Our paper unpacking "fitness" is out doi.org/10.1093/gene.... How to define fitness depends on what question you ask. Selection acts on organismal vital rates, longer-term outcomes make sense for genetic lineages, models link them. "Invasion fitness" = speed, but sometimes probability matters more.

A brilliant piece by @reckless.bsky.social on the “software brain” and the flattening of human experience required to make AI work. I agree with almost all of it. But I think there’s a deeper tension here.

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

I hadn't realised that Bob Trivers had died. What a complicated legacy. jjffh.com/tribute/deta...

How does an animal choose between exploring for a better food source and taking advantage of a known one? Our recent work in Current Biology demonstrates how recent feeding and metabolic state dynamically influence fly local search. bit.ly/3PfrIv3 #Science #Neurosky #Foraging #Drosophila

It was such a fantastic event today getting to know my wonderful colleagues operating in Hubland Nord @uni-wuerzburg.de and beyond! Our group tecoevo.github.io was presented superbly by @axelarango.bsky.social

Today's the Hubland Nord Bio Day! The biology research groups at the Hubland Nord campus are coming together to present their research projects and exchange ideas!

The 6th Data Crunch Cup Würzburg is coming up! For 7 days, starting March 23, 2026 at 8 am, you can solve exciting challenges in biology, computer science, and data science to win prizes! Register now at DCCW.de! #bioinformatics #cctb #datascience #universitätwürzburg #fibio

#ECR, PhDs and postdocs, take note - here is our alternative date for the info session about the DFG's Emmy Noether Programme, its eligibility requirements and your funding opportunities. Full Details:▶️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

Fantastic double feature seminar today by @sabinenoebel.bsky.social on tradition, culture and mate copying in #drosophila and a superb theory study of the same by @srishtipatil.bsky.social ! It’s been a pleasure hosting you both here @cctb-wue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Tomorrow I will give a joint talk with @srishtipatil.bsky.social at the @uni-wuerzburg.de to present our joint work with @gokhalecs.bsky.social just published in @pnas.org

@plosbiology.org is formalizing its long‑standing practice of asking authors to share research code, introducing a mandatory #code‑sharing policy and clarifying what is meant by code sharing. Learn more and find guidance on best practice: plos.io/4reyX3v

With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭 To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀 tinyurl.com/2wem36zz

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

The Division of Biological Physics @mpipks.bsky.social seeks a Research Group Leader in #biophysics, #softmatter physics, or related areas. (Further particulars in the ad.) Apply by the 3rd of April 2026 at pks.mpg.de/bprgl to join us in Dresden!

Today we have Yuriy Pichugin visiting us from the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social discussing the Evolution of informed dispersal strategies in trophic meta-communities in our #WueBiT seminars

For the MMEE 2026 in Cork www.ucc.ie/en/matsci/ev... note the updated deadline! Submission of talks and poster presentations: March 30th, 2026.

Ascona workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems", 28 June - 3 July. Deadline for registration Mon 16 March, 23:59 CET. There are ~10-12 places left.

For many animals, adaptation means survival. In order to learn with minimal risk, some species use safe spaces. @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Dharanish Rajendra describe the math behind this behaviour in the latest edition of @royalsocietypublishing.org. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

Register for Theory across Biology 2026: 12 June, Bern. One-day meeting on mathematical & theoretical approaches in biology with chalk talks and flip-chart sessions. Ideal for theorists, modelers, and interdisciplinary biologists. Abstracts by: 10 May 2026 Register by: 24 May 2026: buff.ly/svAZ8NF

Play isn’t only fun… it’s preparation for danger! Our new paper by @DharanishR in @royalsociety.org shows how protected juvenile environments boost #learning of risky behaviours via a protected early life period across some species. 🦂🦁 tinyurl.com/3w45xvz9 @cctb-wue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Thrilled to share our new paper with the brilliant @srishtipatil.bsky.social & @sabinenoebel.bsky.social ! 🎉 Can mate copying maintain phenotypic diversity with multiple male options to choose from? find out @ doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @dkfz.bsky.social @unihalle.bsky.social @cctb-wue.bsky.social

Honored and over the moon to add another Chronobiology talk to the TEDx universe at Aberystwyth next week! 🌓🦟 There are still some tickets left! tedxaberystwyth.com @aberuni.bsky.social @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @clocksevolution.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social

Fantastic work by Amalia Bastos and @chriskrupenye.bsky.social on acknowledging and "going along" with shared imaginary realities in non-humans. If general, then it could push back some traits of the cognitive revolution from 60-70 K to 6-9 mya. Extremely exciting! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fantastic! Congratulations!!! To you and to the Center!!! It’s great to see you will be closer!!

