I am at booth #10 to present the destination for the SMBE 2027 meeting, come and see me there or anywhere in the congress center! #SMBE2026

It is finally time for #SMBE2026! Our team will be presenting 10 contributions (3 talks and 7 posters) spanning conservation genomics, temporal genomics, genomic erosion, AI, genome editing, and evolutionary forecasting. Here's where you can find us. See the 🧵 below for all the details.

I'll be presenting some results about loss of distyly in Linum at @official-smbe.bsky.social during poster session B on Tuesday! Where: Arkanden 6, poster no B340 🤗

One year of waiting - it will be worth it! #SMBE2026 starts today, at the Tivoli Hotel & Congress Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark. Join us for a week full of molecular evolution and genome science, supported by our amazing hosts at the LOC and our sponsors. #society

Our brilliant PhD students are at #SMBE2026 ! S22: P334 Rachel Carboni with snMultiomics S22: P339 @xindih.bsky.social with epistasis vs modularity in GRNs (w/ @fishcongen.bsky.social) S22: talk at 17:45 @jennisiren.bsky.social with GxE in gene expression (w/ main sup @pyhatanja.bsky.social)

For those interested in more sustainable (evolution) conferencing options like #NOFLYSMBE, consider the next @eseb.bsky.social meeting #eseb2027 which is a 4 city hub meeting aimed at allowing #nofly participation eseb2027.org #smbe2026 #Istanbul #London #Munich #Gothenburg

diari.uib.cat/w/especies-i... La UIB acull una reunió de la Xarxa InvaNET per identificar les amenaces principals d

Estreno del capítulo 4 de "Relatos del Cambio Global: Menorca" Actividades tradicionales y la preservación de #ReservadelaBiosfera frente a la presión turística. 📅 29 de juny 🕡 18:30 h 📍 ICM-CSIC, 7 Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 🎟️ ENTRADA LLIURE Registre shorturl.at/5k0PE youtu.be/BuUoQuR2aJg

A New Open Foundation for TE Research: GIRI is transitioning the full Repbase collection to an open-access license and joining the Dfam effort to help build a unified open resource for transposable element research. Full announcement: tinyurl.com/48665xss

This is great! Thanks GIRI!

Our last #PopGen Seminar speaker of this term is Andrea Betancourt! Tomorrow she will give a talk "Impact of P-element hybrid dysgenesis in male Drosophila simullans". Full schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #Drosophila #TransposableElements

❗ PLEASE READ: An important message on the SMBE Code of Conduct 🔗 smbe2026.org/smbe-policies SMBE is dedicated to providing a safe environment for all. Accordingly, SMBE prohibits all forms of discrimination and harassment in all Society activities; such behaviour will not be tolerated. #SMBE2026

Thrilled to be participating in #SMBE2026 as both a council member and speaker! Looking forward to sharing our latest work on cell and regulatory plasticity in #malaria parasites

🧬 Excited to share our preprint: Regulatory landscape of widespread stop codon readthrough (SCR) in Drosophila 🪰 Stop codons supposedly mark the end of protein synthesis. Sometimes they don’t: >1,000 Drosophila genes undergo SCR, a process wherein translation continues past the stop.

Congrats Ana and team @anabferretti.bsky.social

🔔 Our synthesis on what’s going on in the field of TE control and RIP in the fungal world! Out now in Trends in Genetics!

A new RepeatModeler release is available. It adds compatibility with RepeatMasker 4.2.4 and the Dfam 4.0 FamDB format. TETools containers have also been updated with the latest RepeatMasker, RepeatModeler, and FamDB releases. See repeatmasker.org for details

📢 Last call - the deadline to cast your votes for the 2026 SMBE Election is tomorrow. You still have time to participate in shaping the future of SMBE - we're counting on you! 🗓️ June 12, 2026 🗳️ SMBE members - check your email (and SPAM folder) for the voting link ℹ️ [email protected] #society

🎬 17 de junio, 19 hs 📍 Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid ESTRENO #Doñana, el 2o capítulo de la serie #Documental #RelatosDelCambioGlobal Una mirada cinematográfica y científica a uno de los ecosistemas más emblemáticos de Europa y a los retos que afronta 🦩💧 🎟️ 👉 shorturl.at/HGcLi

Excited to announce the International Workshop "Transcriptional memory in health & disease" in Baeza (Spain) this Oct 20-22! Discover how chromatin & networks encode cellular memory with top speakers. unia.es/estudios-y-a... pic.x.com/fjhBUrtRgb

Dfam 4.0 has been released. With over 7 million TE families spanning 6130 species, Dfam continues to grow through genome sequencing and community submissions. This release also introduces an improved FamDB format, making it easier to obtain only the data you need. Release notes: tinyurl.com/6dzwu4w8

RepeatMasker 4.2.4 released! This version adds support for the new FamDB format used in Dfam 4.0. FamDB's component-based framework allows users to download only the portions of the TE database they need. See the www.repeatmasker.org page for more release details.

