🌍 Psst! Did you hear? The Expanding Circles Fund applications are open! Get support to attend conferences, build community, and strengthen mentorship connections across BWEEMS. Don’t miss the March 4 deadline!

🧬 My haplotype paper is out! We show that deviations between within-sample and population-level haplotype frequencies can be used to estimate how many individuals contributed to an eDNA sample. No tissue references needed, just metabarcoding data and some population genetics. #eDNA #PopGen

Switching fields or wanting to become an expert in #zebrafish research? The @mblscience.bsky.social 2026 Zebrafish Development & Genetics course offers a fantastic opportunity to learn from leaders in the field! Application deadline: March 2 Please spread the word! www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

#DarwinDay is celebrating how Darwin’s scientific work, perseverance and intellectual bravery made biology the scientific field we know today, united through the concept of #evolution 🧪🐡

While others are stepping back on climate, Project Drawdown is stepping up! We’re proud to announce the Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support U.S.-based Ph.D.-level scientists & engineers focused on climate solutions for the public good. drawdown.org/news/project...

This is a Labichthys snipe eel. Like many of the animals studied during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, Labichthys shelter in the depths & make a daily migration to feed near surface waters at night. Read full caption: youtube.com/shorts/zWjxE...

Piranha bite force and tooth stress are fantastically high for their size! Check out our new paper on computational modeling of the cranial muscles and bite mechanics of the amazing piranhas. #biomechsky 🐟🧪🌿 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

This is exactly why "the measure of success" cannot be "the extent to which funding was restored." @holdenthorp.bsky.social Because this is how current NIH leadership chooses to expend those precious funds. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Several exciting PhD opportunities here in the University of Vienna STEM-call. In our department fully funded positions in biomolecular zooarch, Pleistocene felid diversity and admixture, sedaDNA and popgen, and archsci and AMS 14C dating. Apply below now! careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...

El calentamiento global ha hecho cada vez más difícil identificar con precisión El Niño y La Niña: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/02/una-...

New preprint from our big collaborative evolution experiment in 9 whole lakes in Alaska, written by McGill grad student @lucaseckert.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... What happens if you put a mixture of multiple source populations together to complete & evolve in multiple new lakes?

"In a warming world there are… Still freezing nights — but fewer of them. In a warming world there are… Still cold streaks — but shorter ones. In a warming world there are… Still extremely cold days — but not as cold." ➡️ More in @climatecentral.org's latest: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

📣 Grad student wanted PhD position in avian evolution, with emphasis on phylogenetics, macroevolution, Neotropical radiations, flight and dispersal. Based at the University of New Orleans (soon to be LSU New Orleans). Start: September 2026. Contact me if interested. claramuntlab.org

New Biology Letters paper! 🐟🐟🐟 Long-term lab rearing did not erode key physiological tolerances in an extremophile fish; encouraging for ex-situ conservation! #FishSci royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...

Riding High! During the #ArgentinianDeepSeeps expedition, ROV pilots captured footage of a tiny animal, likely a crustacean, riding a jellyfish like a surfboard. Jellyfish = protection w/their stinging tentacles & access to food while traveling & “shooting the curl” (as surfers would say).

Of course the real answer from Massachusetts to the Indiana Senator who was complaining about state levels of NIH funding with "because we net donate $38B to the federal kitty and you net receive $6B from the federal kitty, yo". usafacts.org/articles/whi...

Dragon in the deep. 🐉⁠ ⁠ Dragonfish (family Stomiidae) are cunning predators. Although they are strong swimmers, they prefer to lie in wait and ambush unsuspecting fishes and crustaceans. This black dragonfish (Idiacanthus sp.) was spotted at 527 meters (1,729 feet) in Monterey Bay.

@michaeltconnelly.bsky.social et al. sequenced 342 Pocillopora coral samples from the Eastern Tropical Pacific, revealing four distinct species; algal symbiont community profiling identified dominant symbionts that varied according to host species. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf235 #genome #evolution

Nemichthyidae (snipe eel) @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 897 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife

We are advertising for a Lecturer in Physical Oceanography, closing date 31 March. If you have research interests in the shelf seas, estuarine and coastal oceans then this could be for you! And you could do research using UEA's fleet of ocean gliders vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/20...

The taxonomic family Caprellidae contains 400+ species. They're sometimes called skeleton or ghost shrimps. Here's what a male Caprella mutica looks like. Trying NOT to imagine these as 9 foot tall and with a craving for human flesh. The swarm of tiny ones is terrifying enough.

We have long known that early humans and Neanderthals interbred, but where did it happen and over what kind of time period? My latest for @newscientist.com reports on a new paper that finds it may have happened over a massive area 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2513...

