Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time, doctors tell BBC

Only known from a single plant growing in the botanic gardens in Sri Lanka, the endemic Pini-Beraliya was declared Extinct in the Wild. But a post on social media about the tree has now led to the discovery of three wild populations and a recovery programme! 🌱🧪🙌🏻 news.mongabay.com/2025/08/soci...

Using gene-order information to infer phylogenetic relationship seems super interesting. Yet to read!

Axolotls may enjoy celebrity status among pet owners, but their wild populations have been dealt huge blows by habitat loss, water pollution, invasive species and the pet trade. Now, the success of reintroduction programs in their native ranges in Mexico brings new hope for their comeback.

Looks a good opportunity for #postdocs studying #neurobiology or #behaviour or any research that studies intelligence in different contexts.

We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT! Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Looks like a terrific opportunity!

Want to spend time in the French Alps and talk about Machine Learning for Evolutionary Genomics Data? Join us for the 2nd Legend conference - abstract submission deadline is on September 22 legend2025.sciencesconf.org

My first first-author article is finally here! Happy to share with you a little piece of the puzzle in the evolution of sex chromosomes in chameleons of the genus Furcifer. You can read the full text at academic.oup.com/jhered/advan... #reptiles #chameleons #evolution #sexchromosomes

Learnt loads working on this review together with incredible 🌿 biologists! We discuss the role of chromosomal rearrangements in population div. & speciation & attempt to bridge the gap between macro- and microevolutionary processes. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

A great and engaging set of students for the #Biodiversity bioinformatics @sib.swiss training couse in #Lausanne this week - congratulations to you all! www.sib.swiss/training/cou... @dessimoz.bsky.social @marcrr.bsky.social

Some of the #Bengaluru representation at #ESEB2025 in Barcelona! @shikharabhat.bsky.social @crazychipkali.bsky.social @vrindarvkm.bsky.social @gauravathreya.bsky.social @utharasrini.bsky.social

A really well written piece about an exciting recent work from Vijay Ramesh et al! india.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-... #scicomm #naturalhistorycollections #nhm

Epigenetics and #chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera #eseb2025

Wonderful wrap up for a great symposium #ESEB2025 - thank you to all parcitipants for their high quality presentations, talks and posters (here most of the female contributors, but there were more 😉)

Here for @eseb2025.bsky.social ? Catch my posters on the 19th (Tue.). 1: How can we measure genomic structural variants (P02.308), & 2. Genomic drivers of karyotype change & impacts on the linear & 3D genome structure (P02.328). Photo: cool decorations from the #gracia festival last night! #ESEB2025

Going to eseb2025.bsky.social? 🇪🇸 Into heterogeneity in parasite transmission? 🦠 Or just feel like playing a board game? 🎲 Then come say hi and check what @kayla-king.bsky.social and I have been cooking! 🧪✨ Poster P01.365 in session 1 (Monday 18, 5pm) See u there ✌️ 🌞 🍻 #EvoSky #ESEB2025

@alisondawnscott.bsky.social et al. use genome data from >400 Arabidopsis lyrata sampled across Eurasia to show it as the most polyploid-rich species complex in Arabidopsis, with multiple origins of autotetraploidy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf153 #evobio #molbio #PlantSky

Really happy to see chapter 2 of my PhD published today in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. DeepDiveR is an R package to assist with deep learning inference of biodiversity change through time 🤿🦊 Thanks to @bethanyjallen.bsky.social & Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Curious about the answer? Dive into her paper (journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...) and check out her blog post (metamorphosis-project.org/publications...) to learn more!

Huge congratulations to Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé on publishing the first paper of her PhD! 🎉 Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀

So, more rejections ➡️ more applications in the future? Can just perseverance beat the Matthew effect?

