Reposted by Corentin JouaultMathieu Boderau @mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social · 05/10/2026🎓🎉 I successfully defended my PhD on the macroevolution of Hemiptera at ISYEB, MNHN in Paris! 🥳 Huge thanks to my supervisors, the jury, collaborators, colleagues, family and friends 🙏❤️ Next stop: JSPS postdoc at OIST, Okinawa 🇯🇵🌺🪳 3123
Reposted by Corentin JouaultProfessor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Grant agreement signed! Advertising 4 new jobs (3 year contracts w/potential to extend +2 years) on ERC #CROCOLOCOEVO grant next week-- stay tuned for details. 2 postdocs 1 technician 1 research administrator who can do science communication Start date flexible but could be as soon as 1 November! 04125
Reposted by Corentin JouaultProsanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Exciting news! We here at the LSU Museum of Natural Science @lsumns.bsky.social and Dept. of Biological Sciences are looking for Curator and Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Paleobiology! Come work with us! We are fun, supportive and active! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant ProfessorAll Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre... 03052
Reposted by Corentin JouaultDr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨We're hiring a new Curator of Mammals!!🚨 🦍🐕🦝🐅🦓🦌🐃🐖🐏🐫🐘🦏🦛🐿️🦔🦇🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐋🦭🦒🧸 Come join the Vertebrate Unit at @nhmdk.bsky.social—a fantastic team in the heart of Denmark's beautiful capital! Amazing collections, incredible history. Please share widely! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...candidate.hr-manager.netTenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and Curator of MammalsTenure Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, and Curator of Mammals at Natural History Museum Denmark The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to ap 16378
Reposted by Corentin JouaultSteve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...jobs.ac.ukPostdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of EdinburghApply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now. 26175
Reposted by Corentin JouaultSeth Finnegan @sethf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program is accepting applications until November 1. If you're a finishing Ph.D student or recent grad interested in coming to Berkeley to work on a project in paleobiology/paleoecology/geobiology please feel free to reach out! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/ppfp.ucop.edu University of California | President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 02334
Reposted by Corentin JouaultDr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 29/09/2026Applications are now open for the UC President's Postdoc Fellowship Reach out if you want to submit an applicaiton focused on environmental/soil sciences, biogeochemistry, climate change, & related areas As a former fellow, this is a program I highly recommend 4 ECRs interested in academic careers 02236
Reposted by Corentin JouaultMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year 36864184
Reposted by Corentin JouaultAndrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026J. Alroy's (johnalroy.bsky.social) article on the unreliability of the coverage-based rarefaction; also known in paleontology as the SQS subsampling, in estimating species richness. Use other techniques folks... nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec... 0156
Reposted by Corentin JouaultLars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Join 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/...eeb.msu.eduPostdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior 178116
Reposted by Corentin JouaultAaron Kufner @akufner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This one has been a long time coming! I'm happy to share that another chapter of my PhD has been published! In this one, I'm shaking up the taxonomy of North American metoposaurids. This work was largely done in museum collections, and more on that below. peerj.com/articles/217... 25624
Reposted by Corentin JouaultSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“Bats are extraordinary among mammals, having uniquely evolved powered flight & laryngeal echolocation, along with disease resistance, extended healthspan & ability to hibernate. With genome assemblies of 103 bat species we provide new insights into evolutionary history & trait diversification.”🦇🧬🙌🧪nature.comReference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - NatureAn updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families. 14020
Reposted by Corentin JouaultRod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jobs galore at @nhm-london.bsky.social @dissco.bsky.social - jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... - jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... including Heads of Digitisation and Technical Innovationjobs.nhm.ac.ukDiSSCo UK Digitiser:South Kensington 0412
Reposted by Corentin JouaultAndrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Thank you for sharing this. Apparently the 3rd Edition of the Principles of Paleontology is freely downloadable. 🧪⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio #Paleobio 14829
Reposted by Corentin JouaultKaylin @kaylinchong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Feeding has never looked this good 🍽️ We dive into structure and function of the mouthparts of the longhorn tick (Haemaphysalis longcornis) through multiple modes of imaging. Check it out here (doi.org/10.1002/jmor...)! 142
Reposted by Corentin JouaultBenoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Interested in designing a set of target capture baits (or probes) using genome assemblies. Check out : Zelvelder et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... and the associated pipeline fully integrated in a singularity container: github.com/bjzelvelder/...biorxiv.orgA new method based on genome alignments provides a highly resolutive target enrichment set for weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea)Target enrichment methods have provided unprecedented advances in phylogenomics. Targeting hundreds of conserved regions has proven to be a good tradeoff between cost and efficiency, while being usefu... 021
