Exciting new work on parallel #evolution: — genetic variants across butterflies are located in similar noncoding regions in ivory and optix. — in … more distant moths, a large inversion containing ivory, closely mirroring the supergene architecture of Heliconius. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Great news to start the week 🤓

Complex Patterns of Hitchhiking Mutation Load Among Stickleback Populations. New paper led by Jana Nickel out in GBE @genomebiolevol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

📣 2026 winner of the JMS Prize: ⭐ Wendy Valencia-Montoya 🐝🌼 "...a tiny insect pollinator must find its rare host plant. How do they find each other? What signals and sensory systems allow them to communicate? And once they meet, how do insects survive feeding on plants packed with neurotoxins..."

VIII Simposio Colombiano de Biología Evolutiva Bogotá, 23-25 de julio Inscripciones abiertas 📣 Diversidad de invitados, cursos precongreso y simposios temáticos: Biogeografía, filogenética, EvoDevo, morfometría, enseñanza de la evolución y mucho más... Más info: lasalle.edu.co/es/viii-simp...

My latest Digest for Evolution is now available online. One of my favorite pieces to write. 😉 Digest: Chance and necessity shape introgression patterns across three replicate avian hybrid zones academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... #ornithology

In July, we will teach the 3rd biodiversity genomics course in Latin America, this time in Bogotá, following the COLEVOL meeting. We invite applications from students, postdocs and PIs from Latin America interested in learning how to analyse genomic data. biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com

Check out our newest preprint! 📝 We find that adaptation on coevolutionary fitness landscapes is highly repeatable, but landscape-specific, and intergenomic epistasis creates coevolutionary fitness load for interacting species due to frequent fitness trade-offs 🏋️

My PhD paper on my beloved cycads and beetles on the cover of Science!!! Check out how we studied thermal infrared as a pollination signal, from molecular mechanisms to the wonders of behavior... science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Remarkable! Today we can reveal we made a 'world-first' discovery yesterday as we have found Puffins nesting in trees (they normally nest underground!) The blog has the full on this remarkable story: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

We just published a review 🗞️😁: ‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a... 1/5 🧵

Really happy that a moth made it to the cover of @nature.com! Thanks to my co-author Gunnar Brehm for this great photo 📸 Find our study on thermal limits in this week's issue: www.nature.com/nature/volum... @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Many cellular innovations later used by animals were assembled long before animals evolved.We show that aerobic plasmalogen biosynthesis likely entered eukaryotes early from Myxobacteria, highlighting how bacterial genes shaped the cellular landscape from which animals emerged. 🧬✨ #protistsOnSky

Join us for the inaugural #EvoDevoMondays webinar! Come for the exciting talks 🐦 🐌 - stay for the great @evodevopanam.bsky.social community! #PASEDB

We are thrilled to announce the next ECR (and apparently butterfly)-themed session of the Integration of Speciation seminar, featuring @charlottewright.bsky.social and @thymelicus.bsky.social + careers Q&A with Dr Sally Potter. Find the link on the Ios website & mailing list.

I've just had a jaw-to-the-floor moment with this new paper from the Hines lab. They describe a yellow-white switch in bees, which maps to the same TF as the yellow-white switch in Colias butterflies, previously described by the @chriswheat.bsky.social lab. journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

elifesciences.org/articles/986... I'm super excited to announce that we have published the official "Version of Record" for our work on promoter emergence and evolution! A thread below for those who want to know more:

Applications for our international Master‘s programme in Evolutionary Biology open again soon! We offer teaching and exciting research in molecular and experimental evolution, behaviour, ecology to genomics, bioinformatics and modelling. Come join us at JGU Mainz!

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Comparative phylogenetic analysis of song features and social behaviours across songbirds shows a coevolutionary relationship between cooperative breeding and presence of female song that is more pronounced in species with weak territoriality 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Workshop on genetics, eugenics and scientific racism next week! #Philsci #Philosophy #Ethics #HPS #Sociology #AcademicSky We will be conducting hybrid sessions, you can find the zoom link at www.imseam.uni-heidelberg.de/en/heinzelma...

Happening today!

