🚨 #FutureFellowships #FT26 announcement: ❗️Outcomes announced publicly for ARC Future Fellowships 2026❗️ See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/293 /bot

🐜 PhD opportunity available! ✨ The BugEye project on automated monitoring of 🇦🇺’s priority insects has a fully funded scholarship at @westernsydneyu.bsky.social 🌏 Domestic students only 💵 $37,707 pa. 📅 30th Sept ℹ️ waw.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/... EOIs to 👉🏼 k.umbers@westernsydney.edu.au

I am thrilled and honoured to have won the @ausevosoc.bsky.social Best Paper Award. This means I will be giving a plenary lecture at the societies conference in December. ausevo.com/programme/ da Silva et al (2026) Nature Communications was the awarded publication. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AES 2026

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Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 3 September, 2026 at 11:00am for a seminar by Prof Matthew Symonds, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne. Details: biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

E&E Seminar Series: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes: evaluating phenotypic responses to climatic warming in birds

Global climatic warming is having profound effects on species’ ecology and acts as a major driver of phenotypic change, but predicting how species will change in their morphology, behaviour and physio...

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ARC has published (inadvertently?) how many Future Fellowships & DECRAs they’ll fund (FT26 & DE27). Even though outcomes aren't out yet, these numbers & success rates are here ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/ncgp-trends-... 299 FT26s & 455 DE27s "funded". Success rate of 20% for both schemes.

✨Last Chance for Early Bird Rego!✨ Less than 1 week remaining to register for AES x SASB's joint conference, 🧬𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗴🧬, 2-4 Dec at the University of Wollongong 🌊 Register at this link: aes.corsizio.com/portal/aes

🦎 PhD Opportunities available! 🔥 2 fully funded projects at @utas.edu.au within the BEER Group: 1️⃣ Eco+gen processes that shape family living: www.utas.edu.au/research/deg... 2️⃣ Mol mechanisms of social behaviour: www.utas.edu.au/research/deg... 📅 EOIs close 1st Sept -> 📩geoffrey.while@utas.edu.au

Available projects for research degrees | University of Tasmania - Family life in the wild: Linking genes, social behaviour, and population dynamics

This PhD will investigate the genetic and ecological mechanisms underp...

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✈️ Travel Grants Open! ✨ Our travel grant applications are now open for Evolution in the Gong from the 2nd to 4th of December. Apply via this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Applications close on the 13th of September 📅 see you in the Gong! 🌊

Evolution in the Gong Travel Grant Application 2026

We have tried to keep registration costs to a minimum. However, we understand that things might be tight and travel is expensive, so we have allocated some funds to help people with travel expenses. U...

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🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️27th August 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next Thursday for a talk by @brpetrucci.bsky.social from Iowa State University on “Budding phylogenetic trees: inference with BEAST2 and post-processing with paleobuddy”. Sign up here: palaeoverse.org/training/lec...

Big evolutionary events can fool phylogenetic analyses. A new approach combines phylogenetic regression with eigenvectors to reduce false positives and better account for the history written in genomes. doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Characterizing and mitigating confounding by unreplicated evolutionary events in phylogenetic regression

Abstract. When researchers want to test for a direct effect of one attribute on another using interspecific data, they need to account for the confounding

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Species’ traits, climatic niches or home ranges are naturally described as distributions in continuous spaces. In this new preprint we present a framework for measuring and partitioning diversity in these spaces using equivalent numbers and probability density functions doi.org/10.64898/202...

Have you ever wanted to know where in the Pilbara you might be able to find suitable roosting and foraging habitat for threatened bats 🦇? Well our new spatial tool will be able to help! Just out in Biological Conservation with @robynshaw.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Modeling complex habitat use for threatened species decision-making in a landscape with competing ecological and economic values

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in conservation; however, their uptake in decision-making can be limited when they fail to reflect …

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#IslandRules This suggestion is pretty cool : « … large body size in geckos may be at least correlated with a highly arboreal ecology ».

Limited dispersal leads to differing evolutionary trajectories between adjacent continental and insular lineages in a widespread lizard radiation (Gehyra: Gekkonidae)

Abstract. Biotic dispersal between regions is mediated by a suite of geographical, environmental, and biotic factors. Australia and Melanesia—with the latt

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Join us on campus & online on Thursday, 20 August 2026 at 1:00pm for a seminar by Dr Bernd Gruber, conservation geneticist at the University of Canberra Details: biology.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

E&E Seminar Series: From DNA to Conservation Decisions: Using SNPs to Protect Threatened Species

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have become a cornerstone of modern conservation genetics, offering affordable, high-throughput genomic data that can directly inform management decisions. This ...

