Come to EEB! U. Toronto Schmidt AI in Science Postdoc Fellowship in natural sciences, $85k/yr (2 yrs). Experience with AI not a requirement, but must have desire to learn new AI methodologies to accelerate discoveries in their domain. schmidtfellows.utoronto.ca/apply/

The International C. elegans meeting #worm27 is going to Kobe, Japan in 2027! genetics-gsa.org/celegans/ Organizers: Erik Andersen @erikandersen.bsky.social, Johns Hopkins University Kavita Babu @kavita-babu.bsky.social, IISc Bangalore Suhong Xu, Zhejiang University @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20

Responsible publication of your research! To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology

Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

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In #GENETICS, @hildeschneemann.bsky.social and John Welch introduce a simple fitness landscape model to predict hybrid fitness with arbitrary ploidy and an arbitrary number of hybridizing lineages using data from #maize and rye. buff.ly/E24fZsM

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity

The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar

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Calling all Canadian prospective grad students! Domestic PhD & MSc application deadline = Jan 9 for EEB @ U. Toronto! Great community of researchers! Guaranteed funding >$40k/y! Join us! eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr...

Download our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Nguyen et al. used C. elegans as a model to study mitonuclear epistasis, leveraging genetic and phenotypic data to show that mitonuclear epistasis contributed significantly to phenotypic variance across all tested conditions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf300 #evobio #molbio

Abundant Recurrent Mitochondrial Mutations and Widespread Mitonuclear Epistasis in Caenorhabditis elegans

Abstract. Coordinated genetic and physical interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear gene products regulate ATP production in the mitochondria. Linkin

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Data sciences postdoc fellowship in EEB @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 23 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us! datasciences.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - DSI

DSI Postdoctoral Fellowships support multi/interdisciplinary training and collaborative research in data sciences.

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EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us! eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/

Employment - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

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It's the home stretch teaching undergrad Evolutionary Genetics with @aneil-agrawal.bsky.social using my Primer of Mol Pop Gen text! Grateful it's free for all 67 of our students courtesy @uoftlibraries.bsky.social LMK if you use it and suggestions for improvements! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Check out this nice Digest in @journal-evo.bsky.social by Pedram Samani about our EM study of sperm cell gigantism! digest = doi.org/10.1093/evol... original study = doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Digest: Subcellular reallocation and the evolution of anisogamy in nematodes

Abstract. Why has sperm gigantism evolved, and how do subcellular allocations scale with size? Schalkowski & Cutter (2025) addressed these questions wi

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We’re so excited to welcome you all to CSEE 2026 in Toronto!

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🚨CSEE 2026: Call for Symposium & Workshop Proposals! Got a great idea for a session? Now's your chance to shape the CSEE 2026 program! 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 3, 2025 @ 9:00 PM 📋 Submit via: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026 Full instructions + selection criteria on the site.

The Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social is delighted to seek a new Curator of Birds. With more than 200,000 specimens, including the world’s largest collection of bird skeletons, ROM's bird collection is the largest in Canada and one of the world's largest.

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Apply to Curator of Birds at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.

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The Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social is delighted to seek a new Curator of Plants. With more than 1.1 million specimens, including the largest, most representative collection of Ontario flora available, ROM's plant collection is world-class and global in scope.

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Apply to Curator of Plants & Sustainability at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.

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Ever wondered what happens to the trash floating in the @toronto.ca's waterways? We joined the U of T Trash Team at the Harbourfront to see how their trash trapping program keeps plastic out of Lake Ontario. Watch to see how they’re making a difference at #UofT & across the city.

U of T News Now | U of T Trash Team

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Cool stuff, featuring our EEB colleague Shelby Riskin: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

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Toronto's ROM is hiring 2 new curators! Botany & Ornithology. Come be part of the Toronto EEB community, with cross-appt in my dept at UofT @romtoronto.bsky.social royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc... royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...

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Atta grrls www.btpm.org/2025-09-08/l...

Local Music Spotlight: Bebe and Oona

Chelsea O chatted with Toronto’s Bebe and Oona about what it’s like playing in a band with your sibling, the all ages music scene in Southern Ontario, collaboration across artistic mediums, and more.

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Exciting new #speciation + #phylogenetics dating work now out @plos.org by PhD students Daniel Fusca & Maia Dall'Acqua! #celegans doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Phylogenomic timetree-calibrated speciation clocks for Caenorhabditis nematodes reveal slow but disproportionate accumulation of post-zygotic reproductive isolation

Author summary As separate populations evolve into distinct species, they accumulate genetic changes that record the duration of their separation and that can contribute to reproductive incompatibilit...

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Quasi epigenetic equilibrium: the implications of plasticity and variability on evolution and extinction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.27.672696v1

Now published @natecoevo.nature.com with @annika-nichols.bsky.social, our latest on the evolution of 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 across 𝟲𝟬 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 of cichlid fishes! doi.org/10.1038/s415... with members of the @schierlab.bsky.social and Salzburger labs, as well as the burgeoning Shafer lab @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social

Cool new comparative analysis of giant worm sperm cells using electron microscopy, by recent PhD Rebecca Schalkowski! Evolution advance access @journal-evo.bsky.social #celegans #ecoevo doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Less than 3 weeks left to submit your proposals for the GREG Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards, which provide up to $3500 for 3rd-year and above PhD students. Full instructions, evaluation criteria, and FAQs on our website: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... Deadline September 15!

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

Ethics of gene drives in humans if we go down the path of heritable genome editing? Now in print jme.bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Guerrilla eugenics: gene drives in heritable human genome editing

CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing can and has altered human genomes, bringing bioethical debates about this capability to the forefront of philosophical and policy considerations. Here, I consider the undere...

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The University of Calgary seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Freshwater Ecology, starting 2026. Candidates must have a PhD and focus on research and teaching-related aquatic ecology. Apply by Sept 5, 2025. More info: https://ucalgary.ca. #job

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