Mike Moore
evolution, ecology, and physiology of wetland animals
- newPI @ CU Denver - EEW Lab - moore-evo-eco.weebly.com
- Reposted by Mike Moorewhy do males defend territories in some species while pairs or family groups defend territories in others? then-undergrad Shreyas Arashanapalli did a fantastic project to find out, analyzing 3177 playback experiments on 264 species the best predictor? latitude academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
- Reposted by Mike MooreHeat can make #fruitfly males sterile at temperatures below their lethal limits. We explore if tissue-specific heat shock protein expression can explain why using 6 #Drosophila species: @chsmithson.bsky.social et al. @ejduncan.bsky.social @amandabretman.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
- Reposted by Mike MooreNew perspective on the evolutionary potential of symbiotic interactions! Is there something special about symbiosis that leads to new traits and adaptations? If so, how would we know and how would this work? academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
- Reposted by Mike MooreNew paper out in @funecology.bsky.social y.social: Warm waters undermine cryptic female choice! We find ovarian fluid only has a positive effect on sperm function at colder temperatures and that sneaker males have faster sperm than dominant nesting males at warmer temperatures. (1/3)
- Reposted by Mike MooreHappy to see our paper out now in the January edition of #Evolution 🧪 ! Using #drosophila in outdoor mesocosms, we found evidence for adaptation over a winter period and for putative trade-offs between resistance evolution and overwintering performance doi.org/10.1093/evol...
- Reposted by Mike Moore"You don’t have to, like, put a blanket on them." 🥶🦎🥶🦎🥶🦎 www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...
- Reposted by Mike MooreHave questions about the UW–NPS Small Grants Program RFP? 📣 Join our RFP Q&A event hosted by staff from AMK Ranch. We’ll cover program history, RFP details, and open the floor for your questions! Tomorrow @ 5:30! Join our mailing list for more info: uwnps.org/mailing-list/
- Reposted by Mike MooreWhen you're working with a mentee's draft manuscript, what kind of feedback should you give? To be both efficient and effective, we suggest suppressing some of your instincts... scientistseessquirre... 🧪
- Reposted by Mike MoorePro-tips: You can make pretty decent website in Google, please do so using your personal account, not one attached to wherever you happen to work right now - y'know, just in case...
- Reposted by Mike MooreI'm consistently surprised at the number of postdocs who have no website
- Reposted by Mike MooreEditor here: I recently suggested five early career scientists who I know personally and knew would be good reviewers for a paper. We were only able to find current contact info for one of them.
- Reposted by Mike MooreThis has also been an issue for talk invitations. Lab pages need emails, and grad student need websites.
- Reposted by Mike MooreShout this from the rooftops! ALSO: PIs who must decline reviews, please nominate the qualified students and postdocs from your lab!
- Reposted by Mike MooreAs someone who is getting her promised alumni "email for life" yoinked in short order (budgets...), I will have to rely on gmail going forward. One way to add legitimacy would be to add this email address to a website outlining professional work, your ORCID account, and other such profiles
- Reposted by Mike MooreI'd echo what some of the other folks have said. I feel like I can usually figure out who is an ECR and so I won't think your not-legit with a gmail. & FWIW I personally don't care where you work/don't work. I'm looking at what you've done. If it's recent & relevant I'm going to reach out
- Reposted by Mike MooreNew work in #RESEcolEnt by S.Park, @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social & @allikpierce.bsky.social finds heat is deadlier than hypoxia for #Euxoa auxiliaris, an elevationally #migrating #moth. doi.org/10.1111/een.70057 @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social Photos by M.P. Moore
- A plea from an editor: postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
- Editors are on deadlines to find referees, get reviews back, and turn papers around to authors. If I can't find an email address for you that I think is current-ish, I have to move on to someone else rather than risking sending you a request that you might never see 🧪🌍
- Reposted by Mike MooreHot off the press! New paper in Biology Letters (@royalsocietypublishing.org) showing that heatwaves impair female but not male fertility in burying beetles 🐞🌡️ Huge congratulations to Izzy (@izzygrieve.bsky.social) on her first first-authored paper! 🥳🙌 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
- Reposted by Mike Moore📣Deadline approaching - Monday 19th January! Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors! Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
- Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology: 🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎 Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi... DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
- Reposted by Mike MooreIt's easier to tear down than build up, and in science we have a bad case of that. So: how to lead a journal club that actually finds value in what you read. scientistseessquirre... 🧪
- Reposted by Mike MooreJust a week left to apply for a position in our Editorial Board!
- Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology: 🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎 Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi... DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
- Reposted by Mike MooreJust a PSA that @drscottataylor.bsky.social, who is an excellent science communicator and hilarious human being as well as an ornithologist, is starting a new podcast called "Okay, But... Birds" and you should definitely check it out. www.okaybutbirds.com
- Reposted by Mike MooreCome and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:8…
- Reposted by Mike MooreIt’s official: I’m joining the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of Iowa as an assistant prof starting Fall 2026! I’ll be recruiting multiple grad students and postdocs to join my lab, so if you’re into disturbance ecology and conservation science… watch this space!
