Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

New preprint from PhD student Emily Dovydaitis with @chloology.bsky.social: We need to better account for symbionts in #biodiversity studies. Happy to hear feedback! #SymbioSky

EcoEvoRxiv@ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'Symbiont interactions bias measures of arthropod biodiversity' doi.org/10.32942/X2N...

How useful can #herbarium collections be for genetic monitoring? 🌿 We show that Earth’s currently digitized herbarium specimens can be clustered into HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of historical “populations” suitable for population genetic studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧵

The utility of herbarium collections for genetic monitoring

Abstract. Despite growing evidence of widespread genetic responses to anthropogenic activity, data shortfalls constrain genetic monitoring efforts and prec

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Congratulations to the 2026-28 cohort of Liber Ero Fellows: Mirjam Barrueto, Madison Earhart, Rosemary Hohnen, Sage Raymond, and Hannah Watkins! liberero.ca/meet-the-fel... #LiberEroFellows #CdnSci

Meet The Fellows - Liber Ero Fellowship Program

We are pleased to announce the 2026 Liber Ero Fellows!     Mirjam Barrueto Project: Toward one hundred quiet zones: predicting, locating, and managing wolverine reproduction, connectivity, and source-...

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Are warmer oceans good or bad for #fish? 🐟 The answer is a dangerous paradox. Our new paper in @natecoevo.nature.com shows how marine heatwaves may create “fake” fish gains that mask a large-scale crash. Read our findings here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mncn-csic.bsky.social #ClimateChange

When I scan through open peer reviews I'm surprised by how rarely people comment on the design of visuals. I've been working to develop a constructive approach to critique and have been trying them out on the Tube. Here's the latest www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWpt...

How would you improve upon this set of pie charts published in Nature Microbiology (CC401)

YouTube video by Riffomonas Project

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New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟

Degradation of fish food webs in the Anthropocene

The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.

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What happens when fish communities shift towards smaller species?🐟 Global study led by alumnus @juancarvq.bsky.social shows widespread changes in food webs across marine & freshwater systems. Even where species numbers stayed stable, interactions & body size changed. 🔗 www.idiv.de/smaller-fish...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful! here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments

Interested in genetic diversity-area relationships as a potential proxy for genetic diversity? Check out Chloé Schmidt's latest 😀 @chloology.bsky.social 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio with Sean Hoban, @debbiemleigh.bsky.social, & Walter Jetz onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"Ladybugs of the sea" in formation 💃 These beauties took the top honors of the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year contest. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/2025...

This isn't how birding is supposed to work!

Looking for a PhD? 2 open positions in a fun lab, with an awesome advisor!! 👇

Michael Gerth@mgerth.bsky.social · last yr.

Two fully funded #PhD positions on insect #Symbiosis available in our lab: Spiroplasma in Neotropical Arthropods (tinyurl.com/spiroplasma) & Psyllid symbionts (tinyurl.com/psyllids). Please contact me for any questions & share widely #symbiosky #academicjobs

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

The 2025 Cooper Award @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social has been awarded to the authors of “Harmonizing taxon names in biodiversity data: A review of tools, databases and best practices”. Congratulations to Matthias Grenié, @smartenwinter.bsky.social & all co-authors! 🥂🎉 www.idiv.de/cooper-award...

Authors of iDiv paper awarded W.S. Cooper Award

ESA’s 2025 Cooper Award Honors Groundbreaking Work on Taxonomic Harmonization in Biodiversity Research

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Post your art or photo by May 15 to enter!

Evolution Students@ssegrad.bsky.social · last yr.

🦋 Call for Submissions!!! 🪸 We are announcing the 2025 Evolution Art/Photography Competition and Exhibition. Students and postdocs are invited to submit evolutionary biology themed artwork or photography for an award. 🐦 Submission Deadline: 11:59 PM Eastern Time (UTC−05:00), May 15th, 2025.

Wildlife Research Analyst position with Ontario MNR. Focus on combining telemetry and genomics datasets. Apply by May 1st: www.gojobs.gov.on.ca/Preview.aspx...

I’m recruiting a PhD student in macrogenetics at Dalhousie University 🇨🇦! Focus will be on the biogeography of vertebrate genetic diversity or urban evolutionary ecology. Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic... If the ad is up, applications are still open. Please share widely! 🧬🧬

🦤🧬🧑‍🔬 Junior Group Leader in Conservation Genomics Wanted! 🪲🌿🔬 Help bridge gaps between evolutionary genetics & conservation with museum and monitoring collections. 🔗 Info: tinyurl.com/biodivgen ⏰ Deadline: June 15th 📩 Contact me! 🚀 Excited to explore new horizons! Please share 🕊️

Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

Open positions

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Squirrels are good!

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · last yr.

Squirrel of the Day for April 3, 2025 looked at her 401K #sqrlpix

From swimming guillemots and sun-dappled Scots pines to a coy seal and ravenous pigeons, the winners of this year’s British Wildlife Photography Awards celebrate the diversity of animal life across Great Britain. 🐦 www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/brit...

hiiii come chat with me about how to make stellar presentations to tell your science stories 🥲🫶🏼 🧪🌐🌎👩🏻‍🔬

CSZ-SCZ Official@csz-sczofficial.bsky.social · last yr.

Upcoming webinar on March 31, 2025 at 2:00-3:00pm EST (11:00-12:00pm PST) entitled "Tips and Tricks for Posters and Presentations - Scientific illustration as a powerful tool for communicating science." Further details and registration can be found at this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A new and exciting @nature.com Communications study reveals baleen whales operate the planet's largest nutrient transport system, moving tons of nitrogen and carbon from polar feeding grounds to tropical breeding areas. Great job @jjkiszka.bsky.social and coauthors ✨

Protected Areas are important for global conservation. However, their impact on genetic diversity has long remained unclear. Check out our new paper lead by @chloology.bsky.social which answers this question for mammals and fish. 🧪 lnkd.in/ePDzJeef #ProtectedAreas #Science #Biodiversity

Immediately assigning this new paper to my pop gen students! Waples publishes some real hits - "What is a population?" is another instant classic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size

This is a reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne), inspired by a classic, self-published manual of automotive repair ‘for the compleat idiot’...

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PhD project alert! 🚨 I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab and the MacroSize network to investigate the trends, patterns, and processes driving intraspecific variation in fish body size in the Anthropocene. Exciting opportunity to explore ecological dynamics in a changing world! :) 🌎🐟🐠🐡

✨International fieldwork bee/fly Honours degree opportunity✨ I am happy to be able to share an opportunity with myself and a few others at the Uni of Wollongong to undertake an Honours research degree with field work in Fiji! You will get a scholarship on your CV but must be an Australian Citizen 🧵

This is a paid fellowship to draw mushrooms in upstate New York this summer. Seems relevant to some of y’all’s interests. 🍄