An important study maps how nerves control the Drosophila male reproductive tract, revealing two types of glutamatergic neurons that also release serotonin or octopamine. 🔗 buff.ly/3PV2YQW

🎶 It's tiimmmeee 🎶 Today start Whamageddon! The rules are simple, try to make it til Christmas without hearing Wham's original Last Christmas. Covers are safe but once you hear George, you're out. Last year I made it 3 days 😅 Good luck, we're all counting on you 😉✈️

I posted a pre-print today. It's a big deal for me as it's the first paper as an independent PI. It's the culmination of 2 years worth of work and I'm really proud of it.

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

🪰 🧬16th #DrosEU2026 Workshop & Satellite #DrosophilaSuzukii Meeting Conference will take place 13–17 April 2026 in #Montpellier, France 🇫🇷. We look forward to connecting with colleagues across Europe to discuss new research in #Drosophila #genomics #evolution & #CitizenScience +info 👉 droseu.net

#festamajordegràcia is concluded for @lcatmon.bsky.social it's been 1 more bucket list ✅️ to bring #evolution to one of the most important festivities of #Barcelona Thanks #44Perill, @ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social #eseb2025 @sesbe-org.bsky.social and for the support and trust! Activities Summary 👇

We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)

Avez-vous déjà vu... un tardigrade faire le tour de sa petite planète de cellules d'algue Volvox ? Maintenant oui 😊 Cette vidéo a été classée 4ème au concours de microphotographie Nikon Small World 2025. www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20... cc @eloscicomm.bsky.social 😉

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

This Saturday 13 September at 19:00 I’m giving a talk in the Linnaeus orangerie as part of the Culture night events. Stop by if you’re around! I heard there will be music and dance events at the gardens. www.uu.se/en/faculty/s...

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025! Join us in Barcelona for our symposium: Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08) 📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025 🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)

MassLive.com recently interviewed several Harvard FlyBase people and wrote this news article about the importance of FlyBase: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f

This is a super important resource provided by an amazing team of people. It's a travesty that it has come to this, but please consider supporting them in some way.

Excited to see our most recent MS finally out in the world. We used F1 female hybrids (of two behaviourally-isolated cricket species) to show that broad gene expression divergence in the brain underpins context-dependent divergence of female response to male sexual signals.

Former MSCA fellow for a project in evolutionary biology here, please get in touch if you want to ask questions about the process.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration. We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.

Excellent piece from Adam, though perhaps a bit too restrained.

I am looking for a Postdoc (3 years, start Mid-2025) to work on conservation genomics of ringed seal in the Baltic. The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations. #conservationgenetics #consgen Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

Neural circuits that link genetic variation to #behavior: This study of mate choice behavior in Heliconius cydno #butterflies shows that alterations to the peripheral nervous system, driven by genetic & gene expression differences, can alter essential behaviors 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4iHQDRd

Dear All, I believe that this thread will become one of my most important contributions to the fly field (I hope I will make other contributions)! Here, I introduce the Soy Milk Machine Fly Food Method, a.k.a., DeepCook!#Drosophila#NewPI

The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌 300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co. Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Med uppblåst mage och håriga ben försöker honflugor se större ut för att få mat från uppvaktande kavaljerer. Men hanflugorna har vässat synen för att kunna avslöja bluffen. Det visar en ny studie i @journal-evo.bsky.social med forskare från Göteborgs och Stockholms universitet. tinyurl.com/yc3uh5jm

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

Our paper on co-evolution between male eye morphologies and female ornaments in dance flies has been picked up by Newsweek! www.newsweek.com/evolution-fl...

Budget planning for applications is hell. Most company websites have quite unhelpful (if any) price guides. What are your tips/tricks? At the moment my numbers are based in reality, but feel very "ball-park guesstimate"-y.

We finally got this work to a state that we are willing to let escape into the wild. We analysed gene expression data from a very cool system of experimental evolution in seed beetles from the group of Elina Immonen at Uppsala University. Happy to hear your thoughts: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...