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This is such amazing news! Big congrats, Maria 🥳

Fluffy brown puppy scratching itself

Some days in canid research are just unbearable… 🧪🦊 🐾 🐶

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨

Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.

Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs

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‘Lazy’ authors? One in six scientific papers mischaracterize work they cite New study of long-standing problem takes novel approach, asking cited authors to evaluate accuracy

“…approximately one in six papers across the natural and life sciences mischaracterize the findings in a paper they cite” 🧪 🌎 #AcademicSky

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Living in Stockholm, Sweden, and...same!

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Research Using Genetics - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University

JOB ALERT 🚨 Tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics and/or bioinformatics applied to biodiversity monitoring and conservation biology at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Aarhus is super nice y'all. Apply! 🧪 🌍 🧬 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs

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Lot of marmot body shaming in that article. There is nothing wrong with being ready for winter year round, especially in these unpredictable weather times. He is magnificent 😍

Opportunities — ASAB

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31.

More details:
www.asab.org/opportunities

Thanks for the fix!

"Should we really set time and space apart for things that distract us from our jobs? Yes we should, because many of the breakthroughs in science were made by people who were distracted." 🌍 🧪

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JOB OPPORTUNITY in the United Nations Environment Programme! The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds is hiring and executive officer. Location: Bonn, Germany.

🌍 🧪 🦉 #ScienceJobs

Special consultant with expertise in biodiversity and nature conservation - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Ecoscience - Biodiversitet, Aarhus Universitet

Permanent job in lovely Aarhus, Denmark, as a special consultant in biodiversity and nature conservation.

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🧪 🌍 🦊 #WomenInSTEM #ScienceJobs

Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerous, says geneticist Adam Rutherford

Great piece by Adam Rutherford on the moral and ethical implications of the current woolly mammoth revival hype. Not to mention the colossal (pun very much intended) waste of money this "endeavor" is 🧪 🌍 🦊

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The bookmark function is what I miss the most. I used that a lot on Twitter.

Associate professor in animal biology

JOB ALERT!

Associate Professor position in Animal Biology available at Linköping University, Sweden.

Areas of interest include ecology, physiology, evo-devo and genetics.

🧪 🌍 🦊 🐟 🦉 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs

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Important paper on Positive Animal Welfare (PAW) for all researchers and other professionals working with animals 🧪 🌍 🦊 🦇 🦉 🐟 🐾 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED

Merlin is only one small evolutionary step away from making that a reality: Opposable thumbs. Once cats have that one figured out we are in real trouble.

🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM #HigherED #ScienceJobs

More of this, please!

One shouldn't underestimate how important preprints are for ECRs in applying for grants & jobs. However, it's very problematic that journalists report on preprints. When I declined to comment on a preprint of mine, as it had not been peer-reviewed, they said they were still going to write about it 🤷‍♀️

Maybe do a starter pack and post it with broadly applicable hashtags for visibility?

At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics!

Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics.

Please spread the word!

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The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...

Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #EcoEvoECRcareer

This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.

Another great reason not to publish with MDPI. This kind of deviation from the protocol of ethical standards in research is unacceptable and should never pass review, neither from ethical boards nor from peer-reviewers.

provide an ideal opportunity to collect comparable, large-scale data across populations. Combined with in-depth knowledge of dog evolutionary history and the advanced genetic tools developed using the species, dogs can be an outstanding model for the study of behavioral ecology and evolution 6/6

populations express high variation in behavioral ecology across their global range and propose that this variation is key to understanding dogs' great success in the rapidly developing anthropogenic niche. As free-ranging dogs have a global distribution across rich environmental gradients they...5/6

misunderstandings is a distorted view of dog behavior.

In this review, we argue that dogs should be studied using species-general fundamental principles of ecology and evolution, and that the focus in dog research should shift towards free-ranging dogs. We find that free-ranging dog...4/6