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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.

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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)...

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Mafalda S Ferreira @mafaldaferreira.bsky.social · 18d

@scilifelab.se Group Leader retreat 2025 was a blast! Productive discussions, new collaborations, problems solved!! When we get together the magic happens 💪💪

Proud of @gmkov.bsky.social and I’s Tech Session on Planetary Biology research, that brought PIs, Platforms and Leadership together to TALK!

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 19d

Evidence for Neolithic acquisition of the high pathogenic island by Escherichia coli followed by recent selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676721v1

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Simon Baeckens @simonbaeckens.bsky.social · Sep 8

Extreme climate events can catalyze rapid evolutionary change! in our new Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) piece, Colin and I argue it’s time to study their evolutionary consequences systematically — beyond opportunistic observations. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Evolutionary consequences of extreme climate events

Simon Baeckens and Colin Donihue review case studies of rapid evolutionary change in response to extreme climate events and sketch a framework for future studies in the rapidly changing climate of the...

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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · Sep 3

The first of Jessie Foley’s work on the #evolution of #ageing in #Heliconius for your reading pleasure.

Come for the 348 day old butterfly, stay for the evolved slower rate of ageing, species*diet effects, and weightlifting for elderly butterflies 💪🏻👵🏻

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Sep 3

Evolution of increased longevity and slowed ageing in a genus of tropical butterfly https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.673072v1

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · Sep 3

My new book is almost ready for you! Check out the blurbs (and more) for "Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences". If you mentor scientific writers, or include writing in your undergrad classes, this book is for you. It can be easier!

Owls, blurbs, and a cover – oh my! “Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences” is getting close

We (that’s Bethann Garramon Merkle and I) are getting very excited about our new book, Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-Based Approach. Over the last few months, we’ve be…

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Tanja Slotte @tanjaslotte.bsky.social · Sep 2

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5

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Purple pollen visible in a dissected flower of Linum grandiflorum, flowering flax, an insect-pollinated species.

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Mafalda S Ferreira @mafaldaferreira.bsky.social · Aug 27

Lisandro Milocco is hiring a PhD student! @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and @scilifelab.se

Come join us at the Evolution and Biodiversity corner in SciLifeLab 😊

Lisandro Milocco @milocco.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab

🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Please share!

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Melanie Brien @melbrien.bsky.social · Aug 18

Excited to soon start my new role as Academy of Finland Research Fellow 🦋🐛I’ll later be advertising a PhD position on tiger moth colour and genomics, and will be speaking at #ESEB2025 this week if you want an idea of what’s going on!

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · Aug 19

🎉 Another exciting contribution from our lab this summer!

🧬 Nearly complete, gapless genome of the sex-changing central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) shed new light on the mystery of reptile sex determination.

Proud to be part of this collaborative effort!

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A near telomere-to-telomere phased genome assembly and annotation for the Australian central bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps

AbstractBackground. The central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) is widely distributed in central eastern Australia and adapts readily to captivity. Among

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Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · Aug 11

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution

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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · Aug 12

The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment:

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Bioinformatician - Uppsala University

Bioinformatician, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · Aug 12

Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553!

🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job

Yours truly and our mounted Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) specimen

The bird collection store, busy with visiting researchers, mounts, and in the background our volunteers who capture data from the specimen labels. It's not always this packed, but we do have a fair number of volunteers and visitors.

Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) in trays in the cabinets. The collections spaces are pretty new, fresh, and functional, which is not always the case for museum collections...

A tray of African raptor eggs to illustrate the breadth of the bird collection, which holds som 70K skin specimens, 60K egg clutches, and 10K skeletons.

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Laura Bertola @lauradbertola.bsky.social · Aug 9

The molecular evolutionary basis of species formation revisited
www.cell.com/trends/genet...

The molecular evolutionary basis of species formation revisited

How do new species arise? This is among the most fundamental questions in evolutionary biology. The first genetic model for how reproductive barriers lead to the origin of new species was proposed nea...

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Miguel V. Almeida @migueldvalmeida.bsky.social · Jan 29

Our first deep dive into TEs and piRNAs in African cichlids is finally published!

genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Our main findings below 🧵

#TEsky

Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes - Genome Biology

Background East African cichlid fishes have diversified in an explosive fashion, but the (epi)genetic basis of the phenotypic diversity of these fishes remains largely unknown. Although transposable e...

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Moritz Blumer @moritzblumer.bsky.social · Jun 19

Check out our new paper about chromosomal inversions in Malawi cichlids! 🐟🧬

Available here without a paywall: hdl.handle.net/10067/214834... (click on the ‘Full text (open access)’ link).

