Kate Laskowski

This was such a monumental amount of work - we tracked groups of clonal fish from birth, all day, every day, for MONTHS, to figure out if we could predict group behavior. It's the coolest project giving us really great insight into what our expectations should be for group behavioral development!

Ecology postdoc opportunity based in Fort Collins, CO, working with a great team Project focuses on ungulates and fire in Utah 🦌 🔥 Check it out and pass it along! 🌎 csusystem.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/fortcollins_...

We're hiring! My department at the University of Oregon is searching for a new colleague at the rank of Full Professor in Genetics/Genomics (broadly defined) It's an endowed chair position Fantastic chance to join a collaborative community of biologists careers.pageuppeople.com/726/cw/en-us...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Any fish folks?

🚨Exciting project alert!!🚨 Are you interested in data and code sharing in Ecology and Evolution? @eivimeycook.bsky.social and I are running a hackathon to quantify data and code availability and sharing quality across 90 society journals, and looking for people who want to be involved.

Livebearers are where it's at, y'all

Prop. 38 in California is a scam claiming to be about funding science/medical research on major disease but is really designed to funnel billions of $$ of taxpayer money into one unnamed institution. VOTE NO ON PROP. 38. See votenoonprop38.org for more. (reposted with typo corrected)

Are you interested in supporting scientific research and teaching focused on living things and the natural world? My department, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology is hiring two full-time Lab Coordinators (faculty assistants). Union jobs with good benefits. careers.harvard.edu/job/laborato...

"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2

This is something I love about @asn-amnat.bsky.social publishing: an American Naturalist article looks distinctly like an AmNat article.

New obvious AI flag: I've gotten at least a dozen emails from interested students using the phrase ".... caught my attention"

Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.

📣 PhD opportunity in my lab 📣 Are you interested in the effects of climate change on social behaviour? 🌡️🔥 This PhD project will examine these effects in the amazing burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Informal enquiries welcome. Please share widely!

CA prop 38 is a scam - vote NO. For example see: This CA proposition will send $4 billion to a single nonprofit. Who’s behind it? calmatters.org/politics/ele...

It's October 3rd

I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! We're a computational lab working on spatial demographic inference using genomic data and machine learning. You can apply here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34508

My favorite emails from students are those with the subject, “What fish is this?” Here, we have a skilletfish, our local clingfish species that uses is suction cup-like pelvic fins to stick under crevices and in shells.

We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

The UGA Genetics Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Associate Professor/Professor in Genetics, Synthetic Biology, and Biological Engineering. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!

Check out this lovely profile of the University of California, Davis’s Peter Wainwright, whose lifelong fascination with fishes inspired a remarkable career in research and teaching. Peter was my postdoc advisor years ago when he was at Florida State University, and is awesome dude and mentor.

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I'm holding a press conference tomorrow to announce the inauguration of the era of Super Selection

The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783

A reminder to sign up to the @sortee.bsky.social conference: 13-14th October sortee.org/upcoming/! The advocacy committee will be running a hackathon (second event) looking at EcoEvo society journal policies and data/code availability/quality.

🚨 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Please share! We're looking for an entomologist to join our dept.! I'm excited as it's broadly advertised to find someone who can build a stellar teaching program w/research on insect ecology. Deadline is tight (end of Oct.). Read more & apply at jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/235...

🐟🚨 Fish paper alert! 🚨🐟 You might already know that individuals are unique, even when they’re genetically identical clones raised in identical environments. But what about groups? Groups of clones are distinct from birth, but (unlike individuals) those differences do not predict later behavior!

Okay this is just wildly cool - they tracked human ice-fishers *and* the fish they're hunting. Even though humans can't see the fish *at all* the humans are still surprising good at zero-ing on their prey. Probably the most complete picture of predator AND prey movement together. 🤯🎣

Our paper is out in Ecology @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social! We found that an extreme drought year drove a local population of a social rodent to extinction. A sobering example of how climatic extremes can drive population collapse. Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

This @asn-amnat.bsky.social conference will feature some excellent afternoon symposia (with no conflicting sessions), including one organized by my grad student Emma Choi, on using spatial & landscape population genomics to detect coevolution!

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

Peer review, 2026: AI submitting and reviewing itself

Please repost/share We're hiring! UC Davis Plant Pathology seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in plant health & microbiomes. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904 My department is full of great colleagues, and we look forward to recruiting our new colleague!

📣 New paper! 📣 ❓Do clonal fish and their sexually reproducing heterospecifics differ in parasite load? 🤒 We found that clonal Amazon mollies were more likely to be infected than Sailfin mollies, but parasite loads were largely the same. 🤔 Could behavior have something to do with this pattern? 1/3

I’ve come to the end of my 5-year term as a Trustee of @asab.org & Executive Editor of its journal, #AnimalBehaviour. It's been a real privilege to hold these roles & I’m grateful to all those who have made it such a productive & enjoyable experience. 🙏 Please support Society journals.

Anotha one! 🐟 This one is special to me. Kirsten conceptualized this cool experiment and brought me along to Texas, where we learned field methods on sampling our fish in the wild and measuring their behavior. Glad to see this out! This is also the first time my photos have been used in a pub!

Yo the Amazon Warrior team is having a bumper crop of papers this month! Here Kirsten tries to figure out if our clonal fish are more likely to suffer from parasites compared to their sexual sister species? The answer - sometimes but not always!

Princeton EEB is running a very broad faculty search at the Assistant Professor level. Please consider applying to join us! This is a wonderful, collaborative, cohesive department with diverse interests and amazing colleagues. apply.interfolio.com/193474

when ai leaves u behind

📢 The new issue of Behavioral Ecology is out! 📢 Volume 37, Issue 5, September/October 2026 Read about all new research here ⬇️ academic.oup.com/beheco/issue... Cover set up by Viktor Storozhuk. Regular monitoring camera trap, FSBI ‘Land of the Leopard’ #Behavior #Ecology #Animal

I'd be grateful if you could circulate to good students: I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall '27 in the areas of species interactions and animal behavior. Ad here - jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...