David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The integration of speciation seminar series is restarting, with the first session coming up on *Tuesday March 3rd @ 5pm CET*, featuring two talks by @naturalselection.bsky.social and @andreaestandia.bsky.social + career Q&A with @markravinet.bsky.social as part of the ECR in Speciation theme.

Do you work on #Passer #sparrows ? We want to bring together all sparrow researchers in a diverse array of fields. If you're interested then please join us for the Oslo Sparrow meeting in May! See here: www.mn.uio.no/cees/english... - sign up deadline fast approaching. Please share!

I don't usually like mentioning this - but it is not a promotion!!! Have you or anyone in your department used our textbook? If so, I'd love to hear from you and how you think it could be improved for a future edition: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Really looking forward to helping out on this! Please do spread the word if you or anyone in your groups would be interested!

Very excited about this work now out in @molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A while back (maybe 3-4 years?) there was a paper on common misconceptions of the genetics of various traits. One of them was eye colour in humans. I have lost this reference and can't find it anywhere. Does anyone recognise what I mean?

Nice to see this preprint on the factors shaping Macaronesian chaffinch microbiomes out. A fantastic collaboration with @andalgalornis.bsky.social and his team. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

I'm missing #eseb2025 but the lab is well-represented 🤩 📊 Kenneth Aase: genomic prediction of crossover rates (Mon S03) 🎤 Lisa Ammer: sex-differences in CO landscape (Thu 11.30am S28) 📊 Gina Henderson: (no) selection on immunity (Thu S48) 📊 Marie Raynaud: recombination hotspot variation (Thu S02)

Our genetic kinship estimation tool “DeepKin” is now available! Our neural network models trained on simulated data work effectively on real ancient data from diverse backgrounds and often outperform available tools. @compevohumang.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I have arrived in Barcelona for ESEB 2025! I will be talking about microRNA and the evolution of the mammalian placenta on Tuesday at 14:30 in Meeting Room 113 @eseb2025.bsky.social

🎤 Symposium: Evolution in Small Populations I’ll be speaking on Evolutionary legacies of population collapse 🗓 Thursday, 11:00–13:15, Room 115 Looking forward to this #ESEB2025 week! @hologenomics.bsky.social

Also, I'm talking at #eseb2025 on the evolutionary history of a commensal species at 2 pm on Monday in S51-02. Come along to hear about how cool house sparrows are and all the exciting work from the sparrow team @melissahrowe.bsky.social @eriksroeed.bsky.social @ruthfawthrop.bsky.social

Ok firing up bluesky again because I'm back from paternity leave and heading to #eseb2025 (with the kids too)! Can someone help an old Dino out and show me how to follow the conference hashtag?

On my way to #ESEB2025 ! I’ll share some new results showing bi-directional introgression of structural variants, which cause resistance to different insecticides, between native and invasive agricultural pests 🐛 Monday 10:30am, S05 rooms 120-121

Interested in host-associated microbiomes? Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? Then come check out Symposium S07 on Monday August 18th and hear all about how microbiomes contribute to adaptation. Gut microbiomes, climate change, thermal physiology, behaviour, invasion biology, blood-feeding, and more!

Dr Eva van der Heijden (first PhD in my group, not on Bluesky) finished her PhD with flying colours and a new hat! The hat represents her PhD with CRISPR DNA, butterflies, a tiny net, GWAS dots, etc. What a great day of celebration! @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @camzoology.bsky.social

Many thanks to @emiliapsantos.bsky.social and @markravinet.bsky.social for challenging her as examiners and @chrisjiggins.bsky.social for being a wonderful second supervisor. Note, the knitted butterflies are from Ecuador interculturalinnovation.org/knitting-con....

The LinneSys call is open! Deadline: March 10th, 23:59PM GMT+0 All you need is a systematics-based proposal and to be a member of the @systassn.bsky.social or @linneansociety.bsky.social! Don't leave membership applications to the last minute! Apply: systass.org/linnesys/

[Position 2] on plants, repeated/parallel evolution, genomes, structural variants, ecological niches, w/ me, Filip Kolář, Mathieu Gàrdere, and others! 🍃 recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

[please share widely!] We have two PhD positions available at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: [Position 1] Birds, hybridization, genomes, island biology, biogeography, sexual selection 🦚, w/ me, Knud Jønsson, Martin Iredstedt and @stelkens.bsky.social et al recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

Delighted to share our new review paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... This was a whole-lab effort for my group ~2021, and these students were a dream team 🤩 (yes it took us 4 years...but I'll take credit for that...turns out having a baby in a pandemic slows things down 😜).

