Years ago, I attempted a self-assessment of my potential gender biases in an academic research setting: ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt... Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out

We are hosting a session at ASLO-SIL in Montréal (www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-2026/) May 2026, and are soliciting talks or posters for the session Eco-evolutionary feed-backs in limnology and oceanography Organizers: Derry, Hendry, Fisher, Beaulieu, and Fortin-Archambault Deadline: 19 November 2025.

Great #postdoc opportunity at the Natural History Museum @uio.no! Develop your own project to work here for three years🤩 I am happy to answer questions! Deadline June 23rd.🧪 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Current status - #stickleback field work, Haida Gwaii, BC.

🎉🏆🏆🏆We're delighted to announce 3 new @royalsociety.org Fellows here in Zoology! Dr Gregory Jefferis, Prof Claire Spottiswoode and Dr Marta Zlatic are all now FRS. Many, many congratulations! Read more: bit.ly/3H4rCCk

New OA paper out this week!🚨This one is particularly meaningful for me as it is the final part of my dissertation to be published, and it is the project I set out to do when I started my PhD – Did African Jewelfish alter the Everglades aquatic food web? 1/n 🧪🐟🌎🧵 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

A few months ago, this guy went viral online, proving once again that people yearn for cool invertebrates! Now, follow its journey to the Smithsonian, where this specimen is helping scientists better understand life in the deep Gulf: ocean.si.edu/human-connec... Photo credit: Mark Lehtonen 🌊🦑🧪

Here's the first episode of my new podcast about the science of aging. I talk to two scientists who have a long-running bet about whether someone alive today will live to 150. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... & Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0o4P...

Having fun at the Evolutionary biology course discussion session - Uppsala, Sweden.

Congratulations to Alexis Heckley on her recent successful defense of her PhD thesis: "How predictable is intraspecific variation? Insights from guppies and stickleback"

Check out our paper on time-lapse imagery from camera traps to assess bird communities - a test from Haida Gwaii, BC. Led by Sarah Sanderson. INFERRING BIRD COMMUNITIES ON REMOTE FRESHWATER LAKES THROUGH TIME-LAPSE IMAGERY cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

Check out our latest paper on phenotypic variation in guppies - led by Alexis Heckley. "Abiotic environmental factors contribute to spatial variation in boldness and exploration in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1095...

Check out our latest paper on the genetic basis of snake colour variation. GTP cyclohydrolase II (gch2) and axanthism in ball pythons: a new vertebrate model for pterin-based pigmentation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations to Paola Carrion-Aviles on today's successful defense of her PhD thesis: The terroir of the finch: spatio-temporal dynamics in the evolution and ecology of Darwin’s finches.

Well, then, at least I have my health.

Live near New Haven, CT, and looking for something interesting to do April 23? I am giving the Bass Distinguished Lecture, titled “The World Without Evolution?” taking place Wednesday, April 23 at 5 pm in O.C. Marsh Hall. The event is free and open to the public. peabody.yale.edu/news/hendry_...

🚨Urgent: Help Save Decades of Work by Navajo Botanists🚨 For decades, Arnold Clifford has built up the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. Now, this collection is at risk—snowstorms are causing the roof to cave in, putting >30,000 specimens in danger. #IndigenousScience #Conservation #MutualAid #botany

3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals

We're hiring a fieldworker to help with some of our projects in Wytham Woods this spring. Wonderful place to work (and live), especially in the spring. Get in touch if you'd like to know more.

Things are so chaotic and stomach-churning in our world right now. I find a lot of solace out in nature. I want to share a tiny slice of that with you. My book, #Phenology is available today! You can purchase it for 30% off *today only* with code MITP30 through penguinrandomhouse.com

Fabulous Astichus arithmeticus 🤩 One of my favorite chalcidoid wasps. Using her ovipositor she's probing a bracket fungus for beetle larvae within and lays eggs into them so her larvae can feed on them 1/2 #hymenoptera #chalcidoidea #eulophidae #parasitoid #parasitoidwasp #macro #macrophotography

Happy #worldwildlifeday from GarLab! 🐟 Today we take time to celebrate our under appreciated freshwater species in the wild. 🎉 GarLab works together with people all over the country to study and conserve wildlife. We might be biased, but we sure do love and appreciate our freshwater friends!

A good opinion piece from the EiC of FEE: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... I find society-owned journals more rigorous, and more supportive to the scientific community. Whenever possible, let's give society journals more support as well @esajournals.bsky.social.

