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Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth Abstract. Sexual conflict frequently gives rise to adaptations that increase male reproductive success at the expense of harming females (“male harm”) and

Temperature can reverse sexual conflict, facilitating population growth
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Roberto García-Roa et al.

The reliability of environmental cues shape learning and selection against deleterious alleles in seed beetles #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecology #Behaviour @dbergerbiol.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The reliability of environmental cues shape learning and selection against deleterious alleles in seed beetles | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Behavioural plasticity can play a key role in evolution by either facilitating or impeding genetic adaptation. The latter occurs when behaviours mitigate selection pressures that otherwise would targe...

Behavioral plasticity can be a double-edged sword for genetic adaptation.

Have a look at our experimental demonstration published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Diapause and bet‐hedging strategies in insects: a meta‐analysis of reaction norm shapes Many organisms escape from lethal climatological conditions by entering a resistant resting stage called diapause, which needs to be optimally timed with seasonal change. As climate change exerts sel...

Thanks to Dries Bonte and Jens Joschinski for their nicely curated dataset on phenology, which substantially aided our effort: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

How do insects respond to changing climates? Our new review and analysis in @annualreviews.bsky.social suggests that phenological adaptation trumps thermal adaptation.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Interested in evolutionary ecology and genetics? Check out this PhD position in Pau Carazo's lab in Valencia - we look forward to your application!

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

Just hours before the end of the early bird, registrations are rapidly going up. We had an overwhelming response to the abstract. call (>2000) and the possibility of reaching the capacity limit is not so unlikely.

So better hurry up to secure your spot at #ESEB2025

eseb2025.com/registration/

🐦 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐬! 🐦​
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Hurry up and seize the opportunity to participate in the upcoming ESEB Congress, set in the beautiful city of Barcelona 🌟​

🎟️ Secure your spot with the Early Bird fee before the end of today 17/06 👉🏻 https://lnkd.in/djd2c7ZG

Cover image of the June issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing an illustration of a woodpecker flying into woodland at the edge of a typical UK farmland landscape. The cover line reads "Land-use legacies"

Our June issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on:

🧬Airborne eDNA
💰Costs of biological invasions
🌡️Genomic predictions of temperature adaptation

Cover illustration by Marco Lawrence, based on Bradfer-Lawrence et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years:

Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
All data available: www.grene-net.org/data

#MOILAB
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
@hhmi.org

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Thanks Chris!

Postdoctoral Researcher: Contribution of genetic background and gut microbiome on thermal physiology A post-doctoral Researcher position is available at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in the group of Dr. Suvi Ruuskanen. The post-doctoral res...

3-year #Postdoc position on the role of #genetics and #microbiome on #thermal #physiology in @erc.europa.eu project in my group at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social FIN! We establish #selection lines on quails, collab @btschirren.bsky.social DL 15.7., start Nov25-Jan26
ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...

The Tree of Sex consortium: A global initiative for studying the evolution of reproduction in eukaryotes Abstract. Reproduction is a fundamental aspect of life that affects all levels of biology, from genomes and development to population dynamics and diversif

🔖The Tree of Sex consortium: A global initiative for studying the evolution of reproduction in eukaryotes

Advanced article version👇
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📖 Read more: treeofsex.sanger.ac.uk
Follow us here 👉 @treeofsex.bsky.social

#TreeOfSex #Evolution #Genomics #Biodiversity

Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.

We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Adaptability to climate change is difficult to predict - Nature Ecology & Evolution Experimental evolution of seed beetles under hot and cold temperatures indicates limited repeatability of the genomic change underlying heat adaptation across populations, which has implications for p...

Commentary by Zachary Blount here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Repeatability of evolution and genomic predictions of temperature adaptation in seed beetles - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors compare genomic and phenotypic changes between genetic backgrounds of seed beetles evolved at hot or cold temperatures. Despite phenotypic changes being more rapid and predictable at hot t...

Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.

Thermal homogenization of boreal communities in response to climate warming | PNAS Globally, rising temperatures are increasingly favoring warm-affiliated species. Although changes in community composition are typically measured b...

New study led by Jussi Mäkinen out in PNAS! 🤩 🎉

Using several long-term datasets on species in Finland, we show that while most communities have become dominated by warm-affiliated species over time, this is paralleled by a *decrease in thermal diversity*.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Meta-synthesis reveals interconnections among apparent drivers of insect biodiversity loss Abstract. Scientific and public interest in the global status of insects has surged recently; however, understanding the relative importance of different s

So excited for this paper by the Insect Loss RCN led by Chris Halsh! #insectloss @cbahlai.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Substitution load revisited: a high proportion of deaths can be selective Abstract. Haldane's Dilemma refers to the concern that the need for many “selective deaths” to complete a substitution (i.e. selective sweep) creates a spe

Our latest paper revisits Haldane 1957 on speed limits to adaptation, the paper that triggered neutral theory. We clarify and then significantly extend the theory, and apply the resulting model to @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social's data doi.org/10.1093/gene... 1/14

And now, we also have a 2-year postdoc position in the Stelkens Lab! 🧪 If you are interested in parallel evolution, genomics, yeast, and climate adaptation, this could be for you! Please apply through U Stockholm's job platform here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Yes!

3-y postdoc position in (meta)Genomics of Population Declines elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid.... If you have experience with low-coverage genomic data, care about biodiversity loss, want to understand host-microbiomes interactions, this post is for you! #museomics #ancientDNA #mammals

Beta-seminar?

A male pied flycatcher perching on a branch

📣 New PhD position on flycatchers with @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social — spread the word!

Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

#ecoevojob

A plot showing allele frequencies along a chromosome for two groups: those that survived the selective event (Alive) and those that perished (Dead).

Do you want to map the loci underlying selection but you're on a budget? Let me introduce you to the concept of sequencing the living and the dead. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A century of theories of balancing selection Traits that affect organismal fitness are often very genetically variable. This genetic variation is vital for populations to adapt to their environments, but it is also surprising given that nature (...

Finally ready to see the world! Theories of balancing selection - past, present and future: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A true collaborative effort that brought together theoreticians and empiricists, models, data, and fresh perspectives on how balancing selection can shape genetic variation.

📣 We now have a starter pack—come and follow our current colleagues who are on Bluesky!

go.bsky.app/PVKQ6tB

The building of the pack is ongoing work. If you or someone you know should be featured, give a shout 😉

Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.