Looking without bias is very hard to do. We want to “let the data do the talking” but data must be interpreted against backgrounds that are not bias-free. I want to tell you about an experiment showing how when looking at a plot, we come with bias that frames our perception.🧵⬇️

Excited to see this paper out! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I made a starter pack of speciation researchers. Please let me know if you or someone you know would like to be added. I am particularly sad that so far there are not many speciation researchers from the Global South represented. go.bsky.app/J7qDY56

Do mutations that drive evolution improve many traits or few? Does this change over the course of evolution? Excited to share our work in PLOS Biology exploring these questions in the first 2 adaptive steps w/ Yuping Li, @gsherloc.bsky.social, @petrovadmitri.bsky.social 🧵 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Annual reminder that PhyloPic is your free go-to source for organismal silhouettes for #Jack-o'-lantern designs phylopic.org @tmkeesey.bsky.social 🧪

Question for those of you who do fieldwork and need high-molecular weight: - How do you collect and transport your cold samples from remote fieldsites? Galápagos for me. - Do you use a dry shipper? Do you fly with it? - Do you use some service/company? Any insight/reposts are very, very welcome!

Three (!) Tenure-Track Positions in Biodiversity Research at Stockholm University and SciLifeLab! Each position comes with a great start-up package to finance research costs and hiring of PhD students and postdocs. su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Really glad to be able to say that former MSc student and now superstar PhD student Ruth Fawthrop has her first paper out in TREE - an evolutionary framework for studying human-commensalism. With @melissahrowe.bsky.social @naturalselection.bsky.social and others! bit.ly/3Z8nCYd

Congratulations to Ruth Fawthrop - brilliant to see the first paper from her PhD out today in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. A great opinion piece with collaborators @markravinet.bsky.social, @naturalselection.bsky.social, and others. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hot off the press! Useful read in TREE on how we can meaningfully and consistently define human-commensalism in other species. Congrats to Ruth Fawthrop, @melissahrowe.bsky.social, @naturalselection.bsky.social, @markravinet.bsky.social, @pachecoevolbio.bsky.social et al!

Stockholm University is hiring three assistant professors in the broad field of Biodiversity. Positions would be SciLifeLab fellows with a generous starting package. #AssistProf #SciLifeLab #Biodiversity #AcademicJobs #Evolution #Genomics #StockholmUniversity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Great set of tips 🔽🧵! I'll add: - If you are coming from the bird site, consider using the same profile picture, at least initially, so that people recognize you - You can reorder your feeds (Feeds > Edit), and for instance put "Following" (chronological) first, like in the original BlueSky ../..

Evolution can be fast: new study on stonefly color evolution following deforestation, reminiscent of Kettlewell’s classic peppered moth work. 🧪

What evolutionary biology/science feeds do people recommend?

Looking forward to another speciation seminar this Tuesday at 5 pm CET. This time on imprinting. Details below and Zoom link here: speciation-network.pages.ist.ac.at/seminar-seri...

Just wanted to let folks know that I am still looking to fill this position. I am hoping to start reviewing applications on Monday. Thanks for passing this along to anyone who might be interested.

Seeing a bunch of new followers, so I just tidied up my Evolutionary Biologists starter pack—mostly trying to represent folks' fields right, and get in some topical journals/societies Hope it's useful, but I'd also love to see packs from other folks, to better cover the field go.bsky.app/TUNHbNu

The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. This is for those who are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology, evolutionary biology, etc docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Are you interested in evolution in the Anthropocene?... in evolved resistance to pollution?... in the genetic architecture of rapidly evolving traits?... You are in luck! I have something for you to read... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhD opportunity in my group at UiO on adaptation to shifting temperatures in house sparrows. Looking for candidates interested in combining evolutionary genomics and ecological approaches! Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

New #Speciation paper led by @linyizhang.bsky.social in #JEB! We find elevated habitat & sexual isolation between sympatric sister species of Belonocnema gall wasps. #Reinforcement?

Plant people - I am looking for examples of species/populations of plants which can only or predominantly grow in human-altered environments. Any leads greatly appreciated!

Hello bsky - been a while since I've been active on social media but I missed getting all those recommendations for papers I should read! Nice to see some familiar faces here.