Work with us! 🐟 Assistant Curator of Ichthyology This is a 12-month, tenure-track position 👇 🔸 Full info: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/caree... 🔸 Apply via @ufl.edu: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54... 🔸 About us: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/ 🏛️📌 Apply by Aug. 21, 2026

The Smithsonian museums that line the National Mall in Washington have come under attack from the Trump administration. They were also some of the only spaces that afforded crowds relief from the scorching temperatures and severe weather on July 4.

Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first. n.pr/4weVi49

I recently found a tick on my body and didn't know what to do. I went into journalist mode to find out. Here's what I learned about how to manage tick bites, with illustrations of the tick species that cause diseases in humans by Diogo Guerra and maps of where they occur by @jenchristiansen.com 🧪

Spoiler alert, they had too much nitrate in their new drinking water well... which they drilled to replace their old well that had too much nitrate. The culprit? Too much nitrogen fertilizer and manure spread on the land. insideclimatenews.org/news/0306202...

Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

I am obviously a biased source, but there's a reason why Evolution still has a substantial virtual component to the conference. And the combination of very low fees plus some headline events is a whole lot of that.

Latest from @mortonarboretum.bsky.social Systematics Lab, comparing whole genome resequencing and RADseq data for phylogenetic inference in oaks. Punchlines: High confidence in the backbone oak phylogeny; variance in RADseq bootstraps reveals historic gene flow. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

"For the first time in more than 100 years, evidence of cougars reproducing in Minnesota was documented in video captured by the University of MN's Voyageurs Wolf Project (youtu.be/7EL1FRB11DU). The videos, shared with the MN DNR by the project researchers, show a female cougar with 3 large kittens"

Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math

Our review on adaptive introgression in the context of climate adaptation is now published in Mol Ecol: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... In a nutshell: often invoked theoretically, rarely unambiguously demonstrated empirically! Many thanks to everyone who shared feedback on earlier versions

👋 👋 SSE members, I hope you'll join me May 21 for the virtual SSE Presidential Symposium: Navigating Uncertainty: Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology Pls RT to help get the word out!

More exciting press for @scsualumni.bsky.social Alex Maile @anoplogaster.bsky.social and @stcloudstate.bsky.social professor Matt Davis’ work on deep-sea fishes! #teamfish

This is especially concerning because persistence is foundational to skill acquisition and one of the *strongest* predictors of long-term learning. AI conditions you to expect immediate answers, removing the productive struggle that builds real competence.

“first drafts of Results, Discussion, and Introduction should be the trainee’s own work. AI can help with grammar…tightening prose…critiquing the logic of an argument you’ve already made. But the hard part of forming the argument needs to be yours.’ blekhman.substack.com/p/you-need-t...

We just published a review 🗞️😁: ‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a... 1/5 🧵

"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin." Executive Order 9981. July 26, 1948.

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

New paper out led by Sam Fritz Using meta-analysis we quantify evidence for positive interactions between invasive species in freshwaters and identify key knowledge gaps for the study of freshwater invasion meltdowns. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Devastating news as the victims of the fatal house fire in White Bear Lake have been identified as sports media personality Jessi Pierce and her three children. https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/sports-media-personality-jessi-pierce-her-3-children-die-in-white-bear-lake-fire

Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco.

Talk about a headache! (especially from your partner fusing to you!) This is a Ghostly Seadevil (Haplophryne mollis) from the University of Washington Burke Museum!

It's 3/19 in Belgium already, so @marinespecies.bsky.social has dropped the Top Ten marine species of 2025! These incredible animals represent effort and expertise from a whole crew of taxonomists. Thank you to these and all other taxonomists on #WorldTaxonomyDay🎉

Some people should never have access to students. “AI requires no ramp-ups, no meetings, and absolutely no emotional support…The issue is not whether my students are valuable. In long run, they are invaluable. The issue is that their value emerges slowly, whereas AI delivers immediate returns.”

Simon Lailvaux and I have a new podcast! We talk to big-name biologists about how science has changed over their careers. Here’s the first episode - look for more every couple of weeks!

We have a growing collection of resources for women in ecology that support, celebrate and advocate for women's roles in research and practice.  Check our collection of resources here 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/gtwczvuefr

Some professors at the University of St. Thomas are doing a research project on the effects of the ICE occupation on Twin Cities parents. They're looking for parents who are US citizens, who live in the Twin Cities metro area, and who have kids ages 5-10. stthomas.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

bringing back some #InvertebrateShitposting from the archives

“By declining the State of the Union visit, the US Women’s Hockey Team’s polite 'no thanks' says more than any corporation, or tech billionaire, or media company is willing to say. Amid so much cowardice, it’s those who stood up who will be remembered…

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

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...

My first PhD dissertation chapter has been published! Let me know if you need a copy. Complete species-level phylogeny of Madagascar’s tufted-tailed rats, Eliurus (Rodentia: Nesomyidae) reveals hidden diversity doi.org/10.1093/zool... And please enjoy this sonnet I wrote to summarize it:

Three postdoctoral fellowships in quantitative biology are available as part of a new Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland. Best consideration date: 3/14 Job Ad: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j... Department: biology.umd.edu/people

My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

Postdoc @eawag.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/673277/1341/...

Dowding, E.M., Dunne, E.M., Collins, K.S. et al. The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases. Nat Ecol Evol (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The 2026 LinneSys call is open! Looking for a small grant for systematics work? Check us out! systass.org/linnesys/ All you need is to be a member of the @systassn.bsky.social or the @linneansociety.bsky.social Caveat, legally, we cannot fund anyone in a country listed here: tinyurl.com/wemwtfrz

Whether you are interested in birds or not, I encourage you to read this eBird checklist by Brian Holbrook, whoever that may be. ebird.org/checklist/S2... No spoilers but trailer screenshot included

🚨 PhD position in annelid genomics (EuroWorm) 🚨 If you love biodiversity, evolution & bioinformatics — apply or share! 🪱🧬 Details here: www.senckenberg.de/de/stellenan... #PhD #Genomics #Annelida #MarineBiology #EuroWorm

DHS is being more aggressive than ever targeting anonymous social media accounts that have spoken out against ICE, asking Big Tech to hand over information on users without signed judicial warrants story w/ @sheeraf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Meanwhile www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

She's done it again. Jessie Diggins, age 34 and skiing in her final Olympics, captured a bronze medal for the U.S. at the Milan Cortina Games. She battled through the pain from injured ribs to reach the podium. n.pr/4qDJJQL

Trump promotes the mine as a critical source of minerals for the US, BUT the company intends to ship the ore abroad to be processed and sold. Tell your US Senators NO! @earthjustice.org makes it fast/easy with a letter you can personalize and they'll send for you: earthjustice.org/action/defen.... 🌎