Becca Young
@becca-young.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at UT Austin - phenotypic evolution, development, transcriptomics
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Society for the Study of Evolution
about 1 month ago
The Undergraduate Community at Evolution program provides travel funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at
#Evol2026
. Please share with undergrads in your lab!
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
@systbiol.bsky.social
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Leslie Rissler
about 1 month ago
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 wonβt resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
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We are hiring in Evolutionary Biology β apply to join our department!
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Rafael Marcondes
3 months ago
π¨π¨ DREAM JOB ALERT π¨ π¨
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Dr. Kathleen M. Munley
3 months ago
I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at
@psychualberta.bsky.social
in Fall 2026! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! ππ§ π§¬π
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Andrew Stoehr
4 months ago
We're hiring TWO (two!) tenure-track assistant professors in my Biology department: cellular/molecular biology and plant biology. Within those categories, we are very open to research focus. Come work with me! And please spread the word!
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Fabian Salgado-Roa
4 months ago
I'm happy to share with you that in a couple of weeks I'll start as a Stengl-Wyer Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin. I'll join
@becca-young.bsky.social
's lab to study the ecology, genomics, and development of my favourite colourful spiders.
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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess
4 months ago
Hey wild immunologists of blue skyβ¦ do you work on a non-model taxa??? Would you have 15 min to spare to zoom in and share your research with my comparative immunology class? Iβm looking to spotlight real research this semester. Please spread the word and reach out if youβre interested!
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Carrie Wessinger
4 months ago
Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...
Deadline for applications is Oct 1
#AcademicJobs
#EvoBio
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Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genetics - Department of Biological Sciences | University of South Carolina
https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/biological_sciences/about/faculty_search_evolutonary_genetics.php
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Jennifer N. Phillips
4 months ago
WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist!
wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
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Assistant Professor
Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: September 14, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 270-NN_FACULTY -...
https://wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jobs/job/Pullman-WA/Assistant-Professor_R-13692
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Leslie Rissler
8 months ago
About NSFβs new(est) bulletin - 15% indirect cost rates will kill universities. Apparently thatβs the point. I am sick.
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Valerie Horsley
10 months ago
Please share:
@delauro.house.gov
is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here
delauro.house.gov/constituent-...
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2025 Federal Financial Assistance Freeze
On Monday, January 27th, 2025, President Trump issued an order to freeze virtually all of approved and legally required federal funding.
https://delauro.house.gov/constituent-services/2025-federal-financial-assistance-freeze
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Matthew Herron
10 months ago
Just be patient and kind to the remaining NSF folks. I promise you, they are still fighting for American science.
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Kelly Zamudio
10 months ago
Congrats to my student Rebecca Clemons and UT Post-doc Chase Smith.Here they drill down on aspects of the frog immune system control that we think might be important in the frog-Bd system. More on this to come! πΈπ§¬π¦ π§«π§ͺ
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Primary regulatory T cell activator FOXP3 is present across Amphibia - Immunogenetics
The overall structure of the immune system is highly conserved across jawed vertebrates, but characterization and description of the immune system is heavily biased toward mammals. One arm of the vert...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00251-025-01372-0
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Sara Lipshutz (she/her)
11 months ago
First paper (in review) from the Lipshutz Lab at Duke! Led by postdoc Leilton Luna
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James Pease
11 months ago
The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at
osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...
and more info at
www.peaselab.org
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Kelly Zamudio
about 1 year ago
Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. πΈπ’ππ¦
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...
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KZLab is Seeking a Lab Technician!
The Zamudio Lab (zamudiolab.org) in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin seeks a highly motivated and detail-oriented laboratory technician to play a key role in supporting the researβ¦
https://zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/kzlab-is-seeking-a-lab-technician/
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Kelly Zamudio
about 1 year ago
Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. πΈπΈπΈ
zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...
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Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs
We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlieβ¦
https://zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/post-doc-position-in-the-kzlab-immune-responses-to-pathogen-infections-in-frogs/
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Texas Science
about 1 year ago
On the latest episode of NPR's Shortwave, marine biologist Brett Baker (
@archaeal.bsky.social
) talks about how we owe part of our immune systems to ancient microbes, the Asgard archaea.
