Excited to share that I’m starting a research group at MPI for Biology Tübingen — and we’re recruiting PhD students! We are offering two fully funded PhD positions on sex determination and development in Hymenoptera 🐜🐝. Please share with prospective students who might be interested.

Got my copy in the mail today! Looking forward to (finally) reading the actual book 🥳

We're looking for papers! If you're working on internal conflicts - selfish genetic elements, cancer, etc. - consider submitting your work to our special issue. You'll be in good company, plus all the other benefits that come with supporting society journals like JEB.

Wonderful talks and discussion from @jenncoughlan.bsky.social and @ecmoore.bsky.social y.social! If you missed it, the recording will soon be available at internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/ Pencil in December 16 for the last seminar of the year.

One more day to go! 10am Eastern Thursday November 13. internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/

Speciation special with @jenncoughlan.bsky.social and @ecmoore.bsky.social! Thursday November 13.

New paper out with Manus Patten and @arvidagren.bsky.social in Biology & Philosophy! We propose a framework to capture the severity of different types of internal conflict and how this allows for a quantitative approach to evolutionary individuality across different biological collectives.

*NEW PAPER* How much of a threat are within-organism conflicts, really? In Biology & Philosophy, @martijnschenkel.bsky.social, Manus Patten, and I present a mathematical framework to measure evolutionary individuality in the face of internal conflicts. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Working any sort of within-organism conflict? Submit a paper to our special issue in @jevbio.bsky.social!

Working on internal conflicts? Please submit to the Internal Conflicts STN special issue with @jevbio.bsky.social! We invite work on all forms of within-organism conflict, and are very keen to receive research manuscripts. See the link for more info, or reach out to me if you have any questions.

The second seminar of the year is on Thursday, October 16 at 10am Eastern. @salazarafra.bsky.social + @ellenclarke.bsky.social Join us! internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/

First seminar is this Friday, September 19 at 9am Eastern. Laurence Hurst and Phil Madgwick. Join us!

Join us this Friday at 13:00 UTC for the first Internal Conflicts STN seminar of this academic year, featuring Laurence Hurst and Phil Madgwick! Details via internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/, also on several upcoming seminars.

Take a sneak peak at The Paradox of the Organism at Google books books.google.com/books?hl=sv&... Don’t forget to pre-order!

If you work on the internal conflicts, do consider proposing a paper for our upcoming special issue in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. More info here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/special-issue/

Getting ready for another semester of seminars for the @eseb.bsky.social STN Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation. First seminar on September 19 internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/

New paper out in Proc B on remote-control meiotic drive! Segregation distorters normally eliminate their chromosomal counterpart, but we show that meddling with other chromosomes may also be beneficial, with unusual results. See thread below, paper at royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Coming December 16!

At #ESEB2025 a high frequency of talks have ended with advertisements for PhDs and Postdocs. Grad students, crack in! You never know where a simple conversation might lead.

Hey #ESEB2025 folk! I'll be presenting my work on describing evolution in finite populations at 11:30 am on Tuesday in S-03. Drop by to learn how taking ecology and variable population size seriously changes classic pop gen descriptions like the Price eqn, revealing novel directional eco-evo forces.

hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!

Wonder if Bruce Wallace liked his dean. From: B. Wallace (1975). Hard and soft selection revisited. Evolution 29:465-473.

New paper out at Biological Reviews!! 🥳🥳 "Infection dynamics of endosymbionts that manipulate arthropod reproduction" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70024 A joint effort with Franziska Brenninger (now a postdoc ‪@unibe.ch‬) and @kokkonut.bsky.social‬. (1/5)

*SAVE THE DATE* The next seminar of our Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation virtual lectures series will be on April 30. Talks from Perran Stott Ross and Filip Husnik. Please note the time! Sign up and check out recordings of previous talks here internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

Join us tomorrow at 8:00 UTC (10:00 CEST) for the next Internal Conflicts STN seminar! Talks by Perran Stott Ross and Filip Husnik. For Zoom link + more info see internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/

The second workshop of our @eseb.bsky.social STN Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation will take place at the Princess Hotel, Barcelona on August 17, during the day before the ESEB congress evening reception. More info and registration here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/workshop-ii/

Now available for preorder! The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict, edited by me and Manus Patten, will be published by @harvardpress.bsky.social this fall. Cover coming soon.