Reposted by Corentin JouaultMuseum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The end of summer is fast approaching! Don't forget to stop by the Museum and see all of our new displays. If you've haven't been to the Museum in a few years, you're in for a treat! Our final run of cases was installed earlier this summer, exploring Oxfordshire's prehistoric past. 051
Reposted by Corentin JouaultAdam Siepielski @adamsiepielski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The 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 14032
Reposted by Corentin JouaultDr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Come work here, it is a fun place and we would love to have you as our colleague: careers.amnh.org/postings/4923 #Lepidoptera #Insect #Entomology #AMNHcareers.amnh.orgAssistant Curator/Assistant Professor, Invertebrate ZoologyThe Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) seeks an outstanding tenure-track Assistant Curator/Assistant Professor with expertise in the evolution of Lepidop... 25471
Reposted by Corentin JouaultRodrigo Monjaraz Ruedas @monroderik.bsky.social · 09/09/2026New Postdoc opportunity to join my lab @nhm.org working with Phylogenomics of Soft Spiders (Fam. Cybaeidae) in collaboration with @mhedin.bsky.social, help me spread the word! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...workforcenow.adp.comRecruitment 01017
Reposted by Corentin JouaultGael Kergoat @gkergoat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Great talk this morning #Ento26 @royentsoc.bsky.social by @cocomacro.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk on the diversification dynamics of ants in deep time ! #macroevolution #fossils #ants 022
Corentin Jouault @cocomacro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Yesterday at #Ento26, I had the privilege of signing the Fellows’ Book of the @royentsoc.bsky.social Adding my name to a book bearing those of Charles Darwin, Alfred R. Wallace, and so many remarkable entomologists is difficult to put into words. A humbling moment I will never forget. 🦋🐝 161
Reposted by Corentin JouaultDr. Sven N. Nielsen @snnielsen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Paleontology job in Mexico!earthworks-jobs.comFull-time Researcher PositionFull-time Researcher Position at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - UNAM. Located in Queretaro, Mexico. Deadline: 15/09/2026. 01322
Reposted by Corentin JouaultHarriet B. Drage @harriedrage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Interested in fossil arthropods, palaeoecology, dispersal, and interesting methods? 🦀 🌎 I'm hiring a 4-year, fully funded PhD student at the University of Geneva as part of my European Research Council (ERC) grant. Deadline: 16th October. Reach out if any questions! www.unige.ch/sciences/ter... 24946
Reposted by Corentin JouaultISYEB @isyeb.mnhn.fr · 08/09/2026New #Journal_of_Systematic_Palaeontology 24(2) "Dating the origin age of earwigs: impact of the earliest record of stem-group Dermaptera (Insecta: Protelytroptera) based on Bayesian..." #Insecta #stem_group Peng,A.C., Nel,A., @mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al. doi.org/10.1080/1477... 023
Reposted by Corentin JouaultMika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026⚒️ #job My (former? eternally-home?) department is hiring a geochronologist: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac... If that’s you, you’d be happy here. Vancouver is spectacular & while every school has its politics, EAOS is earnest & tries hard to Do Better (& has the funds for nice facilities).ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor (Tenure Track)Academic Job Category Faculty Bargaining Job Title Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) Department Faculty | Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences | Faculty of Science (Erik Eberhardt) Posting End Date... 42211
Reposted by Corentin JouaultBrandon Peecook @gondwannabe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Tenure-track job in vertebrate paleo! 🦬🦕🦈🦴 This is my former position at the Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences. Can confirm that the collections are excellent & understudied; AND that the people at the IMNH and BioSci are wonderful colleagues. APPLY!isu.csod.comCurator/Assistant Professor, Idaho Museum of Natural History & Biological Sciences (3756)Job DescriptionThe Idaho Museum of Natural History and the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University invite applications for a joint... 25255
Reposted by Corentin JouaultKenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Interpreting Biotic Interactions in the Fossil Record: Evidence and Evolutionary Significance #paleobiology #paleobiology #fossils #ecology #evolution #EarthHistory #biodiversitydoi.orgInterpreting Biotic Interactions in the Fossil Record: Evidence and Evolutionary SignificanceFossil biotic interactions (fBIs) provide a critical but underutilized window into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of life through time. Unlike modern ecological data, the fossil record captu... 13418
Reposted by Corentin JouaultDavid Peris @davidperis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026🚨Publication Alert🚨 Our new publication in Sci Rep demonstrates that #DNA is not better preserved in #insects embedded in #resin than in those preserved outside 🦟🧬 Jurassic Park will remain always fiction 👉 rdcu.be/Np9Xk5q5kgYa @ibb-botanic.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social #LabPaleoecologyrdcu.be 066
