Paper alert!🧬🐦💻 Divergent selection is the textbook explanation for narrow inversion clines. Our blackcap inversion cline doesn't fit: it is wide, and the inversion is always the rarer arrangement. We show that negative frequency-dependent selection shifting between populations underlies this!

6 7 Hi all! I'm at EuroEvoDevo2026! Stop by poster 6 7 if you want to learn about canalisation, the environmental genetics of expression variability and a little bit about miRNAs. 6 7

The lab is in Glasgow this week attending the European EvoDevo meeting #EED2026 🧬🪰 🧬James @jphippstan.bsky.social will be discussing gene expression variability, and how cryptic genetic variation regulates its robustness to environmental perturbation (poster 067).

Heya science peeps, my first first-author paper is on Biorxiv! We show how transcriptome-wide expression variability in outbred animals responds massively to an environmental stressor and is underpinned by cryptic variability- (not just mean-) controlling alleles. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

First publication during my PhD is now accepted! Thanks SMBE24 'Hidden Dimensions' team for making it happen.

James @jphippstan.bsky.social and I made it to Alicante! Excited to catch up with everyone at the #EDRC2025. And, don't forget to join us in the PopGen and Evolution session on Sunday 🪰🧬💻