Applications are now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2027! Funds cover registration, travel, meals, and lodging. The application deadline is earlier this year: November 1st! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @mbarinews.bsky.social invites applications for in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. Deadline to apply is 5pm PT on December 2, 2026. www.mbari.org/about/career...

Postdoc Fellowships • MBARI

Each year, MBARI invites applications for several in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. MBARI also...

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Here's the big one: what's going to happen to the Academy's collections? Excellent and thorough reporting from the Inquirer (gift link) www.inquirer.com/arts/academy...

The Academy of Natural Sciences museum is closing, but all eyes are on its specimens — all 19 million of them

"Profound concern" over the fate of the Academy and its internationally significant collection.

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I heard you like clingfishes! Check out our new preprint on the evolution and ecomorphology of their adhesive discs and skull! doi.org/10.64898/202...

New paper in Systematic Biology! We show how micro-synteny can help resolve a tricky fish #phylogenetic problem where traditional sequence-based analyses fall short. Genomes archive evolutionary history in more than just their basepairs. doi.org/10.1093/sysb... #fish #genomics #evolution

Happy birthday to my grad school support buddy!

We are proud to announce the 2nd year co-hosting the NYC Pathways to the PhD Conference with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of Graduate Education and St. Francis College! Register here: www.cientificolatino.com/phd-conference

We are announcing the official launch of Científico Latino's NYC Workshop Series where our goal is to get NYC college students ready for the PhD! Our first public session will be at the American Museum of Natural History, in partnership with the NYC Science Research Mentoring Consortium.

The Natural History Museum of LA is hiring a Curator of Marine Invertebrates! Come join an amazing team and contribute to stewarding the largest marine invert collection in the Western US. 🐙🪼🦐 workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Come be our colleague!!! TT position in Evolution careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...

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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Does habitat use drive morphological variation in snakes? Our new study of over 400 species shows how distinct environments shape head and body traits, revealing a complex balance between adaptation and specialisation 🐍 Hudry & Herrel 2026 #Ecomorphology #SnakeEvolution doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

From head to tail: Does habitat use drive morphological variation in snakes?

Abstract. Convergence, defined as lineages evolving to be more similar to one another than their ancestors due to selective pressures is a hallmark of adap

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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...

~35 Myr ago, a female pseudoscorpion grabbed a fly's hind leg and got caught in resin, with a brood sac of 12 eggs still attached. µCT let us count every one. 🦂 ✍️ Earliest fossil evidence of parental care and phoresy together, in iScience (open access): doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Ants were thought to eat this parasitic plant's fruit, but cameras revealed hermit crabs as the culprits! Each crab carried off 86 fruits on average, helping spread the seeds. Its ripe scent attracts crabs and the cockroaches that pollinate it! 🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fieldwork was a success this week!

Interested in joining a growing lab in LA? We’re hiring a postdoc!! Please spread the word to folks in your network and feel free to get in touch with any questions recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11142

IUCN statement of support for natural history museums. We need them iucn.org/news/202607/...

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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Our new paper in Science Advances asks how animals' genomes have changed since their origin from a common ancestor over 600 million years ago, and what patterns in their DNA have arisen in the churn of speciation and extinction. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1 month until we review the next round of applications for the EMERGE Alaska program at the UAF College of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences! Students who got an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP are eligible to apply. We're recruiting 8 PhD students for 2027! Deadline is 9/15. www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...

I love unboxing things for the lab because it scratches the same part of my brain as when I buy stuff and unbox them

He doesn’t know anything about troubleshooting code

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

ecoevojobs.net 2026-27

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🦇 The true origins of the Mexican shrew's type specimens, collected over a century ago, have long been misattributed due to confusing place names. 📜 Through careful examination of historic field journals, the exact type locality has now been pinpointed to Las Milpillas: doi.org/10.3897/nhcm.3.202846

🎓 Starting graduate school in the sciences this Fall 2026? Not sure what to expect in your first year? You’re not alone and our GSMI alumni are here to help. "What to Expect in Your First Year of Graduate School" 📅 Monday, August 31st at 11am ET 🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-nav...

Do you want to go to grad school in #paleontology 🦖, #geology ⚒️, or #biology🧪? Join the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social Graduate School Application Prep Group! We’ll walk you through the application process in weekly workshops. Sign up with this form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We received almost 300 applications to our Graduate Research Excellence Grants this year. We expect to fund around 50 proposals. Help us fund 10 more grants by making a tax-deductible donation to our GoFundMe campaign today! www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...

Donate to Support Students on their Scientific Research Journey!, organized by SSE Communications

The Graduate Research Excellence Grants are awarded by the So… SSE Communications needs your support for Support Students on their Scientific Research Journey!

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There’s something about working on the confocal microscope on the weekends that makes me enter a flow state

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Temperature-dependent physiological impairment and mortality of wild post-smolt Atlantic salmon exposed to salmon lice, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 83, Issue 7, July 2026, fsag118, doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Temperature-dependent physiological impairment and mortality of wild post-smolt Atlantic salmon exposed to salmon lice

Abstract. The marine ectoparasite Lepeophtheirus salmonis (salmon louse) constitutes a significant threat to wild and farmed Salmo salar (Atlantic salmon)

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July's GBE Highlight featured the article by Chen et al. on the evolution of biomineralization in the Lophotrochozoa. Highlight: A Tough Shell to Crack—Mineral Chemistry Drives Shell Evolution in Invertebrates 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag153 #societyjournal #genome #evolution