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Luke Holman @lukeholman.bsky.social · 12d

Exciting PostDoc and RA opportunity with two lovely supervisors!

Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 13d

2 job adverts on a NERC project w myself + @darrenobbard.bsky.social on “What determines the virome: ecology and the environment, evolution, or species history?” early 2026 in
@uniexecec.bsky.social
- Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
- RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Pls share!

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Luke Holman @lukeholman.bsky.social · 18d

Some more bizarro ant genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you work on the internal conflicts, do consider proposing a paper for our upcoming special issue in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

More info here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/special-issue/

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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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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Aug 22

debugging some slim code, and these flashing haplotypes are mostly gratuitous, but the closest I'll ever get to the matrix I think

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Luke Holman @lukeholman.bsky.social · Aug 21

Har du rotter på loftet, det er superfantastisk

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Philip Leftwich @philipleftwich.bsky.social · Aug 21

Excited to be a part of this new paper with Alphey Lab- out in pre-print.
Multiplexing overrides resistance for #genedrive in Anopheles stephensi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Multiplexing gene drives have high homing efficiencies

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Aug 21

Postdoc opportunity in disease ecology at @uniexecec.bsky.social with the excellent @btschirren.bsky.social and @andyyoung.bsky.social in evergreen Cornwall UK.

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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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.bsky.social · Aug 11

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Aug 11

Come work with my amazing new colleague!

Chris Smith @chriscrsmith.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hello bluesky community!

I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

The department of Biology is a large, unified department with strong undergraduate degrees, nationally-ranked graduate programs, and world-class research spanning the breadth of biological questions a...

indiana.peopleadmin.com

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Aug 7

In another milestone for human genetics, the world's largest set of whole-genome DNA sequences now encompasses data from nearly half a million people, described in this new @nature.com paper from @ukbiobank.bsky.social: 🧪👇

Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants - Nature

A study reports whole-genome sequences for 490,640 participants from the UK Biobank and combines these data with phenotypic data to provide new insights into the relationship between human variation a...

www.nature.com

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Jerome Beetz @beetzjerome.bsky.social · Aug 1

We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.

This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.

Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.

More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...

Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology

Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg

www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social · Jul 28

Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Job Search

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Craig White @craig-white.bsky.social · Jul 28

An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Job Search

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · Jul 22

The 1st author is here too: follow @tom-is-kean.bsky.social ! His clever idea was to highlight similarities between meiotic drive and inbreeding's "automatic transmission advantage". We ask: given structurally identical(ish) problems, why is what is viewed as paradoxical so different between fields?

Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

Why zoologists should not treat the automatic transmission advantage as an afterthought: a commentary on Clo et al. (2025)

Thomas Keaney & @kokkonut.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Why zoologists should not treat the automatic transmission advantage as an afterthought: a commentary on Clo et al. (2025)

Clo et al. (2025) provide a welcome synthesis of the plant and animal literature concerning the propensity (or lack thereof) for inbreeding. A review of th

doi.org

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Karl Grieshop @karlgrieshop.bsky.social · Jul 9

Out now in @molbioevol.bsky.social with Michelle Liu (co-first), Ryan Frost, Matthew Lindsay, Malak Bayoumi, Martin Brengdahl, @ruxmolnar.bsky.social and @aneil-agrawal.bsky.social, we evolved ~40% of the D. melanogaster genome under male-limited inheritance, ...

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Expression Divergence in Response to Sex-biased Selection

Abstract. It remains debated whether greater degrees of sexual dimorphism would evolve if not for intersexual genetic constraints. Here, we used experiment

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Andy Gardner @andygardner.bsky.social · Jul 9

New paper: "The consequences of constrained sex allocation in diploids and haplodiploids under local mate competition", with Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

@jevbio.bsky.social

Figure 1. Unbeatable sex allocation strategy of unconstrained females (r*) as a function of proportion of constrained females (p) under local mate competition with two foundresses colonising the patch. Shown are the result for Godfray’s (1990) erroneous diploidy solution (dashed grey line), our corrected diploidy solution (solid grey line), and our haplodiploidy solution (solid black line). Overlaid are results from individual-based simulations (discs).

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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · Jul 8

A new paper by my academic grandchild @ewanflintham.bsky.social, now out in @jevbio.bsky.social:

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

The evolution of sex-specific gene expression in polygenic traits

@ewanflintham.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

The evolution of sex-specific gene expression in polygenic traits

Abstract. Selection often favours different phenotypes in males and females, driving the evolution of sex-specific genetic architectures that facilitate se

doi.org

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Florian Privé @privefl.bsky.social · Jul 4

I probably won't have time to make a video out of this.

But the materials are available online, and should be pretty self-explanatory.

Hope this is useful to some people.

privefl.github.io/statgen-cour...

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Andreas Prokop @poppi62.bsky.social · Jul 2

Now proper out: doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Toward more sustainable research: reducing the environmental impact when working with Drosophila

Abstract. The ever-increasing amounts of plastic waste and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide threaten our environment. Biomedical laboratories across the

doi.org

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Craig Primmer @fishcongen.bsky.social · Jun 28

That's why I am helping the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social organise a hub conference in 2027 instead of a regular 1 site congress. 4 hubs across Europe so most can travel by train/bus and still meet colleagues in person (website at eseb 2027.org live in August)

Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Jun 25

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On average, one international in-person conference visit emits 1.26 tCO2eq per researcher.

That’s 55% of the 2.3 tCO2eq annual carbon budget per person that would keep us on track with the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement (Gore, 2021). 😬

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Joel McGlothlin @joelmcglothlin.bsky.social · Jun 26

#Evol2025 was for me maybe the most important meeting I have ever been to. My science will be drastically improved by my interactions over the past week. It was bittersweet due to the current situation and the people who weren't there, but I'm optimistic that we are strong enough to overcome this.

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Adria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · Jun 26

Long running project in the ant community finally out!

Cell - a Cell Press journal @cp-cell.bsky.social · Jun 16

Now online! Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants

Adaptive radiation and social evolution of the ants

Comparative analyses of 163 ant genomes reveal extensive genome rearrangements, context-specific gene family expansion patterns, and selection on conserved pathways that together underpin the evolution and diversification of social traits and caste differentiation in ants.

dlvr.it

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · Jun 26

Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929

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