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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PhD-position ALERT! Interested in the genomics of local adaptation and the evolution of niche breadth? 🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬 Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala University, by applying here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 1st of November!

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PhD-student in Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics

Do you want to conduct frontier research in an outstanding environment within evolutionary biology at Sweden’s largest faculty of science and technology? The Department of Ecology and Genetics at Up

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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Three new evolutionary ecology PhD positions are open in Switzerland (Eawag, and Uni. Bern) to work on Greenland lake ecosystems. We are interested in how stickleback and copepods evolve, and how their evolution affects the trajectories of lake ecosystem development. apply.refline.ch/673277/1403/...

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3 PhD positions in the fields of Evolutionary Ecology, Evolutionary Genomics, and Ecosystem Science

The Department of Fish Ecology & Evolution (FishEc) has vacancies for

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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My brain when I sit down to do some writing.

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nevermind chaotic local business - I had a flight from London to Miami with American Airlines, and they announced that they had no beer OR wine immediately after take off. The horror! Wouldn’t happen with BA.

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This was fantastic - the against-the-odds story of Rosemary’s beginnings as a scientist, a lifetime of fantastic research clearly articulated, and a clear passion for the natural world, advocacy, and equality. Very inspiring talk! Big thanks to Rosemary and the BES EE team for organising.

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Simon Evans @sevans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One hour away! And you’re already halfway through the week! So reward yourself with some of the very best of evolutionary ecology, starting in just under one hour: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/evol...

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Evolutionary Ecology Webinar: Darwin's Finches | BES 2026

Join the BES Evolutionary Ecology SIG webinar with Rosemary Grant on Darwin's finches, natural selection, genetics, behaviour and rapid evolution.

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here's the guillemot one, by Alex Pansier:

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Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Come work with @viromehunter.bsky.social and myself at UBC! We have a postdoctoral position available for someone with an interest in bioinformatics and genomics, using sociovirology to understand disease dynamics in plant viruses. Advert: ppvlab.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2026/0...

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Giuseppe, ineptly: “Spaghetti Regretti”

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Rob Jacques @knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Doctor: "Take a seat Mr Jacques and tell me how on earth you got that terrible cut across your eyebrow". "Well doc, it was this guy in a shell suit"

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today in great scientific figures: the flight path of two midges, immediately preceding ❤️romance❤️

Hand-drawn figure almost certainly derived from painstaking examination of filmed midge flight. It took them 4 years to publish this. It is indistinguishable from an elaborate squiggle.

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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Help needed! Does anyone know of a lab that has glass (pigmentless) guppies? We are interested in getting them for a project

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Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Please spread this talented and wonderful human’s name and work. Maartje @maartjevandenderen.bsky.social just finished her Scientific Illustration Master and is leaping into freelancing next. Got 💰 and #illustration needs? Look no further!! www.maartjevandenderen.nl

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Maartje van Denderen

Maartje van Denderen is a Scientific Illustrator, interested in insects, mushrooms, and plants.

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David López-Idiáquez @davididiaquez.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New preprint out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social with @devisatarkar.bsky.social and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social in which we analyse the effects of this summer's unprecedented and severe #heatwave on tit reproduction and mass. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz358bs

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Interested in developing theory in evolution/ecology? Join our team in Mainz! I've learned so much from this lovely bunch of Kokkonuts.

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Interested in developing theory in evolution/ecology? Join our team in Mainz! I've learned so much from this lovely bunch of Kokkonuts.

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Come and work with us (the Kokkonuts) as a postdoc! Our research within (theory-evo-eco) is broad; let's say it's implicitly defined by the journal club papers we read. Which is why the application process includes a JC-related task, I hope it'll be a fun one for you! www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

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Complexity and Networks CORE @complexity-core.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology | Group Leader in Theoretical Biology - Application deadline 📆 Sep 01, 2026

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Group Leader in Theoretical Biology (m/f/d)

Experience in Theoretical Biology, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My big brother took me to the shop to buy my first CDs - I still listen to one of these regularly!

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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026

29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Look at this shiny little beauty 🤩 - a bronze shield bug, I think! Looks quite different from most pics, but apparently the orange bands on the second antennae segments are diagnostic. North Wales coast.

