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Evolution. He/him/his. Views not my own. ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ต
A pictorial guide to parasitoids (10/11). Parasitoids can be studied in a parasitoid workshop. Silwood Park, 1992.
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Join us! Oxford is advertising an Associate Professorship in Animal Behaviour.
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Mike Ritchie emphasising the huge importance of supporting society journals like JEB in his ESEB presidential address, Barcelona.
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about 2 months ago
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Evidence that lifestyle drives genome fluidity from
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today. Keeping everyone going on last day of
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! Great talk Anna!
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When can replicating experiments lead to misleading conclusions? An example from human public goods games.
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Exciting looking meeting at the Linnean Society London on organismal resilience. November 20th 2025
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Hybrid Day Meeting | Organismal Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World
Join us at the Linnean Society for a one-day symposium focused on the mechanisms and consequences of variation in organismal resilience
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hybrid-day-meeting-organismal-resilience-in-a-rapidly-changing-world-tickets-1430511792279?aff=oddtdtcreator
about 2 months ago
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what is environmental variability and how can you measure it?
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Environmental Predictability in Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis: How to Measure It and Does Itย Matter?
Aim Abiotic environmental conditions shape ecological and evolutionary processes, yet quantifying their influence on organisms remains challenging due to variation among metrics and their intercorre...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70108
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Where are mycorrhizal fungi and are the protected? (spoiler alert - no, they aren't)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected - Nature
Machine-learning algorithms trained on 25,000 geolocated soil samples are used to create high-resolution global maps of mycorrhizal fungi, revealing that less than 10% of their biodiversity hotspots a...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09277-4
3 months ago
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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)
3 months ago
Who lives underground? Find out now in our new paper published in
@nature.com
. Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas. Read here:
buff.ly/WmDqAP3
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A pictorial guide to parasitoids (9/11). Parasitoids may mediate competition between different host species (apparent competition). Silwood Park, 1992.
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Ashleigh Griffin
4 months ago
Thank you to everyone attending the "Writing and DEI Workshop" at RIKENS, organized by
@ryosukeiritani.bsky.social
. Gender equality in STEM is a global issue and we need to share our experiences and learn from one another. Thank you for sharing your stories and enthusiasm! ๐ and @ITHEms, @JSPS ๐ฏ๐ตโค๏ธ
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1/3 I was just lucky enough to get to do a couple of sessions on scientific writing in a DEI & Writing Workshop at Riken, Tokyo. Huge thank you to
@ryosukeiritani.bsky.social
for organising such an open and supportive workshop, and all the attendees for being so engaged and interactive.
4 months ago
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Daniel Bolnick
4 months ago
@annadewar.bsky.social
now giving the fourth
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
Early Career Scientist Award lectures at
#Evol2025
about bacterial pangenomes, cooperation, and gene transfer
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LaBella Lab
4 months ago
Anna Dewar
@annadewar.bsky.social
asks what types of genes get horizontally transferred in bacteria ๐ฆ ๐งฌโก๏ธ๐งฌ๐ฆ Contrary to previous thinking, plasmids didn't carry more cooperation genes than the core genome.
#Evol2025
#Evol25
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Amazing comparative analysis using 163 ant genomes to look at many aspects of ant evolution
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Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants
Comparative analyses of 163 ant genomes reveal extensive genome rearrangements, context-specific gene family expansion patterns, and selection on conserved pathways that together underpin the evolutio...
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00617-8?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email
4 months ago
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Ashleigh Griffin
4 months ago
Family field trip with Jun Abe ๐ซถto trap parasitoids and wolbachia-infected butterflies on Kyushu Island. Hard to imagine science being more fun. Big thank you to Kanagawa University and JSPS Kakenhai for supporting the trip; Ethan and Olive for doing most of the catching! ๐๐
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Daniel Bolnick
4 months ago
Winners of the
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
Early Career Scientist Award this year. A great honor to get to talk with these four brilliant scientists over dinner tonight.
