📢 Don’t miss the upcoming seminar: ‘Bacteria adapt by horizontal gene transfer driven by mobile elements, but who moves whom and for whose benefit?’, given by Dr Eduardo Rocha, Institut @pasteur.fr  (París). 🗓️14 November 🕛 12:00 h 📍CNB Lecture Hall

📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!! The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits. For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate

I couldnt agree more @harmitmalik.bsky.social. We should celebrate instead the great scientists that are generous with their time and knowledge, which impacts not only their labs but the careers of so many others. We should also speak up when scientists, no matter how powerful, behave unethically.

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

#EMBOMobileGenome Session 4: Physiological impact 🧬 chaired by Josefa González ➡️ 'Transposon-mediated evolution of human immune gene regulation' AKA Stranger Genes 👁️🔦 presented by Edward Chuong (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) @edchuong.bsky.social @colorado.edu @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social

Welcome everyone! #EMBOMobileGenome

A new release of RepeatMasker is available. This version fixes a bug introduced in 4.2.1 that impacted the handling of poly-A tails and the naming of LINE annotations. See repeatmasker.org for more release details.

🧠 🌟 Im very happy and grateful for receiving the Starting Grant from the Swedish Research Council. This support will allow my lab at Umeå University to further understand the role of transposons in oligodendrocyte specific human brain ageing. Looking forward to the exciting research! 🧬 🧠

Join us in Montpellier if you are interested in #evolution #genomics #adaptation #invasive species or if you want to get to know a collegial group of #Drosophila enthusiasts

1/ Ever needed to annotate TEs in a fungal genome, but didn't know where to start? We have released #MycoMobilome, a community-focused non-redundant database of transposable element consensus sequences for the fungal kingdom, constructed from >4,000 fungal genomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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.

Gracias a las empresas, medios de comunicacion y al @csic.es por ser parte del itinerario Ciceron de Conexion GENOMA: >170 grupos de investigación de todo el estado avanzando el conocimiento sobre la función, estructura y evolución del #genoma

🧬✨ It’s official! EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026! Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students. Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way! 📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍

Come join us in beautiful Britanny, France in May 2026 for a workshop that I am organizing with @lucievirevolte.bsky.social and @psudmant.bsky.social on Rapid host adaptations to infections: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis? @jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles! Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...

Una nueva dimension de nuestro proyecto #MelanogasterCTF: BIOLOGÍA (muestreo de #Drosophila, monitoreo de variables ambientales, bioinformática para detectar y PCR para validar #mutaciones), TECNOLOGÍA (MagniFly, estación metereológica) y ahora SOCIEDAD #TimeFlies! @drosospain.bsky.social

Happy birthday to #LaskerLaureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard! She identified 120 genes involved in specifying embryonic pattern development. Read about the epic screen that yielded her Lasker Award-winning results: ow.ly/Pz2050PYFsz #WomenInSTEM 🧪

#Drosophila rules! Help us spread the word @drosospain.bsky.social @fly-eds.bsky.social @genetics-gsa.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @fly-jedi.bsky.social @flybase.bsky.social @alliancegenome.bsky.social

Our latest paper on a histone methyltransferase-independent function of PRC2 controlling small RNA dynamics during programmed DNA elimination in Paramecium is now published in #NAR. #RNAbiology #TEsky #smallRNAs #PRC2 #DNAelimination 1/5 academic.oup.com/nar/article-...

Transposable elements drive much of naturally occurring genetic lethality in Drosophila melanogaster https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682755v1

Fungal #GenomeSize variation is largely driven by TEs & lineage-specific genome defenses. @tbadet.bsky.social & @danielcroll.bsky.social show that presence/absence of RIP mutation systems influences #genome architecture, identifying a likely novel defense mechanism @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4hcC5tx

⌛DEADLINE EXTENDED : 22/10⌛ Deadline for abstract submission for the The X Meeting of the Spanish Society for Evolutionary Biology  @sesbe-org.bsky.social has been extended until Wednesday, 22/10 Submit your abstract at sesbe2026.es, and follow us for updates!

