iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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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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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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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Tree of Life Web Project

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...

A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.

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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Do you like snailfishes? lumpsuckers? clingfishes? New phylogeny dropped, and to toot our own horn it's really good! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

new phylogeny including snailfishes, lumpsuckers, rock-climbing gobies, and clingfishes showing forms of pelvic suction disc evolution

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New NSF BIO solicitation says expected number of awards is 250-300. Historically, the number of awards is closer to 800-1000 for the Directorate of Bio Sciences: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses... Unless I'm missing large, non-core programs, this seems really not good?

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Agency Pulse: Grantmaking at NSF

An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The ones I use (Nikon D7200) are sadly no longer sold or even supported - so do folks have some good recommendations?

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

Really nice article laying out the semantics of sex/sexes that causes persistent confusion and arguing in our community. It lays out the undisputed patterns in biology and makes clear any "lack of consensus" on sex/sexes is arguing across different levels. academic.oup.com/icb/article/...

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Evolution, Development, and the Incoherence of Sex: A Framework for Multiple Sex Concepts

Synopsis. The word sex can refer to at least seven distinct, evolutionarily related biological phenomena (0–6 below). Bacteria and archaea use mechanisms f

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I had no idea mammals had teeth like this - seen similar in lots of algae feeding fishes

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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pls share: GRINNELL COLLEGE – BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, TENURE-TRACK POSITION. Research and teaching interests might include but are not limited to organismal biology and ecology - apply by October 2, 2026. Please visit our application website at jobs.grinnell.edu

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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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Anya Auerbach @aauerbach.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hey Bluesky! Emerging from my dissertation-formatting cave to share that I defended my PhD last week! So many incredible people helped me reach this point, especially over the last few months as I scrambled to finish in time. I’m lucky to be surrounded by such good friends.

The cover slide from my dissertation defense talk. The background image is of a river flowing through rainforest in Ranomafana National Park, and along the sides are photos of various birds I studied in-hand. The title text reads: “Ecological diversification across taxonomic scale in three adaptive radiations of Malagasy birds”. Below that are listed my name (Anya Auerbach), my advisor Sushma Reddy, and my committee: Sharon Jansa, Keith Barker, Kieran McNulty, and David Fox.

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The lab and I are halfway through our final data collection trip to the Smithsonian fish collections. So far we have measured 1236 specimens from 483 species in 75 families. Here is one of my favourite so far, a Galapagos four-eyed blenny (Dialommus fuscus) which is amphibious.

Picture of the front half of a preserved blenny fish on a black background with a ruler beneath. The fish is small and elongated with extraordinary eyes, which are very large with what looks like a double pupil hence the name four-eyed.

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Huge congrats to Lindsey DeHaan on receiving the Stoye Award for best student presentation in ichthyology at #JMIH26 in New Orleans! Lindsey presented work on macroevolutionary shifts in spiny eels, representing one of her dissertation chapters. 📸: @leicurtis.bsky.social

Photo of a presenter at a lectern with a screen of talk acknowledgements behind them.

Picture of a screen with slide announcing Lindsey DeHaan as winner of the Stoye Award.

Lindsey standing with two ASIH representatives on a stage holding a giant prop check.

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

We have officially retired the old stipend site, no more @reptilerhett.bsky.social .app - looking for Biology PhD stipends, make sure to use our new (and much cheaper) site: mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...

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Biology PhD Stipends

Biology Ph.D. stipend database with live summaries from the shared Google Sheet.

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Katherine Corn 🌽 @kacorn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Really excited to share that Chris Martinez & my paper on ecological, functional, & evolutionary diversity produced by novel jaw joints in fishes is out at@evojlinnsoc.bsky.social! We show how modulation of these new joints can produce a wide range of functional opportunities doi.org/10.1093/evol...

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Tree of Sex @treeofsex.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As everyone's winding down on #evol2026 we want to share our survey link with you again. Whether you work in reproductive biology specifically or not, please take a minute to help us understand how the scientific community uses reproductive terms in research! And hope to see you at #SMBE!

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Bob Thomson @rcthomson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I’m here at #evol2026, as is a sizable chunk of Systematic Biology’s editorial board (academic.oup.com/sysbio/pages...). Early career folks: Please feel free to grab us to talk about publishing in the journal. We are here to help!

