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Orlando Schwery

@oschwery.bsky.social
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Research Scientist @Zenil-Ferguson Lab, UKY. Macroevolution, Phylogenetics, Diversification, Model Adequacy, Causal Inference, Dung Beetles, Ericaceae. 🇨🇭 in 🇺🇸 Opinions=own. He/him Mastodon: @oschwery@ecoevo.social, X: orlando_schwery oschwery.github.io

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Peter Beerli @peterbeerli.bsky.social · 6h
Application is open for for the Molecular Evolution Workshop at the MBL in Woods Hole (May 22- June 1) www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
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Workshop on Molecular Evolution | Marine Biological Laboratory
The workshop serves graduate students, postdocs, and established faculty from around the world seeking to apply the principles of molecular evolution to questions of anthropology, conservation genetic...
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 17h
Come see @oupaleobiology.bsky.social graduate students Alysha Zazubec (Cole lab) and Kiera Crowley (Wright lab) present their poster describing new fossil crinoids from the Ordovician of Anticosti Island!
Two people standing in front of a poster with photos of crinoids
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Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Your regular reminder to not publish or review for MDPI, what is this hot garbage of a figure. Drosophila and Nasonia are mixed up, and the photo of B. kinseyi is MY PHOTO of Eupelmus parasitoid that I reared out of B. kinseyi gall, instead of the inducer. Thanks for lifting and not crediting me?
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I'm excited. Five more days until this job closes. Come do plant evolution here at Davis! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777?utm...
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EVE Plant Evolutionary Biology Assistant Professor
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Exciting news! We here at the LSU Museum of Natural Science @lsumns.bsky.social and Dept. of Biological Sciences are looking for Curator and Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Paleobiology! Come work with us! We are fun, supportive and active! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
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Assistant Professor
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Jhan C. Salazar, PhD @jhancsalazar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In our latest manuscript, my coauthors and I wanted to test two ideas: (1) anoles colonized mountains repeatedly and independently, and (2) highland lineages evolve faster than lowland ones. (1/6) doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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Repeated evolution of high-elevation occupation in tropical lizards
Abstract. Since Darwin and Humboldt, researchers have sought to understand how species adapt to elevation. Although tropical reptiles are typically most di
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Pravrutha Raman @pravrutharaman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Now that we have moved coasts, I am thrilled to share that the ChromEvo (Raman) lab is officially open at UMass Boston 🎉 We ask how CHROMatin EVOlution leads to functional innovation and we are hiring at multiple levels. Read on and share with folks who maybe interested chromevoramanlab.github.io
The logo with a phylogenetic tree, a budding yeast, a fly and a nucleosome that has Raman lab Chrom Evo written in the middle
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ching-hochang.bsky.social @ching-hochang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Now, the next chapter! Our lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, is fully up and running. We are actively recruiting passionate researchers at all levels to tackle bold ideas in cell biology, chromosome architecture, and evolution: sites.google.com/view/ecg-lab...
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ECG LAB
"The only constant in life is change." — Heraclitus Genetic conflicts — the good, the bad, and the ugly — shape our lives over time We aim to understand why even the most essential genes and chrom...
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Recruiting students to your Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD program? Make sure your stipend information is up-to-date in the Biology PhD Stipend database: mlgaynor.com/BiologyPhDSt...
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Biology PhD Stipends
Biology Ph.D. stipend database with live summaries from the shared Google Sheet.
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Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 05/10/2026
Dipping my toes into some new stuff, and my first manuscript as last author! Huge effort by my great friend Edu, with great input from Ayumi and Santiago
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.
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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I modified my rnsf #rstats package so now it's easy to install (piggyback package helps with the large cache). Has public info on all NSF grants since 1960. remotes::install_github("bomeara/rnsf") bomeara.github.io/rnsf/index.html Bergograms by region, grant change by state, subject changes, etc
Bergogram (line plot by day of year) of number of awards by region in each of the past few years versus past years. All regions had declines, though the South fared better than the others.Plot of change of funding per state. A few states have experienced an increase but most have experienced substantial decreases.Line plot of grants awarded per day this year and past years. We are entering what historically has been a fallow period.
