💬 In the latest Evolution Exchange, SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom talks with Dr. Andrea Betancourt and Dr. Gideon Bradburd about how to train PhD students for careers outside of academia. www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio... @gbradburd.bsky.social

postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

This viral video clip captured by Dean Boshoff of a desert rain frog (Breviceps macrops) highlights one aspect of their behavior: Their terrifying WAR CRY or alarm cry. (sound on) Let's learn a bit more about this African frog that lives along the sandy desert coast along Namibia & South Africa.

Chance to join the incredible banded mongoose project! 🇺🇬❤️ 3 year postdoc on the mongoose project, working on the evolution and maintenance of group identity in animal societies. The closing date for applications is 16 June 2026. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN272/p...

The @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social conference is in full swing! With great representation from our research group. MRes student Keya did a great job presenting her research so far, with lots more to come! @beps-bangor.bsky.social @meebangor.bsky.social

Tips for becoming a better mentor/supervisor, based on survey of 2,600 early-career researchers; eg. regular meetings are super-important Includes tips for institutions and funding bodies to promote good supervision doi.org/10.64898/202... #AcademicSky HT @science.org

This exceptional event (in terms of absolute temperature) is also unusual in coinciding with the time that we monitor breeding great and blue tits in Wytham Woods: we're hoping to do some assessment of possible effects fairly soon.

📢Out now in #ProcB our NEW paper on how #reward inequity can promote production of #publicgoods and #free-riding 👏Congratulations @beckypadget.bsky.social as lead author 👥With #AndyHigginson @royalsocietypublishing.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @crab-exeter.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Hello media people there is a whole library of images you can use to report on the current heatwave instead of melting ice creams and deck chairs. See Climate Visuals: climateoutreach.org/what-we-do/c...

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

Bank holiday picnic in the sun with my wonderful research group. Always brilliant to spend time with this happy and productive crew! I’m lucky to work with them! 🐣 🦎 #MacLizardLab

As we hit the 3rd day in a row of 30°C+, a reminder that shifting baselines are a real thing. The 1961-2020 mean July high temperature for here is 21-22°C according to the Met Office www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/cli...

👀 for postdoc? Come work with my colleague on an exciting project at the intersection of ecological genetics, invasion biology, and plant-insect interactions 🐛 🧬 ☘️ (not on clover, but plant emojis are limited)

Very happy to share our new paper that we explored the complex triangle between burying beetles, mites, and nematodes. Turns out, whether hitchhiking mites act as friends or foes to their hosts depends entirely on who else is in the room. doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

I looked at my past 6 years of papers, out of curiosity. 42 are co-authored with foreign collaborators. 16 with international students or postdocs, some of whom subsequently left the US. Only 26 were by US residents only, less than 1/3 of my scientific work. This policy will kill US innovation

Honestly plaque can't handle this schedule 🥲

Between being a parent and academia, sometimes we get so little positive feedback that when my hygienist said "your teeth are great, keep doing what you're doing" I almost cried 😅

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....

The summer newsletter is now out! ☀️ If you didn't receive it by e-mail, you can check it out here and/or sign up to have future newsletters sent your way 📩 www.asab.org/newsletters

So good to see this innovative terrestrial #eDNA #invertebrate #habitatcomplexity work published by @meebangor.bsky.social collaborators Daniela Zuzolo, Gina Gizzi and team from University of Sannio www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... dstunisannio.it/en/introduct...

I’m a bit biased as I’m married to him BUT this will be a great project and a brilliant opportunity for an evolutionary ecologist who values variety (genomics, fieldwork, entomology) and who’d like to live in beautiful North Wales!

To support new junior faculty, JEB launched Kickstart Travel Grants to establish a new collaboration & and ECR Visiting Fellowships to bring an ECR to their new lab for a defined project. The next application deadline is 5 June www.biologists.com/grants/#jeb

Great opportunity to join our group as a postdoc! Contact Ben ASAP for more info :)

Great sounding project, great place, and great PI (and guy). I would apply.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Thanks to vaccines, many of us have grown up without fear of contracting diseases like polio and diphtheria. But do we take them for granted? On #WorldVaccineDay, watch our video with #BBCIdeas on a world without vaccines: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi7g...

LEARN THE TRUTH NOW 🥵🐟

A surprisingly philosophical caveat from a 1944 manual of chicken diseases.

I am happy to share this new review of physiological constraints on heat adapation in #birds, recently published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social and the first major output of @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. 🧵 shorturl.at/Bv58e

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

We’re hiring a herpetology curator @nhm-london.bsky.social - come join us! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...

Read the vision of 39 prominent scientists to the future of behavioral ecology and sociobiology in our latest editorial. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 80:64. doi.org/10.1007/s002...

Florence Nightingale was born #OTD in 1820. Though best known as a nurse (maybe a gendered siloing of her contributions) she did pioneering work applying statistics to public health and communicating her results with innovative data visualization. 🧪 👩‍⚕️ Image: National Archives (UK)

Sorry I cannot reply to your email, I am currently: ✅ in the bog

I was just informed that you can receive a 20% discount using the code AMCLF20 at the publisher's website.

New book "A Primer for Experimental Evolution" with coauthors Michael Rose, Margarida Matos, and Joe Graves. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook... A compact primer for students and colleagues interested in planning and designing experiments to address questions in evolutionary biology.

🚨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...

Please don’t put out hair for bird nests. Chicks get entangled in hair balls. Just had to cut hair strands that were tying 3 blue tit chicks together, and wrapped round the throat of one skinny chick that couldn’t swallow food. Hopefully saved in time 🤞

Me, bleeding profusely from my balls: "Actually it's a herring gull" www.suffolkgazette.com/seagull-rips...

I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp! Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Feeling attacked 😵‍💫

Some lovely talks from BEPs colleagues and others today to mark Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday! Reflections on his huge contributions to natural history scicomm with particular reference to primatology from @alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social and entomology from @bjmjarrett.bsky.social 🐵 🐞

🎉 Today we celebrate RES Honorary Fellow Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday 🌍 His work has inspired generations of scientists & enthusiasts, elevating the importance of biodiversity & the urgent need to protect it. From us all at the RES, thank you & happy 100th birthday!

Happy centenary, David! Attenborough’s 100 most spectacular TV moments

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

Join us in wishing a massive happy 100th birthday to the man who has inspired millions of people around the world to care about nature and look after our planet - the incredible Sir David Attenborough! 🎉

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like