Registration (free!) is now open for the second Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN workshop in Barcelona on August 17! Like our first workshop, it will feature contributed talks and group-based discussions on key themes. Info + registration: internalconflictsSTN.wordpress.com. [1/2]

Registration (free!) is now open for the second Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN workshop in Barcelona on August 17! Like our first workshop, it will feature contributed talks and group-based discussions on key themes. Info + registration: internalconflictsSTN.wordpress.com. [1/2]

Join us later today at the STN seminar! Talks by Elizabeth Ostrowski and Amy Boddy!

Join us next Thursday/Friday for another seminar of the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN! A late-night event for Europeans, and a great way to end the workday (for Americas timezones) or start one (for Asia/Oceania timezones). Details at internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

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Join us next Thursday/Friday for another seminar of the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN! A late-night event for Europeans, and a great way to end the workday (for Americas timezones) or start one (for Asia/Oceania timezones). Details at internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

Join for the 10th virtual seminar in the @eseb.bsky.social Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN! Wednesday at 9am Eastern! internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars-2/

Thank you all for the suggestions, I compiled them all here for the time being (might try to make something more stable than a google doc later), in case it is useful for anyone else: docs.google.com/document/d/1... In the meantime, I will keep editing with new resources and recommendations!

What can we learn about ageing by looking beyond sexually reproducing unitary organisms? Very excited that our symposium (w/ Dr. Margaux Bieuville, not on bsky) "Ageing outside of the box: insights from unusual and non-model species" was accepted @eseb2025.bsky.social! eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

*Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation* Join us on Thursday, 9am Eastern, for a history special in our STN lecture series! Jack Werren and Bengt Olle Bengtsson will reflect on their many years of working on genetic conflicts.

Happy to announce that ESEB 2025 will feature a symposium on the evolution in and of diverse genetic systems! See eseb2025.com/list-of-symp... for more info and the full list of accepted symposia (so many cool things happening!) [1/2]

Come join us for another Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation seminar, this week on Thursday at 14:00 UTC! See internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com for more info on the STN and the seminars.

Join us next week Thursday at 14:00 UTC for another seminar of the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN! John Werren and Bengt Bengtsson will discuss the early days of studying internal conflicts and selfish genetic elements. See internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars for more info.

This gets even worse when we compare the same trend across other places. Some Friday afternoon fun. Oh, such are the joys of postdoc life...

Join us for the 8th seminar in the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation @eseb.bsky.social STN lecture series. Talks from @bryangitschlag.bsky.social and Michele Hays. Thursday December 12, 11am Eastern!

New paper out! We show that heart cockles use bundled fiber optic cables to transmit light through "skylights" in their shell for their photosynthetic algae. The skylights filter out harmful UV radiation. These coral analogues are cool critters!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The hidden cost of aggregation lies in the incompatibilities between cells with different genetic dialects doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @jahanisrat.bsky.social, @treyjscott.bsky.social, @joanstrassmann.bsky.social, and David C Queller

A new platform, a new thread. Here's a thread explaining our recent work on #evolution in finite populations, now available ahead of print in @asn-amnat.bsky.social 🧬🧪

PhD studentship position- Symbiosis in a thermally variable world. Goal: to understand how & why insect symbiosis is disrupted by low/high temperature. Pays Stipend + fees; International students eligible. Webinar for questions: 5th December at 12 noon UK time. tinyurl.com/4jn96z3h #symbiosky

Lab trip with the Kokkonuts @kokkonut.bsky.social @shikharabhat.bsky.social @tom-is-kean.bsky.social et al to Berlin was great fun! Definitely worth coming back in the future 👍😋

🚨JOB 🚨Would a title "Professor of Life History Evolution" suit you? If yes... Become a colleague of us here in Mainz! I am happy to provide more information if this intrigues you. cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de/karriere/wp-...