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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
2 days 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
3 days 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 days 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
15 days 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
26 days 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
28 days 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
28 days 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
about 1 month 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
about 2 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
2 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
about 2 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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Morgan Sobol
3 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
3 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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4 months ago
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 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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4 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
4 months ago
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Buy local, they say. Reduce your carbon footprint
cleantechnica.com/2025/06/12/t...
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Texas Approves Use Of Fracking Wastewater To Irrigate Crops - CleanTechnica
Texas wants to use recycled wastewater from fracking operations to irrigate crops within the state. What could possibly go wrong?
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/06/12/texas-approves-use-of-fracking-wastewater-to-irrigate-crops/
4 months ago
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Have something to say about an important question in evolutionary biology? Reach out to me about writing a review for
@jevbio.bsky.social
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Martin Turcotte
5 months ago
#Postdoc
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/EHOeJ
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Rafeeque Mavoor
5 months ago
🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!
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KamilSJaron.bsky.social
5 months ago
Interested to read a perspective by >160 reproductive biologists? The new Tree of Sex white paper is out! Led by
@danjeffries.bsky.social
👏
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Adam Phillippy
5 months ago
NIH is allowing us to recruit postbacs and postdocs again. Please reach out if you are interested in working with us! Ad:
genomeinformatics.github.io/jobs2025/
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We are looking for postbacs and postdocs!
Join our team and contribute to the development of complete, personalized “telomere-to-telomere” (T2T) genome assemblies and the analysis of previously inaccessible regions of the genome! We are curre...
https://genomeinformatics.github.io/jobs2025/
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Captures >half of Texas politics in one story and graph
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Dr. K. Lotterhos
5 months ago
I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics.
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ecological Genomics
About the Opportunity Job Summary A postdoctoral research associate is available at the Lotterhos Lab at Northeastern University. The postdoc will be based at Northeastern University’s Marine Science ...
https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Nahant-MA/Postdoctoral-Research-Associate--Ecological-Genomics_R132936
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First they came for the Key Deer...
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I've circled the awesome person
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I've circled the federal agency that needs a budget INCREASE
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Volker Rudolf
5 months ago
Job opportunity! Excited to share that we have an opening for a research technician position to help with our research on phenological shifts & species interactions in amphibian communities. (please help spread the word!) More details here:
emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Technician II
Dr. Volker Rudolf’s research groups in the Department of BioSciences are looking to hire a Research Technician II in the field of biology/ecology. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working outdo...
https://emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/jobs/preview/4723/?lastSelectedFacet=POSTING_DATES
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I've circled the Midwest
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Carl Zimmer
5 months ago
Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10
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In case you like using terminology that literally has no meaning, I found the perfect example. Can you find a more unique term?
6 months ago
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Andreas Prokop
6 months ago
If using Bloomigton
#Drosophila
Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the
@bdsc.bsky.social
& they need our support in these dire times!
@flybase.bsky.social
@fly-eds.bsky.social
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Max Reuter
6 months ago
Ever wondered why you too should publish in
@jevbio.bsky.social
? Wonder no more, we have the answers for you (in case you didn’t know already):
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Houston Chronicle
6 months ago
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has made an appearance at the Final Four championship game, despite fans claiming that when the Texas senator attends the game for the team he is rooting for, they are "cursed" and lose the game.
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Dave Karpf
6 months ago
This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
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Randall Munroe
7 months ago
Lungfish
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Arvid Ågren
7 months ago
*SAVE THE DATE* The next seminar of our Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation virtual lectures series will be on Thursday, March 20 at 6pm Eastern. Talks from Elizabeth Ostrowski and Amy Boddy. Sign up and check out recordings of previous talks here
internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com
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Mary Lewis
7 months ago
Tressie McMillan Cottom (miss her here!) nails it: “So, declining trust is less about how elitist these institutions have become and more about how their elitism is now conferred on more minorities.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...
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Opinion | ‘A Really Easy Mark for Trump’: Three Columnists on the Threats to Elite Colleges (Gift Article)
What went wrong for higher education?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/opinion/trump-higher-education.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.tp8k.8E09Vqh8-A0x&smid=url-share
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Kristen Behrens, PhD
7 months ago
Excited to share our new paper on the red phenotype in nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Genome sequencing and identification of candidate variants for a red/black color polymorphism in tilapia (Oreochromis spp.)
Red tilapia are favored by consumers, but the molecular genetic basis for this color pattern is unknown. Here we report on the genetic and physical ma…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0044848625002972?via%3Dihub
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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
7 months ago
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A Message From the Editors-in-Chief
We have been Co-Editor-in-Chiefs of Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) for 2 years now. In that time, we have learned a great deal about the science of
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/42/2/msaf022/7986104
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LAGNiAppE
7 months ago
NOTE! Few days left for applying to this postbacc opportunity
@tropicalbotany.bsky.social
@invertevoeco.bsky.social
@jembrown.bsky.social
@clattin.bsky.social
@lsuscience.bsky.social
@lsumns.bsky.social
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Hannah Thomasy
7 months ago
Apropos of nothing and in no way whatsoever related to current events at all… I wrote about how in nature, sex is so much more complicated than XX and XY. From insects and fish to lizards and even mammals, there’s an incredible amount of diversity.
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Sex Determination: It’s in the Genes—Sometimes
Animals across the tree of life have developed a mind-boggling variety of ways to become male or female.
https://www.the-scientist.com/sex-determination-it-s-in-the-genes-sometimes-72722
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