A new Science study of ants in Fiji—involving genomic sequencing of over 4000 ant specimens from museum collections—shows that most native species have been in decline since humans first arrived in the archipelago 3000 years ago. https://scim.ag/489mI2o

Amazing opportunity for developing a PhD on a exciting research topic, within an emerging and young team, located at an interdisciplinary institution. www.irec.es/en/noticias/...

New Perspective discusses how well-established theoretical models of evolution can be adapted to study and generate testable predictions about the evolutionary dynamics of host–microbiota associations. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oferta de contrato doctoral (4 años) para trabajar en el proyecto ConnecTick en #microbiología, #genómica y #ecologíamicrobiana en el @irec-csic-uclm.bsky.social 🕷️🧫 Más info 👇

🚨 Contrato #FPI predoctoral. Buscamos candidata/o para el proyecto ConnecTick en el #IREC-CSIC (Ciudad Real) 🔬 Proyecto interdisciplinar: #microbiología, #genómica, #ecologíamicrobiana 📍 Contrato FPI de 4 años 📅 Plazo: hasta el 30 de septiembre de 2025 📩 [email protected] Más información 👇

New #referencegenome for the ironclad #beetle Tarphius canariensis, a representative species from one of the more notable #arthropod radiations within the Canary Islands.🧬 🔗 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2... #BGE @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social

"The molecular evolutionary basis of species formation revisited" by Molly Schumer (@mollyschumer.bsky.social) & colleagues "The origin of species has long fascinated biologists, but determining the genes [involved] has only recently become possible in non-model organisms." shorturl.at/wG0B5

If you're new to demographic history inference from population genomics, try this webapp I created to illustrate how dadi fits bottleneck models to site frequency spectra: ryangutenkunst-dadi-two-epoch.hf.space . It even outputs files for submitting to the GHIST competition! ghi.st

El mar de nubes canario desciende cien metros en medio siglo debido al cambio climático por @veropaves.bsky.social #cambioclimatico www.eldia.es/sociedad/202...

Our understanding of species colonisation of oceanic islands has exploded, revealing unknown multiple colonisation events! Using a species complex of endemic weevils on the Canary Islands, the consequences of multiple colonisation dynamics were explored🌍 🧪 👇 academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

1/2 Unexpected and weird results are frustrating unless you have the opportunity to get to the bottom of them, and we frequently encounter this with island arthropods. Following up on them is time consuming, but often provides quirky insights into community assembly dynamics.

📣 New #genomics paper on the #microbiota dynamics across different tick species under contrasting spatial and environmental contexts, published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social by @britishecologicalsociety.org onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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 pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Georgy Semenov et al.

Glad to see this paper finally out! An episodic burst of massive genomic rearrangements and the origin of non-marine annelids @natecoevo.nature.com @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @csic.es @erc.europa.eu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Take the opportunity to share your research at #Ento25 by submitting your abstracts before this Friday, and register soon for a huge discount on registration 🐞 📅 Abstract deadline: 17:00 (BST), 20 June 🔽 buff.ly/CS8MyOQ unistrathclyde.bsky.social

How microbiome influences evolution - "Recent experiments showing that microbiota can play an initial role in speciation have been suggested as an additional mode of enhancing evolution. " This is fascinating 🦠 microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.....

Sampling for the 'MadBeetle' project is now complete! 🪲 In collaboration with @dlugo95.bsky.social, we have succesfully collected arthropods accross the superb laurel forests from Madeira! This project is proudly funded by @linneansociety.bsky.social and the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund.

[Please share] 📢‼️ I have 2️⃣ postdoc positions advertised at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: Postdoc on "Theory of adaptive radiation" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... Postdoc on "Homoploid Hybrid Plant Genome Evolution" recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

Polar bears and their lower-latitude cousins—brown bears—have a complicated past! Genomes from a >115,000 year old polar bear and 65 modern bears reveal that although polar bears and brown bears began diverging >1 mya, they hybridized up until ~200 kya. #2025MMM doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2200016119

[Please share widely] Come work at the U. of Oslo. We are advertising a 3-year postdoc in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics. If working with plant evolution in the Galápagos, pangenome and structural variants sounds exciting for you - this may be your chance! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Robin Waples' reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne) #biodiversity #genomics #conservation #evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Short insertions and deletions are abundant but are they useful markers in genome scans for divergent selection? Hybrid zones in Littorina suggest they can add to information from SNPs, despite stronger purifying selection: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Perini, Butlin and @anjamwestram.bsky.social

#ERGAReads | 🔍 Structural variants (SVs) are key to genomic variation but often go undetected. This week we highlight PerSVade, a pipeline that optimizes #StructuralVariant detection in any species. 🔗 genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @irbio-ub.bsky.social @bsc-cns.bsky.social

The loss of megafauna over the last 50,000 years has caused ecological theories to be based on already-degraded ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.11134 #Megafauna #Coexistence #Megaherbivore #ShiftingBaselineSyndrome #CommunityEcology #LargeHerbivore

It's #DarwinDay! What better way to celebrate than announcing our latest 📣Call for Papers📣 focused on Island Evolution! Read this thread to find out more (1/4) 👇🧪🌍 Deadline: 5th December 2025 academic.oup.com/evolinnean/p... @linneansociety.bsky.social #Evolution #CallForPapers #Islands

Nuestro compañero Raúl Orihuela habla con los informativos de @rtvccanarias.bsky.social sobre los pormenores del descubrimiento de la especie 𝙋𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤 𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙨 youtu.be/cjsW2OT923g?...

Great work led by Raúl Orihuela-Rivero, the master of woodlice @ipna.csic.es

Genetics of recombination rate variation within and between species Bret Payseur academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

In a new Science study, researchers present CASTER, a tool that uses arrangements in DNA sequences known as site patterns to infer “species trees,” which are diagrams that depict the evolutionary relationships among species. Learn more:

I am honored to announce our collaborative article in 'Systematic Entomology' has been awarded the 2023 Annual Best Early Career Entomologist prize from the Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social Find more information on the winners here: www.royensoc.co.uk/news/res-jou...