A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 #Caecilians maintain a functional long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin gene despite signatures of relaxed selection and more than 200 million years of fossoriality, published in Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
Nice job (Prof in Animal Ecology) in a nice (unesco) city, in a great department: www.uni-regensburg.de/fileadmin/us...
Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi
¿La pintura rupestre más antigua de la humanidad?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Come celebrate International Darwin Day with us @sandiegostate.bsky.social! Deets in the flyer (designed by the awesome @doc-brock.bsky.social).
Are details for the event at Perdu not public yet? I don’t see anything on their agenda for upcoming events
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
I have a new preprint demonstrating a genome-architecture-aware approach to inferring species trees and introgression landscapes from a small number of genomes. If you are interested in phylogenomics, birds, or hybridization, this is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen.
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If any big-name 🧪science or 🎨artist accounts would like to share the SciArt Feed with their followers, I’d be grateful. 👉👈
The Natural History Museum Denmark is seeking a new Head of Conservation Unit! The conservation team here works on a wide array of incredible specimens, and are hard at work preparing for the new museum opening in spring 2027! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure.
Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.
EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
On her birthday, a poem by #UrsulaKLeGuin
"let’s hurry, yes, to offer
everything and count on nothing,
make and break no promises ...
Outside trust, what air
is there to breathe?"
lithub.com/a-poem-by-ur...
📌 New publication out:
Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations
TL;DR - We show that the choice of reference genome biases the detection of structural variants and popgen stats. Navigate carefully - 🛳️ 😬
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology seeks a Research Collections Manager for reptiles and amphibians. Required: advanced degree, 3+ years experience. Apply by Nov 5, 2025: https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/269553/res-museum-collection-manager #job
Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++
Second call for joining our server! 🐸
Hissscord is open to everyone in the scientific herpetological community, from students to established researchers.
💬 DM me for an invite to the Discord channel, or reach out via email: hissscord[at]gmail.com
Please share!📣
As you will gather from the article, it does, in fact, sound like a cartoon villain the size of a piece of string cheese.
+++ Hissscord🐍 NEWS +++
Our new server is live! 🐍
A free space for young and experienced herpetologists to connect, collaborate, and get quick help.
💬 DM me here on Bluesky or elsewhere for an invite to the Discord channel!
Please feel free to share and repost!
#Herpetology #SEH2025 #Hissscord
I’ve been asked about de-extinction a lot this weekend, especially whether it’s scientifically possible.
No, it’s not, and Colossal has already been caught lying about their projects. Extinction is forever. We have to grieve and use that feeling to protect the future of life that is here now.
Science news article about 2nd year grad students being unceremoniously dropped from the GRFP eligibility with no explanation or warning:
www.science.org/content/arti...
They also removed the provision that allowed students with Masters degrees to apply if 2 years had passed. Now I can’t apply, and even if admitted, I also can’t apply in the 1st year like many PhD students do :(
🚨 NEW PAPER! 🚨 Being an “internationally successful” scientist depends on English. But what if you also face gender & global inequalities? We show that women from the global South publish the same total # of papers but have 70% fewer in English language. Affecting their career possibilities.
Having a diffuse research group means that I rarely get to spend any time with my group in 3D. It was a great delight therefore to be joined by @collinbos.bsky.social @alicepetzold.bsky.social @njorisfleck.bsky.social and @clarakeusgen.bsky.social together in Bonn for the #SEH2025! 🧪🐸🦎🐍🧬
“fascist government controls media and bans dissent” is a straightforward description of what’s happening in the united states
Someone's pet cat with the native wild red squirrel it just killed.
Most cat owners have no idea of, or don't want to know, how much wildlife is slaughtered annually by domestic or feral cats. But it runs to 10s, possibly 100s, of BILLIONS of animals per year, and is a serious driver of extinction.
