Meet the wildflower that evolved its way out of a historic drought. www.iflscience.com/scientists-h...

Here’s a great PhD opportunity in the crossover between humanities and natural history- please repost 🙏 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

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A first version of #rstats blockr is now on CRAN! 🎉 Build interactive data workflows and dashboards without any code! cynkra.com/blog/2025-12...

Introducing blockr: Data Apps Without Code - cynkra

In this blog post we celebrate the first stable release of blockr, a tool to build data apps in minutes, using a point and click user interface. See what is included in this first release and learn ho...

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Please share widely! #ESTEEM #postdoc CFA: 20 positions for female scientists in natural sciences, life sciences, economics @univie.ac.at: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... To save you a click: PhD completed in 2022 or after (minus career interruption), defended by deadline #UniVienna

If we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.

Academia friendly peer-reviewed journals in EEB: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology

Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

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The Volf lab team is searching for a PhD student in plant metabolomics and evolution in Salicaceae! Please see details in the link: www.volflab.com/news/phd-pos... The student needs to have a strong background in bioinformatics. Would appreciate it to spread the word! Happy to answer questions.

PhD Position in Plant Metabolomics and Evolution

We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate with a background in bioinformatics to join our research team investigating the global drivers of phytochemical diversity . This project aims to...

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Some butterflies may seem more beautiful than others. And believe it or not, this is influencing their conservation and researchers' interest! - Take this 10-min test to contribute to a research into our perception of butterfly beauty: www.unveiling.eu/en_US/introd...

(1/5)Thrilled to announce our paper on #ProjectPsyche is out! 🦋We describe how we’ve generated 1000+ high-quality genomes for European Lepidoptera, providing an unprecedented resource for biodiversity, conservation, and evolutionary research. #Genomics #Biodiversity www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe

Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found in Europe. Here, we describe t...

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It's been busy and super overdue (4 weeks late) but... I am happy to share that my #PhD journey is complete as I continue my academic career as a #post-doc. 😊 I'll be studying (a)biotic drivers of chemical diversity in Salicaceae at a global scale. How exciting!

Hi! We are looking for a post-doc to work with us in #plantchemicalecology! Please see details in the link: www.volflab.com/news/postdoc... Applications due on June 25!

Postdoctoral Position in Plant Chemical Ecology

Postdoctoral Position in Plant Chemical Ecology We are inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher to join our project exploring the drivers and functional roles of phytochemical diversity in....

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Ramping up for field work season with new toys to play! We have lots of VOC samples to collect from willows and poplars in CZ, Minnesota, and Alaska this summer. We are working with our local IT specialist to create sensors (in-house) to collect environmental data along with VOCs. How exciting!

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

🦎 Are you a master's or PhD student ? 🎓 The 2025 Graduate Researchers Award will provide 💰 2x€5,000 prizes highlighting research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose studies rely on GBIF-mediated data. 🧬 Learn more 🔗 gbif.link/gra-2025

Thrilled to share that this paper is out now in Development! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

Lepidopteran scale cells derive from sensory organ precursors through a canonical lineage

Summary: The wing scales of butterflies and moths are derived from sensory organ precursors and are homologues of mechanosensory bristles.

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Joe Hanly@hanliconius.bsky.social · 2y ago

New preprint alert from @lings_ll, @Hanliconius and @KyleDeMarr with the Martin, Wray and Patel labs. We are pleased to share our work outlining evidence for how lepidopteran scale cells are derived from sensory organ precursors (SOPs). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

(Please help spread the word!) Post-doc opportunity to work with Petr Klimes for a motivated candidate to apply with him for PPLZ postdoc fellowship in the Czech Republic, Ceske Budejovice (for two years, assumed start if funded around July 2025 for 2 years).

Cool new paper on Pierids of the genus Eurema s.l. and how it spread over the tropics worldwide: doi.org/10.1111/jbi.... And for me just a way to slip in this cool Eurema novapallida I saw in Thailand last october!

So happy to share our work investigating the diversification, their biogeography, and taxonomy of grass-yellow butterflies which was just published in Journal of Biogeography! What once started as a master's thesis during my BS/MS days in City College of NY is now finally seeing the light with 1/2

Once, in Gorongosa NP, I thought that I had found Halucinogenia, a near-mythical Cambrian animal with spikes on its back. The creature turned out to be a caterpillar of Acridotarsa melipecta who lives as an inquiline in the colonies of the termite Schedorhinotermes lamanianus. Still cool, though.

Happy to share we have a new postdoc position in "Biogeography of genetic diversity changes or Macrogenetics" at @utu.fi to work on large-scale patterns of genetic diversity using Lepidoptera= moths and butterflies 🦋🦋 Applications are open until March 10! ats.talentadore.com/apply/tutkij...

Due to current news, I will be playing this song on repeat 🙃 youtu.be/w3NyycHR3fE?...

Pollyanna (I Believe In You)

YouTube video by Catherine Warwick - Topic

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This does away with awards based on underrepresentation, student support services based on race, scholarships, etc. Let me explain, pre coffee (wrote this morning, no time to update, you're getting a cut n paste), why this is a bad idea. 🧵 www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI

In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.

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ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it

ALT: a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it

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Excited to share our publication in #Oecologia! Here, we study how seasonal turnover affects intraspecific variation in leaf traits and specialization of insect herbivores associated with 6 local Salicaceae species in CZ! dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004...

Effects of pronounced seasonal turnover and intraspecific variation in leaf traits on specialization of insect herbivores associated with six Salicaceae hosts - Oecologia

Temperate plants show a rapid seasonal turnover in various leaf traits and defenses. Such trends in plant defenses can potentially drive seasonal shifts in the specialization of insect herbivores. We ...

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From reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...

From the labrats community on Reddit

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Despite having lived/worked outside the US for more than a decade, I am still very moved by the massive destruction of the US's research sector. This+NIH cuts will induce a huge brain-drain out of the US. So many jobs will be lost. Innovation potential will be lost. www.science.org/content/arti...

‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts

Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds

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Please excuse my french sign on my desk - but do turn your attention to my Phylliidae patch that I finally remembered to bring to CZ from NYC! Courtesy of Royce Cumming and friends 🥺

A postdoc opportunity to work on Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) functional genomics with me, @jadrankarota.bsky.social and @chriswheat.bsky.social in Lund, Sweden. We aim to leverage the amazing amount of data being generated by @projectpsyche.bsky.social and DToL projects. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoctoral fellow in Noctuidae functional genomics

Subject description The project will use a comparative functional genomes approach to study a species-rich group of moths, Noctuidae (Lepidoptera). Noctuidae have both a huge negative and positive imp

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Despite chaotic times, I wish you all a happy chinese or lunar new years! This year is the year of the snake 🐍.