The biggest, most up-to-date, and cleanest version of our database is now officially published in Ecology @ESA_org - check it out. "This new, curated version has 9263 records collated from 326 studies, 1801 systems, and 428 species." esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Teaching #MathematicalMethodsInPopulationBiology again. This course covers basic methods for deterministic & stochastic dynamical models in population biology. In this thread*, I'll highlight topics from all twenty 90-min lectures. *Redoing this thread as I didn't complete it in 2024

Peatlands, which cover just 3% of Earth's surface, store 550 billion tonnes of carbon—twice as much as all forests combined. However, some 15% of them have been drained for agriculture. Protecting these carbon sinks is vital #ForPeopleForPlanet.

The importance of the plant mycorrhizal collaboration niche across scales @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social by Mari Moora and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Fantastic parasitic copepods on this grenadier! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 798 #SouthSandwichIslands #MarineLife

Field courses in Ecuador.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02... NSF fired MORE than DOGE told them to? Really? This seems to be obey-in-advance by the people I'd least expect it of.

4 species of Phidippus spotted in 2024 - all male, all shot in situ, NE Oklahoma: 1 Phidippus putnami (found on fencepost near garden) 2 Phidippus clarus (on sunflower) 3 Phidippus whitmani (on lichenous rock in woods) 4 Phidippus insignarius (rock in woods)

Genetic diversity loss occurs globally & for many species, especially birds & mammals, in the face of threats such as land use change, disease, abiotic natural phenomena & harvesting or harassment. The need for genetically informed conservation interventions is urgent. 📑 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

the remarkable and flashy adult male Habronattus hallani, fairly common in our local desert palm oases

Mom is having mussels for dinner, but youngster is going for a plastic bag instead. These sea otters in Monterey (California) make me simultaneously wonder and worry. #plasticpollution #seaotters #Monterey

Kenya 2025 - McGill East Africa Field Studies Semester. All of the pictures are here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBZyMm

The Holy Grail of Evolutionary Biology? We are ramping up to start a new series of posts on @ecoevoevoeco - so I want to share again one of my favorite posts - which was also the last post. ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-25...

American Society of Naturalists- Asilomar, 2025. It is hard work to organize a meeting (with Stephen Proulx) - but so worth it. @asn-amnat.bsky.social

Widespread Evidence for Rapid Recent Changes in Global Range and Abundance of Threespine Stickleback Our paper about the "global" take-over by stickleback is now out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

May week 4 of #insertaninvert2024 - definitely not crab. Dendrogaster, a parasite of starfish, being pried from the carcase of its host. Possibly the most grisly picture I've drawn.

There are 4 native lamprey species in the #GreatLakes (chestnut, silver, American brook + northern brook) and 1 invasive (sea lamprey). Chestnut lamprey is parasitic like the sea lamprey, but they cause less harm because of their much smaller size + co-evolution with native fish #25DaysofFishmas

New preprint by butterfly wizard @lucalivraghi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We mapped optix (again?!) as the switch gene of a natural polymorphism, this time controlling silver patches of a mountain butterfly. Gorgeous RNAi validation, evidence of selective sweeps, introgression

Limited Migration From Physiological Refugia Constrains the Rescue of Native Gastropods Facing an Invasive Predator check out our latest paper on how calcium gradients dictate adaptation and eco-evo dynamics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

A Ball Python Colour Morph Implicates MC1R in Melanophore–Xanthophore Distribution and Pattern Formation Check out our latest ball python colour paper: onlinelibrary-wiley-com.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca/doi/epdf/10....

Un nuevo género y una nueva especie de cangrejos araña en el Pirineo Aragonés. www.aragosaurus.com/un-nuevo-gen...

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NEW RESEARCH Too Hot to Handle: A Meta-Analytical Review of the Thermal Tolerance and Adaptive Capacity of North American #Sturgeon 📄 https://buff.ly/49ymsbN #climatechange #endagered species #conservation

Why do insect galls have such varied shapes even among closely related species?? The Enemy Hypothesis, posits that pressure from parasitoids drives the dynamic evolution of external gall traits. We have a new paper in @rsocpublishing.bsky.social on this hypothesis see more in this 🧵! 🧪 #galls

“I never met anyone as enthusiastic about anything as Solomon was about gar.”— @caseydavid.bsky.social My profile of @solomonrdavid.bsky.social #GarWeek #25DaysofFishmas

Does Motility-Restricting Fibrosis Influence Dispersal? An Experiment in Nature With Threespine Stickleback. Check out our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Led by @alexisheckley.bsky.social with @danielbolnick.bsky.social , @nataliesteinel.bsky.social and Francis Dinh.