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Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My lab at Pitt is looking for a Laboratory Technician to help our research and phage therapy efforts. Please share and apply! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Laboratory Technician

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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · 21/09/2026

My PhD advisor Serguei Saavedra has assembled an amazing Editorial to launch a new free-to-read, free-to-publish journal in ecology!

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Hengxing Zou @hengxingzou.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You might have seen the paper @science.org last week on the solar panels decreasing bird biodiversity. Our reanalysis, led by the talented Yangkang Chen, found fundamental, retraction-worthy flaws in their results, especially from the citizen science data and their models… (1/6)

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sad to report that my colleague Dr. Jim Hamrick - a giant in the early study of plant population genetics, though in these 2017 photos he was contributing to the understanding of *barnacle* diversity - has passed.

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Martin Turcotte @exp-evoeco.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Excellent opportunity as Rachel is brilliant and already quite accomplished.

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Rachel Germain @gerlame.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

To the #Evol2026 folks, I am recruiting MSc/PhD students (with or without their own funding) - please send people my way if you know of anyone interested in blending ecology & evolution!

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Urban Evolution & Ecology Conference @urbanevoecoconf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The first-ever Gordon Research Conference on Urban Evolution and Ecology focusing on "The Intersection and Emergent Properties of Ecology, Evolution and Human Social Environments in Cities" is now open for applications! www.grc.org/urban-evolut... #UrbanEcology #UrbanEvolution #UrbanEcoEvo 🧬🔬🥼🔭

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The website (and registration) are live for the January 2027 @asn-amnat.bsky.social American Society of Naturalists meeting: www.amnat2027.org On the East Coast of the US for once, which makes this easier for many people to attend by train or car (or travel from Europe more easily)

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Briante Najev, PhD @briante-najev.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I'm in Cleveland for the Evolution conference #Evol2026. My talk is about size trait scaling across biological levels between ploidy levels at Sun, June 21, 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM, Room 25C. Hopefully see you there or somewhere in Cleveland!

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Bob Ricklefs RIP. One of the giants of ecology. His textbooks were the gateway to the field for many students. His papers were invariably thoughtful, well-argued and provocative, even those I disagreed with. 🌏🧪🌐

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Jitka Polechová @polejit.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Are you looking for a PhD on the intersection between evolutionary and ecological theory? Join us @univie. Fully funded PhD position in fundamental eco-evolutionary theory, open to international students. Apply by 13.7.2026: ecoevo.owlstown.net/search Reposting appreciated. #evolbio #evoeco #ecology

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Jitka's EcoEvo Lab - Jobs

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

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Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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Dave Armitage @darmitage.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our group in Okinawa, Japan later this year/early next year. Area of research is wide open, and creative/unconventional projects are encouraged. Together, let's make ecology less of a mess! 📈📈📈 www.oist.jp/careers/okin... DM/email any questions!

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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Postdoctoral Scholar, Integrative Community Ecology (Armitage) Unit

A postdoctoral position in ecology is available in David Armitage’s research group at OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) in Okinawa, Japan, with a flexible start date, ideally in early...

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Taylor Zallek @taylorzallek.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Such a great group to work with! Invasions are global phenomena and understanding them requires global collaborations. Huge THANK YOU to the organizers, sponsors, and workshop leaders!!! 🇺🇸🇿🇦🍄

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Taylor Zallek @taylorzallek.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

New to bsky, trying to (re)connect with eco-evo folks. I'm an evolutionary ecologist who studies how rapid evolutionary dynamics shape community and ecosystem processes. My work integrates experimental evolution, population genetics, and community ecology, with an emphasis on biological invasions.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

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Daria Van Tyne @dariavantyne.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My lab at Pitt is looking for a Research Scientist to help us make phage therapy for patients with antibiotic-resistant infections. Please share and apply! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Research Scientist

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🗓️Complete schedule for this term, where we will have speakers covering higher-order interactions, metabolic scaling, niche dimensionalty, coexistence and more! Look forward to seeing you there! All details and Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

New preprint from our big collaborative evolution experiment in 9 whole lakes in Alaska, written by McGill grad student @lucaseckert.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... What happens if you put a mixture of multiple source populations together to complete & evolve in multiple new lakes?

