iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 1h

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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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Applications are now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend the 2027 Evolution meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico! Funds cover registration, travel, meals, and lodging. Submit your application by 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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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never trust the GUI, only command line

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ANSP 22341, an unassuming slab from the Famennian Catskill Formation with portions of a few articulated lobe-finned fishes (Holoptychius) and a placoderm (Bothriolepis). Special to me as the first fossil I found to end up in a museum, collected during the first summer of my PhD. #FossilFriday

Red siltstone block containing blue-to-brown fish remains, including areas of articulated scales, fins, and skull bones. A collection label is on top of the specimen.

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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Need the hive mind I am a sponsoring scientist on an NSF PRFB proposal but as incoming faculty I have no current or pending grants yet; sponsoring scientists should not include the PRFB proposal in their C&P. in SciENcv, the Download PDF button is disabled/greyed out when no C&P is entered. Ideas?

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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I guess Michigan wasn't quite done with me yet

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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

lmao they decided this about 15 years ago.

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I was very pleased to review @stevebrusatte.bsky.social's new book "The Story of Birds" for @journal-evo.bsky.social. Thanks to @wtf-r-species.bsky.social for the invitation! doi.org/10.1093/evol...

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Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You look at this and think AI took an artist's job; I look at this and think AI took the CEO's job.

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Astounding find of a thylacine head bought for £25, sold for £62,000 to private natural history collection-- www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'I saved an extinct Tasmian Tiger's head from obscurity'

James Cranfield knew an "antique fox head" up for auction was something much more special.

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Santiago Claramunt @sclaramunt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Trying some techniques to measure wings on live birds. #NeotropicalBirds #morphometrics #Choco #Ornithology

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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Also, incorrect use of apostrophe.

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on an NSF-funded project developing new models of trait evolution for phylogenetic comparative methods! Info about the lab here: mhibbins.github.io Applications to our grad program are due December 1. Please share!

mhibbins.github.io

Hibbins Lab

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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 09/08/2026

Another good occasion to repeat that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was founded when Caltech administration found out grad students were messing around with hydrazine on campus. "Hey, we know this whole rocket thing is important but maybe blow up this barn in the hills and not your dorm"

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

many professors are calling it 'the least surprising result of all time'

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We're hiring an ecologist at UC Berkeley! The Dept. of Integrative Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ecology. Plants/algae, invertebrates, microbes, or marine systems a priority. Come join us!! Apply by Oct 5, 2026. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489 PS: Please share!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We are on the verge of a climatic upheaval greater than any of us can imagine. Global leaders and media aren't paying attention. They are focused on a series of self-inflicted crises that have left us dangerously vulnerable and totally unprepared. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/what-keeps...

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What Keeps Me Up at Night

Rising temperatures in the Pacific will blow away any previous “Super” El Niño by a “truly mind-blowing margin.” - Zeke Hausfather

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

NSF grantmaking update Two weeks ago (7/19) New grants: 2850/6397 — 44.6% of avg. Obligations: 3/4.04 billion — 74.3% of avg. Now (8/4) New grants: 4310/7761 — 55.5% of avg. Obligations: 4.10/5.08 billion — 80.7% of avg.

Plot of cumulative new NSF grants from FY21–26

Plot of cumulative NSF obligations from FY21–26

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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It's been real @umich.edu 11/11/19-08/09/26 I'm out.

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.

Interested in Polyploidy and Population Genetics?

Florida State University, Join the Gaynor Lab. My lab is open to both Ph.D. and master students through the Ecology and Evolution area in Biological Sciences at FSU - applications are due December 1st!
I also have funding to support a postdoctoral researcher and a technician during my first three years at FSU. The postdoctoral researcher will focus on polyploidy population genomics. The technician will help with lab work including flow cytometry for genome size estimation and DNA sequencing preparation.

If you are interested in joining the lab, please send me an email with a CV/resume and a brief explanation of your research interests and your career goals

Find out more at mlgaynor.com and email me at shellyleegaynor at gmail.com

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Priscilla Lau @prilau.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Our paper (also, my first first-author paper) is now available in MEE early view! In this study, we introduced a state-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model we implemented in RevBayes to test adaptive hypotheses in macroevolution. (1/3) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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An efficient Bayesian phylogenetic approach for joint inference of continuous and discrete trait evolution under a state‐dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model

Macroevolutionary adaptation of a continuous trait to different discrete states across species can be modelled using a phylogenetic state-dependent Ornstein–Uhlenbeck (OU) process. Existing infere...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 30/07/2026

"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury." In this Working Life, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. scim.ag/46uBWgD #InternationalDayOfFriendship

A conceputal illustration of multiple people looking to center, with conversation bubbles with baby and academic related drawings inside. Text reads: As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone

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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Jurassic Park Dinosaur Encounter

ALT: Jurassic Park Dinosaur Encounter

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 30/07/2026

This is Fenrir. He has not yet been successful in cuddling with the cat. But thinks if he goes slow enough she might not notice. 13/10 (IG: fenrirfanclub)

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 28/07/2026

We only rate dogs. This is a very fast tater tot. Please stay out of the way as he clearly has places to be, and only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: choppertp)

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Two tenured, mid-career positions available in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan: Climate-Driven Hazards and Earth Surface Dynamics. Applications due Aug. 15th: lsa.umich.edu/earth/about-...

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Job Postings | U-M LSA Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is what happens when you replace experts with techbros using AI. It’s insulting, embarrassing, and massively damaging to US reputation capital.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The New York Times wouldn't let me write about the Age of Diarrhea so I had to do it myself.

stringinamaze.net

Welcome to the Age of Diarrhea

The future is not knowing what ails you

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 27/07/2026

This is Sampson. He's about to get hit with a vicious draw 2. Has no idea. Poor fella. 12/10

a black and tan long-haired dachshund is sitting in a dining chair across a wooden table from the camera. the dog's chin barely reaches over the top of the table. both the photographer and the dog have uno cards raised in front of them and are analyzing their hands. there's a red draw 2 card that's slightly raised in the photographer's hand.

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Perseverance Image Bot 📡 @persevereimgbot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sol 1931: Front Right Hazard Avoidance Camera (Hazcam), taken at 15:50:43.718 (local mean solar time)

An image taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds. Here is my contribution of a Puffin holdings a bill full of Sandeels ready to feed a hungry youngster #SuperSeabirdSunday

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.

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‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)

A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ingenuity | SuperCam | Sol 879 - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2pzv1ty

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/Simeon Schmauß

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