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Charles C Roseman @evoroseman.bsky.social · 5d

Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

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Rachel Moran @rachelmoran.bsky.social · Sep 4

First pop gen paper from our lab! We find repeated evolutionary turn over of sex chromosomes in darters contributes to reproductive isolation. Turnover may be an escape hatch to resolve mitonuclear conflict & neo sex chromosomes evolved via a rare recessive mutation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Top left: Results of genome-wide association study (GWAS) for sex in E. caeruleum, E. radiosum, and E. spectabile showing sex chromosome turnover has occurred repeatedly. Top right: Phylogeny showing sex chromosome turnover in darters and non-darter percids. Chromosome 9 is the putative ancestral sex chromosome, shared by Perca flavescens and multiple members of the orangethroat darter complex (e.g., E. spectabile, E. pulchellum). Bottom: Schematic depicting repeated turnover of sex chromosomes as a mechanism to resolve mitonuclear conflict and promote speciation.

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 9d

Looking forward to the awesome @elliecat.bsky.social’s lecture today in our EEB seminar series! “Not All Bad News: Minor Genomic Impacts of Population Declines in Brown Bears” Noon Pacific in the Gold Auditorium, Shiley Biosciences Center. See ya there!

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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 27d

Dept of Plant Biology at UIUC hiring in any subdiscipline of Mycology and/or Plant-Fungal Interactions tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level.
Apply by Oct 31, 2025. For complete details including salary and benefit information, visit go.illinois.edu/PlantBiolfac...

Assistant Professor- Department of Plant Biology

Duties & Responsibilities

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28d

The new XKCD has to be a reference to the ant paper where ants just casually lay eggs of a different species, yes? Maybe? There are so many weird bugs its hard to know.

Line drawing of a two story institutional building with a sign in front, "Welcome to the BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT. It has been 3 days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about abugs that make you question your whole reality."

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Julian Catchen @jcatchen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

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Chris Smith @chriscrsmith.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hello bluesky community!

I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

The department of Biology is a large, unified department with strong undergraduate degrees, nationally-ranked graduate programs, and world-class research spanning the breadth of biological questions a...

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · Jul 23

bumping again: I am hiring a project coordinator /researcher for an interagency freshwater mussels project (USFS 🌲 lead). Position will be based out of USFS Northern Research Station in Wisconsin and starts Sep. 15, For more information/to apply, www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/438...

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Thomas Desvignes @notothentoma.bsky.social · Jul 17

Environmental conditions influence life history traits, but what about in Antarctic fish?🐟🇦🇶
We compared two pops of Crowned Notothens Trematomus scotti: one from a fjord of the Antarctic Peninsula and one from the Weddell Sea.
Their life histories traits were very different!
tinyurl.com/mtmmrv8w
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Different populations of the Antarctic notothen fish Trematomus scotti differ in key life history traits

Antarctic notothenioid fish form an adaptive radiation that diversified in the Southern Ocean over the past 10 million years. The biology and life his…

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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · Jul 16

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update

It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes

Let’s break it down (1/10)

github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · Jun 23

@ramencult.bsky.social et al. use spatially explicit simulations and genomic data from Anopheles gambiae, showing that selection changes the joint distribution of allele frequency and geographic range.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf141

#molbio #evobio

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · Jun 21

The recording of my IDEA talk is up on the #Evol2025 YouTube channel, and I've thrown that together with a PDF copy of the slide deck and a bibliography: lab.jbyoder.org/2025/06/21/a...

A bibliography for the 2025 IDEA plenary

The recording of my talk for the 2025 IDEA plenary is now posted over on the Evolution meeting YouTube channel (there’s a bunch of dead air at the start of the recording; the action starts a …

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Milton Tan @mtanichthys.bsky.social · Jun 21

Totally forgot to plug a talk I'm a coauthor on, but you can read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Sexual Dimorphism in Fin Size and Shape in North American Killifish

Sexual dimorphism is pervasive in North American killifish in the size and shape of their dorsal and anal fins. These fins perform multiple functions, including grasping females during spawning, domi...

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Angel G. Rivera-Colón @arcolon14.bsky.social · Jun 20

Do you want to learn about how very large populations evolve? Do you think barnacles are super cool? Come check out my talk on Saturday morning's Population Genomics session at #Evol2025!

