A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...

“auspicious set seed values” @popgengoogling.bsky.social

Do you like quantitative genetics, stats, experiments, and long-term studies? Check out this post doc opportunity with the wonderful Anja Felmy!

🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527

still need to finish this book

Some nice timeline synchronicity for me today

This post makes me think of when I was desperately trying to finish my thesis and found myself changing the font on my to-do list.

youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?... Can confirm this is great. Like a skate/bmx/climbing road-trip film but about birding. Recommend.

Straight out of the Cambrian explosion

In community ecology, this is called the "Appendix XVII of a Peter Abrams paper" effect

I have updated and improved the is.na() function in #Rstats. You're welcome. na.vibe.check <- function(x){ ifelse(table(is.na(x))["TRUE"]>0, browseURL("https://tinyurl.com/muhjvec6"), print("all good")) }

New book arrived! Looking forward to learning more about the bonkers life of JBS Haldane. I also note that he sports the same hairstyle that is (sadly) traditional among men in my family. Seems like we will have that in common at least!

I am recruiting graduate students to begin August 2026. Apply by Nov 15th!

To truly understand Tinbergen's behaviour here, you have to address four questions, starting with (1) what is the function of him making his own fish food? (2) how did his fish food making evolve... etc, etc

Unfortunately, our invited speaker @colingarroway.bsky.social is stuck in Canada, but on the upside you will get to hear more about the work by Timothée Bonnet, who is taking over his slot, and from Lizy Mittell about her super relevant work on the invisible fraction! You won’t want to miss this!

hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!

Eagerly awaiting possibly, the most eco-evo-packed experience of my scientific career so far, at #ESEB2025!! Come by to my Poster P01.216 on 18/08, if you want to know about some previous work about population genomic inference of life history traits (1/2)

#eseb2025 come see bob's talk!

What if your family members turn out to be your worst enemies? Come see my talk at #eseb2025 on using pedigree and mark-recapture data to explore how relatedness structures competitive interactions, and whether this maintains variation! Thursday, 11am, S48.02, meeting room 122+123

Hey #ESEB2025 folk! I'll be presenting my work on describing evolution in finite populations at 11:30 am on Tuesday in S-03. Drop by to learn how taking ecology and variable population size seriously changes classic pop gen descriptions like the Price eqn, revealing novel directional eco-evo forces.

I haven’t personally seen Wolf Hall, but my dad (who has) confirms the accuracy of Mark Rylance’s expression described as “that of a ferret saddened by developments in France”

Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:

Do you like to think about temporal niches and coexistence theory? Or perhaps you want to hear some really quirky natural history of marine insects & the moon? Or both? Read on: a mystery & its potential solution in two papers!

Last fledge check of the season home in Norway today. Very low production this year, with most of the early broods failing. However, rather high density, with eggs in 137/186 boxes. Distribution: Great tit 76 Blue tit 24 Pied flycatcher 27 (record high) Coal tit 7 Nuthatch 2 Marsh tit 1

(Me, on meeting a sea hare) - Aplysia? (The sea hare, politely) - No, no, the pleasure is all mine

The bar has been raised for data viz. Superb! I think the choice of a reverse-order y-axis is completely justified.

People knock pseudoscience, but remember: without pseudoscience, there would be no conservative economic theory.

Late to the party here (by about 20 years) but this is surely the blueprint for all moldy peaches songs: open.spotify.com/track/6cA1us...

Oh man, asking my first (!?) question on stack overflow - I've got a reproducible example that demonstrates what I need to do, but how do I come up with a good title so that someone who knows the answer will read it?

Totally thought this Denisovan was giving the middle finger

Herman Melville predicting the Marvel Cinematic Universe back in 1851

i made a new framework for modelling stochastic eco-evolutionary dynamics of multivariate traits !! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Hot take. Brian Wilson was undoubtedly a songwriting genius, but perhaps his incredibly prolific output (9 albums in less than 3 years!) was because he rarely actually finished a song: all 13 tracks on Pet Sounds end with a fade out… the coward's finish!

Mongers, ranked: 1. Cheese 2. Fish 3. Fear 4. War

Join the Evolution of Ageing workshop led by Dr. Edward Ivimey-Cook. More info: https://gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/evolution-ageing/ Interested in SORTEE? Contact Edward for details! #workshop

Great to hear Tim chat about his path into biology and approach to figuring out how ecosystems work! I recommend a listen!

Starting to post here on Bluesky👋 Hi! I'm Uthara Srinivasan, PhD student with Dr Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social + other amazing kokkonuts 🥥🌴 at JGU Mainz. Starting a PhD in theoretical eco-evo; hope to explore where adaptation meets processes like epigenetics and much more!

#Ecology and #Evolution bluesky, a question: Do you think our field has famous open problems that essentially everyone in the field agrees are fundamental and important? If we had to come up with something like the Millennium Problems (www.claymath.org/millennium-p... ), are there clear candidates?

8647 is the only 4-digit prime that is 2 less than a square (8649) and 1 more than a triangular number (8646)

There is still a few days to apply to this PhD offer! Come enjoy Paris and the "Jardin des Plantes" at the heart of it, while working on exciting science!

Important question: When someone says "see you soon", do you expect to see them sooner or later than someone who says "see you later"? Is it the same in different languages?

Hi #evosky, I'm currently looking for examples in theoretical biology where very different thought processes ended up being complementary ways to formalise the same problem. Does anyone have examples of these? Let me provide concrete examples of the kind of things I have in mind 🌍🧬 #hpbio #biology

This is so cool. But what a nutter! I see that he (wisely) didn’t include vipers - I doubt necrotising venom is much fun. Having had several close encounters with fer-de-lance in Trinidad, I have always been haunted by the Wikipedia entry on snakebite…

The real gulf of America is the space between his ears.

Looking forward to this session - submit your talks!

The Welsh language used to use the letter K, but there weren’t enough letterpress Ks to print the New Testament in Welsh, so they used C instead, forever changing the language! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🖨️📖

All this de-extinction talk reminds me of a memorable lecture on the sharp decline of one particular species since the 1970s, due to widespread "deforestation": the pubic louse. Any volunteers to bring this one back from the brink?

Always fun to dip ones toes into a different field. Delighted (read: intimidated) to discover the ferocity of parasite ecologists a decade ago or so - my favourite paper title from that battle among factions: "Straw men don't get Lyme disease". 10/10 diss, worthy of Kendrick Lamar