📢 Job Alert: Principal Investigator in Plant Genomics Looking for your next career move in plant genetics? Great chance to lead a research group and drive innovation in the field. 🧬🌿 Link to apply: www.nature.com/naturecareer... #Research #PlantGenetics #PostdocJobs #Science

London Evo-Devo is back! Join us on May 5th for another excellent afternoon of talks and discussions on all things Evo-Devo. We are building a wonderful community, and we need you!

May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk

(1/4) 📢 Applications are open for the #LepEU Workshop 2026: a joint training + hackathon event focused on the analysis of #Lepidoptera genomic data. 🗓️ 26–29 May 2026 📍 Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal) Save the date! ⬇️

First preprint of the year! New work from @jimmy-ly.bsky.social revealing unexpected roles for 5' UTR length in controlling alternate translational isoforms - important implications for both physiological cell function and rare disease. Small changes -> big impacts. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Evolution of Reproductive Plasticity in a Seasonal Tropical Environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.20.700078v1

Evolution of Reproductive Plasticity in a Seasonal Tropical Environment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.20.700078v1

Super proud of PhD student @marcushicks.bsky.social who went to Peru and discovered reproductive diapause in tropical butterflies - see preprint below. He developed a new model system, assembled reference genomes and is now uncovering transcriptomic footprints of diapause. More to come!

Very excited to share that my first first-author pre-print is out today! Many thanks go out to all of our collaborators, especially those who helped with the fieldwork in Peru - it really wouldn't have been possible without you! 🦋

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🦋 CALLING ALL PhD APPLICANTS! Fully funded PhD at the UPR, Río Piedras as part of the NSF-funded Blueprint of Life project. Click on the link to learn more! evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... 📍 Puerto Rico | Genomics | Evolution |

Very interesting new preprint on detecting genome wide signatures of balancing selection (it’s hard, and we probably miss lots of them) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hmm, @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social rejected our submission because it contains non-English text? Surely we should be able to include a Spanish language abstract with our mostly English language preprint? 🤔 Doesn't seem very inclusive...

Shared among some EEB groups, there is a new affinity group for trans scientists: transscientistcollective.carrd.co Please share.

Postdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now! #postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Post-Doctoral Opportunity in Evolutionary and Conservation Genomics! If you are curious and passionate about ecology, evolution and the natural world come work with me in the Department of Biology at NYU! More details here! apply.interfolio.com/180051

Have you an exciting and transformative idea to improve ecosystem resilience? ARIA @aria-research.bsky.social have seed funding available and NEOF facilities and expertise are able to support this call www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-...

📣Deadline approaching - Monday 19th January! Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors! Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...

📢 I would be happy to host a 2-year DDLS Postdoc at my group using museum genomics to look at recent adaptation in insect pollinators 📉🐝🦋🧬 If you are interested in this (or have other project ideas) get in touch ASAP! The application deadline is March 31. INFO 👉 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

Are you a #PhD student in #EvolutionaryBiology? Don’t miss the opportunity to join this year’s #EMPSEB — a conference organized by PhD students, for PhD students! 🗓️ Submit your abstract before February 1st. 👉 empsebconf.github.io #EMPSEB31 #conference #EvoBio @eseb.bsky.social

Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026

New preprint! and my first single-author paper, so bear with me. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Malaria population genetic studies have found some puzzling patterns: Ne estimates spanning orders of magnitude, genome-wide negative Tajima's D, and over a quarter of genes with πN/πS >1 1/n

In my first Editorial as Associate Editor for @conphysjournal.bsky.social, we help combat this lack of training by providing some "tips and tricks" for writing constructive peer reviews, based on our collective experiences as editors for multiple scientific journals.

Join us at #SMBE2026 in Copenhagen this summer! 🔵 With @ergabiodiv.bsky.social & @official-smbe.bsky.social 🟣 Symposium 21 | From genomic graphs to evolutionary insights: standardising #pangenomes for population inference 🟢 smbe2026.org/programme/ #biodiversity #genomics

It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Join the 2026 Guarda Summer School in Evolutionary Biology, June 13-20, 2026, in Switzerland. Open for master's and early PhD students. Apply by Jan 20, 2026: https://tb.ethz.ch/education/guarda.html. #course #workshop

10 more days to apply for this postdoc position.

