KU IRACDA has three postdoc positions open iracda.ku.edu. Eligible applicants must demonstrate interest in teaching, have a biomedically-relevant research focus, and an identified KU faculty sponsor. www.employment.ku.edu/staff/32261BR .
Evolution is faster with stronger selection, but this may come with a demographic cost. Xu & Osmond characterized conditions when the chance of evolutionary rescue increases with the strength of selection across different scenarios.
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Apropos of everything, if you want to do something tangible that I promise REALLY makes a difference, throw some quarters at @colinmcroberts.bsky.social ‘s campaign to unseat a MAGA bootlicker in the heat of ruby-red Kansas. colinforkansas.com
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
I've been on SSE council since 2022 -- first as a council member and now as SSE President. I've loved every minute of it and have learned so much. If you're an SSE member and are interested in serving on council, let us know by self-nominating!
It turns out the U.S. did a “double tap” attack just as emergency responders were arriving at the girls’ elementary school. This is what the Russians do routinely in Ukraine.
That’s a war crime under international humanitarian law.
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I am super excited to announce that after a tumultuous period of uncertainty, KU MARC marc.ku.edu has been awarded another five years of funding! news.ku.edu/news/article....
If you research or are simply interested in human genetic variation, ancient and modern, read my and Noah Rosenberg's latest in GENETICS academic.oup.com/genetics/art... 1/2
I long for the WKRP in Cincinnati theme song. It speaks to me.
KU has recently been awarded a $2.2 million Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) grant from the NIH that will carry on this tradition for another five years.
news.ku.edu/news/article...
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
"There is perhaps no stronger evidence of the [Trump] administration’s objectives to reduce the quality of the US scientific workforce than its treatment of the [NSF]’s flagship Graduate Research Fellowship Program," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4d0fi3N
"Inspired by those volunteers seven decades ago, Wesleyan University and a network of hundreds of schools and allied organizations are uniting for Democracy Summer, a nationwide program to educate citizens and protect our elections in the coming year."
I bobbed my hair, and had the earrings, but of course that was as close as I could get.
The case is cracked, but the CD is fine - has traveled back and forth across the country with me.
One of my favorites.
Oh, I loved this album when it came out and I was obsessed with Belinda’s look. Takes me back!
I know this is me loosing the plot - but I CANNOT get over how ugly that “gold” ornamentation is.
Postdoc in evolutionary genetics with @mbhufford.bsky.social isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
I’m a scientist and can confirm- we can’t shut up about everything we have learned.
Soooo fun at parties!
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...
Come join us!
We are looking for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London.
Details 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Post funded by UCL Health Strategy.
Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties
Watching these “great men” of science fall one by one due to their association with Epstein, I have a single thought.
Good.
We have plenty of brilliant, decent people in science and academia. We don’t need you, we never did.
Begone.
More cheese is definitely the answer.
My decision to only care about the women’s team seems brilliant in hindsight.
