Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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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 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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grateful to have received the lab's first NSF grant to study cyclical processes of speciation with new theory and tools (applied to Melanesian birds). ad to come, but I'll be looking for a postdoc with computational biology chops—please reach out! (and repost) www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

Always sound advice, "do not touch or play with unknown animals"

Teenager swimming in Maryland lake bitten by rabid beaver - WTOP News

A teenager who was swimming in a Maryland lake was bitten by a beaver that tested positive for the rabies virus.

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EEB Mentor Match is now open! But apps due soon (8/17). Mentees: get help applying for grad school or fellowships in ecology & evolution. Mentors: senior grads, post-docs, or faculty in these fields willing to give advice Org by Diversity Cmte of @asn-amnat.bsky.social Pls share! eebmentormatch.com

EEB Mentor Match

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Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD

There’s still time to apply!!

Dr. Stepfanie Aguillón 😷@s-m-aguillon.bsky.social · 4w ago

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

1/4 In today's funding climate, every grant and fellowship matters. Based on feedback from our GSAC Community Check-In Survey, we're building a growing hub of graduate & postdoctoral funding opportunities and job boards to make them easier to find. 🧵

The Society of Systematic Biologists is looking for a new editor for the Bulletin! The Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists is the Society’s diamond OA journal. Are you interested? Or know someone who might be? See 👇 www.systbio.org/eicbssb.htm

The Sam Noble Museum is hiring a Collection Manager for the Fish Collection! Come work with me in Oklahoma! Please share widely! #TeamFish #MuseumJobs jobs.ou.edu/jobs/curator...

Curator Archivist - Norman, Oklahoma, United States

Pay Range: Targeted salary $18.99 per hour, based on experience Benefits Eligible: Yes Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (may include some weekends) Travel: May be required For Be...

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big things happening: I'll be defending my dissertation next week on July 15! to procrastinate preparing, I will be posting a meme for each of my chapters until the big day. also, please DM me if you'd like a zoom link to attend my public defense, but be prepared for 45 minutes of mouse toe talk!

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

To the #Evol2026 folks, I am recruiting MSc/PhD students (with or without their own funding) - please send people my way if you know of anyone interested in blending ecology & evolution!

Indeed: www.evolutionmeetings.org/online-progr... From the app or online program, you can also export a PDF of your itinerary, and print if you’d rather have paper copy

Program

The 2026 Virtual Event has concluded. Recorded talks are available via ​ YouTube

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Recently I reviewed for a journal & recall being offered a discount on page charges for future publication with that journal in appreciation for the review. However, I don't remember the journal & can't find evidence that it really happened. Does anyone know of journals that do this? 🧪

Museums hold collections for a reason: “Perhaps, he says, the next big breakthrough in charting our solar system’s deepest history won’t come from exploring some distant world but rather from studying samples of space rocks …from a drawer in a museum.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/rare...

Scientists found a piece of a lost planet in the Sahara Desert

Hints of high-pressure chemistry within a rare meteorite suggest this fallen space rock comes from a planet gone wrong in the solar system’s early history

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Anyone else watch that women's US and Brazil match? It's wild ⚽️ So many red cards 🟥

Bonus entomology: lac/shellac is from our friend Kerria lacca, which is of course a scale insect just like the new world's fave dye source, Dactylopius. Different families but both coccoids!

Larkin Francis, PhD, MSW@mwfrancis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've used "lake" pigments most of my life and I (strangely, fo me) never dug into what "lake" meant. Fascinating thread! Also, bonus etymology: "Lake" here isn't anything to do with water. It comes from "lac," the Persian / Hindi word for shellac, which is where we get lacquer

I am recruiting PhD students for my new lab housed in the Sam Noble Museum at University of Oklahoma! If you are interested in fish macroevolution, geometric morphometrics, specimen-based research & phylogenomics please reach out. More info here: fishdiversitylab.weebly.com Please share widely!!!

our neighbours are getting solar panels so the scaffolders showed up last week, and proceeded to install the scaffolding on the wrong house, so they came back today and dismantled it and are now reinstalling it on a different wrong house

Updated with comments from California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife: The agency "has been clear with the federal government that border wall construction poses serious risks to protected wildlife, including bighorn sheep. This is another tragic reminder of those concerns."

Lila Seidman@lilaseidman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: Wildlife advocates feared razor wire along the U.S.-Mexico border would harm endangered bighorn sheep. This morning, a biologist found a dead ram tangled in the wire in Imperial County's Jacumba Wilderness. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Happy ’Old Croone Day’ - scientists celebrate 4 June 1662 when Dr William Croone presented the Royal Society (London) with “…two embryos of puppy-dogs, which … were put in spirit in a glass-vial sealed hermetically...” marking the beginning of fluid preservation of animals still in museums today

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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[New paper] A whale carcass found off Tanjong Pagar in September 2025 has been identified as an Omura’s whale—one of the world’s least-known baleen whales. This is Singapore’s first recorded stranding of the species. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Biodiversity Record: Omura's whale carcass off Tanjong Pagar

PDF | The floating carcass of a rorqual whale was seen stranded along the pilings of a wharf at Tanjong Pagar Terminal. Six days later, on 12 September... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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Fellow Californians! Don't forget tomorrow is voting day. Also, best to vote in person or drop your ballot into a ballot box or at a polling location.

Still Need to Mail Your Primary Ballot? Don’t Rely on USPS, Officials Say | KQED

State officials are warning that some ballots mailed too close to Election Day might not be counted. Here are other recommended ways to submit your ballot instead.

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I posted this and somehow forgot to point out the #collectionsareessential aspect. We don't know if these mice are still on the island, but we definitely wouldn't know they were there in 1939 if we didn't have collections!

Kayce Bell@kaycebell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper out today! I had the good fortune to work with this crew, @mabscientist.bsky.social, Susette Castañeda-Rico and others, on a project that discovered previously unknown introduced mice on the Channel Islands in California.

Here is the roundup of all of the movie, video game, and book reviews from my little website. Forza Horizon 6 and Mandalorian and Grogu are a couple of the highlights from the month.

Monthly Roundup - May 2026

Hi all, I thought it would be a good idea to prepare a little roundup of all the posts from the website each month. I  will be posting a fair number of reviews each month, and some of them go up...

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Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.

New paper out today! I had the good fortune to work with this crew, @mabscientist.bsky.social, Susette Castañeda-Rico and others, on a project that discovered previously unknown introduced mice on the Channel Islands in California.

Our #evol2026 cheatsheet is live, coinciding with the program release. Your one-stop shop for all the Society events during the meeting. Bookmark it and check back often in case of updates! www.systbio.org/evolution-20...