We received almost 300 applications to our Graduate Research Excellence Grants this year. We expect to fund around 50 proposals. Help us fund an additional 10 by making a tax-deductible donation to our GREG GoFundMe campaign! www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...

Ecological genomics of a novel host-parasitoid arms-race in nature https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.30.735478v1

Large phenological advances and delays over 124 years of climate change alter co-flowering among North American Viola https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.27.734973v1

Germany vs Paraguay omg

After reading @blekhernia.bsky.social's great blog post on lab AI usage policy (blekhman.substack.com/p/you-need-t...), we made one in lab meeting. Feedback welcome! rilab.ucdavis.edu/ai_expectati...

So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

🎉 PUBLISHED!!!! Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social 🎉 We found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity in a Monkeyflower species. This experiment used two big field transplants, greenhouse, AND growth chamber work. It was hard, but awesome. With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

New paper out today! @sternarchella.bsky.social and I review how modularity and integration influence adaptive radiations and diversification. Read it here: rdcu.be/fpcSX

A Whole genome study of the British Swallowtail (Papilio machaon britannicus) has been completed for the first time. @norfolknats.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social @patrickbarkham.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/icad...

Independent major-effect loci and limited trait associations characterise warning colour variation across sexes and life stages in the wood tiger moth (Arctia plantaginis) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.03.729769v1

When caterpillars attack, the common bean plant relies on a receptor in its leaves to sound a chemical rallying cry that recruits predatory wasps, a new #ScienceAdvances study finds. https://scim.ag/434rXN5

Why are leaves the shape that they are? What controls intraspecific, genetic variation in leaf shape? New from my lab, in collaboration with many others, led by PhD student Amanda Peake: mapping the leaf shape polymorphism in Ipomoea hederacea.

I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on assembling and analyzing #genomes of the amazing Furnariidae. Let’s unlock the secret behind their #evolution. The official application portal will be available soon at www.uno.edu/careers. Feel free to contact me for details at [email protected]

Four decades of satellite observations reveal that mangrove forests globally have recently shifted from net loss to net gain, with reduced degradation and continued regrowth and expansion, suggesting early signs of conservation success. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4vMGzx9

There are two types of people in the world: those who discovered Persepolis and were richer for the experience, and those that still have to. RIP Marjane Satrapi. www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

1/6) What if aging begins, in part, as a bargain made in youth? In turquoise killifish, editing vgll3—a gene linked to puberty-timing in humans and salmon—revealed one of the first causal single-gene examples of antagonistic pleiotropy in vertebrate aging 🧵

Meet our newest #BSASpotlight, Jill M. Love, a graduate student at Tulane University studying how the cutleaf monkeyflower (Mimulus laciniatus) adapts to extreme environments through the lens of phenotypic plasticity! Read more at botany.org/home/careers... #IamaBotanist

Wrote a short piece on Transposable Elements as catalysts of evolutionary innovation for a forthcoming special issue of @naturerevgenet.bsky.social on, duh, Evolutionary Innovation! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ecotypes sits on the boundary that defines species. "An analysis of genomic ecotypes by Johannesson, Stankowski, and other researchers explains how some species can maintain the DNA sequences for multiple adaptations" #Genetics #Evolution #Ecotypes #Species #Adaptations

New preprint led by Kenen from Zach Gompert’s lab is now online. Here we focus on estimating genomic offsets in Lycaedies butterflies to assess adaptation/maladaptation to climatic changes over time.

I’m starting at Oregon State University this September as Herbarium Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. An absolute dream job and I am so grateful! Looking to grow the lab soon and will update here. In the meantime please don’t hesitate to reach out!

New preprint led by Kenen from Zach Gompert’s lab is now online. Here we focus on estimating genomic offsets in Lycaedies butterflies to assess adaptation/maladaptation to climatic changes over time.

Update! The posting for the postdoc opening in my lab is up! Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

So excited to see this paper out! Read more about Lonomia genomics and evolution of poison genes!

New paper on global change impacts on insects, out in GEB🦋🌍 Climate change and urbanisation act synergistically: butterfly declines are stronger under warming in urban environments. Species traits help explain heterogeneous responses. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ylndmc.bsky.social

Our warmest and wildest 100th birthday wishes to Sir David Attenborough, vice-patron of our Society. Today, we are celebrating Priam's Birdwing, which he said he would include in his "ark" to protect from extinction. This illustration is from E Donovan's "An Epitome of...Insects of India" (1800).

