Seasonal job available in Burlington, VT in invasive pest ecologcal genomics! The successful candidate will work with myself and @jcbnunez.bsky.social on seasonal adaptation in Drosophila susukii. #popGen #evolution #genomics 🧪🧬🖥️ Apply by April 7: northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
New UVM research published in PNAS shows that life stages evolve differently in response to changes in the environment, challenging a long-standing belief that genes guiding embryonic development don’t readily evolve in response to environmental pressures. For more: https://go.uvm.edu/xw7v0
New paper out in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. We identify regulatory variants shaping embryonic heat tolerance in Drosophila, linking lab selection to clinal and seasonal patterns in wild populations. Link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We’re hiring a Planetary Health Postdoc at UVM!
Join the Lauterbur, Nunez & Pespeni labs in the Department of Biology for an interdisciplinary fellowship exploring evolutionary & ecological infectious disease dynamics.
📅 Start: Flexible (May–Sept 2026)
🔗 Details: www.jcbnunez.org/planetaryhea...
NEW DEADLINE - Global Evolutionary Biology Initiative 📣
🌍MARCH 1st 2026🌍
GEBI provides financial, organisational & strategic support to foster growth of local evolutionary biology communities in various parts of the world.
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My first @umasschan.bsky.social/@impvienna.bsky.social affiliated paper is up!
tomtom-lite is a re-implementation of tomtom targeting the ML age of genomics. Fast annotations ("what is this motif?") and simple large-scale discovery of motifs.
Check it out!
academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)
Measuring selection and dominance in fitness of the insecticide-resistant Ace alleles in Drosophila melanogaster, the authors show evidence for beneficial reversal of dominance, a mechanism that can stabilize large-effect polymorphisms in nature. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genome assembly is a software+data problem, and since the latest version of hifiasm, the best data is Oxford @nanopore data. github.com/chhylp123/hi...
Exciting to see Sara Helms Cahan quoted in Science, offering her perspective on the awesome reproductive strategies of Iberian harvester ants! www.science.org/content/arti...
Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049
I'm no Cassandra, but I've been exploring this alternative to GS if the Sentient AI Overlords pull the plug on GS. It's this and it is, currently, terrible: openalex.org
@davidb256.bsky.social
MBE - Footprints of Worldwide Adaptation in Structured Populations of Drosophila melanogaster Through the Expanded DEST 2.0 Genomic Resource
@jcbnunez.bsky.social et al. present an expanded release of the community-generated resource Drosophila Evolution over Space and Time (DEST 2.0), and showcase it by studying the species' demographic history and signatures of adaptation.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf132
#evobio #molbio #drosophila
An immense effort with contributions from many authors:
@gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social
@geneticament.bsky.social
@petrovadmitri.bsky.social
@mgda76.bsky.social
@rawwiberg.bsky.social
@juliabeets.bsky.social
@paucarazo.bsky.social
...and many others...
⬇️ Please tag yourself or other authors below
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
Thrilled to share our new paper in MBE! 🎉 Presenting DEST 2.0: 530 pooled Drosophila populations spanning 12 years across 6 continents. We map genomic footprints of adaptation, from pesticide resistance to seasonal changes. #PopulationGenetics #Drosophila #Genomics #Evolution
Summer research hits different in Vermont. Lucky to spend the season doing cool science with even cooler people. ☀️✨
🎉 Excited to learn that our paper “A cosmopolitan inversion facilitates seasonal adaptation in overwintering Drosophila” is among the most cited recent papers in GENETICS! ☀️❄️ In(2L)t is a key player in seasonal adaptive tracking in fruit flies. academic.oup.com/genetics/art... #Evolution #Genetics
🚨 There is still time to submit a poster for our upcoming Gordon Research Seminar in Ecological & Evolutionary Genomics: Elucidating the Evolutionary Dynamics of Adaptation in Fluctuating Environments! 🧬
Apply now 👉 www.grc.org/ecological-a...
Some happy news to share: today we celebrate the inaugural class of the Nunez Lab at UVM! :)
Unless there is free lunch....
Glorious red aurora occurring now! One of the most pronounced auroral curtains I have ever witnessed. Such a sharp contrast.
stdpopsim v0.3.0 is out! You can now mix and match your simulations of different demographic histories with published distributions of fitness effects along with gene annotations, and you can even throw in sweeps for good measure. Check out the new manuscript for more info: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
longcallD is a new variant caller for genomic long reads. It jointly calls phased small and structural variants. Single binary, one command line for the whole process. Comparable accuracy to mainstream callers. Great work by Yan Gao. github.com/yangao07/lon...
A breathtaking coastal night scene with a sky full of stars. The calm ocean reflects the faint glow of the night, while rugged coastal rocks stand silhouetted against the horizon. In the distance, the first light of sunrise begins to emerge, casting a soft, golden hue that blends seamlessly with the deep blues and purples of the night. The atmosphere is serene and magical, capturing the quiet beauty of the transition between night and day.
Photo by Manu Rodriguez (manurs.es)
#landscape #landscapephotography #photography
A striking bird perched on a slender branch in a lush green environment. Its body is adorned with deep black plumage, contrasting sharply with a vivid red head, neck, and chest. The bird’s small, stout beak is pale and sharply defined against its dark face, while its red eyes add an intense gaze. Tiny droplets of water cling to its feathers, suggesting a recent rainfall. The blurred green foliage in the background provides a natural, vibrant setting that enhances the bird’s brilliant colors.
Crimson-collared Tanager at @tapirvalley.bsky.social
#birds #costarica #nature
The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau
📷: Eastern Bluebird
Watching barnacles sweep the ocean for food is so mesmerizing. They look like eyelashes opening and closing. I could watch this for hours. #barnacles #intertidal #marinelife 🦑
