Fabian Salgado-Roa
Evolutionary biologist. Stengl-Wyer postdoc fellow at @texas-ib.bsky.social. I like colorful spiders
#CienciaCriolla
fcsalgado.github.io
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaI'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
- We decided to put this one out before the end of the year "Gene expression and structural differences underpinning black and white colouration in spiders" ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-Roa🚨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!
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- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaI taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaHello everyone! One of my colleagues and probably one of the best supervisors I've met, Dr. Iliana Medina, is advertising a PhD position involving lots of bugs and many different colours! More info in the image below, do share this widely!!
- PhD opportunity in Melbourne, Australia, working in ecology and evolution of coloration with Iliana Medina (not on Bluesky). I can't recommend enough working with Iliana and living in that great city. Happy to chat if someone wants more details.
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaWe are hiring in Evolutionary Biology — apply to join our department!
- My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have. apply.interfolio.com/177547
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- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaA young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaExiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology! Please apply no later than 31 October! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaFunded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaWe're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaNSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/ and please spread the word!!!!
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaToday my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaMeet new Stengl-Wyer Scholar, Fabian Salgado-Roa! He studies phenotypic and genetic diversity change at multiple geographical scales, using arthropods as a model system. Learn more about him at our new blog post. biodiversity.utexas.edu/news/feature... #biology #ecology #science #entomology
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaAnd look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯
- Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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- It was a pleasure to be involved in this!
- 📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaCongratulations to Fabian Salgado-Roa, winner of the Medalla Humbold-Caldas Best Publication in Biogeography! His paper is titled "The Andes as a semi-permeable geographical barrier: Genetic connectivity between structured populations in a widespread spider." tinyurl.com/2pmcem2c
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- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaAwesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please help spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/173889
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaStill possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier. Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET) How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaApplications for the 2026 Stengl-Wyer Scholars Program are open! The program provides up to 3 years of support for talented postdoctoral researchers in the broad area of the diversity of life and/or organisms in their natural environments. Learn more here: utexas.infoready4.com/CompetitionS...
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaIntroducing the 2025 Stengl-Wyer Scholars, Fellows, and Grant Awardees! Another talented group we are excited to have! Learn about their fascinating research in our first blog posting of the fall semester. biodiversity.utexas.edu/news/feature...
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaAt the same time, we made thousands of synonymous mutations in endogenous yeast genes and measured their growth. We used careful statistics and controls. Only 3%, 204 of 6874, had a fitness effect! This goes against a controversial recent result that most synonymous mutations had fitness effects.
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaFollowing funnel-web spiders — amazing work by Caitlin Creak: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Study initially by @braxtonjones.bsky.social, Danilo Harms and I (funded by NatGeo and AusGeo), taken up by Caitlin with Russell Bonduriansky and Mike Kasumovic. Congrats all, especially Caitlin! :)
- I'm happy to share with you that in a couple of weeks I'll start as a Stengl-Wyer Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin. I'll join @becca-young.bsky.social's lab to study the ecology, genomics, and development of my favourite colourful spiders.
- Applications for the 2026 Stengl-Wyer scholars program just opened! Consider applying if you want to extend your research after your Ph.D. cns.utexas.edu/research/res...
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaThe 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaI am going to lodge a prediction: the AI bubble is going to start to deflate in the next 18 months. Chatbots have edge case utility, but are not themselves transformative. Agents are as controllable as an alcoholic rabbit; not fit for serious work. Foundation models are no longer improving rapidly
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-Roathe ad is up! applications due 7/15: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaGoldenrod Crab Spiders (Misumena vatia) are sexually dimorphic in size & color. The spider here is one of a few iNat observations of the species that shows both variations of dimorphism! 📷 cryokinesis on iNaturalist 📍 Canada 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaWhy do imperfect mimics (such as many hoverflies) exist? We created 3D printed replicas of flies, wasps and our own custom intermediates and then "asked" various predators what they thought of our 3D stimuli. Read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-Roa📣 📣 Calling genomics-y and ecology friends, three permanent faculty positions at @monashbiol.bsky.social in Melbourne, Australia! See job listings here.
- The three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here: Ecology: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
- Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaGet the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space. 2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...
- It is great to see published work with friends out there! We examined the role of reflectivity in thermoregulation and its influence on warning signal variation in the cotton harlequin bug link.springer.com/article/10.1...
