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Gavin Conant @gavin-conant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Applications for the 2027 DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship are now open! www.krellinst.org/csgf/how-apply
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How to Apply | DOE CSGF
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783
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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.
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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Evolution 2027 meeting logo contest! The winner will receive free conference registration and t-shirt! www.evolutionmeetings.org/2027-logo-co...
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2027 Logo Contest
2027 Evolution Logo Contest! San Juan, Puerto Rico Please submit your original images to be considered. The winner will receive free meeting registration and t-shirt! Due October 1 Submit to...
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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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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Newly discovered cuties! gizmodo.com/scientists-d...
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Scientists Discover First New Cat Species in Over a Century—and It's Love at First Sight
The tiny cats only measure between one and two feet long and weigh between four and six pounds.
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Gavin Conant @gavin-conant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@bsky.app Raleigh friends: Join us for a public lecture by Carl Bergstrom @ NC State's Hunt library on Oct. 14th!!
Seminar: 7PM Oct. 14th Hunt Library 4106
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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Applications are now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2027! Funds cover registration, travel, meals, and lodging. The application deadline is earlier this year: November 1st! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social
The San Juan coastline. Text: Evolution 2027, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 25-29. Society for the Study of Evolution International Travel Stipends, Deadline: November 1.
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Arbel Harpak @arbelharpak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Stengl-Wyer Postdoctoral Scholars Program is a great launch pad for early independence. Supports 3y of research at UT Austin. Inquiries to faculty sponsors welcome! Apply by 12/7/26 biodiversity.utexas.edu/about-center/endowments-biodiversity/stengl-wyer-endowment/stengl-wyer-scholars-program
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Stengl-Wyer Scholars Program
Stengl-Wyer Postdoctoral Scholars Program in Biodiversity at the University of Texas at Austin
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A milkweed flower makes fake figs: brood-site mimicry and mutualism in Heterostemma ficoides Kidyoo et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/HNYYIN...
Overall appearance of Heterostemma ficoides and Ficus heterophylla.
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Kim et al. introduce PRIME, a framework of codon-level maximum likelihood methods that explicitly model amino acid exchangeability as a function of physicochemical properties. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #societyjournal #evobio #molbio
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The physicochemical basis of protein evolution: property-informed evolutionary models (PRIME)
Abstract. Standard probabilistic models of coding sequence evolution effectively identify where and when selection acts but remain agnostic to the mechanis
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Ya’el Courtney, PhD @scienceyael.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
HHMI released the official 2027 Gilliam Fellowship details, and a lot changed. Deadline's earlier this cycle: Oct 27. Int'l & MD-PhD students now eligible. Stipend up to 50K. New postdoc pathway adds up to 7 yrs of support. No Journal names!!!! www.yaelcourtney.com/resources-an...
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2027 HHMI Gilliam Fellowship: New Deadline, Eligibility, and Award Changes — Ya'el Courtney
HHMI's 2027 Gilliam Fellowship guide is out. What changed: an earlier October 27 deadline, expanded eligibility, a higher stipend, and a new postdoc pathway.
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Come be our colleague!!! TT position in Evolution careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Title: Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work A...
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sequoia National Park in California
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Agwamba et al. identify the western Iberian Peninsula as the primary source of American populations of house mice; divergence dates are consistent with post-15th-century European maritime expansion and settlement in the Americas 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... #societyjournal #evolution #genome
GBE | New Country for Old Mice: The Recent Colonization History of Mus musculus domesticus in the Americas
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Applications for the 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships are open! Katrin Schmelz just completed SFI’s Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she reflects on what the experience meant to her. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Requirements & application: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
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Gavin Conant @gavin-conant.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Reminding me that the urge to ingest lunatic things in the name of health is not unique to our era…
An old bottle of radium water advertising its medicinal value
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Joint Genome Institute @jgi.doe.gov · 03/08/2026
Interested in working with the JGI and never led a proposal with us? Now is your chance! We are accepting submissions to our New Investigator call for first-time PIs. Deadline to submit is Sept. 9. jointgeno.me/CSPnewPI @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @biosci.lbl.gov
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CSP New Investigator Call | Joint Genome Institute
The CSP New Investigator Call is for investigators and research initiatives new to the JGI. Projects must be independent of ongoing JGI proposals, and lead PIs cannot have been lead PI on any previous...
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
Deer in Phoenix Park this morning.
4 deer facing camera while standing under  trees. Sunlight behind them.
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Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
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Michael Sieber @michaelsieber.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Have ideas for your own, independent research program in Theoretical Biology? Then come and join us as a Group Leader at the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social in Plön, Germany!
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Group Leader in Theoretical Biology (m/f/d)
Experience in Theoretical Biology, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“We also propose that the total human population of the area in 100–300 ad was 1.25–3 million people. If similar results are found elsewhere in Amazonia, the …current Amazonian …biodiversity and even some modelling of the global climate should be re-evaluated” 🧪 🌐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia - Nature
Using canopy-penetrating LiDAR data, the northern part of southwestern Amazonia appears to contain as many earthworks as previously estimated for the whole of Amazonia.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
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Gavin Conant @gavin-conant.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A true pioneer in our understanding of the large-scale patterns of genome evolution…he will be missed.
