A reminder to all that Early Bird Registration for the Evolution conference (SSE, ASN, SSB societies) is still an option today or tomorrow. Prices go up after Apr 15.
www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...
I hope to see a number of you in Cleveland this year.
Job Summary: The FlyBase project is an international collaboration of ~35 people distributed at several sites. This position is located at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. All FlyBase staff work as a part of a team, in which curators and software engineers collaborate extensively. Each site has its own set of responsibilities. The Harvard FlyBase curators focus on curation/annotation of literature and high-throughput data pertaining to the Drosophila genome, transcriptome and proteome. FlyBase is constantly evolving, seeking both to improve and to expand its role within the Drosophila and wider scientific communities. The ideal applicant will be enthusiastic about participating in this process, bringing to the FlyBase group expertise and ideas concerning emerging directions in Drosophila biology and genomic/proteomic analysis. FlyBase is increasingly integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning tools into its curation workflows. The ideal candidate will be open-minded and enthusiastic about exploring AI-assisted approaches to biological data curation, including the use of large language models and AI coding assistants to accelerate and enhance curation tasks.
Job-Specific Responsibilities: • Reading and abstracting of data from the current Drosophila literature, including its relationship to human disease, physical interactions, and gene expression • Evaluating and validating AI generated annotations and curation suggestions, ensuring accuracy and biological relevance before integration into the database • Using AI coding assistants (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini) to write scripts for data wrangling, format conversion, and routing curation tasks • Providing feedback on AI model outputs and refining prompts to help improve automated curation pipelines and annotation quality over time • Annotation and analysis of the Drosophila melanogaster genome, including gene models, mapped mutations, and regulatory features • Together with curators and developers at other sites, interact with broad research community by answering helpmail and giving presentations and tutorials at research conferences • Handling high-throughput datasets and associated metadata
FlyBase is seeking a new scientific curator at our Harvard University site.
More information here: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
Come and join our team! With an application deadline in 1 week, we're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biology at University of Windsor: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
@ibiouwindsor.bsky.social
Visual with the text: Postdoctoral Fellowships call 2026
€399M in EU funding is available to support around 1,600 researchers in their postdoctoral journey.
You can choose your path:
🧪 European fellowships: 12-24 months in Europe
🧪 Global fellowships: 12-24 months abroad + return
Deadline: 9 September (17:00 CEST)
More info: link.europa.eu/t6jYb3
PhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬
Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution?
Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Deadline 22nd of May!
🐦 New PhD position!
@prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social
Nest defence in passerine birds
Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology?
📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded
Apply by May 10 → veselp03@jcu.cz / krausl07@jcu.cz
#PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology
GSAC is gathering anonymous input on how funding uncertainty is affecting grad students and postdocs, including challenges and helpful strategies. Responses will be shared in aggregate to inform advocacy and discussions at Evolution.
Share your perspective by May 1, 2026:
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At a time when vaccines may mean that some forms of cancer and neurodegeneration may be cured forever through vaccine technology, this is a crime against future humanity.
Save the date! The SORTEE Conference 2026 will be held virtually on Oct 13-14. Engage in sessions on open, reliable ecology and evolutionary biology practices. More details at https://www.sortee.org/past #conference
JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely!
CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)
So sorry for your loss, Jeremy.
This may be lost in the noise--this is as impactful or more than the cuts to NIH and NSF 🧪
Congrats!
A juvenile cowbird being fed by...I'm going to say a yellow warbler? I'm honestly not much of a bird scientist. Image from Idaho Press: https://www.idahopress.com/outdoors/the-brown-headed-cowbird/article_af49dd84-4e0b-11ef-9a3d-e3922b3731a0.html. The article is paywalled, but the google search was not: https://share.google/bJUdD1DAOZqE0Sd4p
Surprise, I still do bird science! New paper I got to help with a bit just dropped: "Individual effort, social strategies and cognitive skills influence nest-prospecting decisions in brown-headed cowbirds"
check it out in animal behavior (short 🧵 below)
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mvT~mjMDttg
1/4
"The fact that there is no current consensus of biological sex is not
antithetical to science... However, the field urgently needs an ethical
and reproducible approach for discussing sex"
There is No Consensus on Biological Sex
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
For PhD students or postdocs who start out wanting to analyse their own high-throughput data:
Are you a computational scientist? Within 7 years of your PhD? Come join us at Lund University! We have two new positions as assistant professor! Deadline: 25th of May. The advert is broad, but this is your chance to push computational neuroscience in a fantastic place!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
among other things threatening the Pope with military force is hilariously dumb because it's a top-10 action Evangelical Christians might finally recognize as a thing the Antichrist would do AND, if I'm not mistaken, a thing that actually historically DID get you declared to be the Antichrist
~5 days left to apply
I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.
🌺 PhD position in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology! 🌺
There is about two weeks left to apply to come work with me on the evolution of plant reproductive strategies at @unifr.bsky.social ! Contact me or visit here or for more info: tinyurl.com/monoecy
Please share! 🌱
📣 A perspective with @allydefduf.bsky.social @madeline-eppley.bsky.social and others out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 📣
Drawing from queer lived experiences, we offer new perspectives to confront existing biases in #ecology and #evolution.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
From @sulliview.bsky.social
"It comes down to this: The press, because of its own conventions and time-honored practices, normalizes him, and thus fails to get across the extreme nature of this president’s...
How the media should cover this deranged president
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...
Post Doc position alert! Come work with us on the evolution of cannibalism. Full job description in link below. Salary starts at $58k plus benefits. (Please help spread the word)
emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
I too gasped! Truly remarkable in so many ways.
Fascinating PhD project on the match between insect sperm and eggs across different insects. Great team too!
#PhDAlert #insects
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Very excited to announce our new review accepted at Phil. Trans. B. (in press)!
This project started after a journal club I presented this time last year (!) sparked some lab discussions and it's been so much fun seeing it become a paper. Big thanks to all my co-authors for making it happen :)
Grad students & postdocs: how is funding uncertainty affecting you right now?
SSE's GSAC is collecting anonymous input to inform advocacy and conversations at Evolution.
Share your perspective by May 1, 2026 and pls RT!
