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Associate Prof at Edinburgh Napier U and Commissioning Editor at Journal of Evolutionary Biology. @lukeholman_evo elsewhere

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๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ขLectureships at Bristol!๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ข

We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline.

Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city

Details here:
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

18.02.2026 08:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 50 ๐Ÿ” 82 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Angry and Alone: How Social Experience Shapes Female Aggression in Flies at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Angry and Alone: How Social Experience Shapes Female Aggression in Flies at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

We're advertising a PhD project on how social isolation influences aggression in flies. Based at Durham, co-supervised by @clarahowcroft.bsky.social . Despite what the ad says, this is also open to international applicants! Any questions, shoot me a msg! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

26.01.2026 10:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 22 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Very interesting new preprint on detecting genome wide signatures of balancing selection (itโ€™s hard, and we probably miss lots of them) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

17.01.2026 07:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just a week left to apply for a position in our Editorial Board!

12.01.2026 22:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.

Apply here no later than February 11 2026:

https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

20.12.2025 15:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 77 ๐Ÿ” 117 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology

๐Ÿ“ข I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

29.12.2025 11:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 59 ๐Ÿ” 65 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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๐ŸšจRoll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching...

6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6

8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp

Social monitoring & manipulation
#meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata

@patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

30.12.2025 10:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 27 ๐Ÿ” 41 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA CASE: Genetic diversity and adaptation: Developing indicators for national and international policy at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

24.11.2025 15:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 22 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Goethe University Frankfurt hiring Professur (W1 mit Tenure Track) fรผr Evolutionรคre ร–kologie der Hymenopteren in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany | LinkedIn Posted 11:13:19 PM. Die Professur wird zunรคchst auf sechs Jahre befristet besetzt, nach erfolgreicher Evaluationโ€ฆSee this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

๐Ÿšจ Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera ๐Ÿ๐Ÿœ

Initially for 6 years:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...

20.12.2025 16:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 47 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Interested in metabolomics/systems biology and aging in Drosophila? We have a post-doc opening! And of course, there will be plenty of opportunities for side projects on the @dogagingproject.bsky.social. ๐Ÿถ
promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...

16.12.2025 13:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thrilled!

16.12.2025 11:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 78 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

p.s. didnโ€™t mean to imply this was my paper!

02.12.2025 21:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œOur findings provide evidence for more divergent evolution of reproductive traits under stronger sexual selection, in line with the tenet that sexual selection may promote divergence even in the absence of environmental differences between populations.โ€

02.12.2025 12:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fatal attraction: Electric charge connects jumping worm to aerial prey A tiny worm that leaps high into the air โ€” up to 25 times its body length โ€” to attach to flying insects uses static electricity to perform this astounding feat, Emory physicists have found.

The new Ze Frank video reminded me about an adaptation found in some entomopathogenic nematodes - using both their own muscle power and static electricity, they can leap into the air and home in on their host, like an anti-insect surface-to-air missile
#Invertebrate ๐Ÿงช
news.emory.edu/features/202...

01.12.2025 03:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 153 ๐Ÿ” 42 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Please consider submitting a paper!

Deadline: 28th February 2026

17.11.2025 13:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Experimental infections reveal unexceptional viral tolerance in bats Bats are a conspicuous source of zoonotic viruses with pandemic potential. A common explanation for bats being โ€˜specialโ€™ viral reservoirs is their ability to coexist with viruses without suffering ove...

Love this! (Thanks to @blongdon.bsky.social for altering me!)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

24.11.2025 11:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer - Heredity Heredity - Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer

Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@gensocuk.bsky.social

20.11.2025 08:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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meanwhile pigeons be like

18.11.2025 12:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sex-specific mutation accumulation: A parsimonious explanation for sex differences in lifespan and ageing
doi.org/10.32942/X2K...

18.11.2025 13:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@sacrozhangt.bsky.social and I wrote a commentary on Jordi van Gestel and Carol Gross's latest paper, check it out!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sadly, the Editors at PNAS rejected our initial introduction, which was a David Attenborough style voice over of the microbial Serengeti (included below)

13.11.2025 14:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 75 ๐Ÿ” 19 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

As someone who looks at a lot of Manhattan plots, I can say that an under-appreciated cause of false positive GWAS hits is stuff stuck to my computer screen.

12.11.2025 01:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 112 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social

11.11.2025 09:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 45 ๐Ÿ” 54 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

What is sexual selection all about... definitionally and mathematically? A super talented PI, Jussi Lehtonen, is looking for a postdoc to work it all out! Deadline end of this month.
ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...

16.10.2025 13:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

05.11.2025 16:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 50 ๐Ÿ” 79 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

03.11.2025 10:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 4447 ๐Ÿ” 1409 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 53 ๐Ÿ“Œ 138
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We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

03.11.2025 17:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 84 ๐Ÿ” 70 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Exciting PostDoc and RA opportunity with two lovely supervisors!

26.09.2025 13:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

Some more bizarro ant genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

20.09.2025 07:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you work on the internal conflicts, do consider proposing a paper for our upcoming special issue in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

More info here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/special-issue/

29.08.2025 14:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0