About 1% of US railway mileage is electrified, with only tiny steps taken to electrify more in recent years (Caltrain) www.fastcompany.com/91178844/ind...

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91. Gift link: nyti.ms/48FOuUn

My friend @jbyoder.org has a new paper about coevolution that I think is very good and smart. However, we're still in a fight about whether the clownfish-anemone symbiosis is coevolution. So, share and read his paper, or do not. I will let you know if he apologizes academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

🚨New work🚨 led by Ph.D. student Dipesh Chuphal (IIT Gandhinagar), shows that the recent drying of the Ganga River basin is unprecedented in 1,300 years—more severe than historical famines. This ~multidecadal drying appears forced, but many models do not capture it. ☔️ 🌧️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How do populations maintain an evolutionary memory? I am happy to share that our work with Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social, Paul Schmidt, and colleagues on dominance reversal and stabilization of insecticide resistance in changing environments over time is now published at Nature EE.

“Two Z and two W sex chromosomes are also identified. The largest Z chromosome comprises the ancestral Z fused with an autosome while the other is a neo-Z that is a fusion of two autosomes. The two W chromosomes are derived from copies of the Z-linked sequences.” 🤯

The Dept. of BioSciences at #RiceUniversity, in Houston, Texas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a preferred focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please RT! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/173889

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

New paper! PhD student Julie Rej found that invasive brown anoles are more aggressive than native green anoles across a wide range of temperatures. The difference is greatest when it's hottest, ie, heat amplifies the aggression of an invasive species! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Spent hours being spellbound by Convolvulus Hawk Moths last night as they nectared on Nicotiana plants in my highland garden!. Up to 3 feeding at a time, their entire abdomens glowing red hot in the thermal from flight muscle use!! #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Als Maria Reva ihr neues Buch ENDLING angekündigt hatte, gab es so viele Ähnlichkeiten zu meinem ENDLING, dass Leute sie der Kopie bezichtigt haben. Dabei wurden wir einfach unabhängig voneinander von einem Artikel von @edyong209.bsky.social inspiriert. Sie, Ed Yong & ich haben darüber gesprochen:

A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9

The Church Evolution Laboratory (CEL@NYU) will be official as of Sep 1st: shchurch.github.io. We are recruiting at all levels, including a postdoc to work on evolutionary patterns and processes via comparative genomics in Hawaiian Drosophila. Please share widely!

The work of @basicbiologist23.bsky.social on lizards and lead in Nat Geo! www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

New Orleans' Brown Anoles Can Tolerate Extraordinary Amounts of Lead in Their Blood www.anoleannals.org/2025/08/23/n...

How many convergent switches in Müllerian mimicry can be explained by parallel evolution at ivory and optix genes? Amazing work by Ben Chehida, Dasmahapatra, Meier et al.! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

doi.org/10.1093/molb... Thrilled to share our new paper in MBE! 🎉 Presenting DEST 2.0: 530 pooled Drosophila populations spanning 12 years across 6 continents. We map genomic footprints of adaptation, from pesticide resistance to seasonal changes. #PopulationGenetics #Drosophila #Genomics #Evolution

💡Can we use network structure 🏁 to infer underlying genetics 🧬 of host – parasite coevolution? 🔎Find out in our new paper 🥳, published in the latest issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social 👇 academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... #Parasite #EvolutionaryBiology #MicrobialEvolution 1/2

Early view: we find that brown anole lizards are one of, if not the most, lead tolerant vertebrates known to science combining measures of field exposure, responses to lab dosing, performance assays and functional genomics. Led by PhD student Annelise Blanchette www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to announce our latest research contribution: Machine learning training data: over 500,000 images of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) with species labels www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our new special feature: Monitoring and Restoring Gene Flow in the Increasingly Fragmented Ecosystems of the Anthropocene www.pnas.org/topic/574 #biodiversity #evolution #ecology #popgen #ClimateEmergency

Wanna see what it was REALLY like collecting data in the rainforest for our recent @pnas.org paper? I made a wee video about it, on YouTube now. As usual, thanks to my amazing field-assistant-turned-camera-operator Theodora for most of the sweaty Ecuadorean mug shots… 😇 youtu.be/6jNxgvK0kU0?...

