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🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies 2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ. Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct. Details: christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com

Hey #Evol2025 - My colleague @waspvenom.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc for our #NSF - #USDA funded grant to understand the genetic basis of gall formation! Please see that attached ad, and feel free to talk to me @evolmtg.bsky.social, or contact Dr. Ellen Martinson directly!

Hey #Evol2025 check out the poster from former @stegg-interact.bsky.social postbacc Michaela!

Feeling the #Evol2025 fomo, but excited to have lab members and @stegg-interact.bsky.social postbaccs attending! Check out posters from my lab examining how house fly Y chromosomes affect male mating performance and aggression

Buy local, they say. Reduce your carbon footprint cleantechnica.com/2025/06/12/t...

Have something to say about an important question in evolutionary biology? Reach out to me about writing a review for @jevbio.bsky.social

#Postdoc Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication? Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids Details: shorturl.at/EHOeJ

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

Interested to read a perspective by >160 reproductive biologists? The new Tree of Sex white paper is out! Led by @danjeffries.bsky.social 👏

NIH is allowing us to recruit postbacs and postdocs again. Please reach out if you are interested in working with us! Ad: genomeinformatics.github.io/jobs2025/

Captures >half of Texas politics in one story and graph

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

First they came for the Key Deer...

I've circled the awesome person

I've circled the badass baller

I've circled the federal agency that needs a budget INCREASE

I've circled the mass murderer

Job opportunity! Excited to share that we have an opening for a research technician position to help with our research on phenological shifts & species interactions in amphibian communities. (please help spread the word!) More details here: emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

I've circled the Midwest

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

In case you like using terminology that literally has no meaning, I found the perfect example. Can you find a more unique term?

If using Bloomigton #Drosophila Stock Center stocks, pls. acknowledge them & their NIH funding (P40 OD018537). Papers listing this no. are being harvested as evidence. We massively depend on the @bdsc.bsky.social & they need our support in these dire times! @flybase.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social

Ever wondered why you too should publish in @jevbio.bsky.social? Wonder no more, we have the answers for you (in case you didn’t know already):

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has made an appearance at the Final Four championship game, despite fans claiming that when the Texas senator attends the game for the team he is rooting for, they are "cursed" and lose the game. trib.al/shyAwHJ

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

*SAVE THE DATE* The next seminar of our Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation virtual lectures series will be on Thursday, March 20 at 6pm Eastern. Talks from Elizabeth Ostrowski and Amy Boddy. Sign up and check out recordings of previous talks here internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

Tressie McMillan Cottom (miss her here!) nails it: “So, declining trust is less about how elitist these institutions have become and more about how their elitism is now conferred on more minorities.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...