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www.dx-hub.eu @dxhub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🔬Researchers' Night in Heraklion! ✨ Last Friday, at Researchers' Night at FORTH, DxHub was there to bring #One_Health diagnostics and citizen science closer to the public. 🧪Science is stronger when we do it together! #ResearchersNight #CitizenScience

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IDP2Biomed @idp2biomed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🧬 For the second year in a row, IDP2Biomed successfully took part in Researchers’ Night on September 25 with BioBanzai at the Department of Biochemistry, ELTE! 🔬✨ Thank you to everyone who joined us and made the event so special. 💙 #IDP2Biomed #ResearchersNight #BioBanzai

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Suvi Ruuskanen @suviruuskanen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Our super team at #researchersnight @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social showing public our latest research, and fun bird & microbe-related tasks for kids! It feels like there is more people every year!

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📣This year’s edition of the European Researchers’ Night is coming up on 25 September 2026. Are you planning to attend? Are you presenting? 🔗 Let us know about the event, and we’ll share it with the community! 🧪 #EuropeanResearchersNight #EvoKE #ResearchersNight #EduSky #SciComm

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Evolution Students @ssegrad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How can we teach evolution more effectively and help students engage with concepts they find challenging? Join us for "Teaching Evolution: Evidence-Based Pedagogy for Graduate Students & Postdoc Instructors", a virtual workshop featuring practical, research-backed approaches to teaching evolution.

Promotional flyer for an SSE panel and workshop titled “Teaching Evolution: Evidence-Based Pedagogy for Graduate Student and Postdoc Instructors.”

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David Maddison @bembidion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The Tree of Life Web Project is back online! tolweb.org Thanks to Travis Wheeler (@wheelerlab.org), Danny Mandel, and Andrew Lenards, the original programmers for ToLWeb, for retooling the code to work on a modern OS! It is hard for me to believe it lives again.

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National Center for Science Education @ncse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reminder! The deadline to apply for our Sound Science Fellowship is September 18. If you're an academic concerned about anti-science sentiment and the challenges faced by educators in accurately teaching science, this fellowship is for you! ncse.ngo/sound-scienc... 🧪🍎 #edusci #educationalresearch

The text reads: Are you an academic with a passion for climate science, evolution, or the nature and practice of science as a field? Join NCSE's research and service initiative as a Sound Science Fellow! Apply by September 18.

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Heather F. Smith. Ph.D. @heatherfsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I had a wonderful time working w/educators last week at the National Rural STEM Summit. In my workshop, "Innovative Anatomy: Animal Skulls & Evolutionary Biology in the Classroom," we explored how skeletal specimens can be powerful tools for teaching anatomy, evolution, ecology & comparative biology

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 13/09/2026

Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our socials got the look ✨ But unfortunately, our website was still living in the past. It had been with us since 2017, so a little glow-up was definitely overdue. Check out our new look at evokeproject.org and let us know what you think! Big shoutout and lots of love to Josh for making it happen 🫶

You like the design of our posts?
Good. We do too.
Unfortunately, our website was still living in the past...
So Josh went on the mission to give our website the glow-up it deserved.
Ready for the big reveal?

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

💚 EvoKE at ERIDOB 2026! It was wonderful to have so many members of the EvoKE community together in Ljubljana! #EvoKE #ERIDOB2026 🧪 #EduSky @patriciapessoa.bsky.social @xanasapinto.bsky.social 1/5

Evolution Education in the Early Years
A Symposium at ERIDOB 2026
Thank you to all our speakers for sharing your research and perspectives!
📸 From left to right: Patrícia Pessoa, Penelope Papadopoulou, Xana Sá-Pinto, Lucía Vázquez Ben, Isabell Adler, and Deborah Kelemen.

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There’s even more evolution education to discover at ERIDOB 2026! It will be part of many conversations happening across the conference, bringing together different perspectives, educational contexts, research questions, and approaches. Below, an Evolution Education Guide to #ERIDOB2026 🧪🧵 #EduSky

More evolution at ERIDOB 2026
15th Conference of European Researchers in Didactics of Biology
Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 24th-28th 2026.

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Several members of the EvoKE community will be joining ERIDOB 2026, contributing to the symposium “Evolution Education in the Early Years” 🧪 #EduSky The symposium brings together research exploring how evolution can be introduced, taught, and learned from the very first years of education

EvoKE at ERIDOB 2026
15th Conference of European Researchers in Didactics of Biology
Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 24th-28th 2026.

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📢 Applications now open! The Education and Outreach Committee runs the Undergraduate Community at Evolution program, the T. H. Huxley Award, the Small Grants Program for Local and Regional Outreach, and the Education Symposium. Apply by 8/21 to join this work! evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

A UCE student with their poster at Evolution 2026.

