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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We generated chromosome scale assemblies of house flies with different Y chromosomes. You won't believe what happened next!

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sabbaticaling would be the appropriate misused gerund I believe

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

need a post-ascii character encoding system

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If only I were a marine biologist ... Colon in the tidal: the lower digestive tract of coastal aquatic mammals

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Jeremy Van Cleve @vancleve.theoretical.bio · 29/09/2026

My group is recruiting a Ph.D student for Fall 2027! We're a friendly group of mathematically-minded and computationally-inspired biologists studying topics including social evolution, host-pathogen interactions, genetics, and demography. See vancleve.theoretical.bio for more info!

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van cleve research group

Van Cleve Research Group – theoretical evolution & ecology at the University of Kentucky

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

probably cuz those fools are sampling diploids, lol!

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe, but so many new genomes are getting done by massive groups (DTOL) which have built-in sex chromosomes ID in their pipelines, from what I can gather.

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm actually not surprised by the lack of sex chromosome IDs. Not easy if working in a poorly study taxon and sampling the homogametic sex (or without differentiation, or without sex chromsomes).

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm pretty sure I've heard someone explain that the reads are too long to assemble the mitochondria. Seriously.

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We have an old thermal cycler in my lab that we won't use for PCR (because oil), but it makes a great insect heat torture device

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Daniel Promislow @dpromislow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Promislow Lab in the HNRCA, located at the Boston campus of @tufts.edu, is hiring a Senior Research Tech with experience in Drosophila biology. We study aging, genetic variation, social behavior, metabolomics & systems biology, and more. Interested? Click here: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/23675?l...

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Senior Research Technician, Metabolism and Basic Biology of Aging in Boston, Massachusetts | Tufts University

Tufts University is hiring a Senior Research Technician, Metabolism and Basic Biology of Aging in Boston, Massachusetts. Review all of the job details and apply today!

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As a person involved in making this rule happen, I can tell you it's in great spirit and impossible to enforce

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Maitreyi Das @daslabpombe.com · 16/09/2026

The Das lab has 1-2 open postdoctoral positions. Our lab investigates the fundamentals of cell-cycle-dependent cell polarity. Boston College has fantastic resources, including a cutting-edge imaging facility with state-of-the-art microscopes. Please apply here: bc.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just one catch: only 0.1% of the salary is guaranteed

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

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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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Laura Ross @laurarossevo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My lab @ Edinburgh university is recruiting a postdoc to work on the weird and wonderful germline-specific chromosomes of flies. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... collaboration with @germline.bsky.social and yukiko yamashita funded by @novonordisk.bsky.social please repost!

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@prof-tregoning.bsky.social argues that scientific paper format does not reflect how we do science: 🤥are we telling a false story? 💡are we dismissing the central role of creativity in science? What do you think? Let us know in the comments... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Is this worm-specific something? Because if you send DNA, most companies will give you sequences back pretty fast and cheap. They seem largely interchangeable unless you want more than just DNA sequences

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The university of Houston -victoria became texas a&m-victoria. Texas a&m then fired the faculty who live in Houston and didn't want to drive to Victoria. Where is Victoria? 2 hrs from Houston, about the same distance from San Antonio, and closer to corpus Christi.

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Who has time to read these days?

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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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Rebekah Rogers @evolscientist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

You'll have my attention when little Matt's stops giving away free drinks.

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Julia Kreiner @jmkreiner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... The Kreiner and Carley Lab groups are hiring a shared Research Analyst to help lead wet lab protocol development and management. We're a fun group and would love to hear from you :) Get in touch with questions!

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Research, Analyst

Department BSD E&E Carley Lab About the Department The Kreiner Lab (kreinerlab.com) and Carley Lab (carleylab.uchicago.edu) in the Department of Ecology & Evolution at The University of Chicag...

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In a world with 9 months of compensation,

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My great technician is leaving the lab, and I'm trying to replace her. Are you or someone you know interested in evolutionary genomics research that combines animals experiments (with flies!) and molecular biology? Come work with me! Application info at the link evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 28/07/2026

Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Does the offer letter not include a stipend amount??

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This should be independent of union. If the student has a guaranteed stipend written into an offer of letter, they should still receive that stipend amount. Where the difference comes from is a different question, but there was a signed agreement for the student to get paid.

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Paulyn Cartwright @pcart.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Our NIH funded PREP postbaccalaurate program just got renewed! PREP is fully funded postbac program for recent graduates interested in pursuing a PhD in biomedical research. Applications are open for a start date of this Fall. prep.ku.edu/apply

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The official anthem of 2026: stutter steps and centerbacks

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

That third goal tho was peak USA soccer. The future is now

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

hockey figured it out perfectly. you go a person-down, but only for 2 minutes. And no free kicks / penalty shots / ejections unless it's extremely egregious. Never do you go down to 4 skaters permanently. Also, hockey overtime is better. FIFA should just adopt hockey rules, TBH

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Thomas Lenormand @thomaslenormand.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🚨Interested in #evolutionary #genomics and #popgen #theory? My lab just opened a 1+ year #postdoc position to work on sex chromosome dosage compensation. At #CEFE Montpellier 👉 bit.ly/4eMWDIh Informal enquiries welcome to me🙂 or Paul Saunders and Sylvain Glémin at #SMBE2026 Thanks for sharing!

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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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Dr. Elizabeth Santos @lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I will be recruiting Ph.D. students at #Evol2026 in Cleveland!

Title slide for presentation at Evolution 26. Talk on deep-sea fish evolution by Elizabeth Santos

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Rich Meisel @richmeisel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It would look much worse on a linear scale

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