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Fascinated by microbial eukaryotes, both fossil & Recent. Mom to adult humans. Wife of an orchid enthusiast & fish guy. Wish I had more time to knit!
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Very excited @gustavo-de-miranda.bsky.social will be joining us as curator/professor at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History! Please share this job ad widely and if you like invertebrate zoology and museum collections consider joining of our awesome team of scientists & staff!

Job alert! Sam Noble Museum (OU) seeks a Collection Manager for the Recent Invertebrates collection (insects, mollusks, arachnids & more). You’ll team up with the incoming Curator (👋 me). Apply via jobs.ou.edu, Job # 251244. DM questions. #museumjobs #arthropods #collections

Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years! The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es

🔥 Join our Editorial Board! 🔥 The International Journal of Wildland Fire is calling for EOI for Editors.If your expertise lies in fire ecology, modelling, remote sensing, fire behaviour, or wildfire management. www.publish.csiro.au/wf/Expressio... #WildfireScience #FireEcology #IJWildlandFire

Really intriguing read on 'wikipedia for cartographers'!

New paper! 🧪 Phylogeny and macroevolution of a “dead clade walking”: a systematic revision of the Paragaricocrinidae (Crinoidea)

EEB Mentor Match for 2025 is now open! This is an opportunity for students applying to graduate school in Ecology, Evolution, or Behavior to be matched with a mentor to guide them through the application process. Mentors can sign up too! eebmentormatch.com

Interested in learning more about the federal policy process and building relationships with Congressional offices📝🤝? Join AMS for Geosciences Congressional Visits Day! This event will be held in-person in Washington, D.C. from 9-10 September, 2025. ➡️ Fill out this form by 18 July: bit.ly/3HRR7XK

Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired #Climate

Appreciation post for this little guy in our manuscript of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica. He's been holding up this annotation in the margin for more than 500 years!! 💪 Not all heroes wear capes... some wear tunics. (Trinity College MS R.7.3)

Faisal, A.A., Kaye, M., Ahmed, M. et al. The SESAME Human-Earth Atlas. Sci Data 12, 775 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

On #WorldOceanDay, let us all take a moment to contemplate and admire the Best Oceanic Bird In The World*, the European Storm-Petrel. * I will not be taking questions at this time.

COME WORK WITH US! #jobs #DataTechnician Summer intern! This person will develop a mapping model to define potential hibernation habitat along a select number of Alberta Rivers. Key skills will be focused on GIS. Application closing date is 16th June 2025. wcscanada.bamboohr.com/careers/97 🦇

Postdoc Job offer for Arthropod Ecologists 🪲🕷️ Michael Staab @leuphana.bsky.social offers a 3 year postdoc starting in October latest. Arthropod diversity, interactions & functions in different research programs, e.g. @bexplo.bsky.social Apply by June 19th www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

Many amoebae incorporate diatoms in their shells, but Cylindrifflugia bacillariarum is the master. Third and fourth pics are close views of the glue that holds it all together. #ProtistsonSky #Amoebae #Peatlands

This writer-in-residence program at the Boston Public Library seems like a REALLY great opportunity for unpublished writers in the US.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

We're hiring! The Journal of Cell Biology (JCB) seeks Scientific Editor or Senior Scientific Editor, dependent on experience. Join our team in New York City! Apply here 👉 careers.rockefeller.edu/jobs?keyword... #STEMjobs #LifeScienceJobs #PublishingJobs #ScienceJobs

Postdoctoral Position in Wildlife Palaeogenomics! Come join us in beautiful Stockholm! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🦋 >3.4 million insect records based on DNA metabarcoding of bulk samples from #Sweden and #Madagascar have been mobilized to GBIF thanks to collaborative efforts of research institutions led by the #NaturhistoriskaRiksmuseet! 🧬 🔗gbif.link/insect_dat...

if the budget cuts go through for nasa, we’re losing juno, which has given us these gorgeous images of jupiter over the years

We have a postdoc position available in which we’re using flavivirus replication/molecular biology to make refractory mosquitoes - in collaboration with the Trevor Sweeney lab at @pirbrightinst.bsky.social. Check out the advert on LinkedIn and apply by 12/6. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

We are accepting applications for the GeoFutures program. The program provides mentoring & travel support for geoscience undergrads attending the 2025 @sacnas.bsky.social conference. Priority app deadline 06-16-25 @cientificolatino.com @official-bweems.bsky.social environment.uw.edu/about/inclus...

Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #21, May 26-June 01, 42 posts! ✨For the lazy (we are) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

We are advertising for a full-time permanent lectureship in Earth Sciences. You can find out more about the position (and apply) here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🌏 Rare opportunity to join us! We’re hiring two new Lecturer/Senior Lecturers in the School of Earth Atmosphere & Environment #MonashUni, a top 50 global university 🔬 Isotope Geochemistry 🛰️ Remote Sensing/Geospatial careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

🚨 The State Botanical Garden of Georgia (Athens, GA) is hiring a Director of Science and Conservation! 🚨 70% directing, 30% teaching Min. qual.: Ph.D. in related field Preferred: 10y exp. in conservation hort. setting www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/426... #botanicgardenjobs #plantconservationjobs

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right. Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Outstanding postdoc position on ecology and biogeography with @biogeokreft.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...

📣 The #BHLTransition is underway. We have a new: 🌱 Transition Director: @treiceratops.bsky.social 📢 Communications Director: @nicolekearney.bsky.social 🏛️ Fiscal Sponsor, and 🚀 An imminent Call for Support Read the full update: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/05/tran... #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess 🧪

New in #PapersinPalaeontology Fossilized gut contents of the largest predatory ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Germany: hunting, digestive taphonomy & prey preferences in a macropredator doi.org/10.1002/spp2... @smnstuttgart.bsky.social

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

Sphagnum divinum, pulchrum and papillosum #moss #bryophyte

Great to see these @standupforscience.bsky.social "Teach Ins" happening across the country. actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

This is tomorrow!

Our 💯 hours to #SaveAmericasForecasts starts tomorrow! Tune in to hear over 200+ US meteorologists and climate scientists share the importance of federally funded weather and climate research! wclivestream.com

Lost to science for more than a century, the Omiltemi cottontail rabbit has been confirmed by scientists to be alive and hopping in southern Mexico. The species was rediscovered via interviews with local communities and footage from camera traps intended to photograph jaguars.

Two academic (lecturer) positions available at the University of Otago in Aotearoa/New Zealand! One in Conservation Biology, another in Evolutionary Ecology. Links for positions below: otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

Our paper on hyperdisordered packing is out! Chromatophore arrangement on squid skin reveals an exotic form of disordered packing, caused by the interplay of cell insertion and surface growth journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...

The #Atlantidae is a group of planktonic gastropods, which all demonstrate a strong adaptation to pelagic life. I love them because they endlessly flap those lil wingys (part of its mantle) and have funny googly eyes. #marinelife 🦑 #plankton #blackwater

These sea angels typically whizz by super fast, though if you’re lucky, you can see them drifting with its egg cloud. To me it looks like they are laying a mini galaxy. #plankton #marinelife #seaangel #mollusk 🦑 🤿