Wonder if this will end up being one of the most widely watched 60 Minutes packages

European crayfish fouled by zebra mussels.

Important information from Cossey et al: 🌊Freshwater bivalve mass mortality events in Europe require immediate conservation action and policy development. Learn more at doi.org/10.1111/cobi... #conservation #science #scientificjournal

Saturdays are for sewers! Or… where else does my poop go? This week I spent a morning under 10th St., working with our @cityofsaintpaul.bsky.social Public Works crews to clean one of our old sanitary sewer tunnels. It was really rewarding work. And really tiring. Highlights:🧵 1/

Feeling grateful this holiday season for starting a new postdoc at NMNH using phenomics to study drivers of #freshwatermussel #plasticity

Demonstrating how phylogenetic trees can rotate around their nodes and still tell the same story! #BI111 #SciArt (ping @bbolker.bsky.social)

Greetings #FreshwaterPearlMussel friends! This Microscope Monday 🔬 we're excited to share with you an incredible image of a 34 month old #MargaritiferaMargaritifera from: Understanding early life stages of the freshwater pearl mussel using scanning electron microscopy👇 www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/un...

this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.

eggNOG v7, the first release implementing a fully phylogenetic, domain-centric workflow - Speciation and duplication events are detected using a noise-tolerant algorithm to generate hierarchically consistent, evolutionarily dated OGs academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #orthology #evolution

FINALLY GOT IT! I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000. Over 20,000 the past month alone. Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away" In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare: Fish success story. 🪶

Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas. Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...

Absolutely devastating account of the CSU's $17 million capitulation to ChatGPT, from a fellow faculty member watching it happen www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Great article by Marissa Dyck on the importance of building a strong foundation in coding before leaning on AI as a coding tool. doi.org/10.1093/jmam...

I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for Fall 2026. Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes? Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research. #hybridization #minnows #mudskippers

TUNE IN IT'S STILL HAPPENING

Blueberry species (genus Vaccinium) circled the Northern Hemisphere to travel from North America to Hawai'i— and then closed the loop to hybridize with a North American species 🌿 buff.ly/3mu6eqJ

This #givingtuesday please consider donating to the Paleontological Research Institution/Museum of the Earth PRI is a major US fossil collection and education center & has been struggling after a major donor was unable to fulfill a pledge but is almost out of the woods, any support helps! 🦑⚒️🧪🐌🐚

Applications for student travel assistance to attend the #2026SFS annual meeting through the Instars program are now open. Undergraduates from historically underrepresented backgrounds interested in freshwater science are eligible to apply. (1/2)

If you live in Minnesota you have access (no login required) to thousands of journals and ebooks, the full text of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Star Tribune (all the way back to the 80s), and much more. All thanks to eLibrary Minnesota. Libraries rule! 2/4 elibrarymn.org

*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

Leading up to the livestream, make sure to read our article, adapted from the work of @andylee.bsky.social & other researchers about how sea snails that have migrated north are adapting to their new habitat: www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/why...

We’re excited to be collaborating with @skypeascientist.bsky.social for their free livestream on December 4th at 1 PM EST featuring researcher Andy Lee! Register here for your chance to talk with Andy about his research on sea snails & climate change: sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/les....

An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀

I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison. Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6

Please apply to join the Diversity Committee of the American Society of Naturalists! www.amnat.org/announcement...

Salvage Wildlife, Statewide! Bell curatorial staff Dr. Keith Barker and Sam Getty recently visited Salvage Wildlife partner Concordia College to teach a crash course on bird-prepping. Volunteer specimen preppers learned the ins-and-outs of turning a salvaged bird carcass into a scientific specimen!

1/ 🧵 I'm at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum to talk about using natural history collections to build inclusive community. Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research. However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research? #ornithology

Hello bluesky community! I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics. Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position. Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325

Hi Bluesky community - I'm teaching computational genomics again in the Spring term; always happy to have auditors or folks Zoom in. Just have your students email me for deets.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Author (that's me) hopes ‘deep map’ of the St. Croix River watershed will inspire others www.twincities.com/2025/09/14/s...

bored: do you prefer the big spoon or little spoon inspired: do you prefer the dorsal valve or ventral valve of a brachiopod

Who is it?

To celebrate #GarWeek, we’re introducing the faces behind #GarLab! Meet Mark Hove: Mark Hove is a UMN research biologist who works on various GarLab projects and also enjoys studying native mussels (hovelab.cfans.umn.edu). #GarWeek

Mark Hove always has kind words to share, time for mentoring, and an encyclopedic knowledge of mussels that can come only from having a true lifelong love of oft-ignored organisms.

Walking a few thousand steps a day can slow cognitive decline in older adults who are at increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research.

Neat paper: A Guided Tour of Phylogenetic Comparative Methods for Studying Trait Evolution www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Same. See readme of tropicos.netlify.app repo for some scripts that can help with migration from wowchemy to quarto. This tutorial also helpful esp for quarto hosting in netlify. jadeyryan.com/blog/2024-02...

I'll be joining my ChaSE buddies today to talk chalk at the Festival! Come hang out!

Years ago, I attempted a self-assessment of my potential gender biases in an academic research setting: ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2016/04/subt... Today, I happened on a very nice summary of how to avoid such biases in letters of recommendation, which provides an comprehensive outline. Check it out

Analysis of 985(!!) baboon skulls' CT scan data from MorphoSource shows that >18% have slice spacing errors that propagate to downstream analyses-- an important cautionary tale on checking CT metadata vs. errors, and a goliath effort: peerj.com/articles/201...

Why are some sea snails moving north? My first publication has been translated into a kid's article!! www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/why...

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

Update on the Paleontological Research Institution and their remaining need for donations to pay off their mortgage and avoid foreclosure #savePRI please share; tag anyone you think might help🧪⚒️🦑 @lastweektonight.com @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @pbseons.bsky.social www.ithaca.com/news/regiona...

🚨Our new package {galaxias} is released in R & Python today! 🚨 📦 galaxias makes it easy to standardise data to Darwin Core, the accepted format for sharing ecological data with infrastructures like @gbif.org and the Atlas of Living Australia galaxias.ala.org.au #rstats #python 🧪🌏🐟 A thread 🧵👇

New Collection Study Grants for students and postdocs to come visit the @burkemuseum.bsky.social! Applications due 12/15/25. www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

Great #civicScience opportunity for the @gbif.org network that will feed records from transcribed mollusk labels from the #FieldMuseum !

Mike Travisano back at MSU to give EEB Distinguished Alumni Lecture on "The major consequences of micro-evolution" Mike a key player in establishing #LTEE and microbial expt'l evolution more generally. Here we are with LTEE lines in the incubator & Mike holding y'day flasks w/ @ofria.bsky.social

✨ SNAIL SCRIBE ARCHIVE - this new 🐌 Zooniverse transcription project is all about molluscan biodiversity data. It seeks to promote the conservation and critical scientific research of these under-appreciated animals! www.zooniverse.org/projects/ske...