University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Biology is searching for a tenure track assistant professor in Aquatic Ecology to start August 2027! Application deadline September 28 2026. I am searching chair, please reach out with any questions!! wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UW_Comprehen...

Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology is currently hiring up to three tenure-track faculty members, with an emphasis on organismal biology. Note: Previous links are no longer active due to a change in our hiring system. oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...

Assistant Professor

Department: Special Instructions to Applicants: To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 10/1/26. Applications will continue to be accepted after the full consideration date, unt...

oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com

Friends, if your response to concerns about pseudoscience on shark week is “if doesn’t matter if someone with a large audience says obviously wrong things because I personally know it’s not true,” I invite you to take a look at the world.

I am thrilled to share that the biology dept at Hamilton College is hiring a TT Evolutionary Ecologist to start in fall of 2027! This position would teach an upper level Evolution lect/lab, a section of Bio-100, rotate through our 200-level Eco/Evo course, and a seminar. apply.interfolio.com/190184

I am excited to open my lab at @ibioillinois.bsky.social in Spring 2027! We will use zebrafish & other fishy friends to reveal the genetic basis of large scale changes in the vertebrate body plan, and how this impacts both human health and evolution. Join me at UIUC! 🧬🧫🔬 www.hawkinslaboratory.com

1/2 chameleon & human embryos exhibit an epiblast lumen before #gastrulation initiates. However, they reach this stage via different mechanisms. Our new study @natcomms.nature.com explores early development & lumenogenesis in the veiled chameleon. #evodevo #devbio www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epiblast lumenogenesis is not a mammalian-specific trait - Nature Communications

Weberling et al. characterise veiled chameleon pre-oviposition development from fertilisation to the initiation of gastrulation and show that pre-gastrulation lumenogenesis occurs via a purse string m...

nature.com

Tim Harford writes about me in the Financial Times. He claims I think it’s hopeless for scientists to try to explain their work to the public. That’s false. I suspect link rot and Harford’s faulty memory are to blame. I’ll explain my actual view below. 🧪 1/10 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Explain it to me like I’m 10

Simplifying how we explain complex concepts can lead to surprising benefits

giftarticle.ft.com

“If you publish something in our journal that shows biology is actually complex, we’ll see if a critical reviewer can write a counterpoint arguing there are simple binaries. And we’ll delay your publication until theirs is ready. Oops, we published yours accidentally early. We charge authors $5,300”

Ecology Letters *solicited* the article arguing for a simple binary "biological sex" to counter the excellent Eppley, Lee, Dellinger, Swank paper (doi.org/10.1111/ele....), which they wanted to hold until the rebuttal was ready but couldn't Editorial explaining the process: doi.org/10.1111/ele....

OP blocked me (fair, i'd block me too if i was on the receiving end of this thread) so if you want to for some godforsaken reason follow along at home, here's the paper:

Biological Sex Is Binary and Rooted in Anisogamy

Drawing on empirical evidence and evolutionary theory, we argue that biological sex is most coherently defined as a binary classification of reproductive strategies rooted in anisogamy (the productio...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

The fine fellow who wrote the paper (based on author contributions statement) has blocked everyone with critiques of it, including someone whose work *he cites in the paper.* Skin thinner than an onion’s ofc big surprise

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 3w ago

OP blocked me (fair, i'd block me too if i was on the receiving end of this thread) so if you want to for some godforsaken reason follow along at home, here's the paper:

Scientists, especially younger ones, are going to have to come to terms with the idea that “doing science” is no longer enough. We all have to fight for science: what it means, what are its values, and why it matters.

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · last mo.

Scientific research in the United States might not collapse with a bang, or with a whimper, but with a rule change. And it's not just Science. This rule change hits DOE, DOT, VA, HUD. ALL federal grants are at risk. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

The Partnership for Public Service's has published an interactive toolkit that showcases the federal government's role in health, science and conservation work. Mass federal cuts interfere with the healthcare access, research funding and disaster response. Explore at science.federalharmstracker.org

The Cost of Cutting American Science

Tracking impacts to the people and programs powering America, from labs to the land.

science.federalharmstracker.org

Sigh. More #ColossalBio grift — they literally have no product to sell, so “partner” with governments to build the “Colossal BioVault” system (up to 10 I think) and garner more press coverage, all the while the San Diego Frozen Zoo and others have been doing this for decades 1/n

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last mo.

The US government is entering a partnership to store frozen cells and other biological samples from endangered and threatened species with Colossal, a private company best known for claiming to "de-extinct" dire wolves. Story by me & @catrineinhorn.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Rzhfw

Excited to share the final published version of our work on the evolution of dorsal-ventral patterning in fins and limbs, now up on @currentbiology.bsky.social In review we added new single LARM element deletions to assess their impact on dorsality. Take a look! 🔬🧪🐟🐁 www.cell.com/current-biol...

M. Brent Hawkins@homeobox.bsky.social · last yr.

We take for granted that our hands have two sides and can articulate in an endless number of ways. But what about a fish’s fin? Can a fish know something “like the back of its fin,” or have its future told with a fin palm reading? Check out this bluetorial to find out 👇🧪🧬🐟 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.

The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles | PNAS

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...

pnas.org

This is one of the most insane things I’ve seen from this regime. Please read this excellent summary and comment in the federal registry. 🧪🌊

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

New Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness

grant-witness.us

If you are around Chicago on June 16th, come have a beer and learn about the evolution and development of sexual diversity.

Some cuties from Mazon Creek for #FossilFriday, including a secondarily limbless fish and a baby coelacanth with an attached egg sack! These guys are all in a certain exhibit opening today.

In our recent @jexpbiol.bsky.social paper, we test how air temperature during development influences the ontogeny of heat and cold tolerance, using our trusted quail population 🐥🐦 We draw four main conclusions 🧵 shorturl.at/JZpSr

Postnatal temperature triggers predictable thermoregulatory shifts in birds without a trade-off between heat and cold tolerance

Summary: Warm or cold developmental temperatures affect heat and cold tolerance at population levels in Japanese quail; but at individual levels, there was no evidence for a trade-off between toleranc...

shorturl.at

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

NSF X-Labs

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

nsf.gov

New substack. It's another reading list. Sorry. You can take the retiree out of the classroom but you can't take the teacher out of the retiree. sterlinga.substack.com/p/the-sex-ca...

The Sex Category is Complicated!

An annotated reading list

sterlinga.substack.com

Probably not good news that upon reaching out to the program officer, I was told — for the first time in 25 years — that program officers are not taking calls from applicants.

Reptile eggs come in all shapes and sizes. Here are two bird extremes in the @griffinlabpaleo.bsky.social right now: bobwhite quail and ostrich eggs. Most gecko species also make hard-shelled eggs and are tiny by comparison, like these Hemidactylus and Sphaerodactylus eggs. #BirdEvoDevo#GeckoEvoDevo

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

insidehighered.com

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

Trump fires NSF's oversight board

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence

scim.ag

Species from fish to lizards have similar responses to exercise. In their SI Review, Husak & Lailvaux suggest that this response plays a role in life-history strategies and advocate for considering exercise from a life-history perspective in future studies doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

This paper was so fun to write! Special @jexpbiol.bsky.social issue on the integrative physiology of exercise. Check it out for the description of trying to train flounder! A life-history perspective on exercise url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

A life-history perspective on exercise

Summary: The phenotypic responses to exercise are ancestral in vertebrates, but a lack of studies that restrict resources during training limits our knowledge of whether exercise-induced trade-offs are consistent or common.

journals.biologists.com