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Postdoc in New York. Evolution of behavior, neural circuits, chemical senses, and speciation. he/him. Incoming PI at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. (Fall 2025) https://evolvingors.wordpress.com/
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NSF PRFB fellows: talk to your POs and transfer the remaining year’s balance of salary and research funds by 5pm today!! Dm me if you want to join the prfb slack where fellows are sharing info with each other #nsf #nsfprfb

submitted 29 days ago • 9 comments

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

New preprint featuring my favorite maize-relatives, the Andropogoneae! We sequenced the genomes of 27 species, including lemongrass, kangaroo grass, little and big bluestem, and more -- key species that shape grasslands and prairies worldwide. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

New pre-print: an one-stop shop for everything you wanted to know about the fly olfactory system: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

I'm thrilled to be opening my own lab this Fall at the @maxplanck.de MPI for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The lab is going to investigate the neuronal and genetic underpinnings of behavioral evolution. We are hiring on all levels. Don't hesitate to share widely and reach out if interested.

submitted 49 days ago • 19 comments

Sharing my new paper again since moving from the other place 🙂 We shed light on some of the most rapidly evolving animal behaviors—those surrounding mating.

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Phidippus jumping spider

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

I made a starter pack of speciation researchers. Please let me know if you or someone you know would like to be added. I am particularly sad that so far there are not many speciation researchers from the Global South represented. go.bsky.app/J7qDY56

submitted 81 days ago • 44 comments

Asilid fly feeding on a hemipteran. Seen in south Texas. #naturephotography #entoart

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

We are looking for a new lab administrator (based in Brighton, UK). This is a 50% position, and it is largely admin & computer based. It does not necessarily require a science background. Anyone interested please get in contact and/or apply here: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/565750b6...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

great starter pack bsky.app/starter-pack...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

nice perspective piece by Forli and Yartsev www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

I'm so excited to announce that my department is now hiring TWO ECOLOGISTS at the Assistant Professor Level. We will be really excited to substantially expand research in ecology in our EEOB Department at UCR. Please Repost and share widely! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01983

submitted 117 days ago • 2 comments

Beautiful Drosophila feeding on a (also ok looking) Heliconia flower. Shot 2022 in Costa Rica

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

favorite paper this week Schahandeh et al. Circadian plasticity evolves through regulatory changes in a neuropeptide gene www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Drosophila on a mushroom caught in NYC this summer

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Mating proximity blinds threat perception www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote a Primer on Olfactory navigation in fluctuating environments for Current Biology. Here's a gift link - hope you like it! authors.elsevier.com/a/1jzSR3QW8S... #neuroscience 🧪

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment