The first Academic Renewal interview is now live! Denis Bourguet & Thomas Guillemaud, co-founders of Peer Community In, discuss peer review, diamond open access, and scholarly publishing organised around researchers rather than publishers. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/taking-pub...

Public money should not flow automatically to journals that fail to meet acceptable standards of editorial quality, transparency and accountability. In this post I ask what a journal accreditation system might look like & how it could work. academicrenewal.substack.com/p/building-a...

Monday's thought's on APCs and why we should stop paying fees to publishers who do not earn the money (and plunder the system) academicrenewal.substack.com/p/stop-payin...

Our piece about academic renewal is now out in the Times Higher Education. It deals with a familiar topic on which there have been multiple high-level declarations. We need to move beyond the symbolic. Early career researchers, pls read + ask questions! www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/academ...

Wall lizards are in the spotlight. 🦎 Recent features in The Guardian and National Geographic highlight research connected to Nathalie Feiner’s group on Mediterranean wall lizards. Biodiversity also lives within species. www.evolbio.mpg.de/3884924/wall...

Congratulations, Eva! This is great news! @estukenbrock.bsky.social @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de #evolbio #leopoldina #crop #pathogen #fungi

Women in Evolutionary Biology II takes place 1–3 June 2026 — and we’re delighted to spotlight this year’s keynote speakers: 🌟 Tiana Kohlsdorf, Laasya Samhita, Laura Nuño de la Rosa, Marjon de Vos, Kateryna Makova & Catalina Chaparro Pedraza lnkd.in/erb6wQbW #WomenInEvoBio #EvolutionaryBiology

Deadline approaches: Applications for our workshop “Tracing evolution through cell lineages” are open until 29 May. 12–14 Oct 2026 | MPI EvolBio, Plön For researchers working on cell lineages & evolution. Apply: lnkd.in/eZnJuYcr

Thought-provoking #read: The #Political #Gene Last #book by the late Bengt Olle Bengtsson, genetics prof, Lund University, on how #ideologies – #communism, #socialdemocracy, #liberalism, #conservatism, #nazism – have reacted to the #scientific ideas and results of #genetics. Is it in our #DNA?

Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.

(Young) chronobiologists, save the date! 📅⏰🌗 Great topic, great organisers, great place! #chronobiology #circadian #circatidal #circalunar #circannual @juleneumann.bsky.social @nils-reinhard.bsky.social @lhueppe.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social @aberdlsagb.bsky.social

Happy to share our new publication @plos.org! Lead by our former PhD student Alec Jacobsen (alecjacobsen.github.io), now postdoc with Anja Felmy @lunduniversity.bsky.social. A valuable collaboration with @gokhalecs.bsky.social, former colleague at @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social, now @uni-wuerzburg.de.

Facial diversity in birds and mammals doesn’t just come from different signals – but from how cells respond to them. A new study in Science Advances shows evolution acts on both: signal placement and cellular interpretation. More Info: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3879733/news... @marketa-kau.bsky.social

#Inspired by @nikihubbard.bsky.social I made a #colour palette for #Clunio marinus. What a #colourful world! 🪰🪰🪰🪰🦟🪰🪰🪰 #marinelife #invertebrates #scicomm #dataviz #insects #entosky #clocks #chronobiology @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

How do cell lineages evolve, and how does that shape trait evolution? Join our symposium Tracing Evolution Through Cell Lineages (Plön, 12–14 October). Hear perspectives from leading scientists and contribute with your own. Read more at: workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/145/ #EvoDevo #StemCell

Job ad now available here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc...!

