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Jill Oberski, PhD
@jilloberski.bsky.social
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Postdoc @sgn.one (🇩🇪) : Entomology / 🐜 myrmecology / 🧬 phylogenomics / 🌎 biogeography / 📚 teaching / 🏛️ museums. Passionate about #SciComm, #AcademicMentalHealth, and diversifying STEM. 🧠 ♿️ 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) 🔜 Asst Prof, @hopecollege.bsky.social!
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Jill Oberski, PhD @jilloberski.bsky.social · Dec 31
As the sun sets on 2024, I have one very happy announcement: I accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Biology at Hope College starting in 2026! I’ll be teaching intro bio, entomology, and invertebrate zoology, and continuing my ant research with undergrads. 🧬🐜✨ Happy new year! #NewPI
Jill holds up a white Hope College sweatshirt, with orange and blue printing of the college name, “established 1866,” a drawing of the historic Graves Hall, and the phrase “Home of the Flying Dutchmen!”
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biodivlibrary.bsky.social
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated to BHL’s Fundraising Campaign so far! 💚 Your generosity will help us build an independent, sustainable future for open biodiversity knowledge. 🌿 📖 🌏 🧪
Every gift helps:
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#ILoveBHL #OpenAccess
Donate to the Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open-access digital library of biodiversity literature and archives. BHL's future depends on the generosity of its global community. Your...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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tenuretracker.bsky.social
Institut Micalis is hiring:
Postdoctoral position in chemical ecology and genomics: Mechanisms of honey bee resistance to varroa
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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elinvidevall.bsky.social
📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits.

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)
Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Bat, Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus, c.1310. 🦇 #Gothtober #BatWeek #31daysofhalloween
Marginalia of black bat with giant fan like wing.
October 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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disabledinstem.bsky.social
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!

Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...

Applications due December 5th!
Promotional graphic for the DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Program. The background is a dark blue gradient with flowing wave-like patterns in blue and gold. At the top, white text reads: “DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Applications Now Open.” Below, a yellow box with black text says: “Seeking Disabled Mentees and Dedicated Mentors to Champion Inclusion in STEM.” At the bottom, white text states: “Applications due December 5th.” In the lower right corner, there is the DisabledInSTEM logo.
October 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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ameliarandich.bsky.social
Interested in a tenure track position teaching and doing research with undergrads at a PUI? We are looking for a broadly-defined microbiologist who can teach Med Micro and Immunology. Apply at universityofscrantonjobs.com/postings/8308. Pls share widely to feeds (& on twitter if you still tweet)! 🦠
October 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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gkalinkat.bsky.social
Origins of the ‘London Underground mosquito’ uncovered, shedding light on West Nile virus transmission 🧪🦟🧬

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Sanger Institute: Origins of the ‘London Underground mosquito’ uncovered, shedding light on West Nile virus transmission
International researchers disprove theory about the evolution of urban mosquito species.
www.eurekalert.org
October 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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nicrodemo.bsky.social
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
Picture of MEME students on the beach
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social.

We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵‍💫

If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
Sign Up
Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world. ​
www.skypeascientist.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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entopoc.bsky.social
Are you a POC student, early career researcher, or professional entomologist from a country in the Global South?

We are now funding memberships!
Apply from October 1st to December 15th.

More info:
www.entopoc.org/apply.html
Apply:
docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
October 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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formicula.bsky.social
Dear colleagues,
I'd like to share a short new contribution on the application of highly complex site-heterogeneous models, in particular CAT-GTR, to phylogenomic inference. While this paper arises from a recent publication on the early-branching topology of ants...
Ant phylogeny is not resolved by the application of site heterogeneous models - Communications Biology
Communications Biology - Ant phylogeny is not resolved by the application of site heterogeneous models
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October 17, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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friedmanlab.bsky.social
Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.
Large model of a green caterpillar, the back of which is covered by dozens of white cocoons. Wasps can be seen emerging from some of the cocoons.
October 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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curlewaction.bsky.social
Today (date), the Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct. The first bird extinction on mainland Europe in 500 years — on our watch. Extinction is final. No going back. Think about that.
October 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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jessicalwarelab.bsky.social
Yay! It’s today! Our Black In Natural History Museums conference starts today at my work! So excited! #BINHMs #BINHM
October 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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umwelthilfe.bsky.social
Hamburg hat’s getan – Ja zum #Zukunftsentscheid! 🌍

Ein starkes Signal in Zeiten des ökologischen Rollbacks: Klimaneutralität 2040, verbindliche Reduktionsziele, sozial gerechter Klimaschutz für alle.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Hamburg – ihr habt Geschichte geschrieben. 💪🌱
October 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
Many sea stars begin life as young fairy-like creature (called a brachiolaria) that float through the open ocean. Eventually, a small star forms within them (here in yellow). The fairy-like brachiolaria sinks under the star’s weight, and the star pops out!
🎥@the_story_of_a_biologist (on Insta)
October 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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derekhennen.bsky.social
I started a list for scientists and others interested in leaf litter fauna, please share and let me know if you want to be added! Do you love a good hand lens, soil sieves, and Berlese funnels? Perhaps this is the place for you.
October 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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annikabarber.bsky.social
Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...
Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty
The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...
jobs.rutgers.edu
October 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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corriemoreau.bsky.social
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
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hugodarras.bsky.social
@AntCommunity 🐜 🐜 Chengyuan Liu found a Camponotus ant colony where all sexual larvae have red spots of various sizes, but worker larvae don’t. Any idea what this is?🤔 Video in the comment.
September 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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kquist.bsky.social
Ta-Nehisi Coates dropping such a beautiful articulation of a sense of #history and struggle that, I think, minority communities understand way more than, say, your average white American.

"I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make."

Write that on my classroom wall. 🗺️
I’m Ta-Nehisi Coates, I’m the writer, I’m the individual, right? But I am part of something larger, and I’ve always felt myself as part of something larger. I have a tradition, I have ancestry, I have heritage. What that means is that I do whatever I do within the time that I have in my life, whatever time I’m gifted with, and much of what I do is built on what other people did before them. Then, after that, I leave the struggle where I leave it, and hopefully, it’s in a better place. Oftentimes it’s not. That’s the history in fact. And then my progeny, they pick it up, and they keep it going. I am descended from people who, in their lifetime, fought with all their might for the destruction of chattel slavery in this country. And they never saw it. They never saw it. In my personal belief system, they died in defeat, in darkness. So I guess the privilege that I draw out of this, the honor that I draw out of this, is not that things will necessarily be better in my lifetime, but that I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make.
September 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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taphonomist.bsky.social
Really interesting and excellently executed taphonomic study alert!

The authours designed neat insect disarticualtion experiments to better understand preservational patterns of insect found in the Crato Formation, Brazil. 🪰🪳🦟

Very very cool work by Storari et al.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Taphonomy of aquatic insects from the Crato Formation Lagerstätte (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) under an actualistic look
The Crato Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) is a fossiliferous deposit of global significance, representing a lacustrine palaeoenvironment which offers insights into aquatic insect taphonomy. Despi...
journals.plos.org
September 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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theafenogaster.bsky.social
Lasius neglectus worker

#myrmecology #digitalart
September 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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jackdashby.bsky.social
An #echidna showing off its many excellent features:
🐜Long ant-eating, electro-receptive snout.
♠️Massive digging feet.
🌵Anti-predator spines.
💅 Huge backward-pointing hind-claws, to scratch in between their spines.
🧥Thick fur coat to survive winter in #Tasmania.
#MammalWatching #WildOz #echidnas
September 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM