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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 21h

Just home after the PhD defense of @anemone-padawan.bsky.social .

Nothing in my professional life offers more joy than the growth and success of my students. I could not be happier, prouder, or more excited for his future😍🎉

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Systematics Association @systassn.bsky.social · 3d

The Young Systematists' Forum is nearly upon us!

If you are a student (or postdoc) working on phylogenetics, taxonomy or systematics, join us Nov 14th for this free and friendly online conference!

Abstract submission closes Saturday, October 25th at 11:59PM GMT+1

REGISTER: tinyurl.com/2w5n3e8

YSF2025 Registration Form

Welcome to the YSF2025 Registration and Abstract Submission form. This year the conference will be held online on Friday, November 14th 2025. We look forward to seeing old and new faces from across t...

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely lady at my back door this morning

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 5d

Ten days left to apply! This is a mid- to senior- level, endowed role in a FANTASTIC research collection. Letters not req up front, so barrier to application is low.

Curious? Reach out out or apply!

International Society of Hymenopterists @hymenopterists.bsky.social · 23d

📢HIRING ANNOUNCEMENT!📢

📍The Ohio State University is looking for applicants for the position of Martha N. and John C. Moser Chair in Arthropod Biosystematics and Biological Diversity.

📆Application deadline: 15 OCT 2025

👇Check the link below
osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 6d

Agree! @omearabrian.bsky.social is #goals

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Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 6d

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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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 6d

I was adopted through closed adoption. I have a happy adoption story from my perspective. But I know that my happy story may not be a happy chapter in someone else's life. That's haunting and hits me differently at different times in my life.

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 7d

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

When Adoption Promises Are Broken

Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

www.theatlantic.com

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 8d

Even robots evolve toward crab.

Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 8d

These are crab.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

“The round design and interactivity help add a friendly personality to the robot and make it more acceptable within the community it is serving, according Ashu Rege, vice president of autonomy.” 🙃

Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats, Liz (and colleagues)!!

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 9d

The face is what kills me.

Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 9d

"OH YOU CLAM!
Speak you clam, So Silent and sane
we would fain hear your gentle voice again"
Old postcard with a picture of a clam and the above text

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 9d

The Whitney lab at U FL is an interdisciplinary powerhouse of a scientific community. They're looking for a new faculty colleague in a VERY broad search in Marine Bioscience--link below.

explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

University of Florida - Details - Assistant/Associate Professor in Marine Bioscience

explore.jobs.ufl.edu

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · Aug 11

Applications are now being accepted for the MSU EEB Presidential Postdoc Fellowship. We’d be happy to sponsor your application so please get in touch!

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

eeb.msu.edu

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 11d

As it should be!!!

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 11d

Yay, anthozoa!!

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 11d

As a parent of a HS senior, this excellent advice is v timely. Thank you 💕

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Science Magazine @science.org · 12d

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

www.science.org

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 13d

What kind of egg is she hatching?

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 14d

Funded postdoc gig in The Netherlands

NANO @nano4ocean.bsky.social · 14d

#OceanOpportunities Postdoc position: Applied Marine Benthic Ecology - Deadline 17 October 2025
nf-pogo-alumni.org/25092025-5/

Postdoc position: Applied Marine Benthic Ecology - Deadline 17 October 2025 - NANO | NF-POGO Alumni Network for the Ocean

Job description The Department of Estuarine and Delta Science (EDS) of NIOZ is looking for a curiosity driven postdoctoral researcher with strong interest in marine benthic ecology, and to be involved...

nf-pogo-alumni.org

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 15d

It's such an ingenious and generative way to look at the drawings! I love it.

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 15d

Credit to @uliwestphal.bsky.social in the link (check out his other work,especially if you are bio-folk! It's incredible!)

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 15d

Evolution of the depiction of Elephants, from times when folks had seen them at the end of the Roman empire 'til the Renaissance.

gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 15d

"After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how the animal looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant" www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anth...

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Meg Daly @megdaly.bsky.social · 20d

"Many factors other than one’s own abilities can affect the performance, recognition, and representation of scientists..."

Thoughtful, data rich paper exploring language and gender as factors impacting metrics used in hiring, promotion and awards for scientists.

Diogo Veríssimo @diogoverissimo.bsky.social · 20d

🚨 New paper in PLOS Biology!

📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men
📉 Non-native English speakers: –35%
📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70%

🌍 Language & equity matter in science!
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

#EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience

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Menno Schilthuizen @schilthuizen.bsky.social · 20d

Yesterday was the 130th anniversary of the #ICZN, the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature. It was founded during the zoology congress in Leiden, organized by the then director the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Frederik Jentink.

black and white group photo of the international zoological congress, taken at the statue of Van der Werff, in the Van der Werff Park in Leiden in 1895.

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 20d

The Naturhistoriska riksmuseet seeks a Tenure-Track group Leader (DDLS fellow). Deadline: Nov 15. Benefits include 17 M SEK in start-up funds. More info: https://www.scilifelab.se/career/research-fellowship-in-data-driven-evolution-and-biodiversity/ #job

Research Fellowship in Data driven evolution and biodiversity

About the workplace The Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM) is a major research institute located in Stockholm. NRM research activities combine venerable tradition and modern scientific methods, where state-of-the-art […]

www.scilifelab.se

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