Friends: I'm recruiting at least one PhD student to join our lab in Atlanta in the Fall of 2026. Information about our research can be found at the link below. Please pass along to any students interested in the quantitative study of speciation, secondary contact, and the build-up of biodiversity!

“Rich Grenyer, a biologist at the University of Oxford, said de-extinction is a “dangerous” distraction and that gene-edited animals are “at best a sort of simulation, rather like those unnerving animated AI portraits of dead relatives some… people create”.” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

A while back (maybe 3-4 years?) there was a paper on common misconceptions of the genetics of various traits. One of them was eye colour in humans. I have lost this reference and can't find it anywhere. Does anyone recognise what I mean?

🧨 The Naturhistoriska riksmuseet has a position open for a Tenure-Track group Leader position (DDLS fellow). 17 M SEK start-up (1.6 million euros, which will account for your salary / 2 PhDs / 2 Postdocs / plenty of money for starting projects and sending peoeple to conferences). lnkd.in/d5jNr_Ti

Parallel but distinct adaptive routes in the budding and fission yeasts after 10,000 generations of experimental evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.11.675703v1

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

Cool preprint! 🚨 Lanternfish lack MHC I and functional MHC II — yet still produce antibodies! 🧬🐟 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you know anyone interested in starting a Master's project working on ammonoid phylogenetics (or the phylogenetics of a mollusc group spanning the OAE2 event in the Late Cretaceous), then ask them to get in touch with me. The situation is a little tricky, as it would be funded by the remainder…

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓 I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction. 👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates! Reposts appreciated 🙏

We’ve just published a paper on Senecio showing that ecological speciation and mutation-order speciation can act together rather than as an either/or. Congratulations, Maddie James and MC Melo!

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!

@robinaraya.bsky.social @naturalselection.bsky.social @kjetillsj.bsky.social et al. investigate TEs in four large inversions in Atlantic cod - TEs accumulate in breakpoints, suggesting they drive inversions through ectopic recombination. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf131 #genome #evolution #TEsky

🆕 ✨ New publication out: Chromosomal Inversions Mediated by Tandem Insertions of Transposable Elements We find that transposable elements are the likely mechanism of (some) inversions in cod fishes! academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Yesterday we had our symposium “Evolution in Small Populations” at #ESEB2025 🎉 It was a fantastic session, and we’re very grateful to our invited speakers, Hernán Morales ‪@hernmoral.bsky.social ‬ and Eva Ringler, for their amazing talks 👏

Excited to share our new preprint for the tskit_arg_visualizer Python package! ARGs can sometimes feel like a black box, so @yanwong.bsky.social and I have been developing a method to programmatically drawing these graphs. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03958 1/6

💻🧬 The Swedish Museum of Natural History is seeking a bioinformatician. Permanent position, 70-80% of the time should be dedicated to supporting day-to-day activities and long-term research of research groups. 20-30% for their own research. Please share widely! arbetsformedlingen.se/platsbanken/...

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

🎤 Symposium: Evolution in Small Populations I’ll be speaking on Evolutionary legacies of population collapse 🗓 Thursday, 11:00–13:15, Room 115 Looking forward to this #ESEB2025 week! @hologenomics.bsky.social

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

A present from one of my scientific heroes - Juan Manuel Guayasamin; Reptiles of the Galápagos 🦎🐍🐢

Species in the Galápagos are really fascinating. Opuntia echios from two different islands separated by only 100 meters. Both plants have lenified, meaning they are quite old, but their height difference is remarkable for a single species. Natural selection or plasticity?

*PhD position* 🦉 Would you like to do a PhD with Indo-Pacific birds and evolutionary genomics? Join us in Stockholm: <deadline> 05 September 2025, 23:59 PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.

Very pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excellent piece. LLMs can be useful for automating tedious tasks, but for tasks that require rigour and critical thinking, such as peer review, it's problematic on multiple levels.

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies 2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ. Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct. Details: christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com

Evolutionary dynamics in large population sizes in Pacific acorn barnacle @arcolon14.bsky.social #Evol2025

How did evolution drive massive genome contraction during oceanic island colonization? A new paper from our lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Genomics people - can you help me? 🆘 This publication writes: "Data will be made available on request." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ENA: "No public data is associated with this project." What do you do when the author and the editor in chief @mariannakruithof.bsky.social do not answer?

EcoEvo jobs is having an interesting anonymous discussion on de-extinction: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Only two more days to apply!! Put your name in the hat, even if you feel like you don't match all criteria listed. Happy to chat regardless!

🧬 Microbial Marvels: Biodiversity & Evolution of Yeasts Top scientists @hittingerlab.bsky.social & @stelkens.bsky.social reveal how yeasts evolve, adapt, and speciate. @uv.es @upv.es Don’t miss this inspiring workshop! 📅 June 16 📍 @iatacsic.bsky.social🔗https://bit.ly/4mytSC2 #YeastScience

New publication out! 🆕 📤 "No evidence of transposable element bursts in the Galápagos Scalesia adaptive radiation despite hybridization, diversification and ecological niche shifts" mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #TransposableElements #Speciation #AdaptiveRadiation #Genomics

Well done @saabalde.bsky.social !

Absolutely love this. From: "The what, how, and why of trait-based analyses in ecology" in ECOGRAPHY Guillerme et al

🧬 🕷️ I spoke about the wild side of evolutionary biology—sexual dimorphism, maternal effects, even sexual cannibalism. Grateful for the chance to share how nature really works! 📖 Read the article: www.delo.si/novice/znano... #EvolutionaryBiology #ScienceCommunication

Rosemary Gillespie 🕷️ 🕸️ was awarded the 2025 Molecular Ecology prize🏆 - so well deserved! www.molecularecologist.com/2025/05/21/2...

Here’s an exciting PhD opportunity for those interested in genomics and adaptive radiation: jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/8...

Just out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast". Beautiful work using experimental evolution forecasting climate impacts on biodiversity by Jennifer Molinet @jennifermolinet.bsky.social

🚨Field assistant job in South Africa working with sociable weavers 🚨 🔌Experienced in electronics? 🏷️Enjoy working with RFID technology? 🪶Like working with birds? Find more information below! Applications close on 08/06/2025 sociableweaverproject.com/recruitment/... #fieldwork #ornithology

People vote and choose to enable a capitalist system - where everything is measured/valued/considered in the lens of money. We need societal change and that begins with moving from a capitalist economy.

More good news this month! 🎉 I'm excited to share my PhD colleague Filip Thörn's fantastic study on hybridisation in lek-mating Birds-of-Paradise, which I had the privilege to be part of. 🐦 doi.org/10.1111/mec.... #museomics #genomics #hybridisation

It's quite a cowardish thing to do; to claim "scheduling conflicts". Be brave and come out that in good faith you cannot meet a racist president.

The rest of Mendel's alleles characterized! So, out of 7 traits, 3 caused by TE insertions!!! (though apparently there are two different green alleles, one cause by a TE insertion, but another a promoter deletion allele) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really excited that our DFG grant on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size variation in *Heliconius* has been funded :) In the next weeks, I will post an advert for a PhD, but if you know of good students, please suggest they get in touch. Please repost.

Preprint on hifiasm Nanopore-only assembly. Led by Haoyu Cheng: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...