Assistant Investigator at the Pacific Northwest Research Institute. Clamcer and other things. Opinions my own.
Michael Metzger
For the second time this week I wish I could just run over to City People’s to pick something up. But alas, they didn’t make it after too many switched to buying things online.
Support your local shops, folks. You never know when you will need to buy a replacement toilet flapper quickly!
📣 POSTDOC position available in the Feschotte Lab at Cornell to work on #TRANSPOSONS! More details below. Pls send informal application or inquiry ASAP by DM or email to cf458_at_cornell.edu.
Pls spread the word 🙏 #TEsky
www.thefeschottelabatcornell.com
Applications now open for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Proposals due May 18.
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Michael Metzger
Cedric Feschotte
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Head's up SSE members: Virtual Evolution is next week!
Join us for the SSE Presidential Symposium on May 21 for talks from SSE leaders and past presidents on sustaining research, supporting trainees, navigating funding uncertainty, and strengthening evolutionary biology.
Pls RT!
A reminder... deadline June 30, 2026
Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
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Society for the Study of Evolution
This article, with all the signs of having been written by AI, points out that a flexible nib is essential for Spencerian script, and then recommends 8 pens, 7 of which have no flex at all.
It justifies this with nonsense like avoiding "ink wastage".
We're headed toward a dead internet of AI slop.
Anyone have any advice when trying to email a new NIH PO for a new submission and they literally never reply (multiple emails over months)? When is it time to ask for help from POs you do know? Are there some POs that just never talk to scientists as a rule?
Julie Dragon announces a fourth type of transmissible cancer at ISEEC 2026! Brown bullhead transmissible melanoma. Two lineages so far identified in the northeast US. Seems to be more widespread and >100 years old. Paper under review.
