NSF GRFPs and HMs just announced! Students who got an HM can apply for the EPSCoR GRFP (3 yrs of funding!). Plz spread the word about our EMERGE Program at Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. We're recruiting 10 PhD students for Fall 2026!
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Amazing opportunity to lead the Sitka Sound Science Center! Please share with your colleagues.
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🚨 Job Alert! TT Assistant Professor of Geological Oceanography at the University of Alaska Fairbanks! Looking for a candidate with a focus on geochemistry and sediment dynamics. Come be my colleague! Apply by March 19th. Please share.
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New preprint! We produced a chromosome-level reference genome for Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) from the Bering Sea. Our genome is 795 Mb and organized into 26 chromosomes. 🐟🧬
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The NSF strategic plan FY 2026-30 is available for public comment until Jan 27. Please make your voice heard! www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
🚨 Job Alert! TT Assistant Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks! Looking for a candidate with a focus on coastal ecology. Come be my colleague! Please share.
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New preprint! Our team at @uafairbanks.bsky.social conducted a review of aquatic eDNA research in Alaska. Takeaways: eDNA is rapidly growing in AK with collabs btwn university, tribes, fed, state & other partners. Major barriers = lack of infrastructure and training.
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New paper out! Using lcWGS we found huge genetic differences between Pacific herring in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, as well as mitonuclear discordance that may be caused by isolation and secondary sympatry after the last glacial maximum. 🐟🧬
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Still a few days left to apply for this Assistant Professor position in our department at NYU: apply.interfolio.com/175592
Please pass the word around, if you know of someone at the interface of ecology, evolution, and disease!
I recently rewatched Jurassic Park and was so excited to share this clip with my Genomics and Bioinformatics class to teach how critical it is to understand Unix/Linux after Lex saves everyone from the velociraptor by rebooting the security system! 😂🦖🦕👩🏼💻
Thanks; we hope so! Please share with your networks!
Applications are open until January 15th, 2026!
Eligible applicants must be U.S. Citizens, Nationals or greencard holders who have already received the honorable mention award.
Please share this opportunity with your students and networks!
Our 42 faculty and 138 graduate students work with local communities, Tribes, agencies, and the fishing industry, and do research from the Arctic to the Antarctic, including inland waters, coastal systems, and the deep ocean.
EMERGE Alaska focuses on marine and coastal ecosystem research and is anchored on 4 components: academic training, research and innovation, professional development and student success support. The College of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences has 3 departments (Fisheries, Marine Biology, and Oceanography).
🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social
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EMERGE Alaska focuses on marine and coastal ecosystem research and is anchored on 4 components: academic training, research and innovation, professional development and student success support. The College of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences has 3 departments (Fisheries, Marine Biology, and Oceanography).
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has been awarded a $1.9 million federal grant to support 12 new Ph.D. students at the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. 🧪🌊🦑 @alaskaepscor.bsky.social @uafairbanks.bsky.social @jessicaglass.bsky.social #EPSCoR
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Super excited to be able to announce this opportunity! We'll be recruiting 12 PhD students to start at UAF CFOS between Jan–Aug 2026 w/ 3 years of full support. Please repost and share with your students who received honorable mentions on the GRFP in the last 3 years.
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Another day testing the limits of resilience.
The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.
Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.
The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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Literally the last thing you needed. Sorry Zack! 😥
Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
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Check out my postdoc Yin Hsieh’s new publication out this week in BMC Bioinformatics!
She created an open-source tool to query protein presence and map it to a phylogenetic tree! 🧬
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🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.
This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.
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This is tragic. 😥
📣 🥳 🧑💻 Our department is hiring:
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark
Deadline June 1st
Thanks for sharing!
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The discovery of Sivulliusalmo alaskensis — the genus is named from the Inupiaq and Latin words for “to be first” and “salmon,” respectively — adds another 20 million years to the fossil history of the salmon family.
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New pre-print from the Glass and López labs showing strong genomic differentiation between Pacific Herring in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea using whole genome data, plus mitonuclear discordance in the Gulf! 🐟
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