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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 2h

Global model ensembles are in strong agreement that a prolonged &anomalous nearly West-wide autumn heatwave will develop this week & persist for 10+ days. While some daytime records may be set, this event will be more notable for its persistence & breadth. [Thread]

Map showing predicted temperature anomalies in early October from the ECMWF ensemble across the western U.S. Nearly the entire region is painted red and pink, indicating widespread very warm anomalies.

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Dr Zeinab Rekad 🔬🧬🧪 @zeinabrekad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Being an 'early career' right now is horrendously hard. It's just too much. I just want to do good science 😭😭😭

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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 19h

When your proposal gets killed by an algorithm that has no capacity to understand science, what will you do? When your colleague's proposal gets killed by an algorithm that has no capacity to understand science and amplifies biases by default, what will you do? That's where we're at 🧪

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Applications are now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend the 2027 Evolution meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico! Funds cover registration, travel, meals, and lodging. Submit your application by November 1st! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social

The San Juan coastline. Text: Evolution 2027, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 25-29. Society for the Study of Evolution International Travel Stipends, Deadline: November 1.

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 15h

Nominations now open for the ASN/SSE/SSB IDEA Award! This award recognizes a person or group at any career stage who has strengthened the ecology and evolutionary biology community by promoting access and inclusion in our fields. Deadline: November 1. www.evolutionsociety.org/society-awar...

A glowing lightbulb. Text: American Society of Naturalists, Society for the Study of Evolution, Society of Systematic Biologists, IDEA Award, Nominations due November 1.

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Cathy Newman ⚜️🐘 @cenewman0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Devastated for the Fort Hays community about the closure of the Sternberg Museum of Natural History, and this letter from the univ president makes clear how dramatic reductions in state funding leave universities with no good options viable long-term. www.fhsu.edu/news/2026/09...

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To the Fort Hays State University Community

I need to share a difficult decision with you, and I want to be transparent about how we arrived here, what it means, and who ultimately holds the power to change the path we are on.

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Among the many things as Chair, I've been working on celebrating our awesome faculty, staff, and students at @sandiegostate.bsky.social Biology in newsletters. Here're volumes 1 and 2, featuring the labs of @doc-brock.bsky.social and Gretchen Goodbody, the Director of our Coastal & Marine Institute!

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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you're submitting a reference letter for a PRFB, I was surprised to not see any option for deleting and reuploading, which contradicts the info provided in the email requesting it. In fact, as soon as you select the file it is uploaded and you can't change it. Was fine for me, but beware.

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Corey Callaghan @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you use #iNaturalist data in research—or advise students who do? We put together a practical guide to using iNaturalist data in scientific research, covering how to access, acquire, analyze, and attribute the data, with examples in R and Python. Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bios... #ecology

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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In the Brock lab, we don’t believe in zero days! Lab postdoc Dr Hayley Crowell snags a gopher snake on the sidewalk after 2 1/2 hours of searching Juniper Canyon. 🐍

The Brock lab contingent of my urban Eco Evo class holding a baby gopher snake

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏

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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Any tips for getting Sceloporus occidentalis (Western Fence Lizards) to eat in captivity? 🦎🧪

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Scoop: This afternoon NSF will formally announce its four 'Frontier Initiatives', and a suite of other changes in a public letter. These Frontier Initiatives (left) are identical to OSTP's 'Grand Research Challenges' that we have been reporting on (right). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

with my wonderful colleague @monroderik.bsky.social, just published "What a Long Strange Trip It's Been: Miocene Salinian Block Migration and the Biogeography of Megahexura Spiders" in J BioG dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.... novel CA biogeographic story! not OA ... please contact me if you need a copy

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch. Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.

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Adam Steinbrenner @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley Submit applications by Sept 30 Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522

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Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

First urban eco evo lab was a huge success! Two racers 🐍, a handful of Scelops 🦎, and an orangie whiptail 🦎! The class is investigating reptile body condition across San Diego’s urban canyons and writing an original research manuscript as we go! 👩🏾‍🔬

Sceloporus occidentalis! Florida canyon, Balaboa Park, SD

Students taking environmental measurements after snagging a very fast orange throated whiptail 🦎 🍊

Brock Lab grad student and instructional assistant , Tucker Heptinstall, showing off a little racer he found in our drift fence

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Tucker Heptinstall @hippieherper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🚨Super stoked to see the first work of my dissertation with @doc-brock.bsky.social come out today in Global Change Biology Communications!🚨 We found some cool relationships between squamate life history and tolerance to anthropogenic land use! Check it out here: urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

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Tolerating the Anthropocene: Squamate Life History Shapes Patterns of Presence in Human Modified Landscapes

We found that many squamates exhibit moderate tolerance of human modification, with wider ranging, larger bodied, faster reproducing species showing the highest tolerance. Intolerance to modification...

