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Leonie Moyle

@speciationlab.bsky.social
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Into evolution, genetics, reproduction. Immigrant (actual, and from the bird site). She/her.

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
friday
Two cocktails sit on a bar. In the foreground is a coppery lowball with square ice cube and a sprig of rosemary. Behind is a bright coupe with lime peel.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
See ya
Two panel comic. Panel 1: two Tiktaaliks (an extinct, 375-million-year-old fish that was the evolutionary link between fish and the first four-legged land animals) sit at the floor of a shallow sea bed. One of them angrily says to the other, “hey! You still owe me 20 bucks!” Panel 2: the other Tiktaalik, to avoid paying $20, emerges from the water and steps onto land for the first time in history. The first tiktaalik is absolutely stupefied.
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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Insect eggs, probably Hemiptera, stacked like tiny barrels on the edge of a leaf. 🌱🌿
Pink insect eggs stacked in an alternating pattern like barrels. Each egg has a tiny white dot
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
equinoxious
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fragments of people's lives, washed up on the beach.
Miscellaneous beach finds laid out on a black background. Among the colourful finds featured are false nails, finger prickers, toy soldiers, toy animals, fake flowers and foliage, a plastic nose, Lego, a soy sauce fish and a covid test kit.
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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pavement with graffiti that reads "it doesn't have to be like this."
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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am looking to hire two seasonal field/laboratory technicians to join the lab working at the MSU Kellogg Biological Station and Main Campus. The primary work will be dedicated to our switchgrass program with potential to expand into other roles in the lab with time. careers.msu.edu/jobs/profess...
careers.msu.edu
Professional Aide - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary(Basic Job Function) This is a temporary or an on-call position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other p...
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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 Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am currently searching for a postdoc to work on the evolution of adaptations, cold acclimation, and freezing tolerance in switchgrass. The position entails lab, growth facility, bioinformatics, and fieldwork. careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...
careers.msu.edu
Postdoctoral Scholar-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct field and laboratory experiments to understand the causes of genetic variation...
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
new month
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Luke Remage-Healey @healeylab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Come be our colleague!!! TT position in Evolution careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...
careers.umass.edu
Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Title: Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work A...
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
cicadas
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
serenity now
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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!
mhibbins.github.io
Hibbins Lab
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Interested in genetics, diversification, and speciation? We're hiring a Research Associate to help with our projects, including the convergent evolution of fruit color. Come and work with us! Feel free to contact me with questions. (Reposts appreciated!) Link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33973
a matrix of 6 different Solanum (wild tomato) species with six different fruit colors, ranging from white to bright red.
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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
my unfinished paper draft watching me start a new paper
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
august
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 30/07/2026
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“Politicians discussing global warming” by Isaac Cordal — originally exhibited in Berlin, 2011 and even more relevant today. 👏
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Berlin 💛
Berlin, at night along the Spree
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
sunday, morning
a small turtle, looking unimpressed
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Auke-Florian 🪹 @aukeflorian.nl · 24/07/2026
Welcome to the Anthropocene 🔥
People “enjoying” the beach during the French forest fires People “enjoying” the beach during the French forest fires
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Murmuration of starlings by Xavi Bou from his series Ornitographies, Northern Spain, December 2018
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
bostonglobe.com
Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Eugenia Zarza @eugeniazarza.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My colleagues from the Iguana Specialist Group created these cool cards with Iguanas from countries playing in the current tournament. Today's match: Galápagos pink land iguana (Ecuador) vs Oaxacan spiny-tailed iguana (Mexico)! 🦎🧪⚽
AI generated image of a Galapagos pink Iguana dressed with the Ecuador national football team's uniformAI generated image of a Oaxacan spiny-tailed iguana dressed with the Mexico national football team's uniform
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 11/06/2026
We are seeing a near-record early melt-out of sea ice in the Barents Sea region of the #Arctic this summer. This is at least partially in response to the anomalous warmth there the last several months. Map of the general location: zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...
Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to each year from 1979 to 2025 as shown with thin lines in colors from purple to white. There is large daily variability, but a long-term decreasing trend during all months of the year. A seasonal cycle is also visible in this region.
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Darren Irwin (he / him) @darrenirwin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Robert Ricklefs - in memoriam dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...
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Robert Ricklefs – in memoriam
Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…
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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social). We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT) 1/n 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
You keep using that word ceasefire. I don't think it means what you think it means.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Lee Miller, Two German women sitting on a park bench surrounded by destroyed buildings, Cologne, Germany, 1945
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Red Disk www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-re…
The Red Disk
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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Roughly half of STEM PhD students in the U.S. are international students. 75% of them stay in the U.S. long term after graduating to contribute their skills to U.S. scientific research and development. Cutting international student visas hurts U.S. science now and long into the future.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Science is good. We should fund it.
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Tuna @antea04.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
berlin sky
a view of the grey sky, through the silhouette of bare branches. one silhouette has tufted ears.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Will McBride - Berlin, 1956
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
ides!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
nytimes.com
First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/01/2026
The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: scim.ag/4boPkq8
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
dancing in Berlin, for #internationalwomensday
a blurry dance floor of international women (and men) dancing
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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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jim mallet @wtf-r-species.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Richard C Lewontin lab 1976: See Russ Lande, top left; Jerry Coyne bottom right. Who are the three others? Help me folks!
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
march
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Waxing Gibbous Moon. 2019UT 28 February 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
The Moon at waxing gibbous phase on a dark background.
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
tuesday, but no pancakes
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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
In celebration of #DarwinDay, here are his decidedly mixed first impressions after landing on the Galápagos (17 Sept 1835; from 'the Voyage' Chap X): "Nothing could be less inviting..."
"Nothing could be less inviting than the first appearance. A broken field of black basaltic lava, thrown into the most rugged waves, and crossed by great fissures, is everywhere covered by stunted, sun-burnt brushwood, which shows little signs of life. The dry and parched surface, being heated by the noon-day sun, gave to the air a close and sultry feeling, like that from a stove: we fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly. Although I diligently tried to collect as many plants as possible, I succeeded in getting very few; and such wretched-looking little weeds would have better become an arctic than an equatorial Flora."
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The revised Schedule F policy, finalized last week, will kick in next month. It could reclassify career government scientists—potentially those involved in grantmaking at agencies like NIH and NSF—into at-will employees, and would strip them of whistleblower protections.
nature.com
Trump team’s new rule could make firing government scientists easier
Although the government says the move will depoliticize US science, some researchers say it will do the opposite.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Bad bunnies from long ago www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Rabbits capture, try and execute a hunter. The Smithfield Decretals, decorated in London, England, in the 1340s: Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 59v-61v
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