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Becca Young

@becca-young.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at UT Austin - phenotypic evolution, development, transcriptomics

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Todd Oakley @ostratodd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The formatted paper is now out in MBE - describing OPTICS software to predict color sensitivy based on opsin sequence alone: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Sigh. More #ColossalBio grift — they literally have no product to sell, so “partner” with governments to build the “Colossal BioVault” system (up to 10 I think) and garner more press coverage, all the while the San Diego Frozen Zoo and others have been doing this for decades 1/n
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Katy Martinson @katymartinson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I am excited to share my first first-author preprint (co-led by Srivi Balaji) with @becca-young.bsky.social and @arbelharpak.bsky.social. We ask if AI can be used for good; specifically, whether we can use AI to grab species trait data from primary literature. (1/11) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Integrative Biology - UT Austin @texas-ib.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Coral reefs support over 25% of marine life, but Caribbean reefs are collapsing as key coral species fail to reproduce. Professor Misha Matz has proposed introducing resilient non-native corals to help save these ecosystems before it’s too late. cns.utexas.edu/news/feature... #coralreefs
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Can This Scientist’s Proposal Save Coral Reefs in Our Hemisphere?
Evolutionary expert Misha Matz makes a splash with a controversial proposal that could save Caribbean coral reefs.
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The Undergraduate Community at Evolution program provides travel funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. Please share with undergrads in your lab! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ... @asn-amnat.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Undergraduate Community at Evolution Program. Applications due January 20, 2026.
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
NSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
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Becca Young @becca-young.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We are hiring in Evolutionary Biology — apply to join our department!
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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🚨🚨 DREAM JOB ALERT 🚨 🚨
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Dr. Kathleen M. Munley @thefishiedoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at @psychualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! 🐟🧠🧬🍂
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Andrew Stoehr @andrewstoehr.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We're hiring TWO (two!) tenure-track assistant professors in my Biology department: cellular/molecular biology and plant biology. Within those categories, we are very open to research focus. Come work with me! And please spread the word! fa-exer-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Careers At Butler Careers
Welcome
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Fabian Salgado-Roa @facasaro.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I'm happy to share with you that in a couple of weeks I'll start as a Stengl-Wyer Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin. I'll join @becca-young.bsky.social's lab to study the ecology, genomics, and development of my favourite colourful spiders.
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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Hey wild immunologists of blue sky… do you work on a non-model taxa??? Would you have 15 min to spare to zoom in and share your research with my comparative immunology class? I’m looking to spotlight real research this semester. Please spread the word and reach out if you’re interested!
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Carrie Wessinger @carriewessi.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio
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Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genetics - Department of Biological Sciences | University of South Carolina
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Jennifer N. Phillips @jphillips.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist! wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...
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Assistant Professor
Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: September 14, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 270-NN_FACULTY -...
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
About NSF’s new(est) bulletin - 15% indirect cost rates will kill universities. Apparently that’s the point. I am sick.
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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...
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2025 Federal Financial Assistance Freeze
On Monday, January 27th, 2025, President Trump issued an order to freeze virtually all of approved and legally required federal funding.
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Matthew Herron @matthewherron.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Just be patient and kind to the remaining NSF folks. I promise you, they are still fighting for American science.
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Congrats to my student Rebecca Clemons and UT Post-doc Chase Smith.Here they drill down on aspects of the frog immune system control that we think might be important in the frog-Bd system. More on this to come! 🐸🧬🦠🧫🧪
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Primary regulatory T cell activator FOXP3 is present across Amphibia - Immunogenetics
The overall structure of the immune system is highly conserved across jawed vertebrates, but characterization and description of the immune system is heavily biased toward mammals. One arm of the vert...
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Sara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
First paper (in review) from the Lipshutz Lab at Duke! Led by postdoc Leilton Luna
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James Pease @jamesbpease.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org
Aronoff Lab at The Ohio State University
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...
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KZLab is Seeking a Lab Technician!