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Joe Brennan @biologyjoe87.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Looking for sci comm opportunities? Join us as a writer for American Naturalist press releases! These write-ups are primarily written by graduate students and other early-career scientists. No experience required; we have editors to help along the way. Apps due Sept 1. Please share widely :D

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Looking for Press Release Writers & Editors for The American Naturalist

Sign up for the opportunity to write and/or edit for The American Naturalist! We are seeking authors to write press releases for new journal articles. See examples of recent press releases here. We a...

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Luisa Jaimes @jaimesnino.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#iussi2026 #ants at the conference @boldest-ant.bsky.social is looking for a job! Look for the job hunter!

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Marcus Stensmyr @marcusstensmyr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

How crazy is this!? A plant mimicking the smell of ants injured by spiders to fool kleptoparastic flies into performing pollination 🤯 Plant shenanigans is an endless source of wonderful biology! www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Olfactory floral mimicry of injured ants mediates the attraction of kleptoparasitic fly pollinators

Mochizuki reports a plant that lures pollinating flies by imitating the scent of ants injured by predators. This study reveals the first known case of ant mimicry in flowers and uncovers previously un...

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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Claire Tsui @clairetsui.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I did a thing :D First chapter of my PhD out now! 🌱 (first paper ever 🥳) Traits are historically hypothesized to age synchronously, but it is no longer the case. We quantified asynchronous ageing in Seychelles warblers and reviewed potential reasons for why this may be.

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Daniel Cooney @danielcooney1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Check out this really interesting preprint by @shikharabhat.bsky.social and @kokkonut.bsky.social on models of senescence and their connection to models of multilevel selection. It seems like these fun jump processes, PDEs, and SPDEs arise in a variety of biological contexts.

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Simon Evans @sevans.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What are the conferences/meetings that plant evolutionary ecologists in the UK attend? It seems silly for us to be siloed by taxonomy, so I’m keen to explore how we can encourage greater discourse. Please RT.

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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's been incredibly fun to work with @gauravathreya.bsky.social @yagmurerten.bsky.social @arvidagren.bsky.social @tom-is-kean.bsky.social on internal evolutionary conflicts (also called intragenomic/intraorganismal conflict) and how to model them! See below for Gaurav's great explainer on the paper

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

wanna read the latest overview of “internal evolutionary conflicts” — scenarios where genes spread despite being organism-deleterious? and wanna learn how to model them? look at our new preprint! we introduce unifying ideas, and try hard to write accessibly. small 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Wendel van der Sluis @wendelvandersluis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

⚔️ A fight between two wild lesser #Anteaters is something few people ever witness. Rare footage from #Brazil captured an unusual display of aggressive #Behaviour between two free-ranging adults, grappling with their forelimbs and prehensile tails. 1/3

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Really remarkable plant sex allocation study here: hermaphroditic avocado plants alternate sex roles twice daily and hence generate balanced sex allocation- controlled by ancient trans-species polymorphism. Heard a bit about this jaw-dropping work at UC Davis last year - great to see it out!

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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📣 Spread the news to any recent graduates who dare to dream big: Only 10 days left to apply to join #Mast-EER, a cohort of MbyRes students based at the @uniexecec.bsky.social in #Cornwall funded by @aria-research.bsky.social. Places are limited, so apply now!

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Miraculously, all three of us managed to get our visas on time, and I’m now celebrating by reading the revised version of our MS (soon-to-be a preprint + @gauravathreya.bsky.social will be talking about it in our mini-symposium), accompanied by some Irish beer at a local pub 🤩

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emilyphelps.bsky.social @emilyphelps.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I will be presenting some of the first results from a massive behavioural phenotyping effort. We are hoping this work might shed some light on how among-individual variation differs among populations. Come see my talk on Thursday 23rd in the Room Parigi @ 12:45 CET. @isbe2026.bsky.social #ISBE2026

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Jess Stephenson @jfstep.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Hey @isbe2026.bsky.social - I’ll be in Turin from tomorrow, and looking to recruit PhD student and postdoc to my lab in Stockholm soon… anyone interested in parasites, sexual selection, transgen effects, fish (guppy) tracking - let’s meet up!

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Great paper and interview with Luisa here!

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EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Individual repeatability in dietary specialisation across years and competitive regimes in wild birds doi.org/10.32942/X27...

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Stumbled on this spreadsheet I made way back documenting all the deaths described in Sun Kil Moon's 2014 album Benji... Would like to make a #dataviz, but I'm lacking quantitative resolution!

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