This Friday at virtual #Evol2026, hear from the ASN/SSE/SSB IDEA Award winner Maurine Neiman on "Evolution in Practice: Supporting and Empowering Science and Scientists." Tune in at 8 am Eastern (12 pm UTC)! @maurineneiman.bsky.social

More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone go.nature.com/49KiNZJ

“Most Chinese scientists came to the U.S. with the hope of staying for their careers,” Innes says. “But now they are getting the clear message that the government doesn’t want them to be here.” 1/2 @policyhound.bsky.social 👏👏👏 www.science.org/content/arti...

Excited and grateful that our #PacBIO long-read sequencing proposal has been selected for #VUB #OZR infrastructure funding! 🧬 researchportal.vub.be/en/projects/... Huge thanks to @vubrussel.bsky.social Research Council Looking forward to the science this will enable🧬💪✨! #pacbio #genomics #DNA

We are delighted that @wenjuanma84.bsky.social has joined the Heredity team. @gensocuk.bsky.social #societyjournal

Researching while Chinese: The full story of what is happening to Chinese postdocs--and faculty members--at the University of Michigan and Indiana University www.science.org/content/arti...

Excited to share this new pre-print from the fantastic @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social! Kelsie put together a thoughtful and thorough review on hybridization in animal evolution: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v.... She tracks notable shifts in perspectives on the study of hybridization through time.

Single-cell co-mapping reveals relationship between chromatin state and gene expression in early zebrafish development

this is not my ideal way of seeing my lab published in Science magazine, but, here we are. Roger is well known as a devoted life-long plant scientist, but he is also an incredible human being who shows constant kindness and encouragement to everyone around him. this is simply not fair.

Sharing for no reason www.nasonline.org/directory-en...

Excited and honoured to join the editorial board of @heredityjournal.bsky.social as an Associate Editor 🧬🙃 I look forward to contributing to the community & supporting excellent research across #genetics #popgen #genomics #phylogenetics #epigenetics #quangen and more www.nature.com/hdy/editors

Feeling very grateful after my public @erc.europa.eu lecture this week at @vubrussel.bsky.social 🐸 A warm thank you to the organizers, Vice Rector, ERC grant officer, colleagues, collaborators, students, friends, family, and especially my team for joining and celebrating this moment together. #ERC

Reminder: the public ERC @erc.europa.eu lecture is next Monday, 4 May at 17:00! New location: Learning Theater, LIC building, ground floor, still on @vubrussel.bsky.social campus. Registration is required, open until Sunday. Teams option available, DM me. Hope to see many of you there🐸🧬🥳 #ERC

👋 👋 SSE members, I hope you'll join me May 21 for the virtual SSE Presidential Symposium: Navigating Uncertainty: Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology Pls RT to help get the word out!

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🎉New paper out from the lab, led by @baptistepiqueret.bsky.social: ant larvae chemically suppress the reproduction of their caregivers. bit.ly/4t8uZLG An example of how social interactions are regulated at the molecular level. The work was made possible by the unique environment @mpi-ce.bsky.social

Excited to welcome Dr. Julien Joseph to our next DBIO Seminar at @vubrussel.bsky.social 👉 “Why recombination hotspots?” 📅 20 April 🕑 14:00–15:00 📍 F.5.66 All welcome — hope to see you there! #recombination #evolution #evolutionarygenetics #prdm9 #crossover

Very happy to share an upcoming public #ERC lecture at @vubrussel.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 👉 What the Frog?! When Sex Chromosomes Refuse to Age 4 May 2026 | 5pm I’ll be talking about frogs, sex chromosome evolution, and the broader questions that inspire our lab’s work🐸🧬 tinyurl.com/5hfyz6hy

I have a joke about a grant but you probably won’t get it

#biodiversity #bioinformatics Summer School .. 21-26 June in Siegen, Germany co-organised by @sib.swiss & @denbi.bsky.social www.sib.swiss/training/cou... 🟢 eDNA & ecosystems 🟣 pangenome diversity 🔵 population genetics 🟡 comparative genomics Register now, we are reviewing applications already!

Upcoming seminar in the @eseb.bsky.social Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation Special Topics Network Really looking forward to Tuesday next week, March 17, when we have @mobilepurin.bsky.social and @manishamuna.bsky.social presenting. Join us! Zoom links etc in the post below.

