This is so cool. This atlas has Lexis plots on how various things have changed over time in different age groups – mortality rates, fertility rates, number of parents and siblings. And you can reach out to Jonas to add your own plots too. I'd like to see Lexis plots for absolutely everything.

Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

👋 Transposon lovers: registration is now open for the CSHL TE meeting! We have a 🔥 lineup of invited speakers and many slots for short talks selected upon abstract across all areas of TE biology. 🧬➰🧬 #TEsky Abstract deadline: July 10 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Did you know that many organisms delete parts of their genome during development? To know more please join us at the Roscoff meeting on "Mechanistic and Evolutionary Basis of Programmed DNA Elimination" Sep21- 25, 2026. Please share!
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Still time to apply for this. Submit by Thursday!

Grant writing tips from a grumpy reviewer ploughing through grants. 1. Often your reviewers are going to come from a broad range disciplines adjacent but *not actually in* in your field. Help us get orientated in the summary with an analogy/sketch and go back to analogy / sketch throughout.

Are you an early career researcher who want to visit another lab to collaborate on a project on internal conflicts? Apply for our ECR Research Visit Grant! Deadline is April 30.

Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)! For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions). Scholarships available, Pls RP! shorturl.at/fo1GA

Thrilled to present our comparative study on the evolution of zygotic genome activation (ZGA)!! 🥚🧬 Amazing PhD work of @campobes.bsky.social together with @fedemantica.bsky.social and many collaborators! @melisupf.bsky.social @crg.eu. Thread below 1/15 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Join our online seminar on April 15, 2026, at 10:00 UTC, featuring talks on genome defense and intragenomic conflict. Details: https://georgetown.zoom.us/j/97210197821?jst=2. More info: https://internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/ #conference

An insect that produces a nasty secretion to defend the local group against predators. Our commentary on some brilliant fieldwork by @caritalindstedt.bsky.social & Raphael www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @asgriffin.bsky.social

🌾🔍 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🔍🌾 Understanding the interactions between embryo, endosperm, and seed coat is essential for both advancing our fundamental understanding of seed development and improving agronomic seed traits - Figueiredo & Sharma 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Explore the implications of within-organism conflicts for organismal biology at our upcoming workshop, ‘Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation: Mathematical Foundations!’ Travel applications are due Wednesday, April 15th www.nitmb.org/internal-con...

Final version just published of our review on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of cooperation www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social

Join us at the NITMB in Chicago next June to talk about internal conflicts! The workshop will feature tutorials, talks, and discussions. Funding is available to provide travel and lodging for some attendees (apply!).

A centromere but not just a centromere: structure and evolution of a selfish chromosomal supergene in monkeyflowers www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Join our online series on atypical reproductive modes and non-Mendelian inheritance, Tuesdays at 3 p.m. CET. More info & sign-up: https://tinyurl.com/EvoRepro Best, Schwander Group, University of Lausanne. #conference

@kztwyman.bsky.social & @andygardner.bsky.social mathematically connect the dynamics of natural selection to optimisation to provide formal justification for viewing obligately eusocial colonies as adaptive individuals in their own right—that is, superorganism: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Parent-offspring conflict over sex determination in non-Mendelian systems https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690632v1

Two other members of the research group have successfully made it to @eseb2025.bsky.social ahead of me. Look out for @kztwyman.bsky.social, whose poster "A formal theory of group-level adaptation for obligate eusociality" (P01.068) is in this evening's session.

Our latest preprint explores the evolution of the primate amylase locus, uncovering structural innovations, regulatory shifts and molecular convergence. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mrnjavac et al. reevaluate arguments against Muller's hypothesis, and find that they do not conclusively exclude a role for sheltering in sex chromosome evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf177 #evobio #molbio

Happy to share our latest article, led by Tee Muirhead, now out in PNAS! We report the evolutionary genomics of the newly discovered neo-sex chromosomes in Myzomela — involving translocation, inversions & degeneration on the neo-W. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Outreach volunteers sought! @imprintedgene.bsky.social and I will host “Breaking Bread: Exploring the Evolution of Amylase in humans” at Festa Major de Gràcia, Barcelona (16 Aug, 19:00). We need 1-2 volunteers (ES/EN) for visitor guidance and on-site translation. Please DM or email me if interested.

