Postdoc Yannick Günzel, who studies how clonal raider ants interact with their larvae, went to a comedy show in NYC. Now he’s famous… 🤪 youtube.com/shorts/ZETUy...

Two new Science studies on lizard coloration reveal how a delicate interplay of genetics, environment, and social dynamics can either preserve or erase polymorphic diversity in species. 📄: https://scim.ag/4srYKHi 📄: https://scim.ag/4qCcsWn

Some researchers are now studying ecology without touching a single plant go.nature.com/4aRGile

It is out, it is out! Our study on neural crest cells and micro to macroevolution in lizard skull 🦎

Final version of paper with @smishra677.bsky.social now published in a wonderful issue of GENETICS! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

In a new GBE Review, @david-peede.bsky.social et al. overview the SMC model and extensions, discuss examples of discoveries made with the help of SMC-based inference, and comment on the assumptions, benefits, and drawbacks of various methods. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #genome #evolution #compbio

What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps, a Science study finds. https://scim.ag/3MXQ4bt

🧬 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: “tskit arg visualizer: Interactive plotting of ancestral recombination graphs.”  Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf302 Authors include: @kitchensjn.bsky.social, @yanwong.bsky.social

Can we predict gene expression evolution? In flour beetles, transcriptome-wide selection predicts expression change, with indirect selection acting strongest on pleiotropic, network-central genes—linking co-expression architecture to adaptation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... Photo: Udo Schmidt

demografr: A toolkit for simulation-based inference in population genetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.18.694482v1

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...

The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students. tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

Textbook neurons are usually spiking. However, there exist plenty of non-spiking neurons whose information transmission is less understood. Shirahata et al. studied Ca-dynamics of non-spiking mechanosensory neurons in crickets that are sensitive to air flow. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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