Check out this cool work from @crouxevo.bsky.social and others, congrats!!! 🥳 Rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared with that in animals | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I forgot to mention it here, my last PhD chapter (Wolbachia in Culex) is now published in @molbioevol.bsky.social I think it's a cool study, give it a try 😌 Includes: wPip cid repertoires from all around the world (Nanopore seq. of PCR products), crosses, stability + toxicity tests in cell lines.

I'm very happy to share that our paper describing the evolution of sex chromosomes in brown algae is out!🎉 This project was a long journey, but it came together into a nice story 🧬 🌊 Grateful to everyone who helped along the way!

How does stochasticity in learning impact the accumulation of knowledge and the evolution of learning? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672373v1

Pre-print now out on bioRxiv! If you saw my talk at #eseb and want more info, here it is:

I'll be presenting poster 327 at #ESEB2025 today - come have a look if you're interested in the evolution of sex and haploid-diploid life cycles!

If you’d like to chat about deleterious hitchhiking under balancing selection, come and check my poster number 231 this afternoon! #ESEB2025

If you like cooperation, dispersal, modelling, or you just want to have a chat, come to see me poster P03.050 #ESEB2050

Will be presenting this work today at #eseb2025 poster P02.184, come by if interested about whether we should expect recombination suppression on sex chromosomes should evolve through modifiers on the X or the Y

Does selfing allow or even lead to massive genome reshuffling, expansion and sky high homozygousity? Come and find out at posters 29 and 42 this afternoon, only at #eseb2025 and learn about an organism whose genome looks like it went through a blender and came out high repetitive and homozygous.

My poster P02.385 is now up on its board! Come say hi if you want to learn about the role of sexual conflict in transitions from combined to separate sexes is plants! 🌱 #ESEB2025

Another great option for donating - this is the Ukrainian government's official fund.

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary simulations across multiple chromosomes and full genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669155v1

After 10 years of work, a complete telomere-to-telomere gap-free genome for C. elegans finally exists: it has 106 Mb rather than the textbook 100.3 Mb, and up to 366 additional genes. genome.cshlp.org/content/35/8...

Suddenly media outlets are noticing the catastrophe enveloping Gaza. We warned you what Israel would do from the start. There are no excuses. Don't let the complicit erase their guilt 👇 owenjones.news/p/we-warned-...

⭐Issue 6 of JEB is now online!⭐ This issue is headlined by a Target Review from @josselin-clo.bsky.social et al. on #matingsystems evolution, accompanied by several #invitedcommentaries expanding on this key discussion comparing concepts in plants and animals: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/6

A list of questions from Palestinian children in Gaza, compiled by the staff of the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza:

The evolution of tandem repeat sequences under partial selfing and different modes of selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.04.663195v1

The evolution of sex-specific gene expression in polygenic traits @ewanflintham.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Over 330 Shaheds in 1 night. russia has launched a record number of drones at once. Each one of them was an attack drone, designed to kill and destroy. You can help by donating towards an air defense unit, designed to protect and save people: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

A thread of our new preprint about molecular basis of distyly in Linum 👇 Thank you @panazerv.bsky.social, @tanjaslotte.bsky.social , Aleksandra Lovsik, @mfracaa.bsky.social and @nbis.se for all the work!!

How does genome doubling modulate the action of natural selection in a population ? --> Check out our theoretical and empirical analysis of an iconic balanced polymorphism in plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in the evolution of molecular interactions ? We are recruiting a new PhD student with a background in proteomics to study the diversification of the receptor-ligand interaction controlling plant self-incompatibility. --> details here : initiative-excellence.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/us...

Hey, Miles' @milesroberts.bsky.social beautiful paper showing that sequence diversity missed by standard methods contributes to Lewontin's paradox is officially published in @evolletters.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

NEW REVIEW! Experimental tests on the evolution of sex and recombination and their adaptive significance Parée and Teotónio doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

📢 Don't miss this special issue of ‪@plantcellphysiol.bsky.social‬ 🌱 containing a diverse array of exciting studies in Ecology and Evolution. Shout-out to all contributing authors and my fellow co-editors @yassato.bsky.social, E. Sasaki and T. Tsuchimatsu !

Suddenly, something is shifting. Israel's apologists have realised that a reckoning is coming. They understand that they're not going to get away with this abomination. And they are absolutely right 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sexual antagonism, mating systems, and recombination suppression on sex chromosomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654257v1

Officially (re-)annoucing the Tree of Sex! Read all about it in JEB below!

New paper out with Thomas Brazier, Denis Roze and Sylvain Glémin!

The Simultaneous Hermaphrodite Organisms Workshop a.k.a. SHOW in Edinburgh was great. I am already looking forward to next year’s edition in Lund.

Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)! Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available. Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

Very happy to have contributed to this collaborative work, with main drivers Marion Orsucci and Adrien Sicard: Sexual selection drives the speciation of lineages with contrasting mating systems: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/7 Cumulative culture/knowledge occurs when information builds up across generations through a combination of innovation and transmission. In our new paper, we investigate the role of teaching and its coevolution with learning in this process. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Excited to see the final version of this paper with @samurscicop.bsky.social and Daniel Matute out in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social! We took a dive into the complicated demographic history of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and its impact on the distribution of genetic diversity doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Death toll as a result of a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih rises to 18. Half of them, nine, are children. Absolutely heartbreaking. At the same time, Russian envoy in DC talks deals with the Trump's team. Russia senses impunity and will get more aggressive. Ukrainian kids will pay

New lab paper in press: crossover dynamics have different genetic bases in female pigs. RNF212 is associated with crossover rate and interference, but... SYCP2, MEI4 and PRDM9 are associated with crossover positioning and intra-chromosomal allelic shuffling. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Russia launched a massive missile & drone attack on Ukraine overnight. The Air Force reports F-16s & Mirage-2000s helped repel it. Downed: 🔹 25/35 Kh-101/Kh-555 🔹 8/8 Kalibr 🔹 1/8 Kh-59/69 🔹 186/194 Shahed drones (100 shot down, 86 suppressed)

🤯 Record drone attack: Ukrainian air defences destroy 138 out of 267 drones launched by Russia overnight, 119 go off radar

This!! foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/18/e...

Since September 2023, Ukraine has hit 120-130 Russian oil refineries and depots, some multiple times. In January 2025, almost every day.

📣 The final chapter of my PhD is now out in @evolletters.bsky.social !! 📣 🦌 Using genomic and fitness data from a long-term study of red deer we investigated the interaction between inbreeding depression and the environment (ID × E) doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Inbreeding depression is more severe in harsher environmental conditions, as shown in a wild population doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by @annamhew.bsky.social et al. 📷: Anna Hewett

Deleterious mutations and selection for sex in spatially structured, diploid populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.22.634382v1

Thrilled to share this new paper now out in @jevbio.bsky.social ! 🌺

Hello BlueSky! Who wants to be my friend? Cheers, Camille Roux @couplingdmi.bsky.social

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...