Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

First pop gen paper from our lab! We find repeated evolutionary turn over of sex chromosomes in darters contributes to reproductive isolation. Turnover may be an escape hatch to resolve mitonuclear conflict & neo sex chromosomes evolved via a rare recessive mutation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking forward to the awesome @elliecat.bsky.social’s lecture today in our EEB seminar series! “Not All Bad News: Minor Genomic Impacts of Population Declines in Brown Bears” Noon Pacific in the Gold Auditorium, Shiley Biosciences Center. See ya there!

Dept of Plant Biology at UIUC hiring in any subdiscipline of Mycology and/or Plant-Fungal Interactions tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level. Apply by Oct 31, 2025. For complete details including salary and benefit information, visit go.illinois.edu/PlantBiolfac...

The new XKCD has to be a reference to the ant paper where ants just casually lay eggs of a different species, yes? Maybe? There are so many weird bugs its hard to know.

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

Hello bluesky community! I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics. Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position. Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325

bumping again: I am hiring a project coordinator /researcher for an interagency freshwater mussels project (USFS 🌲 lead). Position will be based out of USFS Northern Research Station in Wisconsin and starts Sep. 15, For more information/to apply, www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/438...

Environmental conditions influence life history traits, but what about in Antarctic fish?🐟🇦🇶 We compared two pops of Crowned Notothens Trematomus scotti: one from a fjord of the Antarctic Peninsula and one from the Weddell Sea. Their life histories traits were very different! tinyurl.com/mtmmrv8w 🧪🌎🐧

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@ramencult.bsky.social et al. use spatially explicit simulations and genomic data from Anopheles gambiae, showing that selection changes the joint distribution of allele frequency and geographic range. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf141 #molbio #evobio

The recording of my IDEA talk is up on the #Evol2025 YouTube channel, and I've thrown that together with a PDF copy of the slide deck and a bibliography: lab.jbyoder.org/2025/06/21/a...

Totally forgot to plug a talk I'm a coauthor on, but you can read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Do you want to learn about how very large populations evolve? Do you think barnacles are super cool? Come check out my talk on Saturday morning's Population Genomics session at #Evol2025!

Excited to attend my first Evolution meeting in a few years. Check out my #Evol2025 on Tuesday June 24 11:30-11:45 in Comparative Biology I (room Athena GH) on detecting shifts in selection in multicopy gene families as applied to vertebrate genome evolution.

While I won't be at #Evolution2025, my PhD students Raya and Margaret will both be giving talks. Deets in the flyer. Do mark them on your calendars. Preprints coming ahead of their talks!

Save the date! 🙆🏻‍♀️ The Workshop on Genomics 2026 will take place between the 11th and 24th of January, 2026! In Český Krumlov, Czechia. Regular applications will be oppening mid-July, keep an eye on updates! 🤗 evomics.org/2026-worksho... #evomics2026

Equal opportunities funding for the Workshop on Genomics 2026 is now open to apply! Deadline: 2nd of July. Check elegibility in our website, and apply: evomics.org/equalopportu... #evomics2026

After nearly 6 years since we started, a first look at our Evolving Seas RCN project, a synthetic reanalysis of over 90 marine popgen data sets, led by Dr. Rachel Toczydlowski: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congratulations to this year's Hamilton Award finalists! 🎉 Join us Thursday, May 29 to hear these outstanding student talks. See the full schedule on the meeting website: www.evolutionmeetings.org/program-over... @evolmtg.bsky.social

Reduced offspring viability is associated with long-term stability of a narrow avian hybrid zone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.22.655562v1

NSF funding is under threat — and students, postdocs, early-career scientists are to lose the most! We should stand together! Get informed and mobilized from today, by joining us in this Week of Action for NSF. Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF! Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Our Media Tool can help you get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

Crazy times, but I'll be advertising for a 2 year postdoc to work with me on new comp. methods to estimate evolutionary history soon - specifically to develop methods to handle missing data (e.g. ascertainment bias, allele dropout). Are you a comp. biologist graduating with a PhD soon? Reach out!

