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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Listen to the sounds of insects from 165 million years ago. Using what they know about current-day insect vocalizations, a team of scientists created a Middle Jurassic soundscape. They analyzed fossilized insects and used AI to extrapolate how their ancient wings might sound if rubbed together.

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

I guess I should re-post from the Bird Site "The Rules For Academic Success here": I always get asked for advice about starting/surviving the tenure track. Here are the rules I've found useful. Thought I'd put it out there for the masses... This list gets longer all the time

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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!

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Hibbins Lab

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I want the world, but especially Americans to understand the absolute enormity of the sin against humanity that this administration has wrought through their cuts to NIH, NSF, CDC, FDA, and USAID.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Angry. Angry at the needless losses to science, to America, to the world. Angry at the profound, arrogant ignorance. Angry at the individual pain and losses. Angry at the absolute enormity of the human cost, not just in future losses, but immediate deaths and suffering.

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

ICYMI bsky.app/profile/matt...

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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

PI life is all about deciding which thing you want to fall behind on this week

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New preprint: 338 coleopteran genomes reveal exceptional rearrangement variation compared to other insect orders. Big congrats to @arf-mln.bsky.social, for getting this giant piece together. Big collaboration of @joanameier.bsky.social's and my groups. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...

Phylogeny of 338 species with tips painted by the chromosomal ancestry of their contemporary genomes (well separated colours indicate only few changes, while blending indicates rearrangements). Colouring of the branches is by the number of rearrangements. The ring between paints and phylogeny indicates wether the chromosomal rearrangement was fusion dominated (brown) or fission dominated (teal) process.
Photo credits: Udo Schmidt, Lech Borowiec, JL Tachet, David Navrátil, Fred Chevaillot, Siga, Cosmin Manci, John Hallmén, Igor Souza-Gonçalves, Alex Hyde, H. Coiffait, David Ignace, Yves Bousquet.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

or, hear me out: we could fund public universities and have free tuition.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Also true if you're a geneticist.

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Tree of Sex @treeofsex.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As everyone's winding down on #evol2026 we want to share our survey link with you again. Whether you work in reproductive biology specifically or not, please take a minute to help us understand how the scientific community uses reproductive terms in research! And hope to see you at #SMBE!

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Megan Smith @snaildit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The lab is en route to #Evol2026! We’ve got several talks:

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

#SMBE2026 S09: New frontiers in sex evolution: evolutionary patterns and innovations 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 10:20am - Part 1 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 1:20pm - Part 2 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

SMBE2026 | New frontiers in sex evolution: evolutionary patterns and innovations

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KamilSJaron.bsky.social @kamilsjaron.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A big preprint from my group! Muller Elements are considered to be conserved in flies. We tested it by reconstructing the ancestral dipteran karyotype using 340 chromosomal genomes and suprise suprise, they're not... Led by @juliagries.bsky.social and Sam Ebdon. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵👇

Schema of three major chromosomal rearrangements leading to Muller Elements of Drosophila melanogaster since the common ancestor of Diptera.

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Dr. Carly Kenkel @drcarl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

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Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

NYT: "no one has ever thought of teaching ranching at university" Every ag school: um, would you like to meet our cows NYT: "No, not like that. More romantic. More dilletante. Ugh, we're not /farmers/."

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/05/2026

"If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lower your expectations for fairness before you read through the comments." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...

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Reviewing Course Evaluations: The Drinking Game

“If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lo...

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Dan Schrider @samurscicop.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Please circulate: I will have a postdoc opening soon, ideally with a start date sometime this summer or fall. If you're interested in empirical population genetics, computational methods development, and/or evolutionary modeling via simulation, don't hesitate to reach out. For more info on the lab:

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Melissa Toups @meltoups.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

My kindergartener’s school was threatened Thursday. My sweet 6 year old was huddled in behind her teacher’s desk with her friends trying not to make noise. The same day, an instructor at her dance school was murdered in a mass shooting.

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A reminder to all that Early Bird Registration for the Evolution conference (SSE, ASN, SSB societies) is still an option today or tomorrow. Prices go up after Apr 15. www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration... I hope to see a number of you in Cleveland this year.

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Evolution 2025 Registration

Evolution 2025 - the joint conference of the SSE, ASN, and SSB

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Ina Huylmans @ahuylmans.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Applications for our international Master‘s programme in Evolutionary Biology open again soon! We offer teaching and exciting research in molecular and experimental evolution, behaviour, ecology to genomics, bioinformatics and modelling. Come join us at JGU Mainz!

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cfraisserios.bsky.social @cfraisserios.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We are offering a fully funded two-year postdoctoral position focused on sex chromosome evolution and speciation in the *Jaera albifrons* species complex. Please find the advertisement attached. We welcome applications from interested candidates. Join us :-)

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Aline Muyle @aline-muyle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961

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Post doc position in Evolutionary biology and bioinformatics

- work environment: This postdoctoral position will be supervised by Aline Muyle and hosted at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), within the CHANGE department and the Plant ...

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Out with the Old: Contrasting Histone Marks are Associated with Dosage Compensation on the Ancient and New Z of a Moth with Complex Sex Chromosomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

good to see Marcus Freeman on hand to check out the state of Indiana's premier football program

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 12/01/2026

One day, I would love to edit a book with us all sharing anonymous short stories from faculty interview visits. Everyone except white men. (This request brought to you by my faculty field tour w/dozens of new faculty, when the men were like WAIT WHAT HAPPENED AT YOUR INTERVIEW??)

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Are you an undergrad interested in ecology, evolution or related fields? Apply by January 20 for our Undergraduate Community at Evolution program! This program provides funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, Society of Systematic Biologists, Undergraduate Community at Evolution Program. Applications due January 20, 2026.

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Non-canonical sex chromosome evolution revealed by extreme heterogeneity in homomorphic Y chromosome differentiation in the common frog www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Randall Smith @rksmith.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Advice I now give to grad students and postdocs in the sciences: Don’t just try to meet and impress senior scientists. They’ll retire soon. Get to know your fellow students - make friends where possible, be colleagues at least. These are the people you’ll be sharing the field with for decades.

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Come learn with us! #REU!

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Laura K Hayward @lkhayward.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Why do males and females often differ in traits? The expected answer: selection. But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same

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Camille Roux @crouxevo.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Join us! 👇

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Zhou Qi @zhouqi1982.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

new work from the lab. Degeneration of Y chromosome does not seem to be one-way street. As a refugium of transposons @Alex Suh @valentinapeona.bsky.social , Y chromosome can recruit some genes by accidental TE burst: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1673852725002243

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Gene traffic mediated by transposable elements shaped the dynamic evolution of ancient sex chromosomes of varanid lizard

Lizards usually exhibit frequent turnovers and a much greater diversity of sex determination mechanisms compared to birds and mammals, with the conser…

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