@andremoncrieff.bsky.social
Assistant Professor and Curator of Birds. University of Oklahoma and Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Ornithology, population genomics, Neotropics, natural history collections. https://www.moncriefflab.org/
LSU Museum of Natural Sciences is hiring a postdoc! Come join our very active and supportive museum community. Applicants can work with any of the major divisions: 🐀🦜🦎🐸🐠
Review begins February 15th, please share!
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0119...
The Wyoming Game & Fish Dept. is hiring two Black Rosy-Finch technicians to conduct alpine surveys in Wyoming's high elevation mountains during June 1st to Aug 31st 2026: www.governmentjobs.com/careers/wyom.... Spread the word!
16.01.2026 04:38 — 👍 13 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0Looking for a postdoc? Work on vertebrates and have lab experience? Come be the lab manager/museum postdoc for the LSU Museum of Natural Science!
(It's a great stepping stone to being a curator!)
'Tis the season for graduate school applications, so here's a reminder that I'm recruiting! My lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational methods to study macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Check the link below & feel free to reach out
02.12.2025 20:11 — 👍 26 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 1In the year of our Lord two-thousand-twenty-five, there are still shockingly diagnosable, legit never-before-seen-by-scientists new bird species out there to be discovered
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Depictions of evolution where a phylogeny often has humans on the far right or top can give an impression of evolution being progressive of leading to ‘increased complexity’ when it does not. Top figure shows such a phylogeny which can look the same as ‘the March of progress’ depiction most commonly used to depict evolution (showing monkey to man erroneous march of evolution) - instead swiveling some nodes on a phylogeny where humans are shown closer to the center (which doesn’t change relationships) can lead to better ‘tree thinking’
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
The type series of images for the description of Ptilorrhoa urrissia, sp. nov. the "Hooded Jewel-babbler" - no type specimens collected #Ornithology
28.11.2025 16:26 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
More work linking irregular iris pigmentation in gannets to prior HPAI infections: likelihood of NP antibody increased with iris pigment irregularity. Moderate correlations for H5 antibodies.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members
The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!
Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025
Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Evolution/genomics postdoc opportunity working with great people and a super cool study system!
14.10.2025 20:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Michigan'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...
11.10.2025 13:47 — 👍 9 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1Come join our department and the museum!
09.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Genome Biology and Evolution October 2025 cover image with a photo of an Ethiopian White-eye.
Our paper on the temporal genomics of Ethiopian birds
has been highlighted (and gotten the cover) in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
Article: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf163
Highlight: doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf175
w/ @bourgeoisyann.bsky.social, @lcampillo.bsky.social, and others not on bsky
One week to apply before reviews start for the postdoc I am offering investigating the tempo and pattern of river connections with the closure of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on river plant (Podostemaceae) migration. Genomic+fossil+geological data + fieldwork 👇
08.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 19 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 1
Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
We're recruiting an avian ecologist working with @danc-eco.bsky.social and our AviArch team! More info: archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif...
27.09.2025 07:26 — 👍 10 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
Fantastic!!
26.09.2025 23:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We’re thrilled to welcome Shelby Hernandez as our new Collections Manager! 🪲 A true beetle lover and collections expert, Shelby will help care for and grow the incredible invertebrate collection at the Sam Noble Museum. 🎉
gustavomiranda.weebly.com/news/welcome...
Join us! We are hiring a new #curator at the #AMNH in #Vertebrate #Zoology careers.amnh.org/postings/4600 #academicjobs #tenuretrack
26.09.2025 18:57 — 👍 32 🔁 44 💬 0 📌 0Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...
26.09.2025 13:33 — 👍 12 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 1
New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
26.09.2025 15:45 — 👍 114 🔁 107 💬 2 📌 12
I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
19.09.2025 21:47 — 👍 245 🔁 229 💬 2 📌 6
Do you know someone who has contributed to strengthening the evolutionary biology community by promoting inclusion and diversity?
Nominate them for the IDEA award! More info:
www.systbio.org/idea-award.h...
You may self-nominate!!!
Please share!🙏
🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain
The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants. Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards, Deadline: September 15, 5:00 PM Eastern.
Proposals are due next week for the Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants provide up to $3500 US in funding for PhD students. Contact communications@evolutionsociety.org with any questions. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
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