Reposted by Corentin JouaultMali Ramsfjell @malihr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Wanna come to NHM Oslo and work on gall midges? Here is your chance 😁 #entomology #biology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...jobbnorge.noPhD Research Fellow in Systematic Entomology (306760) | University of OsloJob title: PhD Research Fellow in Systematic Entomology (306760), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, September 30, 2026 0910
Reposted by Corentin JouaultNeil Tsutsui @neiltsutsui.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We're hiring! Our search for an Assistant Professor in Arthropod Biodiversity just opened. Come join us at UC Berkeley in the amazing Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management! Feel free to contact me if you have questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05523aprecruit.berkeley.eduAssistant Professor - Arthropod Biodiversity - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and ManagementUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 18665
Reposted by Corentin JouaultCasey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore. 12324164
Corentin Jouault @cocomacro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026~35 Myr ago, a female pseudoscorpion grabbed a fly's hind leg and got caught in resin, with a brood sac of 12 eggs still attached. µCT let us count every one. 🦂 ✍️ Earliest fossil evidence of parental care and phoresy together, in iScience (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.is... 36823
Reposted by Corentin JouaultJeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777recruit.ucdavis.edu 2127161
Reposted by Corentin JouaultBob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... 0146203
Reposted by Corentin JouaultAnonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.netecoevojobs.netecoevojobs.net 2026-27 1176210
Reposted by Corentin JouaultSeth Finnegan @sethf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026My home department (Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley) is searching for an assistant professor in ecology—please distribute widely! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489aprecruit.berkeley.eduAssistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative BiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 15567
Corentin Jouault @cocomacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Two positions in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at McGill University! 🇨🇦 Assistant Professor in Critical Minerals for Sustainability Assistant Professor in Solid Earth Processes 010
Reposted by Corentin JouaultAdria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Come join the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab in Cambridge to study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials! Fun new HFSP project btwn UK, NL and Costa Rica! Deadline September 7th #Postdoc #JobAlert #Evolution #Bioinformatics #STM #socialfluids www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... leboeuflab.comcam.ac.ukResearch Associate (Fixed Term)A Research Associate position is available in the Social Fluids Lab, led by Dr. Adria LeBoeuf, in the Department of Zoology. The post is funded by a new 3-year international Human Frontier Science Pro... 23332
Corentin Jouault @cocomacro.bsky.social · 05/08/2026🐝🌿 New in Cladistics: we describe †Eotenthredinidae fam. nov. — the oldest known crown-group true sawflies (Tenthredinoidea), from the ~125-Ma Yixian Fm (Jehol Biota). A transitional fossil bridging stem & crown sawflies, with clues to their coevolution with angiosperms. 🦴🌸 doi.org/10.1111/cla.... 131
Reposted by Corentin JouaultLauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...bristol.ac.ukDetails | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol 28893
Reposted by Corentin JouaultMarc A. Milne @forthespiders.bsky.social · 20/07/2026It may be surprising to some that there are thousands of undescribed species just sitting in museums awaiting description. One of the main reasons this problem exists is that taxonomy is undervalued and underfunded, a trend that coincides with the devaluing of studies on natural history. 019468
Reposted by Corentin JouaultVincent Debat @vincentdebat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Second-chance speciation in the Clouded Apollo butterfly: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...cell.comSecond-chance speciation in the Clouded Apollo butterflyLancho-Silva et al. reveal two successive contacts between butterfly populations that capture the surprisingly rapid emergence of reproductive isolation driven by selection for chemical differences, a... 063
Reposted by Corentin JouaultLauren Sumner-Rooney @laurensr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026📢 Heads-up: I'm currently finalising the job description for a 30-month postdoc modelling visual abilities in these very gorgeous and very dead creatures! If you're interested, please get in touch - anticipated start is late 2026/early 2027 and the project combines great colleagues in UK + S Korea! 03730
Reposted by Corentin JouaultZ. Jack Tseng @tsengzj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Our newest paper on mammalian dental evolution, out today as the cover article in @science.org, lead by @narimanechatar.bsky.social with a team of fantastic early career scientists!!! 🎉🥳 “Performance trade-offs define a fundamental dental dichotomy in mammals” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 411048
Reposted by Corentin JouaultPhoebe Cohen @phoebefossil.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Super excited that our paper led by @sandinmm.eurosky.social in PNAS is out! We show that crown-group eukaryotes were already taxonomically and ecologically diverse throughout the Mesoproterozoic, revealing complex communities well before the Neoproterozoic radiation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgEnvironmental phylogenetics supports a steady diversification of crown eukaryotes starting from the mid-Proterozoic | PNASMolecular clock and preservation of early microfossil assemblages suggest that eukaryotes were present and already diverse more than ~1600 million ... 29034