Trevor Krabbenhoft
@fishgenomes.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences. We study genomes (WGD, etc.), and the ecology and evolution of fishes.
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SAVE THE DATE: the yearly NY Population Genetics meeting will be back on March 9 2026, generously hosted by the
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
SAVE THE DATE: the yearly NY Population Genetics meeting will be back on March 9 2026, generously hosted by the
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
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Evolutionary remodeling of the ventral retina enables aerial vision in the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.02.686143v1
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Evolutionary remodeling of the ventral retina enables aerial vision in the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.02.686143v1
Open tenure track position in the Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo! "cellular and/or molecular events in the nervous system associated with health conditions and disease, including those using invertebrate and/or in vitro models" www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/59731
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position from individuals who study th...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu
November 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Open tenure track position in the Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo! "cellular and/or molecular events in the nervous system associated with health conditions and disease, including those using invertebrate and/or in vitro models" www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/59731
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JOB OPENING: Curator of Birds: Curator of Birds
$78,047 - $122,654 per year -- Royal Ontario Museum
$78,047 - $122,654 per year -- Royal Ontario Museum
Curator of Birds
Curator of Birds
$78,047 - $122,654 per year -- Royal Ontario Museum
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October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
JOB OPENING: Curator of Birds: Curator of Birds
$78,047 - $122,654 per year -- Royal Ontario Museum
$78,047 - $122,654 per year -- Royal Ontario Museum
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I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I'm recruiting PhD students for the Barker Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study plant evolutionary genomics - polyploidy, hybridization & machine learning for genome evolution. Work with Selaginella, Xanthisma, Brassica & more. Funding available via CAMBIUM Fellowships. Reach out if interested! 🧬🌵🤖
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The #PolyploidyWebinar series is back for another season! 🧬 Join us for talks at 9AM Pacific on the second Thursday of each month. Are you working on something exciting in polyploidy? We'd love to have you speak! Sign up for open dates at the link below. Looking forward to the great research ahead!
Polyploidy Webinar Speaker Signup 25-26
docs.google.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The #PolyploidyWebinar series is back for another season! 🧬 Join us for talks at 9AM Pacific on the second Thursday of each month. Are you working on something exciting in polyploidy? We'd love to have you speak! Sign up for open dates at the link below. Looking forward to the great research ahead!
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674
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The American Society of Naturalists is looking for a new Editor-In-Chief to begin Jan 2027. Info here:
www.amnat.org/announcement...
www.amnat.org/announcement...
Call for new Editor-in-Chief (2027–2030)
<p>The ASN is seeking applicants for Editor-in-Chief, to begin in January 2027</p><br/>
www.amnat.org
September 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The American Society of Naturalists is looking for a new Editor-In-Chief to begin Jan 2027. Info here:
www.amnat.org/announcement...
www.amnat.org/announcement...
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New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Nice work by Jessie Pelosi leading this paper on the genome and life phases in an invasive fern - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The genome of the vining fern Lygodium microphyllum highlights genomic and functional differences between life phases of an invasive plant | PNAS
Functional and genomic studies on the differences between the gametophyte and sporophyte
life phases of plants remain scarce, yet unraveling these ...
www.pnas.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Nice work by Jessie Pelosi leading this paper on the genome and life phases in an invasive fern - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Microsynteny analysis informs cypriniform fish evolution - one of the most speciose groups of vertebrates. What's in those blocks of collinear genes unique to each lineage...?
Check out our new preprint! We compare sequence versus synteny approaches for resolving a challenging #phylogenetic problem. In this case, synteny is far more informative! Also includes the first chromosome-level #genome for the enigmatic #fish family Gyrinocheilidae. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Microsynteny analysis informs cypriniform fish evolution - one of the most speciose groups of vertebrates. What's in those blocks of collinear genes unique to each lineage...?
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UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
docs.google.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Are digits modified fins, or evolutionary innovations? Read how we tackled this old question from a new angle🧪
A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today!
#InHoxWeTrust
A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today!
#InHoxWeTrust
September 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Are digits modified fins, or evolutionary innovations? Read how we tackled this old question from a new angle🧪
A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today!
#InHoxWeTrust
A story with @chasebolt.bsky.social, @homeobox.bsky.social and myself, coordinated by @denisduboule.bsky.social from @college-de-france.fr and published in @nature.com today!
