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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 5d

Just discovered this year's IgNobel Peace Prize winner, "Dutch courage? Effects of acute alcohol consumption on self-ratings and observer ratings of foreign language skills", very relatable as someone who's learning Dutch 🙃 doi.org/10.1177/0269...

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 18d

Join @cmaley.bsky.social, @lucielaplane.bsky.social, Joel Brown and Benjamin Spada for a live EvoChat discussion about "How we define cancer matters", hosted by the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer (ISEEC).

Oct 1st at 8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CEST

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Abstract: Current definitions of cancer describe what cancer does but not what it is. Furthermore, they derive largely from human cases and may not apply to other multicellular organisms, especially those lacking a basal membrane. Comparative oncology, however, has shown that cancer occurs across a broad diversity of organisms. What definition should be adopted when framing cancer in a comparative and evolutionary perspective? And can an evolution-based definition be applied in clinical oncology? We will show that a universal definition of cancer not only helps provide a basis for progress in comparative oncology, but can also help to explain the diversity of cancer phenomena within humans.

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Dugdale Research Group @hannahdugdale.bsky.social · 22d

Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 24d

New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 25d

TL;DR: Birds are really cool and offer an exciting avenue for studying cancer! Also, here is a song about dinosaurs to celebrate: youtu.be/0ueF5GLSKmg?...

Nova Norda - Dinozorlar (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Nova Norda

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 25d

Strong ancestral defences can make birds cancer-robust and help explain their longevity, but birds may be ‘too robust’ if strong defences compromise reproduction. Yet, strong defences can also be adaptive if miniaturisation brings longer lifespans (flight) and higher cancer risk (metabolic scaling).

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 25d

We show that unless the evolution of cancer defences is mutation-limited (e.g. due to low mutation rate or pleiotropy), birds would have evolved weaker defences than their ancestors. However, evolutionary lags, if they occur, can result in birds retaining strong, dinosaur-level cancer suppression.

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 25d

Here, we model cancer defence evolution over macroevolutionary time, tracking changes in relevant traits such as body size, extrinsic mortality rate, and effective population size during birds' miniaturisation from dinosaurs.

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 25d

Birds tend to live longer and get less cancer compared to similar-sized mammals. Since birds shrank in size from larger ancestors (= dinosaurs), which also had to deal with cancer, could birds' cancer robustness be explained by them having retained their ancestral cancer suppression mechanisms?

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 25d

New paper out! 🤩 "Shrinking to bird size with dinosaur-level cancer defences: Evolution of cancer suppression over macroevolutionary time" with @kokkonut.bsky.social and @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1371/jour... A short thread:

Shrinking to bird size with dinosaur-level cancer defences: Evolution of cancer suppression over macroevolutionary time

Author summary Humans are not the only species suffering from cancer, yet cancer does not impact all life equally. Body size is relevant because maintaining a large number of cells in a tumour-free st...

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · Aug 27

We’ve got seven places left!

Sadly, this is the last Evolution of Ageing workshop to be held with the Gutenberg series. It won’t be continuing next year!

IQCB Mainz @iqcb-mainz.bsky.social · Jul 14

Join the GUTENBERG WORKSHOP on the Evolution of Ageing!

Organizers: Margaux Bieuville, @kokkonut.bsky.social and Victor Ronget @unimainz.bsky.social, and eivimeycook.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Info at gutenberg-workshops.uni-mainz.de/evolution-ag...

#ageing #evolution #lifesciences

The Gutenberg Workshop on the Evolution of Ageing is organized by Margaux Bieuville, Hanna Kokko and Victor Ronget from the University of Mainz together with Edward Ivimey-Cook from the University of Glasgow. The Workshop will take place from 30 September to 2 October 2025 at Wasem's Monastery Engelthal Ingelheim.

