📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

Our paper is out! We show that a 'missing-self' regulator (CFH) isn't as constrained as we thought, instead shows strong diversifying selection, likely driven by pathogen exploitation (e.g. Borrelia). Highlights how competing selective pressures shape innate immunity academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

New paper out in #Ecology Letters: We manipulated the presence of "fighter" and "scrambler" males in soil mite populations and showed that aggressive male behaviour reduces population size and stability. 🧪#SexualSelection #PopulationEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Read the Commentary by Brian Charlesworth: "Is the fundamental theorem of natural selection of any use?" academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

1) New manuscript preprint up: we model adaptation to changing environments under mating systems ranging from random mating via mutual choice monogamy through to female choice polygyny. 🧪https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.30.715329v1

Interested in evolutionary immunogenetics? This is an excellent, small conference bringing together hardcore immunologists and eco-evo people sip-sassenheim.org

I think about this constantly, considering that neither my baby nor I have been healthy for more than two days at a time since mid November. It takes a toll, for sure, and we can only hope there is some payoff later.

This is happening! Direct support by funders to non-profit publishes offering journals open for free to authors and readers seems like a way forward! royalsociety.org/news/2026/02...

📢 PhD position – Evolutionary & Conservation Genomics We invite applications for a 48-month PhD in the project “Genetic load and adaptive potential of European bison.” evobio.web.amu.edu.pl/2026/01/27/p... #PhD #Genomics #ConservationGenomics #EvolutionaryBiology #aDNA

Peer Review is broken because a generation of Editors were trained that peer review is sacrosanct. Thus we have Editors who are clerks, sending and re-sending manuscripts to reviewers until they are happy. That's not the job. Be an Editor, not a clerk. Use your skill and judgement. Make decisions.

Please share: We are hosting the 2026 DZG evolutionary biology graduate meeting at Uni Hamburg on March 25-27: "Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species". #PhD students, early postdocs and advanced Master students in evolutionary biology are welcome to register! t1p.de/dzg2026evolbio

Not sure our paper rocks as much as Katharina’s cover illustration, but we’re very delighted it was picked as ‘Editor’s Choice’ on @evolletters.bsky.social!

Male Reproductive Senescence in Mammals Is Pervasive and Aligned With the Slow-Fast Continuum onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Cover of the new issue of Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social featuring our stickleback-tapeworm paper. academic.oup.com/evlett What happens to immunity and infection prevalence in the 50 years after a host invades a new location

This is just B A N A N A S. Hymenopteran genetics, amirite? www.science.org/content/arti...

Agreed, but learned society journals should strive to become more open and inclusive! Is this OK for our journals to hide behind paywalls that preclude free access by researchers from low income countries? More here: trulyopenscience.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-... #SocietyJournals #SciPub

Great talk and suggestions (!!!) for a responsible open publishing by @jacek-radwan.bsky.social

#eseb2025 talks were great so far. Subjective ranking of the most common quotes: - theory and modeling: "with this very simple approach" - genomics: "using methodology you all know" - plenaries: "Nature/Science" in the bottom right of a slide - posters: "una cerveza por favor"

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

Not only fantastic #ESEB2025 talks, but also great posters. Józefina presented her work on Borelia, Neha on sexual selection and populations dynamics, Sebastian on bulb mite genomics, Mateusz on genetic load in guppies and Jacek on CFH gene in bank voles. Our diversity unleashed!

If you are frustrated with the quality of reviews and excessive article processing charges, take a minute read: trulyopenscience.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-si... We researchers really have a power to change this! #ScientificPublishing

This is a must-read. Csaba Szabó, the author of Unreliable, was approached by a paper mill, and he decided to conduct a sting operation. He documented how paper mills operate. forbetterscience.com/2025/05/19/a...

This makes it unjustifiable to still count with thousands of unpaid hours, worth billions of dollars, from reviewers (eg doi.org/10.1186/s410...) and others, such as editorial board members in this case.

We need urgent changes in academic publishing, which costs research institutions too much, draining important resources from science to unparalled high profit margins for big publishers (eg www.thenation.com/article/soci...).

🌟 NEW blog post: "From Gold to Diamond: Is Equitable Open Access Still a Mirage?" 💎🔓 Our VP of Open Research @hahnel.org shares data & insights on the current state of play for #OA. 🔗 Read his post now: www.digital-science.com/tldr/article... #OpenResearch #OpenAccess #scholcomm

Bloody hell! Blue-lined octopus males inject females with tetrodotoxin before mating with them. 🧪 Something for your sexual conflict lectures... www.cell.com/current-biol...

Excited to see review with @asherleeks.bsky.social out today in Nature Antimicrobials and Resistance. We compare application of social evolution to treatment of infection in bacteria and viruses: very different stories! rdcu.be/eftKw @biology.ox.ac.uk @erc.europa.eu @naturerevmicro.bsky.social

@judithmank.bsky.social Hi Judith could you add me to Mating Systems starting pack?

@pfvale.bsky.social hello Pedro could you add me to HostParasireEcoEvo?

🐦 Calling all Early Birds! ​ ​ Hurry up and seize the opportunity to participate in the upcoming ESEB Congress, set in the vibrant city of Barcelona 🌟​ ​ 🎟️ Secure now your place at the best possible price 👉🏻 eseb2025.com/registration... ​ #ESEB2025 #Biology #Evolution #Genomics

Happy to report that our work on immune system adaptations in bats is now out in @nature.com 🦇🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ariadnamorales.bsky.social @batresearch.bsky.social @virology.bsky.social @DGKontopoulos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy @sgn.one @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social Read more ...

Hello All, plz share. Last call for applications for a post-doc position in our lab to study immune function in frogs infected with the fungal pathogen Bd. Deadline is Feb 1, reviews will begin soon after. zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

Will you science people just stop writing really interesting sounding papers that I now have to find time to read, please? 🧪

AAAS leadership was pushing to publish more by raising the acceptance rate somewhat and also wanted to increase the APC. The editors were comfortable with where bar had been set and did not want to raise the APC. 50/n

Wow, just wow. V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o... I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested