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Curator of Birds - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page Apply to Curator of Birds at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.

TWO curatorial positions at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada. Curator of Birds, and Curator of Plants and Sustainability... please pass the word and amplify!

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Rigorous validation of ecological models against empirical time series - Nature Ecology & Evolution Validating theoretical models against empirical data presents challenges. Here the authors present an assumption-light method to validate ecological models against time series data, along with a dedic...

Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.

We have an open PhD position (application deadline 9 January 2026) in "Theory of fitness landscapes" at @unibe.ch 🤓⛰️📊👩‍💻🎓: banklab.github.io/positions/

Please share widely!

#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

I'm thrilled to be selected and grateful to be able to contribute to our community @official-smbe.bsky.social

Looking forward to new connections and future initiatives! @official-smbe.bsky.social @molbioevol.bsky.social @genomebiolevol.bsky.social

From genotype to phenotype with 1,086 near telomere-to-telomere yeast genomes Nature - A newly compiled atlas of species-wide structural variants and gene-based and graph pangenomes derived from highly complete assemblies of genomes from 1,086 natural isolates enable...

Incredible new paper from @schacherer.bsky.social et al rdcu.be/eLcTH

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

🚨🚨JOB ALERT 🚨🚨
Fresh new position in Comparative Biology at OSU!

We're looking for a comp. biologist, especially those who investigate biomechanics, functional anatomy, neuroanatomy, or morphological development.

Feel free to ask me any questions!
jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assista...

Ichetucknee Springs State Park, a short drive from Gainesville, FL

The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

The Fitness Landscape: A Call for Papers Ruth Isaacson; The Fitness Landscape: A Call for Papers, Genetics, , iyaf206, https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyaf206

Dear colleagues!

@davidmccandlish.bsky.social and I are serving as guest editors for the new special issue of GENETICS on fitness landscapes:

doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Submissions are due on March 18, 2026. Please spread the word! And reach out if you have questions.

Purple pollen visible in a dissected flower of Linum grandiflorum, flowering flax, an insect-pollinated species.

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5

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Workshop: Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution. Organisers: James Hombría and Antónia Monteiro. 14-17 June 2026, Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK. Early-career researchers apply for funded places.

Calling early-career developmental biologists!

Apply for a funded place at our #Workshop, Novelty, Co-option and Divergence During Gene Network Evolution.

Application deadline: 5 December

www.biologists.com/workshops/ju...

#DevBio #BiologistsWorkshops #Collaboration #Networking

Conference title: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin, and image of Lewontin in Black and White with intense expression in front of a chalkboard holding up a fist, When and Where Friday, October 10, 2025 11:30 am to Sunday, October 12, 2025 2:00 pm Music Room (218) Goldring Student Centre 150 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 | and online via Zoom

I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin.

It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

Adaptation is less accessible through mutations in promoters than in coding sequences when large effect sizes are needed Mutations within promoters and coding sequences are both involved in adaptation, but their relative contributions remain to be compared directly. Using the fungal enzyme cytosine deaminase, we examine...

Really excited to share our latest paper led by @simonaube.bsky.social. Fascinating results examining whether regulatory mutations can lead to adaptation as fast as coding mutations do. #mevosky #evobio #evoSky

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

The new logo of Genome Biology and Evolution, featuring a phylogenomic circos network with a variety of organisms

We are proud to present the new logo of Genome Biology and Evolution! 🙌

Our new face reflects our continued commitment to serving the fields of genomics and evolutionary biology as a society journal belonging to @official-smbe.bsky.social

#genome #evolution #science #biology #societyjournal

The next stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social will be on the East Coast!!! Mark your calendars for January 8-12, 2027 and we'll talk evolution, ecology, behavior, and integrative organismal biology at www.themansionatglencove.com/meeting-venues

The relationship between sexual dimorphism and intersex correlation: do models support intuition? Abstract. The evolution of sexual dimorphism (the difference in average trait values between females and males, SD), is often thought to be constrained by

Full paper now out in GENETICS:
The relationship between sexual dimorphism and intersex correlation: do models support intuition?
🔗 academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
#Evolution #QuantGenetics @GeneticsGSA

2025 - Hypoxia PhD job ad The Moore lab at the University of Colorado Denver is searching for 1 Ph.D. student to study the elevational limits of dragonflies in Colorado (http://moore-evo-eco.weebly.com). This position is fully...

Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains?

My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙

Apply by Nov 1!

Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome.

See thread for more information and reach out!

Don't forget this one www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An updated version www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Don't hesitate to talk to me at SMBE2025 if you are interested!! #SMBE25

Looking forward to meeting old and new friends in Beijing!!

Elegant empirical validation of a theoretical expectation that changing your mutation bias allows you to access more beneficial mutations. From @deepaagashe.bsky.social & colleagues in @plosbiology.org

Super excited to share our new study, where we introduce and apply a data-driven modeling approach to predict dynamical regimes of ecosystems at unseen environmental conditions (e.g. beyond a tipping point):
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

#Evol2025 was for me maybe the most important meeting I have ever been to. My science will be drastically improved by my interactions over the past week. It was bittersweet due to the current situation and the people who weren't there, but I'm optimistic that we are strong enough to overcome this.

How many paths lead to evolutionary innovation? How versatile are genomic toolkits? Excited to announce my new @pnas.org paper addressing these questions in collaboration with @rokaslab.bsky.social, @hittingerlab.bsky.social, and the Pennell lab!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

So excited to see this paper officially published! 🤩🤩

The term "reviewer fatigue” has become familiar in scientific publishing. In this Editorial, @droutledge.bsky.social & @npariente.bsky.social discuss how we can make the peer review system more sustainable & ways that PLOS Biology is already helping to ease the burden on reviewers🧪
▶️ plos.io/41YKIRa

Graduate Reductions Across Biomedical Sciences (2025)

There’s a google doc trying to keep track of funding/grad school admission/hiring freezes & status please share 🧪 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A card showcasing Dr. Maurine Neiman, Preprint Editor for Proceedings B, and informing that the team is recruiting new members.

Interested in learning more about #preprints and publishing? Join me and @maurineneiman.bsky.social on the @royalsocietypublishing.org ProcB Editorial Preprint Team! We are now accepting applications from #ECR to assess preprints for potential submission to Proceedings B! 1/3