📻🎙️🔊 New podcast! Student paper prize winner Eléonore Lavanchy talks about: 1. Her work 2. European Barn Owls 3. Inbreeding 4. Deciding if she was being scammed, or if she'd really won the prize! 👂 shorturl.at/rcF2F @dee-unil.bsky.social @sib.swiss @fbm-unil.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social

Many thanks to Popgroup and Heredity for this opportunity to chat about our research.

Join us for a Master's in Evol Bio! We have leading experts in theory (@kokkonut.bsky.social), behavioural genomics (@socialinsectlab.bsky.social, @hibernogruppe.bsky.social), palaeogenetics, and more! Mainz also offers hikes along the Rhine, sporadic Roman ruins, and the most castle rich area of 🇩🇪.

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New Heredity Podcast! 🎙️ 📻 🔊 In the second episode from @popgroup2026.bsky.social in Lille, plenary speakers @clairemerot.bsky.social & Denis Roze tell us about their talks and their experience at the conference. 👂 Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Then you cannot miss #ExE2026! Hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall, this #conference has a stellar line-up of speakers and lots of pre-and post-conference workshops. Space is limited, so register now at evoxeco.uk!

February issue out now www.nature.com/hdy/volumes/... 📸 © Jeannine Hayward, Cape Leopard Trust @gensocuk.bsky.social

Registrations are now OPEN! Join us in Newcastle for the “RNA in Physiology and Disease” conference, an international meeting bringing together world-leading RNA biologists and emerging researchers. Early bird deadline: 1 May Abstract deadline: 30 June Register now: genetics.org.uk/events/rna-i...

Come celebrate our Anniversary Day in Edinburgh, 25 & 26 June! Join us for talks from our Honorary Members, Prize & Medal winners, and our Summer Students. Programme & registration details: genetics.org.uk/events/anniv...

Relaunch of our London Fly Meeting - whole afternoon of amazing science @ucl @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social sponsored by @gensocuk.bsky.social

Pleasure giving a recap of a wonderful PopGroup conference, and the opportunity to talk about my research. 🔥

🎙️🔊📻 New Heredity podcast! From PopGroup 59 in Lille. Plenary speaker Florencia Camus talks about: 1. The conference 2. Conflict and coadaptation between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species @caitismuheil.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Genetic diversity and structure lag the effects of contemporary environmental changes in a platypus meta-population www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pleased to be able to offer a summer placement at the Exeter Centre for Hyperinsulinism Genetics through this scheme. The Research Access Placements programme is open to undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds @gensocuk.bsky.social

Pleased to be able to offer a summer placement at the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics @cardiffuni.bsky.social through this scheme. Research Access Placements are open to undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds @gensocuk.bsky.social

Dwarfism in Pinus taeda originates from independent somatic mutations co-localized in a shared genomic region www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Balancing selection maintains intraspecific diversity in a deep-sea fish www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rapid evolution of a large structural polymorphism during a bacterial epidemic www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⭐ Check out our January issue ⭐ www.nature.com/hdy/volumes/... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Glad to receive a PhD prize from the @gensocuk.bsky.social for the work I lead on the origin and diversification of stratified epithelia. Thanks to @frelab.bsky.social , the lab, and all collaborators involved. Special thanks to @candice-merle.bsky.social for her help throughout the project.

Congratulations to our student prize winners! All winners will present their work at out Anniversary Day event on 25 and 26th of June in Edinburgh: genetics.org.uk/events/anniv...

Congratulations to Daniel Malawsky, the winner of our 2026 postgraduate Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize for their work with Dr @hilarycmartin.bsky.social! genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...

Congratulations to Dr @robinjournot.bsky.social, the winner of our 2026 Bruce Cattanach Prize for his PhD research into the genetic and evolutionary basis of epithelial stratification! genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...

Congratulations to Shaoqi Wang, the winner of the 2026 Undergraduate Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize for her work with Prof Anne Ferguson-Smith. genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...

Deadline extended! You now have more time to apply for our Communicating Your Science workshop (15–17 April). Apply today and take your communication skills to the next level: genetics.org.uk/grants/comm-...

