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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spread the word! I’m looking to recruit a PhD student to grow the Paulinella project. Some details can be found here: www.vanettenlab.org/join

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Join! — Van Etten lab at UMD

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783

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Doctor Handy @doctorhandy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I wasn't ready to lose Dolly. I suppose I never would have been. Growing up just south of Nashville and going to college in east TN, she was everywhere. Omnipresent. And she was always so wonderful. Healing us and connecting us with her beautiful song writing and voice.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Job Opening. Faculty Position in Plant Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Davis in the Department of Evolution and Ecology (EVE, my home department). More detail here. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis invites applications and nominations for a 9-month, tenure-track position in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at the ASSISTANT PROFESSOR level. The Department of Evolution and Ecology is seeking a plant evolutionary biologist with interests in the evolution of plants at any taxonomic, geographic, organizational, or evolutionary scale. Candidates must have a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in the biological sciences, evolutionary biology, ecology, genetics, or a related field, and will be expected to complement and build upon existing faculty strengths in the Department of Evolution and Ecology and across UC Davis.

We welcome applicants working on any group of plants and using empirical, computational, experimental, and/or theoretical approaches. Possible areas of study are broad, and include macroevolutionary research on plant diversification, trait evolution in a phylogenetic context, major evolutionary innovations, comparative genomics, and evolutionary developmental biology, as well as research focusing at or below the species level including population biology, quantitative genetics, adaptive evolution, speciation, biogeography, and the evolution of life histories or species interactions.

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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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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Are you passionate about #naturalhistory #collections? Apply for our open position for the Herbarium Collections Manager @utkherbarium.bsky.social. We will start evaluating applications on Aug 17, so get your application in now. #Botany2026 #herbarium #jobs

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

during a video call with an obviously distracted coworker, she eventually said “i’m sorry, can you give me a minute? i have an orange cat.” and since i’ve had them for many years, i completely understood.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My alma mater (College of the Atlantic) is hiring faculty in Field Ecology, Agroecology, and Chemistry. If you're looking for a very cool small liberal arts college on the coast of Maine with a strong environmental focus, check it out (happy to answer questions!): www.coa.edu/human-resour...

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Career Opportunities | College of the Atlantic

Career opportunities at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine.

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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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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Well, whatever quasi-tornado just tore through my neighborhood in Northwest brought down a lot of trees and branches. That had 2012-derecho energy, for those of you who remember.

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Michelle Facette @mfacette.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Come work with us!! We have a great group of plant biologists already, and there are FOUR searches for new plant biologists of different flavours across campus. We also have an outstanding group of animal physiologists (including @mstager.bsky.social ). Please apply!!

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Rishi De-Kayne @rishidekayne.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Our team at @arcadiascience.com is hiring! We're looking to hire a computational evolutionary biologist interested in asking how and why protein sequences/structures/functions differ across the tree of life 🧬 jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien... Please share widely!

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Arcadia Science - Platform Scientist: Comparative Protein Evolution

A Bit About Us: We're Arcadia Science, an evolutionary biology company founded and led by scientists. Our mission is to turn natural innovations into real-world solutions by developing systematic and ...

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Sjon Hartman @hartman-plantlab.com · 30/05/2026

Dear #plantscience friends, we're looking to recruit a new colleague at @uni-freiburg.de @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social: a Professor in Plant Biotechnology. 🌱🧪 The @dompsfr.bsky.social community is truly fantastic. Interested? Please share far and wide and join us! uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

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University of Freiburg

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Charlie Anderson @candersonlab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Penn State Biology is hiring! We have an opening for a tenure-line faculty position in plant biology - if you'd like to pursue awesome science in a supportive and interdisciplinary community of researchers, consider applying! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Plant Biology

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

WANTED: Lead Collections Manager. Smithsonian NMNH Botany is looking for a Supervisory Museum Specialist to manage the United States National Herbarium and a top-notch collections team. For more information, visit USAJOBS (www.usajobs.gov/job/864499200). Applications due in two weeks (1 May 2026).

