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Matthew Boedy@matthewboedy.bsky.social · 2d ago

The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...

PI life is all about deciding which thing you want to fall behind on this week

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”

Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · last wk.

Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:

Updated my applyingtoeeb.info site on applying to evolution and ecology grad school in the US to incorporate some of the latest immigration changes. Share with any REU or other students who might be considering grad school.

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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New preprint: 338 coleopteran genomes reveal exceptional rearrangement variation compared to other insect orders. Big congrats to @arf-mln.bsky.social, for getting this giant piece together. Big collaboration of @joanameier.bsky.social's and my groups. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.64898/202...

or, hear me out: we could fund public universities and have free tuition.

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

Also true if you're a geneticist.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last mo.

Note from my notebook (2017). Still true.

As everyone's winding down on #evol2026 we want to share our survey link with you again. Whether you work in reproductive biology specifically or not, please take a minute to help us understand how the scientific community uses reproductive terms in research! And hope to see you at #SMBE!

The lab is en route to #Evol2026! We’ve got several talks:

#SMBE2026 S09: New frontiers in sex evolution: evolutionary patterns and innovations 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 10:20am - Part 1 🗓️ Tue Jun 30, 1:20pm - Part 2 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme

A big preprint from my group! Muller Elements are considered to be conserved in flies. We tested it by reconstructing the ancestral dipteran karyotype using 340 chromosomal genomes and suprise suprise, they're not... Led by @juliagries.bsky.social and Sam Ebdon. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵👇

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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NYT: "no one has ever thought of teaching ranching at university" Every ag school: um, would you like to meet our cows NYT: "No, not like that. More romantic. More dilletante. Ugh, we're not /farmers/."

Drew McKevitt@drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My public research university literally has a cattle ranch

Update! The posting for the postdoc opening in my lab is up! Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

Dan Schrider@samurscicop.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please circulate: I will have a postdoc opening soon, ideally with a start date sometime this summer or fall. If you're interested in empirical population genetics, computational methods development, and/or evolutionary modeling via simulation, don't hesitate to reach out. For more info on the lab:

"If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lower your expectations for fairness before you read through the comments." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...

Reviewing Course Evaluations: The Drinking Game

“If you are female, drink one shot immediately. Underrepresented minority: one shot. Both: three shots, because intersectionality. Each shot will help you lo...

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Please circulate: I will have a postdoc opening soon, ideally with a start date sometime this summer or fall. If you're interested in empirical population genetics, computational methods development, and/or evolutionary modeling via simulation, don't hesitate to reach out. For more info on the lab:

My kindergartener’s school was threatened Thursday. My sweet 6 year old was huddled in behind her teacher’s desk with her friends trying not to make noise. The same day, an instructor at her dance school was murdered in a mass shooting.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

Still accepting applicants for a postdoc! Here's the evoldir link if you're interested: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... Please reach out! Share with a friend!

Andrew Mongue@ajmongue.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Mongue lab and Kawahara lab @dr-akito.bsky.social are hiring postdocs!! If you're interested in the genomics of extreme sexual dimorphism and/or silk production, come work on bagworms with us! See below for details: sicb.org/jobs-and-fel...

A reminder to all that Early Bird Registration for the Evolution conference (SSE, ASN, SSB societies) is still an option today or tomorrow. Prices go up after Apr 15. www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration... I hope to see a number of you in Cleveland this year.

Evolution 2025 Registration

Evolution 2025 - the joint conference of the SSE, ASN, and SSB

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Applications for our international Master‘s programme in Evolutionary Biology open again soon! We offer teaching and exciting research in molecular and experimental evolution, behaviour, ecology to genomics, bioinformatics and modelling. Come join us at JGU Mainz!

We are offering a fully funded two-year postdoctoral position focused on sex chromosome evolution and speciation in the *Jaera albifrons* species complex. Please find the advertisement attached. We welcome applications from interested candidates. Join us :-)

I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961

Post doc position in Evolutionary biology and bioinformatics

- work environment: This postdoctoral position will be supervised by Aline Muyle and hosted at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), within the CHANGE department and the Plant ...

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Out with the Old: Contrasting Histone Marks are Associated with Dosage Compensation on the Ancient and New Z of a Moth with Complex Sex Chromosomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.702263v1

good to see Marcus Freeman on hand to check out the state of Indiana's premier football program

One day, I would love to edit a book with us all sharing anonymous short stories from faculty interview visits. Everyone except white men. (This request brought to you by my faculty field tour w/dozens of new faculty, when the men were like WAIT WHAT HAPPENED AT YOUR INTERVIEW??)

Sarah Tuttle@niais.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Reading a novella yesterday and got absolutely pitched out of fiction land when she chose a tenure track faculty position at Harvard for "better work life balance".

Are you an undergrad interested in ecology, evolution or related fields? Apply by January 20 for our Undergraduate Community at Evolution program! This program provides funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...