Just dropped: our Mexico oak diversification paper made the cover of @pnas.org! Beautiful photo of Quercus rugosa, netleaf oak, by friend & colleague M. Socorro González-Elizondo, to accompany PhD candidate Kieran Althaus's excellent, deeply collaborative study. Enjoy! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Smithsonian Fish Curator position announcement! Note the application dates of May 12 – June 2, 2026. Should be posted here tomorrow: trustcareers.si.edu#js-careers-j...

One week left to submit your proposal for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! Please contact [email protected] with any questions about eligibility, formatting, or how to apply. Submit early to avoid the last-minute rush! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language. For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50": blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...

Really happy to share I will be joining the Dept. of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University this fall as an assistant professor!! My lab will focus on ray-finned fish neurocranial evolution, integrating fossils and living species. DM if you have interest in joining my new research group!

Registration for virtual #Evol2026 on May 20-22 is free for SSE members in 152 locations around the world! Check if you’re eligible and request your discount code on our website: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

It is an absolute honor to see our work recognized by my peers and by SSE! Huge thanks to Jennifer Auler, Andressa Viol, and to Dan Rabosky for helping me to build this ed. software! Soon I will upload more content on our website, stay tuned! mjanuario.github.io/evolved

A thread on evolved that I wrote when our paper was published: bsky.app/profile/mjan...

The barnacles are on the loose! Check out my preprint with @stsmall.bsky.social, @johnwares.bsky.social, Erin Jezuit, and Andy Kern: The genome of the Pacific acorn barnacle provides insights into the evolution of extremely large populations doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/n

Yess! If you are thinking of using evolved in your classes, reach me out of the NABT or in the evolution meetings!

It is an absolute honor to see our work recognized by my peers and by SSE! Huge thanks to Jennifer Auler, Andressa Viol, and to Dan Rabosky for helping me to build this ed. software! Soon I will upload more content on our website, stay tuned! mjanuario.github.io/evolved

Very well deserved award to @mjanuario.bsky.social ! Parabéns meu camarada!! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Springtime bird migration in the Americas is a truly spectacular wonder of the world to behold

new #openaccess paper on the palaeoenvironment of the early cretaceous romualdo formation of brazil! antonietto et al. reconstruct the environment as a 'paleo-mangrove' wetland www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Current grad students: Submit your research proposal by May 18th to be considered for a Graduate Research Excellence Grant! Learn more about how to craft a strong proposal on our website: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

😱 Super excited to be named as a Guggenheim Fellow!! 😱

Today was a great day for the lab: @hcamarillo.bsky.social successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Camarillo! We are very happy and excited to see what comes next for you.

Last night, it was my honor to deliver the inaugural "Spoonful of Knowledge" lecture for the U-M Cereal Club. I gave an updated version of a talk on cereal mascot evolution put together in the last year of my PhD, longer ago than I care to admit. Poster credit: Cereal Club Instagram.

Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive! If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email [email protected].

I'm incredibly excited to announce that my new podcast, Dreaming Against the Machine, is launching next week with @multitude.productions! Join me for conversations about what a better future could look like. Available wherever you get your podcasts! Here's the trailer for the show:

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM

This is so, so well-articulated.

I hope you slept as peacefully as these young loons captured on film by Harry Collins: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Grad students & postdocs: how is funding uncertainty affecting you right now? SSE's GSAC is collecting anonymous input to inform advocacy and conversations at Evolution. Share your perspective by May 1, 2026 and pls RT!

Alencar et al. use a macroevolutionary framework to reveal how environmental, life history, and geographical factors interact with thermal tolerance to shape the distribution of the most diverse lizard family from North America. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

📄Published Today in Nature: 500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social). Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me... TLDR: 1/11

My PhD paper on my beloved cycads and beetles on the cover of Science!!! Check out how we studied thermal infrared as a pollination signal, from molecular mechanisms to the wonders of behavior... science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hey y'all. I'm a month late to this, but I wanted to share that one of my PhD chapters was published in Systematic Biology with my advisor, Frank Burbrink. Here, we explore how ecological opportunity influences phenotypic evolution in North American natricid snakes. 🧵/8

Join us for virtual Evolution on May 20-22! SSE members in 152 countries and territories around the world receive free virtual meeting registration - request your discount code today! #Evol2026 www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

How can you not be romantic about evolution?

My god. Have you ever seen close-ups of sea star skin? 🧪🌊🌿

Sharing this with our graduate student community 👇 The Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants are a great way to support your research journey. We encourage you to apply!

🎯April 15 is the last day to: - Save $100 on in-person meeting registration - Submit your virtual or in-person talk - Apply for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation! We look forward to seeing you online in May and in Cleveland in June! #Evol2026

Happy to share our new paper on the thermal tolerance of phrynosomatid lizards, now out in The American Naturalist! A beautiful collaborative project across career stages, with undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs 😊🦎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

PowerPoint's automatic alt text is endlessly entertaining. No, this is not "A picture containing cake, birthday, blue, decorated" Reminder to edit the auto alt text before distributing slides to your class....

I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

📢 Now accepting proposals for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Applicants must be members of SSE. Deadline: May 18, 2026 www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

The 2026 Ernst Mayr Award Competition is open! This is SSB's student talk award. Students selected to compete will deliver their talk during the virtual Evolution meetings May 20-22, 2026. Applications close April 15, 2026. For information on registration, see: www.systbio.org/ernst-mayr-a...

pov you are scrolling through a paper on a newly-described silurian galeaspid and you see this magnificent life reconstruction

Photographed near Malaysia’s capital, several Wallace's flying frogs descended from the rainforest canopy to breed in a rain-filled puddle 🌧️🐸  This stunning moment was captured by Jamal Kabir, winner of the animal category in Capturing Ecology.

🚨New paper + software Folks I want to introduce #evolved —our R package for teaching evolutionary biology through inquiry-based learning. For undergrad + grad courses. 🧬💻 Paper link: doi.org/10.21105/jos... #RStats #Evolution #STEMEducation #activelearning

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Did you receive a Student Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social ? We'd love to hear what you achieved with those awards (or, please share with someone who had one), even going back many years: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

1 week left to get your image in for Evolution 2026 logo contest! www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo-co...

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...

For #FossilFriday, a visit to the Truckee Formation of Nevada: sticklebacks and a grebe in UMMP. Annual layers in these lake sediments give a precise relative chronology for fossils from different levels, providing kyr resolution essential for bridging paleontological and biological perspectives.