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My lab will be hiring at all levels soon - postdoc, grad, and tech. Formal ad soon but if you're interested in the evolution of transposon defense reach out! Please RT

Fantastic accompanying discussion of our new soaring bird-air sac paper by Bret Tobalske (U of Montana) for nature 🫁🦅 nature.com/articles/d4158…

via ⁦The New York Times⁩ ⁦Jeanne Timmons⁩ #sharkweek nytimes.com/2024/07/08/sci…

A new pseudosuchian from the Favret Formation of Nevada reveals that archosauriforms occupied coastal regions globally during the Middle Triassic | Biology Letters royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… artwork by Jorge Gonzalez

If you dove into the ocean in the 1800s, you would have been treated to a complex symphony of sound: raindrops falling, seals moaning, staccato snapping of shrimp, undersea vents bubbling & love songs of humpback whales. Today the sea sounds different. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Pretty excited to share that Gabriel Lio's fantastic illustration of the giant stem tetrapod Gaiasia is featured on the cover of nature this week: nature.com/nature/volumes…

🚨 We are searching for 2 Molecular/Cellular Biologists at Occidental College College! Any area but must be willing to teach Cell/Molec courses. Join a research-enthused & collegial (dare I say fun!) dept at an RUI in northeast L.A. w/ lots of perks. Ad is live: apply.interfolio.com/150510

📢📢ATTENTION ALL! We are hiring! 🥳🎉 The Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in the area of MAMMALIAN evolutionary morphology. 🐭🐒🐺🦓🐃🐪🦣 More below ⬇️

We are not advertising one, but TWO fossil preparator positions Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart . Wherever you are from, consider joining our team! ⚒️🦣🐚🦖 naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/jobs

For anyone interested in teaching or learning DNA metabarcoding, here’s a great example of a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) in which 49 students learned how to investigate the human skin microbiome of a postgrad student using 16S DNA metabarcoding! 👇 The

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It's here! The case against simplistic genetic explanations of evolution journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

Unifying statistical #genetics & #phylogenetics. Joshua G. Schraiber🌹 Doc Edge & Matt Pennell show that the distinct ways of mapping phenotypes while controlling for ancestry in these two fields are actually special cases of the same general approach #PLOSBiology plos.io/4eZvKiv

Just out in Current Biology! Our new paper on the origin of tympanic ear in reptiles. Combining data from developmental biology and the fossil record, we show that tympanic hearing originated only once among crown-reptiles. Artwork by Júlia d'Oliveira

Now that #2024SVP is over it's time to release the #2025SVP Birmingham logos into the wild. Designed by the brilliant Mark Witton, the primary logo features an iconic local fossil (a rhynchosaur, first discovered in the counties surrounding Birmingham). A short 🧵

Do you use 3D imaging like CT or MRI for research, teaching, outreach, or art? Check out our new article in iScience journal featuring a detailed workflow for producing 3D cinematic renderings with stunning realism! doi.org/10.1016/j.isci… Institute of Biotechnology (BI) HiLIFE_Helsinki University of Helsinki

#ICYMI: A new Science study presents “Evo”—a machine learning model capable of decoding and designing DNA, RNA, and protein sequences, from molecular to genome scale, with unparalleled accuracy. Evo’s ability to predict, generate, and engineer entire genomic sequences could