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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

💬 In the latest Evolution Exchange, SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom talks with Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield and Dr. Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos about doing a PhD or postdoc abroad. www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @dortizba.bsky.social @gbaucom.bsky.social

Headshots of Dr. Krueger-Hadfield and Dr. Ortiz-Barrientos. Text: What Nobody Tells You About Doing Your PhD Abroad with Dr. Stacy A. Krueger-Hadfield and Dr. Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos. The Evolution Exchange, a monthly conversation series from the Society for the Study of Evolution.

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Charles C Roseman @evoroseman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

…was already in a weakened state from a history of fractiousness and lack of intellectual cohesion. So long as academia is ruled by neoliberal managerialists, we can expect the same problems to arise in other departments.18/18

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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Interdisciplinary research is great and necessary, and also has consistently lower funding success www.nature.com/articles/nat... #academiclabourmarket #academia #research

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2

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Mauricio González-Forero @mauriciogforero.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A key but hardly discussed issue in academia is the rate of production of PhDs. Faculty are recruited and promoted depending on their ability to produce PhD students, necessarily incentivising PhD overproduction. Can the rate of production of PhDs be managed? bsky.app/profile/rebe...

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📜 Out now: ‘Towards a genetics of mental disorders as complex dynamical systems’ After 2 years of work with @michelnivard.bsky.social & @ludvigdb.bsky.social We outline a roadmap to align behavioural genetics with novel dynamic theories of mental disorders A thread 🧵 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

So math should start rewarding identification of interesting problems much more.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's hard to interpret OpenAI burning through $24 million of compute just to make sure the other guys don't get there first as anything other than a giant middle finger to the mathematical community

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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

New tutorial preprint about simulation-based inference! Shows how to fit a cultural evo model to baby name data using approx Bayesian computation, random forests, and deep learning. Wrote for @eslr.bsky.social but wanted to share with others in @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social! :) osf.io/preprints/so...

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Thom Scott-Phillips @thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My pet theory is that researchers have incentives to view those with overlapping/nearly agendas as kindly as possible. These are the people reviewing your grants & papers One upshot of this is that ppl have nothing to gain and much to lose by publicly saying that the emperor has no clothes

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Mauricio González-Forero @mauriciogforero.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fully agree. We’re falsely told that precarious, low paid jobs promote productivity in academia and that taxing wealth and limiting CEOs salaries stifles innovation. Both can’t be true and surely neither is. bsky.app/profile/vive...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning

Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Re-upping this for the morning crowd. Already almost as many signatures as the other letter, in just half a day

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is an incomplete understanding of academic freedom, and partly confuses academic freedom with freedom of speech. (🧵 adapting some things from this paper, esp. §5: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28499/. Highly recommend the papers by Dea and Kronfeldner that I cite there!)

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Also worth noting how many of the signatories of the letter defending Cofnas call themselves evolutionary psychologists, including those with gatekeeping roles or large public platforms. Concerning to have the discipline represented by those who, at very best, misunderstand academic freedom

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Statement in support of Nathan Cofnas.pdf

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Mauricio González-Forero @mauriciogforero.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Updated preprint: “A mathematical synthesis of genetics, development, and evolution”. Much of our understanding of phenotypic evolution relies on quantitative genetics, which in turn relies on what is known as the infinitesimal model. Thread. 1/10 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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A mathematical synthesis of genetics, development, and evolution

Mathematically integrating genetics, development, and evolution is a longstanding challenge. A prevalent approach is quantitative genetics underpinned by the infinitesimal model, which considers a sim...

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Mohammed Khallaf @khallaf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Our new paper is out in @nature.com! We uncovered how a naked mole-rat queen 👑 controls an entire colony: a natural contraceptive scent that suppresses reproduction in other females! A remarkable mammalian parallel to bees and ants! 🐝🐜 @garyrlewin.bsky.social youtu.be/enfv3zJrWKM?...

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Naked mole-rats are ruled by a queen: this chemical puts her in power

YouTube video by nature video

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Jun Ishigohoka @junishigohoka.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#SMBE2026 I will talk about **evolutionary roles of non-genetic variation**. If you care about expression noise, developmental instability, microenv. variance, or selection experiments (or if you don't believe in genetic determinism), come join me in S20 "mapping fitness landscapes" (17:30, Pjerrot)

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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

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This campaign needs you now

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Jitka Polechová @polejit.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Are you looking for a PhD on the intersection between evolutionary and ecological theory? Join us @univie. Fully funded PhD position in fundamental eco-evolutionary theory, open to international students. Apply by 13.7.2026: ecoevo.owlstown.net/search Reposting appreciated. #evolbio #evoeco #ecology

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Jitka's EcoEvo Lab - Jobs

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Vicky C Yang @vcyang.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Between 1985--2023, MIT's faculty grew 9%. Administrative staff grew 189%. 📈 Why? In new @pnas.org paper, we use dynamical system model to show administrative bloat can emerge without empire-building--just from well-intentioned problem-solving gone awry www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Is this the future of peer review? New from @biologyopen.bsky.social: expanded Fast & Fair trial paying reviewers £220 per paper The result: rapid peer review with no drop in quality or change in acceptance rate Paying referees makes peer review faster & fairer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Tips for becoming a better mentor/supervisor, based on survey of 2,600 early-career researchers; eg. regular meetings are super-important Includes tips for institutions and funding bodies to promote good supervision doi.org/10.64898/202... #AcademicSky HT @science.org

What hurts, what helps: mental health in supervisor - ECR relations. Perceived impact of supervisor behavior on mental health and frequency of particular behaviors.