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Gavin Conant @gavin-conant.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I enjoyed Paul Strathern’s book on the northern Renaissance because it chained together developments in science, art and religion I hadn’t seen as linked: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ot...
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The Other Renaissance
An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart...
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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 21/07/2026
Responding to common pushback I receive when I say you should present your research or other technical work by telling a story. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-the-wor...
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If the work is good why does it need a story?
I thought we do science here, not fiction or romance
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
SFI's Andreas Wagner (University of Zurich) was awarded the European Research Council’s Advanced Grant to study fitness landscapes in evolutionary biology. The award will help the SEASCAPES project. Wagner believes this could have strong implications in fields like medicine and protein engineering.
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Andreas Wagner awarded ERC Advanced Grant
SFI External Professor Andreas Wagner has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to study fitness landscapes in evolutionary biology.
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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
@therealpdogue.bsky.social , Salzberg & Wolfe find evidence that virus-like elements were present in the common ancestor of all terrestrial fungi, and that they were already subdivided into killer and helper types by this time. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #societyjournal #genome #evolution
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Evidence that Zymocin-Like Killer Plasmids Were Present in the Common Ancestor of Terrestrial Fungi
Abstract. Some budding yeasts secrete killer toxins made by linear dsDNA plasmids located in the cytosol. The best-known example is the Kluyveromyces lacti
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It’s actually Dave @davidacody.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We spent the morning at Hurricane Ridge in Olympic NP and ran into this curious guy. What a treat. #Nature #wildlife #photography #nikon #EastCoastKin
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Need a little joy in your life? Have you considered: baby elephant in a sprinkler? You will certainly not regret baby elephant in a sprinkler. This is Sam Houston, an Asian elephant born April 1, 2026 to parents Bluebell & Romeo. 🐘 (📷: Fort Worth Zoo)
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Gavin Conant @gavin-conant.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Finally got the author copies of my book! (The remaining slight mystery is why the cover is different between the hardback and paperback...)
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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!
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Gavin Conant @gavin-conant.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
New preprint out describing evidence for late resolution of polyploidy in fishes, ciliates and yeasts: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Evidence for post-allopolyploidy genetic exchanges between duplicated regions in three ancient polyploidies
Many successful lineages, including flowering plants and vertebrates, owe some of their evolutionary prosperity to whole genome duplications (WGD). However, in the immediate aftermath of a WGD, the ne...
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Four postdoc positions - Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology (BCI EDGE)integrating population & evolutionary genomics, community ecology, metabolomics, & long-term forest dynamics to investigate the evolutionary processes maintaining tropical forest diversity stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... 🧪 🌐 🌾
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BCI Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology project
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WAFB @wafb.com · 23/06/2026
New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease: www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/new-orleans…
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New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease
Daniel Cressy, 23, underwent gene therapy at Manning Family Children’s Hospital.
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Gavin Conant @gavin-conant.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Back in Dublin to offer UCD's post-graduate certificate in bioinformatics. Looking forward to giving NC State students the chance to attend next year!
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Gavin Conant @gavin-conant.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Science museum, Trento!
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Gavin Conant @gavin-conant.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Just posted a new pre-print on how buffering of cellular noise by changes in ploidy could be responsible for for hybrid vigor. I would be very interested in whether people find this a plausible idea or just "noise!" bioRxiv 2026.05.27.728238; doi: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Kevin Wertman @kevin.wertman.org · 19/05/2026
I saw this barred owl yesterday as well, just feet from where the egret was hanging about. I'm not entirely sure what it was doing, I took this photo from directly below so it was essentially laying down on the branch and looking at me. #Scrollback #BirdOfTheDay #Photography #Birds #Owls
Looking directly up at a barred own that is looking directly down between a fork in two branches.   Behind are leaves lit up by the sun above.
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Gavin Conant @gavin-conant.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
With the addition of a new 8-genome dataset for the grass Rho polyploidy, POInT Browse is now up to 13 polyploidies, 87 genomes and almost 1 million genes. Check it out: wgd.statgen.ncsu.edu
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Gavin Conant @gavin-conant.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Is there a reason journal editors don't check whether we already have accounts in editorial systems before creating new ones? I appear to have at least 20 different accounts for some of these systems, and my password manager can't cope any more...
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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A trail cam check on Monday revealed 3 clips of a beautiful male jaguar in a Sky Island south of Tucson, in the ancestral lands of the Tohono O'odham. Jaguars’ northern range is being ripped apart by border wall, mining, groundwater depletion and climate-driven drought. @biologicaldiversity.org
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Yves Van de Peer @yvdp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The rise of polyploids during environmental upheaval: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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The rise of polyploids during environmental upheaval
From the dating of 132 ancient whole-genome duplication events across 470 angiosperms, paleopolyploidization events cluster around pivotal periods of environmental upheaval and extinction, notably the...
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Caiti Smukowski Heil @caitismuheil.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Super excited to share our lab's work led by PhD student Margot Ruffieux on domestication of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with a focus on sourdough and baking associated yeast! 🍞
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