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Bing Dong董冰

Bing Dong董冰

@bingdongevo.bsky.social

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PhD student with Andy Gardner & Silvia Paracchini at the University of St Andrews | Kin selection | Human handedness | Metamorphosis | Social behaviour in jumping spiders oOOo | Lazy birder ❤️🦉

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EMPSEB 31 @empseb.bsky.social · Dec 12

📢 The Call for Abstracts for #EMPSEB31 is now open!
🔗 Full details & submission info on our website.

✈️ Applying for an ESEB Travel Grant?
⏰ Abstract deadline for travel-grant applicants: January 15, 2026
⏳ General abstract deadline: February 1, 2026

#EvoBio #PhD #EMPSEB31

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · Dec 10

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...

Summer school:<br> Evolutionary Biology in Guarda

Information about the annual summer school Evolutionary Biology in Guarda

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Benito Wainwright @benitoexplains.bsky.social · Nov 29

Very happy to see our opinion article out in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social today. 🥳 We ask whether sexual signals can influence the evolutionary trajectory of naturally selected adaptations, such as protective colouration, for better or for worse 🧐 1/n
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Alec Burslem @alecburslem.bsky.social · Nov 27

New paper out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3....

The total size of the body’s fat stores is a crucial factor in understanding animal health, life history and conservation biology, but no established method exists to measure it in large marine animals without capturing them.

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Kalyani Twyman @kztwyman.bsky.social · Nov 18

Happy to share that our paper ‘a formal theory of group-level adaptation for obligate eusociality’ (with @andygardner.bsky.social) is now out in @jevbio.bsky.social advances.

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

#OpenAccess #Eusociality #GroupAdaptation #FormalDarwinism

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Nov 18

New paper: "A formal theory of group-level adaptation for obligate eusociality", with Kalyani Twyman (@kztwyman.bsky.social) #OpenAccess

academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

#Image #GoogleGemini @jevbio.bsky.social #OA

AI image generated using Google's Gemini.

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Rachel Ignotofsky @rachelignotofsky.bsky.social · Aug 23

Illustration of the Silurian Period based on fossils in Scotland.

The first animals to live on land were tiny arthropods, escaping predators and eating food in fields of cooksonia plants.

Art from my new book DINOSAURS preorder here: a.co/d/fGVwsX0

#sciart #paleoart #evolution #fossiladdict

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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · Aug 23

new paper, led by Lin Yan from the Elias Lab at UCB

Latent preference for red ornamentation drives interspecific mating in nascent jumping spider species (Habronattus americanus group, F. Salticidae)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · Aug 19

#ESEB2025 Very concentrated looks when @shikharabhat.bsky.social educates us about pop noise! One of the last talks I could attend, sorry I had to leave early (planned, still 🫤) The lab's presence continues without me so grab them for a science chat!

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Aug 18

And Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn, whose poster "The consequences of constrained sex allocation under local mate competition" (P02.036) is in Tuesday's session.

This is based on his recent paper in Journal of Evolutionary Biology:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

@jevbio.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

Photo of Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Aug 18

Two other members of the research group have successfully made it to @eseb2025.bsky.social ahead of me.

Look out for @kztwyman.bsky.social, whose poster "A formal theory of group-level adaptation for obligate eusociality" (P01.068) is in this evening's session.

Photo of Kalyani Twyman.

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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hey #ESEB2025 folk! I'll be presenting my work on describing evolution in finite populations at 11:30 am on Tuesday in S-03. Drop by to learn how taking ecology and variable population size seriously changes classic pop gen descriptions like the Price eqn, revealing novel directional eco-evo forces.

An illustration with populations on the left and mathematical representations of these populations in terms of birth-death processes on the right

Stochastic differential equations for trait frequencies, mean value of a trait, and the variance of a trait in the population

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Aug 16

hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!

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Kalyani Twyman @kztwyman.bsky.social · Jul 28

Really happy to share this article I'm grateful to have been a part of: 'Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience' coauthored with @kevinlala.bsky.social, @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social and Marcus Feldman. Check out a preprint here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#ScientificRacism #Antiracism

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Sep 28

New paper: "R.A. Fisher on J.A. Cobb's The Problem of the Sex-Ratio" (OpenAccess)

hdl.handle.net/10023/28453

"Fisher's principle" of the sex ratio was first given by Cobb in 1914. Here I show that Fisher was aware of Cobb's paper.