Sexually antagonistic environments and the stability of environmental sex determination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.08.710415v1

wow😲 so cool method to get DNA for sequencing 🧬👉 #scienceiscool #whales #WGS

Our lab is hiring a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in bioinformatics, evolutionary genomics and single-cell data analyses, to explore the evolution of reproductive organs across fishes. We are located in Rennes, France (INRAE-LPGP). For more details: florentmuratwebpage.wordpress.com

📣 ERGA is offering 2 awards to support participation in #SMBE2026, each covering 50% of the early-bird onsite registration fee. Apply by 22 March 2026: www.cognitoforms.com/ERGAEuropean... Please, share this opportunity with ERGA colleagues who may be interested. @official-smbe.bsky.social

🗣️ Reminder: @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social FWO-funded 3y #postdoc position deadline tomorrow (10/03/2026) 🐸🧬 👉: Applications welcome! jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P... @vubrussel.bsky.social #postdoc #Brussels #sexchromosometurnover #meiosis #recombination #transposableelements

To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, Mangala Srinivas reminds junior colleagues that career success won’t protect you from gender-based bias. go.nature.com/4umaXyr

MKado: a toolkit for McDonald-Kreitman tests of natural selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.02.709122v1

One more week to apply for our @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social postdoc position @vubrussel.bsky.social: Deadline 10 Mar 2026. Details below👇 #SexChromosomeEvolution #SexChromosometurnover #Meiosisrecombination #SexSpecific

🚀 New lab preprint on #SexChromosomeTurnover is out on @arxiv.bsky.social Huge congrats to lab thesis student for submitting his PhD @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social fellowship: big milestone and fingers crossed 🤞 and to all students for the submissions🤞🤞 More to come soon… 🐸🧬 arxiv.org/abs/2602.23624

Butterflies and moths are key indicators of functioning and healthy ecosystems. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity describes the evolutionary history of the order Lepidoptera and tracks shifts in researchers’ understanding of the clade in the genomic era. go.nature.com/4r0kbgS 🌍 🧪

Our internal organs are evolutionary marvels. New technologies are transforming our understanding of the evolution of vertebrate organs. You can find more by reading here: rdcu.be/e5EgU #EvoBio #EvoDevo 🐟🦎🐢🦇🐊🦜

@vubrussel.bsky.social DBIO seminar season is back! 🌱🌊 Today we had Lucia Enes Gramoso speaking about 21st-Century Mangrove Expansion along the Southeastern United States Great science, great questions, full room - thanks to all who joined! publ. here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

V happy to share new paper led by @schmidmax.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... We show that plastic germination timing not only buffers environmental fluctuations (storage effect) but also promotes divergence, temporal assortative mating and thus ecological speciation. Thx @dee-unil.bsky.social

"Leveraging allelic imbalance in accessible chromatin to prioritize putative causal variants" by Shea Ping Yip, Chien-Ling Huang, & co "By leveraging allelic imbalance in ATAC-seq, researchers can bridge the gap between GWAS signals and molecular mechanisms..." authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (March-June). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

Our paper is now out in Nature: “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres” www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short thread on how retrotransposons helped give rise to yeast point centromeres. 1/14

The last chapter of my PhD is finally out !!!! In the same species, on neighboring islands, we see radically different warning colors emerge. Evolution in action: Selection-driven color variation in the aposematic strawberry poison frog, Oophaga pumilio: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Happy Chinese New Year! May the Year of the Horse bring you good health, new ideas and smooth rides in work and life 🐎 新年快乐，祝马年顺顺利利、心想事成！🥳 #Chinesenewyear #yearofthehorse #新年快乐

New online! Evolutionary causes and consequences of gene duplication

Comparative analysis across 5,678 insect species shows that, when you control for phylogenetic bias, eusociality has not evolved at a faster rate in haplodiploid species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How could a simple self-replicating system emerge at the origins of life? RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but existing ones are so large that their self-replication seems impossible. Could they be smaller? Excited to share our latest work in @science.org on a new small polymerase. 1/n

This one is super cool www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In celebration of #DarwinDay, here are his decidedly mixed first impressions after landing on the Galápagos (17 Sept 1835; from 'the Voyage' Chap X): "Nothing could be less inviting..."

As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Feeling grateful to be featured by @vubrussel.bsky.social #VUBTomorrow on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science👩‍🔬 The piece highlights our lab’s work on sex chromosome evolution🧬🐸 vubtomorrow.be/en/wen-juan-... @womeninstem.bsky.social #WomenInScience #WomenAndGirlsInScience #STEM

#biodiversity #bioinformatics Summer School announcement ... 21-26 June in Siegen, Germany co-organised by @sib.swiss & @denbi.bsky.social www.sib.swiss/training/cou... 🟢 eDNA & ecosystems 🟣 pangenome diversity 🔵 population genetics 🟡 comparative genomics

. @thomaslenormand.bsky.social on the hot seat after his beautiful seminar today @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social. Thanks for making the trip!

Leaving X: How scale insects evolved alternatives to chromosomal sex determination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.31.703042v1

Spotlight @ebpgenome.bsky.social www.earthbiogenome.org/newsletter-b... --- thanks to the fantastic #biodiversity #genomics @ergabiodiv.bsky.social #community!