Abstract submission: sites.lsa.umich.edu/napc2024/pre...

Pleased to announce that we are organizing a session at the upcoming 2024 NAPC to celebrate the scientific legacy of the late Jim Valentine —if you plan to attend the meeting and do research in one of the many areas influenced by Jim's work, please consider submitting an abstract!

Very exciting tenure-track job in Evolutionary Paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at UC Riverside (my alma mater Ph.D program) —please distribute widely! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01856

My department (UT Austin) is hiring 3 new faculty in marine science at open-rank. Expertise in marine ecology, biogeochemistry, or animal physiology is appreciated but all fields will be considered. If you're interested & have questions, feel free to reach out! apply.interfolio.com/135967

Love fall in California when the poison oak leaves turns

when you lay off your marketing team and replace them with AI

We are hiring in Ecology at UPenn Biology! The search is open to any area of Ecology. We are a integrative, collegial department, supportive of junior colleagues, and are located in the great city of Philadelphia. Apply at: apply.interfolio.com/133155

Playing around with a UV dive light looking at solitary Fungia corals in a water table —amazing diversity of fluorescence patterns across otherwise very similar-looking individuals

Seeing a lot of these Yellowbanded Pipefish around the reef on Mo'orea. This one was hanging out on a patch of zoanthids (relatives of anemones and corals) & when it moved the polyps would react by curling up & revealing their white undersurface —you can see fish at end of its "trail" in the 2nd pic

Cockerell's Dorid, one of my favorites!