Jesse Czekanski-Moir

Join us next week for an SMTPBconnect panel on postdoctoral research, hosted by Maria Servedio! The panel takes place on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 4:00pm PDT / 7:00pm EDT / Thursday, Oct. 29 at 8:00am JST. More details listed at smtpb.org/page-18061

Ohio State is searching for an arthropod biologist (e.g. entomologist) at Associate/Full Professor level. They will join our Museum community and oversee the Triplehorn Insect Collection. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

@rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and my paper on Trans Inclusive Practices for Natural History Collections has been published! It includes the results of our survey of trans natural history collections professionals, so thanks to all participants! nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Come join us @uofa-eeb.bsky.social in Tucson!

Exciting news!! I'm chairing the search in my department @lsubiosci.bsky.social for an **Endowed Chair in Lichenology**! The candidate should be tenured (or equivalent), and have a documented track record in excellent in collections-based lichen research. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

rly great thread abt scientific training + offloading tasks to genAI (and who benefits) - ty so much, rly pondering on it this morning!!

Amazing work by @ekarrnas.bsky.social on the phylogenomics of tiny Eulophidae wasps just out now in Systematic Entomology! doi.org/10.1111/syen...

🐝 New paper: DNA is essential for species discovery, but combining it with morphology gives the most reliable results. Training the next generation of taxonomists is key. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/evol... #Taxonomy #Hymenoptera #Biodiversity

A global analysis of land snail diversity on islands - Proios - 2026 - Ecological Monographs - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Amazing achievement - @curiousant.bsky.social has managed to image an individual ant pheromone dot for the first time. This opens so many new possibilities! arxiv.org/abs/2610.18079

Absolutely worth reading.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #mountains #biogeography

Friends at #GSA2026: Please check out my students' poster. They're presenting from 9:00 to 11:00 this morning in session 236 on "Comparing modern taxon age selectivity with Phanerozoic background and mass extinctions".

The stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social in an old mansion on Long Island is starting to book up! Registration is open until Nov 1 OR until we hit 200 registrants, so grab your spot before it's gone! www.amnat2027.org

That time I put almost all the chipmunk species in the western USA on one map. Did you know there’s 1 species of chipmunk in Asia, 1 in eastern USA & >20 in western USA? (I’m not the crazy one here. The chipmunks are the crazy ones.)

Check the Fall 2026 Newsletter from @biogeography.bsky.social. Lots of interesting stuff in there, including our line up of online workshops and discussion fora. Subscribe early to not miss them!

So in what is unfortunately now an ~annual~ reminder - the Paleontological Research Institution is not presently affiliated with Cornell and was never a part of Cornell. Some PRI folks have taught students at Cornell, but donating to PRI supports Research and Education, and doesn't support Cornell

A reminder to please submit abstracts and register for the lovely molluscan forum this week!

Early-diverging lineages provide little information about ancestors academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... From @phylieu.bsky.social @sinkingdiatom.bsky.social @omearabrian.bsky.social

A reminder that our lecture series continues today - 15:00 UTC!

So very, very happy to see this out @plosbiology.org : Ancient inversion polymorphisms associate with sexually selected traits across natural guppy populations. Beautiful work by two very clever and talented coauthors, Yuying Lin and @vdbijl.bsky.social . journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 1/

"This same bit of cynicism explains why newly appointed university Provosts and Presidents always need to commission signature new programs. You get recognized for steering the ship, not for recognizing that the ship is going a good direction and holding it to course."

New paper out on a symbiont of Argiope bruennichi, the wasp spider. Always fun working with nice people! 🧪🕷🧪

V happy about this one (@brentcemerson.bsky.social @biodiversitysmns.bsky.social @hernmoral.bsky.social)et al Species have survived on oceanic islands for Mya despite occupying small geographic areas, facing environmental calamities and having low Ne. We discuss this w/ a focus on conservation. 1/2

Systems Ecology, a new journal launched today, "run by researchers, for researchers, and is free to read and free to publish, with no article processing charges" systems-ecology.org/index.php/se...