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There are some really interesting topics in the collection of @evokeproject.bsky.social webinars - I’m so impressed with the multi sensory evolution outreach in the evALLution project by Telma Laurentino

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

While we recharge over the summer, we want to make sure you have plenty to explore in the meantime! Our 2025 webinar series covered a huge range of topics and every one of them is worth your time! 🧪 #EduSky (thread below)

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We’re taking a summer break from live webinars, but that does not mean the learning has to stop 🧪 #EduSky Have a look below at all the topics we covered in 2026:

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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

IOB The activity has been implemented in two distinct settings: an introductory non-majors Diversity of Life course and an upper-level Evolution course for biology majors. A Eden doi.org/10.1093/iob/... SABER paper #biology #education #teaching #education #science

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Where in the world is EvoKE community? What started in 2017 has grown into a global community! Today, the EvoKE community brings together 500+ members from 59 countries, connected by a shared goal: advancing public evolutionary literacy #EvoKE #EduSky

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

EvoKE explained: who we are and what we do 🧵 EvoKE (Evolutionary Knowledge for Everyone) is a nonprofit organisation bringing together researchers, educators, evolutionary biologists, science communicators, policymakers, and curious minds from around the world

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Birds of a feather flock together". But sometimes, the unlikeliest of pairs form lasting bonds. Take mutually beneficial symbioses in nature between animals, animals and bacteria or plants and bacteria. Or even humans and bacteria! 🧪🧵 #Evolution #EvoKE #InternationalFriendshipDay #Animalsymbiosis

A graphic with two colourful photos and bold text in the middle: "Happy Friendship Day". The top photo shows the African buffalo with a bird (red-billed oxpecker) perched on its head. The bottom photo shows a clownfish among sea anemone tentacles. A small overlaying text reads: "to my symbiont in crime!"

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

📢 Save the date! We are delighted to announce that EvoKE 2027 will take place 15–17 July 2027 in the beautiful city of Aveiro, Portugal. 🇵🇹 #EvoKE2027 #EvolutionEducation #ScienceEducation #EducationResearch #Evolution #BiologyEducation #Aveiro #Portugal #Conference #SaveTheDate 🧪

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Zebrafish Rock! @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Happy #SharkWeek! Did you know zebrafish are more closely related to zebras than they are to zebra sharks? 🐟🦓🦈 🤯 Credit diagram to Tyler Greenfield (X/@TylerGreenfieId) #ZebrafishFunFacts 🧪

Phylogenetics tree showing the relationship between zebras, zebrafish and zebra sharks. Sharks are part of the cartilagenous fishes, which are more distantly related to bony fishes, which contain ray-finned fishes (zebrafish) and lobe-finned fishes (Zebra)

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Coniwi @coniwi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Si están interesadxs en educación y evolución sigan a EvoKE :)

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We have a great creative team at #EvoKE, with whom I also collaborate. Follow us here and on other social media platforms to help us reach more people and make #evolution something everyone can understand and connect with 🧪

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Xana Sá-Pinto @xanasapinto.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We need to truly thank this team for the amazing work they are doing to promote evolutionary literacy! Thank you amazing team!!!!

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Meet the #EvoKE Communications Team 📣 We have different backgrounds and a shared passion for evolution education and science outreach 🧵1/10 #EvolutionEducation

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

What do pea plants have to do with evolution? 🌱 More than you might think. Gregor Mendel's careful experiments uncovered the rules of inheritance, explaining how traits are passed from one generation to the next. Gregor Mendel was born #OTD in 1822! 🧪 #GregorMendel #Evolution #Genetics #EvoKE

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Happy birthday to Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), scientist and Augustinian friar who posthumously gained fame for establishing many of the rules of heredity, fundamental to modern genetics. 🧪🐡 #histsci By carefully crossbreeding pea plants and tracing seven characteristics (plant height,

My linocut portrait of Happy birthday to Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), scientist and Augustinian friar wearing small glasses, cassock and cross on chain, printed in green. He is surrounded by pea plants specifically coloured to be reminiscent of a Punnett square with mauve flowers on the top, left and right, and bottom left but white flowers on the bottom right. The each print is 11" by 14" (28 cm by 35.6 cm), on ivory Japanese kozo paper with "chine-collé" white and mauve paper.⁠ ⁠

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Mary Leakey spent nearly 30 years searching the sediment layers of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania alongside her husband Louis. On July 17, 1959, with Louis home sick, she spotted two large teeth jutting out of a hillside and instantly knew she was looking at one of our ancient relatives 🧪🧵

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Xana Sá-Pinto @xanasapinto.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Really proud to be part of this group! Thank you EvoKE board members for making this happen!! Will you join us?