A) Overall perceived impact of supervisors’ behavior on respondents’ mental health. B) Percentage of respondents reporting specific supervisor behaviors with a negative impact. C) Percentage of respondents reporting specific supervisor behaviors with a positive impact. Respondents selected their top three behaviors each category (positive or negative).

Communication as a core element of supervision. Perceived value, quantity, and quality of supervisory meetings.

Bars show respondents’ ratings of A) the importance of regular meetings, B) their frequency, and C) the perceived usefulness of meetings.

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Alain Goriely @alaingoriely.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I am looking for a Post-doc in Oxford to work with me on morphogenesis at the cellular scale, with particular emphasis on growth processes and their mechanical and dynamical consequences. Please circulate my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... This bristle is created by a single cell! Let's model it.

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

And it also feels a bit of a middle finger to all the ECRs who put all that work in to their Outline applications. Feels like such a brutal time to be a postdoc, ECR, and aspiring fellow. Find it hard to know how we can help and fix it.

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 12/05/2026

Truly horrendous, but important reading. Amazingly telling that this is filed under the “Opinion” section.

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Jitka Polechová @polejit.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

New #ecoevo paper @pnas.org: Evolution of species’ range and niche in changing environments. I show that feedback between evolutionary and population dynamics can create a tipping point where genetic variance erodes, and species’ ranges contract or fragment www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #popgen 🧬🧪 🌎

Drawing shows a group of chimeric species at the center, from which three spirals of diversity loss lead to a single form: a bird, a fish, or a fox. Image credit: Tereza Nekovarova.

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Liz Carolan @lizcarolan.com · 08/05/2026

Crucial point by John Curtis on BBC - Councils flipping from Labour to Reform are because Labour are losing **to the left**, & Cons to Reform Chasing Reform failed Labour; they lost the base & didn’t convince many on the right (Failed Tories too) Watch everyone learn the wrong lesson anyway

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The normative fraud that Errington describes is something I've seen my whole career. A biologist once told me, if p is very small, it can't be a false positive. Teams condition on null being false, see anything that makes p small as truth-seeking. These traditions spread bc they get you published.

still from quoted video with caption "It's a norm in the field." Where "it" in context means data fraud.

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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 01/05/2026

Just had a paper desk-rejected by an editor on the grounds that it's identical to a previous paper I've published. Except the previous paper doesn't exist. I sure hope editors aren't using chat GPT to screen papers, or we all may as well give up.

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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Luck and Predictability in the Life Course

There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New Pre-Print Alert! Evolving initial conditions: an alternative developmental route to morphological diversity with Shannon Taylor and @jamesehammond.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

„The only remaining way to mitigate this situation is to reduce the number of applications.“ They’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas? Whether this is good or bad, it is unjustified. There is no impact analysis, no engagement with research on funding procedures. Government by vibes

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books

Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The governing body for 14 Dutch universities (UNL) has published a "Vision on Publication Culture" that is so inspiring and forward thinking. Worth a read for those trying to changes publishing and research assessment practices. Take a read: www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/files/public...

Screen shot of section 1.1 of the report "vision for a new publication culture"

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🗓️Next Tuesday our seminar speaker will be Andrea Tabi (ICM-CSIC, Spain) @andreatabi.bsky.social, presenting: ⭐Stochastic Origins of Metabolic Scaling Laws⭐ Zoom Link: iite.info/seminar/ Global Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... Fully free and open to all - see you there!

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I’m not sure if I ever shared on Bluesky this article we wrote on how almost everyone giving career advice is susceptible to survivorship bias, but I think it was good and you should read it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Beware survivorship bias in advice on science careers

For objective careers advice, talk to those who left science as well as those who stayed.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Once again reminding all academics in the UK that they really, really, really, really should sign up to @alcs.co.uk Lifetime membership is £36 and they take it out of the money they collect for you so it really is "free money". I'm getting a little over £100 *every year*. Do it!

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

In academia, we're good at talking about successes, but sweep unfunded grants & unsuccessful job apps under the rug. It can be a tough road, filled w/ failure* For anyone discouraged about the process, here's my failure CV #AcademicSky 🧪 *None are really failures if you learn from them

A CV of grants that were not funded and jobs applied for but not offered

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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Interested in the Big Questions of human evolution, culture and society? In the Vienna area? Come join my colloquium at the Konrad Lorenz Institute on March 26 at 15:00. I will be speaking on: The Science of an Evolutionary Transition in Humans kli.ac.at/en/events/ev... Also online.

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Events | Event Calendar | Discover The KLI

The Konrad Lorenz Institute provides a stimulating and creative environment for fellows, visiting scholars, students, and external faculty.

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Nora Martin @n-martin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

New group website: www.noramartin-lab.com Get in touch if you are interested in joining the group, or know anyone who might be 📮

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HOME | Martin Lab

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Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

My colleague, Charles Perreault, has published cool new paper documenting impact of culture on human capacity for adaptation: http//www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2523038123

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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