Kontopoulos et al. screened 190 placental mammal genomes to examine associations between loss, positive selection, and evolutionary rate shifts in protein-coding genes and evolutionary shifts in torpor use 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... 📷 Danielle L Levesque #societyjournal #evolution

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If you are a postdoc hoping to present at the SICB 2027 annual meeting in Pittsburgh, USA, & you are in need of financial support to travel, make sure you apply for a @biologists.bsky.social/@sicb.bsky.social Postdoc Travel Award 🔁 Deadline: 10 September '27 tinyurl.com/bdfmbph7

I've been seeing a lot of "well I guess this is the way things are now" "ah another line of evidence that we are a fallen empire", attitude that I am begging people to shake off. There are people working their butts off to make things better. Please don't give up. Join us.

The U.S. is a massive funder of science. Canada does not come anywhere close. Stories about a handful of scientists get attention, but rather than "brain drain," the likely outcome if the U.S. continues its path is that there will simply be fewer scientists and less science getting done in the world

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More brain drain: “Twenty-one universities in Canada announced on Thursday the hiring of dozens of researchers to join their top academic ranks, poaching the majority of the recruits from the United States. Of the incoming 64 researchers, 48 will leave American campuses…”

#SICB Pittsburgh Abstract submission is open for SICB 2027! www.xcdsystem.com/sicb/abstrac... Come share your research and learn about the most exciting areas of integrative, comparative, & organismal #biology in Pittsburgh, PA on January 3-7, 2027. The deadline is August 28 at 11:59 PM HST.

My department is hiring a biology lecturer to contribute to our intro bio sequence and an online summer course (applications due September 1!): fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

there's not a lot of super rich people who really earned their wealth, and very few who used it to truly make the world better. as much as i love her music, it's that part that i've always loved the most about Dolly Parton

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Come join us, PhD and postdoc positions! Please spread! Supervisor @patricepottier.bsky.social (patricepottierlab.com), me as co-supervisor. Impacts of climate change on different life-stages in fish.🐟🧪 PhD web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Postdoc web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

We are hiring a #postdoc to work on our NSF funded project on metabolic rate as a driver of individual variation in treefrog acoustic communication. Please spread the word to potentially interested candidates (or apply if you are one of them): jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/postdoc...

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My lab is currently searching for a motivated technician/research assistant to join our NSF/DBT-funded plant minichromosome project team at UMaine. Please help spread the word! 🌱🌾🧪🧬 fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Science is an international endeavour and for many researchers English is their 2nd or 3rd language, so now JEB encourages you to submit an additional abstract in your own language or that of the region where you performed your research journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/jo...

Annual reminder to not dwell in the venting tab too much here. Though it's awesome that the annual salary range is listed now!

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

It's that time! Abstract submission is open for #SICB 2027! Come share your research and learn about the most exciting areas #scientific research in Pittsburgh, PA on January 3-7, 2027. abstract deadline is August 28 at 11:59 PM HST. Questions go to Matt McHenry: ProgramOfficer@sicb.org.

I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.

🦞Climate change and bait shortages are reshaping lobster diets and thermal stress in the Gulf of Maine. This study shows temperature–diet effects on metabolism, stress tolerance, and survival. Bait guidelines are critical. Full article ⬇️ academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

Thermal acclimation and meal item shape postprandial aerobic performance in the American lobster (Homarus americanus)

Abstract. Rapid warming in the Gulf of Maine and shifts in bait usage in Maine’s lobster industry are altering the thermal and nutritional landscapes for A

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📢 ASSOCIATE EDITORS WANTED Join us! IBIS is looking for Associate Editors to join our editorial team and support the peer review process Read more and complete the application form: bou.org.uk/ibis/vaca... #ornithology 🪶

This is the last call to early-career researchers applying for the 7 August deadline for the next round of JEB Travelling Fellowships Get your application in so you can visit an international lab to perform that essential experiment or learn a technique www.biologists.com/grants/trave...

An analysis of fossil mammals in Science suggests that Mexico served as a long-term evolutionary “holding pen” where North American species adapted and diversified for millions of years before sweeping into South America 2.8 million years ago. https://scim.ag/4fu2QKL

Did you know that of the 217 modern mammal genera in South America, more than HALF are from North America. Hey you say, that makes sense...but what if I told you that of all the mammal genera in North America, only FOUR are from the South?! What gives? www.sciencenews.org/article/mamm...

Mammals moving between the Americas stopped over in Mexico

Ancient mammals may have had an easier time moving across the Isthmus of Panama from north to south thanks to Mexico’s climate.

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I have a PhD project to look at the impact of climate change on an endangered WA skink 🦎. Applicants interested in herpetology, thermal ecology and collaborating with First Nations are encouraged to apply. Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola... Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com

There are only three days left to apply for our Commissioning Editor role! ⏰ Join our global Editorial Board & play a crucial role in inviting innovative ideas via commissioning Reviews, Perspectives, Practitioner's Perspectives & Policy Directions 📖 Apply here 👇 apply.workable.com/britishecolo...

It’s a little nerve-wracking playing in another field’s sandbox, but this was a really fun way to bring some primatology to an ancient Egyptian conundrum.. so if you’re into big baboons, Egyptian dieties, etymological puzzles, &/or spectroscopy of shiny things.. read on! 🧪🏺🐒🌕 tinyurl.com/moonbaboon

Moonlight and the apotheosis of sacred baboons

Thoth was an ancient Egyptian deity of wisdom, writing, magic, and the moon. Manifestations of Thoth took the form of two animal species, the sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) and sacred baboo...

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Historical Perspective: Sridhar et al. use the backstories of famous scientific papers in Ecology and Evolution to uncover the background roles of natural history that are written out of papers. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Reusing your own text - efficient or unethical? Check out our new editorial exploring the ethics, limits, and implications of text recycling. 🖥️ With expert contributions from @andreafuller.bsky.social @kruthsatz.bsky.social & editorial staff Read here⬇️ academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

Hopefully everyone who attended #SEB2026 this week had a great time! @thermal-biology.bsky.social proudly sponsored the "Adaptive responses of endotherms to short -term weather events and rapid environmental changes“ session and we wish to thank the organisers and all the speakers who participated!

The @conphysjournal.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, @andreafuller.bsky.social, shares reflections on community, diversity, impact, and the journal’s direction in this new editorial. Read it here: academic.oup.com/conphys/arti... #ConservationPhysiology #SEB

Two years at the editor’s desk: reflections on community, diversity and impact

As I conclude my second year as Editor-in-Chief of Conservation Physiology, I look back on a challenging but enjoyable period, shaped by my commitment to m

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