I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Such a delight to share our work on the evolution of a cheese rind fungus in @currentbiology.bsky.social. This is the fantastic PhD work of @nicolasleonlouw.bsky.social and resulted from amazing collaborations, a wedding proposal(!), an undergrad course, & more! 🧵 www.cell.com/current-biol...

What is the longest anything has ever sat in your brain's "I should look that up on the internet" queue? In like 2006 my MS advisor showed me this book, and ever since I have periodically been like "what was the name of that book again? I should figure that out and get a copy"

¡Muy invitados a una nueva charla en nuestros #EncuentrosdeBiodiversidad del Instituto de Ciencias Naturales (ICN)! Tendremos este miércoles 17 de Sep a las 5pm a la Dra. Laura Lagomarsino @tropicalbotany.bsky.social, quien hablará sobre macroevolución de la flora Andina 🌱🌿🌳🌴

I never share these, but WHAT??!!??? 🍀 Wordle 1,548 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Sábado en Bogota- ajiaco, amigos, aventuras 🇨🇴.

Our department @lsu.bsky.social LSU Biological Sciences is hiring an Assistant Professor in Neurobiology. Our department is amazing - come join us... lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0202...

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

I'm just a US citizen, finding a little bit of solace in today's news out of Brazil...

That place-- the Center for Evolutionary Dynamics-- always gave me exactly the wrong vibes. Hard pass from me.

We're thrilled to see such an enthusiastic response for SSB 2026! 111 spots are already claimed, with a cap of 200. Be sure to register soon, if you're planning to join us! ssb2026.github.io #SSB2026 @systbiol.bsky.social

Okay my fern people, you know what to do! @avascog.bsky.social @crothfels.bsky.social @msundue.bsky.social @afs1893.bsky.social @fernway.bsky.social @ebsessa.bsky.social

The LSRF post-doc fellowship is open (due Oct 31)! The LSRF is a supportive and kind community. We *always* celebrate each other. On a personal level, they've always greeted me with open arms and an abundance of kindness. If you are thinking of applying and have questions, feel free to reach out!

Todas mis frutas favoritas 🥰🍊🥑☕️🍫🥰. Amo Colombia 🇨🇴.

Please do not forget that some scientists were cozying up to Epstein long long long after his horrific behavior was known. Five of them are featured in the Birthday Book. Gerry Edelman. Murray Gellman. Steve Kosslyn. Martin Nowak. Lee Smolin. See docs: oversight.house.gov/release/over...

This is just so terrible. It's terrible on principle, and for what it means to be free in the US... but, selfishly, it's also a terrible new, not unexpected source of stress for "my people" in the US, including my husband and students, who dare to speak Spanish in the US while being brown. *sigh*

While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.

Do you mentor scientific writing, or use written assignments in the science courses you teach? Do you find mentoring/teaching writing hard, or time consuming? (Because it is!) Our new book can help, and it's getting close to being in your hands.

Finally able to nab @restingdinoface.bsky.social’s When the Earth Was Green from the library. Despite not being a botanist, plant evolutionary history is one of my favorite topics to teach. What a lovely and meditative walk through the entangled history of plants, animals, and the larger environment

An informal party before I start taking sabbatical seriously: cooking, puzzling, crafting, conversing- I’m gonna miss my people while I’m out this semester 🥲. #LagoLab

Plants phylogeny is a mess anyway Credit : @xkcd.com

The work of @basicbiologist23.bsky.social on lizards and lead in Nat Geo! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬 I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma. Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation 👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org Please share!

I'm so thrilled that this paper is now out in American Journal of Botany! This paper marks a couple of exciting firsts for me - it is the first chapter of my dissertation and my first first-author publication 🎉. I hope folks enjoy reading it and become fans of personate flowers in Penstemon!

Professor Rocoto is ready to teach Plant Diversity this semester! #IAmABotanist #LosCusucos (I, on the other hand, will be sitting this semester out— sabbatical, baby!)

New Orleans' Brown Anoles Can Tolerate Extraordinary Amounts of Lead in Their Blood www.anoleannals.org/2025/08/23/n...

Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

@evoyeyo.bsky.social and I just got back the most positive, kind, enthusiastic, and also helpful reviews (despite a reject and resubmit decision) that I’ve received in a long time- maybe ever? Let’s normalize this. More of this please. Especially now.

An added bonus for this position: you’ll be invited to the annual LSU-BRIT collecting foray 😉. Seriously, there’s a great crew at BRIT– join ‘em!

The ideological cancellation of $800 million of scientific research grants because they supposedly focused on DEI was just backed by the Supreme Court. This is horrific on so many levels.

Leaving Academia: Insights from Evolutionary Biologists on Their Career Transitions and Job Satisfaction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671061v1

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Registration is now open for #SSB2026! I'm so excited to see many of you here in Baton Rouge in January! We're going to hear great talks, discuss the immeasurable value of natural history collections, and continue to strengthen our scientific community. ssb2026.github.io @systbiol.bsky.social

Huh. I don't remember the federal government asking me what flavor of "white" I am before. This list of what are I think meant to be ethnicities also seems really arbitrary, and doesn't map out onto ethnicities per se. (This is for an NSF annual personnel report for a graduate training program.)

📣🍄🦇🍄🦇🍄📣 I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher for my lab in Ceske Budejovice, Czechia. We study biodiversity monitoring, ecology, conservation, and microbiology. Some of our work deals with bats, most with fungi! Email at danny dot haelewaters at gmail dot com if interested. #TeamLaboul #newPI

New Paper! In 2019, my first dissertation chapter revealed complicated polyploidies in the cotton family (Malvaceae) but we lacked the tools and genomes to truly understand it. Now with better genomes and improved methods, it's much more complicated than we thought. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell hole it is.

My sister department EEB is hiring an animal evo-devo assistant prof! I'm the plant evo-devo person on the SC and happy to answer any questions! (spoiler alert: This is a GREAT place to be and with fantastic colleagues & support!!!!) @socdevbio.bsky.social illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

Tickets to Bogotá 🇨🇴 are purchased for September, and plans are shored up for St. Louis ❤️⚜️💙 in October-December. Tomorrow's Monday and the semester is around the corner, but it's beginning to not matter-- I'm gonna call it: I'M ON SABBATICAL!!

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books #holiday #vacation #reading

Fun news: I'm hiring a postdoc in ichthyology! Please spread the word #TeamFish, and message me if you have questions. (Job requisition id is R00107333 if LSU link below takes you elsewhere.) lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/de...

“This Executive Order is nothing short of obscene," said Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). "In what world does Donald Trump think that Americans want political appointees – who, need I remind the President, are unelected bureaucrats – making decisions on what science gets funded?”

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

I’m so so proud of rockstar PhD student @marquisehenry.bsky.social who is one of this year’s class of @hhmi.org Gilliam Fellows! @lsubiosci.bsky.social @lsuscience.bsky.social @lsu.bsky.social

Today's featured #SSB2026 workshop: the Open Tree of Life with @snacktavish.bsky.social and @mtholder.bsky.social! opentreeoflife.github.io Registration opening soon. Keep an eye here for updates: ssb2026.github.io Hope to see you in Baton Rouge in January! @systbiol.bsky.social

Damn, that post #Botany2025 COVID caught up with me.