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

Amazing inaugural lecture double feature today by Kathi Zarnack @zarnack-group.bsky.social and Sabine Fischer! @cctb-wue.bsky.social. Here’s to formalising a core bioinformatics, computational and theoretical biology competence @uni-wuerzburg.de

Don't miss out on our guest speaker Dr. Elisa Thébault and her scientific talk "Species diversity, food web structure and ecosystem stability: Bridging the gap between theory and data" More details about our Lunchbox models seminar series on: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod...

Thanks a lot @hyejinpark.bsky.social , @elibbyscience.bsky.social and @llizana.bsky.social for organising such an amazing meeting in the Arctic on Adaptive Mechanisms! It was brilliant to be a part of the superb program! Thank you!

A brilliant performance today by @vkulkarni.bsky.social from the group of Sylvia Cremer clearing her qualifying exam @istaresearch.bsky.social. I’m very excited to work with her in the future combining theory and experiments in social immunity.

Our paper is out! Learning evolutionary parameters from genealogies using allelic trees url: academic.oup.com/genetics/art... With Aleksandra Walczak and @thierrymora.bsky.social Congrats to first author Antoine Aragon, well done Antoine!

The submission deadline (Jan 31st) for the 2026 Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology Meeting in Crete mceb2026.sciencesconf.org is getting closer!

I highly recommend this fellowship, which offers the opportunity to work with th fantastic @tobiasgalla.bsky.social !

Cool work by @prateekverma.bsky.social, Oman Akbari, and John Marshall studying the use of Y-linked genome editors focusing on safer genetic biocontrol for invasive rodents on islands

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

A huge present for my small contribution at the Game Theory Summer School in Kyiv arrived today! 🎁 The school was jointly organised by the Kyiv School of Economics and the Ukrainian Catholic University. The main work was carried out by the local organisers, who put together an excellent programme 🙏

Know more about @axelarango.bsky.social, featured as an early career biogeography researcher!! biogeographynews.org/2025/10/30/e... postdoc with @gokhalecs.bsky.social

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT

🌏 #ICSD2026 is on! Great meeting, amazing location, and an even cooler logo! 😄 Join us in Shimonoseki, Japan! 🇯🇵

And we are off!!! Just kickstarted the Long Night Againt Procrastination! All the best to everyone and have fun!!! @gslsuniwue.bsky.social

We're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching. We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):

The program of our 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI #EDAI2025 is live! 🤩 📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025 📆 October 26, 2025 With: Keynote by @chilbe.bsky.social Sessions on Learning, Evolutionary Game Theory, & Applications 🔗 Full lineup tinyurl.com/2s4j56nz

Why would anyone want to be a scientist? "Doing good science requires the utmost exertion of body, mind and spirit, yet is consistently filled with failure and rejection." journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Some really fantastic work here on hammering down a viable path to endosymbiosis via genomic plasticity and the dependence evolution!

Highly recommend this great opportunity to develop #theory together with @kostchristian.bsky.social and group who are simply a wonderful bunch!!

I wrote an Insight piece to accompany new work by Matthijs van Veelen on incorporating nonlinearity into Hamilton's rule. elifesciences.org/articles/108... TL;DR: The future of evolutionary theory is nonlinear, and our mathematical tools should reflect that.

So glad you had a good time! It’s a magical place to be!

🎮🧠 Theory meets reality @uni-wuerzburg.de Informatics Expo. Our group collaborates with the GamesLab to ask two questions through interactive play: 1️⃣ Game Theory in the Uncanny Valley and 2️⃣ EcoSims: managing an ecosystem

Very proud that @gauravathreya.bsky.social's brilliant work based on his Master's thesis is out as his first paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social. Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, evolutionary transitions in individuality, and some great theory to back it?...check out the🧵👇