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

New research in #G3journal highlights the distinct roles of individual #insulin-like peptides in regulating growth and development time in response to changes in dietary macronutrients in #Drosophila. buff.ly/J6SO9BQ

Congratulations to UMMP Associate Research Scientist Miriam Zelditch on the release of the third edition of the indispensable "Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists" (a.k.a. the green book)! #FossilFriday

Evolutionary Divergence of mTOR-mediated Transcriptional Regulation Between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans is Modulated by Sex and Tissue https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.699128v1

OTD 1908 Willhelm Weinberg gave a talk to the Society for the Natural History of the Fatherland in Württemberg giving the population genetics equations GH Hardy would independently publish 5 months later. It was 35 years before his work was recognized in the Anglophone world. 🐋🌱🥢🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM

Behavior evolves as a correlated response to selection on cuticle color in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.13.699118v1

Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.05.697705v1

Morphomechanics and Developmental Constraints in the Evolution of Ammonites Shell Form https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27921363/ #EvoDevo

Here is our introductory paper to the Paleobiology special volume @paleosoc.bsky.social celebrating the 50th anniversary of #punctuatedequilibria #macroevolution #paleobiology #palaeontology #paleontology @nilese.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fast phylogenetic generalised linear mixed-effects modelling using the glmmTMB R package https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.20.695312v1

We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/n

The Undergraduate Community at Evolution program provides travel funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2026. Please share with undergrads in your lab! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/educ... @asn-amnat.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @evolmtg.bsky.social

Why did I only just find out that that there are water striders that live IN (ON!!) THE OPEN OCEAN? 🧪 OCEAN STRIDERS!!

#popgen #evbio

these are really sad news. Antonio Garcia Bellido was a scientific giant, he paved the way to world class science in Spain. His pioneering work in Developmental Biology was truly revolutionary

The European Drosophila Society #flyEDS extends the condolences on the passing of Antonio García-Bellido, considered the founder of the Spanish school of #Drosophila genetics and an influential figure in developmental biology research worldwide. May he rest in peace.

Part of the undergrad Cell/Developmental Biology lab, waiting for the first group of students to arrive and generate their own GAL4 enhancer traps yesterday.... the results of their labours at the end of the day... and a whale keeping its beady eye on me during a short lunch break at the Whale Cafe.

Editor's Choice article in our latest issue: "The genetic basis of natural variation in sociability " by Arteen Torabi-Marashi, Dania Daanish, Andrew M Scott, Reuven Dukas, & Ian Dworkin. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... @idworkin.bsky.social

Distinct genomic architectures but the same gene underlie the convergent evolution of a plant supergene https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679701v1

Fischer et al. characterize differences in gene network connectivity and density, suggesting that flexibility in gene coexpression relationships could promote evolvability. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf194 #evobio #molbio

Continent-wide differentiation of fitness traits and patterns of climate adaptation among European populations of Drosophila melanogaster #Drosophila

Brubaker et al. investigated the role of redundancy in cis-regulatory evolution in sexually dimorphic abdomen pigmentation of Drosophila melanogaster. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb... #evobio #molbio #drosophila

Heitzmann et al. compared brain transcriptomes of four sexual genotypes of the African pygmy mouse, showing how sex and neo-sex chromosomes impacted transcriptomes to reflect their transmission mode, evolutionary trajectories, and genomic conflicts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf208 #evobio #molbio

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@jcbnunez.bsky.social et al. present an expanded release of the community-generated resource Drosophila Evolution over Space and Time (DEST 2.0), and showcase it by studying the species' demographic history and signatures of adaptation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf132 #evobio #molbio #drosophila

doi.org/10.1093/molb... Thrilled to share our new paper in MBE! 🎉 Presenting DEST 2.0: 530 pooled Drosophila populations spanning 12 years across 6 continents. We map genomic footprints of adaptation, from pesticide resistance to seasonal changes. #PopulationGenetics #Drosophila #Genomics #Evolution

Guelph Bug Day is happening THIS SUNDAY! 🐝🪲🐜 📅 Sunday, August 24, 2025 🕙 10 AM – 4 PM 📍 Summerlee Science Complex, Waasamowin Atrium – University of Guelph This FREE, hands-on event is perfect for curious minds of all ages🐛🐞🕷️

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary simulations across multiple chromosomes and full genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669155v1

FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

💬 "There’s already plenty of documentation out there for how to use #ggtree, but there is the odd thing I come up against that I haven’t seen explicitly demonstrated before." - @rowenahill.bsky.social. A guide to plotting #phylogenetictrees in #R, and automating clade highlights buff.ly/Vd5b61a 🧬💻

ln(😅) = 💧ln(😄)

Priceless! 😆 For all you #paleobiology parents.

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field? That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience A 🧵 1/n

Ontogeny of escape response and body shape in Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663780v1

Mesquite 4.0 released! A major update — many new features, small and large (phylogenomics, visualizations, workflow management, &c). Check out the trailer video: www.mesquiteproject.org. Come discuss in our new Google Group (groups.google.com/g/mesquite-project). @bembidion.bsky.social ‬🧪 #evolbio

European-based researchers can help support future #flybase curation by donating at this site: www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

We are excited to announce that tidypopgen – a new package for rapid population genetic workflows in R – is now available at evolecolgroup.github.io/tidypopgen/ 🧬💻 Read more in the preprint describing its features here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #popgen #Rpackage #genetics 1/2

We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇

📢 New publication 'Multi-response #phylogenetic mixed #models: concepts and application' by Ben Halliwell, Barbara Holland and Luke Yates in Biological Reviews 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/brv....