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Fabio A. Machado @fmachado.bsky.social · 12h

🚨🚨JOB ALERT 🚨🚨
Fresh new position in Comparative Biology at OSU!

We're looking for a comp. biologist, especially those who investigate biomechanics, functional anatomy, neuroanatomy, or morphological development.

Feel free to ask me any questions!
jobs.okstate.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Biology - Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

Campus OSU-Stillwater Contact Name & Email Dr. Michael Reichert, [email protected] Work Schedule TBD Appointment Length Regular Continuous/Until Further Notice Hiring Range $85,000 - $8...

jobs.okstate.edu

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 11h

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

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D-BSSE, ETH Zurich @bsse.ethz.ch · 2d

Tanja Stadler @tanjastadler.bsky.social @ethz.ch awarded prestigious #DoronPrize for pioneering work in computational evolution and public health. Big congrats, Tanja!
> u.ethz.ch/IxSY8

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Sreetama Bhadra @sreetamabhadra.bsky.social · 2d

📢 Funded #PhD position!

🌿Interested in studying angiosperm macroevolution linking genome size, polyploidy and trait evolution? 🍀🌻🔬🧬 Join my group @ibotcz.bsky.social

📄Apply/Details: www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...

💬 Questions welcome!

#science #plants #polyploidy #genomesize #trait #evolution

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Paleobiology Research Group at OU @oupaleobiology.bsky.social · 2d

New paper from Dr. Selina Cole's lab!

"Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA)"

Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA) | Journal of Paleontology | Cambridge Core

Competition or coexistence? Ecology and niche partitioning of pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Late Ordovician Bromide Formation (Oklahoma, USA)

www.cambridge.org

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Lauren Frankel @laufran.bsky.social · Aug 27

from first to last day of grad school! on Monday I successfully defended and became Dr. Lauren Frankel :)

Lauren in a purple floral dress with her bike helmet and purple backpack on, sitting astride her bike and smiling back to the camera

Lauren and her advisor, Cécile, stand side by side post PhD defense!

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 2d

Finally posted blog posts on our latest phylogenetics readings in our modern phylo class:

Phylogeography

Simulation

Behavior & Genomics

Reticulate evolution

All in series: brianomeara.info/blog.html#ca...

#Evolution 🧪

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⚡️🔩Felsenstein's Monster🔩⚡️ @josephwb.bsky.social · 5d

"Figure 3"
- @bembidion.bsky.social (1991)

#art #phylogenetics

FIGURE 3. Trees in different islands are connected through a sequence of trees of greater length. Higher plateaus represent shorter trees. The two highest plateaus correspond to the most-parsimonious trees of island-8 (left) and island-12 (right). Trees in these two islands differ by several branch rearrangements. They differ by five rearrangements through relatively long trees (lower path) or by more rearrangements through trees only one step longer than the most parsimonious (upper path).

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Jillian Kurovski 서정화 @bugsorbust.bsky.social · 6d

🧵Arachnophobia, while common, is unique amongst phobias bc often invokes an overlap of fear and disgust! This is not prevalent in other arthropod phobias. Interestingly, fear & disgust utilize the same neural network and have similar outputs, making them difficult to disentangle.

🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 6d

Arachnophobia is interesting to me because it's so specific. Like, people generally aren't afraid of crabs, even though they're hairy and skitter around. And they're not afraid of bugs, even though they have about the same number of eyes. Most people will never even see a dangerous spider irl.

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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · 7d

One week to apply before reviews start for the postdoc I am offering investigating the tempo and pattern of river connections with the closure of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on river plant (Podostemaceae) migration. Genomic+fossil+geological data + fieldwork 👇

Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇

www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

Employment | New York Botanical Garden

Find out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.

www.nybg.org

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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · 9d

I’m so proud of my grad student @evoyeyo.bsky.social for defending his @lsubiosci.bsky.social PhD thesis on macroevolution of #Brachyotum and the broader Andean flora today. Felicidades, Dr. Paredes-Burneo!! ⛰️🧬🌻🥳👨🏽‍🎓🇵🇪

Diego and I posing next to each other after his defense in the LSU herbarium.

Diego in front of a slide that says “Plant evolution in the Andes is more complex than current phylogenomic models can explain” with lots of pretty plant photos around the text.

A celebration in Diego’s honor in the LSU herbarium.

Diego, family, me and other close friends celebrate at dinner.

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Master’s project!
Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦
Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology

www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 13d

Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students!
caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...

Join the lab

The Caetano lab at Towson University (Maryland, USA) is seeking a Master's degree student to start in Fall 2026. A Research Assistant (RA) position is available to the student during part (or all) of....

caetanods.weebly.com

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 13d

Webpage on the hidden curriculum of applying to ecology and evolution grad programs in the US (a lot of the info applies to other fields too, but perhaps less well): applyingtoeeb.info

#AcademicSky 🧪

Applying to US Graduate School in Ecology, Evolution, and Related Fields

applyingtoeeb.info

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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 19d

Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today?

dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042

Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project

dx.doi.org

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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · 20d

Absolutely beautiful figures in this one

Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 20d

I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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Miles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · 21d

One of the few small projects I did as a visiting scientist at Sichuan University last year: A new species of bramble gall wasp, first record of the genus for China. The real diversity is likely much higher given the richness of Rubus in the area.

www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

A new species of gall wasp Diastrophus Hartig, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) from Sichuan, China | Zootaxa

www.mapress.com

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Sebastian Soyk @sebastiansoyk.bsky.social · 28d

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 29d

Interesting. I've been doing what the authors refer to as a "semi-resolved analysis" in various manuscripts & projects since ~2017 because it intuitively seemed like it would lead to better FBD parameter estimates and * maybe * improve phylogeny inference. It never occurred to me to test it. Neat! 🧪

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Aug 21

New from #BiologyLetters: Combining fossil taxa with and without morphological data improves dated phylogenetic analyses buff.ly/abJm5Zv | #Evolution #Palaeontology #Taxonomy

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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Huge thanks to @palaeopercs.bsky.social for inviting and hosting me! If you missed my talk on Tuesday, you can now catch up via their YouTube channel 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x19X...

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Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · Sep 15

📯Collection manager position in the Natural History Museum of Basel 🇨🇭

Collection: "invertebrate" fossils
Location: maps.app.goo.gl/Svd1o2M333av...
Workload: 70% of full-time
Description and application page: stellenmarkt.bs.ch/kbs/job/deta...

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Jesús Martínez-Gómez @jesusgm.bsky.social · Sep 2

Almost 10 years ago Smith and Baum's textbook introduced me to Phylogenetic Comparative Methods.

We now have our own review on PCM! Come for history, traits and spicy takes!

We welcome any comments/ concerns/ jokes!

@tribblelab.bsky.social @crothfels.bsky.social and MRM!

doi.org/10.32942/X28...

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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · Sep 15

New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

#OpenScience #FAIRdata

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Dr Alana Sharp @acsharp.bsky.social · Aug 21

📣Postdoc in whale biomechanics and evolution based in Bristol and Oxford, UK, with Dr Katrina Jones and Prof. Erin Saupe 📣🐋 #evolution #biomechanics #CFD

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Sarah Swanson @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social · Sep 11

Anyone want to help Bird Alliance of Oregon get to 1000 YouTube subscribers so that we can monetize our videos? #birds

www.youtube.com/@BirdAllianc...

Bird Alliance of Oregon

Bird Alliance of Oregon promotes the understanding, enjoyment, and protection of native birds, other wildlife and their habitats.

www.youtube.com

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