As always, great to work with this joy of a group of organisers. Keep eye out for more activities, in person and online here internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

Fantastic week at @nitmb.bsky.social in Chicago. Many thanks to all participants and to all the NITMB staff.

🧬 Exploring the implications of within-organism conflicts for organismal biology with biology We’re welcoming the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation: Mathematical Foundations workshop to NITMB! A huge thank you to the organizers and speakers. We look forward to the week’s discussions!

Excited to launch the first call for proposals focusing on policy and/or societal impact of evolutionary biology research. Activities might include: ✅ local meetings on policy and/or societal impact ✅ actions to influence policy 💰€500-2K available Read more here and apply: shorturl.at/ixlby

📣 Two weeks into hosting @evoldir.bsky.social and all is well! 📥 Original subscribers please check your inboxes and complete the opt-in process if you have not already done so 📆 EvolDir updates are temporarily being emailed twice weekly. Daily updates will resume ASAP! Thanks to all 🙏

We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪

One more week to apply! For details and the application form see internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/ecr-research...

📣 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

⏰ Travel applications are closing TOMORROW for our upcoming workshop, ‘Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation: Mathematical Foundations’ Apply today to secure your spot at the workshop! www.nitmb.org/internal-con...

Join us for another Internal Conflicts STN seminar next week Wednesday at 10:00 UTC! Speakers are @arburga.bsky.social and @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social. See internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/.

This issue is headlined by Perspective Article: Evolutionary transitions and reversions in individuality @martijnschenkel.bsky.social @arvidagren.bsky.social and Manus Patten academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Applications for the ECR research visit grants from the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN are due by the end of the month! €1000 to support visits by ECRs to a laboratory to e.g set up collaborations, learn new techniques, etc. See internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/ecr-research...

Explore the implications of within-organism conflicts for organismal biology at our upcoming workshop, ‘Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation: Mathematical Foundations!’ Travel applications are due Wednesday, April 15th www.nitmb.org/internal-con...

Join us in Chicago in June!

Join us at the NITMB in Chicago next June to talk about internal conflicts! The workshop will feature tutorials, talks, and discussions. Funding is available to provide travel and lodging for some attendees (apply!).

Upcoming seminar in the @eseb.bsky.social Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation Special Topics Network Really looking forward to Tuesday next week, March 17, when we have @mobilepurin.bsky.social and @manishamuna.bsky.social presenting. Join us! Zoom links etc in the post below.

Are you an early career researcher who want to visit another lab to collaborate on a project on internal conflicts? Apply for our ECR Research Visit Grant! Deadline is April 30.

Join us tomorrow for an evolutionary medicine special of internal conflicts!

Individuals can fall apart into their constituent parts via evolutionary reversions in individuality, but this process can occur in two distinct ways that shape the evolution of individuality: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @martijnschenkel.bsky.social, @arvidagren.bsky.social & Manus Patten

📣SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING: 📣 28th February Special Issue: Foundations of Internal Conflicts Guest Edited by @martijnschenkel.bsky.social, @arvidagren.bsky.social, @imprintedgene.bsky.social, Nina Wedell and Manus Patten For more info: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...

Very excited for the upcoming seminars of the of the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN @eseb.bsky.social! Featuring @manishamuna.bsky.social, @mobilepurin.bsky.social, @joealcock.bsky.social, @asherleeks.bsky.social Join the email list here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

NEW PAPER with @arvidagren.bsky.social and Manus Patten on evolutionary reversions in individuality now out (as an advance article) at @jevbio.bsky.social (see academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...). Thread below! [1/8] .

Join us for another Internal Conflicts STN seminar tomorrow at 9:00 UTC! Emily Hornett (@bolinabug.bsky.social) and Greg Hurst (@greghurst.bsky.social) will talk about their work on male-killing and sex determination evolution. Zoom info and more: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/

🐜 4-year #postdoc position in the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab @camzoology.bsky.social investigating metabolic cooperation between bodies in a BBSRC-funded project. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc... #ants #socialtransfers #sociallytransferredmaterials #autophagy #socialinsects #aging #job (🧵1/n)

The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict is now out! Get your copy directly from @harvardpress.bsky.social

Join me Tuesday with authors J. Arvid Agren and Manus M. Patten for the launch of their book The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict.

*SAVE THE DATE* On Tuesday December 16 at 11am Eastern we will have virtual book launch of The Paradox of the Organism. It will be hosted by the great @athenaaktipis.bsky.social. Please join! Zoom link here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/

Join our online seminar on December 16, 2025, at 16:00 UTC to celebrate the book release "The Paradox of the Organism". More info: https://internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/ #conference

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.