Evolution of virulence of a plant RNA virus in age-diverse host populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.24.713855v1

Feeding the host reshapes virulence: nonlinear scaling in a microsporidian pathogen. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.26.714583v1

"men continued to publish the same number of papers after becoming fathers, women experienced a significant drop in research output (mothers had 31% fewer publications than did fathers 8 years after the birth of their first child)"

Really neat piece of work in @plosbiology.org, inferring the hidden layer of "fitnotypes" that link genotypes to fitness, and finding surprisingly low dimensionality. From @oliviamghosh.bsky.social @grantkinsler.bsky.social @benjaminhgood.bsky.social & @petrovadmitri.bsky.social

The people who make policies turning airport terminals into paramilitary dystopias travel by private jets and do not directly face the consequences of their decisions.

Shared earlier as a preprint, but NOW OUT in npj Aging! 🎉 We used experimental evolution to test the redox theory of aging under parasitism, and the answer was much less straightforward than expected: life-history divergence evolved clearly, but redox state only poorly predicted longevity.

I appreciate someone took the time to write this. I profoundly disagree with their view, but if I take the spirit of what they're saying as a good faith attempt to raise a mental issue, there's at least a conversation to be had. Let's have it 1/🧵 www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicChatter

Vaccinating bats could reduce the risk of these viruses infecting other animals, including people go.nature.com/3NcXrwh

🧵 New paper out today in @peercommunityin.bsky.social Journal! @joelpick.bsky.social et al. introduce the first standardised guidelines for data & code quality control in #ecology & #evolutionarybiology, on behalf of @sortee.bsky.social 🔓 doi.org/10.24072/pcj... #OpenScience #EEB [1/5]

Cool paper, turning evolutionary theory on its head - gene conversion overcomes the cost of asexual reproduction… Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are already seeing some great submissions, please join them! Call for papers: Microbial Evolution-Impacts on Public Health at EMPH, a society journal with a thoughtful and constructive ed board! academic.oup.com/emph/pages/m...

I'm a big fan of bioRxiv, so it was fascinating to dig into the stats behind the rise of this preprint server from its first 13 or so years for Nature News @nature.com 🧪 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social #preprints www.nature.com/articles/d41...

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion). Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

Scientists, more than ever, have a responsibility to bridge the gap between science and the public, for more reasons than I could ever list. Very grateful for the chance to give back to my hometown, Porto, last week — and hopefully inspire and educate a new generation of young minds 🫶 #AcademicSky

Did you know we offer free English language editing for authors submitting to Evolution and Evolution Letters? Simply send an email to our EELS program coordinator to get started! www.evolutionsociety.org/publications... @journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social

📣 JOBS!!! We're looking for new colleagues in the School of Biology @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social - two associate profs (plant sci and animal biology) and a lecturer (ecology/zoology)... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8

Lilian Vaughan Morgan was an incredible #WomenInSTEM that ought to be a household name. The fly community still uses tools she discovered a century ago. 🪰🤯 Her findings seeded "Bridges' theory" of sex determination by genic balance.🧬❤️ Lilian Vaughan Morgan 👏👏 #InternationalWomensDay #Drosophila

Want to get more involved in SSE? Consider nominating yourself for SSE Council! On the ballot this year: President Elect, North American VP, and 3 Council seats. Nominations are due April 1 for full consideration! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

People have always been captivated by crystals. Turns out we’re not the only apes to find them fascinating. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis! Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

New paper showing that bacteria with more genes for cooperation can live in a broader range of habitats and that genes for cooperation are more more likely to be in the accessory genome www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @lauriebelch.bsky.social

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

So cool!

In a culture with permanent urgency, burnout is inevitable. Read the post by María Botía Sánchez, and subscribe if you like what you read. #AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #OpenScience 🧪

Babies sharing microbes is a leading factor in gut development! A study across infants, educators, and families finds extensive transmission between babies during the first nursery year - early social interactions greatly shape their microbiome! www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🦠 #microbiomesky

The scandal of women handcuffed while in labour: ‘I was so shocked when the restraints weren’t removed’

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New study shows that under sustained #GlobalWarming, the stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation (#QBO) may weaken and eventually disappear, potentially reducing short-term #climate #predictability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ProcB in @nytimes.com | Cities as evolutionary incubators for the global spread of the spotted lanternfly: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...

A nice collaboration from post-docs in my lab 😊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @jingdi.bsky.social @luismsilva.bsky.social @paradyseb.bsky.social @molecularecolup.bsky.social

iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling. Highlights: 🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80% 🔺Fixed-term for 2 years 🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L 📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

Correspondence ✍️ "Demonstrations of reproducibility are not reproducibility" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Gómez-Llano & De Lisle argue that many recent measures adopted to address replicability and reproducibility in science may actually undermine these efforts. Free to read: rdcu.be/e6A99

Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!

Check this FRESH REVIEW about how the #wildlife #microbiome can shape infection ecology and #parasite #evolution led by @jingdi.bsky.social - which I got to contribute for! 🕺 NOW OUT in Molecular Ecology 🦋🐸🐝🐻🦠 #MicroSky #SymbioSky @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca

In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication. We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #CodeSharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.

Job alert: open position for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London. Based in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment of UCL, and UGI, and funded by the UCL Health Strategy. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 🧪

We already have more than 💯 participants for #ExE2026, but there are still places available. Once you have registered, you have until April 1 to submit an abstract, so don’t miss out and register now at sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/registra... Everything you need to know is 👇 and at evoxeco.uk!

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Our Lab is searching a postdoc for an exciting ERC-funded project that will start this summer. Apply if you’re passionate about multi-omics, cutting-edge computational approaches, and exploring biological questions across the animal 🪼 🪱 🐞 🦎 🦋 🕷️ tree of life www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

She's smart... Squirrels are very alert to what's going on. They can be very inspirational.

I am hiring a Postdoc (18 months contract in Montpellier, France) to study how polyploidy affects sex chromosomes in the plant Silene latifolia, using bioinformatic analyses of RNA-seq and DNA-seq data. Deadline for applications March 24th. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/412961

In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨 Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!) Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Coming up in March! Join @sortee.bsky.social for a webinar with @daxkellie.bsky.social on good, shareable, and reproducible R code - register here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

This belongs here: #Drosophila #Genetics #Dros26

I’m excited to share my new paper! 🤩 We showed that maternal sucrose intake during pregnancy alone disrupts testosterone and allopregnanolone levels in critical regions of the fetal brain 🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @kiransoma.bsky.social

We started with a simple question: how do we actually measure virulence? 🤔 🦠 That question took @tiagogzeferino.bsky.social and me down the rabbit hole of composite virulence 📜 an almost-forgotten idea in E&E that might shape more than we realise! New playbook /preprint out👇 #EvoSky #MicroSky