Exciting PostDoc and RA opportunity with two lovely supervisors!

Some more bizarro ant genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you work on the internal conflicts, do consider proposing a paper for our upcoming special issue in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. More info here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/special-issue/

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

debugging some slim code, and these flashing haplotypes are mostly gratuitous, but the closest I'll ever get to the matrix I think

Excited to be a part of this new paper with Alphey Lab- out in pre-print. Multiplexing overrides resistance for #genedrive in Anopheles stephensi www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Postdoc opportunity in disease ecology at @uniexecec.bsky.social with the excellent @btschirren.bsky.social and @andyyoung.bsky.social in evergreen Cornwall UK.

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

Come work with my amazing new colleague!

In another milestone for human genetics, the world's largest set of whole-genome DNA sequences now encompasses data from nearly half a million people, described in this new @nature.com paper from @ukbiobank.bsky.social: 🧪👇

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees. This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees. Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025. More details: www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

The 1st author is here too: follow @tom-is-kean.bsky.social ! His clever idea was to highlight similarities between meiotic drive and inbreeding's "automatic transmission advantage". We ask: given structurally identical(ish) problems, why is what is viewed as paradoxical so different between fields?

Out now in @molbioevol.bsky.social with Michelle Liu (co-first), Ryan Frost, Matthew Lindsay, Malak Bayoumi, Martin Brengdahl, @ruxmolnar.bsky.social and @aneil-agrawal.bsky.social, we evolved ~40% of the D. melanogaster genome under male-limited inheritance, ... academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

New paper: "The consequences of constrained sex allocation in diploids and haplodiploids under local mate competition", with Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @jevbio.bsky.social

A new paper by my academic grandchild @ewanflintham.bsky.social, now out in @jevbio.bsky.social:

I probably won't have time to make a video out of this. But the materials are available online, and should be pretty self-explanatory. Hope this is useful to some people. privefl.github.io/statgen-cour...

Now proper out: doi.org/10.1093/gene...

That's why I am helping the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social organise a hub conference in 2027 instead of a regular 1 site congress. 4 hubs across Europe so most can travel by train/bus and still meet colleagues in person (website at eseb 2027.org live in August)

#Evol2025 was for me maybe the most important meeting I have ever been to. My science will be drastically improved by my interactions over the past week. It was bittersweet due to the current situation and the people who weren't there, but I'm optimistic that we are strong enough to overcome this.

Long running project in the ant community finally out!

Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

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...

Congrats to @emilyroycroft.bsky.social on receiving this year's Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize. Fantastic work! #Evol2025

Why did bees become haplodiploid & birds didn't? And why are stick insects perfect just the way they are? This is probably the coolest paper from @koraklein.bsky.social‬ 's PhD thesis (though there's Colias butterfly work in the pipeline which I shouldn't diss...) academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

So NERC have quietly announced this afternoon that they're delaying/cancelling/suspending, whatever 'not launched at this time' means, their 2025 Independent Research Fellowship round. After announcing it 34 days ago. Flip-flopping like this is really detrimental to early career researchers.

Australian friends! I'm going to be visiting Sydney in just over a week. I'll be at UNSW on June 23-25th and Macquarie on June 26-27th. I'd love to catch up with people in person, and also will be giving (at least) two talks at UNSW. The first is science-of-science modeling talk, on June 23:

"Simpson's gender-equality paradox" surely deserve some award for best title 👑 The gender-equality paradox seems really central to some narrative people have constructed (and successfully sold). I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if it turned out 100% confounding.> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Join the Evolution of Ageing workshop led by Dr. Edward Ivimey-Cook. More info: https://gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/evolution-ageing/ Interested in SORTEE? Contact Edward for details! #workshop

Complexity myths and the misappropriation of evolutionary theory | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

For those interested in the status of FlyBase. @flybase.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Your regular reminder about why you should publish in @jevbio.bsky.social:

After hearing what scientists had learnt about the night parrot in QLD, Indigenous rangers in WA found 22 new parrot sites from 2017–2023, doubling known records and greatly expanding our knowledge of the rare bird. It shows how two-way partnerships strengthen threatened species recovery. #NRW2025

🎉 Our new paper is out in Evolution! We show how sexual selection shapes heat tolerance in Drosophila prolongata. Males evolved under sperm competition suffer more under heat stress. Led by @adenardo.bsky.social with @StefanLupold lab members. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... #sexualSelectio

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...

Male-killing! feminization! parthenogenesis induction! cytoplasmic incompatibility! etc.Wolbachia & its friends do all sorts of reproductive manipulations. F Brenninger, @romanzug.bsky.social & I ploughed through existing equations for their spread... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70024

I am looking for a Postdoc (3 years, start Mid-2025) to work on conservation genomics of ringed seal in the Baltic. The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations. #conservationgenetics #consgen Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

Do you sequence genomes? Then this is a must-read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Collection of beetles found during tonight’s visit to Easter Craiglockhart Hill, #Edinburgh, with @lukeholman.bsky.social & Warren Maguire. Logs & tree trunks searched after dark. Species found include False Ladybird (Endomychus coccineus) …

Maybe a handicap signal of a high quality biscuit. I must taste simply incredible given my thermal frailty

Excited for a day of talks and posters at the Scottish Fly Meeting! Held in a beautiful old anatomy lecture hall, and the bathrooms are “past the elephant skeletons”. Thanks Jenny and Barry for organising!

Penultimate-year UK undergrads: if you're looking for a paid 6-8 week summer project before your final year, come to UEA in Norwich and create some transgenic Drosophila with Phil and Karl! The project is about sexual conflict and evolution/genetics. Please repost. www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...

2-day per week part time teaching job at Edinburgh Napier, biology undergrad and MSc! Lovely place to work, AMA. jobs.napier.ac.uk/mthrprod_web...

Want to learn R and stats, or improve your existing skills? I'm running an online course in February - ideal for biology MSc/PhD students. Cost is £120, open to all, & fits around your schedule. Feel free to write me with any questions, full details here: www.napier.ac.uk/study-with-u...

Hello we are now on Bluesky. This is a photo of Viriota 21, a recent photo of a 3 year old stag in the study are on the Isle of Rum #isleofrum #mammals #addMam

We have a PhD opportunity through @treesdla.bsky.social to work on adaptive constraints and the evolution of sexual dimorphism. The project can include experimentation and/or population genomics and is co-supervised by @aidaandres.bsky.social Details here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/lim...

"We describe a #mtDNA variant that confers protection against variety of pathogens in #Drosophila. This protection was at least partially caused by enhanced cell-mediated innate #immunity, including higher numbers of immune cells prior to and during infection." journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...