With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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Experiences like these are exactly why we love doing what we do. 💙

Inspiring the next generation of shark scientists is a privilege, but it's a privilege that we are only able to do because of you.

Learn more about our Defend the Deep campaign below.

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Schematic of how we measured live clingfish suction performance in a water tunnel with pressure transducers

In @fishguy.bsky.social’s lab we have done many studies on the suction cups of dead clingfish. In this new paper, @fishyologist.bsky.social et al and I found that clingfish can control their suction and stick harder than dead ones! @sicbjournals.bsky.social 🐟 🧪

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Our Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route is now open for applications, providing a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to £4m over a five-year period.

#RSGrants

Steal this (updated) syllabus for Scientific Writing I’ve just finished the 3rd go-around of my Scientific Writing course.  When I first signed up to teach it, I was very scared, but now that I’ve been through it a few times, I’m quite pleased with h…

If you're teaching Scientific Writing this fall (especially if it's new to you!) and are getting worried about just how close the fall is getting: reminder that I share my syllabus and all my course materials. Here: scientistseessquirre...

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It's that time of year!

Read about the Members at Large Candidates and be sure to vote.
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We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

MediaToolSupportNSF.docx Letter to scientists and organizations whose progress depends on NSF: We are facing an unprecedented political attack on science. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has begun directing NSF...

With the news of NSF divisions being abolished and more grants terminated, we urge our community to continue communicating with Congress to #SupportNSF and #SaveNSF. Scripts and tools you can use: shorturl.at/i7WfU

Please see this from ICB author (academic.oup.com/icb/issue/64/4)
Black in Marine #Science's Dr. Tiara Moore - Chief Executive Officer, on BIMS recent dilemmas
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Our community is very sorry to see them go through this and any way we can help would be so appreciated.

Sara Wang gives a talk summarizing her PhD dissertation research

Congratulations to Sara Wang, who just defended her PhD dissertation in Oceanography on how ocean temperature variation affects foraging & physiology in 2 Peruvian seabirds! Sara ran feather corticosterone assays in my lab & I really enjoyed being on her committee @lsu.bsky.social 🥰🪶🧪

Opportunities Interested in Joining the Scott Lab? The Scott Lab is currently recruiting graduate students to examine the physiological and molecular mechanisms of high-altitude adaptation in small mammals. Pote…

The Scott Lab at McMaster is currently recruiting graduate students to examine the physiological and molecular mechanisms of high-altitude adaptation in small mammals. Details at scottlab.ca/opportunities/

The Ivy Lab! - Welcome to the Ivy Lab!

Do you like songbirds? Are you concerned about how wildfire smoke may impact their physiology?

I'm searching for graduate students who are interested in looking at the effect of wildfire smoke on songbird physiology! Come join my lab @usaskartsci.bsky.social!

research-groups.usask.ca/ivy-lab/

Museum Specialist (Natural Science/Provenance Research), IS-1016-11 - Washington, DC 20560 - Indeed.com National Museum of Natural History

3 Year Temp position at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for a Museum Specialist (Natural Science/Provenance Research).

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Social media postcard that says: Are you an early-career researcher within five years of your first appointment to a faculty position? You could be eligible for our new grants for junior faculty staff The Journal of Experimental Biology logo is in the bottom left corner. The Kickstart grant logo, two hands shaking, is in the bottom right corner.

If you're a new PI within 5 years of your first faculty position, here are two fantastic grants to help develop your research: the Kickstart Travel Grant and ECR Visiting Fellowships

Find out more at biologists.com/grants/#jeb

The next application deadline is 6 June

ICB
Effect of network structure and adaptive #foraging on #pollination services of species-rich #plant-#pollinator communities
by Fernanda S Valdovinos
(www.fsvaldovinos.com)

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#science #ecology #bees #biology

SICB featured #scientist this week, @nicoleackermans.bsky.social wants you to know :
Since 2023 the CVN lab, Nicole is a part of, has a goal to better understand
#disease triggers, onset, and longterm development into #dementias.
see our @LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/sicb-media-25b047363

Action Plan & Appeal for Illegal NSF Grant terminations [RedactedProjectName] Action Plan for Response to Illegal NSF Grant termination ***This document - with Background, Action Plan, & Appeal Letter - was compiled by a fellow researcher appealing their N...

🧪💪I know folks are struggling to appeal #NSF grant terminations

I created a generic GD version of our team's response plan, including a draft appeal*, based on compiled guidance.

*Not a lawyer, best guess! Also, DMs open for ?/feedback. @davidimiller.bsky.social

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A #PHD
opportunity from previous ICB coauthor @marionsegall.bsky.social

Local Superimpositions Facilitate #Morphometric Analysis of Complex Articulating Structures

Rhoda, Segall, Larouche, Kory Evans, Angielczyk
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#evolution #squamates #morphology #biology

I am looking for a PhD candidate to work on the morphological and functional evolution of the head shape of limbless squamates. The project will involve evolutionary biology, experimental and computational biomechanics, and a lot of scaly animals!!! More info here:
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Reach out to d.labonte@imperial.ac.uk with any questions regarding this position!

Description Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

Unlike a lot of other universities right now, we are still hiring for new faculty here at Imperial in London
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If you want to come and run a research group in the theme of bioengineering then apply to be my colleague before the end of April. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Assistant Professor, Organismal Biology Apply now to join FAU on its race to excellence. For more information on everything FAU has to offer, please visit www.fau.edu/jobs. Note: Current FAU employees must apply as an internal applicant by ...

Assistant professors in Organismal Biology and Systems Biology needed!

FAU is hiring two assistant professors, applications are due April 30th. Please find the ads here:
fau.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FAU/de...
(Req 19892)

and here:
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(Req 19893)

Congratulations to our Marlene Zuk Award winner, Janice Yan, for the best student presentation at #SICB2025!!!

Spdac workshop

The @sicb-spdac.bsky.social non-academic career panel was absolutley amazing! Great panelists and awesome questions at #sicb2025

Bryan MacNeill and myself at the SPDAC booth.

Just a couple of botanists hanging at #SICB2025. Students/postdocs, if you want to know what’s what be sure to say hello to @sicb-spdac.bsky.social Rep @brythebotanist.bsky.social!

First timers meeting happening now in the Marquis ballroom #sicb2025

We are here at #SICB2025 and are getting set up!!! Come by the atrium ballroom and meet your reps!