Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fairly alarming language prefiguring my move to a new position

César, Galactic Insect, 1956 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136098

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

Calling all evolutionary biologists! **AES 2025 Conference** 📍 UQ Brisbane | 🗓 1–3 Oct **Talks close 1 Sept** Don’t miss out — submit & join us for three days of cutting-edge science + community! aes.corsizio.com/event/685405... #AES2025 #Evolution #ECR #SciComm #AusSci

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

I am thrilled to announce the the Beating Buruli ulcer team has been announced as a finalist of this years Australian Museum Eureka prize for Infectious Diseases Research!! 🦟🔬 Fingers crossed, the winners will be announced on the 3rd of September! 🤞🏻🏆 @eurekaprizes.bsky.social @pearg.bsky.social

📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠 🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

'Ozzy Osbourne and his band Black Sabbath pulled off an enormous coup by coming out of poverty and profiting against the odds within a hugely overpowered music industry, despite being endlessly ripped off and almost losing their minds along the way' #OzzyOsbourne Remembered buff.ly/bd88ute

Although most plant pots in Grosetto are allowed to drain freely, those that don't often contain mosquito larvae! @mozzienique.bsky.social is on the case

@mozzienique.bsky.social and I have begun our conference trip to Italy by joining the greatest and most exclusive club in Florence

🦟New paper out in Evolutionary Applications🦟 The Australian mosquito Aedes vigilax is panmictic across one city (Newcastle) but has strong structure in another (Sydney). The structure was stable across years and may be due to industrial barriers doi.org/10.1111/eva.... @evolappjournal.bsky.social

We're hiring. 2.5 year statistical ecology postdoc in Perth, Western Australia. Closing 6 July. 🌏 #bioinvasions #biosecurity Check it out: www.seek.com.au/job/85070198...

📣 📣 Calling genomics-y and ecology friends, three permanent faculty positions at @monashbiol.bsky.social in Melbourne, Australia! See job listings here.

The three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here: Ecology: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Four AI-generated "articles" have now disparaged me, "Colleagues and experts in the field have expressed concerns about the consistency and scientific integrity of his work" gripeo.com/02/vincent-l...

We're looking for TWO lecturers (in Conservation Biology & Evolutionary Ecology) to join us in this beautiful corner of the world! Come join our pretty awesome (if I do say so myself!) department! 💚 @zoologyotago.bsky.social otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

I'm hiring! Postdoc available in my lab in Ecological Genomics. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/... I will start reviewing applications mid-July. 🧪🧑‍🔬🖥️🧬🦑. Please share widely, thanks!

Are you interested in the genomic basis of repeated adaptation? The RepAdapt group now has >70 members working to re-run their whole genome shotgun datasets through a common SNP calling pipeline, sharing VCFs, and working together to analyse data. Please contact me if you'd like to contribute!

Our new paper on the parallel evolution of insecticide resistance is online now at @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Pest: the two spotted spider mite

John Maynard Smith meets Alan Turing. In Husbands, Holland and Wheeler, eds (2008). The Mechanical Mind in History. The MIT Press.

PhD position available - plant-microbe-pollinator interactions in Kowhai flowers! With myself & Prof Jacqueline Beggs, based at Manaaki Whenua, Lincoln. Details below, or DM me! @microbiologysociety.org @evoldir.bsky.social @aucklanduni.bsky.social @microbiologynz.bsky.social

It's GRFP season again, so I thought I'd share my rejection letter (from 1999!). Hang tough--it doesn't determine your future.

BRB gonna make some diremosquitoes

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

Really excited to see this work, led by Mike Grundler, published! It's a new method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors. In the paper, we and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

'Artwork' at my Airbnb is inspiring me to live-laugh-love at levels never thought possible

Watch out for Brown Marmorated Stink Bug! @ Auckland airport

OK who's ready for some science? Do you like speciation? Genomics? Hybridization? Bioinformatics? Then this is for you: Published today: "The Distribution & Dispersal of Large Haploblocks in a Superspecies" Bonus interest if you like ring species and cute greenish birds: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

A convincing demonstration of a unique transmission strategy of a widespread #insect #endosymbiont --- check out the recent publication in @currentbiology.bsky.social @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social et al. www.cell.com/current-biol...

It actually exists! A few copies of my new book just arrived. Nice to see it in person, finally. If you've ever wondered about the ecology or evolution of an invasive population, this one's for you. #evobio 🌏 #bioinvasions #ecoevo

WE ARE HIRING Technical role in our molecular lab, full time, continuing contract, based in Parkville jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91951...

Very excited to announce that I’m going to be joining the University of Sydney (SOLES) faculty later this year! #USYD I'll be further developing my research program that uses genomic data to understand adaptation and dispersal, with applications in biosecurity and conservation.

I had a chat to the Guardian about my concerns with releasing genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in Australia. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... While I am not opposed to the technology there are unique risks with the planned releases here (thread).

I agree with @perran.bsky.social in this piece - the arguments for these releases don't add up. If you want to test GMO mosquitoes do it somewhere they're likely to be used, not somewhere where dengue is already controlled www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australian Researchers, If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support. forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn... Q: "Are they eligible?", A: "Let's find out" Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!

Frustrating to see such blatant plagiarism by an article in a Wiley journal. See if you can spot the difference. No action has been taken by the journal.

Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...

High temperatures reduce mosquito fertility - our latest work now published! @pearg.bsky.social @bvanheerwaarden.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

NEW PREPRINT on Aedes vigilax - the Australian saltmarsh mosquito. This mosquito can fly great distances, but there's more to this than initially meets the eye www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NEW REVIEW PAPER Mosquito dispersal occurs across a huge range of spatial scales, from within a single building to all the way across the world. Why does this matter? How do we investigate this? And why should we treat active and passive movement separately? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looks useful!

New paper on bandcoot genomics and genetic mixing, led by John Black (who has just submitted his thesis) doi.org/10.1111/eva....

We are thrilled to announce that we will be hosting the second instalment of the highly successful Invasion Genomics meeting - INVASOMICS 2.0, in Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, New Zealand on the 17th February 2025. www.invasomics.com/invasomics2

New preprint! This study identifies partial sweeps at insecticide resistance genes that have spread across Aedes mosquito populations worldwide. These sweeps constrast with genome-wide admixture patterns and local resistance architectures

First PhD paper from my student John Black! A study of continuous and discrete genetic structure, and spatial variation in individual heterozygosity, in Tasmanian bandicoots doi.org/10.1111/mec....

To the evolution peeps: can someone point me to the best recent reviews of the demographic methods that are sensitive to the very recent history (~1-20 generations, still in the pedigree and not the coalescence regime) and/or best recent papers that make such inferences. Thank you!

The era of the ARG: an empiricist's guide to ancestral recombination graphs arxiv.org/abs/2310.12070