Sara Lipshutz (she/her)

Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...

Circulating a petition against a proposal to force UNC system faculty to share their syllabi publicly, a move that would potentially exposing faculty to bad faith actors without necessarily improving student access to syllabi (which are already accessible in the course catalog) #AcademicFreedom

More on the non-binary animal world.

www.prosocial.world/posts/lets-t...

Congrats!!

Please apply to the ASN student research awards! This is such an amazing opportunity to get experience grant writing as a grad student, and the $$$ has funded some really fantastic research!!!

Employment - Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us!
eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/

I have a new preprint demonstrating a genome-architecture-aware approach to inferring species trees and introgression landscapes from a small number of genomes. If you are interested in phylogenomics, birds, or hybridization, this is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fantastic review!!

3D printed Song Sparrow finished!

We are hiring! Please submit your application by Dec. 5! We are a basic science department housed in the school of vet med with potential to collab within the dept/school and with close ties to the medical school and the college of biological sciences. Please apply if you are a good fit! 🤩

Depressing late Friday holiday news dump: Northwestern agrees to pay $75 million to the federal government.

The faculty vote against doing this, @heidikitrosser.bsky.social points out, was 595-4.

That's the kind of margin where going the other way reflects a major failure of university governance.

Good news—Dr. Abedini has been released!!! Thanks to everyone who shared and mobilized 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

#Job in #animalwelfare at University of Rhode Island!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Animal Health and Welfare. Focus on farm, companion, or zoo/captive wildlife. #academic @universityofri.bsky.social

jobs.uri.edu/postings/15931

OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.

This is horrible news.

www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

Mandeville Lab Fish are so delightfully weird. We study the evolutionary genetics and ecology of freshwater fishes, plus a few more things, at Northern Michigan University

I'm recruiting a new master's student for fall 2026 in my lab at Northern Michigan University @bionmu.bsky.social ! Students with interests in evolution of freshwater fish are encouraged to apply. Please see our lab website lizmandeville.github.io and the attached advertisement for more information.

Net-casting spider stretching it net

enlarged forward facing eyes of Asianopis subrufa

🚨Good news, everyone!
1) I'm thrilled to be joining the behavior powerhouse that is Indiana University!! So stoked, starting Jan 2026.
2) I'm recruiting grad students! Are you (or your trainee) interested in sensory ecology? behavior? evolution? fieldwork? spiders? Drop me a line Jstafstr(at)iu.edu

Thank you for alerting us @leafwarbler.bsky.social
to post about Michaela’s passing.
There are some beautiful things said about her here and she will be sorely missed by everyone who knew her.
She was truly incredible.

www.bi.mpg.de/hau

Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...

This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.

Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows

TSAVO SIMBA RESEARCH PROJECT Spanning ~40,000 km², Kenya’s Tsavo Conservation Area is the country’s largest protected wilderness—an expansive, semi-arid landscape shaped by dramatic shifts in habitat, water, and wildlife...

📢Jumping back on here amidst busy fieldwork to announce
📢 🌍🦁 Our Tsavo Simba Project website is LIVE!
From the red-dust plains of Tsavo straight to your 💻🤩
Dive into our research, field stories & lion insights 🦁💛
🔗 www.tsavosimba.com
#jointhepride #tsavosimbaresearchproject #nsffunded

Transgender Day of Remembrance at UBC - UBCevents On November 20th, we honour those lost to violence, those who live through violence and transphobia, and recognize the need to disrupt the violence and oppression that trans people continue to face.

On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, let’s remember those we’ve lost, pledge to work towards a world with more justice, safety, and freedom, and celebrate and protect the diversity of people around us.

To learn more and see what is happening today at #UBC: events.ubc.ca/tdor/

How A Woodpecker Pecks Wood, And How Ants Crown A Queen Podcast Episode · Science Friday · 11/17/2025 · 19m

So cool to hear @nickantonson.bsky.social on Science Friday!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

The ASN (American Society of Naturalists) is seeking Diversity Committee members! Are you an ASN member? Want to make the EEB community a better place? Like being in Zoom meetings with people who have cute dogs? Consider applying!

www.amnat.org/announcement...

Anyone looking for a Australia-based postdoc? Like animal behaviour / coding / birds? My fantastic collaborator, Iliana Medina, is advertising a position researching bird nests:

unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

Episode 107 — Did Women Ruin Everything? — In Bed With The Right In this episode, Moira walks Adrian through “The Great Feminization” — a recent talk/essay that took the right wing by storm, and that subsequently got its author invited to discuss women ruining thin...

Absolutely incredible episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social today, unpacking the “great feminization” theory in a way that’s morally clarifying, educational, AND made me cackle in delight on the sidewalk several times. Moira & Adrian firing on all cylinders for this one overcast.fm/+ABCcUWneTf4

ICE has been spotted in Durham today and people are scared but also mobilizing to support our neighbors on a level that's honestly awe-inspiring. If you want to help locally or donate from anywhere, Siembra NC is doing incredible organizing work already www.siembranc.org

PhD position on 'Seed dispersal shapes tropical forest succession' (Seeds 4 Success)

📢 Vacancy alert! Now open: PhD position on tropical forest succession and acoustic monitoring of seed dispersers. 🌱 🎶
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of tropical ecology. Based at Wageningen University (NL) with fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico.

How A Woodpecker Pecks Wood, And How Ants Crown A Queen Is it all in the hips? Scientists break down woodpeckers' head-hammering moves. Plus, what makes one ant a queen and another a worker?

www.sciencefriday.com/segments/ant...

We're hiring! My dept. is looking for a candidate with a research program focusing on plant systems. All areas of molecular and cellular biology research will be considered. Not sure if you'd fit? Reach out to me. Please share! #microsky

Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬

We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.

Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.