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Kathy Darragh @kdarragh.bsky.social · 27d

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

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Hilde Schneemann @hildeschneemann.bsky.social · 10d

🚂 This petition needs your signatures! Save the wonderful nighttrain that gets you into the center of Paris/Vienna/Berlin in time for breakfast whilst you doze off or have memorable encounters and conversations with fellow travellers agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne

Signez la pétition maintenant !

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Laura K Hayward @lkhayward.bsky.social · Aug 23

Why do males and females often differ in traits?
The expected answer: selection.
But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same

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Gabriele Nocchi @gabnocgenomics.bsky.social · Aug 13

I am happy to share my second paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social and collaborators! If you are into hybrid zones and tree genomics, this is for you!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The genomic basis of local adaptation in the white x Engelmann spruce hybrid zone

Hybridization between species can occur along repeated zones of contact, providing a powerful natural laboratory for studying the interplay between migration and selection, and for identifying loci in...

www.biorxiv.org

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Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social · Jun 27

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Jun 26

Aarhus University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in population genetics, comparative genomics, or bioinformatics for biodiversity research. More info: https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-biodiversity-research-using-genetics #job

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Biodiversity Research Using Genetics - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet

Ledig stilling ved Center for Kvantitativ Genetik og Genomforskning, Aarhus, Aarhus Universitet

www.au.dk

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Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · May 14

I'm reviewing applicants later this week and will continue to accept new applications until the position is filled

Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉 @seananderson.bsky.social · Apr 12

I'm hiring a postdoc! Searching for a candidate interested in the process of speciation to come join me at Georgia Tech in Atlanta -- an exciting place with a growing core of eco-evolutionary researchers. Various skill sets will be applicable. Please share!

https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/PostDocs//GeorgiaTech.Speciation

The Anderson Lab at Georgia Tech is seeking a postdoctoral researcher interested in the process of speciation. The expected focus of the successful candidate's work will be questions related to evolut...

evol.mcmaster.ca

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · May 8

Now out in print! Elli Cryan (coadvised by @spicybotrytis.bsky.social) digs deep into the sgtructure and function of hybrid incompatibility loci in maize. Among other things she discovers a conserved, ancient pseudogene haplotype that silences the locus in trans! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

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Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social · Apr 22

Really excited that our DFG grant on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size variation in *Heliconius* has been funded :) In the next weeks, I will post an advert for a PhD, but if you know of good students, please suggest they get in touch. Please repost.

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Shreyas Pai @theshreyaspai.bsky.social · Apr 2

Why is sex so common if it's so costly?
Super excited to share our new preprint “Sex decreases the pleiotropic costs of local adaptation”, where we bring a new angle to this age-old evolutionary question. Co-led by Parris Humphrey, in Michael Desai's lab. Short thread here: (1/n)

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Mar 31

Sex decreases the pleiotropic costs of local adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.646016v1

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · Mar 25

Exciting news! @wcratcliff.bsky.social and I published an essay last week in @nature.com reviewing the substantial contributions of 'long-term' studies to evolutionary biology
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Norm Wickett @reactionnorm.bsky.social · Feb 26

Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years.

Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it!

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

University Assistant postdoctoral

jobs.univie.ac.at

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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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Ole Seehausen @oleseehausen.bsky.social · Dec 28

Please circulate widely:

We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology

We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education

tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · Feb 13

The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Mar-Jun). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