🚀 Arriba #AICoFLY de #MelanogasterCTF! Trobada única de #IA, #CiènciaCiutadana i #genomica per professorat, estudiants i apassionats per la innovació, bilogia, l’ecologia. la biodiversitat i educació. 📅 18 i 19 de setembre 📍 Institut Botànic de Barcelona 👉 Info i reserva: shorturl.at/Tzn2m

📢 GBE is now on LinkedIn! You can now find all the latest GBE papers and initiatives on our newest page on LinkedIn. Scan the QR code in the image, or click the link below to follow our page: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/showcase/gen... #societyjournal

Join us in May 2027! Thanks a lot @janhrcek.bsky.social for hosting the 17th @droseu.bsky.social workshop! @fly-eds.bsky.social @drosospain.bsky.social #Drosophila

📚🌿 Presentem “Investigadores, pioneres i activistes pel medi ambient a Catalunya. Vol I” Un homenatge a dones que han contribuït al coneixement i la defensa del medi ambient. 📍 18 juny · 18 h · IBB 🎟️ Activitat gratuïta amb inscripció prèvia www.ibb.csic.es/ca/2026/05/p...

🗓️ It's now one month until the start of SMBE 2026! Have you recently published a paper in MBE or GBE, and are presenting its results at our annual meeting? Please let us know - we'd love to help draw attention to the research published in our society journals. #SMBE2026 #societyjournal

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

Writing 🪰🤖 Taller de #IA #AICoFly de #MelanogasterCTF per entrenar una #IA capaç d’identificar espècies de #Drosophila Organitzat per @lcatmon.bsky.social @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social @ibb-botanic.bsky.social i Sònia Casillas @uabciencies.bsky.social Amb la col·laboració de @fecyt.bsky.social

piRNA clusters are fundamental for controlling the genomic spread of TEs. Hadjipanteli et al. demonstrate that P-element insertions into a long-noncoding RNA nucleate piRNA production, and silence other P-elements in trans. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag109 #genome #evolution #TEsky

Host-transposable element coexistence: a matter of resistance, tolerance and trade-off Read this new review by Séverine Chambeyron, Charlotte Grimaud, Mikiko Siomi et al link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Virtual Evolution is this week! Check out the schedule here: www.evolutionmeetings.org/virtual-prog...

Head's up SSE members: Virtual Evolution is next week! Join us for the SSE Presidential Symposium on May 21 for talks from SSE leaders and past presidents on sustaining research, supporting trainees, navigating funding uncertainty, and strengthening evolutionary biology. Pls RT!

Our postdoc ad is live! 🔥 We're seeking a researcher to lead computational work on mitochondrial heteroplasmy in bees. You'll analyse single-cell datasets exploring heterplasmy dynamics. PhD + NGS/bioinformatics expertise required. 🔥 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

📣 GBE is launching a Methods section GBE is launching a new Methods section dedicated to theoretical advances, methodological innovation, and critical assessments of existing approaches. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/pages/methods-articles #genome #evolution #societyjournal

SMBE Regional Meeting – III Colombian Congress of Developmental Biology 🗓️ August 11–14, 2026 🌎 Location: Cali, Colombia 📨 Website and registration: www.scbd-biologia-del-desarrollo.com/en 📨 Abstract Submission Deadline: May 30, 2026 #society

Our paper entitled "The persistence and loss of hard selective sweeps amid admixture in ancient Eurasians" is now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1.... A really fun and informative collaboration with @mharris.bsky.social, Ziyi Mo and Adam Siepel. (1/n)

📣 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 are looking for a new Director @cragenomica.bsky.social to help us keep growing and making even cooler science, come join us!, Application details www.cragenomica.es/sites/defaul... please, help us spread the word!

Thanks @molbioevol.bsky.social for highlighting the work of @ewanharney.bsky.social as a MSCA fellow @ec.europa.eu at @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social! @official-smbe.bsky.social @ibb-botanic.bsky.social

🔬 Ayer, 𝗡𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗙𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀, responsable de la 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗱 𝗱𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶́𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼 del Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia @ibv-csic.bsky.social durante su intervención en el 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 (𝗘𝗽𝗶)𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗲 de EMBO Workshop @events.embl.org #EMBOBrainEpi

📣 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

This year's SMBE Mid-Career Excellence Award goes to Matt Pennell, professor @cornelluniversity.bsky.social Visit our website to learn more about the SMBE Faculty Awards 🔗 smbe.org/faculty-awards #society

Thanks for joining Artem @adc34.bsky.social! Hope to see you next year!

Thinking of you TE friends ! #saintmalo #ICTE #Transposonworldwide

@ewanharney.bsky.social & @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social show evidence of transgenerational developmental plasticity as a result of heat shock in fruit flies, documenting gene expression and phenotype changes 3+ generations following heat shock. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag069 #evobio #molbio

🪰🧬 Day 2 at #DrosEU2026! Another inspiring day at #Genopolys in Montpellier, France 🇫🇷 Great talks and lively discussions on #Drosophila cutting-edge #populationgenomics Looking forward to following up tomorrow #DrosophilaSuzukii Meeting Conference

🪰🧬 What a fantastic start! Yesterday kicked off #DrosEU2026 at #Genopolys in Montpellier, France 🇫🇷 Exciting discussions on #Drosophila research, #genomics, #evolution, and #CitizenScience.