A probabilistic and phylogenetic principal component analysis for modelling high-dimensional trait evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.27.728209v1

Don't miss the May issue of Evolution: academic.oup.com/evolut/issue... On the cover: "Embryology reveals a morphological signature of ancestral diurnality maintained in a nocturnal lineage" by Aaron H Griffing et al. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

SAVE THE DATE for the 13th Canadian Developmental Biology Conference — March 7–10, 2027 — bringing together researchers, trainees, and innovators in developmental biology from across Canada and beyond.

Two Book Reviews this issue: "The long and difficult history of the path between Darwinism and Lamarckism" by Günter P Wagner academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... "Evolution of adaptation’s evil Doppelgänger" by Erik I Svensson academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Wang & Zhang enhanced the prediction framework implemented in the GAPIT package to enhance the utility of genomic selection in breeding programs. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag107 #evobio #molbio

Integration and evolution of the cichlid pharyngeal skeleton: seeking the causes and consequences of trait covariation https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42120024/ #EvoDevo

Our #PhD students are enjoying meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @emjo.bsky.social tomorrow! She will tell us about "Integrating Evolution and Genomics to Understand Plant Phenotypic Plasticity". Full schedule and streaming details at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution #genomes #ecology

🧵1/2 AdapterRemoval v3, a dang fast(Q) processor, is here! 🚀 AdapterRemoval v3 filters and trims high-throughput sequencing data, merges overlapping reads, performs demultiplexing, & generates detailed QC reports (HTML & JSON), and does so much faster than #AdapterRemoval v2.

Bazookasaurus xkcd.com/3216/

This should be a bigger story. I didn't know Isaiah but almost everyone in my lab, my TA, and a few close colleagues knew him well. They all say he was a sweet guy who was just really into herps. This is a tragedy.

Jing Ouyang, Chengyu Cui, Yunxiao Chen, Kean Ming Tan, Gongjun Xu Inference on Generalized Latent Variable Models with High-Dimensional Responses and Covariates https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27305

"You rob yourself of a powerful learning opportunity" is such a great quote - this is the same language I use when discussing this with students (I use the Hebrew verb root gzl, which means to take from someone in a way they are powerless to stop).

Got to present this early draft paper today at a neat workshop organized by @rohanalexander.bsky.social. It's my attempt to grapple with the need for struggle and friction in learning in a world where LLMs remove all that friction. Read the whole thing at stats.andrewheiss.com/pinky-lychee/

A. Glaser-Schmitt & J. Parsch examined sex-biased gene expression within and among six Drosophila species, detecting contrasting patterns of sex-biased gene expression and turnover between the head and body. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb... #evobio #molbio #drosophila

✨A central mission of PASEDB is to foster networking, discussion, and a sense of community We want to highlight new #EvoDevo labs in Pan-America. In our first newsletter issue, we highlight: - Roberto Márquez - Anyi Mazo-Vargas @anyimv.bsky.social - Bruno Vellutini @bruvellu.bsky.social

bifrost: an R package for scalable inference of phylogenetic shifts in multivariate evolutionary dynamics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.12.718036v1

📢 Content submissions for the 6th SORTEE Conference (13-14 Oct 2026) are now OPEN #SORTEE2026 Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 7th via sortee.org/upcoming SORTEE members can attend for free. Join us sortee.org/join/

Retention of a female-specific growth hormone receptor gene correlates with reverse sexual size dimorphism in birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.10.717760v1

Background check: Mutational input to size variation depends on ancestor's breeding value https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.01.715985v1

WINDEX: A hierarchical integration of site- and window-based statistics for characterizing the footprint of positive selection in genome-wide population genetic data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.26.714384v1

Our #PhD students are enjoying meeting #PopGen Seminar speaker @ulrichtechnau.bsky.social tomorrow! He will tell us about "Evolution of bilaterian traits and mechanisms of cell type diversification: insights from cnidarians". Full schedule+streaming details popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution

How do cell lineages evolve, and how does that shape trait evolution? Join our symposium Tracing Evolution Through Cell Lineages (Plön, 12–14 October). Hear perspectives from leading scientists and contribute with your own. Read more at: bit.ly/3PCSkpQ #EvoDevo #DevBio #StemCell #evolution

An Empirical Bayes approach for the study of phenotypic evolution from high-dimensional data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.13.711658v1

PASEDB community 🤩 We are excited to announce our first Research Webinar series called: ⭐️EvoDevo Mondays⭐️ Save the date - April 13 With our amazing speakers @luiza-o-saad.bsky.social and João Francisco Botelho Session chair Professor Natalia Pabón-Mora #PASEDB #EvoDevoMondays #EvoDevo

Negative allometry of egg size among 29 species of drosophilid flies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.15.711943v1

How does development shape the variation evolution can act on? In our new paper in @pnas.org , we bridge developmental dynamics and quantitative genetics, linking dynamical models of phenotype formation with the statistical parameters used to study evolutionary change www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Does anyone have a tutorial on how to properly keep a thread on bluesky? I feel like when I reply it does not keep everything together. Do I just include the other authors on the thread?

