A career in pursuit of the origin of species: celebrating Roger Butlin’s contributions to the advancement of knowledge and growth of our scientific community In 2025, the annual meeting of the Population Genetics Group (PopGroup) returned to Sheffield, U.K., for the third time. The timing could not have been mor

Lovely article about the impactful and inspirational career of Roger Butlin (now retired). I've always admired how he worked hard at community building and research synthesis, and his research achievements were even more extensive than I realised: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Cover image ‘The genomic landscape of structural variation’, copyright [Charikleia Karageorgiou, University at Buffalo] editors: @evobioclio.bsky.social, @ellenleffler.bsky.social, @mydennis.bsky.social & @gokcumenlab.bsky.social

Special Issue: Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation
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This special issue highlights recent advances in our understanding of genomic structural variation & its functional & adaptive consequences across different systems.
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Deadline is 8th of April. #phdposition

Special Issue: Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation See more information on the new Heredity special issue on functional and adaptive effects of genomic structural variation.

The special issue Functional and Adaptive Effects of Genomic Structural Variation is now out in Heredity. Many thanks to all contributors for their submissions, to the editorial team at @heredityjournal.bsky.social and to @ellenleffler.bsky.social, @mydennis.bsky.social & @gokcumenlab.bsky.social!

You can read the winning paper Open Access on the Heredity website:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📻🎙️🔊 New podcast!

Student paper prize winner Eléonore Lavanchy talks about:

1. Her work
2. European Barn Owls
3. Inbreeding
4. Deciding if she was being scammed, or if she'd really won the prize!

👂 shorturl.at/rcF2F

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Many thanks to Popgroup and Heredity for this opportunity to chat about our research.

Join us for a Master's in Evol Bio! We have leading experts in theory (@kokkonut.bsky.social), behavioural genomics (@socialinsectlab.bsky.social, @hibernogruppe.bsky.social), palaeogenetics, and more! Mainz also offers hikes along the Rhine, sporadic Roman ruins, and the most castle rich area of 🇩🇪.

Join us!
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New Heredity Podcast! 🎙️ 📻 🔊

In the second episode from @popgroup2026.bsky.social in Lille, plenary speakers @clairemerot.bsky.social & Denis Roze tell us about their talks and their experience at the conference.

👂 Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

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ExE 2026

Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Then you cannot miss #ExE2026! Hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall, this #conference has a stellar line-up of speakers and lots of pre-and post-conference workshops. Space is limited, so register now at evoxeco.uk!

Cover image ‘Female leopard in the Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape’, copyright [Cape Leopard Trust], used with kind permission [Jeannine Hayward, Cape Leopard Trust]

February issue out now

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📸 © Jeannine Hayward, Cape Leopard Trust

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Registrations are now OPEN! Join us in Newcastle for the “RNA in Physiology and Disease” conference, an international meeting bringing together world-leading RNA biologists and emerging researchers.

Early bird deadline: 1 May
Abstract deadline: 30 June
Register now: genetics.org.uk/events/rna-i...

Come celebrate our Anniversary Day in Edinburgh, 25 & 26 June!

Join us for talks from our Honorary Members, Prize & Medal winners, and our Summer Students.

Programme & registration details: genetics.org.uk/events/anniv...

Relaunch of our London Fly Meeting - whole afternoon of amazing science @ucl @lmcb-ucl.bsky.social sponsored by @gensocuk.bsky.social

Pleasure giving a recap of a wonderful PopGroup conference, and the opportunity to talk about my research.
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🎙️🔊📻 New Heredity podcast!

From PopGroup 59 in Lille.

Plenary speaker Florencia Camus talks about:
1. The conference
2. Conflict and coadaptation between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes

Listen here: shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species - Heredity Heredity - Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species

Impacts of temperature on recombination rate and meiotic success in thermotolerant and cold-tolerant yeast species
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Genetic diversity and structure lag the effects of contemporary environmental changes in a platypus meta-population - Heredity Heredity - Genetic diversity and structure lag the effects of contemporary environmental changes in a platypus meta-population

Genetic diversity and structure lag the effects of contemporary environmental changes in a platypus meta-population

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pleased to be able to offer a summer placement at the Exeter Centre for Hyperinsulinism Genetics through this scheme. The Research Access Placements programme is open to undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds
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Pleased to be able to offer a summer placement at the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics @cardiffuni.bsky.social through this scheme.
Research Access Placements are open to undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds
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Dwarfism in Pinus taeda originates from independent somatic mutations co-localized in a shared genomic region - Heredity Heredity - Dwarfism in Pinus taeda originates from independent somatic mutations co-localized in a shared genomic region

Dwarfism in Pinus taeda originates from independent somatic mutations co-localized in a shared genomic region

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Balancing selection maintains intraspecific diversity in a deep-sea fish - Heredity Heredity - Balancing selection maintains intraspecific diversity in a deep-sea fish

Balancing selection maintains intraspecific diversity in a deep-sea fish

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Rapid evolution of a large structural polymorphism during a bacterial epidemic - Heredity Heredity - Rapid evolution of a large structural polymorphism during a bacterial epidemic

Rapid evolution of a large structural polymorphism during a bacterial epidemic

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⭐ Check out our January issue ⭐

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Glad to receive a PhD prize from the @gensocuk.bsky.social for the work I lead on the origin and diversification of stratified epithelia.
Thanks to @frelab.bsky.social , the lab, and all collaborators involved.
Special thanks to @candice-merle.bsky.social for her help throughout the project.

Congratulations to our student prize winners!

All winners will present their work at out Anniversary Day event on 25 and 26th of June in Edinburgh: genetics.org.uk/events/anniv...

Congratulations to Daniel Malawsky, the winner of our 2026 postgraduate Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize for their work with Dr @hilarycmartin.bsky.social!

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Congratulations to Dr @robinjournot.bsky.social, the winner of our 2026 Bruce Cattanach Prize for his PhD research into the genetic and evolutionary basis of epithelial stratification!

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Congratulations to Shaoqi Wang, the winner of the 2026 Undergraduate Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize for her work with Prof Anne Ferguson-Smith.

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