that was... it was significantly more unpleasant an experience than any of the serious dental work i've had recently.

Preprint alert! 🧪 🐟 If you are interested in #LongTermStudies #BalancingSelection #KinCompetition check out our new MS. Mini thread below 🧵:

Evidence for the 1/e-law predicting optimal timing of reproduction across taxa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.30.733937v1

the game is undefeated

Our paper is out! 📣 we find that molecular measures of genetic variation do not predict heritable genetic variation across species - important implications for the application of genomic data for conservation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Lots of interest (understandably so) in balancing selection/graph based methods in popgen (S07) #SMBE2026

Interactive schedule (2.0) for SMBE2026! Enjoy the conference #SMBE2026 moicoll.github.io/SMBE2026_sch...

#SMBE #SMBE2026 Public Service announcement: If you want people to be able to find you in the app: (1) Click on the 'menu' lines (top right), (2) then click on "Privacy & Settings" and (3) *then* scroll to the bottom and click 'update'. This was not obvious to me.

Looking forward to #SMBE2026, my first SMBE meeting! I will present a poster on the range expansion of an annual plant and its consequences, in Session A (no.218 in Arkaden 8). Come by if you want to chat about species ranges and adaptation! Also a welcome escape from the heat here in Lausanne!🥵🌡️

How do species differ in their ability to #adapt to environmental change? This study by Lillith Zijmers, Adam Eyre-Walker &co estimates #evolvability from over 170 multicellular species, revealing that #plants exhibit greater adaptive potential than animals. 🧪#AcademicSky plos.io/4vk2TON

New preprint from the last portion of my PhD! Despite low masked load, we found evidence for strong inbreeding depression in Devils Hole pupfish. The reason? A recessive lethal haplotype that causes a heart defect among developing embryos. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It was fun to work on this meta-analysis of resurrection studies involving plants with Lillie Pennington, Steven Franks, Jill Anderson, and @elenahamann.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Why do species' ranges stop where they do? New theory shows that matching habitat choice can sharpen range boundaries and reinforce limits imposed by competition academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... By Shirani and @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social

📣 New paper out in ProcB📣 ... and we're on the cover! (Perks of having a beautiful study species) Find it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Excited to share our new paper in which we test how competition alters adaptation at a warming range edge @science.org We find that competition can increase adaptation to warming when there is a shared evolutionary response to both biotic and abiotic drivers of selection: tinyurl.com/3j8s9t8b

This is awful to hear, describing how Sean Eddy (HMMER, infernal, pfam, rfam) has been defunded. The letter said his work "had been determined to be of absolutely no value to the US taxpayer, and therefore it was being specifically terminated," www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...

One of my dream projects, ever since joining here in Basel, out now in @nature.com : single-cells 🤝 eco-morphological proxies rdcu.be/fiyso How cells and tissues adapt to dietary niches... Thanks and congrats to Antoine, Walter, and all the other co-authors for this great collaboration!! 🙏🥳

Two Book Reviews this issue: "The long and difficult history of the path between Darwinism and Lamarckism" by Günter P Wagner academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... "Evolution of adaptation’s evil Doppelgänger" by Erik I Svensson academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

First real post on the new blog! If you follow human genetics, you've likely of "missing heritability". If you look at twins to estimate heritability, you get values much larger than what molecular genomic methods produce. IQ, for example, goes from 50-80% heritability to 10-15%. Which is right?

Excited to share our global collaborative project: “Ontogenetic Thermal Fertility Limits” 🌍🔥🦋🪰🪲🪳🐞 We’re bringing together researchers to understand how temperature affects fertility across life stages in a warming world. Explore the project & get involved: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/projects

"Sexually antagonistic selection: a review of the theory and its implications" doi.org/10.32942/X28M22

New paper out in Evolution Letters! @evolletters.bsky.social We explore the legacy of past warming at the rear edge of Campanula americana. Spoiler alert: we did not find higher drift load as often expected at the rear edge, but strong local adaptation! doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Excited that this has officially come out! Smith et al. (including @joannamasel.bsky.social ): "Why are there so many definitions of fitness in models?" academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

New Phytologist next generation scientists is coming to India! 📅 1–4 December 2026 📍 IISER Pune, India This event is exclusively for early career researchers in #PlantScience. Apply to attend by 20 May 👉 www.newphytologist.org/events/2026-...

Are you looking to sequence a bunch of samples from a wild population in low-coverage but don't have a reference panel? You might be surprised how well it can work. See for yourself in our new benchmark study: doi.org/10.1093/molb...

I implore everyone to read this brilliant book review of Kathryn Paige Harden new book on the genetics of criminality. It cuts right through the bullshit to state plainly what Harden's project really is: eugenics bullshit and grifting lareviewofbooks.org/article/orig...

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Woah www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

new framework for stochastic eco-evo dynamics of multivariate traits now published at jtb 1 new result on response of G matrices to drift , questioning classical wisdom 2 new tools to make measure-valued processes accessible 3 synthesis of classic multvr quant gen ! enjoi :3 doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

So happy to see the 2nd chapter of my PhD out! doi.org/10.1093/evol... Here, we studied populations sampled from their local elevational edges and centers on mountain slopes, and characterised the variation in G-matrices (comprised of growth and leaf investment traits) among these populations. 1/5

New Evolution Digest out! 🎉 Does balancing selection maintain fitness variance? Yes, when drift and environmental fluctuations are in play! I discuss why this matters for plant adaptation to climate change. 🌱🌡️ doi.org/10.1093/evol... @sse-evolution.bsky.social @journal-evo.bsky.social

Whoa—machine learning strikes again (in a good way) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What happens *after* enemy release? In a new paper, we present 7 years of infection & immune trait dynamics in 16 lake populations of stickleback. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... This is definitely the longest-scale study I've done in my career, I'm very excited to see it out. 1/6

🌺 PhD position in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology! 🌺 There is about two weeks left to apply to come work with me on the evolution of plant reproductive strategies at @unifr.bsky.social ! Contact me or visit here or for more info: tinyurl.com/monoecy Please share! 🌱

Our work as Editor's choice in @evolletters.bsky.social !✨️ Developmental biases & micro- to macroevution in the lizard skull 🦎 academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

We just published a review 🗞️😁: ‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a... 1/5 🧵

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

Very interesting study challenging previous estimates of the magnitude of C storage difference between boreal primary forests and managed secondary forests in Europe.

🚨 PhD position available ! 🚨 I am hiring a PhD student to work with me on the evolution of plant sexual systems 🌺 at @unifrbiology.bsky.social ! The position is funded for 4 years by @snsf.ch as part of my Ambizione fellowship. More info here: tinyurl.com/monoecy 🌱 Please RP and share widely ! 🌱

Really exciting!

Evolution is faster with stronger selection, but this may come with a demographic cost. Xu & Osmond characterized conditions when the chance of evolutionary rescue increases with the strength of selection across different scenarios. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Big congrats to former Lowry Lab postdoc Daniel Anstett, who's paper: "Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought" is out in Science today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).

How does the strength of genetic drift evolve over long times? New preprint out 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Three years since I collected the first amphipod for this paper and it is finally published! Feels like the end of an era. We show that biased dispersal towards the range center maintains distinct edges in a beach amphipod. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Eawag 2-year postdoc fellowship in Switzerland. Funding for Independent projects hosted in one of the research departments… come join us in Switzerland 🇨🇭! apply.refline.ch/673277/1335/...

'Modeling evolutionary rescue' doi.org/10.32942/X25...