1,700+ open positions · 165 fellowships & grants · 42 upcoming conferences

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The US faculty hiring season is in full swing, and a big run of fellowship deadlines lands over the next eight weeks, including ERC Starting, NSF PRFB, NERC IRF, Banting and Leverhulme. Below are the newest positions from the board and the deadlines worth putting in your calendar now.

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• Ecology — William & Mary, USA

• Evolutionary Biology – Biological Diversity — University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

• Integrative/Comparative Approaches to Cognition — Yale University, USA

• Plant Evolution / Director of Plant Resources Center — University of Texas at Austin, USA

• Evolutionary Biology and Mechanistic Processes — University of Texas at Austin, USA

• Integrative Shellfish Biology — University of Texas Marine Science Institute, USA

• Assistant Professor in Marine Biology (tenure-track) — Texas A&M University at Galveston, USA

• Fish Ecology — University of South Carolina, USA

• Plant or Fungal Genomics — University of Wyoming, USA

• Vector Biology — University of Oklahoma, USA

• Animal Ecology — Wichita State University, USA

• Quantitative Biology — SUNY Geneseo, USA

• Aquatic Biology / Ichthyology — Georgia College & State University, USA

• Plant and Landscape Systems — Brigham Young University, USA

• Biology / Environmental Science — University of West Alabama, USA

• Department Chair, Biological & Environmental Sciences — Georgia College & State University, USA

• Assistant Teaching Professor in Plant Biology — University of Cambridge, UK

• Lecturer in Environmental Science — University of Stirling, UK

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• Chancellor’s Climate Futures Fellowship — UC Berkeley, USA

• Career Development Research Fellowships 2027 — St John’s College, Oxford, UK

• Seagrass–Microbe Interactions — UC Riverside, USA

• Computational Aquatic Ecology — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

• Biodiversity Sciences — University of Texas at Austin, USA

• Spatial Biodiversity – Ecohydrology of Terrestrial Birds — University of Georgia, USA

• Metagenomic Trait Prediction / Modelling Microbial Systems — Stony Brook University, USA

• Forest Ecology — Black Rock Forest, USA

• Marine Ecology — Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

• Integrative Taxonomy: Genomics + AI — Netherlands

• Research Associate in Computer Vision and Environmental Modelling — University of Sheffield, UK

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• PhD: Wildlife Connectivity in Tree-Based Agricultural Systems — Newcastle University, UK

• PhD in Arctic Freshwater Ecology — Sweden

• MSCA PhD: Restoration of Co-invading Alien Plant Species — Swansea University, UK

• PhD: Camera Monitoring of Inshore Fish Assemblages — University of Plymouth, UK

• PhD: Bacterial Pathogen Evolution under Antibiotic–Phage Treatment — University of Exeter, UK

• Senior Teaching Associate in Ecology and Conservation (part time) — University of Cambridge, UK

• Ecologist and Conservation Biologist — Holden Arboretum, USA

• Short-term Ecologist / GIS — Black Rock Forest, USA

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• Oct 7 — Darwin Initiative Grant (UK Defra) · up to £400,000

• Oct 8 — NSF Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship (OCE-PRF) · $54,000/yr + $12,000 research allowance

• Oct 15 — ERC Starting Grant · up to €1.5M over 5 years

• Oct 15 — Schmidt Science Fellows · $100,000/yr + travel

• Oct 15 — NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship · CAD $45,000/yr

• Oct 15 — Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Fellowship · $65,000–$75,000/yr + research funds

• Oct 15 — USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship · $50,000–$60,000/yr

• Oct 22 — BBSRC Discovery Fellowships · salary + £50,000 research support

• Oct 29 — Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship · CAD $70,000/yr

• Nov 1 — Rachel Carson Postdoctoral Fellowship (PNNL) · $77,000–$100,000/yr

• Nov 1 — Carlsberg Foundation Research Fellowship · DKK 450,000–600,000/yr

• Nov 1 — Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust Research Grant · up to £10,000

• Nov 4 — NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB) · $54,000/yr + $12,000 research allowance

• Nov 5 — NERC Independent Research Fellowship · full salary + research costs

• Nov 5 — Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship · €28,000–€41,400/yr + research costs

• Nov 11 — British Ecological Society Large Research Grant · up to £25,000

• Nov 12 — Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship · up to £60,000

• Nov 15 — Liber Ero Fellowship · CAD $70,000/yr + $10,000 research budget

• Nov 15 — AMNH Research Fellowship · $45,000–$55,000/yr

• Nov 17 — Royal Society Research Grant · up to £15,000

• Dec 1 — Princeton Environmental Institute Fellowship · $65,000/yr + benefits

• Dec 1 — NSF Arctic Postdoctoral Research Fellowship · $54,000/yr + research & travel allowance

• Dec 1 — Smithsonian Institution Fellowship · $36,000–$48,000/yr

• Dec 1 — Bat Conservation International Research Grant · $5,000–$20,000

Always check the funder’s website: deadlines and eligibility can change between calls.

Browse all 165 fellowships & grants, matched to your career stage →

We track 42 upcoming ecology, evolution and conservation meetings, including ESA, BES, SCB, ICCB and ISBE, with abstract and registration deadlines as they’re announced. See the conference calendar →

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