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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A Canadian map company that keeps all data in Canada. Currently in beta, please support 🇨🇦🍁. 🔗 maplemaps.ca

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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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Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology @funcagroeco.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

📣PhD opportunity! We are looking for a highly motivated doctoral researcher with expertise in pollinator ecology, agroecology, and landscape ecology. 🐝🚜🌼 Research will focus on resilience of pollinator communities in agricultural landscapes. 🔗 Read more: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/document/...

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I am not certain, but I think this might be the greatest thread (and greatest use of alt text) of all time.

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Dr Manu Saunders FRES @manusaunders.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A 2019 paper that is often used as evidence of the flawed 'windscreen phenomenon' has been retracted. I cited this paper a few years ago in explainers about why this particular anecdote cannot be used as evidence of insect decline. See thread below 👇 retractionwatch.com/2026/06/23/a...

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A prolific evolutionary biologist caught faking data decades ago notches a new retraction

A study claiming a tenfold decrease in bugs splattered on evolutionary biologist Anders Møller’s windshield over two decades has been retracted. shanecotee / iStock Anders Møller, an influential ev…

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JPE - Journal of Pollination Ecology @jpollecol.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Clarivate released the 2026 JCR yesterday. We are thrilled that, from a standing start, JPE's first-ever Impact Factor is 1.8! An outstanding result for the journal and a testament to the high-quality contributions of our authors, reviewers and editors. Carolin and Maria Clara JPE Senior Editors

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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"While there is no current consensus, we do not advocate for a single definition and contend that a lack of unanimity is not inherently problematic."

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Harry Siviter @harrysiviter.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Hive mind request. I’m looking for long term insect (ideally pollinator) monitoring schemes that have conducted weekly/monthly transects/counts for several years. I know of the Bee walks, UKMS, and PoMs in the UK. I would love some non-UK examples! 🐝🦋🐝🦋🐝🦋

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

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Federico Riva @rivaecology.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Really cool. PIVOT!!

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

For folks in Fredericton: public lecture TONIGHT at 7 p.m. (Head Hall C13, UNB campus) by Dr. Dolph Schluter, "On the Origin of Modern Species". An accessible talk to answer one of the big questions about our world: where do species come from? More detailed info: www.unb.ca/frederict... 1/2

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Dr. Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis @inlewis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

New publication @thermal-biology.bsky.social! We show that non-invasive thermal cameras can measure thoracic temperatures in wild bees in the field. New tool to ID potential heat stress under #climatechange. Congrats to undergrad Mei McFeely on publishing her thesis #microclimate #pollinators 🐝🎉🌻

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I just said no to an opportunity because it would mean travel to the USA and I'm very sad. I also recognize my privilege in being able to do so (tenured, etc) but I'm just so sad about.... gestures widely

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Happy birthday, Chuck. Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

Image of a bearded, bald, and morose Charles Darwin, with his famous quote “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 12/02/2026

In 2018, Ilja Van Braeckel created a font based on Charles Darwin's handwriting for #DarwinDay. It was based on 12,000 pictures of Darwin's original manuscripts! Link rot happened, and the original files are missing. I have put it up again here: drive.google.com/file/d/14Kcn... Happy Darwin Day!

Sample of Ilja Van Braeckel's Darwin handwriting font.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 09/02/2026

Botany valentine. Another oldie.

A four panel comic. In panel 1, there are three beautiful blooming roses, and the text says "Roses are red..." In panel 2, there are some lovely violets budding and blooming, and the text says "Violets are blue..." In panel 3, there are some terrifying red and flesh colored plants with toothy maws and the text says "Hydnora are leafless, bizarrely fleshy, and incapable of producing chlorophyl..." and in panel 4 there are some cute hearts and the text says "And so are you. Happy Valentine's Day"

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I'd love to switch but tough when the university buys into these platforms!

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

As someone who has spent a career measuring flowers, I'm curious to see how they compare to these protocols

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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

In the January 2026 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance @evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework? Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 10/12/2025

A resurrection study of scarlet monkeyflower populations across the species' range finds relatively little adaptive response to a seven-year drought event, showing that evolutionary rescue is not as predictable as we might hope 🌿 buff.ly/L8o4hhr

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If you've read all this, I hope it shows that science often doesn't proceed in a direct line and that sometimes persistence is worth it!

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I have a kid that is starting to learn to drive that wasn't around when this all began. I've moved from USA to Sweden to Canada. I got tenure. We got through COVID restrictions and the research disruptions they brought. I'm so proud of this paper and so grateful to Monica for everything!

