Here's the @biographic.bsky.social feature in case you missed it! Featuring stellar editing by @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social and immersive photography and video by Bennett Whitnell. Thanks also to @hakai.org and @ijnr.bsky.social for the support.

look at that you son of a bitch thats all we have. thats it. that's all there is, this impossibly delicate little egg in the endless black nothing. this water droplet. its our home, its where we all live and hating each other just makes no sense when its this precarious

Are you a biologist with a focus on malacology or invertebrate zoology? The MCZ is looking to hire a Curatorial Assistant in our malacology department! Apply at https://bit.ly/4sbHCnL

How squid survived Earth’s biggest extinction and took over the oceans www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🧪🌎🦑

Issue 6 has closed and issue 7, a Special Issue dedicated to The Integrative Biology of Exercise, has opened journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/22... The front cover of Issue 6, by Yannis Papastamatiou, shows a great hammerhead shark

This 6-foot fish has the world’s longest freshwater migration. Amazon nations are uniting to save it www.cnn.com/science/dora...

New crustacean named after its unique butt www.popsci.com/environment/...

🌾 Croplands account for ~5% of global emissions, driven by how we grow food, not just what we grow. From fertilizer use to water management, small choices add up. Cutting emissions means smarter, context-specific farming. Explore the data: go.wri.org/crops-emissi...

#MondayMood 🐠 Museum technology is shifting how specimens are processed, providing more accessibility for research, education, outreach and collaboration. Explore our online exhibit: Inner Beauty 🩻 Skeletons Revealed from the Museum’s Fish Collection www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/exhibits/onl...

You know what all teams in the men's Final Four (and both women's teams in so far) have in common? HERBARIA. UConn is threatening to cut the staff of our nat history collections (plus many other awful budget cuts). If only we cared as much about biodiversity as we do about buzzer beaters!

Who you got winning GARch Madness??? 🐟🏀😎 Credits (photos, illustrations, design): @garlab.bsky.social team & @zankurus.bsky.social

My god. Have you ever seen close-ups of sea star skin? 🧪🌊🌿

The 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ and the evolution of complex integrative centers in animals 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Suggests central sensory organ is more complex and brain-like than we realized. That's got huge implications for the evolution of animal nervous systems.

Following the first independent investigation in 50 years of Monte Verde—a landmark archaeological site in Chile—researchers in Science report that it may be much younger than previously believed. https://scim.ag/47TTlQy

Informal survey of published or unpublished Marine Population Genomics Datasets due March 23. We aim to develop a resource that researchers can use to find collaborators, develop grant proposals, and find datasets. 🦑🧪🧬🖥️ forms.gle/baUNh1s8gapG...

National survey of NIH-funded researchers shows precarious state of U.S. science — ‘This is like the Titanic’ --Survey/report from @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...

Science has an Epstein problem. Women in paleontology say it's a symptom of a deeper misogyny. When paleontologist Riley Black learned that several scientists in her field had appeared in the Epstein files, she wasn't remotely shocked. www.cbc.ca/radio/epstei...

The need to preserve animal culture in conservation efforts. 🪶 Gift link.

Three copepods under UV from my sample last week. A female Pseudodiaptomus marinus, a female Pseudocalanus sp., and a Harpacticoida (I don’t know genus). #marineplankton 🦑

oooo! PRETTY! thanks @mbarinews.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/J0m0i...

PhyKIT has been undergoing a major transformation. Dozens of new functions/utilities, including plotting. If you've used PhyKIT before or haven't taken the plunge, please do consider checking it out. I'm really excited about expanding PhyKIT and welcome community suggestions for improvement

A contrasting evolutionary history has led to morphological and genetic distinctions between Neanderthals and us Review: The different adaptive trajectories in Neanderthals and Homo sapiens and their implications for contemporary human physiological variation🏺🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

Despite all the headlines about cold/snow, did you know that average max temperatures were the *warmest* on record this winter for CONUS? Join our webinar this week to learn more, where I'll put this in context with the western snow drought. ➡️ Register: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Bhattacharya in @whyshoulditrustyou.bsky.social interview "Literally, there have not been any funding cuts." Data from NIH reporting: across-the-board cuts. It is time for the public & policy makers to grapple with the real-world impacts when HHS leaders do not engage in good faith.

That time a Tripod fish pooped & it was like ringing the dinner bell for the brittle stars. They should be renamed brutal stars b/c every time I see them do stuff they're attacking something. A nice Xenophyophore in front as well. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 691 #nazcahighseas #MarineLife

A tiny fossil fish (less than 3cm long) from the 436-million-year-old Chongqing Fish Bed represents the earliest articulated remains of any bony fish in the fossil record, and informs our understanding on the origins of all bony fishes today.🧪👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My department is hiring a Teaching Professor in Marine Biology! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... Application review will begin on March 31, 2026 #EcoEvoJobs #EvolJobs #PhDjobs @ecoevo.social.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy

December 2025 through February 2026 was the 2nd warmest winter on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to Prism climate data. The widespread record to near record warmth in the west easily outweighed the cool temps in the east. 🔥🔥🔥

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

#JMIH26 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 2026 Annual meeting of: Amer. Soc. of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists 🐟, Amer. Elasmobranch Soc. 🦈, Herpetologists' League 🐍 & Soc. for Study of Amphibians & Reptiles 🐸 The abstract submission and meeting website is now open jmih.net

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coral microbiomes as reservoirs of unknown genomic and biosynthetic diversity www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

‪ @eveliendegreef.bsky.social's latest is out in the @asn-amnat.bsky.social feature exploring the challenges of genetic forecasting😀 "Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species" doi.org/10.1086/738889 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio

Calling all researchers working on *Genomics of Adaptation to Extreme Thermal Environments* I'm serving as a guest editor of an upcoming collection in BMC Genomics and am eager to read your submission! More on scope and how to contribute here: bit.ly/4kH3PIx 🧪 @springer.springernature.com

Olha aí gente! Free registration to virtual Evolution 2026.

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs 🏺🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Suggests the first hunter-gatherers arriving in Europe already developed a system of intentional and conventional signs on mobile artifacts.

Our faculty has a particularly interesting PhD position open on antimicrobial resistance, effects of antibiotics treatment on the microbiome and resistome, restoration of the equine microbiome using FMT. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please contact Mathijs Theelen, email address in the link below.

Cleaner wrasse show self awareness in stunning mirror experiments These tiny reef fish may be far more self-aware than anyone imagined. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🦑 🧪 🌍️ 🐟️

New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟

New round of NSF GRFP declines without review. If you were affected: 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter This is the link to the post: bsky.app/profile/noam...

Are you an undergrad looking to get research experience in evolutionary biology? Our lab has summer funding for an undergraduate researcher to participate in our research on how urbanization affects house mice. You can apply here: careers.drexel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

New letter from BIO leadership... www.nsf.gov/bio/updates/...

New in JFB: Alfaro huberi must have one of the strangest mating behaviors among poeciliid fishes. #TeamFish #FishSci Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Corresponding video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKWA...

These 3-yr drops are stunning. Absolutely stunning. New Orleans: -55% Baltimore: -60% Philly: -60% Chicago: -40% Buffalo: -55% Pittsburgh: -50% Albuquerque: -40% Newark: -40% San Antonio: -55% Portland: -45% The media coverage of these staggering drops, tho, is staggering in its relative silence.

just need everyone to know that this is how wildlife biologists in China introduce panda cubs to the wild

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.