While thinking about arthropods at PRI, I'll also note that the eurypterid body pillows are back in stock and if you want one but aren't one of the 87 lucky folks who already had back orders or recent orders, its a good time to order! ⚒️🦑 #fossilfriday pri-gift-shop.myshopify.com/collections/...

TWO JOBS in our department #IntegrativeBiology at #UTAustin! Evolutionary Biology and Organismal Mechanistic Processes, both very widely defined. Come join us! Application info here: apply.interfolio.com/193270

Obituary: Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students. Free to read: rdcu.be/D33fLgYcv4Ba

The White House and OMB's diminished vision for science and medical research undercuts discoveries to come... ... and will lead to significant, near-term economic losses totaling tens of billions of $-s and tens of thousands of jobs. scienceimpacts.org/fy27

‘envar’: An R package to retrieve and process environmental variables for macroecology and biogeography www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please share mollusc friends 🐌🐙🐚🦪 It's time for our Molluscan Forum again! ⏰Wed 11th Nov 2026 🏟️Natural History Museum ⚠️Deadline for applications = 2nd October Follow link for more information: malacsoc.org.uk/molluscan-fo...

Cool article about my friend @maurineneiman.bsky.social! www.quantamagazine.org/genome-dupli...

Very grateful to the editorial board for the opportunity to write about a topic I care deeply about. This review is deliberately opinionated, a personal view of where theory in community ecology stands and where it might go next. Pushback and disagreement are very welcome! doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Fitting the geometric Weibull distribution yields low-bias species richness estimates when either museum catalogue data or citizen science observations are analysed: an example involving Australian frogs. New paper in Global Ecology and Biogeography. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Would you like to work here? The search for the next director of Flathead Lake Bio Station is re-opened (search suspended last year due to admin issue). FLBS is in terrific shape, physically, financially, & academically with exciting prospects for the future. 🧪 Apply: apply.interfolio.com/192695

Do you like snailfishes? lumpsuckers? clingfishes? New phylogeny dropped, and to toot our own horn it's really good! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Job Alert 📣! Tenure-Track Position in Agronomic #Entomology at Montana State. Looking for candidates with molecular -> field expertise who identify novel ways to combat pests🐛. Teaching: Insect Physiology and IPM. Come and join us in beautiful Bozeman. Share broadly! jobs.montana.edu/postings/52653

Hey paleo friends, looking for paper recs (for my macroevolution senior seminar)! Topic is currently labeled as “deep time, fossils, taphonomy”. I’d ideally like a research paper that will expose my students to some “typical” paleobio research, but include discussion of biases in the fossil record.

New paper out in Evolution! The impact of climate and habitat on body shape and size evolution in charontid whip spiders academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

How do we predict life in water? 🌊 Freshwater systems are connected and hierarchically constrained, breaking standard SDM assumptions. My first PhD paper is out in Global Ecology & Biogeography: a hierarchical global-to-regional pipeline for aquatic SDMs. Open access 🐟📄 doi.org/10.1111/geb.70301

The Natural History Museum of LA is hiring a Curator of Marine Invertebrates! Come join an amazing team and contribute to stewarding the largest marine invert collection in the Western US. 🐙🪼🦐 workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Curator of Insects and Arachnids at Royal Ontario Museum. CLOSE DATE: September 25, 2026.

Don't forget to come along to our talk today - 15:00 UTC!

My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

Interesting food for thought

The Landscape Ecology Group at the University of Potsdam is seeking applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position! See the full solicitation on our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/po...

My lab is HIRING - we have an opening for a #postdoc focused on marine invertebrate symbioses & evolution (heavy focus on microbial -Omics and bioinformatics, but lots of fun fieldwork opportunities too!) Full position info here: www.biklab.org/join-the-lab Please help spread the word! #SymbioSky