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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

A winter view of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains with snow on the ground and trees

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Gary Burness @garyburness.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How do you run your lab meetings? Do you have any tips for making them as useful to students as possible?🧪

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

BIRD FRIENDS! I need someone who knows Malta and its birds. I am pulling my hair out looking for a reviewer (I think I've tried about a dozen). If that's you (not "someone I know" please), make yourself known! #ornithology

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Gary Burness @garyburness.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've got this new crosswalk design where 1 in 10 people will get hit. Let's build it!😎 /s

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Drew Schreiner @schreinerdrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m on the faculty job market this fall! 🐦🧠 I’m an NIH K99/R00 awardee studying how the brain learns complex skills, using birdsong to connect molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior & computation. Know of a search where I might fit? Please send it my way & share!

drewschreiner.github.io

Drew Schreiner, Ph.D. | Neuroscience of Learning

I use birdsong to understand how the brain learns complex skills across molecules, synapses, circuits, behavior, and computation. On the 2026–27 faculty job market.

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Brock Wilson @brockwilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Following a negative public response, the Carney Liberals are abandoning plans to amend the Species At Risk Act. A federal gov't source told CBC News that upcoming legislation will preserve SARA, including jeopardy tests. However, advocates say the govt can still bypass SARA through other means.

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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Interested in animals and temperature? 🗻🏜🐦🦭 Join the Third Lund Thermal Biology Symposium 27-29 Oct. Talks range social sciences and medicine to evolutionary biology and physiology. Workshop in conservation physiology on 30 Oct. All free. Travel grants. Register 👇 www.biology.lu.se/lundthermal2026

biology.lu.se

Animal health, reproduction and survival in the age of humans 27–29 October 2026

Lund University.

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Looking for a trusted home for your research? At JEB we believe that it is important to make your research available to as wide an audience as possible through press releases to the media and our active presence on social media spreading the news 🔁 tinyurl.com/yc8ah7zh

Looking for a trusted community journal with research-active Editors and a wide audience?
Publish with JEB - the journal that works for you

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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Alberta's new 'conservation' licence plates are a reminder of how large the horns of bighorn rams could grow if we did not systematically remove rams with fast-growing horns at a young age through a phenotype-based trophy hunt, leading to evolution of smaller horns www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Gary Burness @garyburness.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Do you have a guide for students with practical advice for reviewing manuscripts? I would like to provide some advice to students in a 3rd year undergraduate class. 🧪

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/08/2026

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We are gathering feedback from our readers, authors and reviewers about the use of AI tools in scholarly publishing. Have your say at: www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZBFC663

Community survey: The role of AI tools in scholarly publishing — announcement from The Company of Biologists, showing five stylized people and three speech bubbles to represent community discussion.

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Ariel Kahrl @arielkahrl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I am thrilled to share that the biology dept at Hamilton College is hiring a TT Evolutionary Ecologist to start in fall of 2027! This position would teach an upper level Evolution lect/lab, a section of Bio-100, rotate through our 200-level Eco/Evo course, and a seminar. apply.interfolio.com/190184

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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_...

oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com

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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Janette Moser @mjmoser.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Oxford comma til I fucking die.

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mathotlab.bsky.social @mathotlab.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Please share! I have two positions for graduate students in my lab, starting Fall 2027. Details on the position s and application process can be found here: kjmathot.wordpress.com/opportunities/

kjmathot.wordpress.com

Opportunities

********************************************************************************************************* ***Two graduate student positions in the Mathot Lab**** I am recruiting two new graduate st…

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

nytimes.com

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · 16/06/2026

Spent the last two years developing a new Intro to Physics course for undergrad biology majors. It features tons of examples from biology (especially Ecology & Evolution!) and requires only middle school-level math. Lecture note here shorturl.at/0PiVp Any comments or feedback are highly welcome!

drive.google.com

physics_for_biologists.pdf

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Marcel Cardillo @marcelcardillo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Really nice memoriam to Robert Ricklefs by Brian McGill: dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r... Ricklefs got ecologists to think big: about the role of history, biogeography & macroevolution on ecological patterns. More than anyone, his work shaped the course of my career.

dynamicecology.wordpress.com

Robert Ricklefs – in memoriam

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We have a fully funded PhD position on European eel! Please spread! 🐟 🪱 Main supervisor Josefin Sundin @josefin-sundin.bsky.social at SLU Aqua Stockholm (scholar.google.com/citations?us...). Apply through the portal: www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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Barbara Tschirren @btschirren.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

What if graduate school wasn’t just preparation for academia, but a chance to intentionally explore multiple possible futures as a scientist? 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/rpm6EKY

thenaturalscientist.substack.com

How to Use Graduate School to Prepare for Multiple Career Paths

Why more natural scientists should explore multiple career paths before they need them

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Greg Owens @gregowens.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

UVic is hiring a Terrestrial Plant Ecologist Assistant Professor! Come join our department! We're nice and Victoria is awesome. www.uvic.ca/science/biol...

uvic.ca

Faculty Position in Terrestrial Plant Ecology - University of Victoria

Department: Biology                 &am...