Notes and Records: the Royal Society journal of the history of science.

Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Jul 9

New paper: "The consequences of constrained sex allocation in diploids and haplodiploids under local mate competition", with Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

@jevbio.bsky.social

Figure 1. Unbeatable sex allocation strategy of unconstrained females (r*) as a function of proportion of constrained females (p) under local mate competition with two foundresses colonising the patch. Shown are the result for Godfray’s (1990) erroneous diploidy solution (dashed grey line), our corrected diploidy solution (solid grey line), and our haplodiploidy solution (solid black line). Overlaid are results from individual-based simulations (discs).

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Kalyani Twyman @kztwyman.bsky.social · May 8

Very excited to share that our paper, ‘The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour’, is out now in @journal-evo.bsky.social advances. With @andygardner.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

#OpenAccess #Evolution #Multicellularity

The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour

Abstract. Cellular division of labour is closely associated with the emergence of organismality in the evolution of obligate multicellularity. Michod has s

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Jun 11

New paper: "Faster adaptation but slower divergence of X chromosomes under paternal genome elimination" (Open Access)

w/ Robert Baird, @imprintedgene.bsky.social‬, Jan Ševčík, Katy Monteith, @laurarossevo.bsky.social‬ & @ajmongue.bsky.social‬

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‪@natcomms.nature.com‬

Faster adaptation but slower divergence of X chromosomes under paternal genome elimination - Nature Communications

X chromosomes evolve faster than autosomes, but confounding factors make this a difficult phenomenon to study. Utilising the unusual sex determination system of Sciaridae flies, this study finds a slo...

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xueyuguo.bsky.social @xueyuguo.bsky.social · May 24

Does anyone wanna do the young human geneticists networking event but not get a ticket yet, I will have an unused ticket. Please reply to me if you’d like to purchase it off me. Thanks!!! #eshg2025 #eshg

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Silvia Paracchini @silparacchini.bsky.social · May 24

Find the us, St Andrews Neurogenetics group, at #eshg2025 🧠🧬

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · May 7

New paper: “The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour”, with @kztwyman.bsky.social #OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

@journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA

AI-generated image using the paper's title and abstract as input.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · May 4

Sex-ratio optima for haplodiploid parents converge in viscous populations when dispersal is density-dependent. Read 'Density-dependent dispersal reduces conflict over the sex ratio': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #BiologyLetters #evolution

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Tom Scott @tomwscott.bsky.social · Apr 11

New paper with @andygardner.bsky.social and @geoffwild.bsky.social in which we ask whether the ability to recognise relatives causes individuals to be more or less cooperative overall.

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping

Abstract. Kin selection theory predicts that individuals should evolve to help relatives, either by helping indiscriminately in a population where they do

Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Feb 17

New paper: "Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping"

with Tom Scott (@tomwscott.bsky.social) & Geoff Wild (@geoffwild.bsky.social) #OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

@journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA

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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · Feb 10

Genetics of Left-Handedness: Major Breakthroughs | @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Genetics of Left-Handedness: Major Breakthroughs

About 10 in 100 people are left-handed, but why? A new article highlights the crucial role of early brain development for left-handedness.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Sebastian Ocklenburg @ocklenburg.bsky.social · Feb 3

New handedness review article with @silparacchini.bsky.social Jutta Peterburs & Annakarina Mundorf in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond

Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritabilit…

www.sciencedirect.com

Bing Dong董冰 @bingdongevo.bsky.social · Jan 15

There could be some physiological constraints for key structure to develop, e.g. the wings. So there could be a minimum duration, but I would suppose that varies across different animal groups. For the second questions, again, I don't know. But these are fun questions! (2/2)

Bing Dong董冰 @bingdongevo.bsky.social · Jan 15

Thanks! These are really interesting questions. To be clear, my study only looks at the starting time, or onset, of metamorphosis. If you are talking about the duration of metamorphosis, well, I don't know. (1/2)

Bing Dong董冰 @bingdongevo.bsky.social · Jan 15

Thank you Shikhara!

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Bing Dong董冰 @bingdongevo.bsky.social · Jan 15

My paper is out! "Kin competition drives the evolution of earlier metamorphosis" (#OpenAccess), with @andygardner.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70806

Kin Competition Drives the Evolution of Earlier Metamorphosis

We develop a mathematical model to investigate how kin selection shapes the optimal timing of metamorphosis. We consider the full range of larval competition intensities and the full range of related...