Just a few days left to submit the ASN student research award (due March 13th)!!!! This is an AWESOME opportunity for students to get some grant writing experience!!! We LOVE reading your grants and giving feedback!!!!!!!!!!! Apply, Apply, Apply!!!!!!
www.amnat.org/announcement...
Source of image: https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/social-science-pandemic-cultural-evolution/
A tenure-track faculty position (Professor of Evolutionary Biology) is open at #UQAR in Quebec, Canada. Teaching in French. Application deadline: 4 May 2026. Details: www.csz-scz.ca/job-postings... 🧪
27.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Three postdoctoral fellowships in quantitative biology are available as part of a new Quantitative Biology Initiative in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland.
Best consideration date: 3/14
Job Ad:
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
Department:
biology.umd.edu/people
There are two parts of this article:
1 - Historical funding trends & Congressional appropriations.
* Requires a longer conversation on levers of power
2 - "The Republicans Made Peace With Science".
* No, they did not & no they have not. This requires more than a conversation, but a reset.
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A Postdoctoral Associate position is available in the Roeder Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY with a focus on researching Polyploidy. Apply by March 1. Please spread the word. apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...
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Most microbes do not coevolve with *hosts* even when found associated with hosts
We have a super easy letter campaign to save NCAR. Takes 30 seconds to yell at your Congress Critters and you’ll can do it every day!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/152...
Two more weeks to apply - come join us () in The Netherlands as a postdoctoral researcher on large-scale metagenomic exploration of new lineages!
12.02.2026 07:46 — 👍 17 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 0
Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
09.02.2026 18:24 — 👍 137 🔁 169 💬 6 📌 5
Please share: we're hiring a new tenure-track faculty member to our Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...
"We emphasize to policymakers that consistency and predictability are vital to the health of the scientific community... This is not merely a matter of convenience."
Well done by @amermathsoc.bsky.social for making a clear statement that applies across disciplines:
www.ams.org/news?news_id...
Very much worth 3 min of your day.
05.02.2026 13:16 — 👍 69 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 0
This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program is funded by the National Science Foundation to create "points of entry" for students interested in research. Students apply from across the country to spend 10 weeks in Bozeman, Montana this summer (May 26, 2026 - August 1, 2026). Admitted students are paired with a faculty mentor, who serves as an advisor for a student's summer project. Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided. Our program leverages MSU’s unique microbiology expertise, focusing specifically on microbes living with little or no oxygen (like those in the hot springs of nearby Yellowstone). Low oxygen microbes are essential to human and ecosystem health. They influence (or control) such processes as the breakdown of food in the GI tract, removal of toxins from our bodies and the environment, and production of greenhouse gases. They are also models for understanding the origins of life on this planet, and the potential for life on other planets. A key goal of our program is to recruit students from schools with limited research infrastructure. Being in Montana, a state with a vibrant Native American community, we are particularly interested in applications from students at tribal colleges. However, ANYONE with an interest in microbiology - or biology/science in general - can and should apply. If willing and able, please share/tweet/spread the word far and wide. Applications are due February 14, 2026. Full details can be found through our website http://www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
Friends, please help spread the word about our microbiology REU program at Montana State University.
www.montana.edu/mbi/reu/
Each student receives a stipend ($7000 for 10 wks). Travel compensation, room, and board are also provided.
Details in the attached pic--Feb 14 deadline
🧫🧪🦠#microsky
Phage-Mediated Iron Acquisition by Pseudomonas aeruginosa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.26.700923v1
27.01.2026 03:18 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Crowdsourcing please come through! Has anyone shotgun sequenced a negative kit control metagenome of the Qiagen DNEasy Blood & Tissue extraction kit between 2012-2020? Trying to get creative with some data rescue. 🧬
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Fellow faculty - I don't know about you but I'm beyond stressed about starting the semester right now
I bet it's even harder for our students.
Now is time to double down on efforts to center empathy in our classrooms
How do you center empathy in your pedagogy? Share tips & best practices please!
They are not brave boys.
11.01.2026 00:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
27.11.2025 19:10 — 👍 284 🔁 103 💬 4 📌 0
Outline of the life cycle experimental evolution of M. xanthus with either 1% (stringent) or 15% (relaxed) population bottlenecks. Four different colonies of M. xanthus (GV1) were used to establish four parallel evolving lines. One generation of the complex life cycle with multiple social traits involved the growth of M. xanthus populations in nutrient-rich CTT liquid (with gentamycin) medium till O.D. 600 nm reached 0.3–0.4. These cultures were then spotted on starvation TPM hard agar (1.5% agar) plate for sporulation and fruiting body development. Next, only the spores (and not vegetative cells that failed to sporulate) were harvested by first incubating the M. xanthus populations at 50°C, after which they were transferred onto TPM hard agar (supplemented with 0.025% glucose) beds overlaid with Escherichia coli lawns in flasks for germination and predation. After incubation for 4 days on E. coli lawns, populations were harvested by adding 4 mL TPM buffer, shaking at 200 rpm, and either (0.04 mL) 1%, or (0.6 mL) 15% of harvested populations were transferred to fresh CTT liquid media with gentamycin (M. xanthus is naturally resistant to gentamycin whereas E. coli is sensitive to it). This selection regimen was repeated for 10 cycles.
Population bottlenecks shape the evolution of #cooperative traits in #Myxococcus via #LifeCycle trade-offs. @iamsamayp.bsky.social &co show that stringent bottlenecks favor growth & sporulation, while relaxed bottlenecks favor predation & germination @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3N1nia7
08.01.2026 14:05 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1She’s like a liar gone to burning hell
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Happy to share our new paper in PLOS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Showed that population bottlenecks don't uniformly drive “cooperation” but rather selectively shape which cooperative traits evolve #evolution #ecology #microbiology
@vishuguttal.bsky.social @iamsamayp.bsky.social
🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution.
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
I know many of you know Joe James (of Binning Singletons)
Joe and his family had a terrible tragedy occur on Christmas. If you can give, this is a good family to help out
gofund.me/5cbfe22fe
Modeling the phage properties best for therapy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.21.695819v1
23.12.2025 02:18 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0You MUST watch this 5 minute video.
18.12.2025 14:23 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
UF Biology is searching for an Asst Prof in Evolution, Ecology of Infectious Disease - spread the word! @ufresearch.bsky.social @ufgeog.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
If you want to mentor undergrad researchers, UNCW is the place to be. We (chancellor, provost, me) are throwing money at #undergraduateresearch. We have the students and the desire but our bio and chem faculty are full.
Plus 2x a year the highest admin scoop us ice cream. And the beach is great
The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students.
tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...
