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Abhishek Kumar @abkumar.bsky.social · 2h

🌍 Join SORTEE – A worldwide Open Science community for ecology and evolution! 🌱🧬

🌐 Join trainings, code clubs & our annual online conference
🚀 Help shape the future of Open Science

Membership is inclusive and flexible.
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#OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution

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Join Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

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Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · 2h

museum job alert 🇨🇦
royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...

Curator of Birds - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page

Apply to Curator of Birds at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.

royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 44m

I’m going to make an AI app where a user pays $1 and gets back $2 and an emoji “chosen” for them. Better profit margin than OpenAI, based on above calculations.

Investors, call me.

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 8h

Still want to make cleaning biodiversity data shrimp-ler? 🦐

Good news: We just updated our Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book, so you still can! We've updated data for 2025, added new content & fixed lots of silly typos 😀

Live the shrimp-le life:
cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au

#rstats #ecology 🧪🌏

The cover of the Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book. It has an illustration of an Pacific Cleaner Shrimp in the middle of a navy background. The shrimp has a bright red-orange shell, pale-yellow body and white whiskers.

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Mason McNair, PhD (he/him) @sarraceniamason.bsky.social · 10h

Hey #Botany2026 we're actively looking for potential speakers at ALL experience levels for our proposed colloquium: Side-quest! – Level up your science!. If you have an interesting story, project, or idea to share that qualifies as a “Side-quest” we want to know about it!

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

NZ's govt has announced reforms to science funding

just one line about basic science in there: "Discovery-led science & research will continue to be funded. This will sit outside the pillars & is essential for maintaining vibrant curiosity-driven science system"

yea mate seems like a real priority

A new strategy for the science system | Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

The Government is changing how science, innovation and technology are funded and supported in New Zealand. The goal is a simpler and more strategic system that helps researchers turn ideas into solutions that benefit New Zealand.

www.mbie.govt.nz

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 1d

This is also a long known problems in entomological collections - collectors do not want the common species, they accumulate the rare species ....

Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 1d

Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet pdoc fellowship! Would be really excited to work with someone interested in applying ancestral recombination graphs to messy, real-world data in plant genomes. Happy to chat if you might be interested!

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 1d

www.cnn.com/videos/us/20...

See what happens when you put a group of introverted dogs together | CNN

Introverted dogs have a hilarious meetup at a dog park and introverted humans relate. CNN’s Jeanne Moos reports.

www.cnn.com

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · 1d

Now available in Systematic Biology, a new paper (and R package) in which we outline an approach to account for non-independence in comparative analyses of lineage-pair traits academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

The Comparative Analysis of Lineage-Pair Traits

Abstract. For many questions in ecology and evolution, the most relevant data to consider are attributes of lineage pairs. Comparative tests for causal rel

academic.oup.com

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 1d

Papers discussed with links to their DOIs

Balant, Vitales, Wang et al.

Dehayem et al

Lipshutz et al @jacanamama.bsky.social

Yardeni et al.

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 1d

Finally posted blog posts on our latest phylogenetics readings in our modern phylo class:

Phylogeography

Simulation

Behavior & Genomics

Reticulate evolution

All in series: brianomeara.info/blog.html#ca...

#Evolution 🧪

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⚡️🔩Felsenstein's Monster🔩⚡️ @josephwb.bsky.social · 2d

Data available upon request

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 2d

Photo of Captain Janeway of Star Trek Voyager saying “there’s coffee in that nebula” but with nebula changed to moon

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 2d

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

Large model of a green caterpillar, the back of which is covered by dozens of white cocoons. Wasps can be seen emerging from some of the cocoons.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2d

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 3d

Which looks like $2500 of filament, plus steel frame and epoxy, for full sized T rex.

Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 3d

www.tussockgamecreations.com/about-1

1:1 T-Rex Skeleton Project | TussockGameCreations

A project that is currently still being finished as time permits.

www.tussockgamecreations.com

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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 3d

I'm the incoming SSE president and am behind this idea -- if you're interested in putting together an app and have questions, pls reach out!

Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · 6d

Now accepting proposals for new Research Synthesis Working Groups! Each funded group will present a symposium at the Evolution meeting, collaborate on a publication, and establish a lasting research network. Submit your proposal by January 6: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Call for Proposals: Research Synthesis Working Groups. Deadline: January 6.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 4d

Confirmation & details about RIFs at DOE, per agency source:

Federal employees working in renewable energy offices (solar, wind, and hydrogen fuel cell) received a 'general' notice of possible RIF at a meeting this afternoon. If identified individually, DOE employees will be sent specific RIFs.

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 5d

I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Staff Scientist

About EMBL-EBI EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute is a data powerhouse, utilised on a global scale to advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and solutions to some of the world’s mos...

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 5d

@sse-evolution.bsky.social just announced the following:

Call for Proposals: Research Synthesis Working Groups
The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) invites proposals for sponsored Research Synthesis Working Groups at the 2026 Evolution meeting (up to two in-person and one virtual). ...

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 21d

Just a reminder - if you run/recruit or have anything to do with an ecology & evolutionary biology PhD program, check out our database and update your departments salary here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

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Brian O'Meara @omearabrian.bsky.social · 5d

Each clear one has an opposite partner. So do two of the purple. The remaining three purple are 120 degrees apart from each other.

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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · 6d

One week to apply before reviews start for the postdoc I am offering investigating the tempo and pattern of river connections with the closure of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on river plant (Podostemaceae) migration. Genomic+fossil+geological data + fieldwork 👇

Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am recruiting a postdoc to work for 2-3 yrs on our NSF-funded project aiming to investigate plant migration and river connectivity with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama. Leading publications, fieldwork in CR & Panama, applying and expanding phylo. & pop.gen tools👇

www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

Employment | New York Botanical Garden

Find out what employment opportunities are available at The New York Botanical Garden.

www.nybg.org

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