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Evolutionary biology, reproduction, speciation and the odd photo
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Caitlin E. McDonough-Goldstein
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If the reproductive system of internal fertilisation could evolve anew would it be the same or different? This is the question we were able to investigate in bed bugs which inject sperm into a novel organ within the abdomen bypassing the reproductive tract.
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Have you ever lifted the covers to find a bedbug and thought: COOL! I thought not, but hopefully I can change your mind. 🧵 (1/8)
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Irem Sepil
29 days ago
Nice to see our work featured in The Guardian — showing that sperm quality can decline the longer it is stored.
@krishsanghvi11.bsky.social
@itchyshin.bsky.social
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The Guardian
about 1 month ago
The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs
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The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs
When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/28/the-great-care-home-cash-grab-how-private-equity-turned-vulnerable-elderly-people-into-human-atms?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1774699859
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Flo Camus
about 1 month ago
🧬 Funded GTA PhD in my lab at UCL
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
! Looking for a motivated student to work on how mismatches between mitochondrial & nuclear genomes shape health, ageing & evolution. Experimental (Drosophila) | Computational genomics The project is flexible & shaped around you.
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FindAPhD : Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships at University College London
Apply for a PhD: Biosciences Graduate Training Assistant PhD Studentships at University College London
https://findaphd.com/phds/program/biosciences-graduate-training-assistant-phd-studentships/?i274p7079
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Krish Sanghvi
about 1 month ago
Sperm can “age” independently of the male, when stored in male or female reproductive tracts. Our meta-analysis finds widespread evidence across animals (including abstinence in men). Important consequences for fertility, sexual selection, haploid selection!
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Hanna Kokko
about 1 month ago
Are you looking for a PhD position, hoping to learn sexual selection theory from one of the true experts in the field? Lehtonen's work is awesome - Look at this and apply!
ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...
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Doctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology (1-2 positions)
The Department of Biological and Environmental Science is seeking to recruit Doctoral Researcher in sexual selection theory (1-2 positions) starting 1.9.2026, or as soon as possible after that for a m...
https://ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctoral-researcher-in-theoretical-evolutionary-biology-1-2-positions/ZvnyBW
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Hernán E. Morales
about 1 month ago
🚨 Postdoc in conservation genomics & experimental evolution (Copenhagen) Join us explore questions on gene editing for biodiversity conservation 🔬 Required: exp in experimental evolution (ideally C. elegans) 📅 1-year pos ⏰ Dline: April 6
employment.ku.dk/faculty?show...
@hologenomics.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral position in conservation genomics and experimental evolution at Hologenomics Section, Globe Institute
The Hologenomics Section, Globe Institute, University at Copenhagen, is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher to join our team. This position is part of the research project “Back from the Brink: experimental de-extinction in a model-organism to restore lost diversity”, funded under the Villum Experiment Programme. The project explores the potential of gene editing technologies for conservation using an experimental setting, the risks and consequences for the management of genetically vulnerable populations. Duration: one year.
https://employment.ku.dk/faculty?show=158399
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Jenn Coughlan
about 2 months ago
I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by
@hybridzones.bsky.social
&
@hagarsoliman.bsky.social
, w/ a major assist from
@pfschwarz.bsky.social
!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus
Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982226001739
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Amanda Bretman
about 2 months ago
Happy to be able to share our review of the consequences of rising temperatures on animal fertility, led by
@rhondasnook.bsky.social
with
@liamdougherty.bsky.social
and Claudia Fricke. Research is getting active in this area but there's still a lot of unknowns...
rdcu.be/e7uGm
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The consequences of rising temperatures for animal fertility
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Thermal stress reduces fertility in animals at temperatures below lethal, yet these sublethal effects remain underrepresented in biodiversity forecasts. This Review...
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Ben Hopkins
about 2 months ago
Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!
