And now for something completely different...

...we're hiring student technicians to join our Illinois Bat Conservation program! Get experience with mist-netting, acoustic monitoring, and the NABat protocol! HMU for details!

https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/1176029570

Are you a recent or imminent PhD specializing in ecological modelling? Are you seeking a Post-doc to stretch your skillset? Are you interested in the Great Lakes, birds, and avian disease? If you answered yes to these questions, come work with us at the Illinois Natural History Survey! HMU with inquiries!

https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/2021597357

There are 734 jobs for professors or other permanent positions at http://ecoevojobs.net/ so far this round (ecology and evolution). In the US last year, 568 people got PhDs in ecology and/or evolution: not all of them are seeking faculty or permanent positions, and of course the pool of applicants is far broader than US PhD awardees. So the actual ratio of potential applicants / permanent job is unknown, but perhaps less imbalanced than I feared. Thoughts?

@jobsecoevo

Hey! I'm hiring Environmental DNA seasonal technicians to work on a suite of projects (turtles and mussels and pollinators, oh my!) next summer. If you know of students hoping to get a mix of genetics lab AND field experience, HMU!

https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/459900560

Rim-Lit Red.

During the winter months in Scotland, when the sun remains low in the sky, it can cast shards of light through a woodland, lighting parts up, leaving the rest in shade.

Here I used such light, and exposed for it (not the overall scene as my eyes were seeing it) to get this effect, showing just the illuminated rim of the squirrel's fur, and nothing much else.

Thanks for all the fantastic comments, likes and boosts on my images. Very humbling. 😊

#RedSquirrel #ScottishWildlife

coelacanth friend, VERY ancient friend shape. a true classic.

drawn with markers.

#mastoart #animalart #animalartist #paleoart #palaeoart #coelacanth #fish

It's Sunday, which means it's time for a #SundayFishSketch ! Here's an old speedpaint I did of a wolf #eel, one of my favorites to date.

#FishArt #mastoart #art #lineart

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 5
#MarineLifeMonday

Most #fish species alive today, from #salmon to #guppies, belong to a single group. In the #Devonian, though, many lineages were abundant. #Quebec's 🇨🇦 #ParcNationalDeMiguasha provides a glimpse of this #biodiversity, which includes #lungfish such as Scaumenacia curta, shown here in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum. Their lobed fins contain many of the same #bones as our arms, evidence that lungfish are much more closely related to us than to most other fish.

Job Alert 📣 : Tulane University is seeking a Professor of Ichthyology and Director/Curator of Fishes for their Biodiversity Research Institute.
https://sse.tulane.edu/eebio/about/positions/Professor-of-Ichthyology
@jobsecoevo
#jobs #fish #ichthyology #museum #NaturalHistory

Hello 👋 here's our #introduction.

🌈 rainbowR is a community that supports, promotes and connects LGBTQ+ people who code in the #rstats language.

We have a Slack group (see link in profile to join) and we also meet once a month or so on Zoom to chat and share what we've been working on.

We'd love to grow the community and our activities and get more people involved so looking forward to meeting and connecting here :heart_pride: :heart_trans:

(@ellakaye)

Over the last decade I've built up an online #photo #library for the use of #scientists and others. All of my 12000+ photos are identified, located and downloadable at full resolution with #creativecommons non-commercial with attribution licenses. You can find them by searching in Flickr with the #marineexplorer tag, or by album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwturnbull/albums

As a person not entirely sold on this site as a replacement for twitter, I wrote about what Science Twitter has meant to me

https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/macroscope/what-we-lose-if-we-lose-science-twitter

My very first Mastodon post! I'm looking forward to linking up with friends who like to post about #evolution #ecology #morphometrics #nature