Now published in Cell! We found that ~15% of SNPs from divergent refs did not liftover as SNPs in the gray fox ref—half mapped to monomorphic sites, half failed to map. Co-authored with Matthew Genchev, @elliecat.bsky.social, and @jazlynmooney.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I love this small museum mostly run by volunteers! It is such a wonderful resource for people interested in natural in Baltimore. Please consider supporting them!

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

This study of intelligence in the UK Biobank is typical of a lot of current social science genomics. Impressive technically, and not over-interpreted. But still, a main result gets lost in the sauce. Within-families, the direct-effect polygenic score explains no more that 1-3% of the variance. /1

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student whose research would benefit from visiting a collection at the @nhm.org? Apply now for our Collections Study Award! Deadline is Oct. 1; learn more at nhm.org/student-coll...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Clouded buff, Diacrisia sannio. It worked; with a little patience, I was able to document the final phase. It was exciting to see how the larva developed a shiny, metallic head shortly before pupation.

NEW PREPRINT from my lab: Temporal analysis of reproduction distributed in space illuminates the climate-change resiliency of toyon (Heteromeles arbutifolia) 🌿 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

SquidSim is the coolest package - it let's you build complex hierarchical data structures and then simulate data from the world you create. The best tool for doing proper power analyses and testing how well your models can uncover the 'truth'. I've been recommending it to everyone!

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student whose research would benefit from visiting a collection at the @nhm.org? Apply now for our Collections Study Award! Deadline is Oct. 1; learn more at nhm.org/student-coll...

Check out our new paper about digitizing the physical trait data from western North American mammals! academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...

The first Aguillon Lab paper is officially out in early view at Evolution!! Led by postdoc @devonderaad.bsky.social, we’ve explored the hybrid zone between black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks in the Great Plains. #ornithology #hybridization #speciation #evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...

👀 How are #NHMLA dioramas created? Uncover previous concept art and sketches that aided in building the Museum's long-standing walrus diorama alongside our Director of Archives & Library, Yolanda Bustos.`

A child in LA County has died from a complication following measles. subacute sclerosing panencephalitis can occur from 2-10 years after acute infection. This is why we vaccinate. The child was too young to receive the vaccine, but if everyone else does their part we all but eradicate the disease

Dept of Plant Biology at UIUC hiring in any subdiscipline of Mycology and/or Plant-Fungal Interactions tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level. Apply by Oct 31, 2025. For complete details including salary and benefit information, visit go.illinois.edu/PlantBiolfac...

How many chromosomes can an animal have? In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Interested in joining our lab (dunnlab.org) as a postdoc to work on siphonophores, processes that structure diversity in the open ocean, or natural history? If so, please reach out to discuss a nomination for the Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellowship - yibs.yale.edu/donnelley-fe...

The BLM is seeking to eradicate the Public Lands Rule, which allows the conservation to be included in land use planning. There are a lot of areas of critical environmental concern in BLM land. It's in the federal register and the public commenting period has started. Please comment!

Beyond the many benefits of open data and code (transparency and reproducibility) one of the most rewarding is receiving an email from someone who is extending your work using your archived data and code.

OSU insect systematics chair!! This sounds like a DEEPLY cool job with a fantastic collection attached: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

A couple folks have been wondering about this, so I asked NSF staff: the solicitation is just lagging behind the rest of the website update; should be all up tomorrow morning.

Support up to 3000 students, life science deadline October 27 🧪

While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

I am recruiting PhD students to join my lab at Wake Forest University Fall 2026. Current projects focus on the neurobiology, behavior, and development of identity processing in paper wasps. Contact me if interested. Deadline to apply is Dec. 15th 2025. Please share! #PhDposition #PhD #wasplove

Curator job opening at the fabulous American Museum of Natural History in New York City! Know a marine fish person 🐠 or oceanographer who might be interested?

An opportunity of a lifetime for budding lichenologists. The National Trust and the Royal Botanics, Edinburgh are offering a PAID lichen traineeship in #Scotland! The work programme looks fascinating and a great opportunity to develop skills. Deadline: 3/10/2025. www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...

Does anyone know if its possible in MrBayes to combine DNA, Standard morphological discrete characters, AND Continuous data? I did not think so, but saw this in the manual. However, many attempts have failed 🙃

Our lab at Mississippi State is recruiting graduate students (PhD/MSc) to join us in Spring or Fall 2026! If you—or someone you know—are interested in researching evo-devo and comparative genomics of horned dung beetles, check out our site & get in touch! davidsonlab-msu.github.io

Our SICB Sept Zoom is next week! read more about our #entomologist who is speaking @gregpask.bsky.social pasklab.middcreate.net/member/greg-... & www.muhlenberg.edu/news/2022/pa... & integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2018/01/29/r... & email to join us [email protected]

Be sure to check Poster number 100 with Alice Ha at #ESEB2025 if you fancy crazy reproductive systems

So excited that @corriemoreau.bsky.social will be giving a tangled banks seminar at NHMO today!! www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese... join us (also on zoom!)

Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our department is hiring a half-time Assistant Lab Professor of Biology beginning in January 2026. Applications are due 10/20, please reach out to me if you have any questions! apply.interfolio.com/171737

I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇 www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

Wow! How about this amazing contender for Wildlife Photo of the Year. Invertebrate predator-prey interactions never looked so gorgeous! www.bbc.com/news/article...

I cried in the parking deck where I got my first COVID shot, out of hope and gratefulness that we had a tool to go back to "normal life". Feels like a lifetime ago. What a dangerous and callous decision.

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

"...[H]ikers use artificial intelligence to help them discover a route, only to discover that the trail is not safe. 'Since about one year ago, many people have begun to think everything on ChatGPT is correct...[i]t is not a tool for mountain advice, for routes, or for planning.'"

The Fair Games coalition is assembled in Expo Park presenting their vision for a New Deal for LA's upcoming megaevents. This is a *huge* group of unions and nonprofits with a list of demands that include living wage jobs, funding for 50k units of housing, and a moratorium on short-term rentals

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Apparently the black market for ants is getting out of control. www.wired.com/story/usda-a...

My sister department EEB is hiring an animal evo-devo assistant prof! I'm the plant evo-devo person on the SC and happy to answer any questions! (spoiler alert: This is a GREAT place to be and with fantastic colleagues & support!!!!) @socdevbio.bsky.social illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Felt I should alt-text this, although it kind of destroyed my soul to do so. Anyway, see thread by @cbdawson.bsky.social: making your class make conceptual diagrams with LLMs in the first class of the semester is possibly your best bet for convincing them they don't actually understand anything.

From @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social: “If you’re under 65 and not high risk, the window to get a Covid-19 vaccine is right now—before the FDA label changes (possibly this Friday). Once it happens, access will be limited immediately.”

150 years ago today, the last known Rodrigues parakeet died. It - and one other specimen - is now in @zoologymuseum.bsky.social: the only physical evidence the species ever existed. I wrote about them & the importance of #museums in our knowledge of #extinction: theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Looking for a #postdoc in evolutionary biology? Come join the Budke Lab! Read more about the lab jmbudke.github.io & apply at this link fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... This is the last weekend to apply before applications will be evaluated and zoom interviews scheduled.

Rare as hen's teeth: an Assistant Curator job, with our fantastic team at National Museums Scotland! Closing date 24th August #museums #museumjobs careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553

Sex-reversal in birds (genetically male/female but appear female/male) is surprisingly common. Best detail: A genetically male bird called a laughing kookaburra had recently laid an egg. (1/2) By @phiejacobs.bsky.social on @science.org