HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🇧🇷Saí-de-perna-amarela 🌎Cyanerpes caeruleus Conservação:Pouco Preocupante A saí-de-perna-amarela é um Passeriforme da família Thraupidae. 📷 Ester Ramirez

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Jasmin Rees PhD chapter as a paper just out at the AJHG @ajhgnews.bsky.social, with Sergi Castellano, who first envisioned the study. Jas investigated signatures of human local genetic adaptation in hundreds of micronutrient-associated genes.

SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online: doi.org/10.1038/s415... It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...

📢 The Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 is now open. We warmly invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting. 🗓️ Key dates Call for symposia: Sep. 1 - Oct. 15 Announcement of accepted symposia: Nov. 3 More information: smbe2026.org/symposia

Excited to share our new preprint🙌 It's the first human WGS study in Sudan. We uncover one of the strongest selection signals to date, pointing to post-admixture adaptation to malaria in Copts. Huge thanks to all co-authors. @aidaandres.bsky.social @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social @ebosch1972.bsky.social

SMBE2023 vs #ESEB2025 #momademia

... and here's a second #ESEB2025 starter pack! go.bsky.app/DnUAnt5

OH COME ON

New Evolution-Digest out! 🎉 Intergenomic discordance should reduce fitness, especially in older males. Well, @martingarlovsky.bsky.social et al., showed that it might not always be the case. 🪰 @sse-evolution.bsky.social

Quem tá no lockdown agora, né

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

Outstanding work by @dcsoto.bsky.social @jmuribescr.bsky.social @mydennis.bsky.social (and other collaborators) that massively advances identification of human gene duplicates, with links to important traits and our evolution. So happy to have contributed a bit to this fantastic paper.

The University of São Paulo seeks a Professor Doutor in Zoology, specializing in Bioinformatics and Phylogenomics. Applicants should promote research, teaching, and outreach. Details: https://academica.ib.usp.br/concursos/zoologia/edital-19-2025 #job

I learned this today >>> round(0.5) 0 >>> round(1.5) 2 >>> round(2.5) 2 >>> round(3.5) 4

We are recruiting for a Research Technician to support our lab's experimental evolution work with Drosophila melanogaster at UCL. Do you have recent insect husbandry experience and want to be a key part of an academic research environment? We'd love to hear from you www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Applying to Biology PhD programs this year? Let us help! At BPP, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the grad school application process. Learn more about grad student life and receive 1-on-1 feedback on your application materials! Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...

Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo! Please get in touch if you are interested. And happy to discuss projects - these would range from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab. Job Ad: www.riken.jp/en/careers/r... Lab page: speidellab.github.io

What are people's thoughts on covering HW equilibrium in intro bio? Is it really necessary, or could it be left to upper-level genetics or evo classes?

The preliminary program of ProbGen 2026, which will be held at UC Berkeley, is now up: probgen2026.github.io Sharing on behalf of Rasmus Nielsen who is not on this site. For more see his thread on that other site: x.com/ras_nielsen/...

Opinion: The effort of staying compliant with fluctuating regulations diminishes the mental space for teaching, research and building belonging ✍️ Zahra Sharifonnasabi, Fleura Bardhi and Laetitia Mimoun #AcademicSky #EduSky

Check out this brand new fellowship from the Simon’s Foundation in Ecology and Evolution. Incoming grad students this year are eligible to apply. No citizenship restrictions. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Thrilled to share our latest preprint! 🎉🔥 We analysed >23k mtDNA genomes & found 18 variants shaped by climate—linked to thermogenesis, metabolism & disease. Led by PhD student Finley Grover-Thomas, and in collab with: @aidaandres.bsky.social @lucyvandorp.bsky.social @proffballoux.bsky.social

I’m excited to share my latest work with Marcella Franco, @mariagtac.bsky.social, and an amazing team. We used multi-omics to dissect key pathways of B cell activation, exploring gene programs, splicing, cell fates, and disease heritability in activated B cells. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

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In a companion piece ⬆️, @Pool-Lab.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy test the loci involved in the genetic architecture and the epistatic and environmental interactions using #Drosophila melanogaster recombinant inbred lines, identifying interactions between adaptive traits: buff.ly/nO3jrhD 2/2🧵

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)! Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available. Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

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Wow this looks so cool

Join us for ARGEvol, a conference on ancestral recombination graphs in Vila do Conde, Portugal from Nov 12-14, 2025. Complete the interest survey: https://framaforms.org/argevol-conferenceworkshop-interest-survey-1742308127. #conference

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Highly recommend and happy to talk about it with anyone interested!

Interested in a starting PI position at University College London to work on Genetics, Evolution or the Environment? My department has opened the call for expressions of interest for sponsorship of independent fellowship applications. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The below walks you through how to delete your DNA data from 23andMe before it goes bankrupt.

Thank you Michelle Martin of NPR. one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5326...

Wow. NPR morning edition just ripped the deputy secretary of homeland security a few new ones in a wonderful interview about Mahmoud Khalil. Wouldn’t let the secretary avoid questions about why he was detained — and couldn’t answer.

I love getting email requests for reprints of our papers! It is a good old-fashiend and totally free form of #openaccess, with the bonus effect of letting me know someone is interested in our work.

The wonder of Voyager: This is the most beautiful thread I’ve read in a long time.

This is how it starts. With people you don’t know, maybe you disagree with. They start to go away, to disappear, maybe you barely notice. This is how it starts, but this isn’t how it ends. You know this, because you know history.

Pretty version now ready! #popgen

Carnaval dia 28, Oscar dia 2, avise o Xandão que a prisão de um certo alguém nessa janela causará a maior euforia de nossa história

Hot off the press! An article I wrote for Smithsonian on how the LA fires have impacted wildlife. I believe its the deepest dive into the LA fires' effects on fauna so far & not just because we talk diving fish & newts! Deeply grateful to all the experts who spoke with me & Joe's excellent editing🌎

With some delay... but some good news. The final version of our paper Local Genetic Adaptation to Habitat in Wild Chimpanzees is out in Science. Great PanAfrican (PanAf) collaboration led by PhD student (now Dr!) Harrison Ostridge. 🧪#PopGen #evobio www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...