How did octopuses evolve novel traits? Rishav Mitra, Richard Han, Trey Scott, et al serendipitously discover a unique ribosome adaptation that increases the accuracy of protein synthesis and evolved alongside their elaborate nervous systems vs deep sea relatives. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

@acstone.bsky.social getting 2026 #SMBE life time contribution award 😍😍😍🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🍾🍾🥂🥂🥂 congrats Anne !!!

Happy to see @arcova.bsky.social from the lab presenting latest results from her study system of Marmosets and Yellow Fever at #SMBE2026

Come see my flash talk on yellow fever and marmosets based on work done by myself and two wonderful masters students

Amazing to be at #SMBE2026 celebrating with wonderful students/colleagues/friends #StoneLabVictory

Kathy Belov delivering key note lecture at #SMBE S14 Evolution of Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Genomic Age symposium to an almost full house !! 😍😍😍 MHC and Tasmanian Devils @diyarhamidi.bsky.social @jcwinternitz.bsky.social @michalvinkler.bsky.social

Excited to be co-hosting S14 Evolution of Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Genomic Age today #SMBE with @diyarhamidi.bsky.social, @michalvinkler.bsky.social and @jcwinternitz.bsky.social ! Looking forward to the talks and posters

Had a blast discussing primate immunogenetics at #VPG WORKSHOP: Future Directions in Vertebrate Genomics Research at #SMBE at Copenhagen. I also discussed what my Prima: Primates, Immunogenetics, and Adaptation research group will be up to at the University of São Paulo #USP

The barnacles are on the loose! Check out my preprint with @stsmall.bsky.social, @johnwares.bsky.social, Erin Jezuit, and Andy Kern: The genome of the Pacific acorn barnacle provides insights into the evolution of extremely large populations doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/n

Our postdoc ad is live! 🔥 We're seeking a researcher to lead computational work on mitochondrial heteroplasmy in bees. You'll analyse single-cell datasets exploring heterplasmy dynamics. PhD + NGS/bioinformatics expertise required. 🔥 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Excited to have started my group @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social through the @dfg.de Emmy Noether program. In this project we will be looking at the mechanisms of host invasion by fungal pathogens 🍄🌱 Check it out and drop me a line if you are interested! uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

AI assistance is becoming more expensive for researchers, making them think twice about using it go.nature.com/3PbuQbH

PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) is now PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome). The name change follows a multiyear process stemming from a recognition that ovarian cysts aren't the primary aspect of the condition, which affects multiple body systems, and many patients don't have them.

Brachiopod genome unveils the evolution of BMP signalling in bilaterian body patterning | nature communications www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As someone that was diagnosed w PCOS almost 20 years ago … I hope this helps improve quality of life for women like me and stimulate wider research into the condition

I'm currently advertising a PhD position in my lab, to study the transition from commensal to pathogen in Staphylococcus aureus. Details available here, please share! www.keele.ac.uk/research/pos...

We are hiring @umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social ! Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Microbiology and Immunology department. We are especially looking for someone working in bacterial pathogenesis

GBE is launching a new Methods section dedicated to theoretical advances, methodological innovation, and critical assessments of existing approaches. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

🎤🔬RSVP for our podcast workshop this Saturday! Click the link in our profile, use the QR code, or visit bit.ly/science-podcast! Learn and get resources on how to: •Develop a podcast idea •Audio storytelling and script writing  •Recording and editing #Bsci #bscientists #scicomm #podcast #journalism

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Come watch me talk about bats living at their thermal limits! 🦇❄️🔥 The talk is available FREE via Zoom on 06 May 2026 at 9 AM Eastern US Time, and will be made available for viewing afterwards on the GBatNet YouTube channel. Register for free here: www.gbatnet.org/events/therm... 🧪🌎

🦇 Bats live in the countryside, towns and cities across the UK. They are most active in the summer months when they come out of hibernation, hunt insects, give birth and raise their young. You are more likely to see bats around sunset or sunrise in warm, dry weather. www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...

Such an amazing honor! Thanks to my students, colleagues, collaborators and mentors for making science so fun!

Congrats to @acstone.bsky.social for receiving the @official-smbe.bsky.social Life Time contribution award!!!!!!

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)! For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions). Scholarships available, Pls RP! shorturl.at/fo1GA

Excited to be giving a departmental seminar on marmoset hybridization at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Jagiellonian University in Krakow!

Wear particles from tyres and brakes are far more prevalent and more damaging than you might think. My latest article for @forbes.com digs into some recent research on the impact of non-exhaust emissions 🧪⚛️ 👩🏼‍🔬 www.forbes.com/sites/laurie...

Looking forward to kicking off the seminar series of our special topic network on structural variants #SV in evolutionary biology. @eseb.bsky.social Join us in listening to Pr. Rieseberg on April 29

Congrats Hungry! Congrats humanity! Congrats EU!!🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

Pesticides may wreak havoc on the gut microbiome | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Cool #eDNA work by @pedrobd.bsky.social & colleagues!

#ElonMusk is a conman. That is his skill. He’s not an engineer, nor an inventor, nor, as @karaswisher.bsky.social once called him “a real life Tony Stark”. He is a malignant conman. A sociopath. A liar. From #Hyperloop to #Neuralink to #DOGE, he sucks up tax dollars & causes deaths. #USAID

Excited to share our preprint—this work pushes common marmoset genomics into a new era and reveals unexpected immune complexity in a key primate model A Complete Genome for the Common Marmoset www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What a line up! #NK3AR Register here tr.ee/nk3ar

Live imaging of macrophages and neutrophils in a transgenic zebrafish larva. Credit to Prof. Anna Huttenlocher Lab @uwmadisonmmi.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor position in Molecular Microbiology available at Lund University, Sweden: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

We are looking for a Postdoc to join our lab at @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social. This is a dry-lab focused post on the computational analysis of long read single-cell sequencing data to understand the role of transposable elements (TEs) in early development. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... #TEsky

📣 ERGA is offering 2 awards to support participation in #SMBE2026, each covering 50% of the early-bird onsite registration fee. Apply by 22 March 2026: www.cognitoforms.com/ERGAEuropean... Please, share this opportunity with ERGA colleagues who may be interested. @official-smbe.bsky.social

Want to learn a new skill relatedness to evolutionary immunology ? Want to visit a host institution to do so ? Check out this open call from #EVIMNET. Please share!

Just a reminder, we not only wrote about the profiteering nature of the Springer-Nature Discover journal series, but we made a "guess the publisher" game! hal.science/hal-05113253 Game by @pagomba.bsky.social pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/ #OpenAccess #AcademicSky #FoSci #MDPI #SciPub

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase “accused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory “hasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

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

CellWhisperer can now run on your laptop. Talk to your cells! And check out our paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spain's MEP Irene Montero: “Because no one stopped the genocide in Gaza, the United States and Israel are now targeting Venezuela and Iran. We must isolate the U.S. and Israel now, so they can no longer spread terror across the globe.”

This International Women's Day, we asked these award winners to name a woman who has had a positive impact on their career and wellbeing go.nature.com/4uawrOB

snputils (snputils.org): A High-Performance Python Library for Genetic Variation and Population Structure www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/AI-sandbox/s...