New study shows that genetic groups of popular utility dogs excel in social learning and spatial problem-solving 🐶🦮🧬 doi.org/10.1111/eva.70151

How do marine organisms adapt their cell membranes to extreme temperatures? New study on oysters reveals divergent strategies: cold-adapted oysters use shorter lipid chains, while warm-adapted ones modulate unsaturation. Key biomarkers for climate resilience! 🦪🦪 doi.org/10.1111/eva.70156

The almond's past is complex! A new study uses genetics to trace its domestication from a single Middle Eastern origin, with significant contributions from several wild species and recurrent gene flow. These findings are crucial for future conservation and breeding 🌳🧬 doi.org/10.1111/eva....

We are welcoming applications for a full professorship on Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology at Kiel Univerdity, Northern Germany, with fantastic facilities and infrastructure! @uni-kiel.de @crc1182.bsky.social @transevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...

OUT in @evolappjournal.bsky.social ! 🧑‍🔬💧🦠 Using our #transmission framework on #microsporidia parasite lines we found that performance outside the host trades off with increased virulence in #Anopheles #MicroSky #SymbioSky We show the importance of parasite ecology to virulence evolution.

Ah, the natural world and its unfathomable diversity. Golden showers as foreplay, who'd have thought?

Size matters—but maybe not how we thought. Most chromosomal inversions are just a few hundred bp. Ignoring these “small players” could mean we’ve misunderstood how genomes evolve -out in TREE authors.elsevier.com/a/1ljL1cZ3X3...

Genomic data can be used for developing targeted SNP genotyping panels for estimating genomic vulnerability to climate change and demonstrate a novel application of donor and recipient importance analysis for informing freshwater fisheries management 🐟🐟🐟 doi.org/10.1111/eva.70149 📸 Craig Goodwin

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

Hot off the press @evolappjournal.bsky.social Can genomics help us future-proof fisheries against climate change? This new study applies genomic offsets to kokanee salmon, showing how climate vulnerability maps onto stocking and translocation strategies. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40881941/

Working on evolution in the marine realm (or evolution in general)? Join us at the Center for Marine Evolutionary Biology Assembly 2025, taking place Oct 8th - 10th at Uppsala University, Sweden! No attendance fee! Register at bit.ly/467NohA until Sep 5th! More info and contact here bit.ly/4p2p5do!

Hi marine biologist folks #MarBiol 🦪🐙🪸🐟🦈🦀🦐🌱🦭🌊 Please give us 5 minutes of your time to fill this online survey on marine connectivity policy - The marine connectivity science and tools we need for the ocean we want #MarCo #MarEvol docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New Orleans' Brown Anoles Can Tolerate Extraordinary Amounts of Lead in Their Blood www.anoleannals.org/2025/08/23/n...

Tree of Sex annual workshop started today. It will be two days packed with reproductive biology.

Had a fab time at @eseb.bsky.social — great science & great people! Surprised how little speciation came up (though lots on adaptation). Omics everywhere, but sometimes missing that key natural history context. Still, super inspiring! #ESEB2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social

Dafni Anastasiadi presented the invited talk at @eseb2025.bsky.social today about our work on epigenetic temperature adaptation in the sea, showing that polymorphic CpGs evolved repeatedly in response to varying climates and do impact fitness

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!

Determining presence-absence variation (PAV) across reference genomes is a major goal of pangenome analysis. It turns out that A LOT of gene PAV is due to methodological artifacts. We explore the causes of this in soybean and cotton datasets in our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I've had a wonderful 1st day at @eseb2025.bsky.social Here are the sketches from some of the talks I attended today. My highlights include Tristan on the adaptive genomics of colour spots on owls, Vicky on pearl mussel's response to climate change & Rebekah on firefly TEs & TE-induced mutations

Day 2 of #ESEB2025 🌟 We had some fantastic talks this morning at the Symposium #23 on Evolutionary Genomics & Climate Change 🌱🌎🧬 👨‍🔬 Here's Prof. Luciano Beheregaray, Associate Editor of EVA, reminding everyone of the special issue with Molecular Ecology! 📅 Deadline: February 28, 2026

Come visit us at the Wiley booth at #ESEB2025! Let's talk about Evolutionary Applications and solve any doubts you have! 🧬🌎

The symposium was brilliantly closed by Dr. David Berger with his talk on "Strong Selection, but low repeatability: Temperature-specific effects on genomic predictions of adaptation" #ESEB2025

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ledoux talked about coral heat stress: "Can Mediterranean Gorgonian Populations Cope with Extreme Climatic Events? Insights from Common Garden Experiments and Population Genomics in Paramuricea clavata". A powerful reminder of why this research is crucial 🪸 #ESEB2025

Paulo Aceyo talked about bromeliads and elevational change in his presentation: "A locally adapted neotropical bromeliad shows loss of macrosynteny and expansion of stress related gene families among individuals along an elevational gradient" 🪴 #ESEB2025