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Kevin Cox Jr @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Thanks for the shout-out! If anybody wants to get an overview of expansion microscopy techniques in plants, give this a read! 🔬

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/12/2025

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

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Martin Turcotte @exp-evoeco.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

My colleague and I got one too a few weeks ago. Must be mass spamming

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Dr Steven M. Vamosi 🇨🇦 @smvamosi.github.io · 09/12/2025

Pretty sure I hate this: got an email from a group “studying how AI helps scientists extend their work in new directions”, who had applied ‘custom’ AI models to a recent preprint of mine. Would I like to see the five extensions? Thanks, but no

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Looking forward to the Modern Coexistence Theory workshop tomorrow. Please repost :)

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

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Mike Grillo @mikegrillo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word. share.google/gukbzS1zdIx6...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Evolutionary Genomics

The postdoctoral researcher will work in Dr. Michael Grillo’s plant evolutionary genetics lab. The goal of this research project is to understand the genomic basis of plant-microbiome variation in leg...

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Dan Starr @danstarrucdavis.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Cucurbita pepo is one of the oldest domesticated species. Over millennia, it has proved astoundingly versatile. Just as Brassica oleracea gave us broccoli, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts etc, C. pepo morphed into the pumpkin, zucchini, delicata, pattypan, acorn, yellow squash and more!

A watercolor illustration showing the modern cultivars of squash descended from the ancestral Cucurbita pepo. C. pepo is in the middle, depicted as a round-ish speckled squash ripening from green to yellow-orange. Acorn squash, zucchini, pumpkin, delicata, pattypan, and yellow squash surround it in a circle, each connected to C. pepo by a line, like spokes in a wheel. Illustration by Ferris Jabr.

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Martin Turcotte @exp-evoeco.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

#PhD Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication? Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids Details: shorturl.at/nQ8UW

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This is a fantastic new preprint, one of the first papers from our replicated whole lake experimental evolution study with stickleback. alaskastickleback.com

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Alaska Stickleback Restoration Project

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🌿 Missed our #Botany360 Applying to Grad School Q&A Panel? The recording is now available! Hear from panelists representing diverse institutions as they discuss applying to graduate programs in the botanical sciences. Watch here: youtu.be/awAVzOmvs5M #ApplyingtoGradSchool #IamaBotanist

Flyer titled “Applying to Grad School Q&A Panel – Recording Now Available!” on a floral background. Text explains that the panel covers applying to graduate programs in botany or plant sciences, held October 9th at 4:30 p.m. Eastern. Panelists represent diverse institutions and backgrounds. The flyer notes that the recording is now available and the event is sponsored by the Botanical Society of America Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Includes BSA and Botany 360 logos and a QR code for access.

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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Modeling the Tangled Bank: A Users Guide to Gillespie Eco-evolutionary Models using the Julia Programming Language www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The GRFP announcement from NSF cuts out an entire cohort of 2nd year students from consideration, without warning. This is so deeply unfair that it warrants a formal protest from the scientific community. If someone wants to work with me to craft an open letter and solicit signatures, LMK.

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

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Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 21/08/2025

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Rachel Germain @gerlame.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

We use annual plants, flour beetles, and duckweed in the lab, greenhouse, and field to test how processes of community assembly interact and how they feedback with evolution Check out our website & lab instagram page (email and website deliberately not posted here to prevent spam)

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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Its that time again - the list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2026 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/2XTHBP6CZGEn... Prospective students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share! 🧪

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Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2026

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Christopher Dick @chrisdick.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

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Open Positions

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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Apply now: #PhD #position “Advancing environmental DNA (#eDNA) approaches to future-proof #environmental #monitoring of #aquatic #ecosystems” 🧬 🔎 🦐 🧪 🐟 (4 years position) ➡️ apply.refline.ch/673277/1268/... Thanks for sharing to suitable candidates! @eawag.bsky.social

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

New preprint dropped: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by PhD student Swapna Subramanian. Wild yeasts on apple orchards in CT exhibit local adaptation (and sometimes maladaptation) to their particular orchard & apple variety. The dominant yeast's adaptation affects community composition

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Local adaptation shapes community composition without affecting performance

Eco-evolutionary theory predicts that local adaptation should influence community assembly and performance, yet empirical tests of these predictions remain limited, particularly at microgeographic sca...

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

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Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 08/06/2025

Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team. Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Student-led experimental evolution reveals novel biofilm regulatory networks underlying adaptations to multiple niches

We established a research-education partnership known as EvolvingSTEM that provides secondary school students the opportunity to conduct authentic research experiments centered on microbial evolution....

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space. 2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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Martin Turcotte @exp-evoeco.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

#Postdoc Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication? Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids Details: shorturl.at/EHOeJ

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Martin Turcotte @exp-evoeco.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Check out our new paper on how plasticity impacts species coexistence. This was an experiment I ran with Jonathan when I had less grey hair. Thanks @theogibbs.bsky.social for taking it over with a fresh analysis and excellent writing. Full text available below.

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Bram van Dijk 🏳️‍🌈 @bramvandijk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩 This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer. Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF

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