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Brendan O'Loughlin
about 1 year ago
I recently got my first big-boy paper published! I got to discover & describe a new species of parasitoid wasp: Chrysonotomyia susbelli π§΅
zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1275...
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Caroline Farrior
about 1 year ago
UT Austin Cluster Hire: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Environmental Systems
apply.interfolio.com/158908
Deadline: January 6, 2025
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Jeff Good
about 1 year ago
Outstanding opportunity here! Great department & city surrounded by the incredible Sonoran desert.
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Scott P. Egan
about 1 year ago
APPLICATIONS DUE OCT. 1ST! Assistant Professor in EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY @RiceUniversity Please repost! π§¬π¬π§«π©βπ¬π»πͺ²πππ±ππ¦ ππ¦ππΈππ¦ ππ’π¦ππ¬ππ¦
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Evolution Meetings
over 1 year ago
Do you love evolutionary biology AND art? Good news - we're having a logo contest!
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Elated to announce that Iβm starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin, well today! We'll be recruiting for several positions soon & grad students for 2025. Interested in phenotypic evodevo, me too! Learn more here:
sites.utexas.edu/beccayoungev...
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Young Lab β phenotypic development, genomics, & evolution
https://sites.utexas.edu/beccayoungevodevolab/
over 1 year ago
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Sara Lipshutz (she/her)
over 1 year ago
"We address these key questions using a database of 5,438 bird species (~50% of extant diversity) and modern phylogenetic comparative methods... Our results indicate that the most likely ancestral state for extant birds is male-only care" !!!???
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Who cares? Elucidating parental care evolution in extant birds
Abstract. Extant birds stand out among vertebrates in the diversity of parental care types they present, spanning absence of care to uniparental care by ei
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpae105/7710149
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Rich Meisel
over 1 year ago
π New publication from the lab! Are you interested in subfunctionalization of gene duplications? Immune gene evolution? Blood sucking insects? Then check this out!
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Defensins of the Stable Fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) have Developmental-Specific Regulation and Evolve at Different Rates
Synopsis. Organisms produce antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) either in response to infection (induced) or continuously (constitutively) to combat microbes enc
https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/icb/icae015/7651267?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=icb&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=c63dcde8-1cb8-403f-b271-ed2819a53b98
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Dr. Jaimi Gray
almost 2 years ago
Also check out the summary article by our media team at FLMNH, and for the love of tomography WATCH THE VIDEO:
www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie...
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Scientists CT scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free
Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a six-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to crea...
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scientists-ct-scanned-thousands-of-natural-history-specimens-which-you-can-access-for-free/
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Kim Martini π³οΈβπ
almost 2 years ago
I haven't checked out Dance your PhD in a while, but this amazing. Diversity IS natural :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSY...
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WELI - Kangaroo Time (Club Edit) (From Dance Your PhD 2024 - OVERALL WINNER)
Subscribe. Stream my EP "Yours Academically, Dr. WELI". Check our BTS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U76WCw3dhwOfficial video for WELI βKangaroo Time (Clu...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSYO3fApEc
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Canβt wait to read it
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almost 2 years ago
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Kelly Zamudio
almost 2 years ago
Super congrats to Anat Belasen for leading this team in a study of historical and present effects of Bd on a vulnerable frog species in California! Creating community and managing a group this diverse takes effort and leadership! Congrats to all authors!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Amazing idea
@mollycwomack.bsky.social
! I love supporting student travel and art!
#SICB2024
almost 2 years ago
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Rich Meisel
almost 2 years ago
The IISAGE REU program is a 10-week summer program that provides firsthand research training for undergraduate students.
www.iisage.org/reu/
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REU Program
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program The IISAGE REU program is a 10-week summer program that provides firsthand research training for undergraduate students. Students will join IISAGE...
https://www.iisage.org/reu/
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Rich Meisel
almost 2 years ago
STEGG-INTERACT offers recent college graduates a collaborative mentored research experience on the evolutionary genetics of biological interactions, and training in technical and professional skills.
www.uh.edu/nsm/biology-...
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STEGG-INTERACT Research and Mentoring for Post-Baccalaureates (RaMP) Program
STEGG-INTERACT Research and Mentoring for Post-Baccalaureates (RaMP) Program
https://www.uh.edu/nsm/biology-biochemistry/news-events/stegg-interact/
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