Opportunity for women students in paleontology! The Winifred Goldring Award will be presented to three women graduate students and the AWG Undergraduate Paleontology Award will be presented to a student pursuing a career in paleontology. Due April 30th. More information here: tinyurl.com/msdc3m68

If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons: 1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress 2) Write to your congressional reps. 3) Write to [email protected] to request re-consideration;

Animals as Living Bioreactors expedition is underway! W/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, scientists are eager to learn more about the role of midwater animals, like this gossamer worm, in carbon transport. Read more & subscribe to our YouTube for ROV dive updates here: youtube.com/post/Ugkx_Vw...

Sampling among the stars! During the #Taleof2Canyons expedition, curious fish nibbled on sediments as ROV SuBastian pilots collected push core samples from a seafloor lined with brittle stars.

Did you know that 2/3 of Americans are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming -- but 85% of Americans either underestimate how many others are worried, or don’t know enough to say? This key misunderstanding tanks our sense of collective efficacy. How do we overcome it? Talk about it!

Breaking News: Yale will waive tuition for new undergraduate students whose families have annual incomes below $200,000.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

#HaceSieteAños Lo más importante que puedes hacer para combatir el cambio climático es hablar de ello 🗣️ Katharine Hayhoe, especialista en ciencias de la atmosféra

Fancy Phill's Antarctic job? Our carpentry roles will be advertised at the end of March, current planned date is 30 March. ⏰ Set your alarm clocks! www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...

Join us February 24-26 for a Virtual RNA-seq Analysis Workshop! 🧬Learn QC, alignment, differential expression, and enrichment using a reference genome. 🕙 10 AM – 2 PM ET 💻 MS Teams + recordings 💰 $500 ($400 UConn) Register: bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/ #RNAseq #Bioinformatics #Workshop

There are patterns in unprovoked shark attacks relating to the reproductive behaviour of these epic predators, but it's nothing like in Jaws 3 when a mother shark wreaks havoc to avenge her baby... 🧪 🦑 🦈 www.livescience.com/animals/shar...

I summarized the biggest weather disasters of 2025 using last week's summaries from Gallagher Re and Aon. The costliest: $65 billion in damage from the L.A. wildfires. The deadliest: 24,000+ killed in the summer heatwave in Europe. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/01/eart...

New video diving in Coiba National Park. Several octopuses and some nice schools of barracudas and jacks. youtu.be/Y7ZoaLCqRHM?...

Snipe eel! (Nemichthyidae) Nice zooms by the pilots! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 895 #livingbioreactors #MarineLife

1/12 Really proud of this paper! We borrowed tools from biology to ask a simple question: does who you play with actually matter in football? (Spoiler: it does, a lot.) 🧬 🤝 ⚽ Paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUusArnpe...

Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish. . 🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...

We escaped the ice and have been science hard for 2 days - four full stations and a big factorial experiment setup! Very tired but very happy to be working. We caught Antarctic krill at one station, and lots of salps at all stations. Love the Green krill guts full of phytoplankton! #oceanography 🌊🇦🇶🦐

Great article on graduate student Antrelle Clark, on her work on Gulf Killifish 👏👏 wire.auburn.edu/content/ocm/...

Are you a grad student in Illinois or Indiana working on topics that could benefit #GreatLakes communities? The @ilinseagrant.bsky.social Graduate Scholars program provides funding to advance research as well as professional networking and development opportunities iiseagrant.org/its-time-to-...

Job alert: NOAA NWFSC & UW are looking for a postdoc (ASAP) in Seattle study foraging ecology of Cook Inlet beluga whales using eDNA. Genetics/ecology/eDNA experience preferred. Interested candidates reach out to [email protected] or [email protected] directly. #eDNA #ConsGen

Calling all graduating PhDs! The EEB presidential postdoc at MSU is a fantastic opportunity to work with multiple faculty members in EEB! And if you have any interest in squid and/or their symbionts let me know and I would be happy to talk projects. eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Shipworms aren’t worms. They’re bivalves that eat wood with the help of symbiotic bacteria turning wooden shipwrecks into functioning ecosystems. #MolluscMonday Fantastic image from seahistory.org/sea-history-...

It's hard to even explain what a disaster this is for the US economy in the short-term — as well as US innovation and industry in decades to come. Immigrants and foreign students at our universities are—as always have been—the wellspring of American invention and innovation.

Collaborate with me! Myself and @peterroopnarine.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with expertise in quantitative paleoecology to work on our new NSF grant addressing whether communities after the PTME functioned differently than those beforehand. job-boards.greenhouse.io/californiaac...

Even if DOGE did not cut spending, it did eliminate a lot of federal jobs and grants. How is this possible? Federal personnel spending represents only about 5-6% of fed spending, so you can cut a lot of people - and capacity - without saving much. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...

Every other summer we run a fish biomechanics course at Friday Harbor Labs. It is an awesome opportunity to learn the tools of biovisualization while experiencing the rich fish diversity of the Salish Sea. Come join us! 🧪