This may sound silly, but growing up and during my grad years I really came to admire Dolly's commitment to her craft and to her community. There are few celebrities I felt proud of and she was one of them - she lived so fully and with such grace to her family and fans.

Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of #Mollusca at the Natural History Museum Denmark, University of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/tenure-track...

211-0252/25-2N - Tenure Track Assistant Professor and Curator of Mollusca

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Tribal citizens who live and work on their reservation do not have to pay state income taxes, but OK courts aren’t following the rules. Tribes in the state are asking SCOTUS to weigh in.

5 largest tribes in Oklahoma are asking SCOTUS to take up tax case involving Muscogee citizen

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to take up an Oklahoma tax case involving Muscogee Nation citizen Alicia Stroble. Now the five largest tribes in the state are weighing in, hoping SCOTUS…

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Our lab at Mississippi State is recruiting graduate students (PhD/MSc) to join us in Spring or Fall 2026! If you—or someone you know—are interested in researching evo-devo and comparative genomics of horned dung beetles, check out our site & get in touch! davidsonlab-msu.github.io

The Linscott Lab at NMSU is looking for new graduate students interested in ecophysiology, systematics, and trait evolution (often in molluscs)! Please reach out to contact me and see more at my lab website (linscottlab.com) and here: shorturl.at/DvUZa.

This is the idealized model of an animal. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. 🎢⚛️🧪

How to find Evolutionary Conserved Enhancers in 2025? 🐣-🐭 Check out our paper - fresh off the press!!! We find widespread functional conservation of enhancers in absence of sequence homology Including: a bioinformatic tool to map sequence-diverged enhancers! rdcu.be/enVDN github.com/tobiaszehnde...

Conservation of regulatory elements with highly diverged sequences across large evolutionary distances

Nature Genetics - Combining functional genomic data from mouse and chicken with a synteny-based strategy identifies positionally conserved cis-regulatory elements in the absence of direct sequence...

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(4/4) More here: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l... And here: apnews.com/article/supr...

Supreme Court refuses to hear Oak Flat case, clearing a roadblock for huge copper mine

The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request by Apache Stronghold to hear a case over a proposed copper mine at Oak Flat.

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Advice needed: A former student now in industry is asking about pros/cons of doing an industry-sponsored PhD, given the current climate and not getting in anywhere this cycle. I remember there was chatter about this a couple years ago but it's a good time to revive this chat. Please RT.

🐌✨ Become a snail detective! 🕵️🐚🔍 Join our WinkleWatcher Luisa Kumpitsch on shore 🌊 and help scientists crack the case of snail shell colors 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣 with WinkleWatchers. Who knew science could be this fun? ℹ️ www.gu.se/en/news/beco... #CitizenScience #MarineBiology

Become a snail detective – help scientists solve the colour mystery

Why do periwinkles have such different colours? This is a mystery that scientists are now trying to solve, and to do so they are calling for help from the public in a citizen science project.

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Zancolli, @marcrr.bsky.social @agneeshbarua.bsky.social et al. show that venom glands in marine predatory snails evolved via functional divergence from digestive organs, involving gene expression shifts and enhanced secretory machinery. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf095 #evobio #venom #mollusca

ohhh it is Not Good how many people think "just buy organic" is the answer to food safety infrastructure being dismantled in the U.S.

"The core strategy is to slow NIH spending to generate surpluses...then use surpluses as justification for slashing the budget...unspent [$] won’t be because NIH doesn’t have good science to spend on [but] because the administration has blocked spending" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

Shell formation is happening right here, right now! If you look carefully, you can see the shape of the next chamber emerging faintly in the cytoplasm, a blueprint From here it gradually calcifies Behind the scenes of live observation research #foraminifera #shell formation #biomineralization

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Some more Zammara smaragdina cicada from @casabentbill.bsky.social #invertefest #bugsky #cicadas #nature

My painting TROUT WATER

🚨Today the entire staff of the Institute of Museum and Library services were cut by DOGE!

Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf.

I am thrilled to announce I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at New Mexico State University this Fall! I can't wait to work with some amazing colleagues and students amidst the sky islands of the SW! Woooo more ecophysiology, evolution, and snails!

Blackfeet tribal members are suing the federal government, saying that Trump's tariffs on Canada violate the Constitution and tribal treaty rights. It's the latest example of tribes flexing their sovereign status to oppose new federal policy. montanafreepress.org/2025/04/07/b...

Blackfeet tribal members sue feds over Canada tariffs

The lawsuit — filed one day before thousands of people participated in nationwide protests against the Trump Administration — is the latest example of tribes flexing their sovereign status to oppose n...

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Interested in calculating complexity metrics for 3D surfaces? Please check out our new package 'habtools' and associated paper @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social ! - Paper: doi.org/10.1111/2041... - R package: jmadinlab.github.io/habtools/

NSF GRFP Awards by the Year: 2021 - 2074 2022 - 2193 2023 - 2555 2024 - 2036 2025 - 1000 Again, these funding cuts will have drastic longterm effects on the scientific future of the US....... @jeremymberg.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

The deadline for the @systbiol.bsky.social Early Career Travel Funds to attend the #Evolution2025 meetings is coming up! (Mar 31). Get your application in soon!!

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Are you an early career systematist needing a little extra funding for conferences this year? Check out SSB’s new Early Career Travel Fund! www.systbio.org/early-career... Deadline is coming up soon - March 31 to accommodate travel for summer meetings such as #Evol2025

A recent Executive Order would gut the only federal agency dedicated to America’s museums. The Institute of Museum & Library Services makes up only 0.0046% of the federal budget. Take action now: www.congressweb.com/aam/95/

General Public: Urge Congress to Save IMLS

On March 14, President Trump issued an Executive Order directing further cuts to the government agency that efficiently provides CRITICAL funding to museums and libraries in all 50 states.The Institut...

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Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order

Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.

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[New Paper] in Ecology reveals deep-sea snails in family Laubierinidae as obligate associates of crinoids (likely parasitic), including first-ever in situ observations of all 4 genera! This relationship was last seen in fossils >200 mil years old! FREE READ: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...