New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until October 6! Walter Veit examines the role of models in evolutionary biology: their types, testability, and interrelations 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #HPBio #evobio

We come back from our lunch to #SOLRUB2025 with Giovanni Giuliano. He is presenting about the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms behind the evolution of #tomato fruit shape. Elongated ovoid tomatoes appeared in Italy in the 18th century. Non ribbed tomatoes appeared in the US in 19th century.

Me despisto unos días y ya está la primera mandrágora repleta de flores. Queda inaugurada, si el destino lo permite, la segunda edición de la operación mandrágora para responder a la pregunta: ¿quién poliniza esas flores? El año pasado vi una variedad de sírfidos en ella. Veremos este.

Air is our incredibly fast R code formatter! Come learn all about it at 2:40pm in Regency V in the Sparking Development Joy session!! We also have hex stickers! #positconf2025 #rstats

Okay this is the coolest use of a sankey diagram I have ever seen

Where does pollen go after leaving a flower? Our paper on pollen fates in buzz pollinated flowers is out. Congrats to the three brilliant undergrads that carried out this study from beginning to end! pollinationecology.org/index.php/jp...

Very proud of this extremely collaborative piece: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... Here, we show that divergence in visual systems - in response to differences in the light environment - leads to rapid divergence in sexually selected colour traits. Work brilliantly led by Madeleine Carruthers. 🐟👀🎨

We are gearing up for our interdisciplinary workshop next week! Bringing together both established & early-career researchers, the event will explore the theoretical & methodological challenges of studying behavior across the tree of life! 👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsci #HPbio #evosky

🪻Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Diggle (University of Connecticut), the recipient of the 2025 Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture Award! Learn more about this award here: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #BSAKaplanAward

Congrats to Dr. Meng Yuan, who defended her PhD on the genome-wide potential for ploidy & sexual conflict in plants! Many thanks to @judithmank.bsky.social for serving as her external examiner. A fun collaboration w/ @stepheniwright.bsky.social and also @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social for a paper!

After many years in the making (and an eternal cycle of adding new data....) our work on the discordance among phylogenomic datasets in #aphids is out! @dome-vienna.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social 🧪 #EvolSky doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Trees of New Guinea: - Guide to all 693 tree genera - Fully illustrated with photos and line art - PDF available here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Thanks Maja and the UppTalk team from Uppsala University for inviting me to participate in Kulturnatten! It was nice to be part of the celebration at Linnaeus gardens!

As people get more & more obsessed with ‘big’ data and new tech for gathering loads of data It is worth remembering that science is about asking useful questions & gathering the right data to answer them

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 offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇

The Pollinator Academy is an online platform that provides tools and training to help strengthen your knowledge of the taxonomy of European pollinators. Follow us and visit our website to find out more! #PollinatorAcademy #Pollinators #Taxonomy #Bee #Hoverfly #Butterfly Pollinatoracademy.eu

This Saturday 13 September at 19:00 I’m giving a talk in the Linnaeus orangerie as part of the Culture night events. Stop by if you’re around! I heard there will be music and dance events at the gardens. www.uu.se/en/faculty/s...

Don't hesitate! There are just TEN DAYS remaining to apply for this 3-year postdoctoral position in the Structure and Motion Lab.

Really happy to have participated in #EcoNet2025 this week. Such an inspiring symposium with amazing people, can’t wait for the next one!

Only a few tickets left for our workshop on 22 September exploring Movement Ecology & Rewilding! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-movem...

Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier. Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET) How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity

A couple years ago, I found a weird wasp moth - sent it to Bill Taft and Anthony Cognato at Michigan State and lo and behold, it is a new species. Introducing Synanthedon nielseni!

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Milesia semiluctifera (Syrphidae) cerniéndose frente a flores de espliego (Lavandula latifolia) un momento antes de aterrizar. Esta mosca es tan rarísima de ver que no conozco nada de su vida para poder contar aquí. Pero ese diseño es una delicia para los ojos y merece la pena compartirlo.

Friday Flower 002: Mirabilis jalapa🌺✨ Four O’Clocks, like other Caryophyllales, produce red (betacyanins) and yellow (betaxanthins) petal sectors through differential regulation of betalain biosynthesis during corolla development.

Come work with us! Fully funded #PhD position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️ @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

This was the coolest part of my summer. Its also very cool to have teaching, mentoring, and outreach appreciated. So much of the pressures of our jobs are all about grants and papers but its validating to have the other ways in which we choose to spend our time and energy be noticed and appreciated.

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

🌍🌸Explore the recently published article ‘Ecological niche differentiation mediates near complete premating reproductive isolation within the Gladiolus carneus (Iridaceae) species complex’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Katharine Khoury and co-authors🧵(1/8). 👉 doi.org/p3gw

🚨 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!

Friday Flower 001: Mimulus lewisii 🌸✨ Monkeyflowers are masterpieces of design with nectar-guide spots formed by an activator–inhibitor system of MYB transcription factors. These generate reaction–diffusion patterns across the ventral petal.

El linaje de las abejas surgió cuando avispas solitarias que alimentaban a sus larvas con presas animales pasaron a hacerlo con polen. Esta belleza es Prionyx kirbii (Sphecidae), una avispa cuyas larvas comen pequeños saltamontes que la madre ha paralizado y llevado al nido antes de poner el huevo

Lund University is seeking a postdoc/researcher for an ERC project on gene expression in hybrid Italian sparrows. One-year position with potential extension. Apply here: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:833332/ #postdoc

Ruschia intricata (English: Barbed Tentfig Afrikaans: Steekvy, doringvygie) www.inaturalist.org/taxa/593485-... www.inaturalist.org/taxa/593485-... www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-00...

#ESEB2025 just wrapped up today. Had a great time talking about #leeches, meeting with friends, family, and checking out cool science making. @berasymbionts.bsky.social @hassansalem.bsky.social @annamichalik.bsky.social @danieltamarit.bsky.social @willemsenanouk.bsky.social @nicrodemo.bsky.social

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

My small contribution to the popularization of evolutionary biology during the #ESEB2025 week, thanks to this article on the evolution of rose breeding in The Conversation France. If you read French, here it is: theconversation.com/comment-le-c... If not, our Genetics paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Come see me poster '059' today "temperature-dependent DNA methylation in the Swedish sand lizard" 🦎 #ESEB #methylation #epigenetics

Happy to present my poster at #ESEB2025 on eastern Baltic cod population (or populations?), preliminary results of one of the chapters from my PhD thesis.

Amazing talk by @jennyperry.bsky.social bringing together signalling theory and socially transferred materials. Keep your eyes peeled for the eventual paper with @steveramm.bsky.social @elvarobinson.bsky.social and myself #ESEB2025 @socialtransfernet.bsky.social

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

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?...

In the last part of the talk, I in this example of diversification in huge angiosperm level phylogeny with data on poricidal anthers. Work with the amazing @draverbee.bsky.social, @nicrodemo.bsky.social, Stephen Buchmann, Diana Jolles, and Ricardo Kriebel www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very nice talk by @hernmoral.bsky.social on his work using museum and contemporary sample genomics to study small populations of endangered birds

Come meet all the WAME organizers at the #Microbiome symposium S07 at ESEB today! We're in meeting room 116. 🦠 #eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social

Michael Lynch kicks off #ESEB2025 proposing a parasitic origin for ribosomes

Unique genetic bases of repeated life-history divergence associated with high altitude adaptation in Mimulus perennials https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.12.669946v1

Nice to be at the ESEB Evolution meetings in Barcelona!