Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

I have a fabulous undergrad who has a lot of experience with QIIME2 & using R to analyze microbiome data. She is looking for a job starting in January. Would love to learn more bench and field skills (will be getting some in her last 2 months). Open to academic, industry, government jobs in the US.

1 28 29

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Julia Saltz @juliasaltz.bsky.social · 5d

my lab has moved to @iubiology.bsky.social! We're getting the #newlab set up here and excited to interact with @iu-cisab.bsky.social, @bdsc.bsky.social, and more! I'd love to hear from prospective lab members, especially prospective PhD students, postdocs, and technicians. more info: saltzlab.com

2 10 9

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 5d

⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups

imprs-qbee.mpg.de

63 42

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 7d

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

@behavecol.bsky.social

36 40

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Calling 2nd-year grad students and their mentors:

You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship.

Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that.

[Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

1 17 17

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 7d

Note for NSF PRFB, etc.:

"The Awards Cash Management Service (ACM$) and the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) will remain available for the submission and processing of valid payments for recipients and contractors."

nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf-sh...

Though prob. wise to get paid asap

3 2

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 7d

Cool Postdoc opportunity alert! UNC SPIRE (Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education)-it provides scholars with both high quality research training & the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences 1/n
spire.unc.edu/program-info/

About Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education (SPIRE)

SPIRE’s Mission:

1) To provide scholars with both high quality research training and the opportunity to develop research based teaching skills that will inspire students across the sciences

2) To promote effective teaching and research partnerships between research intensive institutions and partner institutions with a large population of underrepresented students

The four major components of the SPIRE Postdoctoral Fellowship Program include:

Research
Teaching
Professional Development
Additional Opportunities

1 23 16

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Sam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social · 7d

We're hosting the 20th anniversary meeting of the Network Science Society at Northeastern University!

Follow our account as we announce speakers and join us in Boston this summer!

NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 7d

📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

3 9

Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 8d

Happening later today! Let me know if you want a zoom link!!

Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 12d

My grad student Ashley Staab will be defending her Masters work next week! Cute birds ("the bobs"), cool bioacoustics methods (ohun R package call template analysis, machine learning), & fun results (we can identify which bird called!). Let me know if you want a zoom link: [email protected]

Image showing Ashley Staab's Masters Defense ad ("Identifying individual-level call variation in the northern bobwhite quail"). Pictures of Ashley holding a male bobwhite quail, a male bobwhite next to a spectrogram of his "bob-white" call, logos for the Hobson Lab and University of Cincinnati, and three example plots from Ashley's work (call spectrograms, a heatmap of call similarity, and a boxplot of within/across individual call similarity.

5

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 9d

We have one writer unable to participate in this, is there a writer out there who would like to take their place and partner with an artist to create something for our InverteFest invertebrate anthology?

Please reply here if you're interested.

Details below.

#InverteFest is a periodic event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online.

Enter your details to be paired with an artist or writer to work on a collaborative piece for the InverteFest Anthology. Each partner group will have one artist and one writer.

It's up to each pair to decide what to create

We need one artwork and one written piece no longer than 3,000 words

The art and writing can complement each other, or be combined, like in a comic for example

The finished work can be fiction, nonfiction, poetry and any type of visual art that can be reproduced in a PDF ebook

Invertebrates can be fictional

Once everyone has a partner, you'll have 3 months to submit your collaboration (probably by the end of 2025)

2 17 21

Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations Dr. Sanjay Prasher (recent Hobson Lab PhD) on a new publication! We explored how memory, attention, and social preferences affected social plasticity, using an agent-based modeling approach. doi.org/10.1093/icb/... (or message me if you want a pdf!)

Image showing the title of the new paper ("Exploring the Factors Underlying Adaptive Social Plasticity in Foragers Using an Agent-Based Model") published in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology. Image shows a photo of first author Sanjay Prasher, Hobson Lab and University of Cincinnati logos, and three images of figures from the paper (a flow diagram of the agent-based model, heatmaps showing how social interactions towards a focal individual changed as a function of memory, attention, and social preference, and lineplots showing how group size modulated these effects)

2 13

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 12d

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io

12 270 220

Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks very much to committee member Grace Smith-Vidaurre (smith-vidaurre.com) as well as ohun developer Marcelo Araya-Salas (marce10.github.io) for extremely valuable bioacoustics help!

1

Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 12d

My grad student Ashley Staab will be defending her Masters work next week! Cute birds ("the bobs"), cool bioacoustics methods (ohun R package call template analysis, machine learning), & fun results (we can identify which bird called!). Let me know if you want a zoom link: [email protected]

1 2 11

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 I am over the moon 🌓 to announce that I am joining University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor this fall to start the Uncertain Mind (UMI) lab 💫

I am looking for PhD/Postdoc candidates to join (more below 👇 ). Please RT as the deadline is pretty soon 🙏

26 37 140

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

LaurenGuillette.bsky.social @laurenguillette.bsky.social · 22d

Accepting applications for Graduate Students! PhD & MSc

I am seeking highly motivated individuals to join my research team.

Application details here: https://bit.ly/4mlBd6x

Deadline 01 Dec 2025

Please share widely!

(1/3)
1/3

1 16 14

Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 14d

**PhD POSITIONS** I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work on sociality and cognition in Monk Parakeets, starting Fall 2026. Full ad is here: hobsonresearch.com/index.php/20... (please help spread the word!)

2 83 56

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 16d

What if parrots were GIANT?

What if they came up to your waist and weighed twice as much as the largest living parrot (the kākāpō).

Well, nature has an answer for you! Let's meet the extinct parrot with the fabulous name: 'Heracles inexpectatus'

(🧑‍🎨: Paul Scofield, Canterbury Museum)

The giant parrot Heracles stood about 1 metre tall
CREDIT: Professor Paul Scofield, Canterbury Museum

4 13 61

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Katie Langin @klangin.bsky.social · 20d

"We are so very late that many students will not be able to apply this year."

My latest story—about frustration over delays for NSF's graduate research fellowship program. #NSFGRFP #GradSchool @science.org

www.science.org/content/arti...

Delays, uncertainty plague NSF fellowship for graduate students

After an unusual award process this year, applicants for next year are waiting for overdue guidelines

www.science.org

1 33 43

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · 26d

Reminder! The deadline for our infographic competition is the 18th of October. The last day of #biologyweek You can find out more information here www.asab.org/education-news There are three age categories: 7-10 years old, 11-14 years old and 15-21 years old.

This 2025 competition is for young people to design a poster that contains images and information about the animal behaviour of one, or multiple species of non-human animals.

You can draw, paint, sketch or digitally create artwork that captures, describes and explains the behaviour of animals. There are no restrictions on the type of drawing, painting or poster that you create, it must include information on the behaviour of the animals you are highlighting. The winning infographic in each category will be published in our scientific journal Animal Behaviour.

11 12

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Cientifico Latino, Inc. @cientificolatino.com · 29d

Applying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline?

We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨

🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks

#NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship

65 64

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 29d

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

6 280 340

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · Aug 20

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

An anole extends its dewlap, which says "call for scientists!"

8 180 240

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · Aug 19

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

docs.google.com

5 220 210

Reposted by Elizabeth Hobson

Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · Jul 16

I am making a Starter Pack for people who are looking for POSTDOC POSITIONS in the biological sciences! If you wish to be added, please respond directly to this post saying you want to be added. I need at least 5 people to create the pack. Please share widely!

15 23 31