Jesse Czekanski-Moir

The Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG) is seeking ten taxonomic specialists in Collembola or any of the following insect orders - Blattodea, Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Trichoptera!

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Chlamydoconcha orcutti is sometimes called the "naked clam." They have evolved to be inside out, with their shell becoming an interior endoskeleton and soft tissue outside. Elusive and fast-moving! (101)

Octavia Butler has a piece I assign to all grad students who are writing up: A Positive Obsession.

The gist: Do it poorly. Do it weird. Do it until writing feels natural and you can’t live without it.

Get the awful first draft out and build from there.

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline is in TWO WEEKS 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱

Abstracts are NOW due AUGUST 15th 23:59 PDT‼️

Submit an abstract 👇

globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/

The Functional Ecology of Freshwater Mussels A comprehensive synthesis of mussel-driven ecosystem processes and their role in freshwater sustainability.Freshwater mussels are among the most endangered animals on the planet—and some of the most e...

Now available for preorder:

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Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

Space-for-time substitution is most problematic when forecasting near-term ecological responses that lag behind climate change. It assumes equilibrium (rapid ecological responses) and strong climate causality (ignoring confounders). www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mekevans.bsky.social

Newly discovered giant stick insect could be Australia's heaviest Naturalists have made the discovery in the misty rainforests of Far North Queensland where tree canopies reach more than 30 metres above the ground and many species are believed to still be unknown.

New giant stick insect just dropped 😍
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social?
♿ Check out their inclusivity initiatives: eseb2025.com/inclusivity-...

Excellent material, emotional & social support to ensure everyone has a great experience 💙

💡Lots to learn - even if you don’t face additional challenges!

👏@eseb.bsky.social🙏

#InclusiveScience

It's super fun to see people sketching in the museum! I'd add suggestions for the mineral gallery and the marine invertebrates gallery for less-commonly sketched specimens and less-crowded places to go!

if you decide to sketch a mollusc, post it and tag me, i'd love to see it!

Huge thanks and congrats to @siluwang.bsky.social and Anne Yoder for organising this amazing special issue. It has been fun contributing and interacting with Silu, Anne and the authors of the other manuscripts, including in a Zoom "tea break" where we presented our projects to each other.

Everybody working on social insects: the IUSSI has a fancy new website and they're building a map of all the labs that focus on social insects. Is this you? Add yourself to the map:

www.socialinsects.org/map

IUSSI = International Union for the Study of Social Insects

Check out our new special feature: Monitoring and Restoring Gene Flow in the Increasingly Fragmented Ecosystems of the Anthropocene www.pnas.org/topic/574 #biodiversity #evolution #ecology #popgen #ClimateEmergency

Hubbell's neutral model of biodiversity is founded on tree inventory data for Barro Colorado Island – which don't fit the model. A better one is the compound abundance distribution involving the geometric series. A preprint of the newly submitted BCI paper is here:

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Integrating belowground recovery into tropical forest restoration design and monitoring Abstract. There is growing recognition that tropical forest restoration is key for sequestering carbon and enhancing ecosystem resilience. Soils, roots, an

Now out in BioScience! Our group highlights the importance of monitoring belowground tropical
forest restoration outcomes doi.org/10.1093/bios...
We recommend and outline streamlined approaches to monitor six key dynamic soil physical,
chemical and biological properties to track project outcomes.

One week until #Botany2025! Check out the (unofficial) starter pack below to follow along. Let me know in the replies if you're attending and would like to be added.

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Come to join us! 🎉🫶 The Department of Biology invites applicants for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Biology position!
Learn more about the Department of Biology here: www.wcupa.edu/sciences-mat..., and apply online at www.schooljobs.com/careers/wcup...

An article on Rosalind Franklin published (2001) in the Canadian Journal of Medical Laboratory Science.

Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (25 July 1920)

Chemist and X-ray crystallographer, Franklin’s work illuminated structures of RNA, DNA, coal, graphite, and viruses.

#WomenInStem

If you want a provocative paper, this is the one right now. I missed a reference to Locey and @ethanwhite.weecology.org paper, which made me think very deeply about this (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...).

Shannon's H, Simpson's D, and Pielou's J are useless in ecology. Fitting data with a compound abundance distribution based on the geometric series is a better way to quantify variation – and to estimate species richness. New paper in Ecology Letters.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An image showing the ARTIC and Pathoplexus logos connected by blue lines, with the text "Hiring: post-doc/software engineer" and "Global open-source pathogen tools" and "Join Swiss TPH, Work on ARTIC2 and Pathoplexus, Basel, Switzerland"

📢New job posting!📢
Are you excited by the idea of building global infrastructure to make pathogen sequencing more accessible, interpretable, and equitable? 🧑🏻‍💻🧬

My group at @swisstph.ch has an opening working with ARTIC2, @pathoplexus.org, & Loculus - read on!

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two pages from our been book, lots of of images and a bit of text for each bee genera

cover of our Bees of Pennsylvania book with photo of green sweat bee

Our guide to bees of Pennsylvania is available for free now, you can order print copy (just have to pay shipping) and/or download PDF from Penn State Extension page: extension.psu.edu/bees-of-penn...

For every one of the 47 bee genera we have beautiful photo(s) and natural history facts

We can’t fight what we refuse to name.

Fascism grows in the shadows of silence, censorship, and the violence of organized forgetting.

Grateful to the @zinnedproject.bsky.social for continuing to arm educators and students with the tools to understand—and defeat—fascism.

#TeachTruth

A composite photo of two specimens of the sea slug Elysia chlorotica. The slug is green in color and looks almost like a leaf with small rhinophores on the head. The photo on the left, labeled A, is a lighter green color and is the specimen from Tampa Bay. The one on the right labeled B, is from Massachusetts, and is a darker color green. There is a 1cm scale bar on the image.

Very excited to share the discovery of a new population of the sacoglossan sea slug Elysia chlorotica in Tampa Bay! The new paper is out online now!
#seaslug #sacoglossan #invertebrate #academicsky

doi.org/10.4003/006....

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

“More than 140 employees of the National Science Foundation have signed a letter denouncing what they described as efforts to undermine one of the country’s main science funding agencies. … Out of fear of retaliation, all but one of the employees’ signatures are redacted.”

"In data-sharing protocols, Indigenous Peoples are not stakeholders or interest groups such as industry partners or NGOs. Instead, Indigenous Peoples bear distinct legal and moral rights that supersede commercial interests. We are rights-holders, not stakeholders."

🌿 Are you passionate about equity, ecology, evolution, or just love building community in science?

SWEEET is looking for a few motivated folks to join our organizing committee! 🌎✨

Interested? Send us a note at sweeet.ecoevo@gmail.com 💌

#SWEEET #EcoEvo #SciComm #InclusionInSTEM

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

A glaring instance of brazen academic censorship and institutional gaslighting.

I don’t know why Harvard administrators feel that institutional cowardice will save them from fascism—it won’t. Trump will just find another excuse to target the institution.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...

ICYMI-- I did.

A study of software developers found it took them 19% more time to do their work when they used AI tools.

At the same time, they *perceived* they had saved time. They thought they would work faster and so they falsely "believed AI had sped them up by 20%."

A shark swims by.

Camera pans down to the bottom.

45 minutes of video of crabs commences 🦀