Still 31 °C (ca 88 ° Fahrenheit) at 9 pm in Amsterdam 🇳🇱. Granted, it is 7 to 8 degrees cooler than it was during the day and still cooler than in other major European cities, but still 🥵 We need to increase our actions against the climate crisis!

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

~ Spain weather: Red alert for 'danger to life' heat with 42C highs ~ https://archive.is/qlv1q

After a quite stressful morning (glitch in the camera, and I needed to be at uni earlier than planned to fix it), I am having a coffee now on the balcony. ☕☀️

A pancreatic cancer drug has been called "transformative" after it doubled survival time among people with a particularly severe form of the condition.

Incredible! Scientists receive a rare standing ovation after announcing that a new treatment can double the survival time for pancreatic cancer, the deadliest cancer which was once considered “undruggable.” When we fund and support science, we can achieve anything! (Video: Dr. Wish Dhillon)

1) So happy to share our latest preprint 😀 🥳by Thomas Blankers, Jonna Kulmuni, and me: “Do the benefits of hybridization outweigh the costs under conditions of global change?” ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @uva.nl @helsinki.fi #hybridization #globalchange #evolution #speciation #biodiversity

Dear #plantscience friends, we're looking to recruit a new colleague at @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social: a Professor in Plant Biotechnology. 🌱🧪 The @dompsfr.bsky.social community is truly fantastic. Interested? Please share far and wide and join us! uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

Heute endet der meteorologische Frühling und er war der allerwärmste seit Messbeginn im Jahre 1850. In allen drei Monaten (März, April, Mai) lagen die Temperaturen über dem Durchschnitt, nur Mitte Mai gab es eine kürzere kühle Phase. Geregnet hat es nur 40-50 % der normalen Menge.

postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Looks like one of those terrifying 2050 #climate projection graphics, but no, that’s a short-term forecast for France until… May 29th.

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

A colleague of mine, Willem Frankenhuis is hiring a PhD on "Mathematical Modeling of Adaptive Cognition in Stressful Environments" in the Department of Evolutionary and Population Biology (EPB) at IBED @uva.nl He is a great PI 😀 - apply now. Link is below www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3608...

I am hiring a postdoc for a project on herbivory of Rhododendron by insects in North Wales! Genomics expertise required, field experience preferred. Hoping to hire quickly! Bangor is awesome! Get in touch if you want any more details! jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

Update to the drought situation: year-to-date precipitation total in Finland is again the lowest on record (since 1961). The 2026 precipitation in Finland (~78 mm) is only 54 % of the long-term normal (143 mm) at this time of the year.

Your 'moment of doom' for May 9, 2026 ~ Once and future jungle. "In the past, Antarctica helped buffer global warming. Our results suggest it may now be shifting in the opposite direction." theconversation.com/antarctic-se...

Woooow, so much data we are sharing widely without our knowledge 😥

Mark your calendars for this seminar by Sam Yeaman!

We’re hiring! 🇸🇪🔬
 Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Prokaryotic Microbiology (molecular focus) at Stockholm University. Supportive environment + strong molecular research 👉https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:921526/type:job/where:125/apply:1 Please share!!

We’re hiring! We invite applications for an Ecological Statistician to join our team. Work at the interface of cutting-edge biodiversity science and statistics. DL 27 May @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social @rececochange.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

📜New Paper📜@ecography.bsky.social Species distributions aren’t just about where species occur, but how survival, reproduction and development vary across environments. We formalise the Demographic Niche Concept to link niche theory and demography. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In 2024, more than 60% of new cars sold in Ethiopia were fully electric. It now ranks alongside global EV leaders by share of new car sales. Ahead of most of Europe. More in future newsletter. Sign up here: substack.com/@janrosenow

Next 2 weeks we will see 35/40C EVERY DAY in Southern Africa. Northern Mozambique and Southern Malawi might attack the record of the highest temperature ever recorded in May in the whole Southern Hemisphere. But Brazil might record similar temperatures for the next 10 days.

It's hard being a climate comedian's therapist... 🫠

New PLOS Biology paper arising from a collaboration between us at the Sanger/U Cambridge and the U York and Sheffield, and many more collaborators across the Americas and Europe. Regulatory changes in the same genes (optix, ivory) led to the same colour patterns in mimetic butterflies and moths.

I think about this all the time.

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

The strongest El Niño in 150 years? That’s not hype, it’s the actual median forecast right now for the developing event later this year. It could rival — or even surpass — the legendary 1877 El Niño, the strongest on record, which was linked to widespread drought, monsoon failure, and food crises 1/

You are interested in evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics. You enjoy fieldwork and birds. Join our laboratory and our international team. csee-scee.ca/job/fully-fu...

We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature! We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱 ⏰Submit by 30th April More here👇 buff.ly/EXXBFsJ

Please share widely! We will imminently be posting a technician position in our lab group since @rheasood.bsky.social is off to grad school 🙌! If you know of anyone excited about molecular biology, evolution, and functional genomics please have them reach out (schumer at stanford). Start date ~June

The DNA barcode reference library for European ants is out! 🐜🧬 doi.org/10.1111/1755... Checklist of 650 species, ~78% covered 🧬, +6,500 COI 🧬, plus species genetic maps & trees, see Supp. Inf. "Atlas" tinyurl.com/antdnaeuatlas A framework for species discovery, biosurveillance, and phylogeography!

dzg-meeting.de/en/welcome-ms/ The Meeting of the German Zoological Society will take place in Münster from September 7 to 11! Abstract submission until June 15! 🧪

Fossil Fuels Are Not The Future….

PLS RT📣 Two Postdoc jobs at #mpaib with Serena Ding on collective behavior of worms (Never seen a "wormuration"? That's them in green) 🪱 social dynamics of collective dispersal: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/2... 🪱 sensory ecology of worm towers: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/7...

Measurements by buoys at four latitudes in the western Atlantic provide the strongest evidence yet that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is weakening

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

A few days late, but we started field work in the Netherlands this week. Using red wood ants, we assess phenotypic plasticity of stress responses over the season using ants collected in the field and their acclimation to warmer climates in the lab. @uva.nl #marie-skladowska-curie-actions #msca

We found that Rickia wasmannii, known from Myrmica workers, also infects queens, males, and larvae, with spillover to nest associates (incl. Lomechusa). doi.org/10.1007/s000... Complex dynamics in the ant microcosm --> more ant–fungus work coming @insectessociaux.bsky.social @dhaelewa.bsky.social

Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Then you cannot miss #ExE2026! Hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall, this #conference has a stellar line-up of speakers and lots of pre-and post-conference workshops. Space is limited, so register now at evoxeco.uk!

Interesting study about ozone affecting nestmate recognition and eliciting aggression in ants 🐜.

Post Doc Job open with us to work with biologists to build AI models to analyze camera trap data. The specific focus will be to study animal coloration and camouflage, but there will be opportunities to work on other related projects. jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

For a project, I want to film ants 🐜 each hour over several days, but only for about ten seconds. I would want to watch the videos later on. Now I need your help BlueSky community: Is there any setup/blueprint that we could use to build it ourselves or is there a company with low-budget solutions?

(1) Really happy to share our recent review "Speciation in ants: unlocking ant diversity to study speciation". 😀 doi.org/10.25849/myr... Ants are ecologically diverse and abundant organisms with strong potential to advance the study of speciation. Despite extensive research on their taxonomy, ...

📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

Submit your article proposals now, for our new special feature on Snow Ecology ❄️🏔️🐇 @animalecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...