πΏ Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
A figure depicting the relative abundance of different prey items among two species of felid (e.g., monkey, small bird, agouti), derived from scat. The x axis is labeled "PoO (%)."
I would like to interrupt your doomscrolling for an important announcement: This figure from Ellen Dymit et al., 2025, depicts the proportion of vertebrate prey in felid scat, recorded as a Proportion of Occurrence (PoO). π©
Also according to my predictions, #2026MMM is going to make the defunct Pachydermata a thing again! Just watch. Bravo, I love me some megafauna artificially lumped together!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachyde...
Joke's on you Assassin bug, caterpillars dissolve their own insides FOR SPORT during metamorphosis. Watch as a beautiful butterfly emerges from inside the Assassin bug in a few weeks.
Molecular phylogeny of Hyposmocoma lineages based on 38 genes and 82,875 aligned base pairs. 95% highest posterior density confidence intervals for the molecular dating estimates for nodes are indicated with blue bars. Different lineages are indicated by their larval case type, and exemplar cases are shown on the right. Bone collector and cigar case species are the only ones that are carnivorous. Current terrestrial areas of the Hawaiian Island chain are shown in dark green; shallows that were once above sea level are shown in gray. The islands are placed along the timescale according to age and geographic position.
Bone collector caterpillar (Hyposmocoma) comes from one of Earsth's most diverse adaptive radiations with 350+ Hawaiian spp. Phylogenomics finds 9 major lineages. Yet this one is monotypic (no sister species), split from its carnivorous relatives >5M years ago. DOI: 10.1126/science.ads4243 #2026MMM
Best Reduviinae tree based on RAxML analysis of 178 taxa using a partitioned molecular dataset of 5 gene regions (16S, 18S, 28S D2, 28S D3βD5, Wg). Bootstrap values are indicated on branches by colored triangles according to support strength. Reduviinae lineages are indicated as red branches and remaining reduviids as blue while outgroup taxa are black. The shaded red box highlights members of the hematophagous Triatominae, here shown as paraphyletic. Red arrowheads refer to the polyphyletic Cetherinae; the asterisk refers to Physoderinae nested within a reduviine clade.
The subfamily Reduviinae (Assassin bugs) is a taxonomist's nightmare. A molecular phylogeny done by Hwang & Weirauch (2018) reveled it is polyphyletic, meaning the group doesnβt share a single recent ancestor. doi.org/10.1371/jour... #2026MMM
Time has NOT run out, & each of us can make an impact on recovering our ecosystems & reducing our use- through our time, through our effort, through our political engagement, through our thoughtful conversations with loved ones. #2026MMM
Locking this in before #2026MMM starts. Team #humpback
π£ SING USA 2026 applications are open!
The Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING) workshop will be July 19β24, 2026 at UWβMadison.
β° Apply by March 13 (midnight HawaiΚ»i time)
Learn more & apply: sing.nativebio.net
Please share with Indigenous students!
#Indigenous #Genomics
You can tell the coin is Carthaginian by the high levels of salt on it
The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8
Same and I wouldnβt be surprised if thatβs common among natural scientists; like weβre not supposed to βanthropomorphismβ the stuff we study but Iβm the stuff we study and if Iβm me then why would other stuff not identify like me or feel like me or care like me or matter like me?
The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 𧬠data:
Application deadline: March 25th π§ͺπΊ
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Have you ever wondered how many archaic populations contributed DNA to modern humans? We know about Neanderthals and Denisovans, but the fossil and genetic evidence suggests a much more complex history!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The Goldberg lab at UCLA is hiring one or more postdocs. Flexible start date.
We develop methods to study population genetics of humans, our primate relatives, and our pathogens.
www.goldberglab.org/join
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
That's a good name for software:
MKado: a toolkit for McDonald-Kreitman tests of natural selection
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
If you research or are simply interested in human genetic variation, ancient and modern, read my and Noah Rosenberg's latest in GENETICS academic.oup.com/genetics/art... 1/2
Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isnβt flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. π§΅π
Job alert: open position for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London.
Based in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment of UCL, and UGI, and funded by the UCL Health Strategy.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... π§ͺ
This. That show lives in my head rent free π
Flatlining of US Science. Massive self inflicted wound.
π§ͺπΊ Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
UPDATE: The application period for these (amazing, fun, really cool!) sedaDNA PhD positions in our group is March 2-27, but we will start screening applications after the first week. If you are interested, please try to submit *between March 2nd and 8th!* Not by March 1st as I originally wrote..
Using multiple lines of evidence, we show that feral cats and red foxes are strongly implicated in most Australian mammal extinctions and in the ongoing imperilment of numerous extant species. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
A large collaborative effort to rebut Wallach and Lundgren (2025).
There were so many of us, exactly when these emails were being written, expressly working to undo the harms of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in science. And so many people refused to believe us that any of it was real. It was all real.
19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
Nope.
Meanwhile Alysa Liu and Amber Glenn are bringing the rest of us so much joy, talking about anime and magic the gathering, effortlessly because their feelings are so authentic. They're not trying to impress anyone. Just like Benito's half time show. You can't fake joy.
Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy?
Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia.
And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.
