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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · 1d

Woohoo!!! Huge congrats Julia!! This looks so cool!

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Julia Kreiner @jmkreiner.bsky.social · 2d

Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 13d

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

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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!

Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · Sep 8

Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) at Michigan State University invites applications for multiple tenure-st...

careers.msu.edu

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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 14d

Late to the party, but I'm so excited about the first paper from our lab: ✨Unique genetic bases of repeated life-history divergence associated with high altitude adaptation in Mimulus perennials ✨

This work was led by the ABSOLUTE ROCKSTAR Hongfei Chen!

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 12d

The Coughlan lab is on 🔥🔥🔥

Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 13d

We're on a roll: Super proud of this paper lead by Dr. Megan Frayer & GS Hagar Soliman (with a major contrib from GS Pia Schwarz): Introgression and Parental Conflict Shape Repeated Occurrences of Postzygotic Isolation @hybridzones.bsky.social @hagarsoliman.bsky.social @pfschwarz.bsky.social

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 12d

Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

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Jacob Levine @jacoblevine.bsky.social · 14d

I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wow so cool - that’s really inspiring! Super cool idea

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N.S. Vitek @nsvitek.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1.

#AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs

apply.interfolio.com/171403

(I love being here. Come join!)

@stonybrooku.bsky.social

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Aug 4

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution identifies a bacterial species as a cause of sea star wasting disease, which has been responsible for billions of sea star deaths since 2013 and widespread loss of kelp habitats. go.nature.com/46I4kx2 🌊 🧪

This is figure 2, which shows the disease signs and trajectory of P. helianthoides exposed to SSWD.

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · Aug 14

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today!

Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!

🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology

Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Aug 15

Welcome to the lab @megan-szojka.bsky.social!! We are so excited you've joined us, and can't wait for all the fun science to come! Welcome to the Bernhardt Lab and the @centreecomgmt.bsky.social and @integrativebiology.bsky.social!

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Centre for Ecosystem Management @centreecomgmt.bsky.social · Aug 13

📢 We're excited to introduce our newest post-doc, @megan-szojka.bsky.social! Her work - using theory + field data to explore how warming, species interactions, and dispersal shape ecosystems - will deepen our understanding of resilience in a changing world: www.ecosystemscience.ca/news/welcomi...

Welcoming Dr. Megan Szojka to the Centre for Ecosystem Management — Centre for Ecosystem Management

We’re excited to welcome our newest postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Megan Szojka, to the Centre for Ecosystem Management (CEM)!

www.ecosystemscience.ca

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Aug 14

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!

We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝

Applications are due October 6 2025.

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics

careers.uoguelph.ca

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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!
sc.edu/study/colleg...

Deadline for applications is Oct 1

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

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

sc.edu

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · Aug 12

Also, this is the first lab manuscript w/ MSU undergrad co-authors (4!), which is a reflection of Asia's great mentorship skills.

Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · Aug 12

New work from Josephs lab grad student Asia Hightower
@puffballove.bsky.social
w/ Dan Chitwood & many many others on general, flexible methods for analyzing leaf shape variation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Procrustean pseudo-landmark methods in Python to measure massive quantities of leaf shape data

Premise When examining leaf shapes that are different from one another, it can be difficult to compare both the overall leaf shape and points along the leaf margin in biologically and statistically me...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jenn Coughlan @jenncoughlan.bsky.social · Aug 9

Oh hey, we did a thing!!! Fun collab between the Coughlan and @mollyschumer.bsky.social labs!!! www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Lead by the absolutely ✨STELLAR✨ @hybridzones.bsky.social, @nemovrobles.bsky.social, and
@majorodriguezb.bsky.social.

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Kwasi Wrensford @kwasiscientific.bsky.social · Jul 17

The first paper from my postdoc is finally out! In collaboration with @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and Amy Angert, we outline how behavioral plasticity influences animal species’ distributions and can improve our understanding of range shifts under climate change! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Linking individual animal behavior to species range shifts under climate change

Climate change has led animal species to shift their ranges to greater elevations, latitudes, and depths, tracking their preferred abiotic niche. Howe…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Mike Moore @gypsumbotany.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs

jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

Assistant Professor of Biology

The Biology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in conservation ecology. Initial appointment to this po...

jobs.oberlin.edu

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Michael Gerth @mgerth.bsky.social · Jul 23

Two fully funded #PhD positions on insect #Symbiosis available in our lab: Spiroplasma in Neotropical Arthropods (tinyurl.com/spiroplasma) & Psyllid symbionts (tinyurl.com/psyllids).
Please contact me for any questions & share widely #symbiosky #academicjobs

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Jul 8

btw where is this??? its stunning!

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Jul 8

aw thanks! yes, I'm going to do it!!

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Dr. Catie Ivy @catieivy.bsky.social · May 15

Are you searching for a postdoc in Saskatchewan? I have a 1-year opportunity (with possible extension), effective immediately! This opportunity is a Mitacs Elevate with the Canadian Prairies Prescribed Fire Exchange! Reach out if you're interested! 🐦🔥

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