Wagner et al. combined phenotypic and genomic data to study convergence in Mediterranean gravel beach clingfishes, revealing convergence at the level of individual genes, variants, and biological pathways, but not across genomes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag031 #genome #evolution

David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy

One of the coolest ichthyology discoveries I’ve heard about in a while. Large pregnant female livebearers with male reproductive organs found in the wild. Goes to show how fluid sex and sexual traits can be. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

and here is this year's silly #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #SciArt doodle i spent mine breaking @mariloumercedes.bsky.social python scripts and giving a seminar on @fionatel.bsky.social paper in review 👩‍🔬

CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special Issue: #GenomeArchitecture and #Evolution, organised by @eseb.bsky.social STN "STRiVE": Find out more here: tinyurl.com/2uza525c @ruifaria.bsky.social @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social @clairemerot.bsky.social @petrnguyen.bsky.social @aruizherrera.bsky.social

Just in time for Karneval, we present coelsch ! 🎭🥳 A platform-agnostic framework for single-cell recombination analysis. We study crossover variation in mutants & natural lines, identifying the largest natural inversion in A. thaliana to date! 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202... 🐱 github.com/schneeberger...

Our new paper is out in #ProcB !! 🥳 @royalsocietypublishing.org @dudumizi.bsky.social @chorlnev.bsky.social

We are hiring🚨 We are looking for 2 postdocs and 1 reasearch assistant to work in the ERC project “Tipping dynamics and resilience in adapting ecological systems” at @eawag.bsky.social Find the description of each position and the link to apply in the thread ⬇️

🌍🧬 EBP Life — Global Voices, Global Genomes The People Powering Biodiversity Genomics Behind every genome is a human story. 🌱 Read it here 👉https://gqr.sh/kx7m Thank you to all who lent their voices to this issue—your insights are helping shape the future of biodiversity genomics. 🖥️🧬🚀

Thanks a lot to @sse-evolution.bsky.social for continuing to support the research of graduate students and congrats to everyone that was supported too🎉🎉🎉

I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

A Beginner's Guide to Structural Variants (including TEs) in Eco-Evolutionary Population Genomics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com

🇬🇧 Starting this year, Sandra Oliveira has taken on a position as Assistant Professor in Genetic and Linguistic Evolution at the University of Zurich. Her expertise brings a new light to the research of the NCCR Evolving Language. evolvinglanguage.ch/linking-gene...

Want to work on biodiversity in the Alps? ⛰️ We are offering several internship positions for the upcoming spring and summer in collaboration with the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol 🕷️🦋🦇🐜🌼🦗🪱 biodiversity.eurac.edu/interns-want...

The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students. tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...

1/28 New preprint up, which I think is the best theoretical idea I've ever had. We asked a simple question: what are the costs of investment into non-reproductive somatic cells? Turns out these costs decrease with the *logarithm* of organism size! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“First, the frogs died. Then, people got sick”. I love this example of how animals, the environments and us are intrinsically connected! #OneHealth

🐸From vanishing frogs to rising malaria: @washingtonpost.com features @karenrlips.bsky.social who first identified the wave of frog die-offs caused by fungus. Her work revealed that losing frogs led to a fivefold increase in malaria: a powerful One Health insight linking biodiversity & human health.

🔊New perspective piece out @genomebiolevol.bsky.social. "The Genomic Kaleidoscope: On the Hidden Dimensions of Within-Species Genomic Diversity" 💡🌀🌈 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... Co-led with @mbrasovives.bsky.social and @diegoharta.bsky.social Check out our thread! 🧵👇 (1/n)

🏆The winner of the Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize is Anna Feller! 🌱As an evolutionary biologist, she investigates why closely related species - such as the North American phlox wildflowers - do not reproduce with each other. Her research contributes to our understanding of biodiversity. 👉 sohub.io/inx1

We have an open PhD position (application deadline 9 January 2026) in "Theory of fitness landscapes" at @unibe.ch 🤓⛰️📊👩‍💻🎓: banklab.github.io/positions/ Please share widely! #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu ) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!

1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005 How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.

Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students! caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...

New study in @science.org reveals why some animals display striking colors to warn predators while others use camouflage. Our former group leader @hannahmrowland.bsky.social, now @livuni-ives.bsky.social was part of the global project on the evolution of animal colors. www.ice.mpg.de/511966/PR_Me...