Academic Ecology Jobs
May 2026: 303 new listings, upcoming grant deadlines, and a question for Pro subscribers
Keeping up with ecology and evolution jobs means checking half a dozen different sites and mailing lists. I got tired of that, so I built academicecologyjobs.com to pull it all into one place.
There are 1,184 active positions on there right now, plus 61 fellowships and grants with deadlines, and 12 upcoming conferences. Updated daily.
Worth a look this week if you’re job hunting: a faculty position closes tomorrow, and Evolution Joint Annual Meeting registration closes Sunday.
NSF CAREER, HFSP, Sloan, Marie Curie and ERC Advanced are all due between July and September if funding is more relevant to you right now. Deadlines at academicecologyjobs.com/fellowships.
303 new listings in the past month, mostly faculty in Europe and postdocs in macroecology and plant ecology. academicecologyjobs.com/jobs has the full list.
One thing I hear a lot is that people find out about a position a week after it went up, with three days left to apply. By then you’re scrambling for references, rushing a cover letter, or just too late. Pro exists to fix that. You get an alert within hours of something being posted, not a digest, the actual listing as soon as it goes live. Set your keywords once and anything matching lands in your inbox before most people have even seen it. On top of that you get a deadline dashboard that tracks everything you’re watching and colour-codes it by urgency, so nothing quietly slips past you. It’s £99/year and there’s a 7-day free trial at academicecologyjobs.com/pricing. If you’re in a serious job or funding search right now, it’ll pay for itself the first time you’re first in line rather than last.
One thing I’m genuinely trying to figure out: what else should Pro include? Saved searches, salary filters, institution watchlists, something else entirely? If there’s a feature that would make this a no-brainer for you, reply and tell me. I read every response.
And if I’ve missed something, reply and I’ll add it.