🦟🧪 ***I'm recruiting*** one student (M.S. or Ph.D.) to join my lab January 2026. Students need a 3.0 GPA and have an interest/experience in mosquito taxonomy, phenotypes, or ecology. Work on genetics/genomics is a plus. Deadline is 15 October 2025. US based students only. yeemosquitolab.org

[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...

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

La mudanza, por Bad Bunny. Sabrosura con contenido youtu.be/qYAONSDnMrc?...

How do SVs, satellite DNA & gene content shape avian genome evolution? We analyzed 45 HiFi genomes across 3 Scrub-Jay species with distinct population sizes. Grateful to be on this incredible team led by Scott Edwards! "Comparative population pangenomes" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint! We find a novel signal of positive selection in georeferenced genotype data, then use this signal to identify in-progress selective sweeps in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nominations are open for the 2025 Molecular Ecology Prize! Nominate scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of molecular ecology with a 250-word statement & candidate CV sent to committee chair Kay Hodgins by April 11 Details: www.molecularecologist.com/2025/02/11/n...

Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N

Registration for Evolution 2025 is now open! Come join us virtually from May 29-30, and/or in-person in Athens, GA from June 20-24. @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2025 www.evolutionmeetings.org/registration...

fin. Once we pivot into the world of humans, the biology of sex in stickleback (and how I simplify it slightly in my work) is irrelevant to the ethical standards by which we treat each other.

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

If you want to search and/or visualize how a set of long reads lay down on a reference genome -- whether to check a gene annotation, for assembly error, or another reason, Gio Madrigal's Klumpy can help you do it. Excited to see it on the cover! (and online: catchenlab.life.illinois.edu/klumpy/)

Final version of our cephalopod sex chromosome paper is up! Cool project led by graduate student Gabby Coffing. We have more octo popgen in the works so stay tuned! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

In 2023 at least 960 #birds died in one day due to window collisions at McCormick Place in #Chicago. After applying bird-friendly window treatments, there were just 18 deaths all last fall. Further proof these simple changes work, and work well! It's time communities start making this a requirement.

Very proud to share this outstanding work by @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social - now out in Genetics!

Congrats to @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al on publication of "Ancient structural variants control sex-specific flowering time morphs in walnuts and hickories" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our paper on the genome assembly and annotation of the Antarctic bald notothen (Trematomus borchgrevinki) is now available in G3! This paper was lead by @niraj-rayamajhi.bsky.social, in collaboration with Bushra Fazal Minhas, Chris Cheng, and @jcatchen.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... 1/n

our article on selecting diagnostic SNPs (and accompanying pipeline) is now online at MER. We are excited that it is getting so much use already and look forward to extending it for more use cases in the near future! Thanks to all for helpful feedback. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Also pumped mPCRselect is out! Work was co-led by @elliecat.bsky.social & former undergrad Julie, we added sims from our tech Tessa, & software updates from Michael. mPCRselect can take a VCF & conduct marker selection for indiv. ID and pop assignment onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For #AntarcticaDay, do you know the #fish that live in the frigid waters around the icy continent?! blogs.uoregon.edu/antarcticfis... 🧪🌍🇦🇶🐟🐠🐡🌊🐧🧊 #sciart #TeamFish

A year ago we launched our School of Computer and Data Sciences | University of Oregon scds.uoregon.edu A new Dept. of Data Science has a strong focus on social good, inclusion and empowerment in quantitative training. We are growing - nearly 300 data science majors - & new faculty and hiring more.

Published today, plumage color genomics! We trace the evolutionary history of a trait under sexual selection in a genus of dancing manakins. Co-led with H.C. Lim. #evobio #birds 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Just a quick reminder that PhD applications to work on this funded project are due Dec 1. If you're interested please feel free to reach out to me by e-mail.