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Nacho Sanguinetti @neuroetho.bsky.social · 5h

Come work with us at Penn!:

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mine are pretty tame and don't involve my butt. This was the only weirdly specific one.

Amazon product preferences: Systematically built cycling equipment collection.

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 07/10/2026

Fascinating insights into the early history of Zotero, including the fact that the name is the Albanian word for "to learn well or master". Hats off to everyone involved in this project. Also if you're not using Zotero, why not? Dump that closed rubbish you're using now and switch.

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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 04/10/2026

10 days left to apply for an Assistant Professorship in Evolutionary Biology at Columbia.

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Excited to share my lab’s latest preprint led by postdoc @yukihaba.bsky.social and grad student Ryan Schwark. We surprisingly find that spontaneous behavior in isolation predicts a naked mole-rat’s identity, its colony membership, and even rank within its colony. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27

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Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here's a video of @grahancock.bsky.social & I discussing our new butterfly motion confusion paper 🦋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=joos...

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Butterfly wing patterns create powerful motion illusions

YouTube video by Jolyon Troscianko

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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

A winter view of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains with snow on the ground and trees

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john-pool.bsky.social @john-pool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Looking for a postdoc? I know a really good candidate who's seeking a position. Great abstract thinker, strong evo/popgen background and CPU & statistical skills, some math & wet lab exp. Boundless curiosity, scholarly, helps everyone. High impact paper from PhD so far. Message me for details!

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W. Brent Derry @wbderry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Faculty position at the University of Toronto 👇 jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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Assistant Professor - Systems Neurophysiology

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5yo: ”if a human‘s fighting a skeleton, it’s basically a skeleton fighting a skeleton. Imagine that.“

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One crazy thing about Gen-AI (whether for coding, writing, whatever), is that it separates presentation and content quality. Before, if you found a tool with a very polished GUI, you could reasonably expect a certain level of care with the functionality. Now, if anything, it's the opposite.

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Portugues Lab @portugueslab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University is hiring! Come and do cutting edge research on the neural basis of natural behaviors at NBB (nbb.cornell.edu). No animal too small, no behavior too strange! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32592

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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please repost/share We're hiring! UC Davis Plant Pathology seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in plant health & microbiomes. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904 My department is full of great colleagues, and we look forward to recruiting our new colleague!

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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This was such a monumental amount of work - we tracked groups of clonal fish from birth, all day, every day, for MONTHS, to figure out if we could predict group behavior. It's the coolest project giving us really great insight into what our expectations should be for group behavioral development!

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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773

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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI

The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme...

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There is still time to apply! I'll start reading the applications this Friday.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🐟🚨 Fish paper alert! 🚨🐟 You might already know that individuals are unique, even when they’re genetically identical clones raised in identical environments. But what about groups? Groups of clones are distinct from birth, but (unlike individuals) those differences do not predict later behavior!

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Group-level phenotypes are idiosyncratic yet unpredictable over development in a clonal fish

Behavioral differences among groups can have profound impacts on individual fitness,1 yet how group-level phenotypes arise and change during developme…

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Julia Espinosa @jespinosa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do you have a #dog? Do you study/work with dogs? Do you just think dogs are awesome?! If you answered "yes" to any of the above, take the #ManyDogs survey and share your thoughts on what's interesting about dogs 🐶 🧪 Thank you for helping shape our future science! ssp.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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ManyDogs general interest survey

MD survey for understanding what topics the dog community would like to see in future canine science research projects.

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Dustin Reichard @juncowren.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are hiring a TT Neuroscientist! Applications are due Oct 1. Please RT and share widely. We are small liberal arts college with increasing enrollments (rare!), generous startup funds, lots of support for faculty, and a biology dept full of great humans/colleagues. www.owu.edu/about/office...

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Job Openings

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Group-level phenotypes are idiosyncratic yet unpredictable over development in a clonal fish

Behavioral differences among groups can have profound impacts on individual fitness,1 yet how group-level phenotypes arise and change during developme…

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Bernard Kim @bernardkim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Princeton EEB is running a very broad faculty search at the Assistant Professor level. Please consider applying to join us! This is a wonderful, collaborative, cohesive department with diverse interests and amazing colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/193474

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Jay Gallagher @jay-gallagher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A little more on what we actually did here and why the results surprised us! 🧵 We know that individuals are unique. But why? Where do these differences come from?

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Andrew Dacks @adacks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Know an outstanding PhD student whose thesis work was on Drosophila? If so, please consider nominating them for the Larry Sandler award! The nomination and eligibility information are at genetics-gsa.org/awards/larry.... The deadline is November 12th.

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Larry Sandler Award - Genetics Society of America

The Larry Sandler Award was established in 1988 by the colleagues, friends, and students of Dr. Larry Sandler after his untimely death in 1987. The award serves to honor Dr. Sandler for his many contr...

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Jay used our clonal mollies to ask does increasing environmental variation increases phenotypic variation? Turns out.... it doesn't! Mollies reared with pred cues swim more slowly & hide more but the magnitude of individuality remained the same! It seems individuals are unique no matter what...

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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Read this paper! Very cool

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

dope shit here

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ok, fine. I'll run the Kennedy Center.

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Cool paper alert! Lots of other cool stuff here, and you won't believe how many hours of fish video were involved.

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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please help us spread the word: Princeton University’s Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology is hiring an Assistant Professor! I ❤️ this collegial and collaborative department full of inspiring people: eeb.princeton.edu/people Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193474

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Jay Gallagher @jay-gallagher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🐟🚨 New paper! 🚨🐟 Where do behavioral differences come from? Early life environment clearly matters... ...or not? Early environment affected behavior, but NOT how different individuals became from each other. Those differences were seeded before birth through factors OTHER than genetic variation 🤯

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Born This Way: Individuality Is Seeded Before Birth and Robust to Ecological Stress

We reared and recorded behaviours of clonal Amazon mollies in standardized environments, with and without predation stress, from birth through week four of life, to understand how the developmental e...

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Adam Siepielski @adamsiepielski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Arkansas is hiring a TT Assistant Professor Position in Ecology. We have a wonderful group of colleagues. Join us! Apply here: tinyurl.com/yxk5marb

Photograph of the University of Arkansas in Fall.

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wait, what if encouraging alt-text for "accessibility" has just been a psy-opp to get better training data for the AI?

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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is hiring! Focus on social cognition, broadly construed. Come be my colleague :) I am not on the search committee but happy to talk about the campus, environment, careers, etc any time. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411

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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

POV: ZipRecruiter thinks you're being a little ambitious with your pivot to industry.

An email from ZipRecruiter with the subject line "Ammon, Starbucks has an open position".

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪

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Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Natural History Museum of LA is hiring a Curator of Marine Invertebrates! Come join an amazing team and contribute to stewarding the largest marine invert collection in the Western US. 🐙🪼🦐 workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

An image of several sea anemones under water.

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Reading about emotion and mood as a theory for how animals generalize positive and negative feedback to al aspects of their behavior and thinking maybe I shouldn't be on bluesky. On the other hand, you could see my continuing to check bluesky as evidence of my optimism that It might happen today.

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ever since I was a child, from the very first time I experienced the joy and wonder of dinosaur fossils at a natural history museum, I always knew I wanted to grow up and submit expense reports in Concur for institutionally sponsored travel

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Ammon Perkes @alltheperkes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One of my finest moments was tetrissing a large ikea couch into our Honda fit. The person selling it told me someone had come earlier that day in a midsize SUV but decided they wouldn’t be able to make it fit.

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