New paper: "Faster adaptation but slower divergence of X chromosomes under paternal genome elimination" (Open Access) w/ Robert Baird, @imprintedgene.bsky.social‬, Jan Ševčík, Katy Monteith, @laurarossevo.bsky.social‬ & @ajmongue.bsky.social‬ www.nature.com/articles/s41... ‪@natcomms.nature.com‬

Talks by: @tatianagiraud.bsky.social‬ Bo Xu @vincentcastric.bsky.social @wenjuanma84.bsky.social‬ Sha Sun Pengfei Wu Robert Baird Jing Liu @imprintedgene.bsky.social‬ Deborah Charlesworth

Abstracts for @eseb2025.bsky.social due next week! Milk, ejaculates, skin secretions, regurgitate, microbes ...our symposium will have it all, with invited speakers @berasymbionts.bsky.social and @jennyperry.bsky.social ...and you? Organised w/ @joriskoene.bsky.social and @wolfnerlab.bsky.social

Now available for preorder! The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict, edited by me and Manus Patten, will be published by @harvardpress.bsky.social this fall. Cover coming soon.

The man who sent Japan's cherry blossoms out to the world: "If my cherries can help spread some happiness and avoid war, then it’s all worthwhile, and I can sleep soundly."

Registration is open for the Internal Conflicts STN Workshop at ESEB 2025 on August 17 in Barcelona. Free registration includes lunch. More info: https://internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/workshop-ii/ #workshop

Ever wondered why you too should publish in @jevbio.bsky.social? Wonder no more, we have the answers for you (in case you didn’t know already):

Octo-squid-nautiloid sex chromosomes! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/7 Very happy to share our latest paper on the joint evolution of separate sexes and sexual dimorphism in @jevbio.bsky.social, led by @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social and in collaboration with John Pannell at @dee-unil.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jeb/voae136

Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution provides full support— registration, travel, lodging, meals— and mentoring for students to attend the Evolution 2025 meeting in Athens, Georgia this summer! Applications are due Monday, submit yours here:

New paper: "Kin competition drives the evolution of earlier metamorphosis", with @bingdongevo.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

*Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation* Join us on Thursday, 9am Eastern, for a history special in our STN lecture series! Jack Werren and Bengt Olle Bengtsson will reflect on their many years of working on genetic conflicts.

New paper on "Patterns of paternity: insights into mating competition and gene flow in a recovering population of humpback whales." 🐋🧬 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @emma-carroll.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social 1/8

Tie that binds - Hill-Robertson Interference can produce signals of sexual antagonism even in the absence of sexually antagonistic selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.08.632022v1

My second paper, written with @geoffwild.bsky.social, has been published in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! Title: Selective advantage of redirected helping in a viscous population: doi.org/10.1093/evol....

🚨JOB 🚨Would a title "Professor of Life History Evolution" suit you? If yes... Become a colleague of us here in Mainz! I am happy to provide more information if this intrigues you. cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de/karriere/wp-...

Temporal Dynamics of Faster Neo-Z Evolution in Butterflies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.19.572367v1

One-week international workshop on evolution June 22-29 in the Swiss Alps for Master's & early PhD students. Application due 28 January 2024. I've co-taught the course several times (but not this time), and it's a terrific format and beautiful location. www.evolution.unibas.ch/teaching/gua...

Do deleterious mutations promote the evolution of recombination suppression between X and Y chromosomes? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new paper on sexual antagonism in sequential hermaphrodites has now been published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Hi all, The annual (57th) Population Genetics group conference will be hosted in St Andrews this year (8-10th of Jan 24) General info, plenary speakers, registration and abstract submission can be found here: www.populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk We hope to see you there in the new year! :)

It's online y'all! Let the discussions, arguments, and criticism commence (well, really, "continue" - I am already getting emails!) @AIBSbiology academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... Contact me if you don't have access through your institution.

If anyone fancies doing a PhD in Scotland, I'm recruiting! Open to international applicants, deadline Nov 27. One project on mammal morphology macroevolution: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... One project on nest building (led by Sue Healy, St Andrews): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

bioRxiv goes big on Bluesky: accounts for all subject categories now available (Please Reskeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...