ERC StG results out. Rejected. Congratulations to the big winners!

Applications to the Gordon Research Seminar in Speciation are now open! We encourage PhD students & postdocs from all geographies, backgrounds, disciplines to APPLY! This 2d seminar in beautiful Lucca 🇮🇹 will be followed by a 5d conference open to the broader community. www.grc.org/speciation-g...

We published a new paper, which was a fun side quest of mine ➡️ 🧭❓🗺️ : Hybridization with wild individuals fuels reindeer domestication. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Really fascinating (and sad) article.

V interesting perspective on how Nordic (Scandinavian) culture should not be linked to far-right movements. Also, this quote 🔥: "The alternative to cultural diversity is not progress but a global monoculture driven by hypercapitalism and American cultural imperialism". jacobin.com/2026/07/norw...

Coming late to this story: Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/w...

Happy to share that Maëva Gabrielli's latest work on Zosterops borbonicus is now published in Evolution! Interested by identifying barrier loci with genomic data? I hope you will find this piece of work interesting! ⬇️ academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Hari Sridhar hs a nice bew paper on the role of natural history in ecology and evolution www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

New paper out in Evolution 🧫🧬 doi.org/10.1093/evol... with a pretty big crew & @stelkens.bsky.social ! Story started over 20 years ago, fun to jump in late and help wrap it up :)

How do coevolutionary interactions begin in nature, and what are the first steps of reciprocal adaptation? Our preprint investigates these questions in a natural experiment: an introduced cricket (T. oceanicus) and its acoustically hunting parasitoid (O. ochracea) in Hawaii. shorturl.at/7llsA 1/n

It's a wrap #smbe2026. We displayed work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in hybrid speciation (Alex Mackintosh), an admixed lineage in Gorgona island (Geraldine Rueda-Muñoz), theory of niche conservatism (Martin Eriksson) and GWAS sample size (Diego Salazar). Ready for the next conference!

Today marks one of the most important days in the history of Science. OTD in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred R. Wallace revealed the idea of evolution by natural selection @linneansociety.bsky.social meeting (although any of them was actually present) darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...

"Measurements of lizard carcasses found near colonies indicate that cats preferentially prey on larger individuals, explaining both their reduced abundance and their smaller body size" @airamrodriguez.bsky.social et al. Biol Lett. @royalsociety.org 🧪🌎🐊

A horrible idea, with a low of subliminar consequences.

Looking forward for #smbe2026. Let me know if you're around and want to meet and discuss science!

I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

A big preprint from my group! Muller Elements are considered to be conserved in flies. We tested it by reconstructing the ancestral dipteran karyotype using 340 chromosomal genomes and suprise suprise, they're not... Led by @juliagries.bsky.social and Sam Ebdon. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵👇

This very interesting paper shows the degree to which speciation research is now dominated by genomic approaches, and argues (among other things) that since it's an unreliable way to measure reproductive isolation (RI), we should place less emphasis on it. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

The identity crisis of speciation genomics academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

🧨 New publication out (I think this one is 🌶️ ): Cerca & @stelkens.bsky.social - "The identity crisis of speciation genomics". academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

Change my mind? (:

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 🧵

We have published a preprint entitled “Island species as models for small population biology and conservation.” 🏝️🩵🌍 1/3 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

The integration of speciation seminar series is restarting, with the first session coming up on *Tuesday March 3rd @ 5pm CET*, featuring two talks by @naturalselection.bsky.social and @andreaestandia.bsky.social + career Q&A with @markravinet.bsky.social as part of the ECR in Speciation theme.

Happy to announce I'll be going up to the ERC StG interview. Four months to prepare, but looking forward for the major challenge (it'll be my 2nd time interviewing).

Look where we are, EU. 💀 We constantly talk about promoting science, increasing the investment in science, having a technology-driven economy, surpassing the US and China with modern tools. The image below is the evaluation report from a friend, who did not get a #MSCA grant despite scoring 94.4%.

Florian Schimdt, PhD student in the group, is in Cabo Verde collecting Diplotaxis sp. . 🇨🇻 Cabo Verde is my favourite country on earth because of its people, culture and biodiversity. 1/3

So weird we're still here. To me, this shows how arbitrary it is to get space in Nature (in this case in its blog). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you work with genomics, bioinformatics or evol biol, when was the last time you read a paper from Nature EcoEvo? People in our field seem obsessed about publishing there but I barely read their papers. Very ecological, macroevolutionary - which are fine subjects, but out of sync with what we do.

Excited to share our new paper on Arabidopsis adaptation in the Cape Verde Islands!! 🌱🌋 We developed a new multiparent intercross population to uncover genetic variants that were previously difficult to map. Here’s a quick overview 👇🧵 @GeneticsGSA academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Hit me up if you'd like to apply to a Data-driven postdoc fellowship with me in Sweden. 2 year salary, excellent community. Deadline March 31. I have a project idea on reference bias vs pangenome, but keen on hearing ideas. Please share broadly. www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

Awesome to see the first chapter of my PhD out in MBE! We used a suite of methods to describe the venom system of the green lacewing. Take a look if you're interested in everything from venom system morphology to the molecular evolution of novel traits doi.org/10.1093/molb...

A must read for conservation geneticists on the utility (or not??) of using molecular diversity to predict adaptive potential 👇🏻

Alpha Cell is a new strategic research program at SciLifeLab dedicated to uncovering the molecular structure and function of #SingleCells in time and space 🧪 We spoke with Caroline Gallant, Scientific Program Manager for Alpha Cell, and Isolde Palombo, Project Coordinator of the program. ↓

The first conference was held in 2014 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I still remember the plenary talk given by Drs. Peter and Rosemary Grant. #IB2026

Check out this new #AJB On the Nature of Things essay! #Pangenomes as a framework for adaptive radiation, speciation & adaptation By @nicolo-tellini.bsky.social , Ole Tørresen, David Edwards, Loren Rieseberg, Kjetill Jakobsen & José Cerca doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #evolution

📰 Starting this friday with some positive news: Our publication "Pangenomes as a framework for adaptive radiation, speciation, and adaptation" came out today in the American Journal of Botany! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1537...

Go work with Julian - it's a fantastic lab!

Why do queens bees live so much longer than workers? Apply for a postdoc position in my lab to figure it out! Please get in touch if you want to know more. link to job: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... lab website: www.websterlab.net

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Hybrids

📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

📌 New publication out: Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations TL;DR - We show that the choice of reference genome biases the detection of structural variants and popgen stats. Navigate carefully - 🛳️ 😬 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A very nice paper! @naturalselection.bsky.social Congrats!!!👍💪 Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations

Now available in Systematic Biology, a new paper (and R package) in which we outline an approach to account for non-independence in comparative analyses of lineage-pair traits academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

We are recruiting a fully-funded PhD student to work on the evolution and mechanisms of intestinal remodelling in lampreys. @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @uofgmvls.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Excited to share our new paper in @GeneticsGSA ! We developed "Retriever," a novel method that enables high-quality genotype imputation in non-model organisms. 🧬 Congratulations to Charles on his first PhD paper! Paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene... A thread 🧵👇

RIP Jane Goodall. You'll live through the inspiration you instilled in all of us. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...