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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 2d

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

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Camille Roux @crouxevo.bsky.social · 26d

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

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Lisandro Milocco @milocco.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab

🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Please share!

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Roman Stetsenko @romanstet.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you’d like to chat about deleterious hitchhiking under balancing selection, come and check my poster number 231 this afternoon! #ESEB2025

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Iris Prigent @irisprigent.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you like cooperation, dispersal, modelling, or you just want to have a chat, come to see me poster P03.050 #ESEB2050

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · Aug 20

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

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Ewan Flintham @ewanflintham.bsky.social · Aug 19

Will be presenting this work today at #eseb2025 poster P02.184, come by if interested about whether we should expect recombination suppression on sex chromosomes should evolve through modifiers on the X or the Y

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · May 19

Sexual antagonism, mating systems, and recombination suppression on sex chromosomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654257v1

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Thomas Lesaffre 🌱 @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social · Aug 19

My poster P02.385 is now up on its board! Come say hi if you want to learn about the role of sexual conflict in transitions from combined to separate sexes is plants! 🌱 #ESEB2025

Thomas Lesaffre 🌱 @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social · Aug 4

Delighted to have our work on the joint emergence of dioecy and sexual dimorphism be part of this wonderful special issue!

I will be presenting this at @eseb2025.bsky.social in a couple of weeks, poster P02.385 on Aug 19th. Feel free to pop by! ☺️

Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Aug 4

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE JUST RELEASED!

Sex unfolded: sex, asex, sexes. Read the introductory editorial by Guest Editors D. Roze, S Glemin, @thomaslenormand.bsky.social & K. Van Doninck here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/7

Fantastic cover art by Caroline Blanc.

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Charikleia Karageorgiou (Clio) @evobioclio.bsky.social · Aug 1

A little late to share, but the first paper from the @heredityjournal.bsky.social special issue on functional and adaptive effects of genomic structural variation is now out!

Multiple forms of balancing selection maintain inversion polymorphism - Heredity

Heredity - Multiple forms of balancing selection maintain inversion polymorphism

www.nature.com

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Thomas Lenormand @thomaslenormand.bsky.social · Jul 12

Interested to know more about a new theory relating the #evolution of #sexchromosomes to the rules of #speciation? Check out this paper that we published with Denis Roze in the last issue of #Science. PDF here: www.science.org/stoken/autho...

A single theory for the evolution of sex chromosomes and the two rules of speciation

Sex chromosomes are involved in three major empirical patterns: (i) Y (or W) chromosomes are often nonrecombining and degenerate; (ii) heterogametic offspring (XY or ZW) from interspecific crosses are...

www.science.org

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Aug 4

NEW SPECIAL ISSUE JUST RELEASED!

Sex unfolded: sex, asex, sexes. Read the introductory editorial by Guest Editors D. Roze, S Glemin, @thomaslenormand.bsky.social & K. Van Doninck here: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/7

Fantastic cover art by Caroline Blanc.

Volume 38 Issue 7 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | Oxford Academic

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

academic.oup.com

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John M. Drake @jdrakephd.bsky.social · Jul 25

New in #EcologyLetters: How does extinction time scale with habitat size? An experiment with #Daphnia found strong support for power law—not exponential—scaling. A rare test of a big theoretical question.

Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#Ecology #Extinction #Scaling #Microcosms

Scaling of Extinction Time With Habitat Size in Experimental Populations

Theory predicts that extinction time scales with carrying capacity as either an exponential or power law. Extinction time in 35 laboratory populations was more consistent with a power law than expone....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · Jun 24

Just a few day left to apply !

Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · Apr 17

Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)!
Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available.
Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

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Christian Fankhauser @chfankhauser.bsky.social · Jun 16

Great job opportunity at The Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne University, Switzerland unil.ch/cig/en/home....
For a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. More details for how to apply are here nature.com/naturecareer...

