📢 Apply now for the ASFB’s Student Awards!

🚨 All applications are due 30th April 🚨

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Two Postdoc jobs at #mpaib with Serena Ding on collective behavior of worms

(Never seen a "wormuration"? That's them in green)

🪱 social dynamics of collective dispersal: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/2...

🪱 sensory ecology of worm towers: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/7...

We are looking for a postdoc to help with a project on eelgrass genomics, in collaboration with the O'Connor and Rieseberg labs at UBC - see ad here tinyurl.com/2yd487p4! Come and join us in beautiful Vancouver 🌊🌾🏔️

IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s

Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

New paper out with @cichlidnick.bsky.social and Peter C. Wainwright. We show that different habitats impact fish diversification. Habitats with a complex benthos show increased diversification rates across ray-finned fishes.

www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

a flyer for a phd opportunity, titled "decoding shark fishing practices for more sustainable management" deadline is 24th April 2026. background image is sharks from a fishery in a large bucket. logos for exeter and queensland universities are at the top of the page.

JOINT PhD OPPORTUNITY! 🚨🦈

Work with Uni of Qld and @exeter.ac.uk on this amazing project developing insights for managing vulnerable species in fisheries globally.

DEADLINE: 26th APRIL 2026
Apply and learn more - scholarships.uq.edu.au/scholarship/...

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@kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social #PhDsky

a cartoon fish is swimming in the ocean with its eyes closed . Alt: Scene from Finding Nemo, Dory the blue tang touches a jelly fish which stings her, causing her to retreat

While jellies are quite scary during stinger season, fishes that feed on these planktonic jellies contribute a whopping ~25% to the productivity of coral reef fishes 🪼🐟

Check out our new OA paper in @natecoevo.nature.com, led by PhD student James Gahan, here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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🚨 New(ish) PhD paper out in @natcomms.nature.com with @hannahvwatkins.bsky.social, Ale Siqueira, and Dave Bellwood comparing the effects of warming temperatures 🥵 and commercial fisheries 🎣 on the growth performance of marine fishes

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🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲

👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest

This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

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Evolutionary adaptation to global change reduces sustainable fisheries yields Global warming is altering the fisheries that underpin food security, but projections of these impacts generally exclude evolutionary processes. We describe a model that forecasts how fish will adapt ...

Fish will have to adapt to a warming world, what will that adaptation do to fisheries yields? We answer that question today in Science. I’ll summarise our findings very briefly in this thread
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

There is No Consensus on Biological Sex At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr...

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social

We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌿 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!

Meet The Fellows - Liber Ero Fellowship Program We are pleased to announce the 2026 Liber Ero Fellows!     Mirjam Barrueto Project: Toward one hundred quiet zones: predicting, locating, and managing wolverine reproduction, connectivity, and source-...

Congratulations to the 2026-28 cohort of Liber Ero Fellows: Mirjam Barrueto, Madison Earhart, Rosemary Hohnen, Sage Raymond, and Hannah Watkins!

liberero.ca/meet-the-fel...

#LiberEroFellows #CdnSci

Kansas revokes driver's licenses of hundreds of trans people, prompted by new law Prompted by a new law, Kansas began sending letters to some trans people saying their drivers licenses were being invalidated until they change their gender information.

🚨hey so this is absolutely HORRIBLE for so many reasons I can’t even fully list out. But a few:

- licenses are immediately invalid, making it difficult to even get around to change license or god forbid APPEAL THIS DECISION

Please #rstats community I need your help and guidance. I am teaching a GIS and spatial data class for ecologists. They are Sophomores. Beginner level 0. I have tried to live code my labs but they are unable to follow my code and they make all kinds of errors because they are missing commas etc.

Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.

We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Postdoctoral Fellow in Eco-evolutionary Modelling and Machine Learning The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP) at Stockholm University is located in the Arrhenius Laboratories on the Frescati campus. Currently, approximately 100 people, including

Please help me spread this postdoc position with me at Stockholm University, Sweden!!!! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

#statsmeme

University of Tasmania has a new #PhDPosition for predictive network modelling of Tasmanian lake ecosystems.

🤝 Collaboration with Inland Fisheries Service Tasmania, Hydro Tasmania, Anglers Alliance Tasmania
💰$34,315 p.a. stipend for 3.5 years

👀 www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...

🚨Deadline: 1 Apr

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

🚨 we're looking for Associate Editors to join our editorial board!
🐜 join some of the world's best animal ecologists and get the chance to handle exceptional submissions to our journal
📝 deadline is 8 March - more information can be found below:
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Thanks for coming!

pinging the #bayesian / #rstats / #pydata hivemind --- has anyone implemented a sufficient formulation of a gamma distribution/willing to share code (ideally in stan or pymc)? supposedly this equation is a density function for the sufficient gamma, but ngl it's scary

Faculty Positions

We are hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Indigenous Environmental Governance and Management. Very excited for this position.

Please circulate widely among your networks:
www.sfu.ca/rem/about/em...

#academia #HigherEd #AcademicSky

2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Join 2026 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, May 11-14, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.

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Tomorrow (January 30) is the final day to secure your spot at the discounted rate. Don’t miss out ~ Grab your early‑bird registration while you still can! Click the link below to register👇:
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📢 We are seeking Expressions of Interest for the role of ASFB Newsletter Editor 🐟🦈🐠

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A view of Friday Harbor Labs dock in the early morning with blowing sea fog in the background.

Want to do a postdoc at Friday Harbor Labs? We have two positions open. Apply by March 1st. I am happy to discuss potential projects with fish people.
apply.interfolio.com/180092
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Uppsala in late autumn

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Food Delivered With Dignity In the current environment we need to raise a $7,000 a day to sustain our operations

One small thing you can do today: ICE is ramping up in Maine. Food For All is delivering meals to 300 families that can't leave their homes. They need $7k a day to continue operations. The Culture Study community is raising enough to cover a day—join us?

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RVA Specialist At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted an...

I’m hiring! 🎉 I’m building out my team and looking for someone who enjoys working in R (tidyverse), is comfortable with Git, and is excited about data. 🤓

#rstats #tidyverse #datascience

roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/roche-ext/jo...