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

Genomic analysis of differentiation and demography of the formerly conspecific agile (Dipodomys agilis) and Dulzura (D. simulans) kangaroo rats www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Investigating the effects of chimerism on the inference of selection: quantifying genomic targets of purifying, positive, and balancing selection in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Last Glacial and Holocene dynamics override post-colonial disturbance in shaping genetic diversity of a heavily exploited palaeoendemic conifer, Lagarostrobos franklinii www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

The role of genetic variation in shaping phenotypic responses to diet in aging Drosophila melanogaster www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

No evidence for heritability of extra-pair mating behavior in a cooperatively breeding bird www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Facultative polyandry under heat stress and the evolutionary potential for climate-driven shifts in mating systems www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Genetic structure and historical gene flow in Araucaria angustifolia populations across two Brazilian regions www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social

Breeder turnover creates allelic variation in groups of gray wolves www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nobel Prize winner Svante Pääbo giving the Genetics Society public lecture at @crick.ac.uk. Svante is recounting how Neandertals and Denisovans live on in many of us!

We also had the treasurer report. This was @lorenzlab.bsky.social ‘s last AGM. We want to thank Alexander for all his great work and dedication to the society!

Congratulations @hilarycmartin.bsky.social from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Balfour Lecture!

Congratulations to @zaminiqbal.bsky.social from @milnerevolution.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Mary Lyon Medal!

Congratulations to @vinuesalab.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk on winning the 2026 JBS Haldane Lecture. Carola will present her JBS Haldane Lecture next year at @rigb.org!

Congratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!

Congratulations to Joe Felsenstein on being awarded the 2026 Mendel Medal!

This was a fabulous meeting! Huge thanks to @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social and @janetk.bsky.social for organising it. Been a while since I’ve been to a meeting with so many engaging talks.

🎙️ New podcast! We often hear that invasive species are bad for ecosystems they invade, but the consequences can seem fuzzy. We hear from @naikasanuchara.bsky.social and @carolboggs.bsky.social about their study system, where an invasive plant has very tangible effects for a native butterfly.

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

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

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

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

Genomic analysis of differentiation and demography of the formerly conspecific agile (Dipodomys agilis) and Dulzura (D. simulans) kangaroo rats www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

🎙️ Have you discovered the Heredity Podcast? 👂 Hear about the latest genetics research straight from the authors 📚 Archive: www.nature.com/hdy/podcast @gensocuk.bsky.social

🎙️ Have you discovered the Heredity Podcast? 👂 Hear about the latest genetics research straight from the authors 📚 Archive: www.nature.com/hdy/podcast @gensocuk.bsky.social

🎙️ 📻 New Heredity Podcast! We talk with @caitismuheil.bsky.social and Jessica McNeill about their work showing the sensitivity of meiosis to temperature and what this might mean for populations in a warming world. @ncstate.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social Episode: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

🎤 🦎New Heredity Podcast: The genomes of organisms can tell us about evolutionary processes in the past - but can they also give clues about the future? André Yves and Fernanda Werneck tell us about their work on climate adaptation in Amazonian lizards. Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

Another presentation from the team at #ESEB2025 today 21st - 11:30am room 115 Laura will be presenting her work on the effect of temperature on recombination - fresh from the oven 👉 journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Well done @lauuragon.bsky.social !!! Presenting at #ESEB2025 her work on temperature & recombination. Thanks to the symposium organizares @amandabretman.bsky.social et al for selecting the work ☺️

I presented my poster at the #ESEB2025 ! 📢 Call for entomologists🐝 We are looking for Vespula germanica from Europe to further our understanding of the invasion dynamics of the species. Please get in touch!

Surely one of the all-time best conference outreach activities: an evolution-inspired decorated street for Les Festes de Gràcia #ESEB2025

Thanks to all who popped by the booth at lunch, we're here the rest of #eseb2025 so anyone with questions feel free to come and see us. @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social

Wonderful wrap up for a great symposium #ESEB2025 - thank you to all parcitipants for their high quality presentations, talks and posters (here most of the female contributors, but there were more 😉)

Unfortunately, I couldn't join in person #eseb2025, but the organizers kindly accommodated a video. Posted here in case you missed it! youtu.be/n9Ls9-8p8x0?...

If you are at #ESEB2025 feel free to reach us to discuss your work with us @heredityjournal.bsky.social

Heredity has a new EiC and if you fancy meeting Louise Johnson or Aurora @aruizherrera.bsky.social our amazing Co-EiC at #eseb2025 please find them or contact them via the app. @gensocuk.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

I'm missing #eseb2025 but the lab is well-represented 🤩 📊 Kenneth Aase: genomic prediction of crossover rates (Mon S03) 🎤 Lisa Ammer: sex-differences in CO landscape (Thu 11.30am S28) 📊 Gina Henderson: (no) selection on immunity (Thu S48) 📊 Marie Raynaud: recombination hotspot variation (Thu S02)