Pete Buston 🐟

Marine Evolutionary Ecologist. Associate Dean of the Faculty, Natural Sciences at Boston University. He/Him | 1stGen | 🇬🇧🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸

[Pete Buston 🐟 @BustonLab]

The Evolution of Interspecific Variation in Marine Larval Dispersal Kernels — The Role of Larval Navigation Ability. Led by Lou Schlatter, with Allison Shaw and Colleen Webb. @BUMPatBU @BU_Biology
https://t.co/V5TcJ8BpAh

[Carly Kenkel @DrCarlsHorn]

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: https://t.co/yXd3BmwK0P students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: https://t.co/AX3OFRVsll Please share widely!

[Pete Buston 🐟 @BustonLab]

@phenogirl Very sad. Such a lovely human being

[Irene Mendoza @phenogirl]

I'm very sad to know that Dr. Geno Schupp has passed away yesterday. He was one of the best ecologists ever, with seminal contributions as the seed dispersal effectiveness. But not only by his work, he will be remembered by his joy of life and unique sense of humor. Rest in peace

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

If you like thinking about what math can do for biology and vice versa, you might like this public talk I gave a year ago. It contains a lot of stories from my own life. "From Math to Bio and Back: Reflections on a Two Way Street" https://t.co/TzKE3jnK29

[HFSP @HFSP]

Science without borders 🌍

The 2026 #HFSPResearchGrants connect scientists across 30 countries and nearly 100 institutions worldwide
From Chile to Korea, from Norway to South Africa: global collaboration is at the core of #HFSP research! 🧪
🔗 https://t.co/cUhSsicW3d
#sts

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

How animals sense Earth’s magnetic field is one of biology’s enduring mysteries.

Researchers in Science have now identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation.

Learn more in this week's issue: https://t.co/JS9qBFZHcP

[Pete Buston 🐟 @BustonLab]

@lucyjaynewhite1 Goodness @lucyjaynewhite1 that’s a pathetically racist comment

[21group @21percentgroup]

Universities of Hull, Bangor, Bradford, UCLan, Cardiff have already closed or restructured their chemistry depts

Now Nottingham announces cuts

The fire that burnt through arts & humanities is now engulfing pure sciences in our universities

https://t.co/swG11gwi27

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

Revisiting Martin Nowak’s famous 2006 Science paper on five mechanisms that promote cooperation, now viewed through a darker lens: exploitation, compliance, and Jeffrey Epstein.

https://t.co/4y5w5gWlPs

[AFS_ELHS @AFS_ELHS]

The 14th International Larval Biology Symposium (LBS) is being held from September 27th to October 1st, 2026 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. See the LBS website to submit an abstract, register, and sign-up for the listserv!

https://t.co/kFYdfLWkYL

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

MIT announces “the number of grad students will be 20 percent less than it was in 2024 — about 500 fewer students”

[Masato Yamamichi | 山道真人 @MasatoYamamichi]

A new review paper led by Kenta Suzuki was published in Biological Reviews: "Advances in causal discovery methods for ecological time series" https://t.co/s5xZLS5KC8

[Michael Merrifield @AstroMikeMerri]

If you work in a university, please consider signing this petition against the destruction of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham.

I doubt it’ll do much good, but the staff deserve all the positive words they can get.

https://t.co/2CcbzR8NJt

[Pete Buston 🐟 @BustonLab]

Job announcement. Please RT. Department of Biology at Boston University is seeking two lecturers in cell and molecular genetics. Great department; Great uni. Come join us: https://t.co/SQDylhwCcE

[Pete Buston 🐟 @BustonLab]

@oceaiii @landaicio Me except that beauty hides a dreadful reality: that anemone is bleached due to heat stress; soon its anemonefish may die; then the anemone itself may die https://t.co/1CICHs4B29

[Marios Georgakis @MariosGeorgakis]

Collider bias can also influence genetic associations.

In a nice illustration, if we take height-raising SNPs and test their effects on sex (which should be null), then adjust for height, we obtain spurious associations with female sex.

Conditioning on a collider (height), associated with both the tested SNPs and sex, induces an association between the two.

[Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz]

Download our updated database of postdoc fellowships from different foundations and agencies.

We identified 275 fellowships. For each entry, we provide description of the fellowship, focus, amount, deadline, eligibility, etc.

Download this database here: https://t.co/EbTahdzbkp

[James Evans @profjamesevans]

Out today in @ScienceMagazine: with the amazing Haochuan Cui, Yiling Lin, & @LingfeiWu, we analyzed 3.6 million scientists publishing 1960–2020. The findings reshape a century-old debate about age and scientific creativity.

[BU_MarineProgram @BUMPatBU]

New paper out! BUMP Faculty Les Kaufman and John Okechi featured in Open Journal of Ecology on the effects of cage aquaculture on biodiversity of Lake Victoria, Kenya. Read more here: https://t.co/axTdIiaBPD

[BU_MarineProgram @BUMPatBU]

New paper out! BUMP's Xiaozhou Ruan featured in Ocean Modelling on research studying the effects of tropical cyclones on marginal seas. Read more here: https://t.co/xDrZNlhd9o