MBE | Transgenerational effects of heat shock on gene regulation and fitness-related traits in natural Drosophila populations
@ewanharney.bsky.social & @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social show evidence of transgenerational developmental plasticity as a result of heat shock in fruit flies, documenting gene expression and phenotype changes 3+ generations following heat shock.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag069
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Great to see this paper by @borreroja.bsky.social on sexual dimorphism in Heliconius behaviour and related traits out. A lot of work! And he's right Vilcabamba and Ecuador in general is awesome.
50 years of the incredible UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme @ukbms.bsky.social - amazing citizen science showing the decline of the UK’s butterflies @savebutterflies.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants?
Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Northern Brown Argus butterfly on a thistle and headline 50 years of butterfly monitoring data reveal specialist species disappearing across UK
Pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly on bluebells
Extraordinary dataset of 44 million+ records of UK #butterflies collected by 782,000 volunteers in the past 50 years shows many species are in long-term decline eg Pearl-bordered Fritillary.
@ukbms.bsky.social is run by @savebutterflies.bsky.social, UKCEH, @btobirds.bsky.social, and JNCC.
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#Philjob #philsci ⚒️
Senior Research Fellowship interdisciplinary research on ethics, values & uncertainty in early warning of N. Atlantic climate tipping points. Position, funded until August 2028 at UCL’s Grade 8 (£54,931-£64,644). Applications close on 28th April.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
📢 Job Alert: Principal Investigator in Plant Genomics
Looking for your next career move in plant genetics? Great chance to lead a research group and drive innovation in the field. 🧬🌿
Link to apply: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
#Research #PlantGenetics #PostdocJobs #Science
London Evo-Devo is back!
Join us on May 5th for another excellent afternoon of talks and discussions on all things Evo-Devo. We are building a wonderful community, and we need you!
May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk
A yellow historic tram travels along a narrow cobblestone street lined with bright-colored buildings in Lisbon, Portugal. The 10kLepGenomes and LepEU logos are overlaid in the bottom corner.
(1/4) 📢 Applications are open for the #LepEU Workshop 2026: a joint training + hackathon event focused on the analysis of #Lepidoptera genomic data.
🗓️ 26–29 May 2026
📍 Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Save the date! ⬇️
First preprint of the year! New work from @jimmy-ly.bsky.social revealing unexpected roles for 5' UTR length in controlling alternate translational isoforms - important implications for both physiological cell function and rare disease. Small changes -> big impacts.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Evolution of Reproductive Plasticity in a Seasonal Tropical Environment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...
Evolution of Reproductive Plasticity in a Seasonal Tropical Environment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Super proud of PhD student @marcushicks.bsky.social who went to Peru and discovered reproductive diapause in tropical butterflies - see preprint below. He developed a new model system, assembled reference genomes and is now uncovering transcriptomic footprints of diapause. More to come!
Very excited to share that my first first-author pre-print is out today! Many thanks go out to all of our collaborators, especially those who helped with the fieldwork in Peru - it really wouldn't have been possible without you! 🦋
Artillery fire, gunship attack, demolitions in war-battered Gaza as PM Netanyahu accepts US 'peace board' position.
🦋 CALLING ALL PhD APPLICANTS!
Fully funded PhD at the UPR, Río Piedras as part of the NSF-funded Blueprint of Life project. Click on the link to learn more!
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
📍 Puerto Rico | Genomics | Evolution |
Very interesting new preprint on detecting genome wide signatures of balancing selection (it’s hard, and we probably miss lots of them) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Hmm, @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social rejected our submission because it contains non-English text? Surely we should be able to include a Spanish language abstract with our mostly English language preprint? 🤔 Doesn't seem very inclusive...
Shared among some EEB groups, there is a new affinity group for trans scientists: transscientistcollective.carrd.co Please share.
Postdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now!
#postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Have you an exciting and transformative idea to improve ecosystem resilience? ARIA @aria-research.bsky.social have seed funding available and NEOF facilities and expertise are able to support this call www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-...
📣Deadline approaching - Monday 19th January!
Would you like to support JEB and the evolution community? Our society journal is seeking new editors!
Apply now: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...
📢 I would be happy to host a 2-year DDLS Postdoc at my group using museum genomics to look at recent adaptation in insect pollinators 📉🐝🦋🧬
If you are interested in this (or have other project ideas) get in touch ASAP!
The application deadline is March 31.
INFO 👉 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...
Are you a #PhD student in #EvolutionaryBiology? Don’t miss the opportunity to join this year’s #EMPSEB — a conference organized by PhD students, for PhD students!
🗓️ Submit your abstract before February 1st.
👉 empsebconf.github.io
#EMPSEB31 #conference #EvoBio @eseb.bsky.social
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Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026
New preprint! and my first single-author paper, so bear with me.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Malaria population genetic studies have found some puzzling patterns: Ne estimates spanning orders of magnitude, genome-wide negative Tajima's D, and over a quarter of genes with πN/πS >1
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