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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · Jun 12

they were spared that experienced!

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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · May 20

Great #postdoc opportunity at the Natural History Museum @uio.no! Develop your own project to work here for three years🤩
I am happy to answer questions! Deadline June 23rd.🧪

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow: Self-Developed Project (280531), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, June 23, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · Jun 12

Current status - #stickleback field work, Haida Gwaii, BC.

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Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge @camzoology.bsky.social · May 20

🎉🏆🏆🏆We're delighted to announce 3 new @royalsociety.org Fellows here in Zoology!

Dr Gregory Jefferis, Prof Claire Spottiswoode and Dr Marta Zlatic are all now FRS.

Many, many congratulations!

Read more: bit.ly/3H4rCCk

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Peter Flood @pjflood.bsky.social · May 16

New OA paper out this week!🚨This one is particularly meaningful for me as it is the final part of my dissertation to be published, and it is the project I set out to do when I started my PhD – Did African Jewelfish alter the Everglades aquatic food web? 1/n 🧪🐟🌎🧵

doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

Trophic disruption by an invasive species linked to altered energy fluxes

The Trophic Disruption Hypothesis (TDH) predicts that invasive species may cause native species to undergo trophic dispersion (change in trophic-niche area) and trophic displacement (diet switching),...

doi.org

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Erin Spencer, PhD @etspencer.bsky.social · May 20

A few months ago, this guy went viral online, proving once again that people yearn for cool invertebrates!

Now, follow its journey to the Smithsonian, where this specimen is helping scientists better understand life in the deep Gulf: ocean.si.edu/human-connec...

Photo credit: Mark Lehtonen 🌊🦑🧪

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · May 20

Here's the first episode of my new podcast about the science of aging. I talk to two scientists who have a long-running bet about whether someone alive today will live to 150. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... & Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0o4P...

The Billion Dollar Bet: Will Humans Live to 150?

Podcast Episode · The World as You’ll Know It: The Future Of Aging · 05/20/2025 · 35m

podcasts.apple.com

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · May 13

Having fun at the Evolutionary biology course discussion session - Uppsala, Sweden.

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · Apr 17

Congratulations to Alexis Heckley on her recent successful defense of her PhD thesis:

"How predictable is intraspecific variation? Insights from guppies and stickleback"

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · Apr 17

Check out our paper on time-lapse imagery from camera traps to assess bird communities - a test from Haida Gwaii, BC.

Led by Sarah Sanderson.

INFERRING BIRD COMMUNITIES ON REMOTE FRESHWATER LAKES THROUGH TIME-LAPSE IMAGERY

cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · Apr 17

Check out our latest paper on phenotypic variation in guppies - led by Alexis Heckley.

"Abiotic environmental factors contribute to spatial variation in boldness and exploration in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1095...

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · Apr 17

Check out our latest paper on the genetic basis of snake colour variation.

GTP cyclohydrolase II (gch2) and axanthism in ball pythons: a new vertebrate model for pterin-based pigmentation

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · Apr 17

Congratulations to Paola Carrion-Aviles on today's successful defense of her PhD thesis:

The terroir of the finch: spatio-temporal dynamics in the evolution and ecology of Darwin’s finches.

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · Apr 2

You would think they would have considered sending this on April 2 instead.

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · Apr 2

Well, then, at least I have my health.

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · Mar 30

Live near New Haven, CT, and looking for something interesting to do April 23?

I am giving the Bass Distinguished Lecture, titled “The World Without Evolution?” taking place Wednesday, April 23 at 5 pm in O.C. Marsh Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

peabody.yale.edu/news/hendry_...

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Isaac Lichter Marck @ca-naturalist.bsky.social · Mar 4

🚨Urgent: Help Save Decades of Work by Navajo Botanists🚨

For decades, Arnold Clifford has built up the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. Now, this collection is at risk—snowstorms are causing the roof to cave in, putting >30,000 specimens in danger.

#IndigenousScience #Conservation #MutualAid #botany

Arnold Clifford, Navajo Botanist, holds up a pressed herbarium specimen of an undescribed species of thistle found in Carrizo mountain.

The roof of Carrizo Mountain Herbarium caving in, leaving herbarium cabinets inside vulnerable to snow and rain.