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🛑 thinking that “bike lanes“ are just for “cyclist” Riding or rolling, people use this infrastructure to prioritize their safety as vulnerable road users from drivers. If your current or future elected municipal rep isn’t discussing NOW about expanding THIS, find someone else to VOTE for. #TOPoli

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kawarthaNOW @kawarthanow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Rotary Club of #Ptbo awards $10,000 to four local environmental innovators. Three projects received $3,000 each, with $1,000 awarded to a fourth project, under the Rotary Environmental Innovators Fund (REIF). kawarthanow.com/2026/05/11/r...

kawarthanow.com

Rotary Club of Peterborough awards $10,000 to four local environmental innovators | kawarthaNOW

By kawarthaNOW. Three projects received $3,000 each, with $1,000 awarded to a fourth project, under the Rotary Environmental Innovators Fund (REIF).

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 08/05/2026

Commiserations to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday, as he is now too old to be allowed to play with LEGO.

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Denis REALE 🇨🇦 @denisreale.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

You are interested in evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics. You enjoy fieldwork and birds. Join our laboratory and our international team. csee-scee.ca/job/fully-fu...

Pictures of blue tits, adults and nestlings, with some views of the field sites of the research project on Corsican blue tits.

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Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪

Leeks Lab is recruiting. We study social evolution in viruses. We're recruiting for two fully funded PhD or MSc positions, starting from September 2026. Evolutionary theory / experimental microbiology / viral bioinformatics. Experience optional / enthusiasm essential. asherleeks.com/apply

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Witness the mesmerizing murmuration of starlings in Italy, a stunning display of nature's coordination and beauty as they dance through the sky in unison.

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Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Get in touch asap if you might be interested in developing a project together! Must have defended your PhD by Sept, and can't have spent 1 of the last 3 years in the UK. Very happy to support ECR applications to start next Spring/Summer!

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Gary Burness @garyburness.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

what a wonderful idea - I plan to try this at a lab meeting today!

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!

A spiral bound field guide with a photo of sea star and a sea urchin, written and illustrated by Madelynn DeBest.

An illustrated schematic of the zones of the rocky intertidal and which species live at what depths.

An example page from a spiral bound field guide, open to the entry for bladderwarck, a light green seaweed with little air bladders to help it float.

A field guide entry for an invasive blue crab, showing it to be 9” across.

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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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Morgan Kelly @invertevoeco.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

So far we’ve got: running, crawling, sprinting, flying, swimming, burst speed, righting time, climbing… what are we missing?

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Michi Tobler @toblermichi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Nice to see our review out in @avianbiology.bsky.social! Flight is costly - but so are infections. We argue that infections may be a substantial, yet mostly overlooked, source for oxidative stress in migrating birds. doi.org/10.1002/jav.... #Migration #Birds #OxidativeStress #Ornithology 🪶 🧵1/5

First page of the review in Journal of Avian Biology entitled: Oxidative costs of migration: infections as an added burden by Michi Tobler and co-authors. Inlcudes journal banner and doi-link

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Our new paper is out: "Acoustic differences persist in urban Parus major (Great Tit) over two decades of declining anthropogenic noise in Paris, France." A study of noise and bird song, by me and Hans Slabbekoorn, in Ornithological Applications @amornith.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/orni...

An infographic summarizing the key findings of the new paper "Acoustic differences persist in urban Parus major (Great Tit) over two decades of declining anthropogenic noise in Paris, France" by Dan Mennill and Hans Slabbekoorn. A cartoon image shows a sound recordist recording a Great Tit on a street in Paris. One inset graph shows that noise levels in Paris have declined from 2008 to 2023. A second inset graph shows that Great Tits sing at higher song frequencies when the ambient environment is louder. A third inset graph shows that Great Tits continue to sing higher-freuqency songs in 2023 versus 2003; even though Paris is growing quieter, Great Tits in Paris sing higher frequency songs than quiet forests outside of Paris.

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Gary Burness @garyburness.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Scientist-friends! 🧪 Do you know of an R-package that can analyze digitized butterfly wings?

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Sammy Ball @sammyhareball.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🦇We're Hiring! 🦢 Research Assistant position at ATU to determine the feasibility of establishing a radio receiver (Motus) network in Ireland for migrating bats and birds March 26th deadline! www.atu.ie/connect/jobs... @atu-ie.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @shrewgod.bsky.social

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David Toews @davetoews.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Heading into conference abstract / presentation season, I 100% recommend Kathryn Langin's (@kangin.bsky.social) "Tell me a story! A plea for more compelling conference presentations". It's short, sweet, and not just for ornithologists. I can get behind every word! 🔒 academic.oup.com/condor/artic...

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Gary Burness @garyburness.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

New paper alert! Megan Heft shows that male tree swallows increase their body temperature as environmental temperatures get hotter, but the rate at while males feed nestlings is not limited by their capacity to dissipate body heat #ornithology #science 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 16/03/2026

#ProcB in @science.org | Diapausing bumble bee queens avoid drowning by using underwater respiration, anaerobic metabolism and profound metabolic depression: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

science.org

How bumble bees survive days underwater without drowning

Insects can stay alive for up to a week in flooded nests, thanks to several tricks

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Paid 12-month internship: Communications Officer. We have an exciting opportunity for someone looking to take their first step into a science communication or publishing role. Based Cambridge, UK (& wfh). See the full role description for further details at biologists.com/wp-content/u...

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