My lab @ Edinburgh university is recruiting a postdoc to work on the weird and wonderful germline-specific chromosomes of flies. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... collaboration with @germline.bsky.social and yukiko yamashita funded by @novonordisk.bsky.social please repost!

Hi, Bluesky! Ecstatic my inaugural post gets to be one where I share the news that my dissertation chapter on ochre star pop genomics has finally been published!! ⭐ 🍾 🧬

John Wares@johnwares.bsky.social · 21h ago

SUPER DUPER PLEASED to share the newest pub by Dr. Paige Duffin academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... In this effort, Paige, Lauren Schiebelhut, Mike Dawson and I leveraged whole-genome sequencing to study broad biogeographic patterns in the canonical keystone seastar Pisaster ochraceus. 1/2

We are thrilled to share that our GPN-Star manuscript is now published and freely available: doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/n)

Predicting genome-wide functional constraints with GPN-Star - Nature

GPN-Star, a genomic language model with a phylogeny-aware architecture for whole-genome alignment data, is shown to be a scalable and flexible tool for genetic variant effect prediction across species...

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Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch. Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · last mo.

Come be our colleague. I have been in this Division for 27 years (4 as a postdoc and 23 as a PI). It is an amazing place to work, collaborate, and be inspired. If you are applying to be an Assistant or Associate Professor this Fall, don't miss this deadline.

Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley Submit applications by Sept 30 Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522

Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Increasingly powerful methods are enabling increasing complex models of ancient human history to be inferred from population genomic data. In a recent review, I highlight two blind spots in these inferences: limitations of the methods and choices of models to fit. arxiv.org/abs/2608.27591

Two blind spots in the demographic inference of human origins from genomic data

Ancient DNA and new inference methods have transformed the study of human origins, but consensus has not followed. Evidence increasingly indicates that hominin populations were pervasively structured ...

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I'm just saying. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/philos...

A milkweed flower makes fake figs: brood-site mimicry and mutualism in Heterostemma ficoides Kidyoo et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/HNYYIN...

Very happy to see our Nature Reviews Genetics article on programmed DNA elimination across eukaryotes out! A fantastic collective effort with an amazing group of colleagues, born from inspiring discussions at the Fondation des Treilles. rdcu.be/tmvKgsPZNhBa @laurarossevo.bsky.social

Nature Reviews Genetics@natrevgenet.nature.com · 2d ago

New online! The mechanistic and evolutionary diversity of programmed DNA elimination

Chair in Bacteriology in Cambridge Department of Medicine. A great opportunity. Please circulate. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

We are hiring! 🌟 Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor. It's a broad search: we want great colleagues doing serious biological work at the molecular scale. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/191981 bcmb.uchicago.edu

Biomedical scientists - a reminder that NIH proposes to "improve" peer review by hiding impact scores from Program Officers and applicants, and binning applications into broad categories of "Most competitive,""Competitive," or "Not discussed." Please provide feedback before the October 13 deadline!

Long-range linkage maintained male-specific loci on a young Y chromosome prior to recombination shutdown https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.31.748364v1

Wildlife conservation, hunting, and fishing are perfectly compatible with proper land management, agency funding and a supported workforce. Instead, the USFWS has lost 36% of its workforce under the second Trump administration. ourpubliclandsandwaters.substack.com/p/us-fish-an...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Has Lost 36% of Its Workforce Under the Second Trump Administration

Meanwhile, even with fewer staff, the agency just completed the largest expansion of hunting and fishing access in its entire history

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Under pressure, the DOD just released the text of its secret 10-year agreement with the NIH. Here are the biggest revelations from the document 🧵

I'm excited to release the newest version of my free applied biostats textbook. It's tidyverse style, clarkia inspired and loads of fun Im putting this down until the end of the semester, when I'll add and polish additional chapters, but the 1st 21 are pretty solid yanivjb.github.io/biostats-book

Applied Biostatistics

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Four billion years ago, Earth was a sterile rock. Today it is teeming with life, from simple microbes to extraordinarily complex societies that span the globe. How does that happen? I'm writing a book about the answer: Life Unbounded, from Quanta Books. www.quantabooks.org/books/life-u...

Life Unbounded

In LIFE UNBOUNDED, pioneering evolutionary biologist William C. Ratcliff reveals that every great leap in life’s complexity, from the first cells to human culture, was driven by the same underlying pr...

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Quanta Books@quantabooks.org · last wk.

🚨New book announcement! 🚨Evolutionary biologist William C. Ratcliff’s (@wcratcliff.bsky.social) LIFE UNBOUNDED (forthcoming 2029) delivers a sweeping narrative of the emergence of complex life, and how a sterile planet transformed into the rich mosaic of beings on Earth today.

Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪

My first paper is officially out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! We found that snake embryos coil due to a mismatch in growth rates between the gut and spine. This tight coil is one of the reasons why snakes are able to get so long. Read the paper here!

I am currently searching for a postdoc to work on the evolution of adaptations, cold acclimation, and freezing tolerance in switchgrass. The position entails lab, growth facility, bioinformatics, and fieldwork. careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Postdoctoral Scholar-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary The Lowry Lab at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct field and laboratory experiments to understand the causes of genetic variation...

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Pls share: We have a new position for an Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology at UNLV. tinyurl.com/4uhpav4j

Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences [R0153361]

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) appreciates your interest in employment. We ask that you keep in mind the following when completing your application: Once you start the application process ...

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@heliconians Heliconius John R.G. Turner as author of "Tale of Two Butterflies" in Natural History magazine, 1975 Vol 84 February (Issue 2) pp. 28-37. Announces the astonishing mimicry between Heliconius erato and Heliconius melpomene, and divergence across different regions of South America.

1/11 🐟 2nd new preprint today from @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social We investigated how losing the swim bladder, the organ that most fishes use to control their buoyancy, has shaped the diversity of ray-finned fishes over 90 million years of Earth history. The results surprised us. 🧵

I’m excited to announce that we are looking for a Curatorial Associate to join our team and help lead the L. H. Bailey Hortorium Herbarium at Cornell University 🌿 Please help share with interested botanists! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

Curatorial Associate in Ithaca, New York, United States of America | Library & Museum at Cornell University

Apply for Curatorial Associate job with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States of America. Library & Museum at Cornell University

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UMass Amherst Dept of Biology is hiring a TT faculty member in Evolutionary Biology! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista... We have a diverse and wonderful dept - please consider joining us!

Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work A...

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I am delighted to announce that The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is continuing a multi-year recruiting initiative for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share and consider applying! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

Open your lab here at Utah! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

The Department of Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Ecology. Come join our lively community, in a fantastic city!! apply.interfolio.com/192136

All detectable ancient whole-genome duplications involve hybridization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.25.747000v1