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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fantastic Asst Professor positions open across multiple UC Berkeley departments @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Plant/Algae/Microb aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522 Plant/Env aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Gen/Dev/Evo aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481 Eco aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489

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Assistant Professor – Plant or Macroalgae-Associated Microbial Communities and Interactions - Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Hey team - it’s looking very likely that I’ll be hiring not one but two four year postdocs! We’re a fun lab with tons of theoretical and applied pop gen projects - broadly in polyploid, conservation, and human evo. Competitive salary, sunny San Diego! Do share with your about to defend grads!

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

UC Davis Ecology & Evolution Grad Preview Program is accepting applications until July 20th! It's a fully virtual program where you are paired with a grad student mentor and learn about what grad school entails, how to apply, and what student life is like! Please share widely!

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Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Sad to leave #SMBE2026 after a wonderful meeting! I particularly enjoyed the exciting, new work on local adaptation, the immune system, and regulatory adaptations!

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Ben Stone @benstemon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Probably a bit late, but if anyone in Cleveland for #Evol2026 has some free time, the Cleveland museum of art (open until 9PM tonight; 10am-5PM tomorrow) is FREE and has a ton of exquisite and culturally significant works of art! Here’s just one example. There were 4 Van Goghs on the other wall

Gigantic impressionist painting: Water Lilies, Claude Monet

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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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Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My lab is looking for a lab manager/technician! The successful candidate will help us study host-pathogen evolution using functional genomics and ex vivo infection experiments. Please share broadly and send candidates my way! www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/478... #hiring #genomics #biology

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Laboratory Manager

This position will serve as a lab manager position in the Evolutionary Immunogenomics Lab (PI: Dr. Tauras Vilgalys) in the Department of Genetics. This is a heavily collaborative research environment ...

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Kelsie Hunnicutt @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Thrilled that our new review article on animal hybridization is now up on EcoEvoRxiv! 🎉 Working on this review with @mollyschumer.bsky.social was a blast, and it was such a wonderful opportunity to catch up on all the amazing work in animal hybridization over the last few years!

A world map showing the distribution of species studied in hybridization research

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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Why is NSF SBE important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience or #WithoutNSFsbe

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Nicholas Mancuso @nmancuso.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

👀 Absolute banger paper. Leveraging cattle/pig GWAS/eQTL to help explain the missing regulatory gap in humans. Consistent with previous works, selection makes identifying relevant eQTLs in humans challenging. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 13/11/2025

My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have. apply.interfolio.com/177547

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Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Excited to be at #ashg25! I will be presenting my poster on immune evolution today (2005W) and look forward to all the great science! Also, I'm hiring! Please stop by or message if you want to chat about #postdoc opportunities!

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Animal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?) Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15. More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...

ABS Student Research and Developing Nations Grants! ABS offers the following grants to support graduate student research: Student Research Grants, ABS Conservation Award and Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Awards. The ABS also offers an Early Career Grant in Conservation Behavior and Developing Nations Grant to support students and other researchers from developing nations.

Applicants for student grants must be enrolled in a graduate program and must be active members of ABS (student membership fees cost $17-$34). Research grants range from $500-$2,000 USD, depending on the category of the grant and evaluations. Individuals may receive only one ABS research grant during their lifetime. More details on how the grants and how to apply in the link in the post.

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Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🚨🧪 Interested in primate genomics and GxE interactions? My lab is recruiting graduate students and postdocs to help start projects on primate gene regulation and immune evolution. Reach out if you would like to learn more, and please spread widely! #ScienceJobs

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Jason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

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An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

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Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

One of the best resources out there for finding faculty positions! I used this so much over the past few years

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions. Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

if you're a teacher who wants to bring science to life in the classroom, @skypeascientist.bsky.social brings scientists to your class. Sign up at: www.skypeascientist.com

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Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I'm happy to (finally) share the last chapter of my dissertation work. Focusing on DNA methylation levels, we show that admixture increases gene regulatory variation within the Amboseli baboon population. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Clement Chow @clementychow.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Repost w/ correct link! The Dept of Human Genetics at the Univeristy of Utah is hosting a Rising Stars in Genetics & Genomics postdoc symposium. We are looking to feature postdocs doing cool science! Please self nominate or nominate an excellent postdoc! #ASHGtrainees docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Mingyuan "Merlin" Li @supmerlin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

1/n 🚨Very excited to share our recent work!🚨 To understand gene regulation across diverse environmental conditions and cellular contexts, we treated a broad array of human cell types with three environmental exposures in vitro. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Tauras Vilgalys @taurvil.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I'm thrilled to share that I'll be joining the Department of Genetics at UGA as an Assistant Professor in January! @universityofga.bsky.social Genetics@UGA #newPI

University of Georgia Bulldog outside the Georgia Center at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

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Aida Andres @aidaandres.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Andrea L Graham @grahammunology.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Final week to apply for this year’s round of the Princeton EEB Fellowship Program, folks! Please repost and help spread the word! We’re going tweetless and need the biggest bluest skies you folks can muster, please!!! ☀️ @eseb.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social Thanks!

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Harald Ringbauer @hringbauer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

PhD opportunity in computational population genetics at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig: Join our fully funded project to develop IBD-segment tools, connecting high-quality genomes from 500 Black Death victims to modern Europeans. 🌍💻🧬 Please spread the word! 📢🙌 #aDNA #PopGen www.eva.mpg.de/de/karriere/...

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for Summer 2024 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATES, BIOLOGY at the American Museum of Natural History. Application Deadline: January 31st 2024 www.amnh.org/research/ric...

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Biological Sciences: Research Experience for Undergraduates | AMNH

Approximately eight students gather each summer at the Museum for a ten-week experience working with curators, faculty, and post-doctoral fellows.

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Katerina Guschanski @kguschan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in a crazy group of monkeys at U of Edinburgh . Do reach out with questions! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

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Laurits Skov @lauritsskov.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

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Britt Koskella @bkoskella.bsky.social · 08/07/2024

Job alert!! Join Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of global change biology with emphasis on the Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions (pathogens, mutualists, microbiomes). aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476

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Assistant Professor - Global Change Biology- Department of Integrative Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics: web.stanford.edu/group/pritch... "An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"

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An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome

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