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Cristian Román-Palacios @cromanpa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We just started a blog on the lab website. The first posts cover community mapping, replacing GitHub Classroom from R, and what we learned teaching phylogenetic comparative methods in Colombia. Tutorials, guides, and tips and tricks are coming, starting next week! datadiversitylab.github.io/blog/

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Blog

Thoughts, updates, and stories from the Data Diversity Lab

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Dimitri Forero @dimitriforero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You still have time to submit your abstracts!

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some resources and advice for those considering applying to the NSF GRFP this year (3 year grad school stipend: first year grad students, post-bachelor, and seniors might consider applying): brianomeara.info/posts/grfp_2... 🧪 #AcademicSky

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Cristian Román-Palacios @cromanpa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When two clades evolve together, can the trees alone tell you how often they cospeciated, and how often the symbiont switched hosts? We think so! Our paper, led by @yichaozeng.bsky.social, shows that branch length differences in the cophylogeny are informative enough to estimate six rates at once

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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Carlos Daniel Cadena will be August's Funk Biogeography Seminar speaker! Join us to hear about the origin and fate of megadiversity: how did today's biogeographical patterns originate? How and why has it changed over time? Learn more here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/au...

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Cristian Román-Palacios @cromanpa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

As an academic, I've been through multiple (you-name-it)-gates ending in retractions, resignations, job switches, or being forgotten. Few made news, none died, let alone were covered after death. Unusual, but not unexpected given the big picture? @nytimes.com @hvistendahl.bsky.social et al

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Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring (Gift Article)

Jason Arday, the school’s youngest Black professor, was found dead on Friday. The school ignored a series of warnings about his life story and his work.

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Looking for sci comm opportunities? Join us as a writer for American Naturalist press releases! These write-ups are primarily written by graduate students and other early-career scientists. No experience required; we have editors to help along the way. Apps due Sept 1. Please share widely :D

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Looking for Press Release Writers & Editors for The American Naturalist

Sign up for the opportunity to write and/or edit for The American Naturalist! We are seeking authors to write press releases for new journal articles. See examples of recent press releases here. We a...

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Miguel McMinn @mmcminn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Reticulated adaptive radiation and phylogenomic diversityloss in the Hawaiian honeycreepers #ornithology www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Marianne Alleyne @cotesia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications from entomologists with research portfolios in which INSECT BIODIVERSITY LOSS is a key element (at the assistant professor level). illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Picture of a green tree-lined quad at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, with Foellinger Hall in the background. Skies are often this blue.

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Curro Molina @curromolina.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Después de años de muestreos, lupa, claves, bases de datos y alguna que otra crisis existencial… ¡ya está publicado el primer artículo de mi tesis! El primer inventario de abejas silvestres de Doñana: 385 especies. Un sueño hecho realidad. 🐝🌸 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Mapping wild bee diversity and flower use for an effective conservation of the Doñana biodiversity hotspot

We compiled the first checklist of wild bees in Doñana Protected Area, documenting 385 species, including three vulnerable and one endangered species listed in the Red List. Bee species exhibit dive...

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Sarah Gonzalez Coffin, PhD @sgonzalezcoffin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Check out our latest article, published in Communications Earth & Environment: doi.org/10.1038/s432...

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I 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/JPF07777

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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net

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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27

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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The Cornell Lab invites applications for Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowships. These competitive awards support innovative, independent research by early-career scholars of exceptional promise. Two to four awards are made in each cycle. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32334

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Cornell University, Lab of Ornithology

Job #AJO32334, WDR-00059934 Rose Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Mark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's Tuesday, so it is time for a new biweekly episode of #MattersMicrobial! This time, Dr. Michael DL Johnson joins the #QualityQuorum to chat about his "Trojan Horse" strategies to battle superbugs! Please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord? youtu.be/M-FEMi7M-bU?...

