Izzie Héjja-B.

#WomenInSTEM #matechoice #evobio #behavior #fish

Darter goddess really got me 🤩
I usually refer to her as "darter wizard", looks like I should upgrade it 😄

So hyped to see the paper out!! 🤩
A great within-lab collab: 2 undergrads, 2 postdocs, 1 PI, cute rainbow darters, and much fun! 🌟

Please read (now-faculty ❤️) Kara's recap to learn more about what we did, she has a real knack for storytelling! ⏬️

We're looking for our next cohort of amazing instructors for #CV4Ecology!!

CV4E is an intensive workshop designed to empower ecologists to efficiently process their existing data, design new studies around CV, and scale their research to larger datasets.

This is figure 2, which shows global diversification dynamics of six diverse butterfly families.

Butterflies and moths are key indicators of functioning and healthy ecosystems. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity describes the evolutionary history of the order Lepidoptera and tracks shifts in researchers’ understanding of the clade in the genomic era. go.nature.com/4r0kbgS 🌍 🧪

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!

“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤

A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

Want to organise one of our Workshops? You focus on the science, we focus on the logistics. Next deadline for topic proposals: 29 May 2026 The Company of Biologists icon to the left, two people discussing outside to the right

Do you have a vision for a Workshop but don’t have the time to arrange the logistics or raise the funding? Submit your idea to us in our annual call for topics. We'll provide all necessary support for successful applications. Find out more at biologists.com/workshops/pr...

Studying social transmission using STbayes Post provided by Michael Chimento. When studying animal culture, it’s important to establish whether novel behaviours or information have spread through social contact, or are rather innovated or p…

New blog post!!🚨

Michael Chimento gives an overview of the new R package STbayes, designed for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission 🌍 🧪

Read the blog here 👇

During the course of my PhD, I’ve been relearning how to rest Small acts of change have helped me to reset and give myself a break.

People with PhDs say they spent years during their studies feeling exhausted and lost their work–life balance. Ashley Moses shares how small acts of change have helped to reset and relearn how to rest.

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#PhDChat #PhDSky #AcademicSky

je confirme, après avoir reçu le mien, que ce calendrier est vraiment très quali ✨

#WomenInSTEM #AcademicSky

This is a screenshot of the call. It reads the following: APPLY TO THE E-STEEM PROGRAMME Empowering Women in STEM and Economics An initiative by the University of Vienna to strengthen the participation of outstanding female scientists underrepresented in their fields. 20 postdoctoral positions (4 years, full-time, 40h/week) across Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science, Psychology, Economics, Earth Sciences and Sport Sciences APPLICATION PERIOD: Jan 7 – Mar 2, 2026, 2 pm START: Oct 1, 2026 (Early start: July)

🚨20 #postdoc positions of 4 years at @univie.ac.at for female researchers in #STEM and #Economics
Application period: January 7 - March 2, 2026 for a start in October 2026.
More infos about the call and participating departments and labs here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

Check the very first publication of the #ManyFishes initiative!!

And find more info about us here: themanyfishes.github.io
🐟🐠🐡🦈

🚨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration 🦋 with myself and Iliana Medina.

One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social

The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st

Please share among potential students!

LOVE THIS!!
and even more after I saw the Epilogue content 😍

pfff so tired of this. thanks for pointing this out though!

Plus, WoS is biased towards some disciplines (mostly excluding humanities) and English-written publications (see e.g. doi.org/10.1371/jour...). So unless we fix this, not sure it's a good replacement.
Maybe check OpenAlex (openalex.org)?

Don't forget to check the
@disabledinstem.bsky.social initiative founded by Alyssa Paparella, a PhD student and advocate for disabled people in academia. It provides resources, support and mentorship.
❗Applications for joining the mentorship run until this Friday!
🗞️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#AcademicRant Can we talk **again** about conference registration fees? I'd love to attend "big" conferences, but with EARLY-BIRD fees of €650, I just can't. And I am based in Western Europe. I'd also like to point out the total lack of remote attendance options.
Who are those conferences for? 😤

How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected?

I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live!

@inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation

any chance we can order this beauty from a supplier in the European Union? I haven't found anything so far and USPS delivery fees are more expensive than the book...

Postdoctoral fellow

🐦 EcoBird is hiring a Postdoc in animal cognition!

Join us + @themanybirds.bsky.social to investigate innovation & problem-solving in birds.

📅 Start: as early as Jan 2026
🌍 Funded through UGent’s international mobility scheme

More info & how to apply ↓
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

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.

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!

We are happy to announce our next Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience: “Why Are There Neuroscientists?”
This time, we’ll gather in the beautiful city of Heidelberg to explore our reasons and motivations for doing research in neuroscience.

i've signed it already, but i'll share it around. thanks for the initiative!!

mais oui ! chaque fois que je visite ma famille à Bruxelles, j'ai l'impression que les prix augmentent d'une fois à l'autre. et le contraste avec Vienne, pourtant aussi une capitale européenne, est ahurissant

"Nicky Dries is surprised that AI technology – which has only recently been adopted by a broad audience – is already enthusiastically embraced by universities and colleges, even though its long-term effects remain unknown. “Young people, but also children, are being used as guinea pigs.”"

Major Academic Press Calls for “Publish or Perish” Reform Just one-third of researchers, publishers, funders and librarians believe academic reward and recognition systems are working well, according to a survey from Cambridge University Press.

“W/o urgent, sector-wide reform, the global academic publishing ecosystem is at risk of collapse.
We urge academic institutions to weaken the link b/n academic reward & journal article output, & to adopt holistic approaches to evaluating academic performance.” www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

As a complimentary read: This more recent paper explores different narratives on the origins of misconduct and what it'd take to address them. 4/4

Exploring Scientific Misconduct: Isolated Individuals, Impure Institutions, or an Inevitable Idiom of Modern Science?
doi.org/10.1007/s116...

we prevent a public intelligence of science. As she says: "‘People’ must continue to believe in the fable of ‘free’ research, driven by curiosity alone towards the discovery of the mysteries of the world." And this prevents scientific communities to publicly denounce their degrading conditions. 3/4