Modestly, we decided to review a century's worth of theories of balancing selection :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS!! New Special Issue on "Foundations of Internal Conflicts": academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca... #internalconflict #selfishelements #meioticdrive #imprintedgenes #reproductiveparasitism

2025 Student Paper Award: Evolution in one sex is often affected by selection acting on the opposite sex. Geeta Arun et al. explore this using fruit flies and find that responses to selection are largely parallel between sexes. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Every year #ESEB distinguishes a young evolutionary biologist with the John Maynard Smith Prize! Nominations for the 2026 prize are due by January 15th! Find out more here: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today. Available as book, on kindle and as audio. I would be really grateful for reposts. www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So... www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...

Do you have something to say about evolutionary biology? Consider a Review or Target Review at @jevbio.bsky.social ! Target reviews are an especially fun way to express your opinion, and then get your friends and frenemies to converse with you on that topic. bsky.app/profile/jevb...

Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis? @jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles! Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...

We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)

The next deadline for ECRs, within 5 years of their first faculty position, to apply for JEB's next round of Kickstart Travel Grants and ECR Visiting Fellowships is 28 November, so don't miss the chance to apply for helpful funding biologists.com/grants/#jeb

📣CALL FOR PAPERS! Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...

LMB PhD studentship available in the Baum lab to use informatics to infer cell structure from genomic data in collaboration with the brilliant Tom Williams. If you write to me and I don’t reply - try again - the spam filter is hungry…

I am so dismayed a the statement today from the President of the @royalsociety.org that I want to publish here the letter I wrote to him yesterday urging him to address the clear concerns of the UK scientific community.

🔁 Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open. We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting. 🗓️ Deadline: October 15th More information: smbe2026.org/symposia #SMBE2026

Read the latest issue of @jevbio.bsky.social here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/9 On the cover: A yellow-billed long-tailed finch Poephila acuticauda acuticada and a red-billed long-tailed finch P. a. hecki. 📸 Simon C. Griffith.

We have just published a paper in Genome Biology, rdcu.be/eIMLf. We explore the information flow between genome, gene body methylation, transcriptome, translatome and proteome in Arabidopsis. This is part of a BBSRC-funded collaboration with UCL, Rothamsted Research and University of Cambridge.

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

2 job adverts on a NERC project w myself + @darrenobbard.bsky.social on “What determines the virome: ecology and the environment, evolution, or species history?” early 2026 in @uniexecec.bsky.social - Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... - RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Pls share!

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB! 🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Read the current issue of @jevbio.bsky.social here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue 📸 Heiko Bellmann Adult #Nicrophorus vespilloides #beetle in the act of feeding its offspring atop a vertebrate carcass the beetles have monopolised.

The Braendle Lab in Nice, France is hiring two postdocs to study nematode genetics, evolution, and ecology. Start Jan–Jul 2026. Deadline Nov 30, 2025. Apply: [email protected]

Join us this Friday at 13:00 UTC for the first Internal Conflicts STN seminar of this academic year, featuring Laurence Hurst and Phil Madgwick! Details via internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/, also on several upcoming seminars.

Open postdoc position in in my lab in Berlin @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de. Join us to push the frontier in ancient microbial genomics. Please apply until Oct 17th. Reach out in case you have any questions. www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2193291/job_...

Important heads up! This is crazy

London tube strike.

If you work on the internal conflicts, do consider proposing a paper for our upcoming special issue in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. More info here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/special-issue/

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

Please re-post: If you know (or are!) somebody who might fancy doing a PhD (Oct 2026 start) in my group @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social, working on chromatin evolution in prokaryotes (or other things we're interested in), please have a look at www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/supervisors-...

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

I could not agree more. As Mike Ritchie said in his #ESEB presidential address: learned societies have never been more important than now! @eseb.bsky.social

Mike Ritchie emphasising the huge importance of supporting society journals like JEB in his ESEB presidential address, Barcelona. @eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

Aurelien Tellier presenting the details of #eseb2027 which will be a hub meeting, with connected and local sessions in 4 hubs (Gothenburg, Munich, London, Istanbul) eseb2027.org #eseb2025

An interesting editorial by @judithmank.bsky.social, with thoughts on the use and misuse of AI in academic publishing at @evolletters.bsky.social (and elsewhere).

Submit to @jevbio.bsky.social, we’re the coolest! ;)

@jevbio.bsky.social will be at #eseb2025! Come and talk to us about your work, projects for reviews, proposals for Special Issues, ways to get involved or anything else.

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE JUST RELEASED! Sex unfolded: sex, asex, sexes. Read the introductory editorial by Guest Editors D. Roze, S Glemin, @thomaslenormand.bsky.social & K. Van Doninck here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/7 Fantastic cover art by Caroline Blanc.

#editorbio @caritalindstedt.bsky.social has been an Associate Editor at #teamJEB since 2023 - great to have her on board!

#editorbio @jorisbertrand.bsky.social joined #teamJEB this year! We are delighted to have him with us

Better late than never: the “June” issue of @jevbio.bsky.social is out!

If you are at #SMBE2025, go and listen to why you should publish your work in a #societyjournal! 👇 And don’t forget to submit to @jevbio.bsky.social. ;)

#editorbio @nedabarghi.bsky.social joined #teamJEB in early 2023

New preprint about open science in eco-evo! We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

If you are at @eseb2025.bsky.social in Barcelona in August, join us for the @jevbio.bsky.social Stearns Prize symposium!

#editorbio Craig Walling #quantgen #lifehistory #evolutionofaging #tradeoffs @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edinburghbiology.bsky.social

#editorbio @scottpegan.bsky.social joined #teamJEB this year - a broadly trained evolutionary biologist that specialises in the study of speciation, the evolution of ecological specialisation, and eco-evolutionary dynamics of plant-insect interactions at the population scale

A new paper by my academic grandchild @ewanflintham.bsky.social, now out in @jevbio.bsky.social:

#editorbio @charlesmullon.bsky.social has been with us as Associate Editor since joining #teamJEB in 2023

We are recruiting for a Research Technician to support our lab's experimental evolution work with Drosophila melanogaster at UCL. Do you have recent insect husbandry experience and want to be a key part of an academic research environment? We'd love to hear from you www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

#editorbio @polejit.bsky.social joined JEB as an Associate Editor in early 2025 having already Guest Edited on a previous Special Issue: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/37/6