Work from my amazing undergrad @leyan-wang.bsky.social is just preprinted! TL;DR: If you worry that ARG methods might fail on unphased data due to phasing errors, you may not need to. Check it out & consider reposting to support a great young scientist!

PhD position available for theoretical and statistical modeling in my joint @gevol.bsky.social project with @luisapallares.bsky.social on the evolution of transcriptional variability and its role in adaptation and evolutionary innovation. See job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/6...

Parallel and non-parallel features of adaptive radiation in Yucatan pupfishes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688971v1

Changing Views on Speciation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

Postdoc position available at Max Planck Institute, Germany, focusing on the genetic basis of polygenic traits in Drosophila. Applications due by Dec 22, 2025. More info: [email protected]. #postdoc

Next year Ig Nobel Electrostatics facilitate midair host attachment in parasitic jumping nematodes | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A mosaic of modular variation at a single gene underpins convergent plumage coloration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Winter-active #herbivores struggle to get #nitrogen in winter, when dietary #protein is scarce. This study shows that winter protein restriction drives gut #microbiome remodeling in the #pika, increasing microbiome N recycling & helping maintain protein balance @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nZ86I6

What is the genetic basis of bird migration? Find out in our next keynote lecture by Miriam Liedvogel @genmig.bsky.social, Professor of Ornithology at the Uni Oldenburg and Director of the Institute of Avian Research! 📍October 21 at 11am in House 4 in Seewiesen Art by @somedonkey.bsky.social

We have put together a comprehensive eQTL map for D. melanogaster using thousands of genetically diverse flies 🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰 We hope this helps -as similar resources have done in yeast and humans- to understand how genetic variation 🧬 regulates complex traits variation 🪰 via transcriptional regulation ⬆️⬇️

Genetic architectures of #ComplexTraits vary widely. @yuvalsim.bsky.social @jkpritch.bsky.social @gs2747.bsky.social &co show these diffs arise from mutational target size & heritability per site; when controlled for, all tested traits have similar architectures @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/47mZXqT

An empirical long-term competition among natural yeast isolates reveals that short-term fitness largely but not entirely predicts long-term outcomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.681448v1

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

Read mismapping from segmental duplications drives spurious trans associations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.08.681258v1

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

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for discovering a class of immune cells that help to prevent the body from attacking its own tissues go.nature.com/48QDdAJ

How are #circadian rhythms established during development? This study shows that maternal metabolic signals oscillate in the fetal #SCN before the endogenous #clock becomes functional, offering a plausible mechanism for maternal entrainment of the developing clock @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3VD45fZ

📜Forum: A trait-based framework for adaptive phenotypic plasticity under global change vist.ly/48kss #BehavioralPlasticity #ClimateChange #ExtremeEvents #GeneByEnvironmentInteractions #IntraspecificVariation #MorphologicalPlasticity #PhysiologicalPlasticity #Stochasticity #Variability

Evolution of the rate, spectrum, and fitness effects of mutation under minimal selection in Caenorhabditis elegans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.678306v1

Categorical and semantic perception of the meaning of call types in zebra finches | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Jun @junishigohoka.bsky.social is the first postdoc of the lab. Today, during #postdocappreciationweek, I just want to let you all know that Jun is t h e b e s t! 🤓 I'm very happy he decided to join us here at @mpi-bio-fml.bsky.social. Looking forward to our papers together, Jun! 💻🧬🪰🔢

How do your #linguistic, #economic & #gender backgrounds impact your #scientific productivity? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social & co reveal that being a woman, a non-native English speaker, and from a low-income country is associated with a 70% reduction in productivity @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n3RLRQ

Celebrating my 18 year anniversary of thinking I'll learn ggplot2 next month.

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...

"A previously reported bottleneck in human ancestry 900 kya is likely a statistical artifact" academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

Gene expression changes aren’t just about mean shifts — variability shifts matter too, especially for aging. We're thrilled to introduce QRscore, a flexible non-parametric framework for detecting shifts in mean and variance across conditions. doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

Our new paper is now out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social!!! We had all sorts of fun generating LED stimuli for mosquitos to investigate their visual preferences in the presence of different odors. The paper is open access and available here: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

@anaignatieva.bsky.social et al. model the impact of recombination on the correlation structure between genealogical local trees, and develop a statistical test to identify clades spanning unexpectedly long genomic regions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf190 #evobio #molbio

In the earliest stages of adaptive introgression, beneficial immigration can drive genome-wide changes. In a new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... colleagues & I document exceptionally rapid genomic introgression in a lake population of stickleback.

Stone, Platig, @johnquackenbush.bsky.social & @maudfagny.bsky.social analyzed heritability in 29 tissue-specific eQTL networks - network structure could amplify genotype–phenotype connections and buffer deleterious effects on other traits. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf174 #evobio #molbio

Excited to share our new preprint for the tskit_arg_visualizer Python package! ARGs can sometimes feel like a black box, so @yanwong.bsky.social and I have been developing a method to programmatically drawing these graphs. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03958 1/6

@jcbnunez.bsky.social et al. present an expanded release of the community-generated resource Drosophila Evolution over Space and Time (DEST 2.0), and showcase it by studying the species' demographic history and signatures of adaptation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf132 #evobio #molbio #drosophila

The evolution of reversible plasticity in stable environments doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Nicole Walasek et al.

Our paper showing that variation in transcription factor binding sites underlies the majority of additive genetic variance for phenotypic variation in maize is finally out! Sadly they didn't use our suggested cover image below (made by the inimitable Andi Kur). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to Sven Bervoets and co-authors for our paper on fly Arc now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social !! This was an awesome collaboration with @thecaronlab.bsky.social’s lab @utah.edu authors.elsevier.com/c/1lZlk3QW8S...

The 2026 Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics (ProbGen) meeting will be held at UC Berkeley, March 25-28, 2026. We have an amazing list of keynote speakers and session chairs: probgen2026.github.io Please help spread the news.