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Emma Whittington
2 months ago
question to those doing sperm motility analysis. Are there any recent resources/reviews you'd recommend? What software are you using? Thanks
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Another unsuccessful MSCA postdoc application. The same proposal has now scored 90.2, 77.4 and now 96.2
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Barbara Tschirren
3 months ago
How does pre- and post-natal environmental stress affect the seminal foam proteome of Japanese quail? Find out here, Chloe Mason’s second PhD thesis paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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@oscarvedder.bsky.social
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Experimental Evidence That Prenatal and Postnatal Developmental Stress Affects the Adult Seminal Fluid Proteome in a Precocial Bird
Seminal fluid proteins are important modulators of male fertility and reproductive success, yet little is known about how their abundance responds to early-life developmental stress. Japanese quail C...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.70257
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Matt Kustra
3 months ago
New paper out in
@funecology.bsky.social
y.social
: Warm waters undermine cryptic female choice! We find ovarian fluid only has a positive effect on sperm function at colder temperatures and that sneaker males have faster sperm than dominant nesting males at warmer temperatures. (1/3)
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Warm waters undermine cryptic female choice
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.70266
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Eleanor Bath
3 months ago
We're advertising a PhD project on how social isolation influences aggression in flies. Based at Durham, co-supervised by
@clarahowcroft.bsky.social
. Despite what the ad says, this is also open to international applicants! Any questions, shoot me a msg!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Angry and Alone: How Social Experience Shapes Female Aggression in Flies at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Angry and Alone: How Social Experience Shapes Female Aggression in Flies at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/angry-and-alone-how-social-experience-shapes-female-aggression-in-flies/?p193849
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EvolDir
3 months ago
Stockholm University seeks a PhD student for a 4-year project on female sexual selection in pygmy halfbeaks. Strong interest in evolutionary and behavioral research needed. Apply by Feb 15, 2026:
https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:893229/
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PhD student in Animal Behaviour
PhD student in Animal Behaviour
https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:893229/
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Leeban Yusuf
3 months ago
We also found little difference in rates of long-term gene flow, divergence times or ancestral population sizes between allopatric and sympatric pairs. In short: present-day geographic ranges tell us surprisingly little about Drosophila speciation histories. [5/6]
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Leeban Yusuf
3 months ago
New paper out: “allopatric” Drosophila species aren’t so allopatric after all. We show that most currently allopatric species pairs probably overlapped in the past and exchanged genes at levels similar to sympatric pairs.
@evolletters.bsky.social
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Genomic analyses in Drosophila do not support the classic allopatric model of speciation
Abstract. The allopatric model of speciation has dominated our understanding of speciation biology and biogeography since the Modern Synthesis. It is uncon
https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qraf053
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Jay Hulme
4 months ago
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
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Benoit Nabholz
5 months ago
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url:
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Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology
Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R
https://academic.oup.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1093/jeb/voaf143/8325101
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Luke Dunning
5 months ago
Come work with us!! 2.5 year postdoc on HGT in plants. Please share and get in touch if interested
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/r...
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Research Associate: Horizontal Gene Transfer at University of Sheffield
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Associate: Horizontal Gene Transfer opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ418/research-associate-horizontal-gene-transfer
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Rob Knell
5 months ago
Funded PhD studentship available on the way that mating system affects coevolutionary processes with natural enemies.
#ecoevo
#sexualselection
looking for a great candidate spread the word!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Mating systems, coevolution and resistance evolution. at University of Hull on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Mating systems, coevolution and resistance evolution. at University of Hull, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/mating-systems-coevolution-and-resistance-evolution/?p191966
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INSTAAR
5 months ago
"Okay, But… Birds" 🐦🦆🐣 🦉🦜🦩 Listen/watch this science-meets-storytelling podcast about the weird, brilliant, & surprisingly dramatic lives of birds. Hosted by evolutionary biologist Scott Taylor. Premiers Dec 4th
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUV...
