In honour of "Postdoc Appreciation Week", a plug for a paper I was involved in 5 years ago (w/ @bjmjarrett.bsky.social, @muriellealund.bsky.social and others) in which we highlighted how academia could better support postdocs. There is much here that remains relevant! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why do speciation rates vary across the tree of life? Some of the best yet most underappreciated places for this investigation are natural hybrid zones. This preprint takes you to the hybrid zones in the origin of species to find a clue. 👉 shorturl.at/N7FXE #Speciation #Evolution #hybridization

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The deadline for these two fully-funded phd projects is fast approaching (5th May). Do share far and wide.

An Easter Monday treat...Puffins pitter patter into our #SpringArrivalSpotlight today! 😍 Arriving in April from the North Atlantic, their unmistakable colourful bills are the heralds of spring on our cliffs. Look out for these adorable seabirds returning to nesting sites.

If you're in #Sweden and you find a tick, my friend @muriellealund.bsky.social wants to have it! www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/10-0...

I got to speak at a political rally (video below). Today, I stood up for science in Michigan at the Hands Off Day of action in Lansing. Inspired talks and one hell of a crowd!! @50501mi.bsky.social

Happy to answer any questions you may have about working with the flycatcher project! 🪶

One week left to apply for a postdoc position in beautiful Edinburgh! Fully funded, 3 years, visa sponsorship. Explore interactions between host genomes and microbiomes during population declines using #museum collections ( #aDNA #popgen #hologenomics )!

Might save a life.

I made a Spotify playlist of @bwjones.bsky.social's absolute 🔥 set of female-led rock songs, plus a few that he got in the comments and a few that I thought belonged as well. A couple live performances weren't available so I substituted as best I could. open.spotify.com/playlist/7gu...

In a remarkable show of unity, today 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 members call on Congress to protect the future of science. Our elected officials must act now so we have a hope of avoiding long-term damage to the US science enterprise. www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...

A PhD position has opened up in my old lab group in Uppsala with Anna Qvarnström! I can't recommend Uppsala and the group highly enough. This is a really great opportunity! If anyone wants to learn more about life in Uppsala or in the department, I'm very happy to talk.

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More than 25,000 people from 200 communities have restored nearly 5,000 hectares of the high-altitude Polylepis forests and protected more than 11,250 hectares of woodland. Acción Andina (Andean Action) is an initiative that has launched 23 projects in Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina and Ecuador.

Rector of UNamur Annick Castiaux opened the conference strongly condemning recent attacks to science & diversity in the USA & highlighting the necessity for freedom in science & in teaching. Her comment on*that*executive order: "as if women needed to be protected by someone like Trump"👩‍🔬🧪💪 Thank you!

Really looking forward to today's "Women and Girls in Science" conference at Université de Namur 🇧🇪 , where I'll give the first plenary. Can't wait to hear about all the cool science done by #ECR in #STEM ! 🧪👩‍🔬

fin. Once we pivot into the world of humans, the biology of sex in stickleback (and how I simplify it slightly in my work) is irrelevant to the ethical standards by which we treat each other.

Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

"These commitments — to reliable support for science, free scientific discourse, and inclusive opportunities to ensure that diverse people can participate in science — are not separate from our scientific mission but essential to its success."

“We will emphasize the crucial role of science in addressing society's most pressing challenges, including the reality of global climate change, importance of conservation, or the complex nature of sex and gender.” Proud to be part of ASN — thank you, Dan, and thanks to the whole Executive Council

🧪🪶🐦‍⬛🎶🧠📊 New paper in G3 by David Wheatcroft, Niclas Backström, Ludovic Dutoit, S. Eryn McFarlane @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social, Carina F Mugal, Mi Wang, Murielle Ålund @muriellealund.bsky.social , Hans Ellegren & Anna Qvarnström @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social #evolution #speciation

New paper led by D. Wheatcroft: song learning varies between the closely related collared & pied flycatchers: why is 1 species more flexible than the other? We compare gene expression in relevant brain regions in males of the 2 species & their hybrids. 🪶🧪#evolution academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar...

