New “Francophone Musical Act Who Spent So Long in the Basement Perfecting Loops That They Became Supremely Weird” award goes to Angine de Poitrine. Hats off to them! But they can keep theirs on.

Roses are red Anyone for tennis?

In 2010, my mum came up with an idea to re-establish the ancient 140-mile North Wales Pilgrim’s Way. Now National Geographic lists it as one of the world’s “best wellness destinations” for 2026! Mum died last year, I miss her loads. It’s so lovely to see her idea continue to grow. Very proud.

Random effects structured by (inverse) relatedness matrix is great, but ideally would want capability to model multiple response variables i.e. trait and fitness (which I *think* goes further than recent developments?). @bbolker.bsky.social, any plans to extend glmmTMB into the realm of Quant Gen?

Hello! Does anyone know of any 'seed' type grants/awards within Australia (or potentially abroad if they fund research internationally) that contribute toward research only costs (not salary)??

The greatest addition to my CV so far: I am now officially part of The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists improbable.com/2026/01/14/s...

As the youngest of my siblings, I’m glad I’m not a Hoopoe

We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing

Postdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now! #postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Top advice from Viz’s letter section, as ever.

My Grandmother Loved Horses And Was A Terrible Photographer A short 🧵

📣Please share: We are looking for a field assistant to join our team in studying #ruffs on coastal meadows at Botnian Bay in Finland. The job will provide fantastic insights into lekking behaviour and provide essential skills in field ornithology. Details here www.bi.mpg.de/2790786/2512...

Have any #QuantGen folk tried fitting an animal model with the new covariance structure in glmmTMB? Intrigued at the prospect of fitting big models in seconds/minutes rather than days/weeks...

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

Thrilled to announce a Postdoc opportunity in our group on the evolutionary genetics and ecology of colour. Wonderful system, great collaborators, and room to shape your own ideas. Apply by 7 Jan: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/13477181...

A 🧵 of future eco-evo research plans, based purely on their potential for pun titles. Please feel free to contribute to this important list - ideally by doing the research and including me as a co-author. #WriteTheJokeFirstDoTheScienceLater #MyExperimentalDesignIsAJoke

i will be giving a talk on some recently published work on the 4th of December. Come by (zoom link below) if you want to think and learn about the evolution of mutual dependence and synchronised reproduction in endosymbioses!

#OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published. Much of the original manuscript was used as scrap paper by Darwin's children. On the back of this painting of a house is an original manuscript page from Origin! #CambridgeUniversityLibrary (DAR 185)

Get in!

Pedigree = Crane’s foot 🤯

Looking for an internship in spring? Do you like fish, lakes, cycling & cheese? Our lab in Kastanienbaum might be the place for you! Apply, it’s great! apply.refline.ch/673277/1301/...

A glitch in the matrix? No! I have another PhD available on temperature and AMR, this time with @swbiodtp.bsky.social. Join a friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in Cornwall to do evolutionary ecology, experimental evolution, and combine phenotyping and sequencing. 🧪🦠 #microsky

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.