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Podcast Trailer — Okay, But Birds…
Okay, But Birds… is a weekly science-meets-storytelling podcast hosted by evolutionary biologist Dr. Scott Taylor. Each episode dives into one weird-but-true bird question through smart, funny…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUVVvEbpJQ
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Amy Leedale
5 months ago
📢 JOB ALERT! Interested in
#Bioacoustics
,
#Linguistics
and the
#Evolution
of
#Language
? We are seeking a
#ResearchAssistant
to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between
#Birdsong
and Human Speech'.👇
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
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The University of Salford hiring Research Assistant in Bioacoustics in Manchester, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 10:02:26 AM. Research Assistant in BioacousticsUniversity of Salford, School of Science, Engineering &…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4336766717/
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Alison Wright
5 months ago
Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬 We are currently advertising two
#PhD
projects to study the
#evolution
,
#development
and
#genomics
of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies. Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
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Dylan Childs
6 months ago
🦜 New PhD project with @ACCE_DTP and project partners Macaw Recovery Network and Longleat — using bioacoustics data to help conserve one of the Neotropics’ most charismatic parrots, the Critically Endangered Great Green Macaw. Find out more about ACCE+ DLA and how to apply 👉
accedtp.ac.uk
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ACCE+ DLA programme: Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species spatial and temporal distribution at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA programme: Landscape-scale drivers and limits of endangered species spatial and temporal distribution at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/acce-dla-programme-landscape-scale-drivers-and-limits-of-endangered-species-spatial-and-temporal-distribution/?p189822
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Stuart Wigby
6 months ago
Phd project on Climate Change Impacts on Sexually Selected Traits, lead by Alison Wright at Sheffield Uni, with supervisor team including
@andrewpom.bsky.social
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ACCE+ DLA Programme: The impact of climate change on sexually selected traits and its consequences for evolutionary fitness at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA Programme: The impact of climate change on sexually selected traits and its consequences for evolutionary fitness at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/acce-dla-programme-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-sexually-selected-traits-and-its-consequences-for-evolutionary-fitness/?p189806
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Rory Cooper
6 months ago
🚨 Come join us
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
for a PhD on the evolution and development of feathers and flight! 🐣🔬 This project is supervised by
@matt-towers.bsky.social
&
@alexgfletcher.bsky.social
, and I'm excited to be involved as a project advisor. Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Ben Hopkins
6 months ago
Great to see that our mosquito cell atlas is now out in Cell. Amazing work from
@oliviagoldman.net
and
@nadavshai.bsky.social
to organise so much data and so many interesting stories into a single paper!
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology
6 months ago
Correlated Gene Copy Number Changes in a Seminal Fluid Protein Network in Drosophila
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684572v1
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Bohdan &%@#ing Pavuk
over 1 year ago
if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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Emily Josephs
6 months ago
Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live
ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here:
github.com/ybrandvain/b...
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Applied Biostatistics
https://ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/
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Amy Leedale
6 months ago
Looking for a PhD? 🦜 Interested in ornithology, animal behaviour, bioacoustics? I am advertising a PhD on vocal communication in ring-necked parakeets
tinyurl.com/44a3hcnz
Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply for University of Salford Widening Participation Scholarships
tinyurl.com/4wtzzh3z
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Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot at University of Salford on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot at University of Salford, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://tinyurl.com/44a3hcnz
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Nicola Nadeau
6 months ago
We are looking for a physics/maths graduate with an interest in biology, or a biology graduate with strong computational/mathematical skills/interests, to join us as a PhD student working on biomechanical modelling of butterfly wing scale structure formation
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Matt Kustra
6 months ago
My latest paper, Cryptic female choice can maintain reproductive isolation, with
@servedio.bsky.social
and Suzanne Alonzo is now out in the October issue of
@journal-evo.bsky.social
! (1/3)
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
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Cryptic female choice can maintain reproductive isolation
Abstract. Sexual selection has long been considered an important mechanism of speciation. Despite growing empirical evidence that postmating sexual selecti
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/article/79/10/2259/8217261
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Ben Hopkins
6 months ago
The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit
tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz
or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!
