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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 16h

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....

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...

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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 8d

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....

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...

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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 8d

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...

Life-History Evolution of Insects in Response to Climate Variation: Seasonal Timing Versus Thermal Physiology | Annual Reviews

Climate adaptation in insects can proceed via responses in life-history traits and their thermal plasticity and through phenological shifts mediated by responses to photoperiodic cues (photoperiodism)...

www.annualreviews.org

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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

Pau Carazo @paucarazo.bsky.social · Sep 1

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

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Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · Aug 22

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!

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · Jun 16

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/

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ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social · Jun 17

🐦 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐬! 🐦

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

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Jun 10

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...

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"

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · May 30

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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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · May 19

Thanks Chris!

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Suvi Ruuskanen @suviruuskanen.bsky.social · May 18

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...

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...

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · May 12

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

Advanced article version👇
academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

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

#TreeOfSex #Evolution #Genomics #Biodiversity

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

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Eve Seuntjens @eveseuntjens.bsky.social · May 15

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...

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.

www.kuleuven.be

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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · May 16

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

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...

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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · May 16

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.

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...

www.nature.com

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Maria Hällfors @mariahallfors.bsky.social · Apr 25

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/...

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...

www.pnas.org

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Dr. Jessica L Ware @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

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

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Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social · Mar 19

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

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

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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · Mar 18

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/...

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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · Mar 4

Yes!

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Katerina Guschanski @kguschan.bsky.social · Mar 2

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

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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · Mar 4

Beta-seminar?

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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · Feb 20

📣 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 male pied flycatcher perching on a branch

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Jesper Boman @jesperboman.bsky.social · Feb 20

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

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