CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special Issue: #GenomeArchitecture and #Evolution, organised by @eseb.bsky.social STN "STRiVE": Find out more here: tinyurl.com/2uza525c @ruifaria.bsky.social @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social @clairemerot.bsky.social @petrnguyen.bsky.social @aruizherrera.bsky.social

Responsible publication of your research! To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

A new preprint from the lab, with postdoc @deboraycb.bsky.social and collaborators @aidaandres.bsky.social and Tim Connallon: “Characterising the detectable and invisible fractions of genomic loci under balancing selection” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

(1/2) The preprint of our perspective on genetic estimates of relatedness in animal populations is out! Big Congratulations to Annika! doi.org/10.32942/X28... A systematic review of 2,861 articles shows that, even in 2025, 75% of such studies use microsatellites. And most use only a few! #PopGen

Meiotic drive has long been considered as a genetic curiosity. Genomic "footprints" suggest otherwise. Check out our new review doi.org/10.1093/molb..., a cross-taxa synthesis arguing that recurrent drive is a pervasive and underappreciated force in genome evolution.

'Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation' - now published online in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social‬

We hope this little guide and review of the recent literature on SVs will be useful for the community in #ecology #evolution #genomics #PopGen. Great lead by Kat!!

#ERGAReads | On the path to reference genomes for all biodiversity: laboratory protocols & lessons learned from processing over 2,000 species in the Sanger Tree of Life 🔗 academic.oup.com/gigascience/... @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social

Haller, Ralph & Messer present SLiM 5, a major extension of the SLiM simulation framework for simulating multiple chromosomes, enabling a heightened level of realism for full-genome simulations. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf313 #evobio #molbio #compbio

Join us in Brittany? One week left to apply for this postdoc position deciphering the mysteries of inbreeding depression...

New review from @gokcumenlab.bsky.social led by Petar Pajic on VNTRs. If you’re interested in VNTRs, this is a very nice synthesis. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

🚨 We are hiring! 🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project 🔬 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English 📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025 📧 [email protected] 🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom

A new article of the team published in @heredityjournal.bsky.social #PopGen #MarEvol Congratulations to Hedvig for her brilliant work on this project. Atlantification is dead, long live genetic atlantification! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My lil' baby turns 3.0 today! Most notable features: - autodetection of linked-read types (and not linked-read WGS too!) - more debuggin' and troubleshootin' options #bioinformatics #genomics #linkedreads

For those interested: 🚀 BayPass v3.1 released! 🔹 Improved MCMC adaptive phase 🔹 Computation reduced >6X with default (recommended) options, while keeping similar accuracy 🔹 Plus other minor edits 📖 Details in the manual / changelog 🔗 Repo: forge.inrae.fr/mathieu.gaut...

Useful warning on pangenomes by Resco Hogers... Now your application to pick which flavour of pangenome to need

Join us today and tomorrow in room 117 #ESEB2025, starting with Dr Neda Barghi at 11am about adaptive architecture of complex traits in Drosophila. And the poster session today at 5pm. 😊

This week, the capital of Evolution is Barcelona! Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025. Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n

Join the TIBBE team at #ESEB2025 on Monday in room 115 for S17 *The evolution of behavioural diversity: from ecology to genes and neural systems* - lots of great talks, and more excellent posters throughout the evening sessions! 🧠

Interested in host-associated microbiomes? Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? Then come check out Symposium S07 on Monday August 18th and hear all about how microbiomes contribute to adaptation. Gut microbiomes, climate change, thermal physiology, behaviour, invasion biology, blood-feeding, and more!

🎤 Symposium: Evolution in Small Populations I’ll be speaking on Evolutionary legacies of population collapse 🗓 Thursday, 11:00–13:15, Room 115 Looking forward to this #ESEB2025 week! @hologenomics.bsky.social

So excited to be in Barcelona for #eseb2025! If you’re interested in 3D genome evolution, gene regulation, and the evolution of cephalopod novel traits, come to my talk on Tuesday at 11.30 in room 117 🐙🦑🧬

A reminder too that we have an open Junior Professorship position at the ECOBIO lab in Rennes, so do reach out if you might be interested in applying for that, I'd be happy to chat www.univ-rennes.fr/sites/www.un...

On my way to @eseb2025.bsky.social ! 🌞 Please join us for symposium 47 about the interplay of genetic architecture and the evolution of biodiversity in room 117 on Tuesday. I'm very much looking forward to seeing so many cool talks and posters, and catch up with some of you 😊

Retrouvez les biologistes Marc-André Selosse @isyeb.mnhn.fr & Audrey Dussutour @cnrs.fr Univ.Toulouse, dans un podcast @sciencecqfd.bsky.social sur @franceculture.fr , diffusé le 29/04/2025. Les champignons sont partout : de la confiture aux réacteurs de Tchernobyl.....

