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Chris Smith @chriscrsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! We're a computational lab working on spatial demographic inference using genomic data and machine learning. You can apply here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34508

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Indiana University Academic Positions

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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 14h

My dept is hiring 2 lecturers, one in cell/molec and the other in comp bio. 100% teaching, no tenure but generous intervals btwn renewals. Same position as me and I love my job!!! Very collegial dept w/ colleagues who take quality teaching v seriously barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

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Lecturer of Biological Sciences

If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Lecturer of Biological Sciences Barnard is a premier liberal arts undergraduate coll...

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Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 21h

Excited to share that my department has an open faculty search for an Assistant Professor! The search is broad, focused on candidates who plan to address fundamental questions in genetics and genomics. The due date is soon: Nov 13. You can apply through interfolio. apply.interfolio.com/190644

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 9h

Evolutionary contingency facilitates scent divergence in an emergent orchid population www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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UNR Biology Buzz @unr-biologybuzz.bsky.social · 9h

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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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 21h

Well there is another hour of my life. Orange are the forbidden ones!

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

More geekery tonight. Trying to make sure my code worked as intended and generating Raup's Figure 2 from his 1962 paper "Computer as Aid in Describing Form in Gastropod Shells" #marinelife #SciArt #paleobiology #MolluscMonday #paleontology

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 22h

Check out this lovely profile of the University of California, Davis’s Peter Wainwright, whose lifelong fascination with fishes inspired a remarkable career in research and teaching. Peter was my postdoc advisor years ago when he was at Florida State University, and is awesome dude and mentor.

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Among the Academies: A Lifelong Fascination With Fish

For Peter Wainwright, the academic path was simple: he simply followed his fascination with fish.“I dare say there wasn't a lot of deep thought about what direction I should go in my life,” he said. “...

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 14h

Today is Primidi the 11th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate potatoes. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Potatoes.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15h

Here’s the monthly data with a 12-month trailing average, so we don’t “look ahead” of the time series. We can see that visits from Canada are substantially down. Like, a *lot*. And if we looked at the French series by itself we’d see something too. But it’s not on the scale of Covid. Yet.

Smoothed monthly graph shows Canada has dropped in visits substantially, but not to the extent we saw in Covid

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Phil Knutson, PhD @philknutson.bsky.social · 20h

Lignin chemistry!! I’ve drawn a line tree with the lignin polymer behind it. I’ve drawn it as one single polymer throughout! This messy, highly irregular biopolymer gives plants structural strength and helps protect their cell walls. #sciart #chemsky

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 15h

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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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 17h

Just over two weeks left to apply! I may be biased, but it’s hard to imagine a better place to do plant evolutionary biology.

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Michael Hickerson @hickerlab.bsky.social · 22h

How much of the tree of life did you eat? Phylodiet scores a meal by phylogenetic diversity: type what you ate and it builds the dated tree of the organisms in it, from ~3,300 edible eukaryotes, back 2 billion years. Last night's dinner, below. 🧵 mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc to help build tools for inferring complex speciation histories with genomic data. strong computational skills are a must, but this is a training opportunity. 60K$+ salary, 2 years, details flexible. please reach out! (and repost) ad here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/53150

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Postdoctoral Researcher

The Department of Ecology at Montana State University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Scholar as part of NSF-funded research on speciation under alternating cycles of gene flow and isolation (fundi...

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Ellen Leffler @ellenleffler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My department at University of Utah is recruiting new faculty, with "Human" and "Genetics" broadly defined. It is a fantastic place to start a lab, with collaboration, creativity and conviviality encouraged. Applications due Oct 16. Please share and apply! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 29/09/2026

On 28 September, a jet-powered drone slammed into the headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, killing at least two people and destroying a section of the historic building. scim.ag/3TsMg5M

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Russian drone kills at least two in Ukraine science academy attack

New underground labs are being built as war rages on

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

UConn EEB is hiring a tropical horticulturalist for our greenhouses! It's an awesome collection of both research+teaching/public display, and you get to work with pretty amazing folks (I may be biased). Job listing: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49... Closes 10/14! 🌴🌿🌵🌺

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UConn Careers | UConn Careers | University of Connecticut

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Linking genomic variation to floral trait adaptation across species boundaries #TansleyReview by Acoca-Pidolle et al. @carriewessi.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

Examples of floral trait divergences between sister species adapted to different pollination modes.

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Seth Finnegan @sethf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program is accepting applications until November 1. If you're a finishing Ph.D student or recent grad interested in coming to Berkeley to work on a project in paleobiology/paleoecology/geobiology please feel free to reach out! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/

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University of California | President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

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Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio · 29/09/2026

My group is recruiting a Ph.D student for Fall 2027! We're a friendly group of mathematically-minded and computationally-inspired biologists studying topics including social evolution, host-pathogen interactions, genetics, and demography. See vancleve.theoretical.bio for more info!

