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Rafael Marcondes @rafamarcondes.bsky.social · 13d

🚨🚨 DREAM JOB ALERT 🚨 🚨

Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 26d

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT!

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Dr. Kathleen M. Munley @thefishiedoc.bsky.social · 19d

I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at @psychualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! 🐟🧠🧬🍂

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Andrew Stoehr @andrewstoehr.bsky.social · Aug 14

We're hiring TWO (two!) tenure-track assistant professors in my Biology department: cellular/molecular biology and plant biology. Within those categories, we are very open to research focus. Come work with me! And please spread the word! fa-exer-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Becca Young @becca-young.bsky.social · Aug 21

Looking forward to having you in Austin!

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Fabian Salgado-Roa @facasaro.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm happy to share with you that in a couple of weeks I'll start as a Stengl-Wyer Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin. I'll join @becca-young.bsky.social's lab to study the ecology, genomics, and development of my favourite colourful spiders.

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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · Aug 13

Hey wild immunologists of blue sky… do you work on a non-model taxa???

Would you have 15 min to spare to zoom in and share your research with my comparative immunology class?

I’m looking to spotlight real research this semester. Please spread the word and reach out if you’re interested!

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Carrie Wessinger @carriewessi.bsky.social · Aug 12

Please repost and amplify !

We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!

Check us out and come be our colleague!
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Deadline for applications is Oct 1

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genetics - Department of Biological Sciences | University of South Carolina

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Jennifer N. Phillips @jphillips.bsky.social · Aug 12

WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist! wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

Assistant Professor

Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: September 14, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 270-NN_FACULTY -...

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · May 2

About NSF’s new(est) bulletin -

15% indirect cost rates will kill universities.

Apparently that’s the point.

I am sick.

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · Feb 24

Please share:
@delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group.

They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

2025 Federal Financial Assistance Freeze

On Monday, January 27th, 2025, President Trump issued an order to freeze virtually all of approved and legally required federal funding.

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Matthew Herron @matthewherron.bsky.social · Feb 19

Just be patient and kind to the remaining NSF folks. I promise you, they are still fighting for American science.

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Feb 15

Congrats to my student Rebecca Clemons and UT Post-doc Chase Smith.Here they drill down on aspects of the frog immune system control that we think might be important in the frog-Bd system. More on this to come! 🐸🧬🦠🧫🧪

Primary regulatory T cell activator FOXP3 is present across Amphibia - Immunogenetics

The overall structure of the immune system is highly conserved across jawed vertebrates, but characterization and description of the immune system is heavily biased toward mammals. One arm of the vert...

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Sara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · Jan 21

First paper (in review) from the Lipshutz Lab at Duke! Led by postdoc Leilton Luna

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Jan 17

Sexually selected traits predict female-biased philopatry in a sex-role reversed shorebird https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.13.632832v1

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James Pease @jamesbpease.bsky.social · Jan 10

The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org

Aronoff Lab at The Ohio State University

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Dec 18

Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎

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KZLab is Seeking a Lab Technician!

The Zamudio Lab (zamudiolab.org) in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin seeks a highly motivated and detail-oriented laboratory technician to play a key role in supporting the resear…

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Kelly Zamudio @kzutaustin.bsky.social · Dec 18

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸

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Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs

We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

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Texas Science @texasscience.bsky.social · Dec 12

On the latest episode of NPR's Shortwave, marine biologist Brett Baker (@archaeal.bsky.social) talks about how we owe part of our immune systems to ancient microbes, the Asgard archaea.

Brett Baker @archaeal.bsky.social · Dec 11

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Brendan O'Loughlin @brendanoloughlin.bsky.social · Nov 19

I recently got my first big-boy paper published! I got to discover & describe a new species of parasitoid wasp: Chrysonotomyia susbelli 🧵

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Side view of Chrysonotomyia susbelli male

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Caroline Farrior @cfarrior.bsky.social · Nov 13

UT Austin Cluster Hire: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Environmental Systems
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Deadline: January 6, 2025

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Jeff Good @jeffreygood.bsky.social · Nov 18

Outstanding opportunity here! Great department & city surrounded by the incredible Sonoran desert.

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · Sep 29

APPLICATIONS DUE OCT. 1ST!
Assistant Professor in
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
@RiceUniversity Please repost!
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Volker Rudolf @volkerrudolf.bsky.social · Aug 21

We're hiring: Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. Come join us: Excellent and supportive colleagues at a private university with a beautiful campus and great students! please RT
#RiceEEB #EEBjobs #phdchat #facultyjobs

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Evolution Meetings @evolmtg.bsky.social · Sep 5

Do you love evolutionary biology AND art? Good news - we're having a logo contest!

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Becca Young @becca-young.bsky.social · Aug 16

As some of you may know, my journey has been different. I am grateful for and proud of those experiences and I look forward to sharing them with trainees as we work towards our mutual research and professional goals.

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Becca Young @becca-young.bsky.social · Aug 16

Check back for forthcoming job postings here:
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Becca Young @becca-young.bsky.social · Aug 16

Elated to announce that I’m starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin, well today! We'll be recruiting for several positions soon & grad students for 2025. Interested in phenotypic evodevo, me too! Learn more here: sites.utexas.edu/beccayoungev...

Young Lab – phenotypic development, genomics, & evolution

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