It's really important to note that not only was Watson a racist and misogynist but his contribution to the double helix was listening to a Rosalind Franklin lecture and getting mad because Francis Crick wouldn't invite him to his sex parties.

This is a great visualization of temperature change over the past 60 years that makes both the right shift and increased variance clear

Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)

The 5th of 6 faculty positions in UNC Biology is posted. We're working with the @ncbg.bsky.social to fill a joint position as Director of the UNC Herbarium at @ncbg.bsky.social and as Associate Professor within the Department of Biology (BIOL). Please share 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308...

An Antarctica story. Once upon a time in Club 90 South, an inebriated apprentice from Wyoming revealed a family fact. One that, at other times, might be an amusing "degrees of separation" bon mot. However the key to wit and humor is not just timing, but reading the room. He did not.

UGA Genetics is hiring! Please share! An ideal candidate will employ genetic models of disease in a research program with an emphasis on epigenetics, aging, chromosome biology, gene regulation, systems biology, or drug resistance mechanisms. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675651/a...

We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

First time seeing one of these guys in the yard

This could have been written by any one of dozens of colleagues or collaborators that have come to the US to join in the scientific enterprise

I really think we should do a whole series about facts like this: Have you noticed that poison ivy seems worse and itchier? It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change. grist.org/climate/clim...

Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book. gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b... book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/ Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable dm me with comments , ideas etc

Friends, CSA season is finally back #Florida

We have an excellent track record w former senators

This is how I found out

I don’t know this literature but this was a very interesting read

"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=job_10-16-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

The UGA Plant Biology Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!

Lingua wanka is a hilarious moniker for scientific writing

Today for our 25th wedding anniversary my wife got our son to bust into my intro bio class - that’s me in the front talking about DNA replication - to deliver a gigantic bouquet of flowers. Total power move! Love you, Jenny!!!

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Do not miss it! 1st Place 2025 Small World in Motion Competition "Self-pollination in a flower of thymeleaf speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia)" Credit Jay McClellan 🧪 #Science #SciComm #Nature #Photography 1- www.nikonsmallworld.com 2- www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Assistant Professor Plant or Fungal Genomics. Univ of Wyoming. eeik.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Nice essay on the perils of politicizing science

The solicitation was just posted - www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

My neighbor across the street in Suburban Heights, the height of suburbia, just had this guy visit his chicken coop last night

Basic science FTW!

I’m really torn about this - some papers will be great and about bona fide “early” land plants (ie, fossils) but the images on the flyer sure makes it look like some extant plants might be classed as “early” too which is disappointing to see from a top plant journal @plantaeofficial.bsky.social

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

Meng gave such a great talk, and her work highlights the power of using distantly related species to really interrogate common evolutionary forces shaping variation in nature academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

The movement in this area is incredible

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...

🌱 Calling all mentors! The BSA Early Career Committee is bringing back the NSF GRFP Workshop. Sign up to be a mentor if you are a: ✅ Grad student who already received a GRFP or ✅ PI, postdoc, senior researcher Sign up here 👉 forms.gle/sQUwhVryYHJK... #NSFGRFP #botany

This week we had excellent promotion seminars by these two stellar scientists and wonderful colleagues - Bryn Durham and Amanda Subalusky - it’s such a treat to get to work with such great people (only pic I’ve got of them together, end of grad recruitment weekend was getting wild!)

Hey, the Morrow Plots get a shout out in this interview (and it’s also very informative on ag and climate/biodiversity etc)

Gainesville Fire Dept annual 9/11 remembrance at the Swamp, 14 gator mountains would have gotten you to the top of the towers.

In Florida, many pharmacists, doctors, and patients find themselves confused about who has access to COVID-19, flu, RSV and other vaccines, as well as the cost of those shots. Many are just not providing them. Here’s an important Q&A on vaccines in Florida. (No paywall.)

University of Calgary is hiring a tier I CRC professorship in crop genomics. Come work in one of the most beautiful corners of the world! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1668764...

Come and be our new Chair of Biology at @gtsciences.bsky.social! We are growing an incredibly exciting ecology and evolution group here at GT and would love a visionary eco-evo minded person at the helm to help us do that. Please spread the word! biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search

Flu vax’d!

Come be my colleague! The Atlanta Botanical Garden is hiring for a Research Scientist, Genetics 🧬 🎓 Ph.D. + min. 3 yrs professional work experience 🌎 Open to international candidates recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/J... Happy to chat about garden & departmental culture, living in ATL, etc. 🍑

This is a story about grid scale battery storage, but it has a lot of really useful lessons for political change in other arenas

NHC Atlantic Outlook update for Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:52:53 UTC Additional Details Here.

Inadvertently, this is an incredible illustration of how (a) the infrastructure required for fossil fuel extraction is bonkers and (b) how we don't consider our oil and gas to be 'destroying nature' like wind turbines simply bc it's undersea

We know this adventure ends and this is the ending we chose? epi.ufl.edu/2014/12/15/i...

I am saddened to learn that Professor Andrew D. Hanson has passed away. It is a tragic loss, both personally and scientifically. hos.ifas.ufl.edu/people/on-ca...

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