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Xueling (Ling) Yi

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Postdoct at Senckenberg Research Institute Research on evolution, comparative genomics 🧬 phylogeny, adaptation, biogeography, population genetics. Using bats as the study system 🦇 https://xuelingyi.weebly.com/

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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · Aug 5

Online now! We supported ancestral omnivory and early evolved fruit feeding in the bat family Phyllostomidae by ancestral diet estimations using both discrete traits (multi-response threshold models) and continuous traits (Multivariate Brownian motion models).
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Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social · 8d

📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch

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POPGROUP59 @popgroup2026.bsky.social · 9d

Exciting news!
The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris.

This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics.

More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

See you there !

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Dimitris Kontopoulos @dgkontopoulos.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 16d

We have a #newpaper in Evolution (@journal_evo), led by Xueling Yi, on the #Evolution of dietary preferences across (but not only) Phyllostomid #bats. 🦇

https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf154/8222499

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Ivan Gomez-Mestre @igmestre.bsky.social · 26d

We offer a fully funded 4-yr contract for a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Biology to join our group (www.eco-evo-devo.com). The project will combine genomics and ecophysiology to understand the evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. For requisites and contact info please check 👇

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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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Hanna Johannesson @hannajohannesson.bsky.social · Sep 7

We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT!
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet

Jobb

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Society for the Study of Evolution @sse-evolution.bsky.social · Sep 5

Proposals are due next week for the Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! These grants provide up to $3500 US in funding for PhD students. Contact [email protected] with any questions. www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants. Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards, Deadline: September 15, 5:00 PM Eastern.

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓

I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.

👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏

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Centre for Palaeogenetics @cpgsthlm.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨JOB ALERT!🚨

Postdoc position at #CpgSthlm on Microtine Palaeogenomics!

Join our deep-time genomics project, funded by @erc.europa.eu, and help us explore lemming and vole evolution using ancient DNA from fossils spanning the last 2.6 million years 🐭🦴🧬

Apply here:
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · Aug 27

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution!

Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

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Stephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · Aug 27

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

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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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Pável Matos @pavelmatosm.bsky.social · Aug 19

New PhD position: Butterfly Conservation Genomics 🦋
The project focuses on threatened butterflies in Czech dry grasslands and steppes.
Deadline: September 12, 2025
More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

Join us

Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. PhD position (full-time doctoral funding) We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our team. The goal of the project is…

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Dr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · Aug 23

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51808/

Assistant Professorship in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (Teaching and Scholarship pathway) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Assistant Professorship in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (Teaching and Scholarship pathway) in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Craig Primmer @fishcongen.bsky.social · Aug 22

Aurelien Tellier presenting the details of #eseb2027 which will be a hub meeting, with connected and local sessions in 4 hubs (Gothenburg, Munich, London, Istanbul) eseb2027.org #eseb2025

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Aug 21

The University of Greifswald is hiring a Doctoral Researcher in Animal Metabolomics. The role, starting February 2026, focuses on chemical ecology in Black Widow spiders. Apply by Sept 24, 2025. More info: https://animal-metabolomics.com/phdcall/ #gradstudent

PhD Position – Animal Metabolomics & Ecology

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Patrick Krapf @krapfpatrick.bsky.social · Aug 22

Last day of #eseb2025 will kick off in a few moments with the plenary talk by Prof. Johanna Mappes from @helsinki.fi
"Signals of Survival: The Genetics and Ecology of Looking Dangerous"

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Mirjam Knörnschild @berlinbatlab.bsky.social · Aug 20

New publication from my lab: Vampyrum spectrum, the Neotropics' largest carnivorous bat, is very cooperative. These gentle apex predators regularly provide prey for family member – documented in the wild for the first time.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Tilly S Scott @tillysscott.bsky.social · Aug 19

#eseb2025 #eseb #sciart

Tilly S Scott @tillysscott.bsky.social · Aug 18

I've had a wonderful 1st day at @eseb2025.bsky.social Here are the sketches from some of the talks I attended today. My highlights include Tristan on the adaptive genomics of colour spots on owls, Vicky on pearl mussel's response to climate change & Rebekah on firefly TEs & TE-induced mutations

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Pierre de Villemereuil @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social · Apr 8

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Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment?

#evolution #genetics

Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇
devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...

ERC-funded PhD position available – Pierre de Villemereuil

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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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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · Aug 19

The poster session was really great and lots of fun @eseb2025.bsky.social! Many interesting discussions and ideas! Thanks to everyone who stopped by at my poster! Looking forward to more interesting talks and posters in the following days!

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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · Aug 17

I will present my freshly published paper on bat diet reconstruction and phyllostomid ancestral omnivory at ESEB @eseb2025.bsky.social, on Tuesday August 19th, poster session 2 P02.375. Looking forward to it!🦇

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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · Aug 5

Paper link academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Comprehensive phylogenetic trait estimations support ancestral omnivory in the ecologically diverse bat family Phyllostomidae

Abstract. Adaptive radiations often occur with an early burst which requires both various niches and a generalist ancestor. However, ancestral generalism r

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Xueling (Ling) Yi @xuelingyi.bsky.social · Aug 5

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