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Last week, our special EvoKE webinar brought together 14 participants from 7 countries. Together, we launched the EvoKE Working Group on Learning Progressions, a collaborative initiative that will bring together diverse expertise to co-develop a learning progression for evolution education 🧪 1/3

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Building a Learning Progression for Evolution Education

Together, we launched a new EvoKE Working Group dedicated to developing a learning progression for evolution education.
14 participants
7 countries
1 new working group

Thank you to everyone who joined us!
We're looking forward to what we'll build together

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A finch can't grow itself a bigger beak, not even when its life depends on it. So how did a whole population end up with bigger beaks in a single generation? 🐦🧪 (thread 👇) #EduSky #Evolution #EvoKe #DarwinsFinches

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

On this day in 1858, the scientific world first heard the idea of evolution by natural selection from a joint presentation by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace at a meeting of the Linnean Society in London. It is a case of integrity and collaboration (thread below 👇) #Evolution #EvoKE #OTD 🧪

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Richard Carter, FCD @friendsofdarwin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

01-Jul: On this day in 1858, Charles Darwin finally went public with his theory of evolution by means of natural selection, with the publication of back-to-back papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, who had independently arrived at the same idea… friendsofdarwin.com/articles/dar... #HistSci

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01-Jul-1858: Darwin goes public

Charles Darwin finally went public with his theory of evolution by means of Natural Selection on 1st July 1858.

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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Today marks one of the most important days in the history of Science. OTD in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred R. Wallace revealed the idea of evolution by natural selection @linneansociety.bsky.social meeting (although any of them was actually present) darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

EvoKE Webinar – Special Edition Instead of our usual webinar format, our next session will bring together researchers, educators, curriculum developers, and anyone interested in evolution education to co-create a collaborative publication #EvoKE #Evolution #EduSky 🧪 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3SOwelR

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Queerness is unnatural" It's a statement many of us have heard before. But where does this belief actually come from? The idea that queerness is unique to humans says less about nature itself and more about how humans interpret the world around them 🧪Thread 👇 #Evolution #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #EvoKE

A graphic on a orange-yellow background with a rainbow ribbon. The text reads: "Queerness? That’s unnatural.
A common claim. But is it supported by evidence?
You’ve probably heard a statement like this before.
Many people believe queerness is unique to humans.
But where does that belief actually come from?
Why do so many people think queerness doesn't exist in nature?"

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

They ruled the oceans for over 340 million years. They survived three mass extinctions. Then vanished in a geological instant. What do we actually know about how ammonoids lived, grew, and behaved before they became fossils? #Webinar #Ammonoids #Fossils #EvoKE #Palaeontology 🧪 #EduSky

A graphic including a painting of a reconstructed ammonoid (coiled-shelled cephalopod), photos of their fossils, and schematic drawings of the shell shape. The text reads: Survived 3 mass extinctions. Then vanished. What do we actually know about how ammonoids lived, grew, and behaved before they became fossils? #EvoKE

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Plants have been reproducing their own way for hundreds of millions of years. So why do we keep describing them in human terms? Thread 👇 #Evolution #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #EvoKE #EduSky 🧪

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 01/06/2026

“EvolvingSTEM centers on a simple but powerful idea. Instead of teaching evolution through historical examples like Darwin's finches, students work with living systems that evolve over a single week.” www.hotmetalcampus.com/news-researc...

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EvolvingSTEM Brings Lab Experiments Straight Into the Classroom — Hot Metal Campus

Based out of Bridgeside Point II in Hot Metal Campus, EvolvingSTEM is a science outreach program that brings evolution and microbiology research directly into classrooms across the Pittsburgh region. ...

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George @nonlinearbotanist.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is a great, easy to understand explanation of why homosexuality in a species is not necessarily a disadvantage.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 6/10: Male black swans often pair up with other males, nest, and raise chicks together.

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🧠 “Isn’t homosexuality an evolutionary disadvantage because it doesn’t directly produce offspring?” The simple answer is: No. At first glance, that seems logical. But evolution is rarely that simple (thread 👇) #Evolution #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #EvoKE 🧪

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

To celebrate Pride Month, here's an iconic queer snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum. Defying binary classifications, females produce offspring with or without males doi.org/10.1890%2F00... #PrideMonth #scientificillustration

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The ocean is the cradle of all life and the place where biological evolution started to shape biodiversity, setting the stage for life on land. Most of the major biological groups that exist on Earth are found exclusively in the ocean! 💙🌎🧪 #WorldOceanDay #ProtectOurOceans #Biodiversity

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A really important point about what evolution can teach us to help respond to climate change in regard to crop plants and food security #WorldEnvironmentDay

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