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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · 20d

First seminar is this Friday, September 19 at 9am Eastern.

Laurence Hurst and Phil Madgwick.

Join us!

Martijn Schenkel @martijnschenkel.bsky.social · 23d

Join us this Friday at 13:00 UTC for the first Internal Conflicts STN seminar of this academic year, featuring Laurence Hurst and Phil Madgwick! Details via internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/, also on several upcoming seminars.

Information on the seminar, with pictures of Laurence Hurst (left) and Phil Madgwick (right).

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · 23d

Take a sneak peak at The Paradox of the Organism at Google books books.google.com/books?hl=sv&...

Don’t forget to pre-order!

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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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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · Aug 28

Getting ready for another semester of seminars for the @eseb.bsky.social STN Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation.

First seminar on September 19 internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/

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Martijn Schenkel @martijnschenkel.bsky.social · Aug 27

New paper out in Proc B on remote-control meiotic drive! Segregation distorters normally eliminate their chromosomal counterpart, but we show that meddling with other chromosomes may also be beneficial, with unusual results. See thread below, paper at royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · Aug 26

Coming December 16!

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Tom Keaney @tom-is-kean.bsky.social · Aug 21

At #ESEB2025 a high frequency of talks have ended with advertisements for PhDs and Postdocs. Grad students, crack in! You never know where a simple conversation might lead.

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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hey #ESEB2025 folk! I'll be presenting my work on describing evolution in finite populations at 11:30 am on Tuesday in S-03. Drop by to learn how taking ecology and variable population size seriously changes classic pop gen descriptions like the Price eqn, revealing novel directional eco-evo forces.

An illustration with populations on the left and mathematical representations of these populations in terms of birth-death processes on the right

Stochastic differential equations for trait frequencies, mean value of a trait, and the variance of a trait in the population

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · Aug 16

hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!

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Martijn Schenkel @martijnschenkel.bsky.social · Jul 16

Wonder if Bruce Wallace liked his dean.

From: B. Wallace (1975). Hard and soft selection revisited. Evolution 29:465-473.

Excerpt from a 1975 paper by Bruce Wallace which reads: "The relative ease with which homozygous mutant flies can be maintained in stock cultures fails to reflect the low survival values these same genotypes would exhibit were they to develop together with wild-type flies in a single culture bottle. In many respects an adult fly resembles the Dean of the Faculty at a university: the positions exists and needs filling; the creation of a dean does not require, however, the existence of faculty members with deanlike qualities because the position will be filled in any case."

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Roman Zug @romanzug.bsky.social · Jun 3

New paper out at Biological Reviews!! 🥳🥳

"Infection dynamics of endosymbionts that manipulate arthropod reproduction"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70024

A joint effort with Franziska Brenninger (now a postdoc ‪@unibe.ch‬) and @kokkonut.bsky.social‬. (1/5)

Infection dynamics of endosymbionts that manipulate arthropod reproduction

A large proportion of arthropod species are infected with endosymbionts, some of which selfishly alter host reproduction. The currently known forms of parasitic reproductive manipulations are male-ki...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · May 20

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · Apr 28

*SAVE THE DATE*

The next seminar of our Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation virtual lectures series will be on April 30.

Talks from Perran Stott Ross and Filip Husnik.

Please note the time!

Sign up and check out recordings of previous talks here internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

Perran Stott Ross (University of Melbourne): Evolutionary impacts of endosymbionts for pest and disease control
Filip Husnik (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology): The fate of obligate endosymbionts: reduction, integration, or extinction
Date: April 30, 2025.
Time: 08:00 UTC

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Martijn Schenkel @martijnschenkel.bsky.social · Apr 29

Join us tomorrow at 8:00 UTC (10:00 CEST) for the next Internal Conflicts STN seminar! Talks by Perran Stott Ross and Filip Husnik. For Zoom link + more info see internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/

Overview of meeting details for the next Internal Conflicts STN seminar by Perran Stott Ross and Filip Husnik.

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · Apr 22

The second workshop of our @eseb.bsky.social STN Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation will take place at the Princess Hotel, Barcelona on August 17, during the day before the ESEB congress evening reception.

More info and registration here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/workshop-ii/

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · Apr 16

Now available for preorder!

The Paradox of the Organism:
Adaptation and Internal Conflict, edited by me and Manus Patten, will be published by @harvardpress.bsky.social this fall.

Cover coming soon.

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Martijn Schenkel @martijnschenkel.bsky.social · Mar 27

Registration (free!) is now open for the second Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN workshop in Barcelona on August 17! Like our first workshop, it will feature contributed talks and group-based discussions on key themes. Info + registration: internalconflictsSTN.wordpress.com. [1/2]

INTERNAL CONFLICTS AND ORGANISMAL ADAPTATION

ESEB Special Topic Network

internalconflictsSTN.wordpress.com

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Martijn Schenkel @martijnschenkel.bsky.social · Mar 27

The workshop will precede the ESEB 2025 conference, and will take place right next door to the conference venue to make it easier for ESEB attendants. Start your conference right with a deep dive into the world of internal conflicts! Space is limited so grab a spot while you can. [2/2]

Martijn Schenkel @martijnschenkel.bsky.social · Mar 27

Registration (free!) is now open for the second Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN workshop in Barcelona on August 17! Like our first workshop, it will feature contributed talks and group-based discussions on key themes. Info + registration: internalconflictsSTN.wordpress.com. [1/2]

INTERNAL CONFLICTS AND ORGANISMAL ADAPTATION

ESEB Special Topic Network

internalconflictsSTN.wordpress.com

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Martijn Schenkel @martijnschenkel.bsky.social · Mar 20

Join us later today at the STN seminar! Talks by Elizabeth Ostrowski and Amy Boddy!

Martijn Schenkel @martijnschenkel.bsky.social · Mar 14

Join us next Thursday/Friday for another seminar of the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN! A late-night event for Europeans, and a great way to end the workday (for Americas timezones) or start one (for Asia/Oceania timezones). Details at internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

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Martijn Schenkel @martijnschenkel.bsky.social · Mar 14

Join us next Thursday/Friday for another seminar of the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN! A late-night event for Europeans, and a great way to end the workday (for Americas timezones) or start one (for Asia/Oceania timezones). Details at internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · Mar 20

Today!

Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · Mar 11

*SAVE THE DATE*

The next seminar of our Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation virtual lectures series will be on Thursday, March 20 at 6pm Eastern.

Talks from Elizabeth Ostrowski and Amy Boddy.

Sign up and check out recordings of previous talks here internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

Graphic for Seminar 11 of the 'Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation' series. Speakers: Elizabeth Ostrowski (University of Washington Bothell) on evolutionary genomics of kin recognition in Dictyostelium, and Amy Boddy (University of California Santa Barbara) on fetal microchimerism in pregnancy and beyond. Seminar date: March 19, 2025, at 22:00 UTC. Hosted by ESEB. Includes headshots of both speakers and a diagram illustrating conflicts at gene, cell, and organism levels.

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Martijn Schenkel @martijnschenkel.bsky.social · Mar 14

Join us next Thursday/Friday for another seminar of the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN! A late-night event for Europeans, and a great way to end the workday (for Americas timezones) or start one (for Asia/Oceania timezones). Details at internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · Feb 10

Join for the 10th virtual seminar in the @eseb.bsky.social Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN!

Wednesday at 9am Eastern!
internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars-2/

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