Water anoles take a bubble of air down when they submerge, which they breathe like a tiny scuba tank, and now @lindseyswierk.bsky.social & co reveal that the reptiles may also be using the bubble like a gill, to breathe oxygen directly from the water journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

De-extinction be like.

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 👇

Happy to present my poster at #ESEB2025 on eastern Baltic cod population (or populations?), preliminary results of one of the chapters from my PhD thesis.

Come see me poster '059' today "temperature-dependent DNA methylation in the Swedish sand lizard" 🦎 #ESEB #methylation #epigenetics

Animal Ecology on tour! 🦎🐟🐔🦠📈 Some masters, PhDs and post-docs (and more!) from Uppsala University are enjoying #ESEB2025 in the warm Barcelona🌞 @joshuahufton.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social @estermart.bsky.social @msiljestam.bsky.social

If you're in #Sweden and you find a tick, my friend @muriellealund.bsky.social wants to have it! www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/10-0...

📣 @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social is hiring a research assistant for 1 year to work on the flycatcher project. Responsibilities include sample organization, data management, lab and field work + management. MSc + relevant experience required. Apply by Apr 4 👇 #ecoevojob www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

I’m very proud and happy to share the first paper of my PhD with @millanek.bsky.social that is now published in the latest issue of the journal Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📣 New PhD position on flycatchers with @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social — spread the word! Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #ecoevojob

This morning at our 'Revolution' symposium: we started with a fascinating talk by Prof. Helena Westerdahl on MHC diversity in songbirds at diff. levels: genomic organization, expression and antigen presentation 🛡️🧬 Talks with diverse topics and study systems followed, many from MSc students! 💪

Eco-evolutionary model showing that heterozygote advantage can explain the extraordinary diversity of immune genes! Our new paper (out in #eLife: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...) identifies the conditions under which heterozygote advantage can drive the evolution of such diversity, found in e.g. #MHC genes

Quantifying temperature’s effect on #diapause #termination requires fitting #TPCs to binary biological data. In our new paper, out now in #PNAS, we show how to do this, revealing the sequential nature of diapause termination and post-diapause development. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Had a great time at the Evolution in Sweden Conference @scilifelab.se! Presented a poster about my MSc focusing on The Impacts of Feralization on The Horse Gut Microbiome 🐴🦠 #microbiome #gut-microbiome #feralization

Had a nice time presenting my postdoc project at Evolution in Sweden. Nuclear Cooperation as a Driver of Evolutionary Transitions in Fungi 🍄 Showing how cooperation between nuclei can drives #evolutionarytransitions in individuality using #mathematicalmodelling #heterokaryosis #adaptivedynamics

Had a great time presenting my work @Evolution in Sweden. Epigenetic regulation of immune response in the Swedish sand lizard 🦎 #hostparasite #sexspecific #epigenetics #reptiles #immunity

@joshuahufton.bsky.social closes today’s talks with a look at epigenetic regulation of immune response in the Swedish sand lizard 🦎

Our lab's first paper out in 2025! Led by the brilliant Ella Ackroyd in collaboration with Rob Heathcote Dynamic colour change in zebrafish (Danio rerio) across multiple contexts royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #openaccess #fishsci #zebrafish

A very merry Christmas to our colleagues and friends! God jul och gott nytt år! ✨🎅🎁🎄 Photo from our julbord/Christmas dinner (photo courtesy Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich)

In a collaboration between two labs spanning both sides of the English Channel, scientists have discovered a new way the organisation of DNA within our cells affects genes for generations bit.ly/202412-sarkies. Lead author: Max Fitz-James working with @psarkies.bsky.social & Giacomo Cavalli

First field season of my PhD studying Swedish sand lizards (Lacerta agilis) 🦎 My work investigates epigenetic response in immune challenge experiments. Plenty more cool projects: hormones and coloration, microbiomes, egg incubation temperatures, telomeres

❕ PhD position on 🦋 ❕ Passionate about studying the genomics of local adaptation? Join us for a fully funded 4-year PhD at Uppsala University, Sweden. Enjoy competitive salaries, full employment benefits, and a vibrant research community surrounded by nature. Apply here uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

In the Conservation Biology Seminar Series yesterday, visiting PhD student María Dolores Barón Rodriguez (Lola) gave a really interesting seminar about the preen gland #microbiomes of hoopoes, wood-hoopoes and hornbills. 🐦 She had a big audience too (not visible)!

It’s happening!