#InHoxWeTrust
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Join the creators of @alltooclearfilm.bsky.social for a historic real-time dive to Superior Shoal, a towering underwater mountain in the heart of Lake Superior.
Explore the Freshwater Everest on Sunday, September 14 at 3 PM ET.
Learn more: inspiredplanet.ca/live
Explore the Freshwater Everest on Sunday, September 14 at 3 PM ET.
Learn more: inspiredplanet.ca/live
September 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Join the creators of @alltooclearfilm.bsky.social for a historic real-time dive to Superior Shoal, a towering underwater mountain in the heart of Lake Superior.
Explore the Freshwater Everest on Sunday, September 14 at 3 PM ET.
Learn more: inspiredplanet.ca/live
Explore the Freshwater Everest on Sunday, September 14 at 3 PM ET.
Learn more: inspiredplanet.ca/live
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Man I really like these guys, Chinese suckers Myxocyprinus asiaticus. They change as they become adults and get too big for any tank I'll have for the foreseeable future. I was involved in the genome paper on them. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
September 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Man I really like these guys, Chinese suckers Myxocyprinus asiaticus. They change as they become adults and get too big for any tank I'll have for the foreseeable future. I was involved in the genome paper on them. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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@robinaraya.bsky.social @naturalselection.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social et al. investigate TEs in four large inversions in Atlantic cod - TEs accumulate in breakpoints, suggesting they drive inversions through ectopic recombination.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf131
#genome #evolution #TEsky
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf131
#genome #evolution #TEsky
Chromosomal Inversions Mediated by Tandem Insertions of Transposable Elements
Abstract. Chromosomal inversions play a crucial role in evolution by influencing phenotypes through the linkage of coadapted alleles. While inversions have
doi.org
August 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
@robinaraya.bsky.social @naturalselection.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social et al. investigate TEs in four large inversions in Atlantic cod - TEs accumulate in breakpoints, suggesting they drive inversions through ectopic recombination.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf131
#genome #evolution #TEsky
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf131
#genome #evolution #TEsky
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The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052
Postdoctoral Scholar – Genomics, Aging, Somatic Mutation, Structural Variation, Evolution , Cancer – Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052
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Academics who have questioned the validity of efforts to “de-extinct” animals like the woolly mammoth and the dire wolf have complained of an apparent campaign to discredit them.
Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign
Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them
www.newscientist.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Academics who have questioned the validity of efforts to “de-extinct” animals like the woolly mammoth and the dire wolf have complained of an apparent campaign to discredit them.
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My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...
www.utm.utoronto.ca
July 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...
Great article on ADHD in academia, awesome work @akopyan.bsky.social!
I’ve been meaning to write this for a while… but ADHD 😅
I finally did! It’s about creating academic spaces that actually work for people with ADHD. If it resonates, I’d love to connect or hear your thoughts.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
#ADHD #Neurodiversity #HigherEd
I finally did! It’s about creating academic spaces that actually work for people with ADHD. If it resonates, I’d love to connect or hear your thoughts.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
#ADHD #Neurodiversity #HigherEd
How to Create an ADHD Academic Community (opinion)
Maria Akopyan writes that a grad school ADHD group became a career-spanning lifeline.
www.insidehighered.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Great article on ADHD in academia, awesome work @akopyan.bsky.social!
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Super excited to be able to announce this opportunity! We'll be recruiting 12 PhD students to start at UAF CFOS between Jan–Aug 2026 w/ 3 years of full support. Please repost and share with your students who received honorable mentions on the GRFP in the last 3 years.
www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
New federal grant will support UAF doctoral students
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has been awarded a $1.9 million federal grant to support 12 new Ph.D. students at the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. The program, Enhancing Marine Ecosyste...
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July 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Super excited to be able to announce this opportunity! We'll be recruiting 12 PhD students to start at UAF CFOS between Jan–Aug 2026 w/ 3 years of full support. Please repost and share with your students who received honorable mentions on the GRFP in the last 3 years.
www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
www.uaf.edu/news/new-fed...
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1/2 Somatic TE transposition in plants is getting traction again (70 years after McClintock's discovery of "controlling elements")! A very large collection of somatic TE insertions in A. thaliana described by Ambreen et al.(www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...).
July 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
1/2 Somatic TE transposition in plants is getting traction again (70 years after McClintock's discovery of "controlling elements")! A very large collection of somatic TE insertions in A. thaliana described by Ambreen et al.(www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...).
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After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.
July 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.