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The Royal Society
4 months ago
In his
#ParentCarerScientist
case study, Professor Ben Sheldon FRS talks about navigating crises at home and at work, and why it's important for leaders to set an example when it comes to balancing work with caring responsibilities:
#CarersWeek
#AndAScientist
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Rob Heathcote
4 months ago
๐ ๐ฅ2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! ๐ฅ๐ If youโre into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost!
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Ashleigh Griffin
4 months ago
Thank you to our host, Hisashi Ohtsuki at the Research Centre for Integrative Evolutionary Science, SOKENDAI, for hosting us this week. We felt so welcome and loved hearing about your work. (And learning to make okonomiyaki!)
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Geneva ๐จ๐ฆ
4 months ago
Always and in all ways โค๏ธ
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Max Reuter
4 months ago
In relation to positive futures, I would add: โ Join learned societies โ Publish in their journals
#SocietyJournals
#SciPub
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A pictorial guide to parasitoids (8/11). Some parasitoids are solitary with only wasp developing per host. Silwood Park, 1992.
4 months ago
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Great paper on the misappropriation of evolutionary theory. The first paragraph in the "Interdisciplinary Science" section reminded me a lot about things you see written about inclusive fitness.
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2425772122
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And a commentary on the Baumard & Andrรฉ cultural evolution paper with Ryo!
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Using inclusive fitness and eco-evolutionary theory to model cultural evolution
Baumard and Andrรฉ (2025) have suggested that cultural dynamics can be studied as a form of ecology. This provides a simpler unified approach to explaiโฆ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051382500042X?dgcid=coauthor
5 months ago
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Superb paper that clears up the confusion around cultural evolution with a single clear framework (and the help of Notre Dame)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The ecological approach to culture
The prevailing view in the literature treats cultural dynamics as fundamentally distinct from other ecological processesโgoverned by a second system oโฆ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513825000352
5 months ago
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ESEB 2025 Congress
5 months ago
๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐ฆ๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฒ. Get ready for
#ESEB2025
in Barcelona: a city of innovation, culture, and Mediterranean charm.ย ๐ Check more info here:
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A pictorial guide to parasitoids (7/11). There are many types of parasitoid. Some parasitoids lay male and female eggs in different types of host (autoparasitism). Silwood Park, 1992.
6 months ago
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Nice evidence from a study across 569 papers that links to editors help you publish lower quality papers (in experimental economics; by
@hannesrusch.bsky.social
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Editorial favoritism in the field of laboratory experimental economics
We examine scientific quality and editorial favoritism in the field of experimental economics. We use a novel data set containing all original researcโฆ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214804323001088
6 months ago
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ESEB 2025 Congress
6 months ago
๐ข ONE WEEK LEFT for abstract submission! Donโt miss the chance to tell
#Barcelona
and the field of
#EvolutionaryBiology
all about your amazing work!ย ๐ Select from 51 approved symposia to submit your
#Abstract:
https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/
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A pictorial guide to parasitoids (6/11). There are many types of parasitoid. Some parasitoids attack leaf miners. Silwood Park, 1992.
6 months ago
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Kaรงar Lab at UW-Madison
7 months ago
๐จInterested in the origins of life and experimental evolutionary biology interface?๐จ Join us! Our lab is leading the ESEB 2025 symposium: "The future meets the beginning: Synthetic biology, evolution and the origins of life". ๐งฌ Submit abstracts by April 25. See you in Barcelona!
@eseb.bsky.social
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A pictorial guide to parasitoids (5/11). There are many types of parasitoid. Some parasitoids attack mealy bugs on potatoes. Silwood Park, 1992.
