Beyond delighted to share our amazing collaboration with Thierry Alquier's lab @alquierthierry.bsky.social on a conserved role for neuronal lipid droplets in regulating energy homeostasis in vivo led by Celena Cherian, Romane Manceau, Danie Majeur, and Colin Miller www.nature.com/articles/s42... /1
Was a pleasure talking with @johannawagstaffe.bsky.social about how the public can understand scientific publishing. @evolletters.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social
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I’m looking to hire a postdoc. We’re interested in the evolution of organs and cell types, and evolutionary and developmental genetics more broadly. Please reach out if you’re interested and please pass on to any folks that you know who might be! 🪰🧬
Best thing I ever did was move all messages within the lab to Slack-keeps my email from completely exploding. Used to have a zero inbox rule - never ended the day with unanswered email. Gave up on that, but do spend a bit on time on the weekend sorting anything that got left behind during the week.
Headshot of Judith Mank. Text: The Use of AI and LLMs in Scientific Publishing with Dr. Judith Mank. The Evolution Exchange, a monthly conversation series from the Society for the Study of Evolution.
💬 Don’t miss the latest Evolution Exchange, in which SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom talks with Evolution Letters EIC Dr. Judith Mank about the use of AI and LLMs in scientific publishing: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...
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We have a new exiting PhD position in our program on the skin microbiome of amphibians, supervised by @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social! Follow the link to read more and apply: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/.... Deadline the 8th of May.
I'll be there, scouting for exciting papers for @evolletters.bsky.social !
What are the guidelines for AI use in scientific publishing?
I talked with @judithmank.bsky.social, Head Editor of Evolution Letters, about how journals are navigating LLMs in a new episode of The Evolution Exchange.
Short, practical, and very timely:
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It is always a delight talking with @gbaucom.bsky.social! This time about what I learned while writing an editorial in @evolletters.bsky.social about how to maintain integrity as AI changes how we write. Conversation@ www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio... Editorial@ doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Very excited to announce our new review accepted at Phil. Trans. B. (in press)!
This project started after a journal club I presented this time last year (!) sparked some lab discussions and it's been so much fun seeing it become a paper. Big thanks to all my co-authors for making it happen :)
Thanks to @jessicakabbott.bsky.social @karlgrieshop.bsky.social @lukeholman.bsky.social for organizing the special issue and the invitation to contribute! Fin.
This will eventually come out in PhiTrans, but I’m putting it out into the wild now. With @vdbijl.bsky.social @joellelafond.bsky.social Bernadette Johnson, and figs by @jacejostles.bsky.social. www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/pdf... 5/n
Additionally, regulatory mechanisms provide a flexible toolkit for sex-specific phenotypes. The long-standing focus on sexual conflict has deemphasized the prevalence and rapid evolution of sex-specific adaptation. www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/pdf... 4/n
For example, there is evidence that animal genomes contain widespread cryptic sex-specific genetic architecture, even for traits that are monomorphic. Because of this, males and females can often respond independently to selection using existing variation. www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/pdf... 3/n
The traditional view emphasizes intra-locus sexual conflict as a major constraint on the evolution of sexual dimorphism. Here we suggest that such constraints are often transient, context-dependent, and difficult to detect genomically. www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/pdf... 2/n
We’ve been talking in our lab meetings about sexual conflict and sexual dimorphism, and have some thoughts. What if animal genomes are far more sex-specific and less cosntrained than we assume? @linley-sherin.bsky.social pulled it all together here www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/pdf... 1/n
I'm looking for a lovely, talented PhD student, working on my ERC-funded project investigating the links between sexual selection and epidemic dynamics. The project uses guppies, worms, behaviour tracking, big experiments, and maths.. email me! Must have a masters! su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
🧬 Funded GTA PhD in my lab at UCL @ucllifesciences.bsky.social !
Looking for a motivated student to work on how mismatches between mitochondrial & nuclear genomes shape health, ageing & evolution.
Experimental (Drosophila) | Computational genomics
The project is flexible & shaped around you.
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Did you know that Evolution Letters now publishes reviews?! Our inaugural one is fantastic! Deep learning is opening new doors for evolutionary genomics, especially for nonmodel organisms with sparse or uncertain genomic data. doi.org/10.1093/evle...
With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨ðŸ‡
To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀
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🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
Congratulations Dr. Fong! First PhD from the UBC Mank Lab! @squarehare.bsky.social
Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am!
We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal.
His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!
Something I’ve learned - the best research environments aren't sterile. They're alive with creativity and warmth, with huge fish murals and dogs who have no idea what a p-value is but show up to lab meeting anyway. Science is a human endeavour and humans need to be inspired by their surroundings.
Led by my talented PhD student @justine-armg.bsky.social we’re running a #meta-analysis of #cross-sex-genetic-correlations in fitness components.
If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not appear in a systematic search, please reach out, we’d love to include them!
Please share!
20 years ago (!) this month, I defended my PhD. Its been a super fun ride, but looking through my defense slide deck, there was nowhere to go but up!
Returning from an amazing week at #UBC, giving the 2026 Evolution Lecture. Met with an incredibly talented group of graduate students. It was such a pleasure to meet with everybody at the #BRC. Thanks all for the warm welcome and all the discussions!
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Check out our Editor’s Choice article academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... by @knapprew.bsky.social et al showing the K/Pg adaptive radiation in open-ocean fish in jaw morphology. With this amazing micro-CT image of the deep-sea black scabbardfish on the cover, by @sternarchella.bsky.social