David Combosch

@debbiemleigh.bsky.social and I are inviting abstracts for our symposium S05 showcasing research at the interface of molecular evolution, population genomics, and biodiversity monitoring.

On behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726

We have reached 1.4 degrees celsius #globalheating according to NASA data (smooth black trend line). Breaching 1.5 is now inevitable. From now on the fight is to keep overshoot as small and short as possible.

🍂 🏛️ 👿 🧪 US Congress Bill to Prohibit Funding for Research with China

Proposal bars funding for US scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students; bill is retroactive - interactions in previous 5 yrs could cause ineligibility for future Federal funding

Interesting genomic perspectives…food for thoughts!

The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/

THERKILDSEN LAB The Therkildsen Lab at Cornell University. Conservation Genomics and Molecular Ecology

Cornell University invites applications for a PhD in Evolutionary Genomics for Marine Conservation, starting Fall 2026. Interested candidates should contact Nina Overgaard Therkildsen at nt246@cornell.edu. More info: https://www.therkildsenlab.org/ #phd

Join the course "Integrative taxonomy in the 'big data' era" from March 16-20, 2026, at MNHN Paris. Register at: https://sites.google.com/site/coursbarcode/home. For queries, contact Nicolas or Sarah. #course

Join the GRACE project as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Genomics and Climate Resilience. Conduct genomic analyses on marine species to study responses to climate change. Apply by March 1st, 2026. More info: https://umr-sebio.fr #postdoc

50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath

50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?

I wouldn't board an aircraft, a bus, a train, a ship or even get in a car that had a 5% chance of crashing. Now AMOC collapse is closing in on over 25% probability we are all being boarded to a mad future.
Excellent eye opener of a presentation. Educate yourself, watch it.
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Lungless tadpoles breathe fresh air into hypotheses for tetrapod lung loss and trait regain We use lung loss in frog tadpoles to test debated hypotheses of tetrapod lung loss and challenge common explanations for the irreversibility of evolutionar

#LIBresearch: A new study challenges long-standing ideas about how and when lungs can be lost or regained in amphibians.
→ doi.org/10.1093/evol...
#Evolution #Amphibians #Biodiversity

PhD position available in Mainz, Germany, focusing on fecundity evolution in the Colorado potato beetle. Master's degree required. Apply with motivation letter, CV, and referees: shuqing.xu@uni-mainz.de. More info: https://www.genevo-rtg.de/ #phd

Happy to share Jialin's first publication. She did a great job exploring the transition to land in animals. Co-supervised by the great Jordi Paps and me and in collaboration with Davide Pisani and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social

Congrats @daviesswphd.bsky.social !!

Amazing output of our #BIEN - #bigdata on #plants - project! Big congrats & thx to @gabrielmoulatlet.bsky.social for leading! 🌿🌴🌲🌳🌐🌍🌎 #macroecology

"Our data are exquisite. Our world is empty."

An amazing piece on the coral reefs of the future by Rick MacPherson.

Sponges vs. Ctenophores

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳

Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?

For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.

We provide new evidence suggesting that...

🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dem kann ich nur zustimmen! Bitte unterschrieben

Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.

Talk about an in-flight meal.

For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn

A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time - Nature The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.

This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🪸 🪸 🪸 Postdoc position in my group at Bristol to study the role of venom in surviving environmental stress in corals! 🪸 Interested in venom biochemistry and coral ecology?Please apply by November 24!
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Congrats!!!

Submit abstracts for the Population and Conservation Genomics Workshop at PAG 33 in San Diego, Jan 9-14, 2026. Deadline: Oct 31, 2026. Details: https://intlpag.org/PAG33/ #conference

Our paper on Nautilus unique sex determination made the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social 🥳🤩
With Hector Torrado, Carlos Leiva, @sarah-thesea.bsky.social @anariesgo.bsky.social, Gonzalo Giribet et al!

♨️Live from #BGEconnects:

We just finished “iBOL – How genomics is transforming understanding of biodiversity through DNA-barcoding” by Paul Herbert, director of @cbg-uofg.bsky.social and iBOL.
"It’s changing our view on the understanding of life on our planet."

@iboleurope.bsky.social #DNA

We’re almost live! 💥

Today and tomorrow, #BGE’s symposium "Unlocking the power of #genomic science for nature and the #bioeconomy in Europe" (30Sept-1Oct) will be streamed live from @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social, Brussels! 🧬

🎥 Start: 30-09-25 at 13:30 CEST
▶️ Watch live (free): lnkd.in/eQmVztQq