I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can!

No surprise - its Optix and Ivory again - amazing predictability of gene re-use in convergent mimicry phenotypes across amazonian mimicry rings @joanameier.bsky.social @wtf-r-species.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Our new paper, led by @renatopolimanti.bsky.social and I, and published today in Nature Genetics, is the largest multi-ancestry GWAS of endometriosis to date including 1.4 million women, 105,869 cases, six global ancestry groups. Previous studies were almost exclusively European.

I am hiring a popgen postdoc! Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed. Job add & details 👇🏽 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

A multi-factor experimental test of hypothesized selection on the cyanogenesis trait in white clover finds a much more complicated picture than expected

Our most accomplished work on chemical evolution 🥳 These N,S-cardeneolides have unique structures and bioactivities, and they also have divergent macroevolutionary histories 🤩 Structural innovation in the evolution of plant chemical defense | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Paul Ehrlich has died. Most will remember him for "The Population Bomb." But for many of us, Ehrlich and Raven 1964 was a foundational read that influenced our careers. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nipam Patel exploring the common myth that caterpillars 'turn to goo" inside the chrysalis, with some beautiful visuals! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCka...

The article on dogs from the Ukrainian frontline showing evidence of malnutrition and mortality-based selection has been receiving great attention! 🐕🐕🐕 It's generating a lot of discussion, and you can read it here! 👇 doi.org/10.1111/eva.70182

Our paper is out in @Science! The Atlantic silverside spans Earth's steepest latitudinal gradient in coastal sea-surface temperature. Despite high gene flow, populations show clinal genetic variation in multiple locally adapted traits. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Phylogenetic and functional analyses across 34 Lepidoptera and 183 plant species show that hexenal isomerases found in Lepidoptera exhibit functional convergence with those found in plants despite having evolved independently from unrelated enzyme families 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It was our pleasure to host Andrew and listen about the #worldsgreatestecoevoexperiment

Parallel evolution of industrial melanism in the peppered moth: one locus, many alleles https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.26.707722v1

Now online! In this review, we cover four major topics on butterflies and moths: their evolutionary history and diversification dynamics, genomics, global diversity patterns, and conservation 🦋🌏 (1/8) @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We’re excited to announce @tarnopol.bsky.social as the recipient of the 2026 Larry Sandler Award! 🎉 She’ll present the Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture during the #Dros26 opening session on March 4—she'll share how her research explores how protein toxins evolve to shape host–parasite interactions.

Recent work using hybrid zones in Juniper species show diverse ancestry and increased chemical diversity. Hybrids also occupy intermediate environments and produce unique phytochemicals. This genetic and chemical variation impacts ecology and adaptation. Photo: Kevin Stanchfield 1/2

Happy Mardi Gras from this beautiful float of butterflies and metamorphosis! it’s truly a work of art. #mardigras2026

Interested in using aDNA time-series datasets to estimate selection? Our study "Assessing Ancient DNA Sampling Strategies for Natural Selection Inference in Humans Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data" is now out in GBE! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... @genomebiolevol.bsky.social @cegamorim.bsky.social

Ancient human genomes from Ladakh reveal Tibetan, South Asian, and Central Asian admixture over the last three millennia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.26.701789v1

Special Feature: Can we predict the future of evolution? In this review, Jackson et al. dig into genomic analyses of change over time to determine if and when evolution can be forecast using genomic methods. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

@mariusmaur.bsky.social et al. investigate the venom system in Neuroptera by integrating genomics, transcriptomics and functional assays, showing that their toxin arsenal is the result of a multitude of genomic and evolutionary mechanisms. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf326 #evobio #molbio

Super cool new study from Talavera lab on migratory divide between painted lady (Vanessa cardui) populations north of the equator and south of the equator! They find a candidate gene that might be associated with the differenc ein behaviour. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am recruiting a MS student in Biology at New Mexico Tech with an anticipated start date of Fall 2026 to work on the applied evolutionary genetics of wild populations with conservation or management concerns (butterflies, bighorn sheep). Please see the attached advertisement for more info.