Historical Perspective: Sridhar et al. use the backstories of famous scientific papers in Ecology and Evolution to uncover the background roles of natural history that are written out of papers. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Splicing of a core circadian clock gene regulates seasonal adaptations by a winter gating mechanism #Drosophila

My lab at the University of Wisconsin - Madison is searching for a postdoc! Multiple project directions are possible based on applicant interests. We have a really nice group of population / evolutionary genetics labs in Madison, and it's also a great place to live. www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/8) The roads most traveled: genetic convergence in plant repeated evolution nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Actually this is making me rethink my commitment to the Oxford comma because that would be a hell of a movie

It’s not that this hard first year is some kind of hazing ritual. It’s just the inherent stress of moving and a new job, compounded by a sudden uptick in multitasking and exercising budgeting and personnel management skills and teaching skills that aren’t as central to grad and postdoc time.

I often give similar advice to my former postdocs / students as they begin faculty jobs: the first year or two are really really hard. It gets much better and is worth it. The successful senior faculty had shitty first years too.

Oregon State University's Department of Integrative Biology is currently hiring up to three tenure-track faculty members, with an emphasis on organismal biology. Note: Previous links are no longer active due to a change in our hiring system. oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...

🪰 A new #machinelearning method helps discover and genotype transposable element insertions and deletions from #Drosophila long-read genome assemblies. Learn more about this user-friendly tool developed by @adaigle.bsky.social in #GENETICS 🔗 buff.ly/7f3RUlM

prolongota be like: do you even lift bro.

I know a lot of Drosophila flies. Outside the Hawaiian clade, D. prolongata is by far the coolest.

Apparent stabilizing selection explains micro- and macroevolution of Drosophila wings #Drosophila

My first paper is up on bioRxiv! We asked a simple question: why are fruit flies smaller when they grow up in a crowded vial? #Development #Plasticity #Drosophila

Most flies appear to follow the same aerodynamic blueprint. Mosquitoes are the exception, beating their wings up to 1,000 times a second and flying about three times less efficiently than similar-sized fruit flies. doi.org/hb926b

I have officially become the guy who cites Felsenstein (1985) at people in peer reviews but in my defense, I was provoked

I am recruiting a PhD student to study the causes and consequences of gut microbiome variation in wild caribou using shotgun metagenomics, with a start date in 2027. This opportunity is currently limited to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Feel free to email me for details if interrested!

Interesting, the wing marks and leg hairs are strikingly similar to the picture wing group of Hawaiian Drosophila. It would be interesting to look at switches from genitalia-specific mating systems to courtship-specific across the group.

💬 In the latest Evolution Exchange, SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom talks with @journal-evo.bsky.social Editor in Chief Dr. Jason Wolf about his role, the success of the journal, and the benefits of publishing in society journals. www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...

With help from @negberry.bsky.social (now a postdoc at @princeton.edu), and generous funding from #NSERC, @innovation.ca, @trogersresearch.bsky.social, and @bme-uoft.bsky.social @engineering.utoronto.ca @utoronto.ca.

C.H. Waddington's lasting achievements in development and evolution Jonathan B. L. Bard examines some of Waddington's research papers that show why he is one of the few pre-molecular-age developmental biologists still widely remembered and how they remain significant. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

🌟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 Newsletter June edition we highlight: - Daniela J. Di Bella - @patrickrohner.bsky.social - Carolina Purcell Goes

Model-free inference of evolution from allele frequency timeseries using permutation tests https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.01.735864v1

Interspecies Differential Gene Expression Analysis with Regularized Phylogenetic Linear Models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.30.734542v1

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

I am excited to tell you about our new study led by Tyler Audet and in collaboration with Stefan Lüpold's group. Below you see two species. On the right is Drosophila melanogaster. On the left, Drosophila prolongata. Notice the highly exaggerated legs of the males in D.p! doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Found this paper which combines the ideas of non-Euclidean geometry and manifolds, and the macroevolution in phenotype spaces. Truly exciting theoretical read. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio

The amazing Amanda Peake is presenting this work at #Evol2026. Go check it out, where she boils down several years of work into 15 minutes! Ecological Genetics II, 4:30 - 4:45, Room 24, Monday 6/22/2026.

Ecological axes of skull diversification in a massive 1 vertebrate radiation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.19.733456v1

📖 Published📖 Complete elliptic Fourier descriptor normalization and its application in quantitative morphological analysis🌳 🌍 🧪 🔎 Read more:

No support for cell size as a driver of tissue-level metabolic rates at the upper limits of animal cell size https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.17.733039v1

Join our symposium, next week at #EED2026 ! Invited speakers: Katie Pelletier, Erica Nadolsky, Rebecca Green and Jukka Jernvall Contributing speakers: Luisa F. Pallares, Tobias Gerber, Chiara Castelletti, Alistair P. McGregor and Tom Van Dooren Funding from @biologists.bsky.social

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