@vdveenb.bsky.social where is the best venue for asking `gllvm` questions? Wanted to see if I could use the devel version to fit a multitype model equivalent to the following MCMCglmm specification (i.e. two different 'rows' grouping variables, each with random slopes) @idworkin.bsky.social ...

Writing forces your brain to coordinate memory, reasoning, and meaning-making simultaneously. Every time you write, you rewire toward clearer thinking. Every time you let an LLM do it, you rewire toward consumption.

Are you a grad student attending #Evol2026? Submit your talk for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation! Finalists will present their talks during the virtual portion of the meeting. Apply during registration. Deadline April 15! shorturl.at/qDIP4 @evolmtg.bsky.social

Are you interested in receiving light-touch English language editing for your next @journal-evo.bsky.social or @evolletters.bsky.social manuscript? Check out our Evolution English Language Support program to learn how to receive free support! www.evolutionsociety.org/publications...

📢 Now accepting proposals for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Applicants must be members of SSE. Deadline: May 18, 2026 www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

The distribution of fitness effects of new mutations in regulatory regions of the D. melanogaster genome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.01.708907v1

MBE Editors-in-Chief Claudia Russo and Brandon Gaut publish a new editorial on the role of society journals in protecting the scientific record. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag022 #evobio #molbio #societyjournal @claurusso.bsky.social @bsgaut.bsky.social

@russcd.bsky.social ushers in a new era of academic metrics with the core-pivotal author index, which assigns all credit to authors that occupy the exact center of the author list, while non-central peripheral authors receive no credit whatsoever. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag026 #evobio #molbio

Quote is attributed from Amundson R (2005) The Changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought: Roots of Evo-Devo. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (Google books screenshot → Harrison, Ross G. 1937. “Embryology and Its Relations.” Science 85 (2207): 369–74 (JSTOR screenshot)

I think your AI overlords are bullshitting/hallucinating. See the other part of thread on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_... (who sounds like a true badass BTW ...) [off-topic: is there something I can read to update my mental model of BSky threading, which I don't get at all?]

If paleobiology falls in your interest area, check out the “Paleobiology Database” at paleobiodb.org#/ . This database is well-resourced with more than 94,000 references, 517,852 taxa, 276,576 collections, and ~1,000 contributors. #Paleobiology #Organisms #HistoricalGeology

Body size, wing area, and wing loading follow a pattern of trait conservatism in Drosophila https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.12.705663v1

I think these papers may be relevant here www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1... Tl;dr, the idea is that a wide class of functions exhibit “simplicity bias” when the inputs are selected randomly from a uniform distribution, and that this effect biases biology to simplicity.

🌍 Exciting news! The Euro EvoDevo 2026 conference is coming to Glasgow, UK, from June 9–12. 🔭 Registration just opened—secure your spot now! 👉 www.evodevoconference26.com #EvoDevo2026 #Glasgow #PlantScience

Great new paper from Agathe Puissant's PhD in Ecology Letters: predation‐driven adaptive syndromes combining wing shape and colour patterns in Swallowtail Butterflies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A new paper on the genetics of fluctuating asymmetry... An old collaborative work finally published!! Thanks to Fred Peronnet and co and reviewer Ian Dworkin academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

SAVE THE DATE: The Atlantic Canada Regional Cell & Developmental Biology Symposium will be held on June 26th, 2026 at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. @anatomyorg.bsky.social @brchfx.bsky.social #devbio #DevBio 🧪

Levels of additive genetic variation vary substantially between species https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.22.701036v1

Highly repeatable phenotypic consequences of whole genome duplication in Spirodela polyrhiza https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.23.701260v1

Spontaneous Emergence and Turnover of the Sex-Determining Locus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.26.701609v1

Laboratory and wild Drosophila sechellia have conserved niche specialization phenotypes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.26.701819v1