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Black Mammalogists Week @blackmammalogists.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Participation will enter you into #BMW2026 giveaways for numerous prizes! M: Predict which sponsor mammal will win in The Clash of the Sponsors! T: Share your mammal art! W: Share the interesting ways you've related to mammals! TH: Watch & ask ?s during the African filmmakers panel!

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Black Mammalogists Week @blackmammalogists.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And if you're in the LA region, be sure to join us at the first in-person event at @nhm.org! More panels, more in-person specific giveaways, more fun, more learning! Get excited! #BlackMammalogistsWeek2026

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Black Mammalogists Week @blackmammalogists.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#BMW2026RollCall: Alex Troutman! Alex Troutman @n8ture-al.bsky.social is a wildlife biologist & author. He has several years of experience in the field, working with various wildlife species. Find him here or on Instagram & twitter as @N8ture_AL. #BlackMammalogistsWeek2026 #BlackSky

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Black Mammalogists Week @blackmammalogists.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#BMW2026RollCall: Asia Murphy! Asia Murphy @am.anatiala.bsky.social uses fancy math to understand why wildlife is where it is, how much wildlife is there, and how the wildlife interacts with the other wildlife. Find her mainly on twitter @am_anatiala #BlackMammalogistsWeek2026 #BlackSky

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Black Mammalogists Week @blackmammalogists.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#BMW2026RollCall: Tommy Parker! Dr. Tommy Parker is an urban wildlife ecologist & J of Urban Ecology editor, applying artificial intelligence systems & quantitative models to study wildlife behavior & pop dynamics. Find him on twitter & Instagram @DrTommyP #BlackMammalogistsWeek2026 #BlackSky

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Black Mammalogists Week @blackmammalogists.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#BMW2026RollCall: Dr. Christine Wilkinson! @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social is a carnivore ecologist & NatGeo Explorer at @NHM.org & @calacademy.bsky.social where she works to promote human-wildlife coexistence. Insta @christine_eleanor & twitter @ScrapNaturalist #BlackMammalogistsWeek2026 #BlackSky

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Black Mammalogists Week @blackmammalogists.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#BMW2026RollCall: Liz Wahid! Liz Wahid @ornithart.bsky.social is a Certified Science Illustrator from NC focusing on ornithology & conservation. Her backgrounds in fine art, animal science, & zookeeping constantly inspire her current works. Twitter: @lizart217 #BlackMammalogistsWeek2026 #BlackSky

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Black Mammalogists Week @blackmammalogists.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#BMW2026RollCall: Cesar Estien! An ecologist at Second Nature Ecology + Design, Dr. Estien focuses on how inequity structures urban ecology & impacts people & wildlife. Cesar works with & alongside orgs & businesses to understand & manage their local ecology. #BlackMammalogistsWeek2026 #BlackSky

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Black Mammalogists Week @blackmammalogists.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#BMW2026RollCall: J. Sunny Murphy! Sunny studies the intersections of culture, ideology, legislation, economics & land use with canid ecology in the US. She aims to develop nonlethal adaptive management tech that is equitable across cultures & species. #BlackMammalogistsWeek2026 #BlackSky

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Black Mammalogists Week @blackmammalogists.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#BMW2026RollCall: Aalayna Green! Green studies the systemic & social processes of global conservation efforts, particularly in Southern Africa & their effects of these processes on security, governance, & advocacy. Insta: @aalayna.green twitter: @aalayna23 #BlackMammalogistsWeek2026 #BlackSky

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Black Mammalogists Week @blackmammalogists.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#BMW2026RollCall: Dr. Kendall Calhoun! @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social is an Asst Prof at the U of British Columbia. His research examines how altered fire regimes & natural disturbances impact wildlife & human-wildlife interactions. Insta & twitter: @kenleecalhoun #BlackMammalogistsWeek2026 #BlackSky

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social in an old mansion on Long Island is starting to book up! Registration is open until Nov 1 OR until we hit 200 registrants, so grab your spot before it's gone! www.amnat2027.org

amnat2027.org

ASN Stand Alone Meeting 2027

Jan 8-12 - Long Island, NY. Learn more about the conference and register here!

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Neil Tsutsui @neiltsutsui.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Only 3 more days to apply for our Assistant Professor in Arthropod Biodiversity position! The application deadline is October 9, 11:59pm! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05523

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant Professor - Arthropod Biodiversity - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And! There are 13 in California!

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Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Asian chipmunk is sister to eastern chipmunk & they're sister to western chipmunks. Don't have a great date for the split, a paper focused on western chipmunks estimated the split ~7mya, with huge error. Not entirely clear if they evolved in NA or Asia, but NA is most likely

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Sarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That time I put almost all the chipmunk species in the western USA on one map. Did you know there’s 1 species of chipmunk in Asia, 1 in eastern USA & >20 in western USA? (I’m not the crazy one here. The chipmunks are the crazy ones.)

Map of the western USA with 20 overlapping chipmunk species distributions in different colors.

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Megan Barkdull @meganbarkdull.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m really happy to share that my invited review on social insect genome evolution, co-authored with @corriemoreau.bsky.social, is out now in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social 🐝🐜 This is the paper I wish I’d had when studying for quals in grad school, and was a ton of fun to write.

Greyscale illustrations of eight social taxa: the wasp Parischnogaster nigricans; the bee Ceratina calcarata; the thrips Kladothrips; the aphid Pseudoregma bambucicola; the bee Austroplebeia cincta; the ambrosia beetle Austroplatypus incompertus; and the ants and termites.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the last couple of years, we've seen multiple critical collections (museums, herbaria) close. The IUCN--the global authority on the status of biodiversity--recently published on how important these kinds of facilities are in conservation. Every day, the dead are working to protect the living.

iucn.org

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Get ready for #BlackMammalogists Week 2026! Oct 11-17th. Lots of virtual opportunities plus our first in-person event on Oct 16 at @nhm.org ! 🎉

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Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It may be 100 degrees outside, but at least it's oat nog season?

