We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

Recently, there’s been a lot of discussion about diversity in science. However, disability/chronic conditions has been absent. In response, Trends in Ecology & Evolution is publishing a series of interviews with ecologists and evolutionary biologists who are disabled or have a chronic condition.

I know you like #Drosophila and I know you like #Genomes - but do you also like #Genes? Coding DNA annotation of 304 species of Drosophilidae! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨1/11. NEW: #LongCovid services are failing patients!! A joint report from us at Long Covid Support & @longcovidkids.bsky.social reveals: 🔴 There are clinics closing 🔴 Care is inconsistent & often falling short of NHS commissioning guidelines More & link below!! ⬇️ #ClosingClinics

Now with an @evolletters.bsky.social blog post about the work from study lead Ryan Imrie evolutionletters.net/examining-pa... @uniexecec.bsky.social

This video sums up so much of the unseen experience of long Covid, and the frustration of what’s not being done to help at the government level. Really worth watching.

New paper with Megan Wallace (not on Bluesky): Surprisingly large (to me!) reductions in offspring production and lifespan after natural transmission of Drosophila viruses. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Surveillance is hard, laborious, expensive. Even more so in the Antarctic. With @eakarlsson.bsky.social we highlight how to enhance our understanding of HPAI using innovative surveillance approaches. 👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534724002787#f0010

New from Ryan Imrie + Megan Wallace: 11 viruses x 35 host species, phylogenetic signal in susceptibility, +'ve correlations in susceptibility between divergent viruses but no evidence for -'ve corr's (ie resistance to one virus doesn't inc susceptibility to another) doi.org/10.1101/2024...

New review as EcoEvoRxiv preprint with fab team of Megan Wallace @duckswabber.bsky.social @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social @ryanimrie @eddieholmes.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social "Making sense of the virome in light of evolution and ecology" -> doi.org/10.32942/X21... @exetercec.bsky.social