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texasrulz

@texasrulz.bsky.social
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Evolutionary geneticist from Texas, working in Liverpool.

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texasrulz @texasrulz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hear, hear! Invisible Infrastructure at Risk: Funding Crises Threaten Global Bioscience Research academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
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Invisible Infrastructure at Risk: Funding Crises Threaten Global Bioscience Research
Abstract. Modern biology depends on invisible infrastructure that is essential yet precariously funded. Millions of biological observations are interpreted
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“Doing a PhD shouldn’t make people feel like failures if they choose a different path.” A really thoughtful conversation with Andrea Betancourt & Gideon Bradburd on careers beyond academia, mentoring, transferable skills, and what PhD training is really for.
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Gideon Bradburd @gbradburd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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recruitment
Multiple positions available: ​ Postdoc PhD students
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texasrulz @texasrulz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Apply! And please take note of the guidance we wrote as a committee-- eseb.org/wp-content/u... We really tried hard to take the mystery out of the evaluation process, and spell out explicitly what we look for in a GHMA proposal.
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DrosEU @droseu.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)
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texasrulz @texasrulz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Many thanks to those of you who participated in this survey, and to my collaborators. Hopefully someone finds it useful! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Leaving Academia: Insights from Evolutionary Biologists on Their Career Transitions and Job Satisfaction
Many who have obtained PhDs in evolutionary biology will ultimately pursue careers that fall outside a narrow definition of an academic career. At the same time, PhD students and supervisors of PhD st...
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texasrulz @texasrulz.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Yes, they've sent out invoices; dm me if you need an email address.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Evolution of Wolbachia male-killing mechanism within a host species "In vitro and in vivo data demonstrated that wBol1Y (Wolbachia) feminized splicing and expression of lepidopteran sex determination pathway genes." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Evolution of Wolbachia male-killing mechanism within a host species
Male-killing bacterial symbionts, prevalent in arthropods, skew population sex ratios by selectively killing male progeny, profoundly impacting ecology and evolution of their hosts. Male-killing is a ...
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Jitka Polechová @polejit.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Preprint finally out! I show that eco-evo feedback can drive a tipping point where genetic drift overwhelms adaptation. This can result in a contraction of a species' range border or range fragmentation. Fragmentation is abrupt and arises readily under rapid temporal change. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Darren Obbard @darrenobbard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics
Diverse species of Drosophilidae
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Claudia Bank @cbank.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT): APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩‍💻 APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾‍🔬 More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs Application deadline: 1 March 2025
Panorama view onto the old town of Bern and the alps behind it on a sunny day.
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