PopGen Seminar Series
Summer Term 2025

04.03.25 – Lutz Becks (Univ. of Konstanz, DE) The evolutionary dynamics of novel endosymbiosis.
11.03.25 – Ilkka Kronholm (Univ. of Jyväskylä, FI) How chromatin structure influences genetic and epigenetic variation.
18.03.25 – Katja Hoedjes (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, NL) Understanding functional impact of genetic variation on complex traits at a single nucleotide resolution.
25.03.25 – Sophie Armitage (Freie Univ. of Berlin, DE) Evolutionary ecology of host-pathogen interactions.
01.04.25 – Matthew Rockman (New York Univ., US) Developmental evolution is a population-genetics problem.
08.04.25 – Wen-Juan Ma (Vrije Univ. Brussels, BE) The evolution of sex chromosomes and sex determination in frogs.
15.04.25 – Almorò Scarpa (Vetmeduni, AT) Two centuries of transposable element invasions in Drosophila melanogaster
22.04.25 – Julia Kreiner (Univ. of Chicago, US) The mode and tempo of genomic adaptation to contemporary agriculture.
29.04.25 – Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Inst. for Chemical Ecology, DE) Microbial symbionts as sources of evolutionary innovations in beetles.
06.05.25 – Luisa Pallares (Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, DE) Phenotypic robustness across the genotype-phenotype map, from genes to environment and back.
13.05.25 – Diana Rennison (Univ. of Calif., San Diego, US) Understanding the predictability of evolutionary trajectories using threespine stickleback.  20.05.25 – Filipa Sousa (Univ. of Vienna, AT) Bioenergetics Evolution: The link between Earth’s and Life’s history.
27.05.25 – Yun Song (Univ. of California, Berkeley, US) Learning and applying complex probability distributions over biological sequences.
03.06.25 – April Wei (Cornell Univ., US) Enabling efficient analysis of biobank-scale data with genotype representation graphs.

ALT TEXT OUT OF SPACE, GO TO https://www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

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Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social · Feb 7

The 2nd conference of the Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Population Biology @smtpb.bsky.social will be in Chicago @nitmb.bsky.social June 2-6. Applications are now open, both to attend (junior applicants can apply for financial support), and to present, at www.nitmb.org/modeling-and...

Modeling and Theory in Population Biology | NITMB

www.nitmb.org

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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · Jan 31

Job alert!

We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below!

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Job alert! Lectuter in Evolutionary Biology out now

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · Jan 9

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

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Hilde Schneemann @hildeschneemann.bsky.social · Jan 23

Check out our exciting programme of early-career speciation research talks for the Gordon Research Symposium on Speciation, this March in Ventura www.grc.org/speciation-g...

Graduate students & postdocs, if you'd still like to join us: make sure to register before the 1st of Feb!

2025 Speciation (GRS) Seminar GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Speciation (GRS) will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.

www.grc.org

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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · Jan 16

@tbadet.bsky.social and I have a preprint out on transposon silencing in fungi!

Genome size evolution is fascinating and showcases the dynamic nature of transposon activation.

What we understand less are the dynamics of transposon defense systems encoded by the genomes.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Fungal phylogeny highlighting genome size changes

Summary of genome size variation among groups

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Marie Monniaux @mariemonniaux.bsky.social · Dec 11

Please forward: 2-year post-doc position in the lab Evo-Eco-Paleo (Lille, France) to work on plant self-incompatibility & evolution - email me if interested!

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Ilya Ruvinsky @ruvinskyilya.bsky.social · Dec 16

@currentbiology.bsky.social does it again!

Our environments are considerably more complex than we typically think. Is it really so surprising that there are broad swaths of biology we don't even know about, let alone don't know how to interpret?

www.cell.com/current-biol...

Latitudinal gradients in air density create invisible topography at sea level, affecting animal flight costs

Air density affects the costs of animal flight. This is well-established for flight at high altitude. Shepard et al. show that changes in air density cause regional differences in flight costs at sea level due to latitudinal temperature gradients. They discuss the implications for species distributions and for global change.

www.cell.com

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Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social · Dec 12

We identified protein domains in LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). Their distinctive amino acid usage reveals the order amino acids were added to the genetic code, based mostly on size. Older proteins hint at earlier alternative codes. 1/15 @seekingluca.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Order of amino acid recruitment into the genetic code resolved by last universal common ancestor’s protein domains | PNAS

The current “consensus” order in which amino acids were added to the genetic code is based on potentially biased criteria, such as the absence of s...

www.pnas.org

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Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social · Dec 16

The Institut Pasteur is recruiting group leaders!
Pasteur is an absolute incredible environment to start your lab. Surrounded by so many great scientists, in the beautiful city of Paris.
Come eat 🥐 and conduct awesome science.
Contact me if you want info !

research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...

Call for applications 2025 – Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur | Research - Institut Pasteur

research.pasteur.fr

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Jeff Spence @jeffspence.github.io · Dec 17

Why do association studies prioritize trait-specific variants???

A quick thread about the importance of thinking about all traits at once 👇 1/6 (🧪🧬)

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Dec 17

Please share news of this new post. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in the philosophy of medicine and the biomedical sciences. Closing date February 2nd 2025 #philsci #philsky

Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Life Sciences - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Life Sciences in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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