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

And then we wrote the paper and published it, right? In a perfect world maybe yes, but my world isn't perfect...this paper brought to you by stubbornness, luck of staying in academia, and a sabbatical to write!

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I was shocked to see a pattern! Really! I couldn't believe there was something there and something that made some ecological sense.

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

These papers gave a framework to analyze spatiotemporal variation and a reason to test for ecological relationships. I wasn't expecting anything but I figured what's the worse that could happen? Another null result? I'd been down that road with these data before.

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This paper was also an inspiration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... At first I regretted not counting those stigmas I collected for pollen grains and other forms of the ecology of the populations. But we did have seed predation and abortion rates.

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Using ecological context to interpret spatiotemporal variation in natural selection

Spatiotemporal variation in natural selection is expected, but difficult to estimate. Pollinator-mediated selection on floral traits provides a good system for understanding and linking variation in ...

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

We didn't have pollinator-mediated selection but Monica is a very smart collaborator so I took her advice and thought about it.

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Turns out I was waiting for @oysteinopedal.bsky.social to publish this paper: pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp... Monica suggested that we might be able to frame our paper with some of these ideas

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A functional view reveals substantial predictability of pollinator-mediated selection | Journal of Pollination Ecology

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

What if I had chosen the wrong traits? Maybe I needed more statistical power...I should have observed more interactions...but I kept thinking it should be published at the very least since we had multiple populations over multiple years of data.

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This brings me to the challenges of writing papers with essentially a null or negative result. It wasn't just that it is tough to convince others but it can also be hard to convince yourself. I did work on the data over the years and write a few drafts but it never quite got there.

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I was sure we'd finally be able to see some differences in selection that could be attributed to a cause. But no! Flowers were starting much earlier but selection on the traits was really just similarly variable. Another interesting and important story I thought but difficult to write

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Rosie's first field season was an interesting one. 2012 we had to go to Ithaca early because the spring was so advanced. And though it was not planned I thought we had to measure selection again in the same populations!

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

When I hired a PhD student I decided that they were going to help continue the work in Penstemon digitalis but focused on the floral scent work. Rosie Burdon did some great work for her PhD (go check it out) figuring out some really interesting things about scent

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Anyway, the data were interesting but challenging to write up for a paper. Lots of variation but no explanations...so I sat on it, moved to Sweden, was an unemployed mother for a bit and then started a new job

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

As an aside, because of the herbivory in 2006, I added an additional population in 2007. You might wonder why it only shows up for 1 year and the behind the scene reason is that it was on land owned by a hunting club. While they were always nice, I didn't love all the hunters that stopped by...

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

After collecting 3 years of data collection I saw a lot of variation in selection on flower traits but no more over space or time. I wrote a dissertation chapter, gave a few conference talks, and got my PHD but this one didn't make it to publication...

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Spring 2007 brought another surprise--almost all the plants that flowered in the populations died over the winter. So no following the same plants through the years!

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

First season was a reasonable success but I lost almost every plant in one population before I could collect seeds (fitness). :( Deer! (or maybe rabbits it was hard to tell)

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

My first year of data collection I tagged ~100 plants per population for three populations with the intention of also measuring selection on the same plants throughout my PhD. Although relatively simple--it hasn't been done for many plants!

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This paper started during my first year of my PhD--I was talking with Monica and deciding that looking at variation in selection would be an interesting angle to my studies.

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Almost 20 years in the making! So happy to see this in print!

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

[8 Nov 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦. All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions. Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed! www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...

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Anurag Agrawal @anurag-asclepias.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

By popular demand, I'm offering "More #MONARCHS - No #Monarchy!" shirts and mugs at cost (no profit, just joy). Spread the word, decent quality for <$20 monarchs.printful.me #NoKings #butterfly #peace #naturalhistory #plantinsect

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Let's start Monday with some whimsy. These delightful grasshoppers (possibly also katydids?) are from a water jar created by Makuzu Kōzan in 1870. To see full size images: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Detail of the water pot decoration. Grasshoppers carrying flowers are also accompanying a palanquin, used to carry... presumably high ranking lady grasshoppers. A couple might also be katydids based on antennae length, but let's not get uptight about imaginary anthropomorphized bugs, eh?

The little freshwater pot, with a wooden top. This side shows more grasshoppers (possibly a katydid) carrying fruit and flowers as they march along on their hind legs.

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