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Generative AI is poised to change the way organismal and evolutionary biologists do science. In our latest preprint, we use these cutting-edge techniques to study the evolution of morphological diversty in butterflies and moths. researchsquare.com/article/rs-328… Sheng-Feng Shen

Dig into some Cape dune mole-rat data with the new genome assembly out today thednazoo! Thank you to Jenny Tung Dustin Rubenstein, collaborators & teams for help with the sample. Read about awesome burrowing adaptations trending in the underground scene: dnazoo.org/post/digging-u…

Columbia’s Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environtmental Biology is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist/Evolutionary Ecologist. Note that the deadline we begin reviwing applications is actualy October 6 (it took awhile for this to get posted). apply.interfolio.com/131172

Our latest theory paper thinking about group size and structure in animal societies using insider-outsider conflict theory. Sheng-Feng Shen sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢💥We're hiring, TT position in ANIMAL BEHAVIOR!! 🐦🐸🐝🪰🦋🐟🐁 #job #academia IU EEB Graduate Program CISAB, Indiana University. Apply by 11/15/23 here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/20413

**Funded PhD for UK students of Black heritage** “Power games in the wild: the social evolution of dominance” tinyurl.com/2s4p4nmr Involves fieldwork on wasps in Africa. If you think you’d be a good fit, get in touch ([email protected]) Please share widely!

So cool. Gynandromorphic honeycreeper. phys.org/news/2023-12-e…

Birders can get an HD video of an extremely rare half male-half female bird, but they can’t get a half decent video of an ivory-billed woodpecker? Hmmm….. phys.org/news/2023-12-e…

Grading papers down by the river with the subject of those papers foraging in the background.

Working hard at dusk on the African savannah.

Pretty sad when Columbia University faculty hear about graduation being cancelled from The New York Times and not from the President. Add it to her long list of failures...   nytimes.com/2024/05/06/nyr…

Last year of the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology focusing on Integrative Research Investigating the Rules of Life Governing Interactions Between Genomes, Environment and Phenotypes. Next year’s focus will be on Understanding and Solutions for a Resilient Planet.

NYC subway now has private security to make sure people don’t sneak through gates. But guard told people to sneak over turnstile instead. They claim they are paid only to stop people at gates not turnstiles. WTF are you paying these people for MTA ?

Want to do a PhD in social evolution? Unfazed by challenging fieldwork? You have 11 days left to apply for our PhD exploring social evolution in the wasps of Africa, including a 3-month internship in wildlife filmmaking at the BBC Natural History Unit. tinyurl.com/AfricanWaspsPhD

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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the superb starling project!

A study of starlings in Africa shows that they form long-term social bonds similar to human friendships. news.columbia.edu/news/new-study…

Our latest superb starling work in @nature. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and Gerry Carter. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Gerry Carter and I wrote a wrote a Research Briefing on our latest nature paper looking at reciprocity in superb starlings. You can access the Briefing here (and the original paper itself is OA): nature.com/articles/d4158…

Great opportunity for prospective PhD students: Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution: simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-g…