🚨Job Alert!🚨 Please share widely! We are hiring *two* postdocs (one ASAP, one Oct '26) using models and data to identify pathways involving the gut-brain axis that link the infant microbiome with neurodevelopment and Autism Spectrum Disorder. 1st review date: April 24!
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03089
Don't forget to register ASAP for our cancer evolution and ecology conference taking place in lovely sunny Crete next month!
International #Society for #Evolution, #Ecology and #Cancer's (ISEEC) 2026 meeting in Hersonissos, Crete. Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-iseec-conference-...
“I came away feeling a pleasant discomfort at how complicated the topic is, but enlightened all the same.”
Many thanks to @cbo.bsky.social for the kind review of The Paradox of the Organism.
Registration for the 2026 ISEEC Conference is now open via www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-iseec....
The registration fee is only $250 for faculty members and professionals and $150 for students and postdocs, and we can offer some need-based discounts and small bursaries.
There is still time to apply for the Evolutionary Medicine Summer Institute.
This year’s theme is Climate Change and Health.
May 11-15 in Chapel Hill, NC.
sites.duke.edu/emsi/
It’s #moleratmonday, where we bring you a fun fact about the naked mole rat, every Monday 🐀 Last week we mentioned their long lifespans, but saved the best part for this week:
The current record for the oldest naked mole rat is 40 years old! It lived in the care of the Rochelle Buffenstein lab ❤️
This week, we talk to @amyboddy.bsky.social about the weird and wonderful world of microchimerism.
youtu.be/pFi5DGFpavA
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
epthepod.podbean.com/e/amy-boddy/
A 🆕 episode of Genetics in Your World is live! @ecoevogal.bsky.social interviewed @srishtipatil.bsky.social & @robjohnnoble.bsky.social about their work testing a new approach to cancer treatment rooted in theory from evolutionary & conservation biology.
Listen now: buff.ly/B2YyByg
🧬 Museums + zoos = a rapid ID pipeline.
Using a local network in Ecuador, we genetically identified trafficked olingos (Bassaricyon), revealed a likely new country record, and shared a recipe for accessing high-quality samples from the wild. url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
Join Us in Graz for the first "International Conference on Microchimerism" in May 2026!
Meet researchers from around the world exploring how exchanged cells shape human biology and become part of the growing microchimerism community.
Sign up here: www.microchimerism.info
Are you fascinated by cancer biology and also ❤️ 💻 ? Feel like this ->😻<- at the thought of exploring oodles of cancer genomes, single cells and spatial multiomics data? Then our core Data Science Team at @icr.ac.uk might be the place for you. Vacancy here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/14...
Sunny Crete for a great meeting about #cancer #ecology and #evolution
Testing Nature’s Defenses: Inducing Cancer in the Naked Mole Rat url: aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
Thanks @elizsmckenna.bsky.social and @aacrjournals.bsky.social for featuring our report!
Last few hours to submit an abstract to the ISEEC (International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer) meeting to take place in Crete May 21-23
#Cancer #Evolution #Ecology #AI
www.evocancer.com
Abstract submission closes tomorrow!! Come join us in Graz to talk about pregnancy, transplantation, and rare cells that wander!!
Submit your abstract (deadline January 10th) for this meeting organized by the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer. In beautiful Crete!
Join me Tuesday with authors J. Arvid Agren and Manus M. Patten for the launch of their book The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict.
course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
Registration and abstract submissions is now open for the first ever Microchimerism Conference! May 27-28, 2026 in Graz. Please reshare!
www.microchimerism.info/front-page/i...
Research week for Book 2! Visiting UC Santa Barbara: @emilyjacobs.bsky.social studying female brains across the lifespan, @mgurven.bsky.social and @amyboddy.bsky.social thinking carefully about how culture intersects with female bodily change… gonna be amazing
*SAVE THE DATE*
On Tuesday December 16 at 11am Eastern we will have virtual book launch of The Paradox of the Organism.
It will be hosted by the great @athenaaktipis.bsky.social.
Please join!
Zoom link here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/
We held the first #CANPOP symposium today (cancer population genetics club) @icr.ac.uk. 6 excellent & didactic talks, all applying mathematical #popgen theory to dissect somatic evolutionary dynamics: spanning the full range of pre-cancer, metastasis through to 6000 year old transmissible cancer...
Thrilled to announce that I'm on Curious Cases tomorrow at 10am on BBC Radio 4!
The episode - Immortal Jellies - looks at some remarkably long-lived species and what they can teach us about ageing. This is a key area of focus for our lab.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer #ISEEC has now a #YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCrC...
First copy of The Paradox of the Organism in the wild!
timeline of major microchimerism papers published
Microchimerism is one of the most fascinating biological phenomena I've ever studied. But what do we actually know & what do we not know? Our new paper brings together microchimerism researchers to ask the key questions driving the field forward 🧬
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