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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Spoilers for #LoveIslandUK An Ibiza wall lizard, Podarcis pityuensis makes an appearance in episode 3.

A lizard with a green dorsum and tan sides with black spots all over.

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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/08/2026

Hummingbirds.

A four panel comic. In panel 1, a rufous hummingbird flies down toward a large hummingbird feeder with as many as 6 holes on top. He thinks "The humans put up a new feeder!" In panel 2, he lands on the feeder and gazes down at it. He thinks "It's huge. Many of us could feed here at once." In panel 3, we see a close up view of the hummingbird, and he's thinking "This could end the ancient rivalries. Usher in an era of peace. Interesting." In panel 4, an Anna's hummingbird hovers over the feeder and says "Hey, can I have some necta-" and the rufous hummingbird says "No."

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Rob Denton @rddenton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

[JOB!] I'm hiring for a really exciting postdoc position. A combination of breeding experiments, conservation genomics, and student mentorship. Room/board at the @amnh.org Southwestern Research Station each summer, 40 months of support, new science building at BSU. Share broadly! ad: bit.ly/4hKaUIL

A human hand holds a medium sized green frog with distinct gray spots and yellow eyes. This is a Chiricahua Leopard Frog, a threatened species native to the southwest US and Mexico.

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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Proud of this one led by my PhD student @hippieherper.bsky.social that includes UC Berkeley undergrads from my postdoc, an undergrad from SDSU, and collaborator friends from CalPoly! 🦎 in the city are under much less pressure to conserve water - big implications for ectotherms in the Anthropocene.

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Anna Allen @akallen10.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New NSF BIO solicitation is live.... this replaces the previous IOS, MCB, DEB solicitation www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Tucker Heptinstall @hippieherper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🚨New Brock Lab Paper🚨 Super excited to see our work investigating how urbanization is shifting microclimates and causing physiological responses in lizards come out in Functional Ecology! Maybe urbanization isn’t all bad? 👀 Check it out! @doc-brock.bsky.social @emilytaylorscience.com

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Urban oases relax desiccation risk for an arid‐adapted lizard

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Putrino Lab @putrinolab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Excited to share some new science in pre-print this morning! We have completed the world's first intravitreal autologous mitochondrial transplant in a human. Let's breakdown what we did and what this means, even starting from the title (!) www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1... 1/

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E. Anne Chambers @chamberea.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're hiring! The Chambers Lab is recruiting grad students interested in landsacpe & conservation genomics or species delimitation of reptiles & amphibians. Find more info here (or reach out with questions!): chamberslab.org/opportunitie...

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opportunities – Chambers Lab

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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My favorite example: There is no isogamous version of the verb "to fertilize" that doesn't imply actor-receiver, i.e. mutual causation over syngamy. The fact this key biological concept is described by a word with constitutive asymmetry, despite the biology not needing it, shows the depth of bias.

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Katherine Drotos @spiritofcavalia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"All of this is *maybe* a problem if you know how to do research, but it’s *definitely* a problem for the student who hasn’t mastered the procedural- nor meta-learning necessary to focus and produce good work."

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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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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 10/08/2026

The plagiarism accusation risk is sort of the dark version of a point I know @ctrlalttim.com has made, and which I’ve seen elsewhere too: why do I even want this job if I’m offloading the absolute core task—formulating and expressing ideas—to a text generator?

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 10/08/2026

Thanks Colin for yet another damn flavor of genAI nightmare fuel but at least it’s in a package I can post on the lab Slack and point at

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.

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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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Hermione, Texas Granger @misterfungi.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

the Wikipedia entry for axolotls reads like a Cake song

Their heads are wide, and their eyes are lidless. Their limbs are underdeveloped and possess long, thin digits.

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I have noted this problem. It has become exacerbated by GenAI because the attitude of the students is “why should I develop these skills when I can just ask ChatGPT.”

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My post-tenure-bump salary was lower than it would have been had my starting salary merely kept pace with inflation. It's bad out there!

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Patricia Goldsworthy @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Our union president compiled a chart of salaries for different career stages (first year TT, promotion to Associate, promotion to Full, end of career) at my university (Western Oregon University). Adjusted for inflation, faculty are making between 5,000 to 25,000 less now than we were in 2009

Chart showing Tenure Track salaries at Western Oregon University from 2009 to 2026 at different career stages (first year on TT, promotion to Associate, promotion to Full, end of career). Adjusted for inflation, faculty make between 5,000 to almost 25,000 less now than they did in 2009

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I really hope someone checks my math and memory of public university starting salaries. The idea that inflation adjusted numbers reflect starting assistant professors making 20% less now than they did 25 years ago is….. whew.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 30/07/2026

We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

grateful to have received the lab's first NSF grant to study cyclical processes of speciation with new theory and tools (applied to Melanesian birds). ad to come, but I'll be looking for a postdoc with computational biology chops—please reach out! (and repost) www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

screenshot of public abstract of NSF award, linked in post

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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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