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Research on the tenacious little killifish sheds light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants impacts later generations. From @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social

2 new papers now out in #ES&T on the persistent and multi-generational impacts of flame retardants on behavior and brain biology Press release from ‪@ucdavis.bsky.social‬ ‪@ucdaviscaes.bsky.social‬ that ties this with our work on multi-gen impacts of oil spills www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

🚨Research alert 🚨 A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping #UCDavis researchers shed new light on how maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations. #DeepwaterHorizon #PBTE caes.ucdavis.edu/news/materna...

Our collaborative study shows that hatchery domestication in Delta smelt elevates thermal tolerance but reduces plasticity, with transcriptome and methylome shifts influencing adaptation. Read the preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper out in #ES&T where we show that killifish exposure to crude oil has impacts (on embryo/larval development and transcriptome) that propagate to their offspring and to their grand-offspring. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... @acs.org

I am thrilled to announce that in January 2026 I will be starting my own lab at NYU Biology! Soon enough I will be recruiting postdocs and students! Please reach out if you are interested with a CV and description of your research interests, or if you know of people who could be interested! 🧬🗽 🦊

Wish I could be at #Evol2025 this year! I’ll be starting a new lab at NYU this fall, and will be recruiting at all levels. Please spread the word if you know anyone who wants to work on evo. genomics, phylogenies, and comparative development of inverts (like Hawaiian Drosophila!) shchurch.github.io

🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies 2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ. Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct. Details: christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com

Anya Brown - @dranyabrown.bsky.social, marine scientist at @ucdavis.bsky.social & Nat Geo Explorer, studies how coral microbes shape reef resilience. “It’s the kind of thing that unites so much of life on Earth,” she says. 🌊🪸🐠 Read more in Nat Geo: www.nationalgeographic.com/impact/artic...

This is a great thread, with some really nice talking points for your letters to your reps, your protest signs, your zines and flyers, and your conversations with neighbors.

"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

Interested in evolution in the Anthropocene? In a paper out today we use a mechanism-guided approach to predict & show that evolved resistance to urban pollutants offers cross-resistance to oil in killifish, via adaptive change in AHR signaling doi.org/10.1111/eva.... @evolappjournal.bsky.social

New @science.org Exposomics. We're not doing nearly enough to understand and mitigate our toxic environmental exposures. A very insightful perspective www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

Hosted listening sessions with undergrad students in our program over the past 2 days. Their main concerns (perhaps unsurprisingly): - students from non-traditional identities worried if institute has their backs - worry about grad school prospects, job prospects, loss of educational opportunities

New preprint from the lab: Exposure to crude oil in adult killifish has effects (morphology, gene expression) that propagate at least two generations, but effects are different between first and second generation descendants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint from the lab, where we describe how evolved resistance to PCBs in urban populations of killifish affords protection from fitness impacts of crude oil - in adults and embryos - because of shared mechanisms of toxicity between PCBs and oil www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For folks who are new to single-cell transcriptomics, does anyone have any recommendations for workshops?

If you missed it, here’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s, quite sincerely, historic speech. It’s for, and is galvanizing, Canadians but he also speaks very directly to our allies in the US. Please hear us out. I do find myself thinking how much I’d give up, and do, for this imperfect country.

Love the term "Shitthropocene". I figure we'll use it in our next manuscript title. "Shitthropocene? Fish evolve the gene: The story of aryl hydrocarbon receptor" www.patagonia.com/quality/#shi...

A fun conversation with Will Tingle on the Naked Genetics podcast about role of hybridization in conservation. We touched on some controversial topics. What do you think? www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int...

Guest blog from me on Dynamic Ecology, a guide for beginning grads on developing a reading habit and project ideas! Super grateful for reposts :)

Wow! The complex genomic and epigenetic variation that builds the tasty diversity of Brassica oleracea (the single species that forms broccoli, cauliflower, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts) 🧪🥦🥬

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/...

