Hector and Harold enjoying some Christmas Eve grapes and lettuce

There are some magic little lands out there in the world.

This exercise has some great questions to ask students in class that expose some very common misconceptions

This is a pretty digestible assessment of where EVs are great and their future in the US

Great thread on ret-conning obamas energy strategy and data on fossil fuel economics over the past two decades

The one that works for me: - a million seconds is ~11.5 days - a billion seconds is ~31.7 years - a trillion seconds is ~31,700 years Big difference

Friends, I hardly ever get to post this… Bryophyte faculty job!!! botany.ubc.ca/job-postings...

everything about this image is a marvel.

UF Biology is searching for an Asst Prof in Evolution, Ecology of Infectious Disease - spread the word! @ufresearch.bsky.social @ufgeog.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

🌍 Today Paraguay celebrates Virgin of Caacupé Day ! 🇺🇸 Celebrating the Virgin of Caacupé Day in Paraguay. 🌐 Feliz Día de la Virgen de Caacupé en Paraguay. #PublicHoliday #GlobalCulture #SwiftPassage

Collaboration request: Resources for Inclusive Evolution Education Apply: tinyurl.com/RIE2-apply Info: tinyurl.com/RIE2-info US/Canada instructors of undergrad biology/evolution are invited to participate in a study to understand the impacts of inclusive evolutionary biology educational materials.

Buggin’ out!

Very useful thread on writing and interpreting promotion letters in academia

@stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social @fernway.bsky.social @jcarlosvillarreal.bsky.social @pierremarcdelaux.bsky.social ...know anyone who would like to come to #Copenhagen for 2 years to work with us on the evolution of symbioses? employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

Evidently I have found my people

Now I’m living in a foreign country but I’m bound to cross the line Beauty walk a razors edge one day I’ll make it mine If I could only turn back the clocks to when god and her were born Come she said I’ll give ya Shelter from the storm

TL;DR We're looking for biology/evolution instructors in the US and Canada to test the impacts of inclusive evolutionary biology educational materials on undergraduate learning (you will be compensated). Pasting the official recruitment info in thread below. sunybuffalo.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Yep, that's called "topworking" Most of the big orchards that used to grow Red Delicious are now Gala, Honeycrisp, & Cosmic Crisp. And it's not because they cut the orchards down & started over! They just topworked the new varieties in & pruned out the branches of the older varieties.

The sun just set in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, for the season (71.29°N). It will rise again in 66 days (January 23rd). Good night. 🥱 @alaskawx.bsky.social

time is marked by moments of passage. with stunning regularity we confront the realities of pasts that have led to our present.

#Florida attraction/scientific lab Selby Botanical Gardens breaking ground on Phase 2 of its $60M expansion. www.heraldtribune.com/story/entert...

ORLANDO! Care about building transit, affordable housing, reducing traffic, and protecting the environment? Then listen up. We have an election coming up in City Council District 3 and I've endorsed Mira Tanna. Vote on or before December 9th.

I think a lacewing laid eggs on my (very dirty) office window

NSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.

I hate Open Enrollment. It's such a scam. And stressful. every year I finish and then get paranoid that I messed something up and won't have health insurance. We don't have to live like this

As one of those federal employees, I couldn’t agree more. “Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.”

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...