Joanna Malukiewicz

Sonoran Desert landscape looking west across Avra Valley from Tucson Mountain Park. In the foreground, a desert trail winds through cholla cacti, saguaros, ocotillo, and native shrubs. The valley stretches to distant mountain ranges on the horizon under a dramatic sky of blue patches and white cumulus clouds with rays of light breaking through.

Please pass along - We've extended the CAMBIUM fellowship deadline to December 15! Our NSF NRT supports new grad students to harness biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu 🧬🌐🌎

Postdoctoral fellow - Petsalaki Group - NetworkCommons Your group The Petsalaki, Saez-Rodriguez (EMBL-EBI) and Korcsmáros (Imperial College) groups develop cutting-edge computational and AI approaches to unravel cellular signalling and gene regulation fro...

NEW: Postdoc with @epetsalaki.bsky.social @juliosaezrod.bsky.social and Tamas Korcsmáros

Benchmark and integrate state-of-the-art network contextualisation methods, combining large-scale transcriptomics, proteomics, and single-cell data

Apply by 17 Dec

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🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

Early Career Scientist Awards 2026 Application to the UW-Madison Evolution Seminar Series - Early Career Scientist Awards.

Wisconsin Evolution is accepting applications for our Seminar Series' Early Career Scientist Award. Come share your evolution research and visit UW-Madison's evolution community. Open to grad students and postdocs (<5 yrs post PhD) from outside UW-Madison.

Apply by Dec 15th here: shorturl.at/4a4O6

Molecular Evolutionary Analysis for Estimating the Strength of Fluctuating Selection among Individuals (FSI) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.10.687654v1

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!

We are uniting two research powerhouses.

For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.

Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

Phylogenomics and Evolutionary Genomics Workshop in Czechia - 5 days until registration closes!

evomics.org/apply-worksh...

On Monday, I will remotely talk at #AALAS about the evolution of exudivory in marmosets and why it matters for husbandry of captive marmosets. Really excited to share some marmoset evolution biology that can help biomedical and industrial applications and improve marmoset wellbeing.

This week at #SIP I talked about my work on characterization of the marmoset MHC I and II regions from the marmoset T2T genome and wild marmosets. We are building up to a marmoset MHC pangenome that will include wild common and black tufted marmosets. The annotations are in prep for publication.

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

This is actually teaching me language that my 15 yr old refuses to

live your life such that, when you die, your obit doesn't need a whole section on how you didn't credit your colleagues in general or how you stole data from a female scientist in particular

We’re hiring!

Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.

Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
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Senior Research Technician at University of Birmingham An academic position as a Senior Research Technician is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Interested in inherited chromosomal instability syndromes and DNA repair? We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join the Stewart lab at the University of Birmingham as a senior technician. Please checkout the job advert: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH515/senior-research-technician

NK & ILC Symposium 2026 in Freiburg - 🧭abstract submission ends on November 10, 2025. Registration: nk-symposium.org/registration...
More Information: nk-symposium.org
🪄 We warmly encourage students and early-career researchers to submit abstracts.
@dgfi-yi.bsky.social @yefis-immunology.bsky.social

Hey it’s not a bad week when SMBE accepts your proposed symposium for SMBE2026 and a high impact journal for evolutionary biology gives you very helpful reviews on your most important work (that took years to do) to improve and resubmit your manuscript.

As Andrew found out, there comes a time when enough is enough. I don’t know what will be the breaking point but believe the day will come when the majority of the American public will loudly say ENOUGH.
The elected officials in DC will be forced to make the change.
TootleFuckingLoo PedoPrez.

a black and white sonogram of a human baby at 20 weeks. it looks oddly like a dog with two black eyes, a snoot, and a little grin.

a close up of a tan dog with a black snoot and golden brown eyes. he's so close we can see the whiskers on his lip and the grooves in his nose. he looks above the camera with a slightly bewildered expression. the resemblance to the sonogram truly is uncanny.

A pregnant woman was shocked to realize her sonogram resembled her dog's face. Inês Egner went in for her 20-week anatomy scan and left with a photo that looked exactly like her dog, Goulash. She said, "In truth, we do like to jokingly refer to the dog as our son." 14/10 (TT: inesverse)

eLife Assessment This important study reports the results of efforts to replicate two phenomena of significant interest to early-career scientists and scientific policymakers: the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. Several previous studies of these effects have focused on early-career researchers with grant proposals that fell just below or just above a funding threshold. Those just above the threshold were more likely to be successful when they applied for funding later in the career (an example of the well-known Matthew effect), while those just below were more likely to go on to have stronger publication records (the early-career setback effect). In this study the Matthew effect was found to be robust across funders, and to generalize from those close to the funding threshold to the whole population. The early-career setback effect was not robust across funders and did not generalize to the whole population. The evidence reported is convincing.

Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
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Spread the word! There is a professor position opening at our University @upcite.bsky.social. There are several possible (great) labs to join, but if you are interested in DNA methylation and epigenetics in mammals, don't hesitate to contact me directly!

BestopCloud: an integrated one-stop solution for single-cell RNA sequencing data analysis. #SingleCell #scRNAseq #DataAnalysis #WebTool #OpenSource #Rshiny #BMCgenomics @NatureGenet
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!

TT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience!
We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961

This is true and what is happening is awful. But what about after new PhD gets their wings so to speak. the academic job market for most PhDs at least in STEM is pretty dire. Too much cheap labor from PhD students, too many PhDs churned out world wide and where are all they supposed to go ??

Eurostar places €2bn order for double-decker trains New fleet from Alstom will allow group to extend routes to Geneva and Frankfurt

Eurostar places €2bn order for double-decker trains on.ft.com/47iyMMR

US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.

Fewer grad students means less science, but many STEM PhD programs in the US are cutting back on admissions this year due to federal funding uncertainties. Words by me for @nature.com:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@emsque.bsky.social @ucsdcooperlab.bsky.social @julieposselt.bsky.social 🧪

Intraspecific sequence variation and complete genomes refine the identification of rapidly evolved regions in humans Humans exhibit significant phenotypic differences from other great apes, yet pinpointing the underlying genetic changes has been limited by incomplete reference genomes and a reliance on single assemb...

“Intraspecific sequence variation and complete genomes refine the identification of rapidly evolved regions in humans”
New work on HAQERs, by
@rimangan.bsky.social Yanting Luo Craig Lowe @debbysilver.bsky.social @manoliskellis.bsky.social & colleagues
🧪🧬

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

That’s not even a genuine smile in the photo. What lack of professionalism and eloquence

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects

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