Reposting here with some edits for brevity... (from @prosanta.bsky.social in the other place): The Museum of Natural Science at LSU is hiring three collections managers!!! Apply at the following links: Mammals: bit.ly/3u5lmUT Birds: bit.ly/3u8x9BE Genetic Resources: bit.ly/3UivQL8

Maybe. Nice article about rapid adaptation in the Anthropocene by @scibri.bsky.social and featuring interviews with @ryanamartin.bsky.social, Sarah Diamond, Luciano Beheregaray hakaimagazine.com/news/can-ani... via @hakaimagazine.bsky.social

Interested in #conservation #genomics #hatcheries #thermaltolerance #phasing #imputation #GWAS approaches? Come see my talk at #SICB2024 Saturday at 9:15am room 613/613

Hey SICB gang! If you are interested in conservation genetics and quantitative genetics of thermal resilience then be sure to check out Joanna’s awesome work… #SICB2024

If you had the opportunity to launch some philanthropic giving initiatives in your department, what would be your top 2 priorities?

I am *thrilled* to finally announce that our department is hiring an Evolutionary Biologist. We are esp looking genetic/genomic expertise, and those who can help us build a more equitable biology community at UCSB. Please apply by Jan 15! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02635 #unicornjob

As jobs are coming out and folks are applying, here's your regular reminder of lots of examples of successful job apps (mostly research academia but also industry, PUI, gov). And if you've gotten a job recently, please consider contributing! github.com/RILAB/statem...

Reminder: I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for my group at UT Austin's Marine Science Institute, preferably with expertise in population genetics, biogeochemistry, or quantitative ecology/modeling. Deadline for apps is Dec 8th! Please spread the word! fishandfunctions.com/join

Also, we are recruiting a Professor of Toxicology with focus on food and drinking water www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

We finally have a lab logo - check it out! FYI: we had this done through 99designs. Ran a contest, had about a dozen or so entries, after a few back-and-forth revisions of our favorites we picked a winner. This cost $300. Could have done cheaper with AI but I like paying people...

Today we publish a new paper on a molecular phylogeny of true crabs. We find crabs transitioned from marine to non-marine environments 7-17x over 100+ myr! This culminates 15+ years(!) of effort from an international team! 1/4 (thread in replies) academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan... 🧪🦀🦑#evosky

Hey genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) folks. Where are you going for library preparation these days? We haven't done GBS in a while, but have a new QTL project where it would be appropriate. Our go-to group no longer exists, and I'm not sure I want to do it in-house. Any guidance much appreciated!

Let's talk about radiotrophic fungi. I want to start with the most surprising fact about them: they don't just SURVIVE in high radiation environments, they grow at *FOUR TIMES* the rate they would in background radiation. Our best guess is they're "eating" radiation.

Checking out besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... A dynamic web resource for robust and reproducible genomics in nonmodel species: marineomics.io

It's fun to get to share our new study in Science tracking nearly 4,000 Galápagos finches using genomics over 30 years! Interested in how genomics can teach us about contemporary evolution? 1/ www.science.org/doi/full/10....

The strain on scientific publishing 📄: We've got issues. Scientists overwhelmed, editors overworked, constant special issue invites, mass article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!? See: arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884 A 🧵1/n #AcademicChatter #PublishOrPerish #PhDAdvice #PhDChat

I too am recruiting graduate students, postdocs, and a lab technician for my group at UChicago, starting fall 2024! We will be doing exciting work to uncover the limits of plant adaptation in changing environments.

Hi folks. Recently joined bluesky. I’m a molecular biologist focusing on epigenetics and evolution. In my group we study the interplay of genetics and epigenetics in wild animal populations. I am also doing aquaculture microbiomics, and collaborate at my institute on anything fish and wildlife.

Hi folks. Just joined bluesky. I’m an ecotoxicologist and evolutionary biologist. In my lab we study the genetic and functional genomic basis of species persistence in human-altered environments. Local adaptation, phenotypic plasticity etc. core model is killifish, but other aquatic critters too…