Mike Moore

Have a colleague, postdoc, or student that published an outstanding paper in the field of plant ecology in the last 5 years? Nominate them for the ESA Cooper award. Self-noms welcome! NOV 16 deadline.

please retweet or whatever its called now

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🚨🚨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...

Showy dragonflies are being driven extinct by warming and wildfire - Nature Climate Change The authors use 1,603 estimates of local extinctions from 1980 to 2021 to show that dragonfly species with wing ornamentation have disproportionately gone extinct and lost habitat because of climate c...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@cudenverclas.bsky.social PhD student @sarahnalley.bsky.social was featured on the local news talking about her dragonfly research in @natclimate.nature.com! 🧪🌍🐙

www.9news.com/video/tech/s...

We’re thrilled to announce the 2025 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering — 20 innovative early-career scientists who will each receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research.

Meet the 2025 Packard Fellows ⬇
www.packard.org/2025fellows

Congratulations to @jameststroud.bsky.social on being named a 2025 #PackardFellow by @packardfdn.bsky.social.

Stroud will receive $875,000 over 5 years to fund his pioneering research in evolutionary biology — studying 1,000 backpack-wearing lizards in South Florida.

Read more: bit.ly/3KNrVU5

Pirates of the Caribbean (and Elsewhere): Three-Legged Lizards and the Study of Evolutionary Adaptation | The American Naturalist Abstract Natural selection is widely considered responsible for the fit between organisms and their environment. Lizard limb length variation is a paradigmatic example: studies have shown that limb le...

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

3-legged lizards can thrive against all odds, challenging assumptions about how evolution works in the wild Most lizards probably don’t survive devastating injuries. But a new study documents 122 cases of limb loss across 58 species – these exceptions shine a new light on natural selection.

@jblosos.bsky.social and I (and, it turns out, many other lizard biologists!) kept seeing wild lizards with missing legs/hands/feet.

How do they survive? Surely natural selection would weed out these unfortunate individuals?

Perhaps not...🦎🦵

theconversation.com/3-legged-liz...

Oct. 9, 2025: Domino effect of wildfire impact on dragonflies; Small town football team takes on 'The Hill' | Colorado Public Radio When it comes to the changing climate and increasing wildfires, you may not think of dragonflies, but it turns out they're a good test case to show the impact on an entire ecosystem. Then, Aging Matte...

PhD student @sarahnalley.bsky.social and I were interviewed over at Colorado Public Radio @cprnews.bsky.social about the disappearance of dragonflies in the face of climate change and wildfires

www.cpr.org/show-episode...

@cudenverclas.bsky.social

Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF

Super excited to share my new project, a book about how flies have fundamentally shaped what it means to be human. Get ready to completely rethink your nastiest of kitchen pests! With @flatironbooks.bsky.social via @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social 🪰

Assistant Professor, Plant Physiology - Orlando, Florida, United States The OpportunityThe Department of Biology at the University of Central Florida (UCF) invites applications for the position of tenure track Assistant Professor, Plant Physiology (9-month appointment), a...

Join us at the University of Central Florida! 🍊🚀🌴

We’re seeking an Assistant Professor of Plant Physiology! We’ve got growth chambers, hoop houses, greenhouse space, an arboretum, and students chomping at the bit for more plant courses!

#PlantPeopleFTW #IAmABotanist

jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assista...

An ad for a PhD position to start fall 2026 working with me at ETSU. For more info, please email at LeeBR1@etsu.edu.

A close-up picture of dimpled trout lilies active in early spring, still largely surrounded by the previous year's senesced tree leaves.

A beautiful vista of the Blue Ridge Mountains from on top of Carver's Gap on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee.

🚨 Please repost widely!🚨

I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab next fall to work on forest and climate change ecology projects in southern Appalachia! Come join me in one of the most beautiful, biodiverse, and understudied parts of North America. Details below and happy to answer questions

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Biology Position Summary A postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Andreas Kautt in the Department of Biology on the Danforth Campus at WashU in St. Louis. The Kautt Lab studies the mechan...

Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply!

tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp

Come work with us! My lab is looking for PhD student(s) to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies in Colorado. Reviewing applications now - apply by Nov 1 at the latest

You could spend your summers here!

@omgitsmejenny.bsky.social talks about her masters thesis on the effects of flower temperature on pollinator visitation and behavior

“I am very interested in working in your lab at SDSDU. I read your recent paper on the escape behaviors of urban and non-urban wall lizards (Brock and Bednekoff 2025), and I found it particularly interesting that the distance of flight initiation increased with substrate temperature increases instead of decreasing. I am especially interested in your lab’s research on the influence of urbanization on populations.”

I keep getting this same paragraph in emails from prospective students asking for positions in my lab:

Like, word for word.

Don’t use ChatGPT to reach out to prospective PhD advisors.

All my hard work and prep seems to be for naught. Maybe we can get something back. Consider signing:

laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

🌿 We’re Hiring!
Join the Living Earth Collaborative as a Project Coordinator and help advance our mission.

✨ If you have experience in LEC's pilar areas and love collaboration, apply today!

👉 Link in bio or bit.ly/LEC_Job

Excited that we could share some of our recent work on how temperature affects sporulation and recombination rate in Saccharomyces 🎤🌡️🧬🔬
Thanks for having us Mike & @heredityjournal.bsky.social!

Incomplete genetic compensation and countergradient variation of blood-oxygen transport in deer mice Abstract. Novel environments can induce fitness-reducing responses (i.e., maladaptive plasticity) that should be eliminated by selection via genetic compen

Check out our new deer mouse paper @sse-evolution.bsky.social! A truly collaborative effort with @drgodwit.bsky.social, @mstager.bsky.social, and Zac Cheviron. academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Behind the scenes at @mobotgarden.bsky.social

WashU students toured the Oertli Hardy Plant Nursery with Dr. Matthew Albrecht to see how research meets conservation.

Thanks to MOBOT for opening their doors (and greenhouses).

📸: Sean Garcia, WashU

#WashU #InSTLforSTL #botanicalgardens

Friends: I'm recruiting at least one PhD student to join our lab in Atlanta in the Fall of 2026. Information about our research can be found at the link below. Please pass along to any students interested in the quantitative study of speciation, secondary contact, and the build-up of biodiversity!

New look, same mission! 🌿🦋🌎
We’re proud to introduce our new logo. Our new logo celebrates the diversity of life and the power of collaboration. Together, we advance knowledge and conserve biodiversity—because sustaining life on Earth takes all of us.

This is figure 1, which shows ornamented dragonfly species have been disproportionately lost from locations with the greatest temperature increase and the most wildfire activity since the 1980s.

A study in Nature Climate Change shows that dragonfly species with mating-associated wing ornamentation have disproportionately gone extinct and lost habitat because of climate change and wildfire. go.nature.com/4nvkfDS 🔒

Interested in measuring trees and branches from Lidar data? Don't want to use Matlab? (who does).

Take a look at our new Python package for reconstructing trees from point cloud data using quantitative structure models (QSM's).

Fun with @jefferybcannon.bsky.social!

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Job Opportunities - American Forests The movement to create healthy forests is growing daily as more people recognize the role of trees in slowing climate change and advancing social equity. Be a part of it.

@americanforests.bsky.social is #hiring multiple positions to support post🔥 reforestation 🌲 on USFS lands. Come work with a really great team doing amazing work. Reach out if you have questions!

www.americanforests.org/job-opportun...