Rich Meisel

Check out the dozens of Drosophila pseudoobscura genomes we sequenced to study genetic variation in natural populations.

New resource for researchers studying speciation and sex chromosome evolution 🪰📊 In #G3journal, read about the newly generated population genomics resource for #Drosophila pseudoobscura, consisting of newly sequenced genomes of samples collected across North America. 🔗 buff.ly/h3yb8ba

Kinda cool the u Chicago gets grandfathered into an academic bigten deal

My department at GW is hiring a Teaching Assistant Professor for Intro Bio. Apply here! www.gwu.jobs/postings/129...

all the trouble of making a nice edition of my boy and then you put the wrong kind of whale on it?? like how many more whale facts did you need him to put in this thing

Deadline to apply for full consideration for our faculty position in Evolutionary Biology is Oct 21. We will start reviewing applications later this week. Please share and/or apply ASAP!

The Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston seek a Assistant Professor in Neuroimmunology. We’re a large and highly collaborative department, close to the Texas Medical Center. Please join us! Apply here (#496899): careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...

*New event from the @eseb.bsky.social ESEB Special Topic Network on Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation* Join us next week, October 15, for a virtual symposium on Internal Conflicts Across Asia-Oceania! Sign up here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/asia-oceania...

Journal of Evolutionary Biology virtual collection on Phenotypic Plasticity: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ph... Nice photo @horacezhl.bsky.social ;)

We generated chromosome scale assemblies of house flies with different Y chromosomes. You won't believe what happened next!

If only I were a marine biologist ... Colon in the tidal: the lower digestive tract of coastal aquatic mammals

We have an old thermal cycler in my lab that we won't use for PCR (because oil), but it makes a great insect heat torture device

The Promislow Lab in the HNRCA, located at the Boston campus of @tufts.edu, is hiring a Senior Research Tech with experience in Drosophila biology. We study aging, genetic variation, social behavior, metabolomics & systems biology, and more. Interested? Click here: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/23675?l...

We're hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology in my department at the university of Houston @uh-ecoevo.bsky.social Come be my colleague careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...

Meet GEValT! Germline Engineering by Viral transduction! No more injections www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Das lab has 1-2 open postdoctoral positions. Our lab investigates the fundamentals of cell-cycle-dependent cell polarity. Boston College has fantastic resources, including a cutting-edge imaging facility with state-of-the-art microscopes. Please apply here: bc.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Are you a #NewPI in Ecology & Evolution? Would you like to meet with peers to chat about work, the future and life as a new PI? 🍪☕️ Then I have the form for you! 📋 Help us gauge interest in a new network/event by filling in this short survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/K4wUiuLuFn Please RT! 🙏

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

📣 I'm recruiting PhD students to join the Akopyan Lab at Rice University! If you're passionate about evolutionary genomics, I'd love to hear from you. Details: akopyanlab.org/opportunities Please share widely! 🙏

My lab @ Edinburgh university is recruiting a postdoc to work on the weird and wonderful germline-specific chromosomes of flies. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... collaboration with @germline.bsky.social and yukiko yamashita funded by @novonordisk.bsky.social please repost!

@prof-tregoning.bsky.social argues that scientific paper format does not reflect how we do science: 🤥are we telling a false story? 💡are we dismissing the central role of creativity in science? What do you think? Let us know in the comments... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The university of Houston -victoria became texas a&m-victoria. Texas a&m then fired the faculty who live in Houston and didn't want to drive to Victoria. Where is Victoria? 2 hrs from Houston, about the same distance from San Antonio, and closer to corpus Christi.

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on an NSF-funded project developing new models of trait evolution for phylogenetic comparative methods! Info about the lab here: mhibbins.github.io Applications to our grad program are due December 1. Please share!

Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).

You'll have my attention when little Matt's stops giving away free drinks.

uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... The Kreiner and Carley Lab groups are hiring a shared Research Analyst to help lead wet lab protocol development and management. We're a fun group and would love to hear from you :) Get in touch with questions!

In a world with 9 months of compensation,

My great technician is leaving the lab, and I'm trying to replace her. Are you or someone you know interested in evolutionary genomics research that combines animals experiments (with flies!) and molecular biology? Come work with me! Application info at the link evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD

Our NIH funded PREP postbaccalaurate program just got renewed! PREP is fully funded postbac program for recent graduates interested in pursuing a PhD in biomedical research. Applications are open for a start date of this Fall. prep.ku.edu/apply

The official anthem of 2026: stutter steps and centerbacks

🚨Interested in #evolutionary #genomics and #popgen #theory? My lab just opened a 1+ year #postdoc position to work on sex chromosome dosage compensation. At #CEFE Montpellier 👉 bit.ly/4eMWDIh Informal enquiries welcome to me🙂 or Paul Saunders and Sylvain Glémin at #SMBE2026 Thanks for sharing!

As everyone's winding down on #evol2026 we want to share our survey link with you again. Whether you work in reproductive biology specifically or not, please take a minute to help us understand how the scientific community uses reproductive terms in research! And hope to see you at #SMBE!

I will be recruiting Ph.D. students at #Evol2026 in Cleveland!

Postdoc search update! I am continuing to solicit applications for a postdoc opening in the lab, and probably around the beginning of July I will start selecting applicants to interview. See evoldir ad here: evoldir.net/brian/evoldi... Please RT or whatever!

postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Very excited about this special issue! Our goal is to bring together empirical and theoretical work across a wide range of “unusual” systems of aging. Sounds like a good fit? Consider submitting to our SI 🤩 Unsure? Feel free to contact us. And please spread the word!

Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

Update! The posting for the postdoc opening in my lab is up! Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

Hey @evolmtg.bsky.social do you have a timeline for when the poster and talk schedule will be posted?

Many of us were taught experiments are for testing hypotheses. In Ch 1 of Experimentology, our free, open methods textbook, my coauthors and I argue differently: experiments are for estimating the magnitude of causal effects. This reframing has important consequences. 🧵 experimentology.io

Canvas bout to become the next blackboard lol

Only in Texas do you got a smoker in a public park

I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can!

plz repost 🙏 we are looking for a technician to start this summer/fall for 1-2 years to work with me at Cornell in the labs of @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social and Andy Clark, in collaboration with @corriemoreau.bsky.social on flies & termites 🪰🐜🧬🔬 Ithaca is gorges! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here: mhibbins.github.io I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!