Do folks have suggestions for a basic population genetics text book which can be read in a semester (ideally a chapter per week during lab meeting)?

For those at #SMBE2025, here's the cool @plosbiology.org Drosophila "museomics" paper name-checked by @philipphummer.bsky.social at the start of his talk on TE spread in global D. melanogaster populations: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

1/5 ✨Proud✨ to see our review with Katie Peichel as featured content in Trends_Ecol_Evo, with my beloved alpine lineages of Arabidopsis arenosa on the cover. Hope that you find it interesting! doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.007

I'm running a seminar in the fall for senior undergrads in Evolutionary Ecology. I'm hoping to curate a reading list mixing classic and new papers that illustrate how combining ecological and evolutionary perspectives can lead to new insights. Do you have a favorite I should consider?

Super excited to see the published Editorial for our Special Issue on Ecology of Gene Expression. We began working on this in 2023, and we have some excellent papers to share (1) Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I've been waiting for this, an update on the beautiful slug #caterpillars (Limacodidae) academic.oup.com/isd/article-...

#PlantScience Are you interested in plant chemodiversity & its ecological implications? A great SI in @plantbiology.bsky.social organized by Caroline Müller @chemodiversity.bsky.social We are happy to contribute with @sunsicker.bsky.social @robinheinennl.bsky.social @terrecolgroup.bsky.social

This paper has everything! Butterflies ✔️ Plasticity ✔️ Accommodation ✔️ Assimilation ✔️ Novelty ✔️ It’s like the entire #DevoEvo bingo card. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper in Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social by an undergrad in my lab! academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... We modeled eco-evo dynamics of infection & immunity and then analyzed 50 years of data from stickleback & tapeworms (thanks to museum samples!)

I haven’t read the paper yet, but this looks interesting! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PopGen

Very excited about this paper led by Erika Castro. She has shown that Heliconius were ancestrally plastic in how they acquired their cyanogens, but some species have lost the ability to biosynthesise toxins, and have lost genes involved www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Performance evaluation of adaptive introgression classification methods Jules Romieu, Ghislain Camarata, Pierre-André Crochet, Miguel de Navascués, Raphaël Leblois, François Rousset doi.org/10.1101/2024... Now recommended in PCI Evol Biol : evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

Hey #Evol2025 - My colleague @waspvenom.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc for our #NSF - #USDA funded grant to understand the genetic basis of gall formation! Please see that attached ad, and feel free to talk to me @evolmtg.bsky.social, or contact Dr. Ellen Martinson directly!

Excited to be at #Evol2025 with my first student representing Chaturvedi Lab to talk about Pipevine swallowtail butterflies. I will be talking about using a population genomics approach to identify coevolution today at noon in the Coevolution session.

Hello friends, my first first-author publication has just released! Please take a read, its open access! rdcu.be/eq1xQ

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

Phylogenomics of Aristolochia subg. Siphisia (Aristolochiaceae) reveals widespread incomplete lineage sorting and supports a novel pollinator-filtering hypothesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.29.656634v1

Deciphering organ‐specific chemical changes following insect herbivory in Populus nigra using comparative metabolomics. @sunsicker.bsky.social & my lab are happy that the #metabolicatlas of herbivory-induced metabolomic changes in poplar is now online. A new paper within @chemodiversity.bsky.social

Excited to be part of the organizing team for this symposium! Looking forward to some exceptional talks and posters.

🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom, photographer Lucas Foglia documents the journey.

Finally ready to see the world! Theories of balancing selection - past, present and future: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A true collaborative effort that brought together theoreticians and empiricists, models, data, and fresh perspectives on how balancing selection can shape genetic variation.

(1/3) 🌎 𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 EBP-affiliated California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP) has made huge progress sequencing Californian biodiversity. The CCGP is a consortium of 100+ conservation scientists from across the state of California. Together CCGP generated 144 high-quality genome assemblies!

yoooo this design rips

Concluding this years fieldwork with lots of Battus philenor caterpillars at the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Botanical Garden. It’s so cool to notice phenological differences within Bay Area.