More awards through GRFP this year! Yay!!
Quick back of envelope comparison of awards by category to 2024 (skipping 2025 b/c it was weird):
Life sci: 486/2599 18.5% ('26)
499/2036 25% ('24) βΉοΈ
Eng: 914/2599 35% ('26)
532/2036 26% ('24)
Comp sci: 261/2599 10% ('26)
151/2036 7% ('24)
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βΌοΈ Our anglerfish research is now featured in @ScienceMagazine! ππ£
"Why do anglerfish have glowing lures? It might be sex"
Check it out here! π§ͺπππ¦
www.science.org/content/arti...
This is so cool!
ππ±ππ’ππ’π§π π§ππ°π¬: Our Special Issue "New deep-sea Amphipoda from the Clarion Clipperton Zone" is out! π
As we race to document life in the abyss, this collection debuts new species found in the central Pacific.
See all the publications here: zookeys.pensoft.net/issue/4856/
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I wrote this short blurb on one of the top ten marine species of 2025!
I had a great experience presenting my current research at the annual graduate student symposium in the EEB Department at UConn! Our department has an amazing and supportive community and I enjoyed getting to hear all the cool research going on in the department!
I had a great experience presenting my current research at the annual graduate student symposium in the EEB Department at UConn! Our department has an amazing and supportive community and I enjoyed getting to hear all the cool research going on in the department!
I donβt know how I could do grad school without a pet
The Bart Lab at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc. Please share!
If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons:
1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress
2) Write to your congressional reps.
3) Write to grfp@nsf.gov to request re-consideration;
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Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historic, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.
My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! π
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social π³οΈβπππ΅
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social π³οΈββ§οΈ ποΈπ¦
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Second PhD paper is out! We find: 1) aquatic and terrestrial salamanders have different limb bone adaptations, 2) complex life cycles promote different traits, 3) decoupling of external and internal bone traits increase diversity.
Thread (1/8) and FREE link below! π¦π§ͺ
doi.org/10.1111/joa....
That was a lot of snow
Summer fish class at Friday Harbor Labs π
5 weeks, field + lab, real projects.
Open to grads, postdocs, and undergrads. Financial aid available.
Apply: February 16, 2026
Reach out to @cmdonatelli.bsky.social @fishguy.bsky.social or @karlycohen.bsky.social with questions!
Details in the flyer β¬οΈ
Want to study the genomics of repeated adaptation with data from hundreds of species? New funding for non-Canadians @ grad or postdoc level. Internal competition at UCalgary with very short deadline so please get in touch ASAP!!
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...
LSU Museum of Natural Sciences is hiring a postdoc! Come join our very active and supportive museum community. Applicants can work with any of the major divisions: ππ¦π¦πΈπ
Review begins February 15th, please share!
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0119...
I am still actively looking for postdoc positions β please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
TODAY at 1pm eastern, we're going to be talking about snails under the sea and how they're reacting to climate change with @andylee.bsky.social !
These sessions are Q&A so it's all about what YOU want to know!
Join us for free at 1!
RSVP link here: givebutter.com/DALmWY
Sonoran Desert landscape looking west across Avra Valley from Tucson Mountain Park. In the foreground, a desert trail winds through cholla cacti, saguaros, ocotillo, and native shrubs. The valley stretches to distant mountain ranges on the horizon under a dramatic sky of blue patches and white cumulus clouds with rays of light breaking through.
Please pass along - We've extended the CAMBIUM fellowship deadline to December 15! Our NSF NRT supports new grad students to harness biodiversity big data to adapt to & mitigate climate change impacts. Great fit for evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, ecology & more. cambium.arizona.edu π§¬ππ
Any good academic or pop culture podcasts you guys recommend?
@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...
Reminder that my lab is seeking graduate students for fall 2026. As part of @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, my lab uses a combination of fossils, statistical phylogenetics, fieldwork, & computational approaches to investigate macroevolutionary dynamics in the marine biosphere. Link w/ more info below:
Please consider supporting this petition to save the Centre for Palaeobiology and Biosphere Evolution at the University of Leicester. Leicester palaeontologists have made huge contributions to the field, including identifying the first Ediacaran fossils and the conodont animal!
tinyurl.com/t3zesk88
