a man is standing on a stage in front of a staircase and chairs . ALT: a man is standing on a stage in front of a staircase and chairs .

That’s not Seal. This is Seal.

TFW you look out the window and see the Earth disappear
🎥 Astronaut Reid Wiseman
📍 Artemis II from the far side of the Moon

One of the best decisions ever made by the biodiversity community in Singapore was to have their annual showcase/roadshow at shopping malls, which are still heavily frequented by the public in Singapore. People don't read, but impact is more likely when you take science to where the masses are

I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here:

mhibbins.github.io

I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!

Excited that my paper on a Jurassic fish with teeth on its nose is now out! Shoutout to my co-authors Ben Kligman and Maranda Stricklin, who is another all-star undergraduate mentee. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

‘Rediscovered’ species in Papua spotlight importance of Indigenous knowledge It started with a set of photographs, taken of an animal captured in 2015 on the Bird’s Head Peninsula in Indonesian Papua, the western half of the island of New Guinea. The smallish animal with…

Two marsupials thought to be extinct for millennia have been rediscovered in Indonesian Papua. Researchers documented the pygmy long-fingered possum and the "Tous" glider.

The find was made possible through deep collaboration with Indigenous elders.

@john-cannon.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

@spissatella.bsky.social

Happy belated birthday Katie!

Live Peregrine Falcon BirdCam | University of Birmingham YouTube video by University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham have a live feed for the nesting Peregrines on the Old Joe clock tower.

www.youtube.com/live/4dsZIFf...

Biorxiv has an API so I can check if a preprint has been published based on its DOI, does EcoEvoRxiv have something like that?

a life reconstruction of 3 isodapedon, with a proterochampsid in the background

a figure from the paper showing the phylogenetic position of isodapedon, and just as interestingly, strongly suggesting that hyperodapedon is a paraphyletic assemblage, and that only the type species (h. gordoni) should be considered valid

new rhynchosaur named 🥳 a warm welcome to isodapedon varzealis, described by schiefelbein et al. from the santa maria formation of late triassic brazil!
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(art by caio fantini)

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Hungary election: Viktor Orbán ousted after 16 years in power as opposition heads for landslide - follow live The long-serving prime minister concedes defeat to Péter Magyar, who has promised closer EU ties and an anti-corruption drive.

Good.

My colleague and collaborator Nazgol Emrani is looking for a Research Assistant / Postdoc in Crop Genetics at the University of Rostock.

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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.

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You just can’t predict the cascade of insights and ideas that follow from curiosity driven research. Demanding that its value be accounted for up-front misses the point. You don’t know what you’re missing.

Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart Offene Stellen

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th -

Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process

Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to postdoc-botany@smns-bw.de + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

Postdoctoral Researcher in Solanaceae Phylogenomics:South Kensington

Postdoctoral Researcher needed for phylogenomics of Solanum at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. Salary: £43,645. Apply by 1 May 2026: https://jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=770 #postdoc

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." Carl Sagan

OTU to OUT is obviously also queer coded!

LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...

Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Sadly I am not sure a single one does. But maybe…

We are around 27 hours away from the furthest a human woman has ever gotten from Earth. And honestly, who can blame her?

But you’re such a hard act to follow April!

The reason this position has been so much fun is because you get to work with lots of different people you might otherwise not have.

And those people are creative and innovative. All three societies are hungry for ways to bring new value to members via meetings.

Anyway, apply!

Rocks, Fossils, and Ecology: Understanding How Time Is Sampled in the Fossil Record The geological record provides us with absolute ages of past events and organisms, but it also contains information about what occurred within time intervals ranging from seconds to eons. Within this ...

Rocks, Fossils, and Ecology: Understanding How Time Is Sampled in the Fossil Record - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Your annual reminder that in this day and age, posting hoax paleontology (and other science) "discoveries" on April Fool's Day **will be misinterpreted by MANY people** unless the discovery is incredibly absurd.

A research fellow post combining MESOZOIC PALAEOBOTANY and plant ecophysiology here at Nottingham with Barry Lomax. Fixed term to March 2029.

Please spread the word!

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#paleobotany #plantscijobs 🌍⚒️🌱🧪🔬