Just three more days to apply to this post-doc position (Deadline 8 May 2025). Not only is the subject matter stunning 🤯 but, you know, life in Montpellier is great too 😎. Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel

It is with joy and exhaustion I'd like to announce the release of Harpy v2 🎆. What's different? Uh, almost everything. The changelog is so long that even I don't want to read it. BUT. IT WORKS WITH WGS DATA. AND MOST LINKED READ TECH. it just works 🙂 github.com/pdimens/harpy

10 more days to send your abstract to ESEB 2025 in Barcelona @eseb.bsky.social (deadline 05/05/2025).

Abstracts for @eseb2025.bsky.social due next week! Milk, ejaculates, skin secretions, regurgitate, microbes ...our symposium will have it all, with invited speakers @berasymbionts.bsky.social and @jennyperry.bsky.social ...and you? Organised w/ @joriskoene.bsky.social and @wolfnerlab.bsky.social

Harpy v2.0 is almost across the finish line, and I wrote a lil' post about what linked-read sequencing actually is and how we evaluate the data differently than standard short-read data. It's a quick and easy read (with pictures!), highly recommend 🤓 #PopGen pdimens.github.io/harpy/blog/l...

A few days left to send your abstract to #eseb2025 ! If you are interested any facet of genomic architecture and how it is is involved in the evolution of biodiversity, please consider our symposium. #architecture #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #SV

New preprint! We investigated the evolution of supergenes and mechanisms underlying distyly in Linum species that diverged ca 33 Mya. 1/8 bsky.app/profile/bior...

Looking forward to this symposium, lots to learn and discuss about genome structure and evolution #SVs #ESEB2025 ( and thanks for the invitation)

Thanks for the invitation! I learnt a lot about Clunio fascinating biological clocks and the genetics of it 🙂

How promising! Thanks

Do you want to make genetic maps from sperm/pollen/gametes? Now there is an easy way, based on Hi-C sequencing. Thanks to Richard Durbin and Ed Green for the idea and a group of co-authors including @mariontalbi.bsky.social and @danielbolnick.bsky.social for contributions.

Neural circuits that link genetic variation to #behavior: This study of mate choice behavior in Heliconius cydno #butterflies shows that alterations to the peripheral nervous system, driven by genetic & gene expression differences, can alter essential behaviors 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4iHQDRd

Call for Papers! Special Issue: Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation in @heredityjournal.bsky.social 📅 Submission Deadline Extended: 1st April 2025 Guest Editors: @ellenleffler.bsky.social, @mydennis.bsky.social, Omer Gokcumen, and myself www.nature.com/collections/...

We have a new paper out today, where, among other things, we find evidence that a locally adaptive chromosomal inversion likely trapped an even older inversion along its path to becoming the supergene it is today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dynamics of a supergene. A study of the BC supergene in wing color morphs of the African monarch #butterfly by @rishidekayne.bsky.social &co reveals dynamic evolution of #supergene haplotypes, fueled by incomplete recombination suppression 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3DiFhnL

🦋 New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social! 🦋 Using the Orange-tip butterfly in the UK🦋, we test a key assumption of many species’ distribution models (SDMs): that climate effects on species’ distributions are equivalent over space🌍 versus time⏰ doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70005 🧵👇

But here's where it gets awesomer. You can set up a GH repo to automatically build your notebooks into a *nice* website (via JupyterBook). Your repository, your work, code, results, and narrative *as a website*. Automatically. Automagically. The sims project? pdimens.github.io/haplotagging...

In this new Feature Review, Yukihide Tomari and colleagues examine repression mechanisms that silence transposons and discuss the dynamic coevolution of transposons and host defenses in animals. Read for FREE till April 11th: authors.elsevier.com/a/1keCScQbJF...

PhD thesis proposal in our lab: "Evolutionary history and conservation genomics of black honey bees" Supervision: Pierre Faux and I Location: GenPhySE, INRAE Toulouse, France More infos: thibaultleroyfr.github.io/pdf/Annonce_... (thanks in advance for your RT and for sharing with your students 😉)

Convergent floral scent loss following transition to hummingbird pollination in spiral gingers (Costus). I had so much fun on this project with @kathleenmkay.bsky.social and Santiago Ramirez and am thrilled to see it published now in @MolBioEvol! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Do you use Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) genomes for your work or grant applications? If so, can you please fill out this form? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We are gathering info on how DToL genomes are used. It will help us raise money to continue producing publicly available high-quality genomes.

I'm trying here after a long break from social media! Recommendations of accounts to follow for Science and Evolutionary Genomics are welcome :-)