Josef Uyeda

Evolutionary Genomics, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Fall 2026 The University of Tennessee - Knoxville: Knoxville Academic Units: College of Arts and Sciences: Division of Natural Sciences & Mathematics: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Open date: July 28, 2025 Description The Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, seeks applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genomics. We invite applicants whose research leverages modern genomic tools and statistical approaches to address fundamental questions in evolutionary biology. We are particularly interested in candidates working on functional and evolutionary genomics in any system—plant, microbe, or animal (including humans)—who bring innovative, integrative approaches to large-scale genomic data analysis. [more on description excluded due to character limit on bsky: please see ad at https://apply.interfolio.com/170735 ] Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in Biology, Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Genomics, Bioinformatics, or a related field at the time of appointment and should demonstrate a strong record of scientific accomplishment, including peer-reviewed publications. Excellent communication skills and a commitment to effective and modern teaching practices are required. Applications will be reviewed beginning September 19, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled. This position has an anticipated start date of August 1, 2026. Interested applicants should submit via Interfolio (apply.interfolio.com/170735) a cover letter, curriculum vitae, two-page statement of research accomplishment and plans, two-page description of teaching experiences and interests, and contact information of at least three individuals who could write letters of reference. Please direct any questions to the search chair, Dr. Elizabeth Derryberry (ederryb1@utk.edu).

Tenure-track faculty job in Evolutionary Genomics in my department, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at U of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• Any system (even humans)
• Interdisciplinary, collaborative folks welcomed
• Review starts Sep 19, 2025
• Details at apply.interfolio.com/170735

#AcademicSky

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Passionflower gardening:
Year 1: "Look at that flower! Gorgeous & amazing!"
Year 2: "OMG I got a passionfruit! Yumm!"
Year 3: "Oh look at that, it's coming up all over here too!"
...
Year 5: *garbled screams as the Passionflower kraken bursts out and envelops your entire yard*

Judge Removes Youngkin’s University Board Picks The ruling in favor of state Democrats will likely be appealed.

“When you peel back all the connections, it’s hard to imagine this is not orchestrated. How can faculty feel safe, not just to exercise their academic freedom, but safe in their personhood, when you have extremist board members siccing their orgs on us.”
— Bethany Letiecq, @aaupmason.bsky.social

Martinez-Gomez Lab Plant Evo-Devo

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025

Reach out!

www.martinezgomezlab.com

These are some of the most odious people alive.

Relying on the viewer to immediately identify from the data 1) the two causal processes that can plausibly produce these data and 2) immediately rejecting one of them given assumptions & knowledge of the system. Weird how the joke relies on causal inference to dunk on causal inference?

Think about the challenges @drcraigmc.bsky.social talks about and the independent, self-motivated determination & distance-traveled needed to even become one of the (1-x)% in a PhD--and even then, once you get there, the system can't come close to puting people on an equal footing? Shame on us.

Technical points: While 12 >9.5, remember the 12% is enriched for parents w/PhD. We can assume P(faculty |PhD parent+in PhD) >>> P(faculty|PhD parent). So if 12% across PhD programs has x% PhD parent and [(1-x)%] non-PhD parent, it's safe to assume P(faculty |no PhD parent + in PhD ) is <<<12%.

I've heard senior faculty try to normalize impostor syndrome as "just what you feel in science". But I've come to think it's not a feature as much as something we do to people who aren't our own kids. All the things cut for DEI, training, and research experiences were helping to slowly fix that.

I come back to this statistic whenever I'm talking to young scientists. When asked to guess, people predict more or less nepotism all the time, so it won't be shocking to many. But it reveals the overwhelming effects of privilege and nepotism in our "pipeline".

Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty - Nature Human Behaviour Studying socioeconomic backgrounds and intergenerational transmission in the US academia, Morgan et al. find that faculty have a parent with a Ph.D. degree a striking 25 times more often than the gene...

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

To Craig's point, I always bring up the CRAZY stat buried in Morgan et al. '22:

Babies of profs become faculty ~9.5% of the time, while the overall prob a STUDENT IN A PHD becomes faculty = ~12%. One would hope ≥20 years of work & commitment toward a goal puts you far ahead of babies, but no.

Did you attend #evol2025 in Athens? Fill out the survey!

Were you unable to come? Fill it out anyway! The organizers of @evolmtg.bsky.social are soliciting feedback on challenges to attendance to inform decisions in future years.

Come join us in Corvallis! Great colleagues, a wonderful location for plant science of all types, with the added benefit of the beautiful surroundings of Oregon!

Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that...

Vegetation might not be able to keep up with current rates of environmental change, given data from the pollen fossil record. Fun doing this work with David Fastovich in the lead, but sobering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The DNC and leadership is not a serious organization and being ineffectual is their brand.

With this budget, ICE would have as much money to build concentration camps as all NIH biomedical research in this country 😳

Update: Latest estimate confirms between Medicaid cuts and ACA rollback, total health care cuts in the Republican budget bill are now OVER $1 trillion.

We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps

My favorite so far is Dr. Joseph Yoda @pseudacris.bsky.social #evol2025

Strong this one is

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Had such an amazing time at the 2025 Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Workshop! Thanks so much to the amazing organizers and participants @pseudacris.bsky.social @lauraalencar.bsky.social @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social Patrick Carter, Jacqueline Sztepanacz, & Joe Felsendtein

This. Never blame the powerful people doing the pickle-braining for their own gain. Applies to academia too where we're supposed to "regain the public's trust in higher education and science" because we failed to prevent brain-pickling, when we all know who is making the brine.

One important difference being that the Republicans know how to harness the energy of their ultra-ideological flank, while the Democrats spend incredible amounts of energy and money trying to neutralize theirs.

Had a wonderful group for our 2025 EQG workshop at Mountain Lake Biological Station! Huge thanks to the instructors, participants, and station staff for helping us pull this off! If you're interested in what we talked about, materials available here:
eqgw.github.io/2025/schedul...

Send any questions you may have for the reddit AMA I'll be participating in this afternoon! Thanks @umdscience.bsky.social for the invite! Should be fun! 🐝🪰🧬🌸

What a great week at the 2025 Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Workshop! This was a fanstastic opportunity to practice scaling from micro- to macroevolution from some of the leading researchers in the field (in-between herping excursions, of course). Looking forward to reuniting at #evol2025!

We hope you had a great time learning about some our early career members.

We’ve collated all the society-sponsored events in one handy cheat sheet on the website: www.systbio.org/evol2025-che...

Consider it your one-stop shop for the big events, as well as links to archived virtual #evol2025 ones

Bonus: The Lab Leak Goes Mainstream Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/05/2025 · 1h 21m

I finally got a chance to listen to the whole episode and it is truly excellent and well worth a listen!

Goes through many things often not covered, including multiple journalist failures that you should know about.

Top notch ⭐, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social!

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