Proposals due Monday, March 2 for the Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach! This program awards up to $1,000 USD for a variety of evolution education and outreach projects, workshops, and events. Apply now! shorturl.at/I8HqO
Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!
Dark grey salamander walking on leaf litter.
Purple/grey salamander curled on brown magnolia leaf litter.
A scientist in field gear sitting on the forest floor next to a Red Hills Salamander on the leaf litter.
The secretive Red Hills salamander lives just beneath the surface. Biologists from #ALNHP use environmental DNA (eDNA) from burrow soil to detect these threatened, endemic creatures without disturbing them—helping guide conservation. 🌱🔬
📷 1-2: Jim Godwin
📷 3: Kevin Hutchinson
#FromTheFieldFriday
Applications are now open for the 2026 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE)!
www.mbl.edu/education/ad...
Claudia Solis-Lemus and I will be holding an informational session on Zoom next Wed (1/21) from 10:30-11:30 AM Central for those interested:
lsu.zoom.us/j/4968115684
Deadline to apply: 1/26
A crew from the @aumnh.bsky.social will be there! Brian Counterman and I and some of our lab members. #SSB2026
Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.
gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable
dm me with comments , ideas etc
I am recruiting a PhD student this application cycle to explore questions on the evolution of morphological variation and phylogenetics. I'm especially seeking folks interested in fossil marine inverts. Please reach out to me if interested! Portal opens Nov. 1 eeb.utoronto.ca/education/gr...
Regular ask to send me successful job applications, grants, and fellowships to share with others! Thanks to @isabelott.bsky.social for sharing her GRFP (and congrats!). github.com/RILAB/statem...
Combining fossil taxa with and without morphological data improves dated phylogenetic analyses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04....
Job in #NaturalHistory
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biological Collections (9 Mo) Arkansas State (Arkansas Center for Biodiversity Collections)
phe.tbe.taleo.net/phe02/ats/ca...
Salary to living wage for Biology PhD pay. Most programs pay below a living wage.
Has your universities minimum Biology PhD stipend changed since 2022?
Make sure our database stays up-to-date and submit any raises here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...
Looking for help: need an explanation/reference for how to calculate the strength of family-level diversifying selection. Bonus points if it includes how to use a PCA variable as the target of selection!
The SSE logo. A silhouette of a person giving a virtual talk with a microphone and laptop. Text: Virtual Evolution 2025 W. D. Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation, Register and apply by April 15.
SSE grad student members are invited to submit their abstracts to the SSE Hamilton Award competition at #Evol2025! Finalists receive $500 and will present their talks during the virtual part of the meeting on May 29-30. Apply by April 15! buff.ly/5EmzAzH @evolmtg.bsky.social
@ssegrad.bsky.social
🚨 Students and recent graduates: you still have a month to submit your talk for consideration in the 2025 Ernst Mayr Award Competition 🚨
See this page for requirements and instructions.
www.systbio.org/ernst-mayr-a...
I like how she maintains the percussive build up over the melody in the intro to Lateralus. Beautiful.
Our study (haiwei luo & i) on dating bacterial tree of life by new methods integrating host-microbe symbiosis, complex subs models & extended sequential dating, is online Syst Biol. @systbiol.bsky.social shorturl.at/Ywoud #phylo