How do insects respond to changing climates? Our new review and analysis in @annualreviews.bsky.social suggests that phenological adaptation trumps thermal adaptation. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

@scilifelab.se Group Leader retreat 2025 was a blast! Productive discussions, new collaborations, problems solved!! When we get together the magic happens 💪💪 Proud of @gmkov.bsky.social and I’s Tech Session on Planetary Biology research, that brought PIs, Platforms and Leadership together to TALK!

Evidence for Neolithic acquisition of the high pathogenic island by Escherichia coli followed by recent selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676721v1

Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...

The first of Jessie Foley’s work on the #evolution of #ageing in #Heliconius for your reading pleasure. Come for the 348 day old butterfly, stay for the evolved slower rate of ageing, species*diet effects, and weightlifting for elderly butterflies 💪🏻👵🏻 🧪

My new book is almost ready for you! Check out the blurbs (and more) for "Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences". If you mentor scientific writers, or include writing in your undergrad classes, this book is for you. It can be easier!

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Lisandro Milocco is hiring a PhD student! @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and @scilifelab.se Come join us at the Evolution and Biodiversity corner in SciLifeLab 😊

Excited to soon start my new role as Academy of Finland Research Fellow 🦋🐛I’ll later be advertising a PhD position on tiger moth colour and genomics, and will be speaking at #ESEB2025 this week if you want an idea of what’s going on!

🎉 Another exciting contribution from our lab this summer! 🧬 Nearly complete, gapless genome of the sex-changing central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) shed new light on the mystery of reptile sex determination. Proud to be part of this collaborative effort! academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553! 🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job

The molecular evolutionary basis of species formation revisited www.cell.com/trends/genet...

Our first deep dive into TEs and piRNAs in African cichlids is finally published! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... rdcu.be/d69S5 Our main findings below 🧵 #TEsky

Check out our new paper about chromosomal inversions in Malawi cichlids! 🐟🧬 Available here without a paywall: hdl.handle.net/10067/214834... (click on the ‘Full text (open access)’ link).

López‐Idiáquez et al. Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: Effects of climate and species characteristics across body regions besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

🚨 Super exited to see our paper on the inheritance and genetic basis of guppy color variation come out in @natecoevo.nature.com‬ rdcu.be/eugWV Guppy males have enormous variation in color patterns, with many combinations of ornamental spots and stripes. But where does all this variation come from?

Using simulations and empirical data, Thawornwattana, Flouri, @wtf-r-species.bsky.social & @zihengyang.bsky.social ‬ et al. evaluate the performance of the MSC-M model for inferring gene flow. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf121 #evobio #molbio #geneflow

Very excited about this paper led by Erika Castro. She has shown that Heliconius were ancestrally plastic in how they acquired their cyanogens, but some species have lost the ability to biosynthesise toxins, and have lost genes involved www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ryan, @rishidekayne.bsky.social et al. present six new chromosome-level genome assemblies for Poeciliidae, providing a foundation for studies on convergent evolution, repeat content, and demographic history. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/17/6/evaf111/8169767 #genome #evolution

‘gitana’ (phyloGenetic Imaging Tool for Adjusting Nodes and other Arrangements), a tool for plotting phylogenetic trees into ready-to-publish figures. #Phylogenetics #ReadyToPublishFigures #Bioinformatics #Genomics #BMCbioinformatics 🧬 🖥️ bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A 4-year postdoc position in population genomics is available in my group at the University of East Anglia, to work on a project sequencing a thousand fox genomes across rural and urban environments in the UK. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

The FLC gene helps determine #FloweringTime variation in #Arabidopsis. Analysis of FLC mutants across 62 natural #genetic backgrounds by @plantevolution.bsky.social shows how pan-genetic analysis of hub genes can reveal the extent of their broader genetic network @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ZkZNvV

How to find Evolutionary Conserved Enhancers in 2025? 🐣-🐭 Check out our paper - fresh off the press!!! We find widespread functional conservation of enhancers in absence of sequence homology Including: a bioinformatic tool to map sequence-diverged enhancers! rdcu.be/enVDN github.com/tobiaszehnde...

Modern tree-dwelling sloths are dwarf morphs of (usually) ground dwelling giant sloths 😮 reminds me the evolutionary trajectories of dinosaurs into birds. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology

Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!

Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬 Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

Are you seeking a postdoc opportunity? The Natural History Museum in Oslo is on the lookout for candidates who want to create their own projects. If you're interested in brainstorming project ideas, feel free to reach out! More information here:👇 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

So nice to be featured alongside other fellow colleagues doing research in Planetary Biology at @scilifelab.se 😁 Read more about our research bellow :)

Who falls for all these editors asking us to contribute to journals that have nothing to do with our actual research topic? It has to work because I receive so many 😵‍💫

My former PhD student Grace Vaziri had a paper published today from her grad work: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Wood Frogs from colder / warmer-winter populations have different gene expression responses to overwinter freezing

New review paper in TREE out! The Progressive Evolution of Cold-Adapted Species By John Stewart, @lovedalen.bsky.social, @palaeopete.bsky.social and others www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A few recent publications on Spatial Multi-Omics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Massive DNA sequencing effort reveals how colonization shaped Brazil’s genetic diversity. My new story in @science.org. www.science.org/content/arti...

1/n 🧵 Excited to share our new paper! We developed a framework to reveal hidden simplicity in how organisms adapt to different environments, particularly focusing on antibiotic resistance evolution. #EvolutionaryBiology #MachineLearning

Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41... We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.

📢 Only two weeks left to apply for exciting postdoc opportunities in #SystemsBiology #EvoDevo and biological prediction 🧬💻📈! 🔗 Application link below—please share widely with anyone who might be interested!

Arian is an excellent colleague! If you are interested in cancer multi-omics, here is your opportunity to do a PhD with a great scientist: www.scilifelab.se/career/docto...

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Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

NOBEL SYMPOSIA We are delighted to announce two exciting public talks on Ancient DNA at Aula Magna (Stockholm University) on May 30th, 10:00-12:30h. 🦣⬅️ ”Can we bring back the woolly mammoth?” by Beth Shapiro. 🐎✋”The taming of the horse” by Ludovic Orlando. Free entrance. All welcome!

What's up with Agouti? Why so many mutations? It's a crazy gene...

I’m very excited to share our work on the early evolution of animal regulatory genome architecture - the main project of my postdoc, carried out across two wonderful and inspirational labs of @arnausebe.bsky.social and @mamartirenom.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So happy to share this paper! It's been so much fun working on this project with these amazing collaborators.

Spring has finally arrived 🌸

Eucalyptus plantations are a disaster in Iberia. Glad someone is doing science on this issue!

The Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine (GIMM) is one of the best research institutes in Portugal. It's currently recruiting for three Group Leaders (junior or senior) across different areas, including systems biology and bioinformatics. gimm.pt/jobs/open-ca...

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on adaptive genomics in bears 🐻‍❄️🐻 Applications accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis until May 28, 2025. More info at: puckettresearch.org/people/posit... I know it's late but if you know someone still looking for a position please pass this along.

Now published!!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...