Frog chorus in Santa Cruz off West Cliff Drive 🌿
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Frog chorus in Santa Cruz off West Cliff Drive 🌿
This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal
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Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*.
The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026.
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1. Bumblebee deep breathing: abdominal pumping moves oxygen to the muscles pre-flight😮💨
2. Digging through leaf litter to find a cosy hibernation spot for the winter💤
3. Resting post-hibernation, allowing the body to adjust to being awake☮️
4. A quick groom (every bumblebee must look their bee-st)🔥
14 more days left to apply for these two postdoc positions in my team. Please share with your network!
My good friend and director of the natural history museum of Denmark is looking for a curator for #bryophytes. Thus, if you like these small #plants, you should really apply. Great place to work, great city and amazing plants.
#sciencejobs #plantscijobs
www.linkedin.com/posts/nina-r...
This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!
Bees 🐝
During his career Stewart has been involved in research projects on black and grizzly bears, bighorn sheep, mule deer, whitetails, mountain lions and elk, along with three species of grouse.
“While not everyone will be funded, there is some expectation of a fair and transparent review process, and that doesn’t seem to be happening ... For new grad students, or those applying this year, the outright rejection without a clear reason is incredibly discouraging” —@kheyduk.bsky.social
Anna's hummingbird sitting on a crepe myrtle seed pod. Red throat and head are visible.
Anna's hummingbird in flight feeding at a lavender flower
Say hello to my little friend #birds
Open PhD position – join our lab in Freiburg
Through the IMPRS (Max Planck) program, we are looking for a motivated PhD student interested in signalling, and developmental mechanisms.
Be quick - deadline is tomorrow!
www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/IMPRS-PhD-Pr...
In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth let’s learn more about Marie Taylor, a plant biologist and chair of Howard University’s Botany Department. Love her focus on photomorphogensis and using light microscopy on living plants! 🌱 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_T...
This fungus infects plants, hijacks them, and makes its own fake flowers where the real ones should be www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...
Is speciation usually allopatric? Genomic analyses of 93 Drosophila species pairs show that gene flow during divergence is common—even among allopatric species—challenging the classic allopatric model of speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
Purple penstemon flowers
Penstemon whippleanus, our Whipple's Penstemon, blooming in Mayflower Gulch #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to July 20 🌿
Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961
I used this pic. today as part of my intro to adaptation in my UG class. I get students to guess what the pic shows and what it's for. I've done this w. other traits in prev. years to highlight how adaptation get us asking about function/purpose of traits in ways we dont do with nonliving things.
📢 I would be happy to host a 2-year DDLS Postdoc at my group using museum genomics to look at recent adaptation in insect pollinators 📉🐝🦋🧬
If you are interested in this (or have other project ideas) get in touch ASAP!
The application deadline is March 31.
INFO 👉 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
The Canada Government will offer 400 postdoctoral fellowships to international researchers in early 2026. If you have a background in wildlife microbiome or quantitative genetics and are interested to apply to work on microbiome variation in Sable Island horses or caribou, feel free to get in touch
I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...
This photosynthetic magic trick allows for the big finale: some sacoglossan sea slugs can detach their own heads from their body (which contains the gut!) & live on photosynthesis for a few weeks while the body regrows from the head!
The body, unfortunately, cannot grow a new head.
Photo of a cluster of pink ghost pipe flowers in a forest. The flowers are approx 7” high (approx 18cm).
Pink Ghost Pipe plant at my hometown, Logy Bay, #Newfoundland Canada. Ghost Pipes are most commonly white, but some have pink or even red colouration. Pic from a couple of years ago, in August.
#wildflower #flower #botany #plants #fungifriends
I started getting reports of an unseasonal Joshua tree bloom in the last few weeks, and looking over records on @inaturalist.bsky.social it's pretty widespread! So we're putting out the call for folks to record this "bonus bloom" and help us study it 🌿
lab.jbyoder.org/2025/12/10/w...
UF Biology is searching for an Asst Prof in Evolution, Ecology of Infectious Disease - spread the word! @ufresearch.bsky.social @ufgeog.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
intern measuring plant
restoration site
plants in the nursery.
We are hiring at California Botanic Garden! The Restoration Intern will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects involving out-planting, seed collection, plant propagation and monitoring. This is a full time temp position (6 months) that can be extended. Please share! lnkd.in/gaNuNGxA
The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at BIOEDGE@nsf.gov if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
I'm recruiting a Ph.D. student for Fall 2026.
Interested in comparative studies and trait evolution in fishes?
Send me an email with a CV and research interests. Please take a look at my website (jcorush.github.io ) for more information about my research.
#hybridization #minnows #mudskippers
🎉🧪 Some rare GOOD news (🙃): the National Defense Authorization Act language that's just been released seems to have eliminated the "SAFE Research Act," which would have barred any scientist from federal funding if they had Chinese collaborations in the last 5 years rules.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