Really excited to share my first PhD paper about fitness effects of chromosomal inversions! Using an experimental approach we explored if inversions involved in ecotype divergence in threespine stickleback affect fitness-proxies 1/🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @heredityjournal.bsky.social

Finally out! 🥳 Our paper showing how a transposable element (TE) insertion can cause developmental phenotypes is now published @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🦠🐁 Below is a brief description of the major findings. Check the full version of the paper for more details: www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02248-5

BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be... Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community

Nice editorial job here for a life sciences graduate interested in remote work!

📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci

Please share widely! We are offering the 4th iteration of our free & online crash course in Evolutionary Biology, catered to students in the Global South! Join us this summer for an incredible line of up classes & tutorials from amazing graduate student researchers, covering a vast array of topics!

As the world warms, plants in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings find ways to respond to the heat. In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. scim.ag/44cSw3Z

Two research teams from @cnrs.fr @sbroscoff.bsky.social carried a comparative analysis in flowering plants that supports the prediction that inbreeding, such as self-fertilization, selects for higher recombination rates: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Brazier et al. (@romanstet.bsky.social)

We hear a lot about how Africa has 'become too dependent on aid' We don't hear much about how Africa was impoverished & exploited and why they are owed reparations for colonial damages

Out in the US and UK in less than six months! Pre-order here, pretty please — it makes a world of a difference to sales. And please RT / spread the word! www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Beneath-...

This is likely the weirdest and most interesting story you could read today. From @usha.bsky.social. www.statnews.com/2025/05/02/d...

2 days of discussions all about why holocentricity? How holocentricity across the tree of life has evolved? And the implications on species diversification, meiosis, and other adaptations! Thanks @camillecornet.bsky.social @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social for making this happen in our uni!

Congratulations to lab member Gabi Alves Ferreira who lead us in this fun project! She modeled how range shifts of neotropical frogs with climate change will change phylogenetic diversity and endemism in the new communities. So great to see this published #ProudPI 💪🐸 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Moths and #butterflies hold a special place in the hearts of #ProjectPsyche members, and some have chosen to carry them on their skin forever! 🦋 Check out this collage of Lepidoptera-inspired tattoos from our community, featuring real species and artistic interpretations alike 🎨

The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down! It was thought that Marmoretta oxoniensis swam around in tropical swamps, but new research shows it actually lived in trees nearby. Find out more about this ancient reptile 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

In which I, a person who trained over 1,500 early career scientists all over the world in how to use Twitter, tell the scientific community that Twitter sucks now and you should use Bluesky for networking and outreach instead.

Barcelona has been amazing both in terms of research learnings and meeting people, but also finding Gauri’s lizzie! (Or dragon!?)

Once upon a time, in the late 1800s, people in Japan got really into breeding mice. Coloured mice. Patterned mice. Even mice that danced. They became known as Japanese Fancy Mice, and that caught the attention of researchers in Europe and America, who imported them for study. 2/n

Congratulations @evoswami.bsky.social 🎉🥳🙌🏾🍾

@toriherridge.bsky.social are you going to write anything about this dire (wolf) situation! It is now being claimed as de-extinction? Please please. I need to share how it isn’t true with better words than my blabber.

Happy to be visiting the lab of Aurora Ruiz-Herrera & learning more about #3Dgenomics from Laia Marin Gual & the group at UAB Barcelona for the next couple of weeks! Thanks to the SNSF SPARK grant awarded to Kay Lucek. Rainy & spring weather in Barcelona reminds me of home (Bengaluru) 🌸

One thing that we don’t speak enough in academia is the pain of goodbyes to friends we make. Waves of PhDs and postdocs who come in and move out of our immediate surroundings, potentially forever.

Terrific talk by @cedricfeschotte.bsky.social on his visit to our department at the University of Neuchâtel! #TE #transposableelements #genomics #genetics

Only one week left to register to the first conference on holocentric chromosomes, from cells to species! 🧬🪱🦋🌱 Join us in Switzerland on the 25-26 April 2025 Travel grants available! Register here: holocentricity.ch

With more mollusk genomes available, a new genome-based phylogeny is featured on the cover of Science. Paper from @sigwartae.bsky.social at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Cover photo by Magnus Lundgren.

A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...