Please share widely! We will imminently be posting a technician position in our lab group since @rheasood.bsky.social is off to grad school 🙌! If you know of anyone excited about molecular biology, evolution, and functional genomics please have them reach out (schumer at stanford). Start date ~June

Our research is in #GEO #magazine! As a boy, I read every issue of GEO from front to back. Now the work of my lab is in it. Feels kind of surreal ... and very grateful for the journey! 🙏 Big THANK YOU to Solvin Zankl 📸 and Katharina Jakob ✍️ ! #moon #tide #science #scicom #nature @maxplanck.de

This is an exciting #perspective by our colleagues Amor Damatac II, Markéta Kaucká, Kristian Ullrich, as well as Alexander Klimovich, in #Nature Communications! Congrats! @marketa-kau.bsky.social @amordamatac.bsky.social #evodevo #hourglass #embryogenesis #singlecell #development #evolution

🪰🪲🐜🐛🪳🐝🦋🦟🐞🪰🪲🐜🐛🪳🐝🦋🦟🐞🪰🪲🐜🐛 Es gibt Millionen #Arten von #Insekten. Jede Art hat im Laufe der #Evolution ganz spezielle Probleme gelöst. Auch das ist #Biodiversität. Und wir können viel von ihnen #lernen! #Biomimetik #Entomologie #Natur #InsektenSindGroßartig @spektrum.de @jlugiessen.bsky.social

Here is another recent article highlighting some of the emerging approaches to study the #complex #genotype #phenotype map. #Genetics #BeyondMendel #Genomics #EvoBio #NGS

What is biodiversity? What is genomics? How do they work together to support species monitoring & conservation? 🌍🧬 The #Connections series explores these questions: biodiversitygenomics.eu/category/con... @unbiodiversity.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social @iboleurope.bsky.social

Our very own Rajalekshmi N. Sarma is on the line-up! 🎤 Women Science Show (Science Comes to Town) — Thu, 5 March 2026, 7.00 pm, STUDIO Filmtheater, Kiel. Six 10-minute talks from early-career women researchers. Free entry — bring friends & family 😊

#ERGAReads | 🐚 🌊 🧬 Ocean Genomes: reference genome resources for marine vertebrates rdcu.be/e25OP

Remember Larry, the #scholastic #cat? 2 y ago, but still shows how easy it is to fake #papers & #citations. What can we do? Maybe simply value #quality over (easily measurable) #quantity when assessing #scientists. It's more work, but surely pays. #PaperMill #AI #ResearchIntegrity #FakeScience

"Der #Mond, das #Meer und die #Mücke - eine Reise durch die Welt der Biologischen #Uhren" Vortrag von Dr Tobias Kaiser MPl für Evolutionsbiologie, #Plön Mittwoch, 4.3.2026, 19 Uhr Eutiner Landesbibliothek, Schlossplatz 4, #Eutin #SHUG #CAU #WissKomm #Chronobiologie #Evolution #Ökologie #Genomik

Looking forward to this! The talk will be in German, though. And also about: #ecology #evolution #genomics #tides #basicresearch #scicomm

Excited to share that our former postdoc, PhD student, Master student and intern @juleneumann.bsky.social will give a #TEDx talk on #lunar #rhythms in #marine organisms next week. I'm very much looking forward to see the video! #chronobiology #ecology #moon #tides #clunio #crabs

Congratulations to everyone involved! Below is the link to the article. @luisapallares.bsky.social @nedabarghi.bsky.social @rachaelabay.bsky.social @ahancock.bsky.social @genmig.bsky.social @meauxjuliette.bsky.social @abepalmer.bsky.social @kjschmid.bsky.social @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social

Here is some really nice work from our institute @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social: A common #pattern in #ecosystems - few common and many rare #species, both with continuous #turnover - can be captured in a #model with just three ingredients. #biodiversity #ecology #evobio #dynamics #abundance

#ERGAReads | A Beginner's Guide to Structural Variants in Eco-Evolutionary Population Genomics 🧬 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #MolecularEcology #structuralvariants #genomics #PopulationGenomics @rebekahoomen.bsky.social @clairemerot.bsky.social

#WomenInScience day alert: Our labs participate in the E-STEEM initiative of @univie.ac.at: >= 20 funded postdoc positions for female applicants! Interested in pursuing original projects in #stemcells, #regeneration, #biomaterials, #chronobiology at @viennabiocenter.bsky.social? Please get in touch!

