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Really loving David Baum's metaphor of climbing "scientific mountains" and crossing "valleys of low credibility" when trying to explore new areas. Science as a landscape of knowledge with peaks we climb to see further... beautiful way to think about it! #Evol2024/#Evolution2024

A powerful reflection. I’m proud of this person for figuring out a way to stand up and reach out for help in the midst of all he was dealing with. We all need each other.

Assistant Curator Pteridophytes and Conservation Ecologist position, at the Field Museum! fieldmuseum.org/about/careers

Many folks know this already but wanted to make an official announcement: I am super pleased to share that I will be starting my lab at Mississippi State University Mississippi State in Fall 2025! We will be recruiting grad students and a lab tech to start as soon as August ‘25

UPDATE: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out TODAY! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

I'm thrilled to announce that our department is now currently accepting applications for a tenure track faculty position in Evolutionary Biology! Job link here: tinyurl.com/yc564huk. Come join us in wonderful Fayetteville and Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences!! Please RT!!

Two weeks left to apply for an open rank faculty position and become the next leader of the Nebraska Plant Transformation Center.

Awesome opportunity! Send in your best work!

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GigaScience, with respect for the authors, there are problems with the evolutionary framing & interpretation. Many excellent biological discoveries here but unfortunately they are obscured by faulty reasoning: living taxa aren’t “primitive” or “basal” or “higher” or “lower.” 1.

Our new nature film “Bumblebees, shooting stars and buzz pollination in the wild” uses slow motion macro video to highlight ecology of buzz pollination in #bumblebees and green sweat bees. Plus cool scenes of queens mating, grooming & nest searching youtu.be/fQsnPAWQqcI PlsRT

A reminder that the previous Governor halted Marcellus's execution indefinitely and put together a group to examine his case and look at clemency. Parson dismantled that group and restarted the execution despite the Prosecuting Attorney's pleas. He should never know peace.

In following the amazing work Sasha Gusev is doing analyzing studies of complex trait architecture and heritability, just want to give a shoutout to the timeless work of Feldman and Lewontin (1975). Still very relevant today. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

JOB ALERT. I’ve have been waiting to offer this for ~10 years. We’re hiring an Expeditionary Botanist to lead our expeditions, enrich our collections, support our conservation collaborations, and inspire through teaching and engagement. Please RT! 1/6 botanic.cam.ac.uk/join-support/j…

The UC Davis plant community is recruiting for a new head of the Charles M. Rick Tomato Genetic Resource center. This position is a cornerstone of the tomato and Solanaceae community and provides some really cool research and teaching opportunities. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06784

Harvard vs Duke: A study in contrasting views on biodiversity research

My entire team wrote an opinion paper about Common misconceptions of speciation research. Each section is written by 1-2 team members. The bulk of the writing happened during two writing retreats. It was a lot of fun and I am very happy with the result. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/art…

We have an initial target of 10 Travel Awards, but we wish to raise enough funds for more. Please help us by sharing among your contacts. Thank you! gofund.me/c75d247e

A thread that I wrote about science and nebulized racemic epinephrine: facebook.com/staceydsmith/p… And sorry I'm too tired to post it all here. It's also on the other app in proper thread form 🦋