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Huge Fish Curator gig is advertised! Assistant Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History (part of Uni of. Florida) explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...

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University of Florida - Details - Assistant Curator of Ichthyology

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Laura Alencar 🇧🇷🐍🦎 @alencarlrv.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity? I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University). I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat! Link below

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This will be unworkable, and it's intended to be.

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is a great program - participate if you can’

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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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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Our warmest and wildest 100th birthday wishes to Sir David Attenborough, vice-patron of our Society. Today, we are celebrating Priam's Birdwing, which he said he would include in his "ark" to protect from extinction. This illustration is from E Donovan's "An Epitome of...Insects of India" (1800).

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Matheus Januario @mjanuario.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It is an absolute honor to see our work recognized by my peers and by SSE! Huge thanks to Jennifer Auler, Andressa Viol, and to Dan Rabosky for helping me to build this ed. software! Soon I will upload more content on our website, stay tuned! mjanuario.github.io/evolved

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evolved

Open software for teaching evolutionary biology via inquiry-based learning.

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Trump just fired much of the National Science Board that guides the National Science Foundation - another blow to the NSF. #savetheNSF

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This is a great idea! I can’t go to #Evol2026 as I will be doing museum “fieldwork” but others should take note.

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

New report of experimental evidence from Grace Liu & collaborators showing that AI assistance improves immediate performance - but after just ∼10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving people who lose access to the AI perform worse and give up more frequently than those who never used it.

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AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

Causal evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and impairs unassisted performance across math reasoning and reading comprehension tasks.

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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I’m finishing my tenure as Chief Meeting Organizer for the Evolution Meetings. Apply to replace me! Without a doubt, this is my favorite service I’ve ever done. In trying times, it was a real balm to get together weekly with a group devoted to making the best meetings we can for students.

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

We present TaxonMatch, a tool designed to align taxonomic names, resolve synonymy, and correct typographical and structural inconsistencies across species name databases www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #biodiversity #taxonomy #bioinformatics

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Lonoikamakahiki! 🌧️🌱 @lisalisalei.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

If you love visiting our islands, then please give us some aloha in return. 🫶🏼 #hawaii #oahu #storm #flooding #hiwx givebutter.com/support-the-...

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Kāko‘o O‘ahu: Emergency Relief for O‘ahu Flooding

We're matching every dollar up to $100,000.

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Went to Devil’s Fork State Park to see one of our local endemics today - oconee bells (Shortia galacifolia). They are found only in a few counties in southern Appalachia SC, NC and GA and flower only for a couple of weeks in March/april.

Two small plants with glossy veined leaves and tall flower stems (several centimetres) terminating in a delicate white bell-shaped flower with ruffled edges.

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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Are you an early career biologist seeking a position (Masters up to faculty)? I have talked to so many people who feel alone, like they don't have resources, or who are seeking community during this difficult time in the job market. I created a Discord community to help. discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH

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Join the Early Career Biologist Support Network Discord Server!

Check out the Early Career Biologist Support Network community on Discord - hang out with 3 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Registration is now open! Early-bird closes April 15. www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

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Evolution 2025 Registration

Evolution 2025 - the joint conference of the SSE, ASN, and SSB

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Milton Tan @mtanichthys.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Upcoming book on ecology and evolution of Amazonian fishes, edited by @gymnotus.bsky.social and Roberto Reis. link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Book cover titled "Ecology and Evolution of Amazonian Fishes: Assembling the Most Diverse Continental Vertebrate Fauna" with editors James S. Albert and Roberto E. Reis. Images of various Neotropical fishes are on the cover.

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Sam Price @evovert.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I thought I may have been given gummy gymnotiform fishes or perhaps gummy early vertebrate Haikouichthys based on the package illustrations. Sadly what was inside didn’t live up to the expectations - still tasty though!

Gummy candy ‘sour elderflower fish’ packet light blue covered in abstract green and white elderflower blossoms and yellow sugar covered fish with no foral find and hetercercak tail

Yellow gummy candy fish covered in sugar - deep bodied with homocercal tail.

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