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Milton Tan @mtanichthys.bsky.social · Jun 19

Excited to attend my first Evolution meeting in a few years. Check out my #Evol2025 on Tuesday June 24 11:30-11:45 in Comparative Biology I (room Athena GH) on detecting shifts in selection in multicopy gene families as applied to vertebrate genome evolution.

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Detecting Shifts in Selection in Multicopy Gene Families Applied to Vertebrate Genome Evolution

Milton Tan
Illinois Natural History Survey
Prairie Research Instititue
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · Jun 17

While I won't be at #Evolution2025, my PhD students Raya and Margaret will both be giving talks. Deets in the flyer. Do mark them on your calendars. Preprints coming ahead of their talks!

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Angel G. Rivera-Colón @arcolon14.bsky.social · Jun 18

This is great information, John! Thank you so much!

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Workshops @evomics.bsky.social · Jun 17

Save the date! 🙆🏻‍♀️ The Workshop on Genomics 2026 will take place between the 11th and 24th of January, 2026! In Český Krumlov, Czechia. Regular applications will be oppening mid-July, keep an eye on updates! 🤗 evomics.org/2026-worksho... #evomics2026

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Workshops @evomics.bsky.social · Jun 17

Equal opportunities funding for the Workshop on Genomics 2026 is now open to apply! Deadline: 2nd of July. Check elegibility in our website, and apply: evomics.org/equalopportu... #evomics2026

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · Jun 8

After nearly 6 years since we started, a first look at our Evolving Seas RCN project, a synthetic reanalysis of over 90 marine popgen data sets, led by Dr. Rachel Toczydlowski: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Drivers of genetic diversity across the marine tree of life

Why do some species have more genetic diversity than others? This question is one of the greatest remaining mysteries in evolutionary biology, and is particularly urgent in marine species, which are e...

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · May 22

Congratulations to this year's Hamilton Award finalists! 🎉 Join us Thursday, May 29 to hear these outstanding student talks. See the full schedule on the meeting website: www.evolutionmeetings.org/program-over... @evolmtg.bsky.social

Text: Virtual Evolution 2025. Society for the Study of Evolution Hamilton Award Symposium. Thursday, May 29, 1:30 PM - 7:30 PM Eastern (GMT-4). 2025 Finalists: Meaghan Clark, Dylan DeBaun, Devon DeRaad, Simon Innes, Josh Knecht, Kip Lacy, Gina Lamka, Prothama Manna, Gemma Martinez-Redondo, David Peede, Gabriel Preising, Jeremy Summers, David Tian, Matthew Treaster, and Amanda Vieira da Silva.

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · May 27

Reduced offspring viability is associated with long-term stability of a narrow avian hybrid zone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.22.655562v1

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Evolution Students @ssegrad.bsky.social · May 6

NSF funding is under threat — and students, postdocs, early-career scientists are to lose the most! We should stand together! Get informed and mobilized from today, by joining us in this Week of Action for NSF.

Use this Media Tool to get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU

#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · May 6

Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF!

Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!

Our Media Tool can help you get started:
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#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

SSE, SSB, and ASN logos. Text: Tri-societies Week of Action for NSF. Science under siege: Over 1000 NSF grants have been terminated by political appointees- threatening the foundation of American innovation and education, and more cuts loom; entire research programs are being erased without explanation. What’s at stake? STEM education for K-12 students, jobs and infrastructure in rural communities, support for veterans in research and education, cybersecurity and national defense innovation, global leadership in science and technology. Join the week of action: Contact Congress: Switchboard: (202) 224-3121, tell them to protect NSF. Share your story: Post on social media #WithoutNSF #SupportNSF #SaveNSF, engage local media; use our media tool to reach out to local reporters and newspapers; engage others: communicate the importance of NSF to colleagues, friends, and family.

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · May 6

Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF!

Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!

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#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · Apr 28

Crazy times, but I'll be advertising for a 2 year postdoc to work with me on new comp. methods to estimate evolutionary history soon - specifically to develop methods to handle missing data (e.g. ascertainment bias, allele dropout). Are you a comp. biologist graduating with a PhD soon? Reach out!

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