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van cleve research group

Van Cleve Research Group – theoretical evolution & ecology at the University of Kentucky

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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are recruiting at the assistant professor level ~ Ideal candidates have expertise in genomics and/or biochemistry, applying emerging experimental, computational, AI-driven methods to answer mechanistic questions in human health. Please share! First review 10/30. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07832

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Assistant Professor- Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

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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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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I believe that science derives its authority from…interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it. And it is time to formalize what this means, and which sorts of human judgment cannot (or should not) be offloaded to AI.”

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus: "If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?" I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication. undark.org/2026/09/25/o...

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AI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ Problem

Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New paper out with @kaylastoy.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We were driving over the I80 Sac-Davis causeway a few weeks ago when just in front a tomato truck's lower doors malfunctioned and thousands of tomatoes flooded the road. Luckily everyone was driving slowly but we did make gazpacho.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Free tomatoes - Road 29 and Highway 113 in Davis CA

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Regina Fairbanks @reginafairbanks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The fight isn't over yet! Please keep calling, emailing, and making your voices heard. Suggestions for action items can be found here - save-the-academy.org Ecologists, evolutionary biologists, botanists, etc - please distribute throughout your professional networks!

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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences

Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Early career faculty in Evolution? I would love to chat with you!

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We are excited to announce a new faculty position in AI for Biology at UC Berkeley. Please repost & share this opportunity with outstanding early-career researchers in your networks. Apply by Nov 9, 2026: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05560

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Assistant Professor - AI for Biology - Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Center for Computational Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 25/09/2026

FYI to everyone submitting this October NIH cycle You need to re-certify your ScienCV AFTER Sept 26 (tomorrow) for your application or it may not be accepted. Great timing!

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another day, another spate of ‘Vought the f###’ news

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Goooooood morning, pika fans It's September, and you know what that means! That's right, we are Making Hay, we are Perching On Rocks, we are Squeaking

An American Pika carrying a branch across rocky terrain

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

Am American Pika crouched on a rock at a 3/4 view towards the camera

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

An American Pika with a mouth full of dried vegetation sitting on a rock

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

An American Pika perched on a rock and calling

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone have recommendations for intro philosophy of science books (open to general science or biology specifically, and pop sci or technical)?

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Cedric Feschotte @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thrilled to see this published today! Truly special because we made the initial discovery >15 yrs ago! We found two copies of a human gene called BC200 embedded in a human poxvirus. BC200 blurs the line between gene & transposon—both functional & mutagenic! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/n

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Escape of the BC200 gene to a human poxvirus reveals its persistent transposition in primates

Transposable elements mobilize within and occasionally between genomes, including from host to virus. We identified two insertions of the human BC200 noncoding RNA gene in the poxvirus molluscum conta...

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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please repost/share We're hiring! UC Davis Plant Pathology seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in plant health & microbiomes. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904 My department is full of great colleagues, and we look forward to recruiting our new colleague!

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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Maya Voichek @mayavoichek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Super excited to share my postdoctoral work at @imbavienna.bsky.social @viennabiocenter.bsky.social - We discovered that some retrotransposons, or "jumping genes" 🧬, are able to spread from cell to cell via a new viral infectivity route. A short thread: 🧵👇 (1/7)

AI-generated illustration of the soma-to-germline transmission of retrotransposons described in our work

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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Science needs your voice! A proposed Executive Order could give the White House a role in reviewing NIH research grants. It's essential that you contact your elected representatives and ask them to: 👉 Keep NIH grant decisions grounded in scientific merit and expert review 1/3🧵⬇️

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Tanja Slotte @tanjaslotte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Interested in testing hypotheses on pollen evolution using genomic data? Apply for our open 4-year PhD student position at Stockholm University! Application via the SU website, deadline Oct 24, 2026. #evolution #pollen #pollinationmode #plants #genomics #RNAseq su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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Doktorand i ekologi och evolution

Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och botanik (DEEP) bedriver forskning och utbildning vid Arrheniuslaboratorierna på campus Frescati. Vi är cirka 100 medarbetare, inklusive doktorander och postdok

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please help spread the word! We are recruiting multiple Postdoctoral Fellows as part of the recently launched Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative (BCBI) at UC Berkeley and UCSF. BCBI website: bcbi.berkeley.edu Apply by Nov 1, 2026: berkeley.infoready4.com#freeformComp... (1/n)

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Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative | Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative

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