CT facility! Scanning a range of paleontological, geological and biological samples edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

New paper out in @conphysjournal.bsky.social! We show that pond drying 💧 during the tadpole period has carry-over costs on metamorph jumping ability 🐸 | doi.org/10.1093/conp...

Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help! We are collecting *specific, clear* examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter. Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol

As many of you know, ~170 Program Officers at #NSF were fired on Tuesday, including a number that worked in Divisions important to the EEB community (e.g., DEB and GEO/OPP). 1/3

Inside the lobby at NSF…

Fuck this.

Including many with BEPs group members!

I’m so sick of people promoting their work on here. Imagine how annoying it’d be if I spent my time on this site promoting my book about the surprisingly literary origins of ecology, *The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science*? That would be pointless and unforgivable, obviously

y'all i have the coolest project lined up on cacti and succulents with a plant biologist and Bangor's biocomposites research centre - interdisciplinary, employable skills, cool science AND succulents? hit me up. 🌵🌵🌵

We are working on a major update to Mesquite, version 4! We welcome any suggestions for features or fixes. A major emphasis will be phylogenomic data. We may not have time for more big features, but please suggest small features for data maintenance or editing that could make your lives easier.

Can you guys believe there was a time when people didn’t just spend their entire lives replying to emails

@nature.com is keen to find out how scientists are using @bsky.app and whether it has become their go-to social-media platform. Do you use Bluesky? Has it replaced Xitter? We want to hear from you. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #eXit

Looking to build your CV by doing a Masters project? Lots available at Bangor University in zoology-related fields and more:

A review on #dinosaur locomotion in Biology Letters as part of the 200 years of dinosaurs special issue. #openaccess too: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

PhD project opportunity here in Manchester to do some cool inter-disciplinary stuff on the taphonomy and fossil record of collagen. Ancient, recent, modern, lab-work, theoretical, data, imaging, its all there! Deadline Jan 31st www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🌟 POSTDOC ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring a #postdoc to study #Birdsong #Biomechanics at the Muséum in Paris (@mnhn.fr) 🔧 Key Skills: - #Bioacoustics - Aero-acoustic modelling (COMSOL) 📅 Start: March 2024 (or earlier) I'll be at #SICB2025 – come chat or email me for details!

Just back from #SICB2025 and already in need of more great conferences? Abstract submission for #SEB2025 is open until Friday 7 March 2025! We look forward to seeing you in beautiful Antwerp, 8-11 July 2025. 👉 www.sebiology.org/events/seb-a... #SEBCONFERENCE

New paper is up! Elephant skin collagen is all tangled up! Theead coming up in a few hours! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Ever wondered how birds stand up? Our paper explores how emus use their muscles to stand up. We found that these large, flightless birds use large muscle fibre length changes, activations and forces. My 1st PhD chapter, out now in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Really great quote from the bio-inspired engineering session: ⏩"biology comes up with really good solutions, but it never optimizes them".⏪ YES this is what I am always trying to tell people about headbutting and woodpecking. It works but it ain't perfect! #SICB2025

Congratulations to Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social, winner of this year’s @J_Exp_Biol sponsored Carl Gans Award at #SICB2025. His #biomechanics research examines the role of modularity in the evolution of the #fish skull. Don't miss his talk: 7 Jan at 13:30 in Marquis D Please repost

Are you at #SICB2025 and interested in bats? Check out @ashockney24.bsky.social’s talk on how furry bat wings are (Monday at 1:45PM in International 5), and Kate Manges Douglas’s poster on how hot bat wings are (Monday, P3-121)! Sneak peaks below: