Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗
@ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
@biologie-uniwue.bsky.social
@uni-wuerzburg.de
Comparative phylogenetic analysis of song features and social behaviours across songbirds shows a coevolutionary relationship between cooperative breeding and presence of female song that is more pronounced in species with weak territoriality 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Workshop on genetics, eugenics and scientific racism next week! #Philsci #Philosophy #Ethics #HPS #Sociology #AcademicSky
We will be conducting hybrid sessions, you can find the zoom link at www.imseam.uni-heidelberg.de/en/heinzelma...
Happening today!
GBE | The Genomics of Convergent Adaptation to Intertidal Gravel Beaches in Mediterranean Clingfishes Endemic Mediterranean gravel beach clingfish (Gouania ssp.) in a dynamic gravel environment. Using an integrative genomic and morphological approach, this study investigates how similar body shapes repeatedly evolve and what this reveals about the genomic basis of phenotypic convergence.
Wagner et al. combined phenotypic and genomic data to study convergence in Mediterranean gravel beach clingfishes, revealing convergence at the level of individual genes, variants, and biological pathways, but not across genomes.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag031
#genome #evolution
David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy
One of the coolest ichthyology discoveries I’ve heard about in a while. Large pregnant female livebearers with male reproductive organs found in the wild. Goes to show how fluid sex and sexual traits can be.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
doodle on a green background with the text in the middle saying 11th Feb '26 International Day of Women & Girls in Science, the women and girl doodles are: head with an orange cornsnake and cat glasses with pink hair head in a blue cloudy headscarf looking at some triangles head with wavy brown greying hair looking at stars a white and black kid excitedly looking at some antibodies with a red liquid flask behind them
and here is this year's silly #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #SciArt doodle
i spent mine breaking @mariloumercedes.bsky.social python scripts and giving a seminar on @fionatel.bsky.social paper in review 👩🔬
CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
Special Issue: #GenomeArchitecture and #Evolution, organised by @eseb.bsky.social STN "STRiVE":
Find out more here: tinyurl.com/2uza525c
@ruifaria.bsky.social @kaybiodiversity.bsky.social @clairemerot.bsky.social @petrnguyen.bsky.social @aruizherrera.bsky.social
Just in time for Karneval, we present coelsch ! 🎭🥳
A platform-agnostic framework for single-cell recombination analysis. We study crossover variation in mutants & natural lines, identifying the largest natural inversion in A. thaliana to date!
📄 doi.org/10.64898/202...
🐱 github.com/schneeberger...
Our new paper is out in #ProcB !! 🥳
@royalsocietypublishing.org
@dudumizi.bsky.social @chorlnev.bsky.social
We are hiring🚨
We are looking for 2 postdocs and 1 reasearch assistant to work in the ERC project “Tipping dynamics and resilience in adapting ecological systems” at @eawag.bsky.social
Find the description of each position and the link to apply in the thread ⬇️
Carolyn Hogg smiles at the camera while kneeling on a sandy beach, wearing a red vest and blue gloves as she gently holds a small black animal wrapped in a blanket. The ocean and distant hills are visible in the background. Text overlay reads “EBP Life — Now Live” and “Global Voices, Global Genomes.”
Andrew J. Crawford smiles outdoors in a sunlit rural setting while holding a bird close to the camera, its eye and feathers visible in the foreground. Trees and small buildings appear behind him. Text overlay reads “What slows the science most in your region?” and includes a quote about funding being a key bottleneck to scaling biodiversity genomics.
🌍🧬 EBP Life — Global Voices, Global Genomes
The People Powering Biodiversity Genomics
Behind every genome is a human story. 🌱
Read it here 👉https://gqr.sh/kx7m
Thank you to all who lent their voices to this issue—your insights are helping shape the future of biodiversity genomics. 🖥️🧬🚀
Thanks a lot to @sse-evolution.bsky.social for continuing to support the research of graduate students and congrats to everyone that was supported too🎉🎉🎉
I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!
A Beginner's Guide to Structural Variants (including TEs) in Eco-Evolutionary Population Genomics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived
neal.fun/size-of-life/
@carlbergstrom.com
🇬🇧 Starting this year, Sandra Oliveira has taken on a position as Assistant Professor in Genetic and Linguistic Evolution at the University of Zurich. Her expertise brings a new light to the research of the NCCR Evolving Language.
evolvinglanguage.ch/linking-gene...
Want to work on biodiversity in the Alps? ⛰️
We are offering several internship positions for the upcoming spring and summer in collaboration with the Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol 🕷️🦋🦇🐜🌼🦗🪱
biodiversity.eurac.edu/interns-want...
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...
1/28 New preprint up, which I think is the best theoretical idea I've ever had. We asked a simple question: what are the costs of investment into non-reproductive somatic cells? Turns out these costs decrease with the *logarithm* of organism size!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
“First, the frogs died. Then, people got sick”. I love this example of how animals, the environments and us are intrinsically connected! #OneHealth
🐸From vanishing frogs to rising malaria: @washingtonpost.com features @karenrlips.bsky.social who first identified the wave of frog die-offs caused by fungus. Her work revealed that losing frogs led to a fivefold increase in malaria: a powerful One Health insight linking biodiversity & human health.
🔊New perspective piece out @genomebiolevol.bsky.social.
"The Genomic Kaleidoscope: On the Hidden Dimensions of Within-Species Genomic Diversity" 💡🌀🌈
doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...
Co-led with @mbrasovives.bsky.social and @diegoharta.bsky.social
Check out our thread! 🧵👇 (1/n)
Hi! In my group we for sure have some ☺️
🏆The winner of the Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize is Anna Feller!
🌱As an evolutionary biologist, she investigates why closely related species - such as the North American phlox wildflowers - do not reproduce with each other. Her research contributes to our understanding of biodiversity.
👉 sohub.io/inx1
We have an open PhD position (application deadline 9 January 2026) in "Theory of fitness landscapes" at @unibe.ch 🤓⛰️📊👩💻🎓: banklab.github.io/positions/
Please share widely!
#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005
How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.
