My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Truly a great day in the City of Brotherly Shoves. 💚🦅🏈

Our bird feeder ran empty while we were away for the weekend and I came back to it’s camera roll full of disappointed looking birds

Honestly just another great Sunday to hate the Cowboys.

Join us for the BML Seminar Series! On 9/17, Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social, an Associate Professor in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at UCSB, will present "Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolutionary Innovation." ucdavis.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Got to hear about this work from the source in Lausanne last month, and it's worth a read! Super cool system!!

What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Video by Vittorio Boscaro. 1/n

👋 Hi Bluesky! Excited to finally join. I’m Jean-Marie Volland, assistant professor at UCSB, where my lab studies giant bacteria and other uncultivated and unusual microbes. We use microscopy and genomics uncover how cells evolve complexity, move in extraordinary ways, and form symbioses.

Sunday morning volleyball is now the most essential part of my week. Sound up for birdsong. #overlyhonestmethods

Complex behaviour is not limited to animals! Here we map the entire spectrum of waveforms dynamics on a quadriflagellate single cell with 4x 70um (!) #cilia, to a low dimensional behavioural manifold with surprising structure! #protistsonsky All revealed in our new preprint doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪

Just having one of those mornings when I feel so proud to ride the most perfect bicycle in all the world. #steelisreal #stealthbikethegreatandpowerful

🍄 UGA Plant Pathology is hiring TT faculty in Mycology/Fungal Biology/Fungal Ecology at the Asst/Assc level! Please pass along this opportunity to anyone you know who may be interested. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. 🍄 www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

Thrilled to announce that next year I will be joining @DukeBiology as an assistant professor! I am excited to recruit postdocs and PhD students to start as early as Fall 2026. If you are interested in plant community dynamics, global change, and/or wildfire, please see details below.

Interested in joining the lab? The Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships are designed to bring outstanding scholars from around the world to UBC. I can nominate one person, and help with application materials. More information at www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam... DM if you are interested!

Two #wundergrad lab members submitted their first first-author papers in the last two weeks, and I feel like the luckiest PI in the whole wide world ✨🌟

Come be my boss! My dept. at GT is searching for a new chair. Drop me a line if you are interested, I'd be happy to talk about this position, GT, ATL- anything. It's a drama-free department filled with cool people in a dynamic city. www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search

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

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring! We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

Has been an especially good #figaday. #metadata #overlyhonestmethods

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Just found out I'm no longer appointed as a prof at UCSB (admin glitch; will be resolved) because I got a parking ticket (my parking permit was automatically cancelled b/c of lack of employment 😂). This is a solid #2 on the list of "things people found out via parking tickets". Share your stories?

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Check out our new special feature: Monitoring and Restoring Gene Flow in the Increasingly Fragmented Ecosystems of the Anthropocene www.pnas.org/topic/574 #biodiversity #evolution #ecology #popgen #ClimateEmergency

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025 Reach out! www.martinezgomezlab.com

Julian is applying to PhD programs this Fall to work on mixotrophy, so keep an eye out for applications from this brilliant scientist -- and excellent artist.

Still debating attendance? Check out the amazing souvenir mugs that our lab technician, Julian Jacobs, has made for the occasion! #TraitBasedApproaches #Traits2025

Tenure-track faculty search of the UCSF Biochemistry & Biophysics Department is open for applications! We are looking for creative, innovative scientists asking fundamental questions in any area of biology. Join our vibrant, collaborative, and supportive community! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05702

Trying to develop predictive theory for how biology works in the ocean? Interested in unifying traits? Keen to hang out in a beautiful place with amazing people? Consider joining us in a couple of weeks at the 7th #TraitBasedApproaches workshop in Asilomar! carnegiescience.edu/seventh-trai...

I’m thrilled to announce that next summer I’ll be joining the University of Maryland Department of Biology as an assistant professor! The Van Etten lab will study how horizontal processes (DNA and gene transfer + organelle acquisition) drive and are driven by ecology and evolution. vanettenlab.org

What a wonderful meeting to participate in this week! My brain is full, and new collaborations are kicking off! #unicornjob🦄

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

Come and Join our Dpt in Beautiful #Geneva ! We are looking for a #Microscopy & #Image #Analysis expert to help all of us at the Dpt.

The answer, sadly, was "no." #figaday #metadata

Thank you for your attention to this ladder!

Maybe your day would be improved by an adorable friend shaped crab, Carpilius convexus 🦀 From the reef tank subreddit (I don't have one but like looking at them): www.reddit.com/r/ReefTank/s...

Fig-A-Day, my little self-motivation/vanity project 😆, now exclusively on BlueSky!

After a little break, back to cranking on data and science and excited to start Year 4 (!!!!) of Fig-A-Day! Today's figure brought to you by a Colorado writing retreat and a negroni that finally motivated me to tackle some tricky stats coding. #figaday 4.001/n #year4

Six years (one undergrad, 5 grad) and 5(!!!) first author papers flew by with Dr. Detmer. I am so proud of her science,but more proud of her resilience and bravery as a human. (1/5) #unicornjob🦄

#Figaday closes out year 3!?!

Such a great week full of symbiosis science, good food, and great company with @mixotrophe.bsky.social visiting the ECSO Lab (ecsolab.com)!

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... Application Deadline July 31, 2025

Colours of a summer storm #Shetland

The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care? 1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

When I learned expansion microscopy, one of the first things I promised myself was to start submitting images alongside papers. So honored to be featured by JEM!!

With the move to a permanent cover for @jeukmicro.bsky.social, we've not forgotten the thrill of an article 'getting the journal cover"! We're happy to introduce Highlight Images, one per issue. This is our stunning choice for the March/April Issue! Congrats to @mixotrophe.bsky.social and team:)

Huge congrats to @elenalitchman.bsky.social on being elected an ESA Fellow!! 🧪🌊🦠 She does inspiring and foundational work in trait-based ecology, working across scales from phytoplankton in lake Baikal to the human microbiome. And, she's a super kind and caring mentor -- so, so, well deserved! ✨✨✨✨

Very exciting news! In Sept 2025, I will move my lab to the School of Biological Sciences @monashbiol.bsky.social at #Monash University in Melbourne! I am recruiting #PhD students to work on #ecological & #evolutionary dynamics of #phytoplankton #communities – find out more here giuliaghedini.com

Pause for a minute to appreciate the valiant Program Officers still at NSF, who are doing their utmost to preserve what they can. They’re in the stinking rotting belly of the beast, laboring on our behalf. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them