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Dugdale Research Group @hannahdugdale.bsky.social · Aug 25

Great to have the opportunity to share our group's work at #ESEB2025 @yuhengsun.bsky.social @euantheyoung.bsky.social with @erikpostma.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @yagmurerten.bsky.social

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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · Aug 22

Many of us are using LLMs in coding and scientific writing. They are very helpful tools, but we need to be thoughtful as we integrate them into our work flows to preserve accountability, voice and trust. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan.... An editorial at @evolletters.bsky.social for discussion:

Editorial: Accountability, voice, and trust - responsible use of GenAI in scientific publishing

Over the last few years, the development and rapid advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatG

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · Aug 22

Agreed! I was super keen to see both but they were literally at the same time as the symposium I was talking in 🥲 would it somehow be possible to repeat these online for those of us who couldn’t attend? #ESEB2025

Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Aug 22

a bit unhappy that the talks about being trans & Palestinian in academia were concurrent with other science talks #ESEB2025. How will these inspiring people’s stories percolate / get everyone to reflect if the schedule selects for attendance only by those who are already sympathetic?

Giulia Scarparo @giuliascarparo.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thanks to Sofia and May Sheday for the courageous and inspiring talks! The scientific world cannot remain silent @eseb2025.bsky.social #ESEB2025 #inclusivity 🏳️‍🌈 #transrights 🏳️‍⚧️ #freepalestine 🇵🇸

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · Aug 22

A general conclusion of the talk by @yagmurerten.bsky.social: Age-specific cancer incidence data can help us estimate the level of cancer suppression across species #ESEB2025

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · Aug 22

Now at the #ESEB2025 cancer evolution symposium, @yagmurerten.bsky.social presents collaborative work with @amyboddy.bsky.social (sorely missed here!) on cancer across species in lemurs (photos not permitted)

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great talk by @gauravathreya.bsky.social about his work on age-dependent facultative sex! It’s been a super fun and interesting project to work on 🤩 and a preprint will be coming soon! #ESEB2025

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · Aug 19

MEME alumni (www.evobio.eu) at #ESEB2025! We span so many generations now, from the first cohort (graduated in 2012) to those who are still studying, with master students, PhD students, postdocs, and PIs among us! So happy to get together in every ESEB 🤩

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · Aug 19

Very excited about our symposium “Aging Outside of the Box”, today at #ESEB2025. Room 129+130, 14:00. And we will continue the discussion right after at the poster session (P02.001-021). Lots of cool aging research ahead! 🤩

E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · Apr 30

My knees tell me I’m aging—but do you also wonder what we can learn about aging by looking beyond humans? If you study aging in corals, duckweed, or other "unusual" systems, join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social to talk about aging outside the box! Abstract deadline: 5 May. eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

The poster for the symposium titled: "Ageing outside of the box: insights from unusual and non-model species" within the ESEB 2025 conference. The symposium is organised by Margaux Bieuville from the University of Mainz and Yagmur Erten from the University of Groningen. The invited speakers are Thorsten Reusch from GEOMAR and Robert Laird from the University of Lethbridge. The conference takes place on 17-22 August 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. The abstract submission deadline is 5 May 2025.

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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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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · Jun 21

Happy pride from Groningen! 🌈 celebrating diversity in science!

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Rob Salguero-Gómez @robsalgo.bsky.social · Jun 12

Deadline for the EvoDemoS conference 2 wks away! Join us at @PembrokeOxford @UniofOxford to discuss the breath and depth of demographic theory and applications in Sept evodemo2025.weebly.com Please retweet @biology.ox.ac.uk @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

EvoDemoS 2025

EvoDemoS 2025 International Conference. The local organising committee welcomes you to the 10th International Conference of the Evolutionary Demography Society, hosted at Pembroke College, Oxford, bet...

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Juan J. Lagos-Oviedo @jjlagosoviedo.bsky.social · Jun 2

We are launching the Fourth Edition of the Evolutionary Biology Crash Course ⭐ @evobiocc.bsky.social ⭐. There will be three weeks covering a myriad of topics in evolutionary biology with many practicals.

Please RT to reach as many students as possible.

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · May 26

Had a great week in Switzerland, interacting with Xiang-Yi Li, her group elvia.iee.unibe.ch
and others in Bern & Zurich :) many thanks for inviting me! It’s always fun to be back in Switzerland when the opportunity arises and I’m very happy that the Amsterdam-Zurich night train exists 🚂

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · May 6

My department is hiring! Permanent faculty job (research + teaching) in applied maths. Mathematical biology would be highly appropriate. We're a friendly department in a large university in central London, recently merged with a big medical school. Apply by 1st June. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY889/l...

Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at City St George’s, University of London

Apply for the Lecturer in Applied Mathematics role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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