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 11/04/2026

Science is so dope. And science that belongs to us is everything.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Science is good. We should fund it.

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

And Victor Glover, the first Black man, and Jeremy Hansen, the first Canadian. (h/t anonymous spacepeep ☺️)

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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹

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L Laiken @broaden.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We will choose each other. 🥹

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

While everything in this thread is true, I don't go to conferences to just see the talks or posters. Conferences are the one time all my nerd friends from around the world gather in the same spot and we get to recharge our intellectual batteries and dream up new projects. 🧪

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Doctor Handy @doctorhandy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This is a gratitude post to the gem of a person who noticed I lost my phone this morning while racing for the train and super humanly grabbed it, got through the closing doors and handed it to me before I knew it was gone. You've made my year. May your days be full of chocolate and happiness.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 19/03/2026

Taxonomist Appreciation Day post I am in freakin' AWE of people doing primary taxonomic work. To do it well, you need deep scholarship to track past naming (and misnaming) efforts. You may need to hunt down specimens only to discover they are damaged, misindentified, or lost. 1/3

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

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Nashville Severe Weather @nashseverewx.com · 25/01/2026

Information for Williamson Co: Williamson County Emergency Management Agency is opening warming shelters at Fairview High School and Franklin High School. Limited food and animal support services will be available. We'll pass along anything that comes over their socials.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I have never seen a community of people so united and so committed to helping each other in the face of something so terrible, in my decades of reporting on terrible things. The people of Minneapolis are all in this together, legit. You can feel it and see it everywhere. It's incredible.

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Please, colleagues, if you can't review a paper, just take 1.5 seconds to indicate that so I can ask someone else. If you have 30 seconds to recommend someone else with relevant expertise, that's amazing. But telling me you can't do it so I can ask someone elseis not an unreasonable request!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

A THREAD. Which I have decided to call 'Reasons Why Owls Are Excellent'. 1. They are always putting the needs of others before their own.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Is it just me or does this leaf look like a DNA gel?

A leaf with little lighter colored rectangles in rows

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 01/01/2026

I know it's a very contentious conversation to end the year, but "What it Sounds Like" is my favorite K-pop demon hunters song. I think it's the anthem to start 2026 off strong. Owning our mistakes together and moving forward. "So we're not heroes. We're still survivors."

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“What It Sounds Like” Song Clip | KPop Demon Hunters | Netflix Family

YouTube video by Netflix Family

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Molly Edwards, PhD @science-irl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Is everyone ready for #Plantsgiving?!?! Thank you @martinebotany.bsky.social for my favorite botanical tradition 🥹🌱

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Doctor Handy @doctorhandy.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This is a great opportunity with an awesome PI!

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑 Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for. We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

Four shots of a baby giant pacific octopus bouncing around

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Anya Brown @dranyabrown.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/

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Join Us!

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/11/2025

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal. If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

Gorgeous red and green aurorae over a lighted city below.

Gorgeous picture of red and green aurorae over a lighted city below.

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Michael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet. Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀 #PublicHealth

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

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Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public

Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

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jmb, phd @jmbrkphd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

We're hiring! Please spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and apply to join us here in Athens, GA! 🪴 #PlantBiology #SyntheticBiology #PlantScience #AcademicJobs #UGA

Faculty job ad for a position in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia.

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Alexa Fredston @afredston.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California 2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin. ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003

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Fredston Lab: Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

🦠Join the legendary @viromegirl.bsky.social lab Jobs in marine micro, virology & genomics 💻 Viral 'omics in seagrass 🧬 Marine microbial & bioinformatics 🧫 Vibrio phage + iron biogeochemistry 🎓 sea urchin–ciliate diseases 👉 www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app... #MarineVirology #Phagesky #Microbiome

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Welcome to the Breitbart Lab - Genomics

We are modern virus hunters, using metagenomic sequencing to discover viruses in a wide range of environments and hosts. Have fun exploring the marvels of microbiology on this website!

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 11/10/2025

May I offer you a borb in these trying times? 🪶

maybe a bushtit flying directly towards the camera , extremely puffed out

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