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Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy Squirrel Awareness Month!!

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Mustelid Maven @mustelidmaven.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Does anyone know how I can donate a fairly advanced and fully functional Quantum 6 Edge motorized wheelchair? I have the charger, user’s manual, etc. I’m in western PA USA. #Disability ♿️👩‍🦼‍➡️ I’ve called around & either no one wants it or I don’t get a callback.

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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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Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Squirrel Awareness Month!!!! Meet this adorable Craters chipmunk I saw last week in Idaho.

Small chipmunk on the top of a pointed gray rock eating some vegetation.

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Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As of this writing, we have 3,725 premium subscribers. I'm hoping to get it to a clean 4,000 by the end of the year. If you can support us, please consider doing so! Thanks for listening. I hope you're well. hyperfixedpod.com/join

hyperfixedpod.com

Hyperfixed | Hyperfixed

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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My lab is hiring a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on machine learning, model misspecification, and population genetics! Flexible start-date! Learn more about the lab: smithlabbio.github.io Job Ad: explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job... Please reach out if you have any questions!

smithlabbio.github.io

The Smith Lab — Mississippi State University

The Smith Lab at Mississippi State University studies diversification using genomic data, with a focus on terrestrial snails and slugs.

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Andy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Student Collections Study Award for Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - next cycle of applications due October 1. Details at their website: nhm.org/student-coll... - the Alf Museum is also close by, so it's a good visit us, too, once you are in the area!

nhm.org

Student Collections Study Award

The NHM Collections Study Awards provide funding for undergraduate and graduate students to visit and study the collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the La Brea Tar Pits & ...

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Kinsey Brock @doc-brock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Any tips for getting Sceloporus occidentalis (Western Fence Lizards) to eat in captivity? 🦎🧪

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Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On another note, new parenting milestone achieved, I spilled margarita on the homework.

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Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Helping kid with homework. I kind of miss the old memorize multiplication tables way.

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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org · 12/09/2026

"As part of #NightTales, I worked with the NHM Entomology Department to photograph specimens from the museum’s collection, using colored light to transform them into images for the show," says Featured Artist Maggie West. — 🧵

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Doc Edge @docedge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Please repost: My department (quantitative and computational biology at the University of Southern California) is hiring a teaching-track faculty member. The new hire will focus on teaching statistics courses to biology students. Apply by Dec 1 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

usccareers.usc.edu

Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC

Learn more about applying for Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC

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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

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Don’t miss your chance to apply to join the SSE Graduate Student Advisory Committee! GSAC represents student and postdoc interests to the SSE Council and facilitates interactions among students, postdocs, and mentors. Deadline: Sept. 15! shorturl.at/PfMJn @ssegrad.bsky.social

The 2026 GSAC members at the Evolution meeting.

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The Society of Systematic Biologists @systbiol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We’re aware that there are some issues with the member portal on our site. Thanks for your patience while we hunt down the issue with our host. In the meantime if you need anything, feel free to email info@systematicbiologists.org if you need member services and we’ll get you sorted

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American Society of Mammalogists @mammalogists.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A reminder that the Black and Indigenous Scholars Award in Mammalogy is now accepting applications for awards of up to $1500 to support the further development of mammalogy by Black/African American, African, and Indigenous individuals. www.mammalsociety.org/form/black-i...

mammalsociety.org

Black and Indigenous Scholars Award in Mammalogy | American Society of Mammalogists

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Funds to support student research! October 1 deadline for @nhm.org Student Collections Study Award. Get $$ for travel expenses to collect data in our collections. Open to: - current undergrad & grad students - *not* local to Los Angeles (international applicants welcome) nhm.org/student-coll...

nhm.org

Student Collections Study Award

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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org · 05/09/2026

Voyage alongside Dr. Tania Pineda-Enriquez, Collections Manager of Echinoderms, who recently returned from an epic expedition to document sea creatures inhabiting one of the most remote places on Earth—Antarctica: go.nhm.org/antarctic-ex...

Dr. Tania Pineda-Enriquez, Collections Manager of Echinoderms, photographed on a 2026 expedition in Antarctica.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe

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UCSF PROPEL @ucsf-propel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Are you applying to graduate school this cycle? PROPEL has a series of workshops dedicated to helping you with this process!

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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm excited to release the newest version of my free applied biostats textbook. It's tidyverse style, clarkia inspired and loads of fun Im putting this down until the end of the semester, when I'll add and polish additional chapters, but the 1st 21 are pretty solid yanivjb.github.io/biostats-book

yanivjb.github.io

Applied Biostatistics

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Eric Schuettpelz @ferncurator.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) is now accepting applications, with a deadline of 15 October. This includes the Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

fellowships.si.edu

Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP)

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Todd Clardy @realfishdoc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A few weeks ago, I ct scanned the rarest fish in the world. This species was described from this single individual, and no other individuals have been collected. Starting Sunday, I'll be segmenting its skeletal system and describing its osteology, and streaming it all live on Twitch! Join me!

youtu.be

Meet the rarest fish in the world!

YouTube video by RealFishDoc

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William B. Ludt, PhD @planet-of-fishes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We're hiring a Curator of Marine Invertebrates either at the Assistant or Associate level. Please spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested. Applications due October 15th! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

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Recruitment

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William B. Ludt, PhD @planet-of-fishes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The NHMLA is hiring an Assistant Collections Manager for updating our frozen tissues collection to liquid nitrogen storage. This position is grant-funded for 3 years. I'm a bit late on posting this, but there is still one week left to apply! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

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Recruitment

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