📣 PhD opportunity in my lab 📣 Are you interested in the effects of climate change on social behaviour? 🌡️🔥 This PhD project will examine these effects in the amazing burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Informal enquiries welcome. Please share widely!

Fer-de-lance would like a word

Science X / Phys.org@sciencex.bsky.social · 6d ago

Venomous snakes are more likely than nonvenomous species to stand out against their natural backgrounds—a pattern seen in a comparison of more than 450 species. doi.org/hcmkxs

Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.

Disappointed with the financial return on their textbook, two theoretical biologists branch out into the lucrative world of German TV sales.

Almost forgot: happy That Tom Hollander Interview Day to all who celebrate

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · last yr.

Ah, 4 October! Happy fifth birthday to this marvellous thing…

PhD-position ALERT! Interested in the genomics of local adaptation and the evolution of niche breadth? 🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬 Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala University, by applying here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 1st of November!

PhD-student in Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics

Do you want to conduct frontier research in an outstanding environment within evolutionary biology at Sweden’s largest faculty of science and technology? The Department of Ecology and Genetics at Up

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Three new evolutionary ecology PhD positions are open in Switzerland (Eawag, and Uni. Bern) to work on Greenland lake ecosystems. We are interested in how stickleback and copepods evolve, and how their evolution affects the trajectories of lake ecosystem development. apply.refline.ch/673277/1403/...

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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My brain when I sit down to do some writing.

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2w ago

Visually, it looks like they're just =disapparating=. Beam me up, Mr. Bug. They have a sort of hidden spring under their bellies, called a 'furca' or 'furcula'. Like having a secret catapult hidden down your trousers. I love the lowering of the antennae just before launch. 💨

Adding this to the pile…

Aaron Ragsdale@apragsdale.bsky.social · 3w ago

Now out in Genetics: academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Nevermind chaotic local business - I had a flight from London to Miami with American Airlines, and they announced that they had no beer OR wine immediately after take off. The horror! Wouldn’t happen with BA.

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2w ago

as discussed previously ad nauseam I will always support a chaotic local business against a seamless chain but tonight my local pub had "run out of white wine" before even 6pm and like that's just you can't have that as a pub, on a Friday night, how did this even happen

Oh god

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thoughts and prayers for research data managers everywhere. You are not alone. We will get through this together techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...

This was fantastic - the against-the-odds story of Rosemary’s beginnings as a scientist, a lifetime of fantastic research clearly articulated, and a clear passion for the natural world, advocacy, and equality. Very inspiring talk! Big thanks to Rosemary and the BES EE team for organising.

BES Evolutionary Ecology Group@bes-evolecol.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We’re very excited to confirm that Rosemary Grant will be giving our inaugural online webinar in September. It’s free to all, so please look out for details of how to sign up for tickets.

One hour away! And you’re already halfway through the week! So reward yourself with some of the very best of evolutionary ecology, starting in just under one hour: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/evol...

BES Evolutionary Ecology Group@bes-evolecol.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We’re very excited to confirm that Rosemary Grant will be giving our inaugural online webinar in September. It’s free to all, so please look out for details of how to sign up for tickets.

Here's the guillemot one, by Alex Pansier:

Come work with @viromehunter.bsky.social and myself at UBC! We have a postdoctoral position available for someone with an interest in bioinformatics and genomics, using sociovirology to understand disease dynamics in plant viruses. Advert: ppvlab.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2026/0...

Giuseppe, ineptly: “Spaghetti Regretti”

Agatha Chocolats@agathachocolats.bsky.social · 4w ago

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity

Modest Mousse

Andrew Robinson (no, not Garak)@andrewr.bsky.social · 4w ago

Make a band edible: The Tragically Chips

Doctor: "Take a seat Mr Jacques and tell me how on earth you got that terrible cut across your eyebrow". "Well doc, it was this guy in a shell suit"

Today in great scientific figures: the flight path of two midges, immediately preceding ❤️romance❤️

Help needed! Does anyone know of a lab that has glass (pigmentless) guppies? We are interested in getting them for a project

Please spread this talented and wonderful human’s name and work. Maartje @maartjevandenderen.bsky.social just finished her Scientific Illustration Master and is leaping into freelancing next. Got 💰 and #illustration needs? Look no further!! www.maartjevandenderen.nl

Maartje van Denderen

Maartje van Denderen is a Scientific Illustrator, interested in insects, mushrooms, and plants.

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Daniela Rößler@roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Massive congrats to @maartjevandenderen.bsky.social for defending her fantastic thesis! 🥳 Maartje did her scientific illustration thesis with us on #spider #sleep @sleeblab.bsky.social Super cool experience & a pleasure to advise her. 👀 to hire an #illustrator >>> 💻 📞 Maartje!!! Colored pencil 🤯:

New preprint out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social with @devisatarkar.bsky.social and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social in which we analyse the effects of this summer's unprecedented and severe #heatwave on tit reproduction and mass. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Why commas are useful:

Thiago Carvalho@cyrilpedia.bsky.social · last mo.

'There are deadly viruses all around us, and viruses routinely jump from animals to humans and cause severe outbreaks. This is a real, documented risk. This is the risk we should worry about. This is the risk we should prepare for. But instead, we worry about fictitious AI-designed viruses'

Mauve Woolworths

Bob Johnston@bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

Sapphire Pontings.

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz358bs

Interested in developing theory in evolution/ecology? Join our team in Mainz! I've learned so much from this lovely bunch of Kokkonuts.

Hanna Kokko@kokkonut.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come and work with us (the Kokkonuts) as a postdoc! Our research within (theory-evo-eco) is broad; let's say it's implicitly defined by the journal club papers we read. Which is why the application process includes a JC-related task, I hope it'll be a fun one for you! www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

Interested in developing theory in evolution/ecology? Join our team in Mainz! I've learned so much from this lovely bunch of Kokkonuts.

Hanna Kokko@kokkonut.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come and work with us (the Kokkonuts) as a postdoc! Our research within (theory-evo-eco) is broad; let's say it's implicitly defined by the journal club papers we read. Which is why the application process includes a JC-related task, I hope it'll be a fun one for you! www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...