"The project that was terminated was on this hummingbird, the white-necked jacobin....I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary." Researcher @jjinsing.bsky.social interviewed by @carlzimmer.com #birds #nature #science #fundscience #nonbinary 🧪

If anyone is interested in expanding my ongoing Paulinella projects and/or doing other work in algal genomics in my lab that doesn’t fully exist yet (but will exist at the time the funding for this starts), please reach out! I’d love to help develop a cool project with you!

How do light and noise pollution impact selection on sexual signals? We tested mate attraction and bat predation on túngara frogs in the field. Full text: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... #evolutionarybiology #animalbehavior @eseb.bsky.social @jevbio.bsky.social Photo: Grant Maslowski

If you are a current PRFB fellow, we have a slack where all of this and more is discussed. Current fellows, please send me a message and I can add you.

Excited to read this review paper by @juehlz.bsky.social and Jenn Houtz! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Dijkstra lab at CMU seeks PhD students for Fall 2026, funded by an NSF award, focusing on aggression in cichlid fish. Apply to Dr. Dijkstra by Oct. 20. More info: https://sites.google.com/site/peterdijkstrausnl/home #phd

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! 🐟🧠🧬🍂

Buscando estudiantes para empezar en agosto de 2026. Estudiamos la evolución de las señales químicas de los insectos con biología evolutiva, ecología química, biología molecular, y estudios de comportamiento. Más información aquí: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

Thank you Suvi and everyone in the environmental physiology lab @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social!! So incredibly warm, friendly, and inspiring! Cheers!

IOB "...To test this hypothesis, we examined metabolic rates of morphs using flow-through respirometry to record CO2 output..." Testing for Differences in #Metabolism Among Females and Dimorphic Males of Four Dung #Beetle Species Killeffer et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #insects #bugs #dimorphism

When we have so many painful and dangerous things to grapple with, it makes the joyful things that much more precious. Seek them out, save them, share them! Here’s one I’m *really* excited about: www.okaybutbirds.com by the hilarious & charming @drscottataylor.bsky.social

@lannhiphung.bsky.social studies the link between genomic history and sexual selection in bowerbirds, an iconic example of sexual signaling through both behavioral and physical attributes. There are at least 36 genes under different levels of selection pressure in one or multiple clades! #AOS25

Skipping live-scicomming the next session because I’m in it! If you’re at #AOS25 come see me talk about a weird bird and it’s cool genome at 4:45 in Genomics 3 (Ballroom A). (Or email me any time!)

Scott Taylor, on behalf of @jjinsing.bsky.social, tells the story of a potential instance of caterpillar mimicry in the White-necked Jacobin. The fuzzy baby hummingbird uses the unusually wiggles in the nest, mimicking local caterpillars & potentially helping to avoid some predation! #AOS25

I am opening scientific illustration commissions! Below are some examples of my work. Please contact me via [email protected] if you are interested!

Do birds tune their songs to their hearing? Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely? It turns out perfect tuning is not required... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #ornithology 🪶

🧵Open submissions call! I recently took on a new position as Associate Editor of Creative Nonfiction at ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. If you have work that intersects people+nature in some significant way, I want to see it! Read on for submissions criteria...

Stand up for science. Stand up as if our lives and our economy depend on it. Because, actually, they do. #standupforscience

We share your excitement @jacanamama.bsky.social 🙌thanks for spreading the word & thanks for being part of SICB Portland.

Also! Want to be a part of this broader community, but don't know if your presentation fits the theme? Maybe you'd like to submit a paper to the associated ICB special issue? Please get in touch! We are Karen Warkentin, @aramaticasper.bsky.social, and me :)

I'm SOOOO EXCITED for this Sex(es) Across Origins Symposium at #SICB2026!!!! I just submitted an abstract for the complementary session (on bird plumage and social selection with @gamaevo.bsky.social), and I hope you consider applying, too! @sicb.bsky.social @sicbjournals.bsky.social

Not to state the obvious, but some birds fly better than others. The ones that are awesome at flying -- this means they can get around obstacles, right? Expand their ranges as needed? Maybe be a little less vulnerable to extinction? Turns out it's SUPER complicated. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Hey SICB 2026 @sicb.bsky.social! Don't forget about the Sex(es) Across Origins Symposium 🍄🦠🐌🌽 If you'd like to give a talk or poster session or poster session in our ✨complementary sessions✨, make sure to specify that in your abstract submission when you submit! (deadline, Aug 27)

I will be presenting research on how the abundance of mimics and models affect the social performance and competitiveness of these groups. If you're keen on behavior and geospatial data this might be of particular interest. That is happening tomorrow, Thursday (07/10) at 10:45 AM in Chesapeake B.