A circular phylogeny of Malawi cichlids with inversion frequencies indicated for different taxa as rings around the tree.

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Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · Jul 2

López‐Idiáquez et al. Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: Effects of climate and species characteristics across body regions besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: Effects of climate and species characteristics across body regions

Variation in colour complexity in the Paridae is linked to climate, climate variability and several biotic factors. The strength of the associations is patch specific. Variables related to resource c...

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Wouter van der Bijl @vdbijl.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨 Super exited to see our paper on the inheritance and genetic basis of guppy color variation come out in @natecoevo.nature.com‬ rdcu.be/eugWV

Guppy males have enormous variation in color patterns, with many combinations of ornamental spots and stripes. But where does all this variation come from?

Photo of guppy males from lab population, each showing a unique combination of black and orange ornaments. Photo by Wouter van der Bijl.

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · Jul 1

Using simulations and empirical data, Thawornwattana, Flouri, @wtf-r-species.bsky.social & @zihengyang.bsky.social ‬ et al. evaluate the performance of the MSC-M model for inferring gene flow.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf121

#evobio #molbio #geneflow

Inference of Gene Flow between Species from Genomic Data When the Mode, Direction, and Lineages are Misspecified

Abstract. Thanks to genomic data, interspecific gene flow is increasingly recognized as a major evolutionary force that shapes biodiversity. Two models hav

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Chris Jiggins @chrisjiggins.bsky.social · Jun 30

Very excited about this paper led by Erika Castro. She has shown that Heliconius were ancestrally plastic in how they acquired their cyanogens, but some species have lost the ability to biosynthesise toxins, and have lost genes involved www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Gene loss associated with plasticity-first evolution in Heliconius butterflies

Phenotypic plasticity occurs when a genotype can produce more than one phenotype under different environmental conditions. Genetic accommodation allows plastic phenotypes to be tuned to new environmen...

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Genome Biology and Evolution @genomebiolevol.bsky.social · Jun 25

Ryan, @rishidekayne.bsky.social et al. present six new chromosome-level genome assemblies for Poeciliidae, providing a foundation for studies on convergent evolution, repeat content, and demographic history.

🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/17/6/evaf111/8169767

#genome #evolution

New Genome Assemblies for Poeciliidae: A Foundation for Adaptation Studies

Abstract. Multiple lineages in the family Poeciliidae have independently adapted to hydrogen-sulfide-rich springs. The independent colonizations of such sp

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · Jun 25

‘gitana’ (phyloGenetic Imaging Tool for Adjusting Nodes and other Arrangements), a tool for plotting phylogenetic trees into ready-to-publish figures. #Phylogenetics #ReadyToPublishFigures #Bioinformatics #Genomics #BMCbioinformatics 🧬 🖥️
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‘gitana’ (phyloGenetic Imaging Tool for Adjusting Nodes and other Arrangements), a tool for plotting phylogenetic trees into ready-to-publish figures - BMC Bioinformatics

Background Phylogenetic trees are essential diagrams used in different sciences, such as evolutionary biology or taxonomy, and they depict the relationships between a given set of taxa sharing a…

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Anders Bergström @anders-bergstrom.bsky.social · Jun 13

A 4-year postdoc position in population genomics is available in my group at the University of East Anglia, to work on a project sequencing a thousand fox genomes across rural and urban environments in the UK.

vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

Senior Research Associate in Population Genomics (RA2327) in University of East Anglia | UEA

View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate in Population Genomics (RA2327) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Biological Sciences Senior Research A...

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jun 10

The FLC gene helps determine #FloweringTime variation in #Arabidopsis. Analysis of FLC mutants across 62 natural #genetic backgrounds by @plantevolution.bsky.social shows how pan-genetic analysis of hub genes can reveal the extent of their broader genetic network @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ZkZNvV

Left: An early-flowering plant in the wild (at the Angit site in Southern Italy. Right: Flowering time of progeny from wild plants and control genotypes in the greenhouse (22°C long days).

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Daniel Ibrahim @danielibrahim.bsky.social · May 27

How to find Evolutionary Conserved Enhancers in 2025? 🐣-🐭
Check out our paper - fresh off the press!!!
We find widespread functional conservation of enhancers in absence of sequence homology
Including: a bioinformatic tool to map sequence-diverged enhancers!
rdcu.be/enVDN
github.com/tobiaszehnde...

Conservation of regulatory elements with highly diverged sequences across large evolutionary distances

Nature Genetics - Combining functional genomic data from mouse and chicken with a synteny-based strategy identifies positionally conserved cis-regulatory elements in the absence of direct sequence...

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