I have absolutely no argument with the fact that gametic sex is a profoundly important aspect of biology in anisogamous species. And yet it is but one manifestation of sexual differences, *all of which are equally biological*

Two permanent positions in HPS, Sydney! #hps #philsci

People working in microbial ecology and evolution in Southern California, specially if you have some great undergraduates consider register for #MEEHubs2026 at meehubs2026.oa-event.com We will still open the opportunity for local poster presentations and we have funds to cover students.

MEEHubs2026 registration and abstract submission is now online! 🚨🦠✨ Join us Aug 3 - 5, 2026 at one of the 7 hubs or online. We are incredibly excited about our lineup of speakers, and hope that you submit an abstract to contribute too! More information and registration links at: meehubs.org

Excited to support #MEEHubs2026 as part of the local hub at ETH Zurich! This hybrid conference brings together microbial ecology and evolution researchers through global (free!) online access plus local in-person hubs, making science more inclusive and lower-carbon. August 3–5, 2026 🌍🦠

Your favorite hybrid microbial ecology and evolution conference is back! #meehubs2026. I am hosting a Hub for the US West in Irvine, CA and there will be travel fellowships for some students. Abstract deadline extended to April 26th! meehubs2026.oa-event.com

The Social Lives of Viruses is coming to Vancouver, Canada, from 4th-8th August 2026! This is a free meeting dedicated to all aspects of virus-virus interactions & evolution. To apply: socialviruses.zoology.ubc.ca @sociovirology.bsky.social #socialviruses #evosky #lovevirology #virosky

Deadline for symposium proposals at the @asn-amnat.bsky.social American Society of Naturalists stand alone meeting on long island due April 30 www.amnat.org/announcement... Plus check out this cool meeting logo of a snail shaped like long island

Curious about the origin of development during the transition to multicellularity? A very belated preprint alert: bit.ly/4rr2mHU Reproduction emerges from ecological interactions at the onset of multicellularity. A short 🧵 with lots of videos...

For the second preprint, we collaborated with Travis Wiles to understand microbiome transmission and its role in community assembly using zebrafish. We found that dispersal dynamics can readily move gut colonization and assembly from a stochastic to fairly predictable www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am a little behind in sharing the newest pre-prints from the lab. First, Ariel Favier (an incredible graduate student) sampled bacteria (Gammaproteobacteria) all over California to evaluate if there was signs of local adaptation to temperature: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Total annual budget for NIGMS: 3.2 billion Total (estimated) daily cost for war in Iran beyond the inestimable cost in human lives and suffering (and gasoline prices if that’s what you care more about, like many do): 900 million dollars (www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...)

What are your favorite examples of successful ecological and/or evolutionary forecasting/prediction?

This is a very beautiful paper from the dissertation of @daniireyes.bsky.social in @ayari.bsky.social lab on how species interactions matter for antibiotic resistance.

Incorporating realistic ecological interactions changes our understanding of which traits are optimal in different environments, including the temperature-size rule. Awesome paper by David Anderson, outstanding former postdoc with me and Mary O'Connor.

So excited to share this work led by @alexrob.bsky.social with Ben Kerr! We investigated a poliovirus capsid inhibitor that exploits a breakdown in the genotype-phenotype map to prevent drug resistance evolution. Or does it? See Alex's thread, but a few extras: #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪

Ok, this is really cool! Using a modified rabies virus, scientists were able to identify where rewiring of the brain happens on psilocybin. 🍄🦠🧠 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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...

Two amazing people and plant evolutionary biologists, who are also two great mentors!

One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Paper is finally out!! Thanks to reviewers we dig deeper on the differences between domestication events -spoiler alert: it doesn't matter that much. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I keep finding really cool papers to teach in @evolletters.bsky.social

I have to confess that sometimes I do blame the victim... If a coyote eats your pet, it was an accident; if a coyote has eaten three of your pets in the last two years, it is your fault!

I would love to host a PhD student on my lab with strong quantitative training interested in projects integrating ecology and evolution, or cell physiology and ecological dynamics www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

The fantastic work of @kampova.bsky.social is finally out in PNAS: weather sensing and programmed cell death in anther dehiscence and opening. Cool science and awesome microscopy! @svosolsobe.bsky.social @handle.invalid @moritznowack.bsky.social

This is cool!!! Evolution will never stop surprising me

Gran presidente!

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Totally unexpected development: my employer is responding to a financial crisis by implementing new bureaucratic measures that not only waste a ton of faculty time but serve to increase, rather than decrease, administrative staffing needs.

Exciting news! @wcratcliff.bsky.social and I published an essay last week in @nature.com reviewing the substantial contributions of 'long-term' studies to evolutionary biology www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

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Are you an early career researcher looking to establish your own group with as fellowship? Come and join us at @ucllifesciences.bsky.social!

Awwww yeah, check this out: snowflake yeast making their cover debut! www.nature.com/nature/volum... We have two papers in this issue: 1) A paper examining whole genome duplication in the MuLTEE 2) A review of long-term experiments in evolutionary biology led by @jameststroud.bsky.social 🧪

#mevosky Last semester: reading group on micro evolution - trying to understand in natural communities. Wanted to share! 🧬🦠 1. Start with THE classic paper on MAGs Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment www.nature.com/articles/nat...

This is amazing!!! Find all the new posts with papers of people you follow in seconds.

An eclipse …. Seen from the Moon!

And why? Most people who are talking about this blame it on either trade policy, "too many regulations," or both. US farms & food companies just can't compete, you see. Therefore we must have isolationist policy and drop labor & environmental protections. The thing is... none of that is true.

I’m thrilled to share my first ever publication, now published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... With mentorship from the amazing @ksxue.bsky.social, I looked at how the outcomes of species introductions to microbial communities are influenced by the number of introduced microbes.

When students were attacked by cops in the México City protests of 68, UNAM’s Rector - Javier Barros Sierra - stayed silent for fear of jeopardizing university funding. Just kidding. He ordered all flags to 1/2 mast, led 80,000 down Av. Insurgentes, & gave an epic speech defending free expression

Another incredible piece of work by @wcratcliff.bsky.social and team, and the good thing is that if you do not want to read the paper you can read the blsky version in only 46*~400 characters 🤣. Congrats!!!

Please help spread the word. Open tech position. My lab at Loyola University Chicago. www.careers.luc.edu/postings/31037 A project to improve eDNA resources and use eDNA to study fish diversity in Illinois's Fox River. @danielbolnick.bsky.social @ambikamath.bsky.social @ericrlarson.bsky.social

ISME supports students and postdocs to further develop their academic knowledge and skills in a host institution outside of their country of study. Submit your application by 31 March 2025. 🔗https://isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-mobility-fund-call-for-applications/ #MicrobialEcology #microbes

I saw @fernpizza.bsky.social present some of this work on the Evolution conference last year and I was really impressed. I am so excited to see it out!

Can't wait to read!!! Seems awesome!

Listening to Shakira in Spanish because: 1. It is unquestionable better, and 2. reflected a much more hopeful time than the backlash Shakira (anti-feminist tax evader) of recent years.

Our Evolution of Evolvability work is finally* out! *technically it has been out for a bit, but all of ~this~ bullshit was happening www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Special Feature available ahead of print! Stark et al. revisit assumptions in the metabolic theory of ecology that explains macroecological patterns in biological rates from individuals to ecosystems through fundamental constraints on metabolism. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I just bought this book, and I recommend you do too!

Unreal