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Katerina Guschanski @kguschan.bsky.social · Mar 2

3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals

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Keith McMahon @mcmahok.bsky.social · Mar 4

We're hiring a fieldworker to help with some of our projects in Wytham Woods this spring. Wonderful place to work (and live), especially in the spring. Get in touch if you'd like to know more.

We are seeking to appoint a fulltime field assistant to work on the Wytham Tit Project for 4-8 weeks in spring 2025. Duties will include (i) collecting standardised data from nest-box breeding populations of tits, (ii) setting up equipment to monitor foraging behaviour of great tits (e.g. cameras, proximity loggers), (iii) fitting proximity tags and accelerometers to adult great tits (iv) inputting data collected in the field. The start date and duration of this position is flexible, depending on availability of the successful candidate. The post could last up to 8 weeks, starting in mid-April, or c. 4 weeks, starting in early May. All fieldwork will take place in Wytham Woods, near Oxford. The work is variable in intensity and will at times require long days in the field, and working some weekend days, but this will be balanced out by a quieter period at the start and end of the season. Successful candidates must have (or be qualified to obtain) a BTO permit to ring adult great tits, be able to demonstrate skill and enthusiasm for biological research as well as experience of fieldwork under arduous conditions, and both lone work and working as part of a team. Due to the short-term nature of these posts, successful applicants must already have the right to work in the UK.
Salary & Accommodation: Field assistants will be paid at grade 5.2 (£17.02/hour) and responsible for finding their own accommodation. It will be possible to hire accommodated at the Wytham Chalet, a research station within Wytham Woods. Alternatively, field assistants can find private accommodation locally and use their own transport to commute to the woods (approx. 30 min by car or bike, depending on location).
Please submit an application, consisting of (1) a covering letter explaining relevant experience and motivation, (2) a CV (max 2 pages), and the names of two people who can be contacted as referees, by Tuesday 11th March 2025 to eleanor.cole@biology.ox.ac.uk. Inquiries to same email.

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Theresa Crimmins @theresacrimmins.bsky.social · Mar 4

Things are so chaotic and stomach-churning in our world right now. I find a lot of solace out in nature. I want to share a tiny slice of that with you.

My book, #Phenology is available today! You can purchase it for 30% off *today only* with code MITP30 through penguinrandomhouse.com

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Aron Bellersheim @coleomaniac.bsky.social · Feb 22

Fabulous Astichus arithmeticus 🤩
One of my favorite chalcidoid wasps.
Using her ovipositor she's probing a bracket fungus for beetle larvae within and lays eggs into them so her larvae can feed on them 1/2
#hymenoptera #chalcidoidea #eulophidae #parasitoid #parasitoidwasp #macro #macrophotography

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GarLab @garlab.bsky.social · Mar 3

Happy #worldwildlifeday from GarLab! 🐟

Today we take time to celebrate our under appreciated freshwater species in the wild. 🎉

GarLab works together with people all over the country to study and conserve wildlife. We might be biased, but we sure do love and appreciate our freshwater friends!

GarLab team members at Minnesota State Fair in front of the Fishes of Minnesota poster at the MN DNR fish pond exhibit. We’re wearing CFANS gar hats, as their exhibit featured our research!

Emerald Bowfin on a Minnesota River floodplain

Buffalo and Gars with UMD and Bemidji State researchers on the Minnesota River

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Junlong Huang @huang-landeco.bsky.social · Mar 4

A good opinion piece from the EiC of FEE: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I find society-owned journals more rigorous, and more supportive to the scientific community. Whenever possible, let's give society journals more support as well @esajournals.bsky.social.

Thank you for choosing…

Click on the article title to read more.

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · Mar 4

The biggest, most up-to-date, and cleanest version of our database is now officially published in Ecology @ESA_org - check it out.

"This new, curated version has 9263 records collated from 326 studies, 1801 systems, and 428 species."

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · Jan 23

Teaching #MathematicalMethodsInPopulationBiology again. This course covers basic methods for deterministic & stochastic dynamical models in population biology. In this thread*, I'll highlight topics from all twenty 90-min lectures.

*Redoing this thread as I didn't complete it in 2024

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