The Zamudio Lab (zamudiolab.org) in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin seeks a highly motivated and detail-oriented laboratory technician to play a key role in supporting the resear…
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...
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Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs
We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…
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Texas Science @texasscience.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
On the latest episode of NPR's Shortwave, marine biologist Brett Baker (@archaeal.bsky.social) talks about how we owe part of our immune systems to ancient microbes, the Asgard archaea.
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Brendan O'Loughlin @brendanoloughlin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I recently got my first big-boy paper published! I got to discover & describe a new species of parasitoid wasp: Chrysonotomyia susbelli 🧵 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1275...
Side view of Chrysonotomyia susbelli male
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Caroline Farrior @cfarrior.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
UT Austin Cluster Hire: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Environmental Systems apply.interfolio.com/158908 Deadline: January 6, 2025
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Jeff Good @jeffreygood.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Outstanding opportunity here! Great department & city surrounded by the incredible Sonoran desert.
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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
APPLICATIONS DUE OCT. 1ST! Assistant Professor in EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY @RiceUniversity Please repost! 🧬🔬🧫👩‍🔬🌻🪲🐜🐛🌱🍄🦠🐁🦋🐍🐸🐝🦅🐟🐢🦀🐙🐬🐘🦎
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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Do you love evolutionary biology AND art? Good news - we're having a logo contest!
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Becca Young @becca-young.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Elated to announce that I’m starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin, well today! We'll be recruiting for several positions soon & grad students for 2025. Interested in phenotypic evodevo, me too! Learn more here: sites.utexas.edu/beccayoungev...
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Young Lab – phenotypic development, genomics, & evolution
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Sara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · 13/07/2024
"We address these key questions using a database of 5,438 bird species (~50% of extant diversity) and modern phylogenetic comparative methods... Our results indicate that the most likely ancestral state for extant birds is male-only care" !!!??? academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Who cares? Elucidating parental care evolution in extant birds
Abstract. Extant birds stand out among vertebrates in the diversity of parental care types they present, spanning absence of care to uniparental care by ei
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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
📄 New publication from the lab! Are you interested in subfunctionalization of gene duplications? Immune gene evolution? Blood sucking insects? Then check this out! academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...
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Defensins of the Stable Fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) have Developmental-Specific Regulation and Evolve at Different Rates
Synopsis. Organisms produce antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) either in response to infection (induced) or continuously (constitutively) to combat microbes enc
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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
Also check out the summary article by our media team at FLMNH, and for the love of tomography WATCH THE VIDEO: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scie...
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Scientists CT scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free
Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a six-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to crea...
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Kim Martini 🏳️‍🌈 @rejectedbanana.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
I haven't checked out Dance your PhD in a while, but this amazing. Diversity IS natural :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoSY...
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WELI - Kangaroo Time (Club Edit) (From Dance Your PhD 2024 - OVERALL WINNER)
Subscribe. Stream my EP "Yours Academically, Dr. WELI". Check our BTS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U76WCw3dhwOfficial video for WELI “Kangaroo Time (Clu...
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Becca Young @becca-young.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Can’t wait to read it
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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Super congrats to Anat Belasen for leading this team in a study of historical and present effects of Bd on a vulnerable frog species in California! Creating community and managing a group this diverse takes effort and leadership! Congrats to all authors! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Becca Young @becca-young.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Amazing idea @mollycwomack.bsky.social ! I love supporting student travel and art! #SICB2024
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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
The IISAGE REU program is a 10-week summer program that provides firsthand research training for undergraduate students. www.iisage.org/reu/
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REU Program
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program The IISAGE REU program is a 10-week summer program that provides firsthand research training for undergraduate students. Students will join IISAGE...
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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
STEGG-INTERACT offers recent college graduates a collaborative mentored research experience on the evolutionary genetics of biological interactions, and training in technical and professional skills. www.uh.edu/nsm/biology-...
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STEGG-INTERACT Research and Mentoring for Post-Baccalaureates (RaMP) Program
STEGG-INTERACT Research and Mentoring for Post-Baccalaureates (RaMP) Program
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