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Science peeps, please re-share! We're hiring for a level D, research-only position. Despite the weird job title it's very broadly molecular ecology, evolution, or -omics more broadly. Must already have the right to work in Australia. external-jobs.csu.edu.au/cw/en/job/49...

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums iucn.org/news/202607/...

Are Australia's endangered plant species more likely to go extinct from climate change? Here is a Plant ecophysiology PhD opportunity in sunny South Australia, open to both domestic and international applicants. Contact @ilainematos.bsky.social (ilaine.matos@adelaide.edu.au) for further details.

Maybe late to the game, but if you have not read the 75th Anniversary special series of @systbiol.bsky.social you should. So many good ideas and history there academic.oup.com/sysbio/pages... #systematicbiology

Systematic Biology's 75th Anniversary

In celebration of Systematic Biology's 75th anniversary, the 2026 volume features a special series of discussions and essays commissioned by the Society’s Legac

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1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

Why does Australia take a census? It’s our only national family photograph and it provides valuable evidence about who we are and how and where we live. My explainer from 2025. #Census2026au is 11 August - we all count! theconversation.com/australias-c...

Australia’s census is getting a stress test – keeping it going is good for everyone

Census testing begins next month ahead of the 2026 official headcount. National census are under threat overseas, threatening the collection of quality data.

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Consider becoming Editor in Chief for the BSSB! This innovative journal has a strong foundation and enormous potential --come help make it happen!

The Society of Systematic Biologists@systbiol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Society of Systematic Biologists is looking for a new editor for the Bulletin! The Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists is the Society’s diamond OA journal. Are you interested? Or know someone who might be? See 👇 www.systbio.org/eicbssb.htm

Happy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years. Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1

Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space

Nature Ecology & Evolution - A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major...

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Soooo many heads but no brain between them all! Banksia polycephala, the many headed Dryandra, often growing under wandoo from Bindoon to new norcia, it is a reseeder that often grows in thickets after fire, a vast majority of this population had been burnt off but will probably sprout back up soon!

Our newest paper on mammalian dental evolution, out today as the cover article in @science.org, lead by @narimanechatar.bsky.social with a team of fantastic early career scientists!!! 🎉🥳 “Performance trade-offs define a fundamental dental dichotomy in mammals” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Super excited that our paper led by @sandinmm.eurosky.social in PNAS is out! We show that crown-group eukaryotes were already taxonomically and ecologically diverse throughout the Mesoproterozoic, revealing complex communities well before the Neoproterozoic radiation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Environmental phylogenetics supports a steady diversification of crown eukaryotes starting from the mid-Proterozoic | PNAS

Molecular clock and preservation of early microfossil assemblages suggest that eukaryotes were present and already diverse more than ~1600 million ...

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💻 Our new website is now live! 💻 Over the past few months, we've been working hard to create a hub of resources designed to support the palaeontological community. 🔗 Find out more and visit the new site here: palaeoverse.org

Celeste Linde on the big stage at #icom2026 talking about orchid mycorrhizal fungi. Pure joy.

📢 New publication 'Leaf Size in #Conifers: Global Associations With Climate and Evolutionary History' by Katya Bandow, Timothy Brodribb, Benjamin Halliwell, Matilda Brown, Kate Johnson and Gregory Jordan in Global Change Biology 🧪🍃 doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #LeafSize #Phylogenetics

Leaf Size in Conifers: Global Associations With Climate and Evolutionary History

Global patterns in leaf size are linked to climatic trade-offs, so we explore these relationships in a major group of plants, the conifers. Using contemporary phylogenetic methods, we show that conif...

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Idk I think there are better ways to spend your time right now

Tim Janicke@timjanicke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In a new #Viewpoint we argue that the binary definition of #BiologicalSex based on gamete size is a scientifically robust framework that is entirely compatible with the diversity of sexual phenotypes and human gender identities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

✨Last Chance for Super Early Rego!✨ We’ve extended our super early bird rego until the 17th of July! Use code SUPEREARLY2026 to join us December for 🧬𝗘𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗴🧬 Only 1 week left so register at this link: aes.corsizio.com/portal/aes