Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

📣🐦This is a reminder that early bird registration for the CSEE 2026 Conference ends tomorrow, January 30! Register here: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026/reg...

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

Organizing an intensive writing day for a group of experienced & junior scientists!Goals are to outline manuscript, agree on questions/hypotheses, draft sections, start analysis. Team will be split into outlining/writing + stats/analysis group. Tips for max progress & momentum after?

This seems like a really great initiative! If you know any Trans scientists who might be interested in joining a broader community, please pass along! transscientistcollective.carrd.co

This is a beautiful, hypnotising bit of footage of a lobate ctenophore from @schmidtocean.bsky.social 🧪 🦑 #MarineLife. And no, it's not a jellyfish, it's a comb jelly

Haller, Ralph & Messer present SLiM 5, a major extension of the SLiM simulation framework for simulating multiple chromosomes, enabling a heightened level of realism for full-genome simulations. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf313 #evobio #molbio #compbio

How to work on a draft manuscript with a developing writer - through three stages of manuscript development. You can do less work and be more effective! 🧪

I'm excited to share that our preprint is now available on bioRxiv! Our study challenges the widespread use of molecular genetic diversity as a predictor adaptive potential, with important implications for how genetic data is used to inform conservation decisions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Academia friendly peer-reviewed journals in EEB: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Adaptive tracking with antagonistic pleiotropy results in seemingly neutral molecular evolution | Nature Ecology & Evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02887-1

Within a pitcher plant, bacteria break down prey to feed the plant. As the leaf ages, bacteria become less diverse, but more efficient at degrading insects. It appears that species that are strong degraders are weak competitors. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Biologists who teach: in what order do you teach the four forces of evolution? Genetic drift first or selection first? And I'm still struggling to smoothly fit in HWE so that its utility is emphasized (students focus so much on how likely it is that assumptions are violated). #iteachbio 🧪 #Evolution

🔈 CALL FOR PAPERS IBIS Special Issue Collections-Based Ornithological Research in a Changing World Submission deadline: 30 June 2026 onlinelibrary.wiley.... #ornithology 🪶

Congratulations to Hélène Dion-Phénix and Gabrielle Gingras for publishing this new paper studying why female blue tits add aromatic plants to their nest. @oikosjournal.bsky.social @nordicoikos.bsky.social

I have a new preprint demonstrating a genome-architecture-aware approach to inferring species trees and introgression landscapes from a small number of genomes. If you are interested in phylogenomics, birds, or hybridization, this is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Took me a year (😱), but I finally published a blog post about our article on the #quantgen variance partition of phenitypic plasticity with @lmchev.bsky.social, published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. 🇬🇧 devillemereuil.legtux.org/quantitative... 🇫🇷 devillemereuil.legtux.org/fr/genetique...

What are the causes & consequences of behavioural diversity loss in a changing world? And how do we harness this knowledge for conservation? New open access paper led by @odedberger-tal.bsky.social with David Saltz and @mrmic1.bsky.social #BobWongLab royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

This is the moment we realised what we were looking at. During @nemo-tools.bsky.social ROV surveys to map gorgonian & coralligenous habitats, the seafloor suddenly turned into a landscape of circular nests, each guarded by a male. We weren’t searching for spawning grounds – we dropped onto one.

Geneviève Bergeron Maryse Laganière Hélène Colgan Maryse Leclair Nathalie Croteau Anne-Marie Lemay Barbara Daigneault Sonia Pelletier Anne-Marie Edward Michèle Richard Maud Haviernick Annie StArneault Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz Annie Turcotte Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique

New species of tinamou, the slaty-masked tinamou (Tinamus resonans): mapress.com/zt/article/v... 🪶🧪 (📷Luis A. Morais)

"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg

Study shows genetic drift & gene flow from the wild are driving observed trait changes in an endangered #migratory #songbird - will this affect its breeding program & #reintroduction success? #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #genetics @sauvedrew.bsky.social

Warning to environmental scientists! 🧪🦑🌎🐟 The journal STOTEN has been placed on hold by Clarivate, meaning it is under investigation and may lose its indexing (including impact factor). Consider publishing elsewhere. mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

Ord: interesting comic-book approach explaining evolution using the hunting-induced decrease in horn size of bighorn sheep at Ram Mountain 🧪 www.ordlab.unsw.edu.au/sites/defaul... For the data, see onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This thread contains memorials for some of the trans siblings we lost around the world in the last calendar year, drawn from this website that contains 367 reports from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025. 367 And that doesn't include some of my friends tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...

Hi people. Today in "one day, one paper", thermal tolerance breadth in plants exceeds local climate ranges, shaped mainly by heat, cold, and aridity. Desert species show extreme resilience, revealing partial support for climate variability hypothesis and highlighting microclimate-driven plasticity🌎🍁

The Beaufort Sea (north of Alaska, northwest Canada) has iced over, with less than five percent of the basin remaining as open water as of November 11. Compare that to the 1980s and 90s, when it wasn't uncommon for "ice over" to happen in September. Data courtesy NSIDC. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce

I had dinner with a colleague from @inaturalist.bsky.social yesterday and Jeanne shared that their users are discovering an average of one brand-new-previously-unknown-to-science species EACH MONTH!

Big welcome to our Early Career Editorial Board! Laurence Feyten, Jacob Burbank, Drew Sauve (he/him), and Eric Ignatz will be learning the editorial ropes and bringing new ideas to the journal ▶️ https://ow.ly/Ati550Xouyv #EarlyCareerResearchers #EditorialBoard #WildlifeResearch

Looking forward to contributing to the Canadian Journal of Zoology as part of the new Early Career Editorial team. Excited to learn about and participate in another aspect of the peer review process!

🐺 Advantageous snow conditions – in terms of snow depth and density – are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy. Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK

📖Published📖 Check out MEE's new review article 👉 Full decomposition of phenotypic variance in dichotomous traits: New methods and key implications for behaviour, demography and evolutionary ecology 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/IMsl7eL

I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social

🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨 🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds). 🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK. 🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

It took me about three months to get here but... Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions. 10,151 species. #dataviz #birds #data

Videlier and Sztepanacz re-analyse published data to show that sexual dimorphism may evolve as easily from indirect responses to sexually concordant selection as from direct responses to sexually antagonistic selection. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

New paper by PhD student Aly Van Natto! 🌾🧪 Ever wondered if a plant's early start (seed vs. clonal fragment) affects the rest of their life's trajectory? We did! So we tested it over 3 yrs. Seedlings grow & flower fast but die young, while clones play the long game #PlantScience #ecology #evolution

🧪🌍 I'm the journal development specialist for this new journal. If you're considering submitting your manuscript, please get in touch! CES will be an interdisciplinary journal on all aspects of environmental contaminants and their effects on ecosystems, including people!

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Myself and Alastair Wilson wrote an updated version of our 2016 primer to quantitative genetics in the wild: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Happy to share a copy if interested. It is also on research gate

Looks like a super neat study!

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

New paper out now in Evolution, co-led with Dave Westneat! Using long-term data on house sparrows, we find that quantity-quality tradeoffs near a local fitness ridge favor more or less canalized clutch size distributions in response to environmental variability. academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...