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.” Open letter, consider signing 🖊️ if you haven’t yet 🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...

And here is the working link: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

A reference genome for Batesia hypochlora, the painted beauty from the Amazon - first reference genome for Biblidinae subfamily. Led by Tan Pham, with help from collaborators in Peru, UK, Finland, & Poland. Here's to many more Neotropical Lepidoptera genomes! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open! Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal. 📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts And symposium selection is now finalized! 👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

🔔 Please share 🔔 I have two open developmental biology/genetics/evo-devo PhD project vacancies for October 2026 start. 1 = 🐚 🐌 🔬(embryos!!) ⏱️📆 DEADLINE 15th DEC 📆⏱️ (competition) sleightlab.com/vacancies/ 2 = 🦪 🐌 🧬 ⏱️📆 DEADLINE 14th JAN 📆⏱️(fully funded) sleightlab.com/phd-vacancy-2/

The DNA of butterflies & moths is supporting conservation, shedding light on evolution, and could find new ways to stop pests 🦋 1,000 genomes have been released, and @projectpsyche.bsky.social aims to continue until all 11,665 European species have been sequenced🧬 www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/10...

(1/6) 🦋 We are thrilled to announce the release of the 1,000th reference genome of Lepidoptera species found in Europe! This goal was reached with the release of Stenoptilia islandicus, also known as the mountain plume moth. Read the story below!👇🏽

I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio

One of the most exciting projects I have ever been involved in: Project Psyche! Read all about our ambitions and aims. It's ground breaking stuff, just mind blowing and even surreal (27 years ago we did single genes for lep phylogenetics)! @projectpsyche.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

***Super cool-project alert***⚠️ Come work with @dirkmetzler.bsky.social and me in trying to understand how transcriptional noise evolves in a phylogenetic context 🧬 Deadline 15th Dec 2025 (Project funded by @dfg.de @gevol.bsky.social)

Behavioural ecology in the 21st century..... www.nature.com/articles/s41... @asgriffin.bsky.social

I'm very excited that our paper on Project Psyche is now published! 🦋🧬 Over the last two years we've built an incredible community & already made huge progress. Read about this & how @projectpsyche.bsky.social will drive exciting and collaborative science here: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Work from my amazing undergrad @leyan-wang.bsky.social is just preprinted! TL;DR: If you worry that ARG methods might fail on unphased data due to phasing errors, you may not need to. Check it out & consider reposting to support a great young scientist!

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!! 2. ASN Early Career Investigator awards are now open for application. Self-nominations okay! Due Jan 5 nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Applications due by Dec. 1st.

Huge congrats to Daniel and co-authors! 🤩 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... Prey avoid predators through camouflage, chemical defences, or rapid escape. But what drives their co-existence?

🌍✨ Why genome sequence mega-diverse countries? A handful of countries hold >70% of Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity — packed with species found nowhere else. These places are evolution’s playground… and extinction’s front line. #Biodiversity 🌿 #GenomeSequencing 🧬 #Genomics 🔬 #ConservationGenomics 🌍

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees! yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/ Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches. Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.

APPLICATIONS welcomed for the ESEB #Outreach Initiative Fund for educational initiatives that promote #evolution, public outreach seminars, public exhibitions, workshops, etc. Up to €4K available per project. eseb.org/prizes-fundi...

🧬 PhD Position: Evolutionary & Comparative Genomics 🕷️ Join us at @uni-goettingen.de for a 3-year PhD (65% TV-L E13). We will investigate the genomic & phenotypic impact of gene duplication across 233 arthropod genomes! More infos 👇 and s.gwdg.de/eDrAAY #Evolution #Genomics #Bioinformatics

What an incredible resource for those starting out in ancient DNA! Thanks once again @oskolkov.bsky.social for being our first #AaRCademy speaker