A couple presentations from the lab at #ABS2025! The first is a poster by Catherine Alverson during the first poster session, tonight (07/09). Catherine will be discussing her research on the evolution of dimorphism across thousands of bird species.

I’m excited to share that this paper is finally published - Sustaining socially just and accurate life sciences teaching for sex, gender, and reproduction?

If you've ever wondered how you can make your courses more accurate and equitable beyond the replacement of terminology, consider reading this fantastic paper by @aramaticasper.bsky.social and co

If you're a scientist who's had to cut or cancel your field season because of US budget cuts, DM me for an oped I'm working on.

Beautiful, creative work from @loganjames.bsky.social et al! doi.org/10.1101/2025... 1. Humans share sound preferences w animals (even insects!) 2. Musical experience predicts agreement w animals "...our data indicate a more expansive shared ‘taste for the beautiful’" #bioacoustics #prattle 💬

Check out our deep dive into the molecular genetics of male-specific cell type : the gorgeous UV-iridescent scales of Sulphur Butterflies by lab wizards 🦋🔬 🖥️ 🧬 Ling Sheng Loh @hanliconius.bsky.social and a big team 1/n

No war but hummingbird war. 🪶

I don't have any answers except that maybe, one day, if we fight hard enough we will get to build a Science 2.0 that is better, more equitable, etc. (and I'll be here fighting). But I wanted to share this in case anyone else was feeling this way, too. You're not alone.

Something I've been feeling a lot lately, but haven't heard much about is the grief that comes with being an early career scientist in America in 2025. I think we all understand that, even if things turn out well, there is no going "back to normal" now. A (sad) thread /1

For #PrideMonth , an updated reading list by @jjinsing.bsky.social via integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/w... List jayjinsing.github.io/ReadingList/ & be sure to read Jay's coauthored ICB work Cross-sexual Transfer Revisited. doi.org/10.1093/icb/... #LGTBQI #Pride

#PrideMonth 's YouTube shared on @jjinsing.bsky.social 's updated jayjinsing.github.io/ReadingList/ Crossing boundaries, disrupting #binaries... by www.bu.edu/biology/peop... "To understand #diversity we must look beyond normative expectations, but who we are shapes the questions we ask..."

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

My student Vanessa Perez is analyzing hundreds of photos of the Barred Fruiteater. If you have some, you can help her fill some geographic gaps. A cool story is unwrapping ⛰️🪶 Please share! #birds #ornithology #speciation #andes

"to run a contest that you end up not funding as a private organization at this time is… both extremely wasteful of these people’s time, and just devastating in terms of morale." I spoke with @aniloza.bsky.social at STAT today about HHMI's decision not to fund this round of Hanna Gray applicants.

1. Over the past four months I've talked with many foundation directors about science philanthropy during Trump 2.0. Two things come to the fore every time. i) The most important they can do is maintain the pipeline of talent ii) With the federal govt pulling out, ROI is higher now than ever.

These private grant orgs really said, “We hear that you need more support right now with the funding crisis. We’re actually going to suspend our fellowships until things settle down.” So disappointed in the groups that were supposed to be leaders in the future of science. #postdoc #hhmi

It's not that we might lose our jobs. It's that all of it will disappear or mutate beyond recognition. I worry we're not talking or thinking enough about this deeper sadness hiding behind our immediate anxieties and it's this heaviness that has us all at a breaking point.

It's passe to think of a job as a vocation or calling but for many of us it is- we find motivation and meaning and community in being part of this larger scientific enterprise. It's provided a form of structure to lives that are nomadic and stressful. And now it all might just be... gone?

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

The Daily at UW wrote a nice article on our game-theory model of female variation in hummingbirds!

This sucks so much man, I’m begging people to just read papers and think with their own brain. Why are you even in this profession otherwise?

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

my most recent paper just came out! we wrote a news story about the article here:

Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...