- www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/s... great article about this work in @nytimes.com too! 🧪🌎
The genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper-scissors game | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Mike MooreThe genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper-scissors game | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- New paper from my lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social, led by HIGH-SCHOOL student Serene Park! We studied a moth that migrates from the Great Plains to the Rocky Mts (and back) each year and tested if they are harmed more by extreme heat or low O2 🧪🌍🐙 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- For those of you in CO or along the eastern slope of the Rockies, these are the miller moths (army cutworm moths) that get stuck in your house in June. Our findings suggest they migrate each year to avoid the summer heat, something we all guessed but no one had shown 🧪🌍🐙 @cudenverclas.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mike MooreNew Job Search Announcement: Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: careers.share.nm.gov/psc/hprdcg/E...
- Reposted by Mike MooreThe University of Alaska Fairbanks is now advertising for the position of Assistant Professor of Marine Biology. See the position description below. careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...
- Reposted by Mike MooreWe're hiring! The Dept. of Environmental Conservation @umassamherst.bsky.social is looking for an Extension Professor in Biodiversity Conservation. Reviews start Feb 1. I am on the SC and absolutely love working in the ECo Dept. Come join us! DM me with questions. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
- Reposted by Mike MooreI am recruiting a MS student in Biology at New Mexico Tech with an anticipated start date of Fall 2026 to work on the applied evolutionary genetics of wild populations with conservation or management concerns (butterflies, bighorn sheep). Please see the attached advertisement for more info.
- Reposted by Mike MooreHAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU!🎄✨
- Reposted by Mike MoorePreprint now, submit to journal in January
- Reposted by Mike MooreFor the life of me, why do people submit manuscripts now? My EIC inbox has rarely been fuller, and there's no way I'm sending these to Associate Editors until 2026. Friends don't let friends submit in late December.
- Reposted by Mike Moore100%!! As an AE, it’s vastly more inconvenient to have someone ignore an invite than decline it. Just say no!
- Reposted by Mike MoorePlease repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐 Applications due Feb 5 Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1
- Reposted by Mike MooreEvery year #ESEB distinguishes a young evolutionary biologist with the John Maynard Smith Prize! 📣Nominations for the 2026 prize are due by January 15th!📣 Find out more here: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
- Reposted by Mike Moore📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!! 📣 The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits. For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
- Reposted by Mike MooreI am so very excited to share the first data paper from my new lab, online now! We show that sex and reproductive condition shape thermal acclimation strategies in a plethodontid salamanders. This raises many new and intriguing questions! 🤓 doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
- Reposted by Mike MooreThis is excellent: Tips and Tricks for Writing Constructive Peer Reviews Perhaps the most excellent part is this subhead: "Remember that peer review is not meant to crush souls". Right? Peer review should improve papers (and OK, gatekeep a little) - not make an author regret their career choices!
- In my first Editorial as Associate Editor for @conphysjournal.bsky.social, we help combat this lack of training by providing some "tips and tricks" for writing constructive peer reviews, based on our collective experiences as editors for multiple scientific journals.
- Reposted by Mike MooreI’m really concerned about early career scientists using generative AI in writing, because writing is how we think and reflect. There’s almost nothing *more* human than that, and to give that gift away to a machine is almost unconscionable to me
- Reposted by Mike MooreOr just don’t use acronyms. Acronyms are almost always bad for readers because of the cognitive and memory load. Acronyms are nice for typing when you’re in a hurry and don’t want to keep repeating lots of words. So just use find and replace to clean up your manuscript before submitting.
- Reposted by Mike MooreIt’s reached that time of year again where I gently suggest you hang on to your manuscripts and submit them early in 2026. Otherwise they’re likely to just sit on a virtual to do list for the next 3 weeks sending auto-reminders to editors/reviewers. 🎄
- Reposted by Mike MooreExciting update - we're featured on the cover! Always happy to show off flies at ALL life stages 🪰🪰
- Reposted by Mike MooreHello! 👋 I've finally moved here from the dark side and I'm excited to reconnect with all the awesome scientists I followed previously! In our lab at University of St Andrews we study behavioural and physiological responses to climate change (mainly in fish and insects) 🌡️🪲🐞🐟🐠
- Reposted by Mike Mooreone thing I've found so curious - not bad or good, just legit interesting and odd - is that evolutionary biologists who study adults hear "development" and think "plasticity" rather than organisms changing over the course of their life
- Reposted by Mike MooreA resurrection study of scarlet monkeyflower populations across the species' range finds relatively little adaptive response to a seven-year drought event, showing that evolutionary rescue is not as predictable as we might hope 🌿 buff.ly/L8o4hhr
- Reposted by Mike MooreDelighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al: "Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited" doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals
- Reposted by Mike MooreDo ecological thresholds driven by nutrient limitation transfer across biological levels of organization? Our team explores how ecological stoichiometry can help tackle questions like this here! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Mike MooreSo excited to share our new work out in @evolletters.bsky.social today! doi.org/10.1093/evle... Sexual signals and preferences for them often differ across groups, contributing to reproductive isolation. But how do new signals evolve if females already have preferences for existing ones? (1/4)
- Reposted by Mike MooreWhen you deploy a tracking device, how long do you expect it to last? We all hope for the best, but that's often not reality. 😞 For more information, check out Emily Weiser's new paper with help from many (many) folks in the shorebird community. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Mike MooreTrue toads (Bufonidae) originated in South America and invaded Africa via the Antarctic in the Cenozoic! (which was temperate/sub-tropical at the time). Super cool. 🐸🐸🐸 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
- Reposted by Mike MooreAre you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology: 🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎 Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi... DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