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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

RECRUITING 3 Senior Research Associates to develop responsible AI-enabled approaches to unlock animal behaviour for conservation. Roles include: 🧠 AI/Computer Vision 🐠 Behavioural Ecology 🌊 Marine Field Ecology Join @lec-reefs.bsky.social & @dsailu.bsky.social, Lancaster Uni, UK. Ads coming soon!

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Plant bio teachers: what is one diagram/figure you always use on your presentations but which could be better? Please comment and share🌱 #botany #plantscience #teachingresources #sciencecommunication

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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🧵1/11 New paper alert! One of 2 out today from #NearLab. Tunas are basically the superheroes of the ocean — warm-blooded, massive, and blazing fast. But HOW did they get that way? A new study just cracked open 50+ million years of evolutionary history. Let's dive in. 🐟⬇️

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We're hiring an ecologist at UC Berkeley! The Dept. of Integrative Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ecology. Plants/algae, invertebrates, microbes, or marine systems a priority. Come join us!! Apply by Oct 5, 2026. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489 PS: Please share!

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Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026 Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS! Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us

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M O I L A B - Join us!

Join us! Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!

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Jesús Martínez-Gómez @jesusgm.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025 Reach out! www.martinezgomezlab.com

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Yan Gong @yangong.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Please spread the words. This is the third annual AP search in our department to extend the junior faculty cohort!

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Jacob Levine @jacoblevine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614

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Pável Matos @pavelmatosm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Join us

Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …

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Ronnie Rattanasriampaipong @paleolipidrr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Excited to see this review paper published! OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1029/2025... We provide an updated view on the applications of archaeal lipids as environmental proxies. Shoutouts to our co-lead authors @climategordon.bsky.social and @lipidorama.bsky.social for spearheading on this.

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Cristian Román-Palacios @cromanpa.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

UniAtlantico está contratando múltiples plazas en Biología: www.uniatlantico.edu.co/wp-content/u...

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Henry Arenas-Castro @henryarenas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"How two hybridizing monkeyflowers resist phenotypic homogenization" I'm very happy to share this. We would really appreciate your feedback!

Slide with the title and authors list of a manuscript along with illustrations of the monkeyflowers Mimulus guttatus (left) and Mimulus glaucescens (right). In the background, a Manhattan plot with outlier loci and QTL locations.
Title: Maintenance of phenotypic divergence in two sympatric monkeyflowers with weak reproductive isolation
Authors: Henry Arenas-Castro, Cage Cochran, Quinn Evans, Hongfei Chen, Jenn M. Coughlan
Manuscript: bioRxiv, 10.64898/2026.07.28.741377

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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hey #Botany2026, mark your schedule for an amazing talk by Kelly González, postdoc in my research group on ecological niche modeling and whether riverweeds (Podostemaceae) care for anything other than river rapids!! Tomorrow at 2:15 pm at San Luis 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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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology @sicb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Call for #SICB Symposia: 2028 SICB Annual Meeting How do I submit a proposal? The initial application requires only: · Contact information for the organizers · A one-page summary describing the symposium concept Please submit your proposal using this Google Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Questions?
We welcome proposals from scientists at all career stages. If you have any questions about the process or would like to discuss a potential symposium idea before submitting, please don't hesitate to contact me.

I hope you will consider sharing your vision for a symposium at the 2028 Annual Meeting!

Britt Heidinger
Program Officer-Elect
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
programofficer.elect@sicb.org

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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Better late than never to compile the #botany2026 talks from research done in the #LagoLab! Check out talks by @laufran.bsky.social, Aislinn Mumford, and @evoyeyo.bsky.social tomorrow, and @laymonstera.bsky.social on Tuesday!

