🚨 Don't miss your opportunity! ⏳ The 𝗦𝗠𝗕𝗘 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 grant proposal deadline is approaching: 𝗢𝗰𝘁. 𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 ✨ We can't wait for your application! @official-smbe.bsky.social #AcademicSky

SMBE IDEA taskforce@smbe-idea.bsky.social · 4d ago

📣‼️ Less than two weeks until the SMBE IDEA grant proposal deadline for 2027 ‼️📣 Find details of the criteria on the application form ⬇️ 📃 Application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📅 Deadline: Oct 5, 2026 @official-smbe.bsky.social

Recombination accelerates adaptation across genetic architectures and demographic histories https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.23.753908v1

We’re recruiting to an assistant/associate professorship in Pathogen Genetics- come and join us. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

🚨We're hiring a new Curator of Mammals!!🚨 🦍🐕🦝🐅🦓🦌🐃🐖🐏🐫🐘🦏🦛🐿️🦔🦇🦥🦦🦨🦘🦡🐋🦭🦒🧸 Come join the Vertebrate Unit at @nhmdk.bsky.social—a fantastic team in the heart of Denmark's beautiful capital! Amazing collections, incredible history. Please share widely! 🧪🏛️ candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor and Curator of Mammals

Tenure Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, and Curator of Mammals at Natural History Museum Denmark The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to ap

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Gaut et al. synthesize key lessons and outstanding challenges concerning the action of natural selection on plant genomes, revealing the power and some of the limits of population genomics to infer the dynamics of selection on plant genomes. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #societyjournal

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

Mean fitness is maximized in small populations under stabilizing selection on highly polygenic traits

Abstract. Stabilizing selection commonly acts on complex traits that affect individual fitness. Here, we relate mean fitness under stabilizing selection to

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Aaron Ragsdale@apragsdale.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In an earlier project simulating quantitative traits/stabilizing selection in a human-Neanderthal model, I became a bit curious about some observed fitness dynamics that I wasn’t expecting. I’m not sure if this is all that interesting or relevant, but at least it’s short.

Princeton EEB is running a very broad faculty search at the Assistant Professor level. Please consider applying to join us! This is a wonderful, collaborative, cohesive department with diverse interests and amazing colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/193474

We are advertising a 3 year postdoc position for a project on ARGs and structural variation! Based at Oxford stats. Closing date noon 12 October, full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

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@haorancai.bsky.social @kgslab.bsky.social & @evodaveo.bsky.social show that genetic correlations are more environmentally stable when driven by polygenic background correlation across many loci, vs. a few large-effect pleiotropic outliers 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #societyjournal #evobio

Consistent and idiosyncratic pleiotropy in shaping genetic correlations

Abstract. Pleiotropy, the phenomenon where a single mutation influences multiple phenotypic traits, creates genetic correlations that can constrain evoluti

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Maybe you have heard about our Alaska stickleback introduction experiment? You might want to apply for our multi-PI freshwater science postdoctoral position. The video below is of one of our source lakes for the intro. scasscsa.mcjobboard.net/jobs/235865

My colleague @saismit.bsky.social and @satavisha-de.bsky.social write about the lack of female representation in STEM and how this is a bigger problem even for women of color.

Saismit Naik@saismit.bsky.social · last mo.

As I & @satavisha-de.bsky.social , move up the career ladder, the tampons in the bathroom may increase, but the women around us do not. Despite policies meant to patch its cracks, academia continued to sieve out women. We saw it, we heard it from our peers. So we looked for the literature.

TWO JOBS in our department #IntegrativeBiology at #UTAustin! Evolutionary Biology and Organismal Mechanistic Processes, both very widely defined. Come join us! Application info here: apply.interfolio.com/193270

The Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin has two open positions for assistant professors, one in evolutionary biology and one in mechanistic processes. Please share. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/193270

Plant Colleagues! Open job for Director of the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center (PRC) at UT Austin. A great job for anyone addressing fundamental questions in evolution of plants and a commitment to herbarium administration and/or collections-based research. apply.interfolio.com/193263

I'm hiring a bioinformatician! Review of applications starts October 1 with a start date as soon as possible. 🧪 #Genomics #popGen #CompBio northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

PRDM9-mediated meiotic hotspot specification is constrained in humans despite extensive sequence diversity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.10.750150v1

Ancestree: unified likelihood inference of ancestral alleles under supplied or inferred genealogies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.11.750934v1

@roshnipatel.bsky.social and I wrote about using biobanks to learn about evolution, and how those findings shape interpretations of association studies. We focused on estimating evolutionary constraint and relating relating selection on variants to selection on traits and include open questions.

arXiv q-bio.PE Populations and Evolution@qbiope-bot.bsky.social · 2w ago

Jeffrey P. Spence, Roshni A. Patel: Insights into human evolution from large genetic biobanks https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12297 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.12297 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.12297

These are of course very old questions with tremendous recent progress; we focus mostly on the recent progress and what it offers for the next era of studying human genetics in biobanks. Excited this preprint is out and we'd of course love to hear any thoughts!

Jeff Spence@jeffspence.github.io · 2w ago

@roshnipatel.bsky.social and I wrote about using biobanks to learn about evolution, and how those findings shape interpretations of association studies. We focused on estimating evolutionary constraint and relating relating selection on variants to selection on traits and include open questions.

The Carlson Lab at the University of Rochester is recruiting researchers at all levels! Please reach out to Maryn (marync.github.io/carlsonlab/i...) if you are interested in groundbreaking problems in population and quantitative genetics. Maryn is brilliant and will be a great mentor!

Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏

🌿 Congratulations to Dr. Jenn Coughlan (Yale University), recipient of the 2026 BSA Emerging Leader Award! We're honored to recognize them as a rising star in our community. 👏 Learn more at www.botany.org (click Awards). #BSA2026AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW

Congratulations @jenncoughlan.bsky.social!!!

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌿 Congratulations to Dr. Jenn Coughlan (Yale University), recipient of the 2026 BSA Emerging Leader Award! We're honored to recognize them as a rising star in our community. 👏 Learn more at www.botany.org (click Awards). #BSA2026AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW

UNC Greensboro Department of Biology is hiring for three positions this year including one in microbiology! spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35918

Assistant Professor Microbiology

The Department of Biology at UNC Greensboro (UNCG) seeks an individual with a strong record of accomplishment in microbiology broadly defined for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assista...

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Please repost: My department (quantitative and computational biology at the University of Southern California) is hiring a teaching-track faculty member. The new hire will focus on teaching statistics courses to biology students. Apply by Dec 1 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

The Neal lab is hiring a postdoctoral fellow to lead exciting structural and biophysical studies of membrane protein quality control! Competitive HHMI-scale salary + cutting-edge science + a genuinely wonderful and supportive lab culture. Please share widely with anyone who might be interested!

If anyone looking for a postdoc with fantastic genomics/bioinformatics skills + strong intellect + great energy, please let me know! Preferably West Coast or remote/hybrid options & the candidate is open to a short (1 year) or longer term appointment

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

📣 I'm recruiting PhD students to join the Akopyan Lab at Rice University! If you're passionate about evolutionary genomics, I'd love to hear from you. Details: akopyanlab.org/opportunities Please share widely! 🙏

Opportunities

We are recruiting PhD students in Evolutionary Genomics for Fall 2027 at Rice University!  Projects in the lab include investigating the causes and consequences of recombination rate variation, the...

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