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

@qvarnstromlab.bsky.social is giving a talk on inheritance of material wealth in flycatchers! The manuscript came out just recently: doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Open Access work with @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social Arild Husby, Jonas Knape, Tomas Pärt, @paivisirkia.bsky.social , Franz J. Weissing, David Wheatcroft , Yishu Zhu and Anna Qvarnström @animecol-uu.bsky.social 🌍🧪🪶

Ever thought of inheritance of wealth in animals that aren't social breeders AND are migratory? Read about inheritance of material wealth in collared flycatchers, in the special issue "Ecological and Evolutionary Insights from Very Long-Term Studies" in Ecology Letters🪶🧪🌍 @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social

Post-doc position available! Join us in this exciting project where we will use more than 100 years of data to investigate habitat choice and availability of the elusive European eel. The position will be based at SLU Aqua in Stockholm. Apply before January 7. Please repost!

Amazing supervisor and really cool topic, check it out!

If you are a handling editor, it is clearly important to verify email addresses of suggested reviewers to avoid fake reviewers. This is a crazy story of a colleague of mine at SLU, who was impersonated 22 times. www.science.org/content/arti...

In 2020, we showed that studies published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy showed a 21% reproducibility potential at max (Culina et al 2020, @plosbiology.bsky.social) We've now investigated journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy. The results are worrying. 📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...

What a pleasure to host @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social for the first IEG seminar of the semester @animecol-uu.bsky.social , telling us about her lab's theoretical and empirical work on the replicability of hybrid zones and their outcomes.

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Congratulations to Jing Jonavan Leong on defending his master thesis looking at effects of environmental factors on early and late growth rate in nestling collared, pied and hybrid flycatchers!!! It was fun working with you on this project! @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social 🧪🪶🌍

And the 2024 field crew is now complete and ready to measure a few hundred flycatcher pairs and their nestlings! The woods are beautiful and full of birds who are currently very busy building nests and laying eggs! #olandflycatcheryear23 @muriellealund.bsky.social @jacanajones.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐦🪶

Yishu Zhu presents her PhD's half time seminar @animecol-uu.bsky.social, summarizing her research questions, results & plans for the end of her thesis.Let's dive into high resolution metabolic measurements, evolution of mito-nuclear incompatibilities & divergent climate adaptation in flycatchers🪶🧪🌍

ICYMI, I've spent many years thinking about grad student experiences with long-term ecological research projects. The formation of LTR-CSEE gave me the motivation to gather these experiences. Coauthors Dr. Mel Boudreau and Dr. Ally Menzies helped transform survey answers to insights and actions.

Starting off our week with a smile! 😄 Were you serenaded by nature this weekend? Share your snaps and stories below 👇 Comic: They Can Talk (Jimmy Craig)

In which I post a daily shark fact on Bluesky every day unless I forget in which case they’ll be more like daily-ish: Because of their beautiful spots, which are unique to each individual, a group of whale sharks is called a constellation.

"This would be equivalent to a chimpanzee producing fertile offspring with a kangaroo, a whale with a wombat, or an ostrich with a blackbird!" ~Chase Brownstein 🧪🐟 www.iflscience.com/what-is-a-li...

I've had a second paper published this week! Here is a thread about the latest one: "Sympatry in a nightingale contact zone has no effect on host-specific blood parasite prevalence and lineage diversity" in the International Journal for Parasitology. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... 1/14 🧪🦉

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Frontiers Young Minds is such a cool concept! It's been on my wishlist for a while to take the time to write one of those. This one about tree swallows sounds amazing! 👇 🧪🪶

Go follow Loke for cool research on insect thermal biology and evolution! 🧪🌍🌡️📈

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Sometimes I wish I had the confidence level of an AI program...

In celebration of #InternationalWomensDay, a new platform has been launched to connect a community of women & gender minorities in #seabird science! 😍 Visit Women in Science (womeninseabirdscience.com) to see those already featured, as well as the chance to join, one of the 100 #Seabirder Women!

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