Becca Young

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Undergraduate Community at Evolution Program. Applications due January 20, 2026.

The Undergraduate Community at Evolution program provides travel funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. Please share with undergrads in your lab! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ...
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NSF is open again!

A few comments:

*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.

*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.

*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.

We are hiring in Evolutionary Biology — apply to join our department!

🚨🚨 DREAM JOB ALERT 🚨 🚨

I am recruiting 1-2 graduate students (M.S. or Ph.D. track) to join my lab at @psychualberta.bsky.social in Fall 2026! Please share widely, and if you are interested in endocrinology, animal behavior, neuroscience, and/or seasonal biology, I would love to chat! 🐟🧠🧬🍂

Careers At Butler Careers Welcome

We're hiring TWO (two!) tenure-track assistant professors in my Biology department: cellular/molecular biology and plant biology. Within those categories, we are very open to research focus. Come work with me! And please spread the word! fa-exer-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Looking forward to having you in Austin!

I'm happy to share with you that in a couple of weeks I'll start as a Stengl-Wyer Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin. I'll join @becca-young.bsky.social's lab to study the ecology, genomics, and development of my favourite colourful spiders.

Hey wild immunologists of blue sky… do you work on a non-model taxa???

Would you have 15 min to spare to zoom in and share your research with my comparative immunology class?

I’m looking to spotlight real research this semester. Please spread the word and reach out if you’re interested!

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!
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Deadline for applications is Oct 1

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Assistant Professor Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on: September 14, 2025 If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details. Available Title(s): 270-NN_FACULTY -...

WSU biology is hiring a vertebrate ecologist! wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

About NSF’s new(est) bulletin -

15% indirect cost rates will kill universities.

Apparently that’s the point.

I am sick.

2025 Federal Financial Assistance Freeze On Monday, January 27th, 2025, President Trump issued an order to freeze virtually all of approved and legally required federal funding.

Please share:
@delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group.

They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

Just be patient and kind to the remaining NSF folks. I promise you, they are still fighting for American science.

Primary regulatory T cell activator FOXP3 is present across Amphibia - Immunogenetics The overall structure of the immune system is highly conserved across jawed vertebrates, but characterization and description of the immune system is heavily biased toward mammals. One arm of the vert...

Congrats to my student Rebecca Clemons and UT Post-doc Chase Smith.Here they drill down on aspects of the frog immune system control that we think might be important in the frog-Bd system. More on this to come! 🐸🧬🦠🧫🧪

First paper (in review) from the Lipshutz Lab at Duke! Led by postdoc Leilton Luna

Aronoff Lab at The Ohio State University

The Pease Lab in the Dept of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University is looking for a Postdoc interested in genotype-phenotype-environment evolution in plant and animal genomes. Details at osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... and more info at www.peaselab.org

KZLab is Seeking a Lab Technician! The Zamudio Lab (zamudiolab.org) in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin seeks a highly motivated and detail-oriented laboratory technician to play a key role in supporting the resear…

Friends, plz repost and share! We are hiring a lab technician with exp in mol biology and general lab management. BS or MS degree and good org skills are required. Deadline Feb 1, 2025. We are a welcoming and equitable lab community. Details at link below. 🐸🐢🐍🦎

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/18/k...

Post-Doc position in the KZLab! Immune responses to pathogen infections in frogs We are looking for an NSF-funded post-doc in our lab in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. The work will examine immune mechanisms that potentially underlie…

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸

zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

On the latest episode of NPR's Shortwave, marine biologist Brett Baker (@archaeal.bsky.social) talks about how we owe part of our immune systems to ancient microbes, the Asgard archaea.

Side view of Chrysonotomyia susbelli male

I recently got my first big-boy paper published! I got to discover & describe a new species of parasitoid wasp: Chrysonotomyia susbelli 🧵

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UT Austin Cluster Hire: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for Environmental Systems
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Deadline: January 6, 2025

Outstanding opportunity here! Great department & city surrounded by the incredible Sonoran desert.

APPLICATIONS DUE OCT. 1ST!
Assistant Professor in
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
@RiceUniversity Please repost!
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Do you love evolutionary biology AND art? Good news - we're having a logo contest!

As some of you may know, my journey has been different. I am grateful for and proud of those experiences and I look forward to sharing them with trainees as we work towards our mutual research and professional goals.

Check back for forthcoming job postings here:
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Elated to announce that I’m starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin, well today! We'll be recruiting for several positions soon & grad students for 2025. Interested in phenotypic evodevo, me too! Learn more here: sites.utexas.edu/beccayoungev...

Who cares? Elucidating parental care evolution in extant birds Abstract. Extant birds stand out among vertebrates in the diversity of parental care types they present, spanning absence of care to uniparental care by ei

"We address these key questions using a database of 5,438 bird species (~50% of extant diversity) and modern phylogenetic comparative methods... Our results indicate that the most likely ancestral state for extant birds is male-only care" !!!???
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Defensins of the Stable Fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) have Developmental-Specific Regulation and Evolve at Different Rates Synopsis. Organisms produce antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) either in response to infection (induced) or continuously (constitutively) to combat microbes enc

📄 New publication from the lab! Are you interested in subfunctionalization of gene duplications? Immune gene evolution? Blood sucking insects? Then check this out!
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