SMBE2026 Symposium 7 | From trees to graphs: methodological advances and innovative applications of graphs in evolutionary analysis 📨 Abstract submission smbe2026.org/abstracts 📋 Programme details smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

Open Call! 📢 Evolutionary Applications invites researchers in evolutionary epigenetics and microbial evolution to join our Editorial Board. Help shape the future of applied evolutionary biology. Learn more: https://ow.ly/kIsM50XGkhU #Evolution #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students. tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...

Wars impose unprecedented environmental damage that has rarely been studied in real time. Study on Ukrainian dogs shows rapid natural selection near the front lines: changes in traits, age structure, and health, driven by high mortality 🐕 doi.org/10.1111/eva.70182

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New study uncovers the population structure and connectivity of M. edulis, M. galloprovincialis and admixed mussels in Irish waters, highlighting sea-current resistance and wave exposure as major drivers of genetic structure. Key knowledge for sustainable aquaculture 🧬🌊 📸: E. Cariolato

How do invasive species rapidly adjust to stress? New study on the sea squirt reveals DNA methylation & microRNAs work in a dynamic, coordinated fashion to regulate genes. This contributes to the plasticity needed for invasion success 🧬 doi.org/10.1111/eva.70178

🎉 Exciting news! Our new Marsden-funded project, “Living on the Edge”, will explore how species use epigenetic adaptation to keep pace with a warming ocean We’ll test if species can adapt fast enough to marine heatwaves — and help build climate-resilient aquaculture. 🌊🐟 @royalsocietynz.bsky.social

How do predators, pollution, and climate change (eg. shorter seasons) affect animals throughout their lives? New study shows that time stress, predators, & copper shape damselfly growth, behaviour & physiology across life stages doi.org/10.1111/eva.70169

As climates shift, breeding must adapt. We show how Genomic Offsets can guide selection for resilience—predicting future genetic mismatches before they arise. researchgate.net/publication/...

Western chimpanzees in Guinea-Bissau are at threat. Study shows a critically low population size (~500), signaling high extinction risk. Coastal groups are most vulnerable, while inland populations are a key stronghold. Urgent, targeted conservation is needed 🧬🌍 doi.org/10.1111/eva.70162

Nice to see this great write-up about our recent paper in Molecular Ecology. "Chromosomal Rearrangements Might Play a Central Role in Adaptation" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Brown rats are preying on bats at urban hibernation sites – even snatching them mid-air. Conservation efforts must include non-native rodent control at key bat roosts. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Climate change is causing mismatches in the timing of animal migrations. A new study on Atlantic salmon reveals the genes behind their return to rivers and how future warming could disrupt their epic journey 🧬🐟 doi.org/10.1111/eva.70148

🌲 How do Scots pine seedlings cope with drought? 🌱💧A new study combines #high-throughput-phenotyping & genomic modeling to reveal the genetic basis of drought tolerance - laying the groundwork for GWAS, genomic prediction & climate-smart forestry. #ForestResilience doi.org/10.1111/eva.70157

Evolutionary Applications has included our article on assisted gene flow management in response to climate change in a special issue on genetic rescue: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1.... Access the article here: doi.org/10.1111/eva.... #Evolution #ClimateChange #Legume #CropWildRelative

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