PhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬
Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution?
Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Deadline 22nd of May!
At the Paridae family reunion, all the titmice are like "Check out this guy!"
Friends! My university is hiring an Asst Professor of Biology and an Asst Professor of History and American Indian Studies. Our students are wonderful, my colleagues are great, we do good work. Please share! Happy to answer questions :)
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Ecologists I need a favor! 🌎🌍🌏
I am teaching a GIS class for freshmen. I want to zoom in for like 15-20 min with other ecologists that are using drones, uav, collars, biologgers, telemetry, or any type of sensors to study wildlife. 1️⃣
Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive!
If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email tuna@ourworldindata.org.
A central mission of PASEDB is to foster networking, discussion and a sense of community
We offered multiple opportunities such as two poster sessions, community-building workshop, opening reception with a karaoke session and poetry slam…
🎤🎙️🎶
I keep a trail cam set up outside my office, and the other night I picked up a long-tailed weasel. I've never seen one of these in my life, but apparently we have them right here on campus (Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, USA)
List of positions open at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon University: arquivo.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/concursos
You can use the "filter" to select for grade (e.g., Professorships) and area (e.g. Biological Sciences).
There are two now open relating to Biology, and presumably a bunch more to come.
A spiral bound field guide with a photo of sea star and a sea urchin, written and illustrated by Madelynn DeBest.
An illustrated schematic of the zones of the rocky intertidal and which species live at what depths.
An example page from a spiral bound field guide, open to the entry for bladderwarck, a light green seaweed with little air bladders to help it float.
A field guide entry for an invasive blue crab, showing it to be 9” across.
One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!
📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢
My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica!
If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre.
#TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur
LTER has been archived for about a year now. It’s normal between solicitations. LTER is still here.
NSF LTER program “archived”.
LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”.
This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings.
My heart is breaking.
An image of a gas tank gauge, with the arrow on F. In the middle is a silhouette of a scholar in an academic cap. Get it?
I sometimes teach ornithology. We do a lot of field trips and I base the lab practicals on what we see, which usually comes to about 60 species in total, I think? I then assess with photographs and some audio files. (I tried to do lab practicals in the field with real wild birds...nope, nope.)
What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”
Trump’s $1.5 trillion military budget will destroy what little is left of US science, environment, & health:
Cuts:
NIH -$5.8 billion
NASA -$5.6 billion
NSF -$4.8 billion
EPA -$4.6 billion
CDC -$2.9 billion
NOAA -$1.6 billion
It also includes $$ for 130,000 beds at ICE concentration camps.
I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.
“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds. n.pr/4ttOsq4
A crowd of protestors stands in front of the statehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
A crowd of protesters stands in front of the statehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
A very large version of the men's NCAA basketball bracket appears on the side of the JW Marriott Hotel in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Joined a protest and checked my bracket today. (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)
Not Muriel Bristol!
"Sure thing. One or two tailed?"
"If you think 'reject' vs. 'fail to reject' is confusing, wait until I tell you about 'not milk' vs. 'not not milk'"
Our paper is on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social : a strawberry poison frog with the most common color morph, living up to its common name 🍓. In this issue, we uncover the genetic basis of color variation in frogs from Bocas del Toro, where blue, green, yellow, orange, and red morphs occur
Cool! We are taking students to Panama a couple months, and will be in Bocas for some of that trip. I'll see if we can assign this paper as one of our readings!
Predictable, but sad nonetheless. 🧪
Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
🧪Science friends:
Participate in this (quick) survey-based study of GenAI use in ecology & evolutionary biology research clemson.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Many brightly colored pinned moth specimens in an Entomology collection.
Undergrad and graduate students! Could your work benefit from visiting one of the NHMLAC’s collections? Apply for our Collections Study Award, due Apr. 1. I’d love to have students make use of our Entomology collection!
Details here:
tinyurl.com/bdduefsy