Looking forward to visiting @irbbarcelona.org and @milanlab.bsky.social on Friday. Will talk about our work updating the toolbox for engineering the fly genome. Come by if you are in the area. @araujolabub.bsky.social @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social @mirimiam.bsky.social @monicabettencourt.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce that the 2nd DrosoSpain meeting #DrosoSpain2026 will take place in San Joan de Alicante from the 9th to the 11th of April 2026 #savethedate

Don't miss this issue's Editor's Choice article: "Gene network topology drives the mutational landscape of gene expression" by Sylvain Pouzet & Arnaud Le Rouzic. Free to read here: doi.org/10.1093/evol...

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Nuestro instituto @ibb-botanic.bsky.social ha propuesto una tematica, contactame si estas interesada/o

El plazo para solicitar el premio Pere Alberch a la mejor tesis doctoral en biología evolutiva cierra pronto (30 septiembre). Premio: Diploma, 1000€ e impartir la conferencia Pere Alberch en el X Congreso de la SESBE en Valencia. Más info: sesbe.org/premio-pere-...

🔁 Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open. We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting. 🗓️ Deadline: October 15th More information: smbe2026.org/symposia #SMBE2026

The Peters lab is looking for a new team member! The role transposons play in evolution, basic mechanisms regulating transposition, and applying transposons as tools for genome modification with a special focus on guide RNA-directed transposition. cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

Thank you to all #EDRC2025 participants and a big applause to the organizing committee for this great #Drosophila meeting! See you all in Bonn for #EDRC2027

Super proud of my PhD student, Ujjayita for a splendid talk in the disease models session at @edrc2025.bsky.social conference in Alicante, Spain. Confident, balanced and well defended! Loved the scientific content of the conference & had a great time! #EDRC2025 #Drosophila

This morning I had the fantastic opportunity of presenting my postdoctoral research at @edrc2025.bsky.social A big thank you to the organizers and all participants for creating such a stimulating environment for scientific discussion!

Dear JEDIs, as we are self-organizing using the #EDRC as a nucleator we decided it is time for a JEDI database to boost our network! If you identify as a JEDI, please contact us here or send a mail to [email protected] to be added to our database. #Drosophila @fly-eds.bsky.social

Very honoured to be given the opportunity to present at my favourite research conference @edrc2025.bsky.social in yesterdays panel on Disease models. I appreciated the engaging discussion and look forward to seeing more talks on the amazing work done in Drosophila!

3, 2, 1 and we are on!!! #EDRC2025 is starting! Welcome to our more than 740 participants from more than 40 countries! Thank you to all our sponsors!

In the starting blocks for #EDRC2025! Come see our work at posters 100 and 155 and during the Gene expression in the 3D nuclear space workshop!

Arrived in Alicante, and excited for this year’s #EDRC2025! 🪰🧪🔬🧫🥼🧬🪰 The #LMS is well represented at the meeting - catch us at our talk/poster presentations! #Drosophila #Redox #Ageing #DiseaseModels #Cancer #Obesity @mrc-lms.bsky.social

Discussing mosquitoes and fruitflies #transposons with @lambrechtslab.bsky.social lab at @pasteur.fr. Great science in a great place. Congrats to the new @sorbonne-universite.fr Doctor Alexander Bergman!

Only a few hours left before our meeting starts! Are you travelling to #EDRC2025 now? Let us know by using the oficial #EDRC2025 hashtag!

Welcome! #EDRC2025

Super excited for the European Drosophila Research Conference 2025 in Alicante, Spain. Going to be 4 days of exciting science and lots of fun! My PhD student, Ujjayita will be giving a talk and I have a poster. Pls do drop by! 😊 #Drosophila #EDRC2025

The @fly-eds.bsky.social is having its general assembly this saturday at 13:30 at #EDRC2025 , please join us to discuss our society and to find out more about @flybase.bsky.social and the current funding crisis

Excited to attend #EDRC2025 in Alicante, starting today! If you want to know more about the impact of genetic variation, come visit my poster P-023 Saturday afternoon and learn about FlyCADD, our impact prediction tool for SNPs! 🧬

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 🧵]