Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

New paper out! 🤩 "Shrinking to bird size with dinosaur-level cancer defences: Evolution of cancer suppression over macroevolutionary time" with @kokkonut.bsky.social and @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1371/jour... A short thread:

We’ve got seven places left! Sadly, this is the last Evolution of Ageing workshop to be held with the Gutenberg series. It won’t be continuing next year!

Great to have the opportunity to share our group's work at #ESEB2025 @yuhengsun.bsky.social @euantheyoung.bsky.social with @erikpostma.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @yagmurerten.bsky.social

Many of us are using LLMs in coding and scientific writing. They are very helpful tools, but we need to be thoughtful as we integrate them into our work flows to preserve accountability, voice and trust. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan.... An editorial at @evolletters.bsky.social for discussion:

Agreed! I was super keen to see both but they were literally at the same time as the symposium I was talking in 🥲 would it somehow be possible to repeat these online for those of us who couldn’t attend? #ESEB2025

A general conclusion of the talk by @yagmurerten.bsky.social: Age-specific cancer incidence data can help us estimate the level of cancer suppression across species #ESEB2025

Now at the #ESEB2025 cancer evolution symposium, @yagmurerten.bsky.social presents collaborative work with @amyboddy.bsky.social (sorely missed here!) on cancer across species in lemurs (photos not permitted)

Great talk by @gauravathreya.bsky.social about his work on age-dependent facultative sex! It’s been a super fun and interesting project to work on 🤩 and a preprint will be coming soon! #ESEB2025

MEME alumni (www.evobio.eu) at #ESEB2025! We span so many generations now, from the first cohort (graduated in 2012) to those who are still studying, with master students, PhD students, postdocs, and PIs among us! So happy to get together in every ESEB 🤩

Very excited about our symposium “Aging Outside of the Box”, today at #ESEB2025. Room 129+130, 14:00. And we will continue the discussion right after at the poster session (P02.001-021). Lots of cool aging research ahead! 🤩

hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!

Happy pride from Groningen! 🌈 celebrating diversity in science!

Deadline for the EvoDemoS conference 2 wks away! Join us at @PembrokeOxford @UniofOxford to discuss the breath and depth of demographic theory and applications in Sept evodemo2025.weebly.com Please retweet @biology.ox.ac.uk @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

We are launching the Fourth Edition of the Evolutionary Biology Crash Course ⭐ @evobiocc.bsky.social ⭐. There will be three weeks covering a myriad of topics in evolutionary biology with many practicals. Please RT to reach as many students as possible. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Had a great week in Switzerland, interacting with Xiang-Yi Li, her group elvia.iee.unibe.ch and others in Bern & Zurich :) many thanks for inviting me! It’s always fun to be back in Switzerland when the opportunity arises and I’m very happy that the Amsterdam-Zurich night train exists 🚂

My department is hiring! Permanent faculty job (research + teaching) in applied maths. Mathematical biology would be highly appropriate. We're a friendly department in a large university in central London, recently merged with a big medical school. Apply by 1st June. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY889/l...

My knees tell me I’m aging—but do you also wonder what we can learn about aging by looking beyond humans? If you study aging in corals, duckweed, or other "unusual" systems, join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social to talk about aging outside the box! Abstract deadline: 5 May. eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

Beata Ujvari, Andriy Marusyk and Aurora Nedelcu are organising a symposium on “Cancer in an evolutionary framework: across species and within individuals” at the @eseb2025.bsky.social conference in Barcelona this August. Abstact submission closes on Friday: eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

EvoDemoS early-bird registration ends tomorrow evodemo2025.weebly.com

🚨 ESEB 2025, here we come! 🚨 Abstract submissions are now open for our symposium - "Enhancing Diversity & Transparency in Ecology & Evolution: Reliable Practices for Research & Organizations" 🌍✨ Featuring invited speakers: 🔹 Dr. Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz 🔹 Dr. Joel Pick #ESEB2025 #SORTEE

A theoretical biology PhD position at the University of Leiden on the coevolution of aging and sociality with awesome @lottedevries.bsky.social please spread the word! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

We also have a Starter Pack of MEME alumni, as it grows you can see the many different and incredible fields that MEME alumni have gone into! It’s a very versatile and customizable program! go.bsky.app/QCDqsWu

Teaching #MathematicalMethodsInPopulationBiology again. This course covers basic methods for deterministic & stochastic dynamical models in population biology. In this thread*, I'll highlight topics from all twenty 90-min lectures. *Redoing this thread as I didn't complete it in 2024

Thank you all for the suggestions, I compiled them all here for the time being (might try to make something more stable than a google doc later), in case it is useful for anyone else: docs.google.com/document/d/1... In the meantime, I will keep editing with new resources and recommendations!

Do you have any favourite evolutionary biology resources that are not textbooks? E.g. podcast/youtube series or episodes, blogs, websites, news articles.. I am trying to diversify the resources I recommend to the students in the courses I teach 🤓

🎉🎉New Preprint!!🎉🎉 "From Policy to Practice: Progress towards Data- and Code-Sharing in Ecology and Evolution" doi.org/10.32942/X24... Myself and a whole bunch of awesome coauthors reviewed data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals that publish ecology and evolution studies.

Sign up now for a live discussion "From Elephants to Humans: Evolutionary Insights into Cancer" on Weds 22nd, 11am EST. @amyboddy.bsky.social, @athenaaktipis.bsky.social & me will explore how ecology and #evolbio shape #cancer across the tree of life. Free registration: asu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

What can we learn about ageing by looking beyond sexually reproducing unitary organisms? Very excited that our symposium (w/ Dr. Margaux Bieuville, not on bsky) "Ageing outside of the box: insights from unusual and non-model species" was accepted @eseb2025.bsky.social! eseb2025.com/list-of-symp...

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

If you’re a PhD student (or you know one) working on questions of an evolutionary flavour, then check out EMPSEB, an amazing student-organised meeting taking place June 2025 in the Czech Republic! empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de

Hi all! A short intro: I'm a theoretical evolutionary ecologist and assistant prof @ Uni Groningen. I study life history evolution, cancer & ageing and also teach in various modelling and evolutionary biology courses. I also like public outreach and organizing events to bring people together :)