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

Tukey xkcd.com/3104/

@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....

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Maybe I’m biased, but I really enjoyed this profile of superstar metabolic researcher Dr Lianna Wat 🤩

#MicroscopyMonday We have #Drosophila flies that degrade their muscles prematurely. We looked at them with TEM and saw these membrane balls. Does anyone know what they are? Please, hivemind, help us out

Interested in Developmental biology? Imaging? Marine invertebrate body plans? Then this three year postdoc in my group @sotonbiosciences.bsky.social is for you! Join our team to decypher how signalling molecules shape skeletal phenotype in juvenile sea urchins. jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

#devbio 🇨🇦

The Fat of the Matter #MetabolismMondays Meet Lianna Wat, postdoc @stanfordpress.bsky.social & @ejrideout.bsky.social lab alumni, who’s decoding how #fat #metabolism differs between sexes using #Drosophila & mice. #theNodeCorrespondents @biologists.bsky.social @the-node.bsky.social #DevBio

As a lover of pinball and developmental biology, I wish I could play on that pinball machine.

My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday. I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further. If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.

Good! I've never understood "scientific consensus"; it is not how the scientific method works. "Convergent evidence" seems more appropriate. The independent formulation of natural selection by Darwin & Wallace is an example of convergent evidence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪#philsci #ecoevo

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Why publish in JEB? ✅ Society-owned and not-for-profit model ✅ Dedicated submission support - in-house Managing Editor ✅ Range of article types ✅ Modern Open Science policies - our own Data Editor ✅ Large editorial board with wide-range of expertise #societyjournal @eseb.bsky.social

Guelph BugDay 2025 is on the move! 🐜🐞🪲 🗓️ August 24th, 2025 – Get ready for a full day of workshops, exhibits, and hands-on fun for bug lovers of all ages! 📍 NEW LOCATION ALERT: We’re buzzing into a brand new spot – the Summerlee Science Complex @ University of Guelph!

We are recruiting new PhD students! Are you interested in tissue mechanics and how size in animals is controlled? Then join us for an exciting PhD at the interface of developmental biology, biophysics and computational modelling. Check our webpage for more detail: lsi.exeter.ac.uk/groups/harma...

Elbows up, Canada.

Today's Quan Gen Journal Club : a paper by @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social‬ & @lmchev.bsky.social that presents the new #Rpackage Reacnorm to partition phenotypic & genetic var in reaction norms - it was tough but worth it ! peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... #evolbiol #phenplas #quantgen 📈📉

Family-based Selection: An Efficient Method for Increasing Phenotypic Variability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.28.640850v1

Repeatable phenotypic but not genetic response to selection on body size in the black soldier fly https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.640052v1

RNA xkcd.com/3056

SSE is pleased to offer free virtual #Evol2025 registration to all SSE members residing in 152 countries and territories around the world including India, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Sign up for your free registration code today! https://buff.ly/4hK08PZ @evolmtg.bsky.social

Interested in attending #Evol2025 but need help with caregiving costs? Apply for the SSE Caregiver Award, which provides up to $500 for caregiving costs while attending virtually or in person. Deadline: March 15 https://buff.ly/4ayQxbG @evolmtg.bsky.social @ssegrad.bsky.social

Are you a grad student or postdoc who would like to attend in-person #Evol2025? SSE offers registration waivers for those who need additional funding to attend the meeting. Complete the short application form by March 15: buff.ly/4gSSKk5 @evolmtg.bsky.social

The 12th Canadian Developmental Biology Conference will take place in the beautiful city of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, in May 25-28, 2025. The registration is still open. event.fourwaves.com/12cdb/pages

Diffeomorphic Independent Contrasts for Ancestral Reconstruction of Shapes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.26.638985v1

Happy 37th birthday to the LTEE! the-ltee.org/history/

Outstanding ……………🤭