Ants also didn’t need to plagiarise the compiled works of the last 6K years of human history, which builds on the preceding couple of 200K years…

4 billion years of evolution >>> 4, 40, or 400 billion dollars

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50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵

A Short Thought About ‘AI’ and ‘Tech’ Over the weekend, I came across an article in which the president of Google, who has no medical or biology training, claimed that AI will cure cancer in our lifetime. Leaving aside the silliness of describing any complex machine learning algorithm as 'AI',…

Fortement d’accord avec ce point de vue. Je travaille dans le domaine, mais j’ai horreur des extrêmes absurdes auxquels songent certaines personnes.

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu

🦇 Celebrate Bat Week with BMC Biology 🦇 In celebration, we spotlight BMC Biology content that has contributed to our knowledge on bats. communities.springernature.com/posts/celebr... #BatWeek

Mesquite 4.02 update released! It fixes a few bugs and adds Codon Alignment and various other improvements. Also, much faster with genomics files with 1000s of loci. www.mesquiteproject.org 🧪 #evolbio @bembidion.bsky.social

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From the @labdavalos.bsky.social lab Gene expression reveals the pancreas of Aselli as a critical organ for plasma cell differentiation in the Eurasian common shrew buff.ly/qaNBmwF #BMCBiology #EvoSky #ImmunoSky 🧪

SUNY Has Lost $32M Due to Federal Cuts https://bit.ly/49fbDNL #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky

I don't think there is anything in my professional life that is more motivating than "minor revisions".

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Reminder, we’re hiring 2 PhD students for next year!! I’m extending the deadline to Nov 1, but please get your app in soon if you’re interested in joining us! More info is on our webpage. 🦠🦑 Please share with ECRs you know as well and check out our other open positio. (Postdoc!)

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

One week to apply before reviews start for the postdoc I am offering investigating the tempo and pattern of river connections with the closure of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on river plant (Podostemaceae) migration. Genomic+fossil+geological data + fieldwork 👇

Come work with us at Universidad EAFIT! We are looking for an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) interested in Economics of Education and Education Policy. Send your cover letter, CV, job market paper, and contact information for 3 references to [email protected]

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

🚨GRFP DEADLINE ALERT!🚨 I missed this in my original solicitation read-through, so FYI 📣LETTERS ARE DUE BEFORE PROPOSALS📣 this year! "Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)." www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students! caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...

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The Weir Lab at the University of Toronto seeks PhD students for Fall 2026 to study avian genomics and speciation. Competitive funding, diverse training, and a collaborative environment are offered. Apply: [email protected]. More info: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~jweir/index.html #phd

🔁 Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open. We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting. 🗓️ Deadline: October 15th More information: smbe2026.org/symposia #SMBE2026

Natalia’s paper on morphological changes in forest birds in 100 years is having some coverage on the national news blogs.elespectador.com/cultura/pazi... @nataliaperez-a.bsky.social

Conclusions 1. Vaccines don’t “weaken” the immune system, they trigger/ strengthen its memory and ability to respond. 2. Giving vaccines together can actually be easier on the body: fewer: visits, fewer needle sticks, less stress. 3. The real risk isn’t too many vaccines, it’s too little protection.

💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.

Early career researcher in systematics? Make sure to apply for early career travel funds to attend #ssb2026 👇 www.systbio.org/early-career...

¡Becas en Medellín! En la Universidad EAFIT buscamos talentos en investigación, conoce el Doctorado en Economía, las becas cubren matrícula y estipendio 🚨 Últimos 8 días para aplicar 📌 Fecha límite: 30 de septiembre 👉 Más información sobre de las becas disponibles www.eafit.edu.co/becas-y-fina...

¡Hay plazo hasta mañana!

I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun

We went to the only place with high elevation forest between Hawaii and Asia: the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. An extinct volcano older than the main Hawaiian Islands, Pohnpei is covered in intact ancient rainforest and cloudforest.

And as for writing, don't get me started. Most often, the process of writing is not a laborious business of transcription, but a process of thinking itself. I'm not about to outsource my thinking to a machine.

I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

¡Becas en Medellín! En la Universidad EAFIT buscamos talentos en investigación, conoce el Doctorado en Economía, las becas cubren matrícula y estipendio 🚨 Últimos 8 días para aplicar 📌 Fecha límite: 30 de septiembre 👉 Más información sobre de las becas disponibles www.eafit.edu.co/becas-y-fina...

Over the past decade, thousands of African gray parrots have been exported from the Democratic Republic of Congo despite a ban on their international trade. The DRC government has finally taken action to prohibit the capture and sale of this iconic species.

Equity in science is still a beautiful lie. After 27 years in Colombia — shaping me as a person and scientist — I begin a new chapter as Distinguished Researcher @csic.es in Spain. Yet I learnt that geography, networks & prestige still outweigh merit, favoring privileged colleagues, conscious or not

¡Becas en Medellín! En la Universidad EAFIT buscamos talentos en investigación, conoce el Doctorado en Economía, las becas cubren matrícula y estipendio 🚨 Últimos 8 días para aplicar 📌 Fecha límite: 30 de septiembre 👉 Más información sobre de las becas disponibles www.eafit.edu.co/becas-y-fina...

I wrote my new Nature World View in this transition — one last reflection before leaving Colombia. It explains why inequities persist in science, even when dressed up as inclusion, and why we must stop mistaking access for change. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun

New research analyzing more than 3,000 tropical forest sites reveals that areas with fewer seed-dispersing animals store up to four times less carbon than forests with healthy wildlife populations. The study found that 81% of tropical trees rely on animals to disperse their seeds.

Green-and-Black Fruiteater near Jardín, Antioquia #Colombia #birds #nature

🧪🚨Lots of news from the #shrew-crew!Now @ cecibaldoni.bsky.social answers 🔑question: how to 🧠shrink without neuron loss? Cells lose water💦but their counts remain stable 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

🧪🚨Lots of news from the #shrew-crew!Now @ cecibaldoni.bsky.social answers 🔑question: how to 🧠shrink without neuron loss? Cells lose water💦but their counts remain stable 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

🔖Last review from the lab👇 'Male meiosis at the helm: shaping genomes and sex chromosomes in emerging vertebrate models' academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...

🧪🚨Only two weeks to apply, come join us @stonybrooku E&E Dept., apply for tenure-track position in Global Change & Disease Ecology, Ecology & Evolution 🌍🦠 👉 apply.interfolio.com/17140

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...

Closely-related to the Great Blue and Grey Heron, the Cocoi Heron is found in South America. I photographed this lovely specimen at Laguna de Sonso #Colombia #birds #herons #nature

I really love Snail Kites. They have incredible bills that are adapted to eating Apple Snails and they have those intense red eyes. At Laguna de Sonso, Valle de Cauca #Colombia #birds #nature

🚨 We are hiring! 🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project 🔬 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English 📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025 📧 [email protected] 🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom