Today(!) during Hamilton Session I (11-12:30 EDT), I’ll be presenting our work on the molecular evolution of anthocyanin and carotenoid pigmentation loci 💖🧡🧬🍅🥔 #Evol2026

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The genetics of range expansion in Anna’s Hummingbird avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/t... #ornithology

Este viernes es el último día para enviar resúmenes para carteles y presentaciones orales al VIII Simposio Colombiano de Biología Evolutiva. Les esperamos!

Virtual Evolution is this week! Check out the schedule here: www.evolutionmeetings.org/virtual-prog...

To support new junior faculty, JEB launched Kickstart Travel Grants to establish a new collaboration & and ECR Visiting Fellowships to bring an ECR to their new lab for a defined project. The next application deadline is 5 June www.biologists.com/grants/#jeb

If you're interested but haven't registered, the virtual meeting is *very* cost effective, ranging from $10 for students to $40 for professional non-members! www.evolutionmeetings.org

Donate today to help support graduate students through our Graduate Research Excellence Grants program! These awards provide not only funds for impactful research but also a boost for students just starting their careers. www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...

Smithsonian Fish Curator position announcement! Note the application dates of May 12 – June 2, 2026. Should be posted here tomorrow: trustcareers.si.edu#js-careers-j...

Tomorrow!!

VIII Simposio Colombiano de Biología Evolutiva Bogotá, 23-25 de julio Inscripciones abiertas 📣 Recepción de resúmenes para presentaciones orales y carteles hasta el 22 de mayo. Más info: lasalle.edu.co/es/viii-simp...

Early bird registration closes in two days! Don’t forget to join us at Evolution 2026. www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

Did you know there is a Wikimedian in space? In 2019, Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch made the first-ever Wikipedia edit from space during her mission on the International Space Station. 🧵⬇️ (1/2)

It’s not sad having enemies, what it’s sad is that those enemies used to be my friends.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

VIII Simposio Colombiano de Biología Evolutiva Bogotá, 23-25 de julio Inscripciones abiertas 📣 Diversidad de invitados, cursos precongreso y simposios temáticos: Biogeografía, filogenética, EvoDevo, morfometría, enseñanza de la evolución y mucho más... Más info: lasalle.edu.co/es/viii-simp...

What proportion of the sunflower genome has an indel in at least one individual? Basically all of it -- there's almost no sequence (at least at the 100kb window scale) found in all sunflowers!

I wrote this back in 2019, it is already the second version, and it probably needs an update. I still think it covers very well how others can manage my depressions.* *It is written for me so please be very cautious to apply this to others.

It’s here again, the time eater. 🙁

Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.

Se me alrobota la dislexia cuando estoy estresada. 🫤

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Why do some female hummingbirds look like males? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/06/08/w... #ornithology

🎯April 15 is the last day to: - Save $100 on in-person meeting registration - Submit your virtual or in-person talk - Apply for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation! We look forward to seeing you online in May and in Cleveland in June! #Evol2026

Abstracts due April 15 for current and recent PhD students to be considered for the Hamilton Award Symposium at virtual #Evol2026! Learn more about how to apply during meeting registration: shorturl.at/qDIP4

SSE offers free virtual #Evol2026 registration to all countries in our Global Membership Assistance program, including India, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and 152 countries and territories around the world. Request your free registration code today! www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

If you were a molecule in the cell, what molecule would you be and why? 🧐🧬 I think I would be one of those proofreading polymerases… 🙄☺️

Postdoc in evolutionary genetics with @mbhufford.bsky.social isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

does anyone have a great photo of a nest (+bird?) in the RAIN?

Back in 2023, members of my lab came together to write a review on recent applications of machine learning in biological research. I'm excited to share that the paper is now out in BMC Biology! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I deeply want to thank Larry Tesler and his team, who invented copy Ctrl+C, cut Ctrl+X, paste Ctrl+V, and cancel Ctrl+Z making ours bioinformatics life so much easier. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_T...

