Do you believe in hopeful monsters? Our recent study within our European Research Council (ERC) project SEA2LAND takes a deep dive into the origins of clitellate annelids by a punctual genomic catastrophe via chromosome shattering and rebirth biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢#PhD (3years) in my group #labpaleoecology at Institut Botànic de Barcelona on #Beetle #Macroevolution 🪲🌸🌐 More details 👇 Please RT! #fossil #insect #Coleoptera #evolution #angiosperms #bioinformatics #MBDmodel Amberia Research Postgrado CSIC IRBioUB

How a complex interplay between parallel evolution within islands and ecotype colonization between islands leads to the repeated occurrence of similar ecotypes on islands. (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…)

📢One week left to apply for the #Phd Position in #Beetle #Phylogenomics Senckenberg Research #Application deadline June 14th 🚀Please RT! #lcwgs #fossils #morphology #biogeography More information here: leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/careers/job…

2) At the Bavarian State Collection for Zoology (zsm.snsb.de/?lang=en), a permanent (!) position as technical assistant is open right now, with a focus on the bird collection: snsb.de/technische-ass… Application deadline is already in a week!

It is with great delight that I am finally able to share the results of our study on the molecular systematics of the nine-banded armadillo complex just out Society of Systematic Biologists! This is the outcome of a looonnng story! (🧵) isem LabEx CEBA European Research Council (ERC) doi.org/10.1093/sysbio…

🎯#PhD (3years) in my group #labpaleoecology at Institut Botànic de Barcelona on #Beetle #Macroevolution 🪲🌿 More details 👇 Please RT! #fossil #insect #Coleoptera #evolution #angiosperms #bioinformatics #MBDmodel New date: Apply before 4th August Expected starting time November 2024 Postgrado CSIC

Speaking of soil beetles, I'm excited to share this as well - the meat of Curt Harden's dissertation, describing a number of new southeastern Anillini, but more importantly bringing serious phylogenetic order to this challenging group of ground beetles! doi.org/10.3897/zookey…

📢PhD Position available! Our lab Institut Botànic de Barcelona is recruiting a PhD student to work on Butterfly Migration Genomics 🦋🌍 📝Apply by: 15th September 2024 🔬Lab: phylomigrationlab.com ℹ️More details: ibb.csic.es/en/2024/08/phd…

🚨 Job Opening! 🚨 The Natural History Museum is hiring a Head of Molecular Labs to lead and advance our labs and sequencing facility, aligning with the Museum’s evolving and dynamic research needs. Learn more and apply: jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job/J…

Interesting and unsettling: sclerotized parts of male insect genitalia can change significantly with adult age. Taxonomists tend to think of these parts as fixed from adult emergence.

📢 TT faculty/curator position 📢 The University of Kansas KU Ecology & Evolutionary Biology has just announced the Charles Michener assistant professor/curator in bee biodiversity and evolution! 🐝 Be sure to share it widely and apply if you work on bees! 🐝 employment.ku.edu/academic/29083…

From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report in Science. This includes sequences for 13 new complete genomes from across the phylum. scim.ag/41FhFDm

Our latest research in Science Magazine explores how island geography 🌏🏝️ shaped the evolution of rattan palms 🌿🌴 in tropical Asia. 🔓 Read the paper using this free-access link: science.org/stoken/author-… #Biodiversity #Evolution #Biogeography Bill Baker Guillaume Chomicki

📢[Offre d'emploi] Le Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève recherche un-e bio-informaticien ou bio-informaticienne pour le "Projet Impact" à 80% (mission de 12 mois, renouvelable) Entrée en fonction: 01/07/2025 Délai d'inscription: 04/04/2025 + d'infos👉institutions.ville-geneve.ch/fr/mhn/institu…

Looking for a PhD in #LifeSciences? Don't miss the application deadline on April 1st 2025! The PhD School in Life Sciences unige recruits! Visit: apply.lifesciencesphd.unige.ch/login Fully-funded #PhD positions available to bright and motivated #Masterstudents! Université de Genève Faculty of Science | UNIGE

Happy to share our new preprint: `The rise, decline and fall of clades' with Jérémy Andréoletti 🔸, Daniele Silvestro and Helene Morlon , where we study how the biodiversity of clades rise and fall, and the processes behind these patterns. 1/5 doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

🔥Permanent research officer position at the NHM in Geneva🔥We are looking for a NON-arthropod invertebrate biologist! Preference terrestrial/freshwater mollusks/annelids/nematodes. Come join our cool team at the Museum 🐌🪱🔬🧬🧪🇨🇭. Please RT massively :) geneve.ch/administration…

A rare carnivorous caterpillar, previously unknown to biologists, stalks spiderwebs for food whilst dressed in the remains of its prey, researchers report in Science. This unique new species, dubbed the “bone collector,” is found only on a single mountainside on the Hawai’ian

We are searching for a new Curator of Invertebrates at the Field Museum! fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/job…