Born on this day - Alfred Russel Wallace en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_... 🧪🌐

Permanent Research Group Leader Position, Crete, Greece: Interested to assume long-term responsibilities for the Biodiversity Computing Group www.biocomp.gr I have set up in Crete? Apply now via apella.minedu.gov.gr/en/node/5998 (PDF also in English) - for questions email to [email protected]

One of my favourite beetle groups, even if I have never had the opportunity to work with them . . .

Breaking News - United States of America to be renamed Trumpertonia. Or Trumpeldom. Or Trumpelonia. Exact details being discussed as you read this. Unnamed sources hint that renaming of Earth may be next. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Neat discovery. I've seen a few footprints along the Asturian coast, and that alone was mind blowing . . . bbc.com/news/article...

I also wrote about this work in a piece for The Conversation: theconversation.com/songbirds-sw... 🦉🧪

BIG day for warbler genomes, with work led by @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social! Whole genomes nearly *every species* of warbler. Warblers the most "Pokémon" of the bird world? Well, they're also trading their coloration genes like valuable collectors cards ... www.psu.edu/news/eberly-... 🦉🧪

Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al: "Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited" doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals

I have only read the abstract so far, but that is enough to see that this should be a useful paper for those whose work confronts the "hideously complex concept of effective population size" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to hare that the preprint I was advertising below has been published by the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... Thanks @jevbio.bsky.social for supporting responsible publishing!

A golden opportunity for a motivated LMIC undergraduate. Please forward if you know someone relevant

Ever tried explaining to anyone who isn’t a biologist how we biologists fit into this business model? I just can’t . . . they will forever see us as complete mugs.

💥 We highlight the problem (elephant in the room) of using a single reference genome. ➡️ We put forth a set of hypotheses on how variable genomes contribute to adaptation and diversification

Postdoc position available in speciation genomics studying temporal isolation in Alpine butterflies at University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Application deadline: Jan 15, 2026. More info: [email protected]. #postdoc

Remarkable.

🎄 It's time for #InsectAdvent, and for Day 1, we're celebrating the world of beetles 🪲 With around 350k known species worldwide (4k in the UK), #Coleoptera is the largest order of insects & one of the most diverse on Earth - Some glow, some dive, some fly, some roll dung!

Weevil, weevil, rock you! Not quite as catchy as the Queen hit, the phylogeny of broad-nosed weevils was explored using mitochondrial genomes of 130 species, helping to classify the subfamily & uncover their biogeography! 🌍👇🧪 doi.org/10.1093/zool... @linneansociety.bsky.social

A new and disappointing milestone reached - 30 reviewer invitations and not a single acceptance. Apathy? I doubt it. People being overstretched? Seems pretty likely to me.

Someone needs to clean their space station

Bravo on this title 👏👏

📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!! The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits. For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

Hybrid speciation in weevils on the Canary Islands. Or is it? What is hybrid speciation anyway? This paper was fun to work on, from start to finish. The novelty is that the parental and hybrid species are cryptic and sympatric. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Thinking of a career switch? Find your perfect job in #entomology 🪲 Visit our #job opportunities page for the latest openings 🔽 buff.ly/lESo5k5 📸 Leaping locust (c) Martin Tampier #Education #Research #Science #InsectJobs #InsectCareers #STEMjobs

Just when you thought Halloween was over - the ghosts of a brief colonisation has been found in the genetic record in weevils on the Canary Islands. Guest blogger Adam Brachtl tells the story of this study, from the @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social Special Issue, 'Evolution on Islands'.

What a cool blog post led by Adam Brachtl !! 🤩 Nice way to disseminate our results on the colonisation and extinction history of an island insect species using genomic data. Thank you! 👻 @ipna.csic.es @brentcemerson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

How does life evolve to adapt to modern cities? Out now in Science, my PhD work with @lindymcbr.bsky.social uncovers the ancient origin of the “London Underground mosquito” – one of the most iconic examples of urban adaptation. 🧵(1/n) @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4515

We put either relatively benthic or limnetic ecotype stickleback into nine lakes; Daphnia evolved different anti-predator defenses depending on the genotypes of stickleback that we added to a given lake

🐞 Interested in taking a #course in #entomology? We’ve compiled a list of institutions in the UK and Ireland offering full and part-time #entomologically-related courses to help you build a #career in #InsectScience 🔽 🔗 buff.ly/MYHrXx3 #Education #Research #Science

New paper out in PNAS (led by Julia Heinen). Here, we reported a clear loss of coevolutionary history and functional potential on seed dispersal after vertebrate extinctions and introductions in islands. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @ipna.csic.es Photo: B Rodríguez (Gallotia galloti-Plocama pendula)

New assessment of the conservation status of wild honeybees🧐🐝 theconversation.com/wild-honeybe...

!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵1/4 ☕️ Your morning coffee depends on pollinators more than you might think. Every day, the world savours more than 2 billion cups of coffee. Yet this daily ritual relies on a hidden workforce: pollinators. Bees, butterflies and countless others ensure that coffee blossoms fulfil their potential.

Happy weevil Wednesday!

Museums of the future. A digital aquarium tunnel of the Triassic marine life, at the Geological Museum of Guizhou, China.

Reference genome choice compromises population genetic analyses: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

A nice example of hybridisation having either driven or facilitated speciation. Interesting either way I think, even if most of the attention is on hybridisation as a driver. doi.org/10.1111/mec....

PhD position available with myself and @victor-noguerales.bsky.social to investigate how genomes influence insect diversification 4-year contract @ IPNA-CSIC, Tenerife Relevant MSc and coding skills required contact [email protected] or [email protected] for more details B4 Oct 10 Pls RT

A 1-min video on outdoor cats and extinctions (sound on) @ebdonana.bsky.social

How many chromosomes can an animal have? In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact. www.cell.com/current-biol...

To anyone interested in knowing how the RESL algorithm constructs BINs in BOLD, the algorithm is going become public sometime this year.

📣 BUSCAMOS personal para concursar para optar a un contrato predoctoral en la convocatoria FPU de la Universidad de Murcia para el período 2026-2029 🐝 🌸 convocum.um.es/publicacione...

Nice to have some good news now and then www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

1/2 Unexpected and weird results are frustrating unless you have the opportunity to get to the bottom of them, and we frequently encounter this with island arthropods. Following up on them is time consuming, but often provides quirky insights into community assembly dynamics.

Four review requests in my inbox this morning. The one I accepted? Society journal. Our Societies consistently reinvest in our communities in ways the glossies never will. And that makes me invest in them.

I had no idea that our analysis PC had a liquid cooling system. Sounds like a good idea until one of the coolant tubes comes apart, and sprays liquid everywhere, which it just did. Fzzstt . .

This guidance from a national funding agency for reviewers of grant proposal submissions: "Do take into consideration publications in MDPI journals as normal publications . . . . There should however be a balance between publications in MDPI journals and other established journals"

Exciting news! 🌟 The VI Iberian Congress of Biological Systematics (CISA 2025) will be held in Tenerife, a true biodiversity hotspot in Macaronesia 🏝️🔬 🔗 cisaconference.org

Preprint on hifiasm Nanopore-only assembly. Led by Haoyu Cheng: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...