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Orlando Schwery @oschwery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Either directly on the rack or on one of those round pizza sheets with holes (called perforated pizza pan or crisper pan)
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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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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Faculty curator position in vertebrate paleontology! Great opportunity to work with outstanding colleagues at LSUMNS: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...
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Assistant Professor
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Lindsey Swierk @lindseyswierk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🦎*Please share!*🦎 Review begins Oct 5. The Swierk Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 27 / Spr 28 to study Neotropical anole 1) body coloration and visual signals or 2) predator avoidance, diving, and respiration. Please contact only by email. Details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC...
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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're submitting a reference letter for a PRFB, I was surprised to not see any option for deleting and reuploading, which contradicts the info provided in the email requesting it. In fact, as soon as you select the file it is uploaded and you can't change it. Was fine for me, but beware.
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Joseph W. BRRRAAAIIINNNSSS @josephwb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Early-diverging lineages provide little information about ancestors academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... From @phylieu.bsky.social @sinkingdiatom.bsky.social @omearabrian.bsky.social
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Early-diverging lineages provide little information about ancestors
Abstract. Large phylogenetic trees are often unbalanced near the root, with a species-depauperate lineage sister to a far more species-rich clade. The spec
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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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ukybiology.bsky.social @ukybiology.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New pub by PhD candidate Kimberly Cook! Missing the mammals for the trees: comparative biogeography of southern Appalachian sky island biodiversity academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...
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Missing the mammals for the trees: comparative biogeography of southern Appalachian sky island biodiversity
On southern Appalachian mountaintops, pairwise comparisons between SFB forest and 10 small mammal species reveal discongruence between sky island habitat a
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Curator job at the ROM for an athropod specialist!
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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...
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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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Kory Evans Ph.D @sternarchella.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really excited to share our latest paper with you! We examine patterns of skull shape evolution in an awesome group of fishes and show that they rapidly innovated following the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Selection, constraints, and contingency drive mosaic patterns of evolution during the carangarian adaptive radiation
Adaptive radiations generate remarkable morphological diversity, yet traits often diversify at different rates and modes, producing mosaic patterns of evolution. Modularity, the semiautonomous organization of traits, can shape how selection and ...
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Emily Troyer @fishfetisher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hey, it's me
A photo of me smiling. Text says: Meet Our Newest Collection Curator:
Dr. Emily Troyer, Ichthyology
The Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is excited to welcome Dr. Emily Troyer as the Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator of Fishes for its extensive ichthyology collection. Dr. Troyer’s research explores broad evolutionary patterns of biological diversity, with an emphasis on the environmental, genomic and morphological factors which constrain or promote the diversification of fishes throughout the history of life on Earth. Outside of museum work, Troyer’s hobbies include fish keeping, reading, exploring nature, horror films and developing an expansive collection of novelty t-shirts.
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Paleobiology Research Group at OU @oupaleobiology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Happy to welcome @fishfetisher.bsky.social, our new curator of fishes here at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History! 🐟🐠🧬
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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
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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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Susanne Fritz, who is great, is advertising a macroevolution/macroecology/biogeography postdoc at iDiv in Leipzig: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/c...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Macroevolution and Macroecology
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Maria Akopyan, PhD @akopyan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📣 I'm recruiting PhD students to join the Akopyan Lab at Rice University! If you're passionate about evolutionary genomics, I'd love to hear from you. Details: akopyanlab.org/opportunities Please share widely! 🙏
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Opportunities
We are recruiting PhD students in Evolutionary Genomics for Fall 2027 at Rice University!  Projects in the lab include investigating the causes and consequences of recombination rate variation, the...
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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David Maddison @bembidion.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Tree of Life Web Project is back online! tolweb.org Thanks to Travis Wheeler (@wheelerlab.org), Danny Mandel, and Andrew Lenards, the original programmers for ToLWeb, for retooling the code to work on a modern OS! It is hard for me to believe it lives again.