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Loraine Hablützel @lorhab.bsky.social · Jun 3

My paper with @schmidmax.bsky.social and @charlesmullon.bsky.social is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social 🌟 doi.org/10.1093/evol... 🌟 We show how the effect of longevity on local adaptation, rather than being unidirectional, depends on the life cycle and how frequent selection is relative to dispersal

The evolution of local adaptation in long-lived species

Abstract. Many species experience heterogeneous environments and adapt genetically to local conditions. The extent of such local adaptation depends on a ba

doi.org

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Roman Stetsenko @romanstet.bsky.social · May 12

New paper out with Thomas Brazier, Denis Roze and Sylvain Glémin!

Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · May 12

Two research teams from @cnrs.fr @sbroscoff.bsky.social carried a comparative analysis in flowering plants that supports the prediction that inbreeding, such as self-fertilization, selects for higher recombination rates:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Brazier et al.
(@romanstet.bsky.social)

Mating system and the evolution of recombination rates in seed plants

Abstract. Meiotic recombination is a central mechanism underlying sexual reproduction among eukaryotes. In many species, the recombination rate is strongly

doi.org

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Arnaud Le Rouzic @arnaudlerouzic.bsky.social · May 16

Very happy to announce the publication of our latest work by my former student Sylvain Pouzet in @journal-evo.bsky.social: "Gene network topology drives the mutational landscape of gene expression".

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

#GeneRegulatoryNetworks
#PopulationGenetics
#EvolutionarySystemsBiology

A theoretical gene regulatory network, featuring 10 genes connected randomly.

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Germain Montazeaud @germtz.bsky.social · May 7

New paper out in @jxbotany.bsky.social! 🌱🌾

We found that mixing different wheat varieties can decrease belowground competition at early growth stages, especially under resource limited conditions.

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · May 12

Last chance to attend the school for free if you're doing your PhD in an Official Development Assistance (ODA) country ! Apply by 15 May for a full scholarship covering tuition, travel, accommodation, and meals.

Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · Apr 17

Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)!
Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available.
Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · Apr 17

Applications now open for UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evo Bio (1–6 Sept 2025, Lausanne)!
Aimed at PhD students interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology questions like sexual selection, social & life-history evolution. Scholarships available.
Pls share! www.shorturl.at/znk5g

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Masato Yamamichi @masatoyamamichi.bsky.social · Mar 31

Interested in doing a postdoc at the National Institute of Genetics in Japan focusing on theoretical ecology and evolutionary biology? Consider applying for the NIG postdoc fellowship! www.nig.ac.jp/nig/career-d...

Application Guidelines for NIG Postdoctoral Fellows 2026::National Institute of Genetics

NIG is the research institute on genetics. Our mission is to provide infrastructure and opportunities for international collaboration, to train young scientists, and to build new frontiers of life sci...

www.nig.ac.jp

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.bsky.social · Mar 1

Le texte que @mariusgilbert.bsky.social et moi avons écrit il y a un mois vient de paraître dans Le Monde (avec quelques mises à jour). Nous nous inquiétions des attaques de la nouvelle administration états-unienne contre la science. Malheureusement, la situation ne s'est pas arrangée depuis...

« Les mesures brutales de la nouvelle administration Trump s’apparentent à une attaque généralisée contre la science et la place de l’expertise dans la société »

TRIBUNE. Interruptions de projets de recherche, réduction drastique des moyens, licenciements de scientifiques, purges de bases de données… Ordres et contre-ordres se succèdent dans une confusion géné...

www.lemonde.fr

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · Mar 1

7/7
Led by @ludovicmaisonneuve.bsky.social and with Laurent Lehmann. Thanks to @dee-unil.bsky.social , @snsf-ch.bsky.social , @fbm-unil.bsky.social , and
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · Mar 1

6/7 Taken together, our findings indicate that teaching evolution has the potential to increase variation in knowledge within populations and to enhance adaptive abilities in the many animal species that show parental care, including humans.

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · Mar 1

5/7 The influence of teaching on learning and cumulative knowledge should be especially relevant when the environment shows low between- and within-generation heterogeneity, so that knowledge remains relevant across generations and individuals acquire similar information through individual learning.

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