📢 GBE is now on LinkedIn! You can now find all the latest GBE papers and initiatives on our newest page on LinkedIn. Scan the QR code in the image, or click the link below to follow our page: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/showcase/gen... #societyjournal

Marc Feldman and Jessica Riskin with another withering critique of a "sociogenomics" popularization: "...you can’t add or subtract factors that interact, such as genetic and environmental influences. How much of a rainbow’s formation is due to moisture in the air and how much to sunlight?"

How do we get ahead of the 1000 cuts to science? How do position leaders to implement the changes we desired before Tmonkey happened? Who’s working on that blueprint, that vision, that future? How do I help that plan? I gotta be working towards something I believe in … 🧬🧪

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

While this is an aesthetically amazing cover, I’m stuck on “US Arrests and Expels Postdocs from China”

A very important preprint to check out: The holobiont is not a useful model for most host-microbiome interactions By Gavin M Douglas an S. Andrew Inkpen ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

As we prepare for a 2nd get-together, the report of the 1st in-person workshop of LepEU, a consortium to study population genomics of European Lepidoptera, is just out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Thanks to COST Action @10klepgenomes.bsky.social for funding for these workshops.

Sequence alignments are notoriously prone to error. Our latest preprint offers a new tool for filtering errors out, assesses it and other filtering tools, and recommends new best practice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @phylowheeler.bsky.social 1/10

The argument in one line: pangenomes are bet-hedging devices. They buffer environmental uncertainty at the population level. Different cells carry different gene subsets. The population as a whole is the insurance policy.

New preprint. I've been chewing on why bacteria have pangenomes for years. Most species carry a distributed gene pool far larger than any one genome holds. E. coli has ~163,000 rare genes across the species. Each individual cell carries about 5,000. Why? A 🧵👇

There needs to be a giant billboard in every major American city that touts this. In any other era except this suicidal science administration, this would be a miraculous, wondrous thing.

Find out all about the #Biodiversity Meets #Data @bmd-project.eu BMD-Project through our new video www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqaO...

There's a story behind every project that doesn't get fully captured in the final paper. Check out our "behind the paper" accompanying our paper on convergent evolution of aerobic fermentation in yeast. communities.springernature.com/posts/learni... @hittingerlab.bsky.social @rokaslab.bsky.social

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Yesterday I went to the book signing of ‘Beyond Belief’ by @helenpearson.bsky.social I am half way through it & already recommending it to all. An essential book for our times - why should we always ask for evidence & when should we believe it. But don’t just take my word for it, read it ;-) 🧪

Introducing Datapages, a new project from Mika Braginsky and me. Datapages are open-source templates for creating interactive websites that make research datasets easy to find, explore, and reuse. No coding required for the basic setup. babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/data...

So long TAD fad …

More evidence for TAD uncoupling from gene expression. I also like the earlier work of Furlong lab using the balancers to disrupt TADs with no correlation to gene expression changes - www.nature.com/articles/s41.... What do TADs do then?

🚨 The tetrachromatic color vision and motion vision of a swallowtail butterfly is explored in this wonderful review by Michiyo Kinoshita & Kentaro Arikawa 🦋🦋🦋 journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Very excited to share our study of an ancient environmental genome extracted from lake sediment! It originates from a brown bear that lived around 9,600 years ago close to the last ice-sheet remains in northern Sweden, and has an unexpected mitochondrial haplogroup. 1/7 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

feels so good to steal money straight out of Intuit's pockets, love this for all of us

Right on Phoenix, nice to see the Lep love

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

What I love about academia: within a few constraints, you can just go and pursue what you love to do, what you find captivating and fascinating, or what needs fixing. What I hate about academia: the endless to do list resulting from this freedom.

Ketchum, Matute & Schrider investigated positive selection in Aedes aegypti populations from Africa and the Americas, revealing that soft sweeps are more common than hard sweeps, implying this species can respond quickly to environmental stressors. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag068 #evobio #molbio

New preprint! We sequenced 175 'Alalā (Hawaiian crow) genomes to understand why >50% of eggs fail to hatch in a species recovered from just 9 individuals. What we found was a both exciting and surprising. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Great to see Gabriele's paper out in MBE. I was really interested that we found large differences in ancestry maintained across opposite sides of a single valley (presumably with high gene flow). Strong divergent natural selection on cool/wet N-facing vs. hot/dry S-facing slopes.

If preparing figures please consider "colorblind friendly" approaches (www.nature.com/articles/d41...). I am missing the long-wave opsin, which manifests in strange ways: I can't discern red vs. black. This dichromacy is rare and severe, but ~300 million have more common forms addressed in link.

For me, the most maddening thing is when AI boosters, or detractors, all seem to agree that AlphaFold is an unmitigated good and useful tool showing the power of AI. I disagree. It's hit and miss. And the misses are REALLY expensive. Especially when the conversation suggests it is ALL HIT.

This. A thousand times this.

We are destroying species' habitats, leading to a mass extinction event. This habitat destruction also reduces the genetic diversity _within_ species. Our latest work develops quantitative models to predict how much genetic diversity has been and _will be_ lost. 🧬🧪🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Really excited that this major work from my PhD is finally published in @plosbiology.org ! In it, we were trying to tackle a fundamental question in evolution - how do genetic mutations map onto evolutionary fitness? (1/n) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Why do schizophrenia GWAS signals look so flat across the genome? In our recent preprint, we explored why psychiatric disorders — and, more broadly, brain-related traits involving the central nervous system — appear to have unusual genetic architectures. 🧵1/n

"AI scientists are building ever-larger models, and then claiming that each model can solve even more than the previous one. Then, model in hand, they go around looking around for problems to solve" stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/ai-is-star...

Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...

It is normal and even okay for graduate students to need time and assistance to learn how to do their projects

We just published a review 🗞️😁: ‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a... 1/5 🧵

The special issue Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation is now out in Heredity. Many thanks to all contributors for their submissions, to the editorial team at @heredityjournal.bsky.social and to @ellenleffler.bsky.social, @mydennis.bsky.social & @gokcumenlab.bsky.social!

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

It’s always been a mystery to me how the genetic diversity and composition of the Scandinavian brown bear originated 🤔 Today, we publish a new paper that sheds new light on this, and a real-time example of how mito-nuclear discordances can evolve during severe bottlenecks: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

📊 Rethinking microbial #biogeography in lakes No latitudinal diversity gradient in sediment bacteria. Carbon resources #DOM regulate diversity, life-history strategies, networks. ➡️ Resource partitioning, not Red Queen dynamics Molecular Ecology @molecology.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/mec....

First @molecology.bsky.social 's special issue in December (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1365294x...), and now this! Inspiring to see so many talented scientists working at the intersection of evobio, genomics, and applied conservation. Great for your reading lists!

Sweden continues major investments in research and life science, with more KAW foundation funding for trainee positions in the Data-Driven Life Science Program, with total investment of 330 MEUR / 380 MUSD!

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Early dogs appear to be a huge hit around the campfire .. “Overall, the researchers found evidence of genetically similar Paleolithic dogs at five different archaeological sites that were associated with people from three different hunter-gatherer cultures.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/s...

Need genome size estimates from long reads? “On bacterial genomes, LRGE outperforms k-mer-based .. in both accuracy and computational efficiency and produces genome size estimates comparable to those from assembly-based approaches, like Raven, while using significantly less computational resources.”

Scalable and universal prediction of cellular phenotypes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️ github.com/theislab/pro...

ggcompare: Mean Comparison in ggplot2 cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #Rstats