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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 9d

Back in Ingelheim for another Evolution of Ageing workshop (massive thanks to The Gutenberg Workshops in the Life Sciences for hosting). It’s set to be a great three days of talks and presentations!

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Dugdale Research Group @hannahdugdale.bsky.social · 20d

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 · 21d

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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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Sep 5

Well that’s the “highlight” of my week for sure!
Thrilled to see our recent paper covered in Nature’s Research Highlight: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Also see @markspa.bsky.social’s neat explainer below.

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Mark Spa @markspa.bsky.social · Sep 3

1. My first ever paper is out! With
@euantheyoung.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
How do older siblings, and their sex and age, affect the survival of younger siblings? Find out by checking below.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Age- and sex-dependent associations between the number of older siblings and early-life survival in pre-industrial humans | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Siblings are an important part of an individual’s early-life environment and may therefore play an important role in shaping an individual’s survival. The quantification of sibling effects on survival is challenging, however, especially in long-lived ...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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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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Barbara Tschirren @btschirren.bsky.social · Aug 21

**Postdoc opportunities**👇👇 Find me at poster 302 today between 17:30-18:00 for a chat. 🦡🦠🔬🧬 #eseb2025

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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · Apr 11

What do you think, can we forecast evolution❓

@sevans.bsky.social and I would love to hear your thoughts, so if you are going to #ESEB2025, submit a talk to our symposium (S24: Forecasting evolution in natural populations) and join @colingarroway.bsky.social and Patrik Nosil!

Deadline April 25.

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Pierre de Villemereuil @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social · Apr 8

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Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?

#evolution #genetics

Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...

ERC-funded PhD position available – Pierre de Villemereuil

devillemereuil.legtux.org

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · Mar 28

Reminder - the deadline for abstracts is in less than a month's time!

#openscience

Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · Feb 28

🚨 ESEB 2025, here we come! 🚨

Abstract submissions are now open for our symposium -
"Enhancing Diversity & Transparency in Ecology & Evolution: Reliable Practices for Research & Organizations" 🌍✨

Featuring invited speakers:
🔹 Dr. Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz
🔹 Dr. Joel Pick

#ESEB2025 #SORTEE

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SPAAM @spaam-community.bsky.social · Mar 28

The SPAAM has organized a virtual speed-networking event between PIs and young researchers (MSc/PhD/Postdocs)!
When? Wednesday April 9th 11.00AM-01.00PM CET. Registration deadline: April 2nd. Grab your slot! For more information and registration, check:

Speed networking between PIs and young researchers - April 2025 edition

Interest and registration form for PI speed networking for April 9th, 11:00 AM - 01.00 PM CET The following PIs are open to meeting with interested junior researchers (prospective masters, PhDs,…

docs.google.com

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Dugdale Research Group @hannahdugdale.bsky.social · Mar 11

Congratulations Dr. Chik on defending your PhD thesis yesterday on "The evolutionary and ecological drivers of senescence in two wild passerine systems" 👏🎉 doi.org/10.33612/dis...

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · Feb 21

Do you have a project in ecology and evolution that exemplifies open science? If so nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award:

More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

SORTEE awards

Awards of Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

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Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social · Feb 20

To be, or not to be, part-time in academia?
This is a tricky question that has faced many of us and in @elife.bsky.social we discuss the benefits and challenges of being part-time. With @emiliapsantos.bsky.social and a fantastic, interdisciplinary team!
elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Point of View: To be, or not to be, part-time in academia

Part-time working can be beneficial for individual academics, and also for academia as a whole.

elifesciences.org

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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Many thanks to the Strategic Research Council and Rosalind Franklin Fellowship @unigroningen.bsky.social for funding and everyone who has helped with the project. In particular, my supervising dream team!

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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Overall, this natural experiment yields new insights into the consequences of human reproductive behavior, giving evidence that the tradeoff between reproduction and lifespan has played an important role in shaping human aging.

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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Feb 13

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These differences then disappeared again after the famine, probably because of the improvements in healthcare and reductions in family size in 20th-century Finland.

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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Mothers exposed during other life stages did not show these costs. This suggests that environmental conditions can influence whether mothers suffer reduced lifespans when having more children, but it is the conditions experienced while actively raising children that are most important.

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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Feb 13

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…mothers reproducing during the famine had shorter lifespans if they had more children – around half a year per child!

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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Before the famine, mothers having more children showed no differences in lifespan, suggesting no tradeoff occurs between reproduction and survival. However…

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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Feb 13

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We used historical individual life-history records spanning 250 years for thousands of Finns, and compared how having more children affected the lifespans of mothers not experiencing the Great Finnish Famine (died before or born after) and mothers exposed to the famine in different life stages.

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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Finding no tradeoff can happen if mothers vary a lot in their resources (‘big house, big car’ syndrome) or if environmental conditions are relatively benign. But do mothers with more children suffer shorter lifespans when experiencing more challenging conditions? And how do we even test this?

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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Feb 13

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It follows that women having more children might live shorter lives. Researchers have been looking at this since the early 20th century(!) but results are mixed. Some studies do show the tradeoff, but others find no relationship or even a positive association!

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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Why we age and why some of us age faster than others are HUGE questions that attract researchers from many fields. One idea – from evolutionary biology – is that there is a tradeoff between reproduction and survival, meaning that organisms with more offspring will suffer reduced lifespans.

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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · Feb 13

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New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?

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