Check out the shortlisted "student paper prize" manuscripts from 2025 👇 www.nature.com/collections/... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Congratulations 🎉 We are pleased to announce the winners of the annual prize for the best student-led paper in Heredity for 2025. The award for this year goes to Eléonore Lavanchy from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. ➡️ www.nature.com/collections/... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Check out the latest episode of the Heredity Podcast where @tillypemburysmith.bsky.social and @rhondasnook.bsky.social talk about their recent paper examining the effects of heat stress on mating systems!

Had a fab time this week at Pop Group @popgroup2026.bsky.social and stoked to have won a prize for my poster on hybridisation in island birds! 🧬🐦‍⬛🏝️ #pgg59

Second plenary of #PGG59 by Claire Mérot on the importance and relevance of structural variations !

Looking for a post doc on cutting-edge methods in genomics? Contact Hannes Becher #pgg59 #popgrouo59

Four days left to apply for two postdocs in social evolution with me and @dustinrubenstein.com Based at the University of Bristol (UK), conducting fieldwork with wasps in Cameroon, Kenya, and South Africa.

🎙️ Reproduction involves decisions about when to mate and who with. We know that high temperatures affect fertility, but how does this affect mating decisions and sexual selection within populations? @tillypemburysmith.bsky.social and @rhondasnook.bsky.social talk about their work with fruit files

A big shout out to our reviewers, authors and associate editors for sharing science, support, trust, kindness and wisdom. We wish you all the very best start to 2026 🎉 @gensocuk.bsky.social

Honored to be part of this exciting symposium at #SMBE2026! Huge thanks to Marie Raynaud, @duret-lbbe.bsky.social, and @susanjohnston.bsky.social for the invitation. Looking forward to sharing insights on recombination and evolution with such an amazing community. See you in Copenhagen!!!

Undergraduates interested in developing a proposal to join my research group this summer: please get in touch! 🐻🦅🦦💦🐺🐦🐠🦠

Calling all aspiring geneticists! Apply for our Summer Studentship Grant and kick-start your research journey. Deadline: 31 March Apply now: genetics.org.uk/grants/summe...

The #European Meeting for PhD students in #Evolutionary #Biology (EMPSEB) is a student-led annual conference that brings together PhD researchers from around the world. Germany, 8th to 12th of June, 2026 empsebconf.github.io

Are you an undergraduate student who is thinking about a career in genetics? Take a look at the different research groups on our IGC website and contact the relevant group leader to see if they are willing to support an application to @gensocuk.bsky.social 👉 edin.ac/3MdeqxD

Listen to DEEPs Prof. Peter Hambäck in the latest episode of the @heredityjournal.bsky.social Podcast! He talks parasites and parasitoids, and how they're significant drivers of evolutionary change. 🎧👇

We made the cover of @heredityjournal.bsky.social ! Photo by @cherinebaumgartner.bsky.social

Applications for the Genetics Society Summer Studentship Grants are open! If you’re an undergrad itching to dive into real research, this is your doorway into the lab. More information here: genetics.org.uk/grants/summe...

A few weeks ago, we gathered @royalsociety.org for a truly inspiring autumn meeting on Ancient Genomes and an outstanding public talk by Svante Pääbo @crick.ac.uk! Thanks to everyone who joined and an special appreciation to @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social and @janetk.bsky.social for organising!

🎧 📻 New Heredity Podcast Parasites and parasitoids are large drivers of evolutionary change. We hear from Peter Hambäck (Stockholm University @deepsthlmuni.bsky.social) about his work on how beetle larvae combat a wasp that wants to lay its eggs inside them! 👂 www.nature.com/hdy/podcast

final week to apply for @sangerinstitute.bsky.social PhD programme (due Nov 27th) -- free to apply, open to anyone anywhere, and a superb training opportunity for students interested in genomic approaches applied to biodiversity, pathogens, vectors, and of course us pesky humans.

Lineage-specific targets of positive selection in three leaf beetles correspond with defence capacity against their shared parasitoid wasp www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Genome sequence analysis provides evidence that a boreal crustacean colonised Svalbard well before the ongoing Atlantification of the Arctic www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Quantifying genetic and genotypic gain gaps in Eucalyptus: the hidden cost of ignoring inbreeding and dominance www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Expansion of satellite DNAs derived from transposable elements in beetles with reduced diploid numbers www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social