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Catherine Linnen

@catherinelinnen.bsky.social
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Professor @ University of Kentucky. Evolutionary Biologist. Mom. I like sawflies and speciation.

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ukybiology.bsky.social @ukybiology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For more information about this position, click the link below. ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/646...
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Interested in genetics, diversification, and speciation? We're hiring a Research Associate to help with our projects, including the convergent evolution of fruit color. Come and work with us! Feel free to contact me with questions. (Reposts appreciated!) Link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33973
a matrix of 6 different Solanum (wild tomato) species with six different fruit colors, ranging from white to bright red.
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Takuji Usui | 薄井拓路 @usuitakuji.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I am incredibly thrilled to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Prof at Yale EEB in January 2027!! 🎉🎊 Stay tuned for student and postdoc openings, and please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in eco-evo, range dynamics, species interactions, and global change! 🌐🌱🦠🧬
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1
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Tree of Sex @treeofsex.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
As everyone's winding down on #evol2026 we want to share our survey link with you again. Whether you work in reproductive biology specifically or not, please take a minute to help us understand how the scientific community uses reproductive terms in research! And hope to see you at #SMBE!
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Watch their talks and the rest of the Hamilton Award Symposium on the Evolution Meetings YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeRT...
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Virtual Evolution 2026: SSE Hamilton Awards Session I
The W. D. Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation will be given to a current or very recent graduate student who presents an outstanding talk based on their graduate work at the…
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We are pleased to recognize two Honorable Mentions for this award, Savanna Brown and Gabrielle Welsh! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo... @gwelsh.bsky.social
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution, W. D. Hamilton Award Honorable Mentions, Savanna Brown, Morphological marvels: Evolutionary origins and developmental repatterning of the treehopper helmet, Gabrielle Welsh, How parasitoids and relaxed preferences facilitate the evolution of novel signals in a rapidly evolving field cricket.
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Congratulations to this year’s Hamilton Award winner, Princeton Vaughn! @princetonvaughn.bsky.social www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
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Gideon Bradburd @gbradburd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Multiple positions available: ​ Postdoc PhD students
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an evolutionary ecologist at the assistant professor level for fall 2027. Come and be my colleague! jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...
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Faculty Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa
Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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...
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Are you a grad student attending #Evol2026? Submit your talk for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation! Finalists will present their talks during the virtual portion of the meeting. Apply during registration. Deadline April 15! shorturl.at/qDIP4 @evolmtg.bsky.social
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 20/01/2026
NSF is open for feedback on their strategic plan, deadline is Jan 27!! www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
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NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan
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Catherine Linnen @catherinelinnen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
PhD student @rdridenbaugh.bsky.social is traveling solo to present his amazing work at #PAG33. Be sure to check out poster P027 on Jan 12th!!
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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨
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Mike Barker @barkerms.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Please pass along - We've extended the CAMBIUM fellowship deadline to December 15! Our NSF NRT supports new grad students to harness biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎
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Daniel Promislow @dpromislow.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Reposting our postdoc ad with the corrected link... We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...
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Catherine Linnen @catherinelinnen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
New paper by Ashleigh Glover exploring variables that predict admixture proportions in two hybridizing sawfly species. Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Recent Climate Change and Historical Population Structure Predict Spatial Patterns of Admixture Between Two Host‐Specialised Pine Sawfly Species
Human disturbance can have profound effects on biodiversity, including increasing hybridization between reproductively isolated species. One approach for understanding how human activity affects hybr...
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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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Amartya Tashi Mitra @binturong98.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Having a blast working with these adorable lil jellybean looking sawfly embryos. I’m very lucky to be collaborating with @catherinelinnen.bsky.social who rears them in her lab!
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Very pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Congratulations to this year’s Hamilton Award winner, Kip Lacy, and Honorable Mentions Meagan Clark and Jeremy Summers! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... Watch their outstanding talks from virtual #Evol2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzh3...
Headshot of Kip Lacey. Text: Kip Lacy, Unselfish meiotic drive maintains heterozygosity in the clonal raider ant, Society for the Study of Evolution W. D. Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation.
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution W. D. Hamilton Award Honorable Mentions: Meagan Clark, Long-term demographic and genomic data reveal the consequences of land-use change and inbreeding in populations of a threatened rattlesnake, Jeremy Summers, Isolation in real-time: the demographic and fitness consequences of declining immigration.
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Catherine Linnen @catherinelinnen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The SSE Hamilton Award symposium starts in under an hour. Don’t miss this outstanding lineup of talks!
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“The entire landscape of American science, research, and engineering are under heavy attack,” the employee says. “It’s really critical that we all speak against it and be unified in our opposition.”
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NSF employees brace for major restructuring
Although paused by a court order, reorganization plan creates concern about the agency’s future
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/05/2025
HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
We need you--every single one of you-- in the US to stand up, right now, and fight for NSF, NIH, USGS, NASA, USDA. Agencies Congress empowered to serve the public with impactful science and innovation. This is not a drill. This is our last stand. After this, there will be nothing left to fight for.