7 months ago
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Anna Dewar
7 months ago
Really honoured to be among the recipients of the ASN Early Career Investigator Award! Thank you so much
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
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Ashleigh Griffin
7 months ago
Congratulations to all the ASN Early Career Award recipients toda. So delighted to see our very own, and completely awesome
@annadewar.bsky.social
among them. Well done Anna ๐ซถ
@biology.ox.ac.uk
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Daniel Bolnick
7 months ago
The ASN Distinguished Naturalist Award is given to a mid-career scientist who has made significant contributions to the knowledge of a particular ecosystem or group of organisms. This yearโs award goes to Dr. Andrew Suarez (Univ Indiana)
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People โ Suarez Lab
https://app.sib.illinois.edu/suarez/?page_id=27
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Daniel Bolnick
7 months ago
The ASN Early Career Investigator Awards recognize outstanding work by 4 researchers who have received their doctorates in the past 3 years. Recipients include: d. Anna Dewar
www.anna-dewar.com
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Anna Dewar
Dr Anna Dewar Career Development Research FellowSt John's College & Department of Biology, University of Oxford Honorary Research FellowDepartment of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University C...
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A pictorial guide to parasitoids (4/11). Parasitoids face many behavioural decisions, including how to best find mates. Silwood Park, 1992.
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A pictorial guide to parasitoids (3/11). Parasitoids face many behavioural decisions, including whether to lay eggs in an already parasitised host (superparasitism). Silwood Park, 1992.
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Letter re science of sex and gender from SSE and ASN to USA president
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Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender
President Donald J Trump Washington, DC Members of the US Congress Washington, DC February 5, 2025 RE: Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender Dear President Trump and Members of the US Congr...
https://www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display/2025/2/7/letter-to-the-us-president-and-congress-on-the-scientific-understanding-of-sex-and-gender/
7 months ago
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7 months ago
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
is proud to be a signature on this letter and grateful to UCS for putting this together.
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A pictorial guide to parasitoids (2/11). Parasitoids face many behavioural decisions, including how many eggs to lay (clutch size). Silwood Park, 1992.
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8 months ago
Putting the "do" into "Don't be evil". Google Accused of Censorship After Blocking โGulf of Americaโ Reviews - The Daily Beast
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Google Accused of Censorship After Blocking โGulf of Americaโ Reviews โ The Daily Beast
President Donald Trump has demanded that the body of water be known by a new name in the U.S.
https://apple.news/A6Qx6B42JTKeMDrY2At8oDQ
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ischneid52
8 months ago
A SMALL ACT OF RESISTANCE Google Gulf of Mexico and when it comes up as Gulf of America use the 3 little dots as shown in the picture to Send Feedback and tell Google the name is wrong. Google has shut down accepting negative reviews of their decision but so far the Feedback is still an option
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Google started blocking reviews of the Gulf of Mexico after renaming it the Gulf of America (stopping me giving it a 1* star review due to recently going downhill). Presumably lots of other people had the same idea! ๐๐๐
8 months ago
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Sara Mitri
8 months ago
Two (!) perspective pieces published today involving people from our lab!
@adelpanta.bsky.social
on spatial patterning in microbial communities
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
and
@salazarafra.bsky.social
on microbial communities as evolutionary individuals
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Disentangling the feedback loops driving spatial patterning in microbial communities
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-025-00666-1
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A pictorial guide to parasitoids (1/11). Parasitoids face many behavioural decisions, including whether to lay eggs in a particular host. Revived after chatting about it with Molly Hunter.
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James McInerney
9 months ago
Valuable contribution to the issue of how we ight look at data that have evolved in a hierarchical manner:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A phylogenetic approach to comparative genomics - Nature Reviews Genetics
Controlling for phylogeny is essential in comparative genomics studies, because species, genomes and genes are not independent data points within statistical tests. The authors review the application ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-024-00803-0
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Oxford Biology
8 months ago
Congratulations to
@fitz-james-lab.bsky.social
, who has been awarded a Wellcome Career Development Fellowship! His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms behind Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: how non-genetic information is transmitted across generations ๐
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Dr Max Fitz-James awarded Wellcome Career Development Fellowship
https://bit.ly/4gGQgFi
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Jamie Hall
8 months ago
I'm delighted to announce that the 2025
@microbiologysociety.org
meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon...
#microsky
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Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics - 2025 meeting
https://microbiologysociety.org/event/society-events-and-meetings/understanding-and-predicting-microbial-evolutionary-dynamics-2025-meeting.html
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