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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · 21d

Dear evolution peeps,
Did I dream this up, or was there a newer unified-type species concept paper/synthesis published in the past several years? I thought I read and studied one, but I can’t find it/any evidence that exists.
Thank you for your help with my brain 😬

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Josh Jahner @jpjahner.bsky.social · 21d

We had a really great discussion in class about this paper today
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Functional synonymous mutations and their evolutionary consequences - Nature Reviews Genetics

Synonymous mutations, once deemed neutral, have been shown to influence gene expression and organismal fitness by affecting transcription, mRNA processing, translation and protein folding. In this Per...

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 28d

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Biology Department

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · Sep 3

At 26, during the Reign of Terror in France, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier narrowly avoided the guillotine. A decade later, he made a discovery that changed mathematics forever. @shalmawegs.bsky.social reports:
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What Is the Fourier Transform? | Quanta Magazine

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform, de...

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 30

For some three billion years, unicellular organisms ruled Earth. Then, around one billion years ago, a new chapter of life began

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How did life get multicellular? Five simple organisms could have the answer

Nature - Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals.

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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
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Eryn McFarlane @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social · Aug 13

Shirley Chen's paper from my lab on the dilution and amplification hypotheses regarding the biodiversity-disease relationship.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Reappraisal of the Dilution and Amplification Effect Framework: A Case Study in Lyme Disease

The biodiversity–disease relationship posits two hypotheses: the dilution effect (where there's a negative relationship between biodiversity and disease risk) and the amplification effect (where ther...

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Sarah W. Fitzpatrick @swfitz.bsky.social · Aug 11

Excited to share our new paper led by @alexlewanski.bsky.social showing largely positive, multi-decadal consequences of translocations in Red-cockaded woodpeckers at Avon Park Air Force Range in central Florida: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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Trevor Faske @trevorfaske.bsky.social · Jul 30

Very excited to have our study come out looking at multiple plant mosaic hybrid zones and their implications for hybrids to act as "sutures" of species ranges. We use genomic data to project shifts into future climates and discuss impacts on conservation/management.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Jul 23

I'm thrilled to share more cool fish genetics, led by former MSc student Amanda Meuser, and with former student Amy Pitura and collaborator @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social. This one is about minnow hybrids!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Extensive multi-species hybridization between Leuciscidae minnow species

Anthropogenic disturbances can disrupt ecosystems and alter species population dynamics. Interspecific hybridization is common between genetically related organisms, especially once reproductive barri...

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · Jul 16

A thing that always just stops me in my tracks when like, reporting how pythons break down the skeletons of their prey in their stomachs and then suck up the calcium...is how GORGEOUS the cells of the intestine are.

They're really honestly beautiful. www.sciencenews.org/article/new-...

A newly discovered cell helps pythons poop out the bones of their prey

The cells helps the snakes absorb the bones of their prey — and might show up in other animals that chomp their meals whole.

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · Jul 14

When sun hits you, what does it *hit*? It rockets into your RNA, and the sound of colliding ribosomes and potholed RNA signals to your body to do something: produce a sunburn. My latest for @quantamagazine.bsky.social.

www.quantamagazine.org/rna-is-the-c...

RNA Is the Cell’s Emergency Alert System | Quanta Magazine

How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding ribosomes, signals danger.

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Liz Mandeville @lizmandeville.bsky.social · Jun 30

Delighted to post some cool science - a collaboration with my former grad students Cassandre and Jill, and collaborator extraordinaire @erynmcfarlane.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.1093/jher...

A novel sex-associated genomic region in Catostomus fish species

Abstract. Genomic regions that influence sex are hypothesized to play a key role in evolutionary diversification, as sex determination mechanisms may promo

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John Lechner @johnlechner.bsky.social · Jun 25

Here's one of my insect comics to celebrate #InsectWeek, featuring my favorite butterfly the skipper! 🍃

Four-panel comic depicting a small orange butterfly looking up at a monarch butterfly in the air. The small butterfly says, "Look, there goes a monarch butterfly! Everyone loves monarchs. So regal and elegant! Nobody notices a little skipper like me. Nobody." A nearby ant says, "Hey, did you see that monarch?"

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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · Jun 21

Hey #Evol2025 - My colleague @waspvenom.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc for our #NSF - #USDA funded grant to understand the genetic basis of gall formation! Please see that attached ad, and feel free to talk to me @evolmtg.bsky.social, or contact Dr. Ellen Martinson directly!

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Chris Moore @mutualismecology.bsky.social · Jun 21

Serious FOMO at #Evol2025 The broadcasted opening plenary by @jbyoder.org, "No data speaks for itself—but with data, we can speak for ourselves", was excellent! So much great & important stuff. I especially appreciated the presentation of social science methods to natural scientists on Queer in STEM

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · Jun 11

maybe my favorite paper I've written, I have a synthesis out today early access in @asn-amnat.bsky.social today that attempts to answer a simple but slippery question: what is an elevational range? doi.org/10.1086/737130

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · Jun 16

Long-term flowering-time data on Japanese mountain cherry (recorded since the 9th century!) shows a shift in full-flowering date beginning in the late 19th century.

Fascinating new @newphyt.bsky.social paper by @jgpausas.bsky.social

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · Jun 16

Butterflies are in trouble, but there's a lot we can do about it! 🦋🆘
Today, we are sharing our “State of the Butterflies” report, featuring clear steps to recovery that everyone can take part in!
Learn more ➡️ xerces.org/press/as-us-...
Get the report ➡️ xerces.org/publications...