Jewelry! My amazing stepsister makes beautiful jewelry and bolos, some with salvaged bones. I always get questions & compliments (they make great conversation starters) when I wear some.
www.feral-elegance.com/shop?page=2
Applications for the ASIH Raney Fund are due in 10 days! Please spread the word if you know a student that could use funding for fishy research. I'm chairing the committee for the awards this year and am happy to answer any questions about it
Getting down to the wire on dorms. Dorms are one of the harder parts of the meeting to organize, but they are really important for cost and accessibility
Don't wait if you need dorm housing!
Hi! I am Alex goldman and I used to host Reply All. Currently I host a show called Hyperfixed. We are completely independent and supported by listeners, so I would love if you would become a member or at least listen! Hyperfixedpod.com/join
It's looking increasingly likely that I'll be hiring a 3-year computational pop-gen postdoc/PhD-level scientific programmer to start this Fall (2026). If you or someone you know is defending soon, and looking for a position, please DM/write to me! Thanks!
Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story?
Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of.
Ready? Off we go, then.
As antithetical to every part of my personality it may be, posting on Instagram/tiktok/here/etc has been the driver of unprecented member growth over the past couple weeks. I’m hoping that I can keep that momentum to ease the pressure on the show and pay my staff better. So here it is one more time.
Hello my name is Alex Goldman and I used to host the Reply All podcast. A lot of people liked that show. Now I make @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social which if you liked reply all you’d probably like well. The thing is that a lot of people who liked Reply All don’t know my new show exists.
Read this whole thread! Good for informative content and entertaining.
I’m finishing my tenure as Chief Meeting Organizer for the Evolution Meetings. Apply to replace me!
Without a doubt, this is my favorite service I’ve ever done. In trying times, it was a real balm to get together weekly with a group devoted to making the best meetings we can for students.
After closing the bedroom window, I have determined that the cricket is in fact under the dresser, not outside.
The deadline for our NHMLA Student Collections Study Award is coming up really soon. There are still a few more days to apply!
Students are all smiles reviewing data at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
🔬 Final weeks! Are you an undergraduate or graduate student interested in studying the #NHMLAC Collections? If you’re currently enrolled in an accredited degree-granting program, apply for our Student Collections Study Awards now through April 1—details: go.nhm.org/study-award
🦫 Look into the real-life ecosystems of beavers as National Geographic and Dr. Christine Wilkinson (Assistant Curator, Community Science) show Host Michelle Khare and the star of Pixar’s “Hoppers”, Piper Curda, how this incredible species shapes its environment!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9GX...
A small paper nautilus octopus female riding on the top of a pink jellyfish.
A dark orange octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on the top of a four tentacled jellyfish.
A small octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on an octopus that is only about as large as he is.
Semi-regular reminder:
Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats.
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🏅 This month's Editor's Choice article by Megan Barkdull and Corrie Moreau: "Phenotypic plasticity in turtle ants has opposing evolutionary consequences for genes and regulatory loci"
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
@corriemoreau.bsky.social
@meganbarkdull.bsky.social
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
Looking for an MSc student to start in Sept 2026 with possible summer employment this May. We're looking for a student to apply stable isotopes to a small mammal community to test hypotheses related to variation in diet among species and habitats. Please DM if you or anyone you know are interested.
Are you a student who wants to visit the NHMLA for your research? Do you advise or know a student who would benefit from visiting our collections? Well, there are three weeks left to apply for the NHMLA Student Collections Award. Help spread the word!
April 1 deadline for @nhm.org Student Collections Study Award. Get $$ to spend time collecting data in our collections, including @tarpits.org
Open to:
- current undergraduate and grad students
- *not* local to Los Angeles (international applicants welcome)
More: nhm.org/student-coll...
The Evolution Meetings logo, stating that the meeting will be online May 20-22, 2026 and in-person June 20-24 2026
The 2026 Ernst Mayr Award Competition is open! This is SSB's student talk award. Students selected to compete will deliver their talk during the virtual Evolution meetings May 20-22, 2026.
Applications close April 15, 2026.
For information on registration, see: www.systbio.org/ernst-mayr-a...
Last call for applications!
An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.
🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪
Yes. Thank you, @theoatmeal.bsky.social. It's about time someone created something new, worthy of the naked mole rat. It's been a minute since The Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, and this take is both scientifically accurate and appropriately deranged.
theoatmeal.com/comics/naked...
Excited that our work was featured on the local (Bay Area) news for their Black History month series. Interview with Noah and clips from my interview with @dornsife.usc.edu and CGSI talk in the article below
www.nbcbayarea.com/discover-bla...
Evolution 2026 meeting logo. Clilp art of a globe and laptop showing a virtual presentation. Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Global Meeting Participation.
SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
Screenshot of the COI Pond webpage: Upload your academic CV and generate a draft NSF Collaborators and Other Affiliations (COA) Form to submit with your NSF grant proposals. COI Pond parses your CV to extract: Coauthors of articles published, in the last 48 months Collaborators on funded projects, in last 48 months Past PhD advisees & your own PhD advisor(s) Editorial roles, in last 24 months After extraction, you can edit the draft COA form before downloading a final version (in xslx format) that you can submit to NSF. COI Pond is a free tool* from Cevian Labs.
Today we’re excited to announce a new product: COI Pond is a tool for faculty and grant staff that converts an academic CV into a draft NSF Collaborators and Other Affiliations (COA) Form. COA forms are tedious work, and COI Pond makes it a snap. Try it for free, here cevianlabs.io/coipond/start/ /1
Come join me and other great colleagues at @ib_unam !! We’re searching for a new orno 🦅 🦢 🦉 systematics researcher/prof. for the largest bird collection in Mexico. See details herein www.ib.unam.mx/ibunam/Convo... Amigxs ornitólogxs! Habemus búsqueda de nuevx investigadorx! Apliquen!