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Amanda Bretman
6 months ago
Out now - female fruit flies cluster their eggs together depending on their social environment 🪰🧪 Just wish they'd let us know why... led by
@emilyrosech.bsky.social
Emily Fowler, Lucy Friend and Tracey Chapman.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Female fruit flies use social cues to make egg-clustering decisions - BMC Biology
Background The ability to respond plastically to environmental variation is a key determinant of fitness. Females may use cues to strategically place their eggs, for example adjusting the number or lo...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-025-02382-w?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20251014&utm_content=10.1186/s12915-025-02382-w
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Kevin J. Kircher
7 months ago
Research also shows that spreading smaller amounts of funding out over more researchers generally delivers better scientific outcomes per dollar spent than focusing bigger grants on fewer researchers.
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Big Science vs. Little Science: How Scientific Impact Scales with Funding
Agencies that fund scientific research must choose: is it more effective to give large grants to a few elite researchers, or small grants to many researchers? Large grants would be more effective only...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0065263&utm_source=thecryptoinsider.stakeborg.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=the-crypto-insider-pro-93-cu-buzunarele-goale-bancile-mor-mai-repede-decat-scade-inflatia
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Merriam-Webster
7 months ago
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Hilde Schneemann
7 months ago
🚂 This petition needs your signatures! Save the wonderful nighttrain that gets you into the center of Paris/Vienna/Berlin in time for breakfast whilst you doze off or have memorable encounters and conversations with fellow travellers
agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...
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🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne
Signez la pétition maintenant !
https://agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sauvons-les-trains-de-nuit-paris-berlin-et-paris-vienne?source=bluesky&utm_source=bluesky&share=697f5a85-42c9-4163-b87e-fc789436aed2
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Melanie Brien
7 months ago
Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions!
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Harmit Singh Malik
7 months ago
Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.
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John Marshall
7 months ago
The
htslib.org
web site for samtools/htslib/bcftools, or generally get source code from the respective (mostly) GitHub repositories. Build binaries yourself or get them from relatively trusted sources like Linux distributions, brew, or bioconda.
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Kathy Darragh
8 months ago
I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here:
tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm
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Stu West
8 months ago
Mike Ritchie emphasising the huge importance of supporting society journals like JEB in his ESEB presidential address, Barcelona.
@eseb.bsky.social
@eseb2025.bsky.social
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Josh Dubnau
8 months ago
Fly folk: The Amazing and essential
@flybase.bsky.social
is in existential need due to Trump termination of the grant that supports this vital resource. Please donate to help keep Flybase alive. I just did. Info here on how to make a tax deductible donation:
wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
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https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Contribute_to_FlyBase
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Melissah Rowe
9 months ago
Excited to share my recent paper on the evolution of atypical sperm morphology in a passerine bird (the red-browed finch) in
@jevbio.bsky.social
with
@danielmhooper.bsky.social
and others. Check out their weird
#sperm
!
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
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Melissah Rowe
9 months ago
3.5-year
#Postdoc
position on avian microbiomes and reproduction
@animalecol-nioo.bsky.social
@niooknaw.bsky.social
on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info!
nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
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Postdoctoral researcher: avian microbiomes and reproduction
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...
https://nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies/postdoctoral-researcher-avian-microbiomes-and-reproduction
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Stefano Bettinazzi
9 months ago
New Evolution-Digest out! 🎉 Intergenomic discordance should reduce fitness, especially in older males. Well,
@martingarlovsky.bsky.social
et al., showed that it might not always be the case. 🪰
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
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Digest: Sex-specific benefits of mitochondrial introgression
Abstract. Disrupting mitochondrial and nuclear coadaptation is expected to reduce fitness, especially in males and with age. But is that always true? Garlo
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