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
LISTEN TO ME. *NOW* IS THE TIME TO CALL YOUR REP AND SENATORS. NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU DO, OR WHERE IN THE US YOU LIVE. I'M HERE BEGGING YOU. #SaveNSF Here are your talking points: democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF! Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts. We must make noise! Pls RT!!!! #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF
SSE, SSB, and ASN logos. Text: Tri-societies Week of Action for NSF. Science under siege: Over 1000 NSF grants have been terminated by political appointees- threatening the foundation of American innovation and education, and more cuts loom; entire research programs are being erased without explanation. What’s at stake? STEM education for K-12 students, jobs and infrastructure in rural communities, support for veterans in research and education, cybersecurity and national defense innovation, global leadership in science and technology. Join the week of action: Contact Congress: Switchboard: (202) 224-3121, tell them to protect NSF. Share your story: Post on social media #WithoutNSF #SupportNSF #SaveNSF, engage local media; use our media tool to reach out to local reporters and newspapers; engage others: communicate the importance of NSF to colleagues, friends, and family.
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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Nature @nature.com · 01/05/2025
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
We're hiring an assistant prof in global change ecology! Apply!!! We're vibrant, supportive, and interdisciplinary EEB community! Plz note the weird dates: We're reviewing applications beginning on ✨August 15th✨. I'm part of the SC and happy to answer questions! apply.interfolio.com/164677
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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Crazy times, but I'll be advertising for a 2 year postdoc to work with me on new comp. methods to estimate evolutionary history soon - specifically to develop methods to handle missing data (e.g. ascertainment bias, allele dropout). Are you a comp. biologist graduating with a PhD soon? Reach out!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/04/2025
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
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Thorsten Reusch @thorstenreusch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
In December I accepted a position as a senior investigator at the NIH in the National Human Genome Research Institute & Center for Genomics and Data Science Research. Bringing the party in the desert to Maryland. We are hiring postdocs & postbacs! Please reach out :)
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Only about a month left until virtual #Evol2025! If you live in Brazil, India, or one of the 150 other countries eligible for our GMA program, you’re eligible not only for discounted SSE membership, but also free virtual meeting registration! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
The Evolution 2025 meeting logo. A laptop showing someone presenting their research. Behind the laptop, a globe with a dotted line encircling it. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Global Meeting Participation, Virtual: May 29-30.
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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
With @hybridzones.bsky.social & @jenncoughlan.bsky.social, we have been working on an update to Daven Presgraves' influential 2010 review on hybrid incompatibilities (shorturl.at/cJndf). The preprint is available here (shorturl.at/DTC48) with an updated table of almost 100 incompatibilities!
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The molecular evolutionary basis of species formation - Nature Reviews Genetics
Recently, several new speciation genes have been identified that have contributed to our understanding of the molecular details of the evolution of hybrid dysfunction. This Progress article describes ...
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The Society of Systematic Biologists @systbiol.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🚨 Students and recent graduates: you still have a month to submit your talk for consideration in the 2025 Ernst Mayr Award Competition 🚨 See this page for requirements and instructions. www.systbio.org/ernst-mayr-a...
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Ernst Mayr Award
The Ernst Mayr Award is given to the presenter of the outstanding student talk in the field of systematics at the annual meetings of the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). This is SSB's premier.....
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
SSE grad student members are invited to submit their abstracts to the SSE Hamilton Award competition at #Evol2025! Finalists receive $500 and will present their talks during the virtual part of the meeting on May 29-30. Apply by April 15! buff.ly/5EmzAzH @evolmtg.bsky.social @ssegrad.bsky.social
The SSE logo. A silhouette of a person giving a virtual talk with a microphone and laptop. Text: Virtual Evolution 2025 W. D. Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation, Register and apply by April 15.
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Jessica Santollo @drjess.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#standupforscience
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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Hello graduate students! Volunteer travel award applications are due March 21, 2025. In return for working two ~4h shifts, graduate student members of one or more of our societies can receive a rebate equal to 100% of the regular early student member registration fee.
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Need extra funds to help cover costs of caring for someone while you attend #Evol2025? Apply by March 15 for the SSE Caregiver Award - up to $500 US. Funds can be used as the awardee wishes to facilitate attendance virtually or in-person. buff.ly/4ayQxbG @evolmtg.bsky.social
Evolution 2025 logo. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Caregiver Award - up to $500 toward caregiver costs while attending the annual Evolution meeting (in person or virtually) - Deadline: March 15, 2025.
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2025 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Sign up for your free registration code today! buff.ly/4hK08PZ @evolmtg.bsky.social
The Evolution 2025 meeting logo. A laptop showing someone presenting their research. Behind the laptop, a globe with a dotted line encircling it. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Global Meeting Participation, Virtual: May 29-30.
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Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Lindstedt et al. Gregarious, chemically defended pine sawflies as a new model to study cooperative interactions in an ecological context link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Gregarious, chemically defended pine sawflies as a new model to study cooperative interactions in an ecological context - Insectes Sociaux
One of the key challenges of evolutionary theory is to determine how cooperation is promoted in different environmental contexts. This is because the costs and benefits of cooperation can be difficult...
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