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Tree of Life Web Project
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Nico Mongiardino Koch @nmkphylo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The PROGressive PHYLOgenetics LAB is now officially open and I'm looking to hire at all levels!! If you are interested in phylogenetics and macroevolution, and enjoy any/all of the following: fossils, morphology, genomics, simulations, or method development, please reach out to me :)
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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Applications for the 2027 summer school on Computational Molecular Evolution on Crete are now open at: meetings.embo.org/event/27-com... Strict Application Deadline: November 2
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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Do you like snailfishes? lumpsuckers? clingfishes? New phylogeny dropped, and to toot our own horn it's really good! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
new phylogeny including snailfishes, lumpsuckers, rock-climbing gobies, and clingfishes showing forms of pelvic suction disc evolution
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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Interpreting Biotic Interactions in the Fossil Record: Evidence and Evolutionary Significance #paleobiology #paleobiology #fossils #ecology #evolution #EarthHistory #biodiversity
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Interpreting Biotic Interactions in the Fossil Record: Evidence and Evolutionary Significance
Fossil biotic interactions (fBIs) provide a critical but underutilized window into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of life through time. Unlike modern ecological data, the fossil record captu...
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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.
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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)
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Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book
Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.
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Anya Auerbach @aauerbach.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey paleo friends, looking for paper recs (for my macroevolution senior seminar)! Topic is currently labeled as “deep time, fossils, taphonomy”. I’d ideally like a research paper that will expose my students to some “typical” paleobio research, but include discussion of biases in the fossil record.
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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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Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am looking for potential candidates interested in applying for an external postdoctoral fellowship in my lab at Uppsala University. If you want to work on buzz pollination please get in touch. Reach me by email. More about our current work here: plant-evolution.org/wp/
Buzz pollinating beeThe Gustavianum museum at Uppsala
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Emma-Liina Marjakangas @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📢 Postdoc opportunity in interaction networks under global change @ University of Helsinki! The position includes leading fieldwork & analyses on seed dispersal networks & mentoring junior researchers. Apply by 30 Sept: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #Postdoc #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation
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Lindsey Swierk @lindseyswierk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🦎*Please share!*🦎 The Swierk Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 27 / Spr 28 to study Neotropical anole 1) body coloration and visual signals or 2) predator avoidance, diving, and respiration. Please contact only by email. More info and contact details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC...
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Bruno do Rosario Petrucci @brpetrucci.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thank you so much who came to watch my Palaeoverse lecture! Here's a link for anyone that's interested and couldn't catch it live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfi... Also, if you'd like to go through the tutorial I worked through during the lecture: brpetrucc.github.io/tutorials/sr...
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Palaeoverse Lecture Series: Bruno do Rosario Petrucci - Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with..
YouTube video by Palaeoverse
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New paper w/ @astigall.bsky.social! 🧪 "Species-level diversity dynamics during the Great Ordovician biodiversification event: a phylodynamic case study of Laurentian brachiopod lineages" Link to paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ngnZ73N~L...
Manuscript title of a P^3 paper that says: "Species-level diversity dynamics during the Great Ordovician biodiversification event: a phylodynamic case study of Laurentian brachiopod lineages"
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are hiring a #postdoc to work on our NSF funded project on metabolic rate as a driver of individual variation in treefrog acoustic communication. Please spread the word to potentially interested candidates (or apply if you are one of them): jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/postdoc...
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you saw our new paper and thought "I didn't know aquatic plants use CAM!" boy do we have a fun project for you! Our lab is developing high throughput methods to screen plants for CAM. Do you work on, or know of, a plant that you think could be using CAM? Let us know! 👉 forms.gle/AyQc5KgzEYoM...
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Are your plants CAM suspicious?
Have you ever wondered if the plants you work on are... living a double life working the nightshift? We are too. Our lab is looking to identify and screen more plants for CAM activity. We are beginnin...
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Fun sci-comm opportunity for press releases at AmNat!
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Emilie Ellis @e-ellis1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🦋 I’m recruiting a fully funded PhD student at the University of Helsinki: understanding how butterflies respond to climate change across Europe. Apply by 30 Sept: Full details: jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/5... Please share! #ecology #job #phd
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Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Butterfly Ecology and Climate Change across Europe
Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Butterfly Ecology and Climate Change across Europe
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Congrats! 🎉
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