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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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Rahia Mashoodh @rmash.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Shameful that the press didn’t consider such a thoughtful analysis necessary

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Lena Struwe @drgentian.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well."

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I looked at this but left it out of the post, because the gender inference tool could only classify 44% of first authors and 31% of last authors. But given this caveat, this is the distribution: First authors: 71% male, 29% female Last authors: 83% male, 17% female

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I wanted to like QED's new 1% preprint ranking. I really did. But the more I looked at the data, the more uncomfortable it made me. Here is my full peer review. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

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My Peer Review of The 1%

I wanted to like QED's new 1% ranking. I don't.

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Susan Johnston @susanjohnston.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Still some time to apply to our postdoc position - deadline 3rd July. I'll be at #SMBE2026 if anyone would like to chat about it 😊

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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We are advertising a PhD studentship to study the effects of mitochondrial function on cell motility in flies. The project is supervised by myself, Nick Lane and @fcamus.bsky.social, in collaboration with Anna Franz at UCL, @stramerlab.bsky.social at KCL and Michael Sixt at ISTA. Please repost!

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

An immunostaining section through a Heliconius brain. Staining and imaging by Dr Max Farnworth.

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Four days left to apply for two postdocs in social evolution with me and @dustinrubenstein.com Based at the University of Bristol (UK), conducting fieldwork with wasps in Cameroon, Kenya, and South Africa.

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Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

POSTDOC ALERT🚨 Two exciting social evolution postdoc positions live today! We're looking for two excellent field biologists. Join us to explore the evolution of sociality in wasps across Africa. Apply by 11th January. Collaboration with @dustinrubenstein.com @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Shades of blue and red in a slice through an immuno stained brain showing some deliciously lovely looking mushroom body lobes - ripe for investigation during a funded PhD - and the central complex. Image credit: Dr Max Farnworth

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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

And that's why I think this is an example of endemic problems in our field. So much of the field thinks of stats as an afterthought. A technicality. The thing you use to tell your story. But if you use faulty heuristics to evaluate the quality of your model, your story could be complete bullshit.

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Deadline to submit an abstract for our IUSSI winter meeting in Leuven, 18-19 December is fast approaching! Please come and join us & submit your abstract before the 31st of October! Will be great fun & excellent lineup of speakers, with plenaries by Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social!

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Mine are mostly cons (if we're talking generic LLMs like ChatGPT and not bespoke ML models developed&trained in-house) 1. I don't trust them. I can't trust them bec they do not/cannot have a sense of truth or care for the integrity of the work. They bullshit randomly and don't know the difference.

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IUSSI-NWES @iussi-nwes.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

📌North-West European IUSSI Winter Meeting 2025 We are happy to announce that our next meeting on the 18–19 December 2025 will be in Leuven, Belgium, hosted by @twenseleers.bsky.social and his team. Plenary speakers: Ido Pen & Rahia Mashoodh @rmash.bsky.social More details to follow 🐝🐜🪳🪲

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Dr Danni Hinchcliffe @dannihinchy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

My highlight so far of the @asab.org Spring conference @ljmuofficial.bsky.social is the opening plenary from @rmash.bsky.social evidencing how parental care in burying beetles shapes evolution of variation within their gene pools over generations. Take home? Parental care = ⬆️ fitness #ASABspring2025

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ASAB @asab.org · 24/04/2025

Great plenary for #ASABSpring2025 by @rmash.bsky.social on parental care and the evolution of genetic variation 🪲🪲🪲

Dr Mashoodh in front of a slide of assorted animals that reads “Parental care shapes the evolution of molecular genetic variation
Rahia Mashoodh, PhD
Center for Biodiversity & Environment Research
Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment
University College London”

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Peter Sarkies @psarkies.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Postdoc or PhD working on C. elegans? Interested in applying C. elegans techniques to understand the astonishing world of epigenetics in parasitic nematodes? Apply to our Wellcome Trust funded postdoc position, joint between my lab in Oxford and Mark Viney's in Liverpool: tinyurl.com/5y6cpvcv

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Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

To be, or not to be, part-time in academia? This is a tricky question that has faced many of us and in @elife.bsky.social we discuss the benefits and challenges of being part-time. With @emiliapsantos.bsky.social and a fantastic, interdisciplinary team! elifesciences.org/articles/106...

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Point of View: To be, or not to be, part-time in academia

Part-time working can be beneficial for individual academics, and also for academia as a whole.

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