Two weeks left to apply for the @stegg-interact.bsky.social post-bacc research program. Details on the website uh.edu/nsm/stegg-in...

Applications are open for PREP Bio at the University of Oregon! A great opportunity for postbacs looking for additional research experience while preparing for graduate school. More here: cas.uoregon.edu/UO-PREP-Bio

NEW PAPER with @arvidagren.bsky.social and Manus Patten on evolutionary reversions in individuality now out (as an advance article) at @jevbio.bsky.social (see academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...). Thread below! [1/8] .

There is still time to apply! The deadline has been extended until February 3rd.

📣Deadline approaching - Monday 19th January! Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors! Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...

Wishing all of our followers a Happy New Year 2026! We kick off with the January Issue of JEB online now: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/39/1 📸 A sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in the water at the Toba Aquarium, Japan. Photo Credit Tomohiro Harano

Just a week left to apply for a position in our Editorial Board!

Happy the one day a year you listen to the Vandals to all who celebrate 🥳

There should be a folk band that plays Christmas themed horror music called the Kingston Falls Trio

Quiz time: what is the song Jingle Bells about? a. Christmas b. Street racing c. A vehicle accident d. Picking up women

This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!

Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology: 🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑‍💻🪸🦎 Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi... DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣

What's a pirate's favorite sewing material?

I am recruiting graduate students to my genomics-focused lab in EEB at Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Please spread the word if you know any students with an interest in a computational focus to genomics research! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬 We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies. Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

I am looking to hire a postdoc interested in combining genetics and evolution to understand why telomeres vary so much in plants. My group has been developing Mimulus a genetic model for studying plant telomeres and we have really cool research brewing. Please check ad for detail. Deadline is 12/31.

WE ARE RECRUITING PHD STUDENTS!!! We have three(!) funded PhD studentships advertising presently. If any of these are of interest, please reach out! Thread below with links to more information on each project. #Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #SelfishGene #Aphids Thread with links below 🧵 1/4

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

My amazing colleague Shelley Sianta (not on bsky) is looking for a tech to join her new lab at UT Austin. The position will involve lab, greenhouse, and field work to study local adaptation and speciation in plants. Please share! utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

Full catalogue of oingo boingo goes away at midnight Friday, as well

We had a great time at the @official-smbe.bsky.social satellite meeting on Insect Antimicrobial Peptides at @uh.edu Thank you to everyone who attended! bsky.app/profile/offi... @uh-ecoevo.bsky.social @uh.edu @uhnsm.bsky.social

Do you have something to say about evolutionary biology? Consider a Review or Target Review at @jevbio.bsky.social ! Target reviews are an especially fun way to express your opinion, and then get your friends and frenemies to converse with you on that topic. bsky.app/profile/jevb...

🦟 From October 13-15, a broad group of researchers met in Houston (USA) for the SMBE Satellite Meeting on Evolutionary Biochemistry of Insect Antimicrobial Peptides to discuss the evolution, molecular mechanisms, and translational potential of AMPs.

Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis? @jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles! Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...

#PhD Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication? Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids Details: shorturl.at/nQ8UW

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

📣CALL FOR PAPERS! Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow! These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here: eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Please share! Psyched to bring in a new member of the team. Starting salary $62K. #postdoc #sciencejobs #plantpeopleFTW

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Carnivorous plant not doing its job

I'm recruiting two PhD positions in my lab for Fall 2026. 1) evolutionary genomics that will focus on constructing and utilizing pangenomes; 2) conservation genomics focused on pop structure and adaptation of Pacific coast Am. black bears. Details: puckettresearch.org/people/posit...

Awesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please help spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/173889

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

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

Come to meet @jevbio.bsky.social board & have fun at the ESEB booth @eseb2025.bsky.social! 😎🤓 🔎📰Check all the evolving opportunities offered by JEB: academic.oup.com/jeb @maxreuter.bsky.social #ESEB2025

We will be in the exhibition hall @eseb2025.bsky.social! ✅ Meet our editors ✅ Support your society journal @agonzalezvoyer.bsky.social @maxreuter.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @vakirlis.bsky.social @arnaudlerouzic.bsky.social @francescaraffini.bsky.social @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social

@jevbio.bsky.social will be at #eseb2025! Come and talk to us about your work, projects for reviews, proposals for Special Issues, ways to get involved or anything else.

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My postdoc position is open again! If you’re interested and did not get your application in last time, please send one by end of this week! Start date asap, latest by end of Fall. ‼️

If you are at #SMBE2025, go and listen to why you should publish your work in a #societyjournal! 👇 And don’t forget to submit to @jevbio.bsky.social. ;)

Living colour!

🧪 Russ Vought, a Project 2025 architect, is currently withholding $2.5 billion from NSF's budget for this year. This move is: -Illegally secretive -Unusual and suspect -Disrupts science -Subverts Congress It's also urgent because the *fiscal* year ends Sept 30 (call your rep). 🧵 Let's unpack...

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies 2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ. Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct. Details: christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com

Hey #Evol2025 - My colleague @waspvenom.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc for our #NSF - #USDA funded grant to understand the genetic basis of gall formation! Please see that attached ad, and feel free to talk to me @evolmtg.bsky.social, or contact Dr. Ellen Martinson directly!

Hey #Evol2025 check out the poster from former @stegg-interact.bsky.social postbacc Michaela!

Feeling the #Evol2025 fomo, but excited to have lab members and @stegg-interact.bsky.social postbaccs attending! Check out posters from my lab examining how house fly Y chromosomes affect male mating performance and aggression