Haller, Ralph & Messer present SLiM 5, a major extension of the SLiM simulation framework for simulating multiple chromosomes, enabling a heightened level of realism for full-genome simulations. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf313 #evobio #molbio #compbio

Also consider Session 98: eco-evolutionary responses of reef organisms to anthropogenic climate change with @ecolology.bsky.social and @liamlachs.bsky.social! Super important for future coral reef dynamics, so I'm really looking forward to this session.

Our latest #SORTEE-led paper is out now in #ProcB! We reviewed data/code-sharing policy clarity, strictness & timing across 275 EcoEvo journals We also worked with #ProcB & #EcologyLetters to assess initial compliance with sharing mandates. Huge team effort! 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

My submission for National Geographic's art contest, thanks to Bella (@LittleWildLines)'s workshop on Nature Journalling at #ICCB2025!

@kepra3.bsky.social Presented a fantastic talk at #ICCB2025 on estimates of coral dispersal through genomics. Using Wright's neighbourhood area theory, she estimates the true realised dispersal of corals using genetic data. Coral connectivity is crucial for est pop resilience and resp. to stressors!

@annacresswell.bsky.social Presented an incredible and detailed view of her coral modelling and outputs from her model called CScape at #ICCB2025 modelling fine-scale within-reef area responses to future climate projections for 6 different growth forms, all informed by fine-scale reef photogrammetry

Come see my talk at #ICCB2025 this arvo on assisted evolution interventions in corals to promote adaptation to climate change! It's in the speed talks in Genetics, Evolution, & Biogeography II in P4 from 3:30-4:30 (3:46pm talk)

🚨The system needs to change! #Academia fails to recognise success metrics for #transdisciplinary #ECRs in #conservation 🐯🌳We've published solutions to the 8 most prominent challenges facing those of us in industry & academia! @ecolology.bsky.social @uq-cbcs.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...

Five years ago (Tuesday 11 Feb 2020), the name of the new disease was announced: COVID-19. ▫️1/3 youtu.be/hd2QoYt5Fcw?...

Happy New Years everyone! This year I'm again continuing with my tradition of NY 'Themes' instead of resolutions since I watched this vid by the great CGP Grey: youtu.be/NVGuFdX5guE This is my 5th year doing it; I highly recommend it!!

I'm practicing Mr. Bean Christmas level excitement and self-love this holiday season

Booping the Boops boops at Museo do Mar de Galicia #BeautBoopsboopsboop

I was today years old when I found this gem of a web app to explore 2500+ color palettes for R: r-graph-gallery.com/color-palett...

One thing that I really hated when eMusk took over Twitter was that the TwitteR package stopped working, which meant I couldn't do any scrapes of conference tweets and produce real-time word cloud or network plots. I'm very happy to report that the bskyr package appears to fill this gap!

Important paper for open #science. "Hastily" published COVID research was just as rigorous, if not more so, than other research (larger samples, power analyses used, pre-registed hypotheses & methods, made data/code openly available) - open science =/= slow royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

My only complaint with Blue Sky so far is that adding people to Starter Packs often is laggy and/or unsuccessful, meaning I've often got to re-check to see if adding people has actually worked! Half the time it has not! :/

A huge lab effort! Using reproducible criteria we found that 68% of #coral studies had cryptic taxa and that (when tested) these species have permeable species boundaries (i.e., #hybridisation). We describe the implications of cryptic taxa and hybridisation for #conservation #restoration in detail!

Our new paper shows that marine protected areas can benefit biodiversity even when bycatch species only partially overlap fisheries. Paper led by newly awarded PhD, Dr Phil Erm at Cambridge. 🌍https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.14595

Many coral 'species' may, in fact, be separate 'cryptic' species! We found that up to 68% of #popgen studies in corals had putative cryptic taxa!! Check out the ms in Peer Community Journal! @peercommunityin.bsky.social #corals #crypticspecies peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Starter packs seem likely to be misused...

Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack! go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2

Here we go again! Hopefully the last time we have to switch platforms! Nice to be out of the grasps of eMusk at least!