Paper accepted!!! Beyond honored to have worked with fellow queer ECRs (@madeline-eppley.bsky.social, @allydefduf.bsky.social and others not on bsky) to critically examine our field's relationship with the queer community, and how we can leverage Queer perspectives to conduct more accurate science!!

Being faculty in the US in 2026 means your meetings with students about their grad school apps also includes checking in to make sure none of their family has been kidnapped by ICE and wtaf is this world we've made

one more week to apply for a 4-years PhD position with me to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming. Deadline: Jan 18th 2026 #MarineGenomics #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics #consgen #conservationgenetics

US faculty, your immigrant colleagues are lonely and scared right now. And they can no longer share how they feel on social media without fear of harming their immigration status. Check in on them.

In this new study that emerged from a great collaboration led by @morganefrapin.bsky.social and Ehsan Pashay Ahi, we dig into the molecular mechanisms of density-dependent effects in Atlantic salmon, specifically in their hypothalamus (a key site for endocrine regulation). A couple of points below👇

Alright scientists! It's that time again! Time to sign up for Skype a Scientist's spring semester. Want to get matched with a classroom in 2026? Sign up now 🥰 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!

Did you really go to grad school if you didn’t also become a climber???

I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills! I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.

I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills! I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.

Successfully added a few letters to my name last month!!! Truly could not have done this with our villages upon villages 🫶🏼

TODAY at 1pm eastern, we're going to be talking about snails under the sea and how they're reacting to climate change with @andylee.bsky.social ! These sessions are Q&A so it's all about what YOU want to know! Join us for free at 1! RSVP link here: givebutter.com/DALmWY

We’re excited to be collaborating with @skypeascientist.bsky.social for their free livestream on December 4th at 1 PM EST featuring researcher Andy Lee! Register here for your chance to talk with Andy about his research on sea snails & climate change: sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/les....

Leading up to the livestream, make sure to read our article, adapted from the work of @andylee.bsky.social & other researchers about how sea snails that have migrated north are adapting to their new habitat: www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/why...

happening this week😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

i’m defending my phd in a couple weeks!!!! lmk if you’d like an invite/link

For those of you dismayed by a certain Billionaire making statements that seem to not prioritize a habitable planet, just want ya’ll to know that there’s a whole lot of us non billionaires that are working really hard on a future that prioritizes people, health, and planetary sustainability. 🌏

say pspspsps if you need help

lecture today was about genetic drift and small populations, and one of the students said “diversity type shii” so i think they’re understanding the material

Why are some sea snails moving north? My first publication has been translated into a kid's article!! www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/why...

If you are a federal scientist in the US and have a been served a RIF notice during the shutdown, experts say this is illegal. you can contact Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) confidentially via the Science Committee Democrats’ Whistleblower form democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whis... 🧪.

how is it 2025 and we still have to remind scientists that science IS POLITICAL scientist are PEOPLE and some of us would really like to keep having rights!!!

Excited for this to finally see the light of day - new preprint from my lab, where we present a fast, accurate maximum likelihood tool to estimate population structure, called MULTICLUST. We extend the model of Alexander et al 2009 (ADMIXTURE) to multiallelic data. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

We've got 35 sets of these posters left. This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms. Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc! squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/scie...

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness *Open Access!* in @jexpbiol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... w/ Dineilys Aparicio, Hoover Pantoja-Sánchez, Rachel Page, & @xebernal.bsky.social 🧵 Photo by Christian Ziegler

I've be struggling to be honest, it's really hard after we have done everything we were supposed to and then we get to the finish line with what feels like nothing. I've been trying to take it day by day. Some days I am ok, some days I am sad (like yesterday).

my first first-author paper is (kinda*) on the cover of molecular ecology!!! *zoom in on the first picture in the second row **together with a bunch of cool gene expression studies really excited to dive into the special issue!! #Evolution #PopGen

graduating PhDs… anyone has a clue on how to not despair about our job prospects right now? (happy to just vent too!)

Today is international nonbinary peoples day, so I'm gonna share a bit about how I figured out that I'm nonbinary. To start, I didn't realize I was nonbinary until I was 35 years old. This was for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest was that I simply never had the words for it 1/8

I'm sadly leaving Hawaii and the USA today. This NYT article, with comment from me, @solilyquy.bsky.social and @leafwax.bsky.social, explains one (of several) reasons why. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

📣 The Mendes Lab is recruiting PhD students in statistical phylogenetics! Interested, or know someone who might be? Details here 👉 tinyurl.com/542wyfb9 — please share!

Excited to have presented our research on geographic differences in auditory properties of Carolina Chickadees at the Animal Behavior Conference! Grateful for the opportunity to share our work and connect with colleagues! @animbehsociety.bsky.social #ABS2025 #Bioacoustics #auditory #Chickadees

“high-grading bias is a concern whenever a small subset of markers are first chosen to explain differences among groups based on their degree of difference and are subsequently reused to estimate the degree of difference among those groups.”

New paper with @birdpicsandscience.bsky.social out TODAY!! We found that choosing "highly informative loci" (aka high fst loci) may bias results in common population genetic analyses onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Explainer thread to come! #PopGen #PopulationGenomics #Evolution

just got the nicest email!! an undergrad is remaking a figure from my paper in their programming in R class and asked me for some help 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

some good news in the midst a lot of bad news this week: my second chapter was accepted!!!!!

👉🏼he has a question for u 👈🏼

mullet goals!!!! 💅💅💅

Hey #evol2025! Interested in marine population genomics, range expanding species, speciation, genome assemblies? Come support my students!! #EvolutionMeeting #marinespecies #populationgenomics

It's always a good day to celebrate an endemic snail. Meet Nesiohelix swinhoei — found in Taiwan and nowhere else. 📷 naturalist121932 on iNaturalist 📍 Taiwan 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

solidarity from indiana!!! you know shit is bad when this is the turnout in Lafayette, INDIANA

🚨 POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY @ CORNELL Join our lab to push the frontier of DNA-based monitoring of aquatic ecosystems! 🔬 Metabarcoding + Metagenomics 🌊 Real-world monitoring impact 📍 Ithaca, NY | Start late summer 2025 (flexible) 📅 Apply by June 27 Full ad & details: www.therkildsenlab.org/join-us.html

For #PrideMonth , an updated reading list by @jjinsing.bsky.social via integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/w... List jayjinsing.github.io/ReadingList/ & be sure to read Jay's coauthored ICB work Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited. doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #LGTBQI #Pride

EEB Mentor Match for 2025 is now open! This is an opportunity for students applying to graduate school in Ecology, Evolution, or Behavior to be matched with a mentor to guide them through the application process. Mentors can sign up too! eebmentormatch.com

ah yes! let’s use genAI and burn more more fossil fuel to destroy the biodiversity we’re trying to document can’t believe one of my favorite organizations would make a decision like this. truly the worst and dumbest timeline we live in.

another example of the 2-body problem in academia: my partner and i have been dating for 4.5 years and we’ve never lived in the same city (let alone the same state or region). he’s actually on a different continent doing fieldwork all summer 😢