Dr. Aja Tengstedt told us about how climate induced changes in rain fall has created ice layers, so reindeer cannot access food in her talk "Using Landscape Genomics to Predict Climate Change Vulnerability in a Large Mammal Grazer". This is a stark example of climate impacts. 🦌 #ESEB2025

After wild apples, we had an amazing talk about field mustard! Sebastien Geneste talked about "Local Adaptation to Climate in Wild and Feral Brassica rapa: Genetic Architecture and Genetic Offset" 🌱🧬 #ESEB2025

We then had a great talk by Ronan Dadole on "Plasticity, local adaptation and maladaptation to climate in a wild relative of the cultivated apples" 🍎 #ESEB2025

Our guest speaker Prof. Cameron Ghalambor launched our last session with an outstanding talk on "Pleiotropy as a constraint on physiological adaptation to changing environmental conditions" 🧬🌎 @cam-g.bsky.social #ESEB2025

This week, the capital of Evolution is Barcelona! Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025. Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n

Such incredible talks at the S23 Symposium today at @eseb2025.bsky.social 🤩 👩‍🔬 Now, come and meet our journal editors of Molecular Ecology Resources, Ecology & Evolution, Evolutionary Applications & Molecular Ecology! 🏃‍♂️ Meet us at the Wiley stand from 5pm-6pm for some refreshments & find out more

Last presentation of this morning was from Dr. Kwi Young Han on "Speciation under stress: Genomic and ecological divergence in Eastern Baltic Cod" ! 🧬🐟 #ESEB2025

What an incredible talk on temperature adaptation in butterflies by Dr. Nicola Nadeau! Her presentation was on "The genetics of thermal adaption in tropical butterflies" 🦋 #ESEB2025

Incredible talk by Dr. Nicky Lustenhouwer on "Genomic signals of adaptation during replicate range shifts of the blue-tailed damselfly, Ischnura elegans, in Scotland and Fennoscandia" 🤩 #ESEB2025

We next had Jody Helena Voges's talk on "Cryptic diversity and phylogeographic patterns in Mediterranean acrobat ants (Crematogaster) reveal complex evolutionary histories in response to climate change" 🐜🐜🐜 #ESEB2025

This afternoon's session started brilliantly with Dr. Janne Swaegers's talk: "Evolutionary trajectories of plasticity when encountering novel thermal conditions during range expansion in the wild" 🤩 #ESEB2025

🧬 Today starts the most relevant event in evolutionary biology: the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Congress (@eseb2025.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social). 🔝 #IRBBarcelona's group leader @tonigabaldon.bsky.social is the chair of this major event that will gather +1900 participants. 👇

How human impacts affect evolution in the Atlantic salmon? Maria Cadiz Escobar is presenting about "Contrasting contemporary changes in large-effect life history loci in Salmo salar across Europe" right now! 🐟 #ESEB2025

Victoria Gillman's talk on "Local adaptation and forecasting response in the endangered Scottish freshwater pearl mussel" was really insightful! 🤩 #ESEB2025

What's the future of Mediterranean beech populations? We learned about that in Josep Morando Mila: "Unveiling future maladaptation and preadaptation in locally adapted Mediterranean beech populations under climate change" 🌳🌳🌳 #ESEB2025

Then, Yu Cheng talked about polyploidy and climatic adaptation on her talk 'Environmental effects on the origin and establishment of Arabidopsis arenosa' 🧬🌱 #ESEB2025

Next, we had Dr. Andrea Estandia talking about 'Spatial scales of genomic adaptation to climate and phenology in the winter moth' 🦋 #ESEB2025

Day 1 of #ESEB2025 🌟 We're having so many interesting talks at the Symposium #23 on Evolutionary Genomics & Climate Change 🌱🌎🧬

Hot off the press in @evolappjournal.bsky.social : A new study finds that genetic diversity alone can miss hidden risks—small, isolated bear populations show clear signs of genetic erosion from inbreeding and genetic load. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧐 All invited speakers, oral presenters, and poster presenters from ESEB #S23 are invited to submit! We also welcome the broader research community to contribute! 🐦 🙋 If you have any questions, please reach out to @marenwellenreuther.bsky.social and other Editors involved!

Looking forward to presenting our winter moth work next week in the S23 symposium (Monday morning room 114) and catching up with everyone in Barcelona! 🦋🧬

Very excited to see Heather’s first dissertation chapter published in Evolutionary Applications! She makes nuanced arguments about how to best generate genomic resources for species based on demographic history by looking at three very well resourced bears. 🐻🐻‍❄️

Austria is offering 4-year postdoc fellowships at Vetmeduni for research in population genetics and evolutionary biology. Applications are due by July 27, 2025. More info: http://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/en/population-genetics/ #postdoc

🚨 New in Evolutionary Applications: Pollution doesn’t just harm wildlife — it can reprogram their genomes. Our latest study reveals how black guillemots in the Arctic show distinct DNA methylation patterns after exposure to human-derived oil contaminants. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Hot off the press in @evolappjournal.bsky.social : A new study finds that genetic diversity alone can miss hidden risks—small, isolated bear populations show clear signs of genetic erosion from inbreeding and genetic load. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...