SAVE THE DATE: the yearly NY Population Genetics meeting will be back on March 9 2026, generously hosted by the @simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.

We're excited to share the final version of our paper, where we demonstrate how confounding remains a thorny problem for claims about causal genetic influences on human behavioral and socioeconomic outcomes. (w/ @jedidiahcarlson.com @oliviarxiv.bsky.social Ruth Shaw @arbelharpak.bsky.social) 🧵👇

incredible opportunity!!

I am the most recent white male evolutionary biologist hired at Cornell. I’d like to provide essential context for readers mulling over Colin Wright’s commentary, “Cornell University discriminated against me.” 🧵

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This guy *admits* he applied for "countless" tenure-track positions and ultimately had to leave academia because nobody would hire him. He claims, though, that Ivy League Cornell filled their position with a Black person who couldn't possibly be more qualified than him. www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...

I say we start by making it less financially appealing. We need a ruthless anti-scam administration. A total crackdown on robocalls, MLMs, crytpo scams, get rich quick influencers, and fake supplement companies. Steep penalties and enforcement structures with teeth.

Published an op-ed in my hometown paper, advocating for the continued funding of American Science. johnbenning.net/2025/08/01/a...

America leads the world in science and innovation. Let’s not throw that away.

Published July 2025 in my hometown paper, The Franklin Times. Part of the Science Homecoming initiative. KJ Muldoon was only a few days old when his parents received devastating news: their son was…

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Very stoked to tell y'all that I just started as an assistant prof in Cornell EEB! More to come later, but for now, if you know folks looking to do a PhD in evolutionary ecology, they can chat with me about this awesome fellowship. 2-pg LOI is due July 31! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

We begin reviewing applications next week!

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The Kreiner and Carley Labs at @UChicago E&E are co-hiring a Lab Manager/Research Technician position in Plant Evolutionary Ecology & Genomics! Please see the link for more details and instructions on how to apply: bit.ly/UChiPlantTec...

I have been following the discussion around how best to represent and label human genetic variation, and thought it might also be worth discussing an aspect of the broader context. 1/n

New from @jedidiahcarlson.com and I, and with a personal guarantee that there are no AI images. We discuss conceptual and methodological practices in mainstream human genetics that contribute to misappropriation by scientific racists through their own fringe counter-research & online memes.

Frontiers | Typological thinking in human genomics research contributes to the production and prominence of scientific racism

<p>Public genomic datasets like the 1000 Genomes project (1KGP), Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP), and the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD)...

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PSA for ppl sympathetic to hereditarian arguments: it should give you pause that of the academics ascribing to genetic determinism, few are biologists. Exceedingly few are experimental biologists. It's v hard to believe simplistic genetic narratives once you actually... 1/

excited to see this out! Haoran put in a *ton* of work on this really cool, classic system

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 3y ago

Genomic evidence for supergene control of Darwin's 'complex marriage arrangement' - the tristylous floral polymorphism https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.15.575583v1

Please help spread the word! I made a feed for ecology evolution ECR on all things career-related :) Feed + more details here: bsky.app/profile/did:... 🌏🧪 #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #PhDChat

Cher Chow 周馥溢@cherfychow.bsky.social · 3y ago

Welcome to the Ecology Evolution ECR careers feed! It's geared towards highlighting jobs, funding opportunities, and general career chats for early-career researchers. Contribute by tagging posts with #EcoECRcareer Ground rules: - no unpaid/pay-to-play opportunities - use alt text - be respectful

The Kern-Ralph CoLab is looking for postdocs to join us in Oregon!

Defining fitness in evolutionary ecology A primer we hope will be of use to all learners! #evolution #plantscience 🧪🌍🌎🌏

International Journal of Plant Sciences@ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 3y ago

JA and OA @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Primers on the Plant Sciences: Defining fitness in evolutionary ecology @smwadgymar.bsky.social, @seemasheth.bsky.social, @emjo.bsky.social, Megan deMarche, Jill Anderson www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

made a few updates to the EcoEvo Jobs app -- a lil more data, marginal histograms and, for the masochists, the ability to plot your own stats for comparison 🙃 Check it out here: john-benning.shinyapps.io/shiny/

I write about why and how should we talk about behavioral heritability [ gusevlab.org/projects/hsq... ]. A partial response to the Hastings Report [ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37078667/ ], which I found to be important but also fundamentally flawed in it's proposed solutions. Key points 🧵 :

trying to think more about how genetic architecture of a trait in a population can change between environments. eg, mainly additive effects in env_1, mainly cytonuclear effects in env_2. anyone have favorite papers touching on this idea? #evolution #genetics

Do you think about range expansions, dispersal evolution, invasions?? Check out our new preprint: "Environmental gradients mediate dispersal evolution during biological invasions" doi.org/10.1101/2023...

Really excited for Sasha Bishop's defense tomorrow! If you are interested in global change, resurrection experiments, and multivariate trait evolution, you will enjoy this talk!!

Gina Baucom@gbaucom.bsky.social · 3y ago

Anyone have any experience with Bayesian hurdle models where there are *two* sequential Bernoulli processes, followed by a Poisson?

New record: 24 referee invitations on a single ms, with only one accepted. And this is for a "big name journal". If you submit manuscripts, you must review manuscripts. How many? See formula below. (Yes, resubmissions and revisions count in the number of submissions.)

If you have two or more bug species in one shot, let's see em (you have to look carefully to find #2 here 😉)

Leonie Moyle@speciationlab.bsky.social · 3y ago

If you have two or more bug species in one shot, let's see em

Siegmund, Moeller, Eckhart, & Geber leverage long-term demographic observations and experiments in the winter annual Clarkia xantiana to test if bet hedging explains germination patterns in the California winter annual plant. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...