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Andre Moncrieff @andremoncrieff.bsky.social · Aug 25

🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬
I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma.

Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation

👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org

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Moncrieff Lab | Bird Evolution

The Moncrieff Lab is a research lab based at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. Research in the lab involves museum specimens, fieldwork, and...

www.moncriefflab.org

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · Aug 11

Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · Jul 7

the ad is up! applications due 7/15: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

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Research! by ji @argmax.com · Jun 16

HT @cornellasap.bsky.social "Ms. Morrow...is one of hundreds of people who wrote to their hometown newspapers as part of a national campaign...by graduate students and scientists who are just starting their careers."
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...

To Protest Budget Cuts, Young Scientists Try Letters to the Editor

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · May 20

The 2025 Marie Curie Fellowships are now open! If you are interested in #PlasticPollution, #ornithology / #birds, #conservation & our work at @adriftlab.bsky.social and want to discuss an application, get in touch! #PhDjobs

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr Alex Bond (Natural History Museum, Tring/London UK) [progress pride flag]
Applicants with previous experience in CT/morphology, wildlife acoustics, or plastics particularly encouraged!
Applicant eligibility
Can’t have spent >12 of the last 36 months in the UK
Previous post-doctoral experience & publication track record HIGHLY recommended
Must relocate to the UK (London or Tring; remote working is not possible under this funding scheme)
Defended PhD by Sept 2025; < 8 years postdoc experience
Previous successful applications are available as guides!
Applications shared between fellow & host with a deadline 10 Sept 2025
Email: a.bond@nhm.ac.uk / BlueSky: @TheLabAndField@bsky.social
https://alexanderbond.org

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Erik Enbody @erikenbody.bsky.social · Jun 3

Looking to start a PhD? Reach out if you are interested in avian evolutionary and/or conservation genomics research! I am recruiting for FA26 and happy to support fellowship proposals through this program:
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

www.simonsfoundation.org

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Cade Mirchandani @cademirch.bsky.social · Jun 3

Excited to share the #Snakemake monitoring tool I've been working on:
snkmt (Snakemate) - a CLI utility for real-time workflow monitoring. Basically solves the "is my pipeline still running?" problem and makes debugging failed jobs much easier.
#bioinformatics #workflow #opensource 1/3

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Andrés Cuervo @amcuervo.bsky.social · May 22

My student Vanessa Perez is analyzing hundreds of photos of the Barred Fruiteater. If you have some, you can help her fill some geographic gaps. A cool story is unwrapping ⛰️🪶 Please share! #birds #ornithology #speciation #andes

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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · May 16

I'm looking for a postdoc in quantitative ecology / macroecology to start in summer/fall 2025 in my lab at Oklahoma State University. Please spread the word

www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

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Sara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · Apr 28

Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Erik Enbody @erikenbody.bsky.social · Apr 27

I’m so sorry Jay, that sucks so much

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Erik Enbody @erikenbody.bsky.social · Apr 18

Just heard one walking into the office today 🔥

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Mafalda S Ferreira @mafaldaferreira.bsky.social · Apr 2

PhD position on Evolution of Seasonal Camouflage in my group. Fully funded 4 year position in Stockholm University and SciLifeLab! :-)

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD Student in Evolution of Seasonal Camouflage

The Department of Zoology at Stockholm University includes about 80 employeese, including Researchers, PhD students and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an inte

su.varbi.com

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Erik Enbody @erikenbody.bsky.social · Mar 26

Another +1 for PODS and saved a boatload relative to the moving companies. See if you can find any promos, we got one around thanksgiving (we packed and unpacked it ourselves)

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · Mar 13

Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5)

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Jason Gregg @jasongregg.bsky.social · Mar 6

I'm excited to share a new paper out in the BBOC today! We documented 6 new island records for Fergusson Island in Papua New Guinea + cool natural history information.

...Including first photographs of a nesting Goldie's Bird-of-Paradise! Open access below. #birds

bioone.org/journals/bul...

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Nick Haddad @nickhaddad.bsky.social · Mar 6

Our paper is out, and it is distressing.

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century

Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...

www.science.org

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · Feb 27

🚨 COOL BIRD JOB ALERT! 🚨

@cornellbirds.bsky.social is looking for a Research Associate to run their research and student training program at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, focusing on Black-throated Blue Warblers and Ovenbirds. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29599

Cornell University, Lab of Ornithology

Job #AJO29599, WDR-00050928 Research Associate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

academicjobsonline.org

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Bohao Fang @fangbohao.bsky.social · Feb 14

How do SVs, satellite DNA & gene content shape avian genome evolution? We analyzed 45 HiFi genomes across 3 Scrub-Jay species with distinct population sizes. Grateful to be on this incredible team led by Scott Edwards! "Comparative population pangenomes" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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April Wei @aprilwei.bsky.social · Feb 12

Our work (by Drew DeHaas) on an extremely simple yet efficient binary genotype format - designed to facilitate scalable bioinformatics tool development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

IGD: A simple, efficient genotype data format

Motivation While there are a variety of file formats for storing reference-sequence-aligned genotype data, many are complex or inefficient. Programming language support for such formats is often limit...

www.biorxiv.org

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Erik Enbody @erikenbody.bsky.social · Jan 22

nice of Jente to cover one of our fairywren papers! Love these birds👇

Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · Jan 22

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog!

The evolution of female ornamentation in White-shouldered Fairywrens
https://buff.ly/40SA3IB

Based on the Evolution paper by Erik Enbody and his colleagues | #ornithology

The evolution of female ornamentation in White-shouldered Fairywrens

A neutral byproduct or the outcome of adaptation?

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Darren Irwin (he / him) @darrenirwin.bsky.social · Dec 23

OK folks this is my first announcement of a lab publication on Bluesky:

Congrats to PhD Candidate Rashika Ranasinghe on today's publication of her paper "Cryptic Hybridization Dynamics in a Three-Way Hybrid Zone of Dinopium Flamebacks on a Tropical Island."

Happy holidays!

doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Cryptic Hybridization Dynamics in a Three‐Way Hybrid Zone of Dinopium Flamebacks on a Tropical Island

This study explores population divergence and hybridization dynamics across the golden-backed (Dinopium benghalense) and red-backed (D. psarodes) flameback woodpecker hybrid zone in Sri Lanka. The ge...

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Erik Enbody @erikenbody.bsky.social · Dec 24

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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute @ucscgenomics.bsky.social · Dec 16

Calling all postdocs! We're hosting a symposium in beautiful Santa Cruz, CA, to showcase rising talent in genomics research. Travel expenses are covered for selected applicants ✈️😎🏖 The event will be held on April 15. Applications due Feb 15: bit.ly/NextWave25

A photo of a large rock formation along a beautiful Santa Cruz coastline. Text reads: Next Wave of Faculty in Genomics Symposium call for submissions. Submission deadline Feb 15. Symposium Date April 15.

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Shen Tian 田申 @tianshenbio.bsky.social · Dec 5

Our miRNA story is now in @science.org ! We found a microRNA, not a protein, that finally solved a long-standing evolutionary mystery of wing coloration in butterflies and moths. (1/n)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A microRNA is the effector gene of a classic evolutionary hotspot locus

In Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the genomic region around the gene cortex is a “hotspot” locus, repeatedly implicated in generating intraspecific melanic wing color polymorphisms across 100 mi...

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