Poster with talks from the Lagomarsino Lab at LSU:

Lauren Frankel (former undergrad)
Introgression and trait evolution in the Neotropical bellflowers (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae)
Monday at 8:45 in the Cooley Award Session
Tucson C-D

Aislinn Mumford
Evolution of Color in Palicourea, a Genus of Neotropical Flowering Plants
Monday at 11:30 in Ecology I
San Pedro 2

Dr. Diego Paredes-Burneo (former PhD student)
Rapid Diversification and Phylogenomic Conflict Across the Tropical Andean Flora
Monday at 2:15 in the Cooley Award Session
Tucson C-D

Laymon Ball
Clarifying species boundaries in a Neotropical complex: Hillia subgenus Hillia (Rubiaceae)
Tuesday at 11:15 in Systematics & Taxonomy
San Ignacio

Each talk has an image of the speaker to the left and their study system to the right. It's purple and gold.

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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Applications for the 2027 summer school on Computational Molecular Evolution on Crete are now open at: meetings.embo.org/event/27-com...

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Sabhrina Aninta @sagitaninta.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology

Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.

Interested in Polyploidy and Population Genetics?

Florida State University, Join the Gaynor Lab. My lab is open to both Ph.D. and master students through the Ecology and Evolution area in Biological Sciences at FSU - applications are due December 1st!
I also have funding to support a postdoctoral researcher and a technician during my first three years at FSU. The postdoctoral researcher will focus on polyploidy population genomics. The technician will help with lab work including flow cytometry for genome size estimation and DNA sequencing preparation.

If you are interested in joining the lab, please send me an email with a CV/resume and a brief explanation of your research interests and your career goals

Find out more at mlgaynor.com and email me at shellyleegaynor at gmail.com

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

You know those labs that keep harming students, again and again? Some reflections on why it's so hard to stop this from happening and where our responsibilities lie. scienceforeveryone.science/bad-mentors-... 🧪

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Bad mentors hurt people

What to do about bad mentors?

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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

What are the causes & consequences of behavioural diversity loss in a changing world? And how do we harness this knowledge for conservation? New open access paper led by @odedberger-tal.bsky.social with David Saltz and @mrmic1.bsky.social #BobWongLab royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Anthropogenic change and the loss of behavioural diversity

Abstract. Behavioural diversity is an important but understudied facet of biodiversity that enables wildlife populations to cope with rapidly changing envi

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 30/03/2026

Culture was assumed to be unique to humans, but recent scientific discoveries have revealed that it's in fact widespread in the animal kingdom. This #PhilTransB issue is the first to present a comprehensive picture of the science & implications of this: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

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Priscilla Lau @prilau.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Our paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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An efficient Bayesian phylogenetic approach for joint inference of continuous and discrete trait evolution under a state‐dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model

Macroevolutionary adaptation of a continuous trait to different discrete states across species can be modelled using a phylogenetic state-dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. Existing infere...

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Sarita Munoz-Gomez @saristolochia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I will be presenting at #botany2026 during the Development & Structure Part 2 session at 4:30 PM local time in San Luis 1. I will be talking about sex systems in the capitulum and the models we are using to approach questions on the links between floret sex, location, and symmetry! (1/2)

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Dr. Nora Mitchell @noraflora10.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Biology is searching for a tenure track assistant professor in Aquatic Ecology to start August 2027! Application deadline September 28 2026. I am searching chair, please reach out with any questions!! wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UW_Comprehen...

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Biology: Assistant Professor in Aquatic Ecology

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process. Position Title: Biology: Assistant Profes...

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Mark Phillips @maphillips.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology is currently hiring up to three tenure-track faculty members, with an emphasis on organismal biology. Note: Previous links are no longer active due to a change in our hiring system. oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...

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Assistant Professor

Department: Special Instructions to Applicants: To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 10/1/26. Applications will continue to be accepted after the full consideration date, unt...

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

EEB Mentor Match is now open! But apps due soon (8/17). Mentees: get help applying for grad school or fellowships in ecology & evolution. Mentors: senior grads, post-docs, or faculty in these fields willing to give advice Org by Diversity Cmte of @asn-amnat.bsky.social Pls share! eebmentormatch.com

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EEB Mentor Match

Visit the post for more.

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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I am recruiting Ph.D. students this cycle. Students interested in deep-sea fishes and phylogenetic comparative methods are an especially good fit.

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