Rich Meisel
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evo | eco | devo | geno | bio | info 🪰🧬👨💻
https://linktr.ee/richmeisel
Two weeks left to apply for the
@stegg-interact.bsky.social
post-bacc research program. Details on the website
uh.edu/nsm/stegg-in...
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Matt Barber
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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
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UO PREP Biology program
https://cas.uoregon.edu/UO-PREP-Bio
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Martijn Schenkel
4 days ago
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-...
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Evolutionary transitions and reversions in individuality
Abstract. Biological individuality exists in different forms—unicellular, multicellular, colonial, etc.—which have arisen through evolutionary transitions
https://academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jeb/voag007/8443358
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Kerri Crawford
12 days ago
There is still time to apply! The deadline has been extended until February 3rd.
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European Society for Evolutionary Biology
17 days ago
📣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...
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
17 days ago
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
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
20 days ago
Just a week left to apply for a position in our Editorial Board!
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Happy the one day a year you listen to the Vandals to all who celebrate 🥳
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There should be a folk band that plays Christmas themed horror music called the Kingston Falls Trio
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Krista Koeller
about 1 month ago
Quiz time: what is the song Jingle Bells about? a. Christmas b. Street racing c. A vehicle accident d. Picking up women
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Michel Nivard
about 1 month ago
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!
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
about 2 months ago
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 📣
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What's a pirate's favorite sewing material?
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Julian Catchen
3 months ago
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...
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https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/GradStudentPositions//UIllinois.EEB.Genomics
The Catchen Lab (https://catchenlab.life.illinois.edu/), in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is recruiting graduate students to join...
https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/GradStudentPositions//UIllinois.EEB.Genomics
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Alison Wright
3 months ago
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!
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Jae Young Choi
3 months ago
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.
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Mark A. Hanson
3 months ago
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
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Harmit Singh Malik
3 months ago
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.)
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Julia Saltz
3 months ago
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
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Brooke Kern, PhD
3 months ago
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/...
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Research Engineering/Scientist Associate I
Job Posting Title: Research Engineering/Scientist Associate I ---- Hiring Department: Department of Integrative Biology ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLSA ...
https://utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/UT-MAIN-CAMPUS/Research-Engineering-Scientist-Associate-I_R_00042901
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Full catalogue of oingo boingo goes away at midnight Friday, as well
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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
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3 months ago
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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...
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3 months ago
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
3 months ago
🦟 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.
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
3 months ago
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...
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Martin Turcotte
3 months ago
#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
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Graham Coop
4 months ago
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
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
4 months ago
📣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...
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Lars Brudvig
4 months ago
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/...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
https://eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/postdoctoral-fellowship/index.aspx
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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too!
4 months ago
Please share! Psyched to bring in a new member of the team. Starting salary $62K.
#postdoc
#sciencejobs
#plantpeopleFTW
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Jason Williams
4 months ago
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/
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An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
https://jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
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Emily Puckett
5 months ago
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...
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Positions in the Lab – Puckett Research Lab
http://puckettresearch.org/people/positions-in-the-lab/
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Volker Rudolf
5 months ago
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
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Scott P. Egan
5 months ago
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
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Stephen I Wright
5 months ago
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
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Francesca Raffini Lab
5 months ago
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
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
6 months ago
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
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Max Reuter
6 months ago
@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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6 months ago
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Morgan Sobol
6 months ago
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. ‼️
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Max Reuter
7 months ago
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
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Living colour!
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
7 months ago
🧪 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...
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Jen Christiansen
7 months ago
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-...
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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-vaccine-recommendations-backed-by-science-in-these-handy-charts/
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Christopher Wheat
7 months ago
🚨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
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Scott P. Egan
8 months ago
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!
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Hey
#Evol2025
check out the poster from former
@stegg-interact.bsky.social
postbacc Michaela!
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8 months ago
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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
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