Some butterflies may seem more beautiful than others. And believe it or not, this is influencing their conservation and researchers' interest! - Take this 10-min test to contribute to a research into our perception of butterfly beauty: www.unveiling.eu/en_US/introd...

A 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...

New fully funded PhD! 🦛🦴 Explore the "Hippo & Hyena Haven" of MIS5e Britain w/ @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. Use isotope analysis & proteomics to study this unique Ice Age ecosystem. Apply by Jan 14: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

JOB: 1–2 PhD Positions in Philosophy | Uppsala University (Sweden) www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #philosophy #job #PhilosophySky #philsky

🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming. Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... #PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/n

El projecte Psyche situa les papallones a l’avantguarda de la genòmica de la biodiversitat 🦋 📕L’ #IBE_Barcelona participa en el projecte Psyche, la primera iniciativa transnacional destinada a generar i estudiar genomes de referència d’un ordre animal complet.🧵 👉https://shorturl.at/9ofIE

We are looking for a PhD student to work on an exciting plastid endosymbiosis in microbial eukaryotes. This position involves sampling, exciting microscopy such as CARDFISH, ExM and FIBSEM, single-cell transcriptomics and more. #protistsonsky 1/2

#Vacancies: we are looking for not just one but three #postdoctoral researchers interested in bridging #genetics, #archaeology and #linguistics in exploring the #humanpast. shorturl.at/B3Qdd @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social

StanCon 2026 in Uppsala, Sweden statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/13/s...

Application deadline in less than a week! Apply to join the Uppsala Human Evolution team!

The European Declaration of Conscientious Objection is live and has surpassed 1,600 signatories. I have signed and you should sign too. Faculty and staff formally associated with a European (EU, EEA, Swiss or UK) institution of higher education and research can sign at uppsaladeclaration.se/europe/

Uppsala University seeks an Associate Professor in Human Paleogenomics and Population Genomics. Responsibilities include research, teaching, and collaboration. Apply by Sept 30, 2025. More info: https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=828553. #job

Massive sibling regression study finds that human traits are largely environmentally driven (average heritability = 0.3)

De-extinction be like.

🚨 Join us in Uppsala and the lab of @trstngnthr.bsky.social as a 2 year fully funded bioinformatics postdoc with all Swedish social benefits etc!🧪 The project involves modern and #aDNA 🧬 in humans and sheep 🐑 to study adaptation. Application deadline: Oct 21st www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Our new study is out! We analysed 40 Malaise trap samples collected across Sweden by the Insect Biome Atlas project using #metabarcoding and #metagenomics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @cpgsthlm.bsky.social @tvdvalk.bsky.social

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics at Uppsala University, focusing on human prehistory and livestock genomics. Apply by Oct 21, 2025. More at: https://www.uu.se/en/department/organismal-biology/research/human-evolution #postdoc

I have funding for a 2-year dry-lab postdoc to join our team @humanevouu.bsky.social 🧪 (Deadline Oct 21st) The project will utilize modern and #aDNA data from humans and sheep to study environmental adaptation (including method development and simulations). Please share! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋 The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes. Deadline: September 12, 2025 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

New rock dove paper!🕊️ Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species *please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase @trstngnthr.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!

The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

New paper out from @johannanvs.bsky.social, @lovedalen.bsky.social and others from #CpgSthlm, using historical DNA to investigate temporal genomic change in the Scandinavian arctic fox! Paper: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

#Job alert: associate professor (universitetslektor) at the program in Human #Paleogenomics and #Population #Genomics. Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 1st. #vacancy @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

Vols fer el doctorat amb l'@ebosch1972.bsky.social i amb mi sobre genòmica de poblacions aïllades? T'apassiona la possibilitat d'entendre la història a partir de l'ADN? Ets un/a crac de la bioinformàtica? Tota la info aquí:https://tinyurl.com/mr4ks44n

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Super fun and lovely program outing to Fjäderholmarna yesterday! ⛴️🏝️🥇🌷🦢🌞

What an incredible time we had last week at the Nobel Symposium "Palaeogenomics: Charting the Future of Ancient DNA" 💀🦣🦠🧬🧪 Connecting with so many leading international researchers in #ancientDNA at beautiful Villa Aske and Stockholm was inspiring ✨🤩 Thank you to all participants!

The Call is open: Human Past #Fellowships 2026-27. Deadline: 2 June 2025. centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/20... #opportunity #humanpast #research @haam-community.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social #genetics #linguistics #archaeology #indoeuropean #bantu #austronesian @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social

Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law. #uppsaladeclaration

Great to attend the #HumanEvo25 conference with Cesar Fortes-Lima and @a-solernunez.bsky.social, who gave an excellent talk and poster presentation representing the Schlebusch group and @humanevouu.bsky.social!

MIMS, together with @scilifelab.se & Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse's National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS) and @umeauniversitet.bsky.social, is looking for an excellent young life science or computational researcher to become Group Leader. umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...

We're hiring a postdoc! If you're interested in giant Starship TEs, HGT, and fungal genomics please apply. Experience transforming filamentous fungi is a big plus! uu.varbi.com/en/center/to...

🐦 Do some birds have #PrettyPrivilege? 💫 New paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2846 We show that ~half the variation in research effort on 293 bird species in US+Canada is explained by just 3 factors: 1)visual appeal, 2)range size, & 3)# of universities w/in ranges. What we did & why it matters:🧵

PhD position on Evolution of Seasonal Camouflage in my group. Fully funded 4 year position in Stockholm University and SciLifeLab! :-) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION is the independent development of similar traits or features in distantly related or unrelated organisms, often occurring when they occupy similar ecological niches or face similar environmental pressures 🦉 🍏

The WPSG2025 group photo! @evomics.bsky.social