A new #ScienceAdvances study finds the statistical properties of birdsong are similar to those of human language and whale song. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4wIYllH

EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net

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Genetics and genomics of hybridization | Nature Reviews Genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41... Amazing review! 🤩

Genetics and genomics of hybridization - Nature Reviews Genetics

Hybridization, the exchange of genes between divergent lineages, is now recognized as widespread across eukaryotes and essential to understanding genome evolution. In this Review, Schumer and Rieseber...

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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!

My home department (Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley) is searching for an assistant professor in ecology—please distribute widely! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489

Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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#ResearchCareer: Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme is a funding option for your next step in academia? Come and find out in our info talk on 31 August. No registration, the meeting link will be published here: 👉 www.dfg.de/en/research-...

A new wave of grant funders is turning to lotteries to break ties between proposals go.nature.com/4wNlgw1

When the best decision is no decision: the rise of randomization in grant funding

If reviewers can’t reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to break the tie.

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The cathedral in Mexico City now has its own AI which, among other things, can apparently explain how to do a bubble sort in python.

Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Insects are increasingly pressured by climate change. Here the authors compile global evidence of range shifts in butterflies and call for more co-ordinated efforts in documenting such trends across c...

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Phenotypically convergent adaptation to altitude via different genetic changes in Peruvian Andean and Tibetan Himalayan human populations — cool!

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Zhu et al. provide novel evidence that polygenic natural selection may be acting to lower Andean hemoglobin concentration in a manner phenotypically convergent with Tibetan populations. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag164 #societyjournal #humanevolution

The majority of living birds and mammals are smaller than the tiniest dinosaurs ever discovered. So what prevented dinosaurs from becoming truly tiny? The answer, new research suggests, may lie not in dinosaur biology, but in their ecosystems. Read more about the findings.👇

New Study Asks: “Where Are the Tiny Dinosaurs?” | AMNH

Research suggests that competition with mammals may explain why non-bird dinosaurs never evolved into truly tiny animals.

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📣 SMBE IDEA proposals are OPEN for 2027 📣 Here are some more details on our initiatives around inclusion, diversity, equity and access (IDEA), centred in molecular biology and evolution, and what we value in proposals... (More details on project proposals here: www.smbe.org/idea-initiat...)

IDEA Initiative Call for Proposals

2027 CALL FOR PROPOSALS SMBE, through the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access) task force, aims to address systemic racism, sexism, colonialism, and other forms of exclusion in our SMBE soci...

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📢New paper in @journal-evo.bsky.social! This work expands our understanding of seasonal camouflage polymorphism, dissecting the genetic basis of winter colour variation (white and brown morphs) in the long-tailed weasel (Neogale frenata). Paper here ⬇️ doi.org/10.1093/evol... 1/5

Museum genomics links MC1R alleles to adaptive winter coat color polymorphism in the long-tailed weasel

Abstract. Understanding the architecture of biological adaptations is a major endeavor of evolutionary biology. Using Natural History collections, we study

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DNA is changing the future of biodiversity conservation. 🌿🧬 BGEplus, ERGA, iBOL Europe and CETAF are building a coordinated infrastructure for biodiversity genomics, connecting expertise, data and technology to better understand and protect nature 🔗 cetaf.org/using-dna-sa... #Biodiversity #Genomics

ERGA, iBOL Europe and CETAF join forces to strengthen biodiversity genomics in Europe - Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities - CETAF

This means the start of an unprecedented effort to build a continent-wide system that applies genomics for protecting European biodiversity.

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Are you passionate about #naturalhistory #collections? Apply for our open position for the Herbarium Collections Manager @utkherbarium.bsky.social. We will start evaluating applications on Aug 17, so get your application in now. #Botany2026 #herbarium #jobs

Are city birds genetically adapting to urban life? A common garden experiment in great tits reveals hidden evolutionary changes masked by environmental effects in the wild. doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image by G. Laurent, wikimedia

So proud of this manuscript- lead by the fantastic @henryarenas.bsky.social with two undergraduates (Cage Cochran and Quinn Evans) each doing a Herculean effort during their honors theses, and Hongfei Chen helping out tremendously with lab work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Maintenance of phenotypic divergence in two sympatric monkeyflowers with weak reproductive isolation

Sympatric species often exhibit permeable reproductive barriers, yet many of them coexist as phenotypically distinct entities. One way to account for this apparent paradox is that selection on loci th...

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Are current species conservation policies enough? New study indicates that common bird and common butterfly species across Europe are set to keep declining in the coming decades. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Predicted decline in common bird and butterfly species even under conservation policy scenarios in Europe - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Projections for 265 common bird and 144 common butterfly species across Europe under multiple sustainability scenarios, including those of existing conservation objectives, find no scenario in which t...

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Descrito em @journalofecology.bsky.social, estudo avaliou o processo conhecido como “chuva de sementes” em 52 áreas da #MataAtlântica. Resultado indica que a dispersão natural de novas plantas é impulsionada pela quantidade de floresta no entorno e pelo regime de chuvas. agencia.fapesp.br/58839

Conexão entre fragmentos florestais importa mais que tamanho na restauração da Mata Atlântica

Pesquisa em 52 áreas do bioma mostra que a dispersão natural de novas plantas é impulsionada pela quantidade de floresta no entorno e pelo regime de chuvas

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“Politicians discussing global warming” by Isaac Cordal — originally exhibited in Berlin, 2011 and even more relevant today. 👏

It's Fossil Friday! Meet Eryops megacephalus. This critter, which lived some 280 million years ago during the Early Permian, was among the most terrestrial of the early tetrapods. Spot it in the Hall of Vertebrate Origins! Plan your visit: amnh.link/4bnMbG3 Photo: © AMNH

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Very cool pair of papers demonstrating little link between amount of additive genetic variation and amount of nucleotide variation within species: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Levels of additive genetic variation vary substantially between species

Adaptive potential determines how populations respond to environmental change. This study compiles evolvability estimates from over 170 multicellular species, revealing substantial variation across th...

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Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …

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Just appreciating natural science illustrators, like Jillian Ditner, who turned this "sketch" (a dog's breakfast would be generous) into a clear, beautiful illustration of gene introgression among warblers... www.allaboutbirds.org/news/when-ev...

1/4 In today's funding climate, every grant and fellowship matters. Based on feedback from our GSAC Community Check-In Survey, we're building a growing hub of graduate & postdoctoral funding opportunities and job boards to make them easier to find. 🧵

This preprint is now published - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Genomic structural variation rescues a classic biological invader from a population bottleneck

Genomic structural variants rescue a textbook biological invader from a population bottleneck and inbreeding.

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Biological invasions present an interesting paradox: often little genetic variation is accompanied by dramatic ecological success. Led by PhD student Chris Osborne, we evaluated genetic diversity in a classic invader, brown treesnake on Guam. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Photo: Pavel Kirilliov

Nanjing Paleontological Museum has an in-house traditional Chinese artist, Li Chen, creating paintings of famous Chinese dinosaurs. These are from 2022 exhibition "From Dragon to Bird" and can be purchased in the museum as postcards or book《从龙到鸟系列 科学艺术化石复原图》

Good morning! Guten Morgen! Italienische Schönschrecke, Calliptamus italicus, Italian Locust, sitting on a wall in #Halle. This locust was once rare here, but is spreading in Germany, profiting from the warmer climate. #orthoptera

Western Europe had its hottest June on record.🔥 Intense heatwaves broke temperature records, with peaks up to 9°C above average in France and Germany, according to Copernicus data. Only Cyprus and Malta had normal temperatures. Climate change is here and we are feeling its effects