I don't think that the reviewers asking me for higher animal numbers really understand how many 40 goats are. Do you know the CHAOS that comes with dealing with 40 GOATS in an experimental setting! Mice people cannot comprehend. 3 goats alone ate a tarp, a clock, and 2 expensive accelerometers!

Apply now for the SSE Caregiver Award for up to $500 USD to help cover caregiving costs while attending virtual or in-person #Evol2026. Deadline March 15! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social

Mi gente latino! Ya llegó ya está aquí. La primera reunión de Biomoleculas antiguas en Latinoamerica patrocinada por el @official-smbe.bsky.social . Reserven la fecha y estén al pendiente de las fechas importantes. Mas info en nuestra pagina web smbeperu.github.io/SMBEperu-esp/

I confess that what I enjoy less from reviewing papers is having to log in in each journal website… Do I have a user already? Did I create it or did the journal? What was the user name? Did I used my orcid to log in? Does this journal use web of science? 🙄

Por si acaso, La científicas somos todos los días ehhh! Just in case, we are women scientists every day! 🤷🏻‍♀️ 👩🏻‍🔬🧑🏻‍🔬🤩

Feliz día a las niñas y las mujeres científicas. Es un gusto y un honor andar este camino con ustedes! Que podamos seguir en nuestra labor! Happy girls and women scientists day! It’s an honor walking this path with you. 🤩👏🏽🤩👏🏽🤩👏🏽

Les esperamos este jueves a las 5:00pm. #COLEVOL

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Emocionado por compartir, en español, un poco de mi investigación con @jenncoughlan.bsky.social sobre las bases genéticas de la coexistencia de dos plantas con poco aislamiento reproductivo en el marco del día de la niña y la mujer en la ciencia y el día de Darwin en Colombia. Nos vemos el jueves :)

Desde #COLEVOL conmemoramos el día internacional de las niñas y las mujeres en la ciencia y el día de Darwin con un espacio para conversar sobre evolución, diversidad, y colecciones. Nos vemos el 12 de febrero a las 5pm en tinyurl.com/2vp2k9wp.

La Asociación Colombiana de Biología Evolutiva #COLEVOL tiene nueva página web www.colevol.org. Conócenos y mantente informado sobre nuestras actividades. #cienciacriolla

COLEVOL y La Salle están organizando el VIII Simposio de Biología Evolutiva que se realizará del 23 al 25 de Julio de 2026. Ya están abiertas las convocatorias para simposios temáticos, cursos pre-simposio, reuniones de las mesas de trabajo regionales y otros. shorturl.at/BDHGu Les esperamos!

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Genomic islands of differentiation in seedeaters are mainly the outcome of selective sweeps avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/10/23/g... #ornithology

Qué sería de mi sin mis estudiantes? 🤩 Los comentarios en la evaluación de la clase de Filogenomica 2025 me dejaron muy contenta! muchas gracias!

“If I’m not getting attacked…I would have felt I failed.” @charlespiller.bsky.social at #WCSJ25 on how his work exposing fraud in Alzheimer’s research was attacked and called misinformation and how he responded. “Ignoring scientific misconduct invites public distrust.”

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! A gene within a supergene: An estrogen receptor shapes the behavior of White-throated Sparrow morphs avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/05/22/a... #ornithology

@tywooldr.bsky.social et al. present assemblies for three bear species — the sun, sloth, and Andean bears — and use a whole-genome alignment of all bear species and other carnivores to reconstruct the evolution of Ursidae. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf188 #genome #evolution

Life would be much more harder without @timminchin.bsky.social music. Thanks Tim, all your team, and all your themes. ❤️‍🩹🎶

Our paper on tinamou evolution is finally out in @systbiol.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

On the event of James Watson's death, I highly recommend this 2023 commentary from @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Nathaniel Comfort with crucial new insights into the discovery of the double helix. (And also check out Cobb's brand new biography of Francis Crick) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...