Men are more likely to accept invitations to review a paper in Ecology and Evolution when the *editor* inviting them is male. Women’s response rate is unaffected onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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

My current opinion of journal publishers offering an AI chatbot about papers... side-eye'ing Wiley journals.

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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Multiple positions available: ​ Postdoc PhD students

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Want to learn more about the pace of sex chromosomes evolution in a young system? Then come see my presentation about guppies this afternoon! 🐟 📍BA-2185, 4h30 pm. And stay tuned for @squarehare.bsky.social's talk right after mine! #CSEE2026

Come see my talk on guppy sex chromosome evolution at the Fish 3 session on Tuesday at #CSEE2026! Back-to-back with @joellelafond.bsky.social !

Judith Mank@judithmank.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Mankees are headed to #CSEE2026! Check out @squarehare.bsky.social's and @joellelafond.bsky.social's talks about Poecilia sex chromosomes, and @vdbijl.bsky.social's talk about evolutionary repeatability of male colour.

Mankees are headed to #CSEE2026! Check out @squarehare.bsky.social's and @joellelafond.bsky.social's talks about Poecilia sex chromosomes, and @vdbijl.bsky.social's talk about evolutionary repeatability of male colour.

🚨 My very first postdoc paper is out! 🐠 We show that the Y chromosome of the swamp guppy (Poecilia picta) has rapidly degenerated, losing genes, shrinking, and filling up with transposable elements, while the X responds by exporting key male genes to autosomes. 🧵⬇️ 1/6 📷Joëlle Lafond

We’ve been talking in our lab meetings about sexual conflict and sexual dimorphism, and have some thoughts. What if animal genomes are far more sex-specific and less cosntrained than we assume? @linley-sherin.bsky.social pulled it all together here www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/pdf... 1/n

🚨 My first first-authored paper is out in @evolletters.bsky.social 🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis. 🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations. 🧵⬇️

Evolution Letters@evolletters.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Urban habitats reshape pollinator communities and flowers respond: jewelweed sepal size evolves via plastic and genetic changes. By @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social @simjoly.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... image credit Wim Rubers @Wikimedia

Urban habitats reshape pollinator communities and flowers respond: jewelweed sepal size evolves via plastic and genetic changes. By @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social @simjoly.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... image credit Wim Rubers @Wikimedia

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Associate Professor in Zoology with focus on ecology and evolution

Department of Zoology  at Stockholm University includes ca. 80 employees counting researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an internatio

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We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology! Please apply no later than 31 October! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Just in time for her #eseb2025 poster on Thursday, @squarehare.bsky.social 's paper on the Poecilia bifurca sex chromosomes was published today academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

Judith Mank@judithmank.bsky.social · last yr.

Lydia Fong’s poster is on Thursday, P03.077. Genome of the Amazon Guppy (Poecilia bifurca) reveals conservation of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation. The preprint for this is at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @squarehare.bsky.social #eseb2025 5/n

I’m really sorry to be missing #eseb2025, but for those sorting out their conference plan there are several lab talks and posters about what we are up to. Spoiler, they aren't all talking about guppies, or even fish! 1/n

“Previously, people thought perhaps males realized that if they were more orange, they were more sexy,” explains Dr. Judith Mank of @zoology.ubc.ca. www.karmactive.com/male-guppies...

Male Guppies With Orange Spots 2X More Sexually Active Than Dull Males, UBC Study Finds - Karmactive

Orange male guppies perform sexual displays twice as long and attempt mating 200% more than dull males. UBC scientists link bright coloration to brain development in genetic breakthrough study.

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Interested in sex chromosomes evolution and want to wrap up today’s talks on a colorful note? Come see my presentation on guppy sex chromosomes today, July 8th! 🐠 #CSEE2025 ⌚16h15, 📍 Lac Memphrémagog

Hey #CSEE2025 interested in flowers, natural selection, urbanization or any combination of the three? I’m presenting results of my thesis at 11am today in the urban ecology session (Rivière Coaticook)

Simon Joly@simjoly.bsky.social · last yr.

You have to come and see the talk of @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social that will test if urbanization affects natural selection by pollinator on flower shape. #CSEE2025 It is at 11:00 in Rivière Coaticook

You have to come and see the talk of @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social that will test if urbanization affects natural selection by pollinator on flower shape. #CSEE2025 It is at 11:00 in Rivière Coaticook

Amazing work from Jérôme Burkiewicz! A fascinating look at how urbanization shapes pollinator communities and flower traits across multiple cities, and natural vs. controlled settings. This study reveals both plastic and genetic responses to urbanization in Southeastern Canada—go check it out!

Jérôme Burkiewicz@jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 My first first-authored paper is out on bioRxiv! 🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis. 🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations. 🧵 More below ⬇️

Je suis heureuse d’annoncer l’obtention d’une bourse postdoctorale du FRQ pour mon projet sur les conséquences de la perte de recombinaison génétique chez les guppys, dans le labo de Judith Mank (UBC)! Je présenterai ces travaux au #SCEE2025 à Sherbrooke cet été – au plaisir de vous y voir!

Probably don't have the reach on here yet - BUT: I have a fully-funded four year PhD studentship available - the deadline is soon - November 25th - so please share if you can. And let's connect if you are interested in #genedrive #pestcontrol #evobio biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/new...

Fish biologists (or aspiring ones!): There is a #stickleback stock center @uconn that supplies egg or adult stickleback (fees help cover operating costs). Check us out at www.sticklestock.com (The website also has lots of protocols to help new researchers get started)

Stickleback stock center

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It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for…registration for the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology is open! We hope that you will join us! #Evol2024 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social

Prof. Marc Johnson, chair of the board of @supportourscience.bsky.social (of which I am a member) has just penned this commentary in @theglobeandmail.com: Stagnant investments in training and research compromise Canada’s economic growth #SupportOurScience www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: Stagnant investments in training and research compromise Canada’s economic growth

Canada invests just 1.55 per cent of gross domestic product in research and development, which pales in comparison to peer countries

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