Today is Darwin’s Day 🧬 — a reminder that evolution isn’t just history but a living process. At the MPI for Evolutionary Biology we explore evolutionary change — how life adapts, diversifies, and evolves — using theory, experiments, and data from nature. #DarwinsDay #Evolution #EvolBio

Early bird registration and abstract submission are now open for the GIGA VI Conference. Join us July 6-10 in Boracay, Philippines! gigavi.org

Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...

A new #PNAS Commentary spotlights our #MPI-EvolBio work: jumbo phages can transfer large mobile genetic elements between bacteria, expanding how we think about gene exchange in microbial communities. www.evolbio.mpg.de/3858689/pnas...

Join us on Monday at 15:00 CET for the first @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Plenary meeting of 2026! Hugues Roest Crollius will present an update on the progress of the French marine #genomes ATLASea programme www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/atlasea... #biodiversity #genomics

Happy to share exciting work by my colleague Nathalie Feiner @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social, and coauthors @joanameier.bsky.social, @nataliazajac.bsky.social, Guannan Wen, Tobias Uller & more. Also see their preprint on #lizard (& snake) #genomics: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... 🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎= 10 #genomes

Frontiers for Young Minds now has a plain and concise introduction to the Earth BioGenome Project! @ebpgenome.bsky.social Good read for older kids and the general public! #SciCom #STEM #Biodiversity #Genome #Conservation kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

What a cool way to get people engaged with #population #genomics! But why is there no episode on parentage analysis ... ? #Conservation #EvoBio #R #MayTheForceBeWithYou #StarWars #LukeSkywalker @lauradbertola.bsky.social @drobledoruiz.bsky.social @seaprof.bsky.social @robynshaw.bsky.social

🎓 IMPRS EvolBio opens its 2026 PhD call! Up to 10 doctoral positions in evolutionary biology at MPI-EB — work in an international, cutting-edge research environment where others go on vacation. Start: Sept 2026 | Deadline: Jan 11, 2026 👉 www.evolbio.mpg.de/3848518/impr... #PhD #EvolutionaryBiology

A very interesting piece on the evolution of #photoperiodism and its relation to #circadian #clocks by Luisa Jabbur @jabbur.bsky.social and Carl Johnson.

Big congratulations to Dr Nikhil Sharma on receiving the Kiel Life Science Postdoc Award 2025! His outstanding work in theoretical biology and evolutionary graph theory makes us proud. Well deserved! 👏 #KLS #MPIEvolBio www.evolbio.mpg.de/3847270/kiel... (Photo: Christian Urban, Kiel University)

Rajalekshmi N. Sarma (MPI EvolBio) will be speaking at Kiel University’s Night of the Profs this Friday! Catch her Science Show talk at 21:00 in the Frederik-Paulsen Lecture Hall. Free admission — bring your friends and family! More info: uni-kiel.de/de/veranstaltungen/night-of-the-profs (CAU Kiel)

Big cheers from MPI for Evolutionary Biology! 🎉 Our alumna Dr. Christin Nyhoegen wins the KlarText Prize 2025 for her piece “Penicillin and a Small Dose of Mathematics.” She shows how math helps improve antibiotic treatments and prevent resistance. 👏 #KlarTextPreis #MPIEvolBio #ScienceCommunication

WE ARE HIRING! Please spread widely! #Postdoc in #Evolutionary #Genomics -> www.mpg.de/25524526/ #Postdoc in #Molecular #Biology & #Cell #Signalling -> www.mpg.de/25524509/ @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de #ScienceJobs #EvoBio #MolBio #Ecology #Chronobiology #Marine #EntoSky #Biodiversity

"Chuck the gadgets, the fads and the alarm." The importance of the #circadian #clock for human #sleep, covered in a recent News Feature in #Nature. Must read. #chronobiology #ScienceMatters

How can larval #competition for space, adult #reproductive #timing and the #tides interact to produce different timing strains, aka #chronotypes, of the marine insect #Clunio? See our latest preprint with Alec Jacobsen & @gokhalecs.bsky.social #evolution #ecology #chronobiology #circalunar #clock