Evolutionary trade-offs between functional and immune selection shape multigene families in pathogens www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06....

Emotional responses to favorite and relaxing music predict music-induced hypoalgesia The hypoalgesic effects of music on pain have long been established. However, the characteristics of music which are important for reducing pain have not been well-studied. Some research has compared ...

Emotional responses to favorite and relaxing music predict music-induced hypoalgesia

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14 things our PhD supervisors got right and why it mattered PhD students reflect on how their supervisors made a meaningful difference — from quiet acts of kindness to career-shaping guidance.

14 things our PhD supervisors got right and why it mattered www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Viral disease outcomes are indistinguishable between experimentally infected bats and rodents - some food for thought

Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...

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Stable, sustained support can transform your career:

Senior Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

🎯April 15 is the last day to:
- Save $100 on in-person meeting registration
- Submit your virtual or in-person talk
- Apply for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation!

We look forward to seeing you online in May and in Cleveland in June!

#Evol2026

Evolution of virulence of a plant RNA virus in age-diverse host populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

Feeding the host reshapes virulence: nonlinear scaling in a microsporidian pathogen. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

"men continued to publish the same number of papers after becoming fathers, women experienced a significant drop in research output (mothers had 31% fewer publications than did fathers 8 years after the birth of their first child)"

Really neat piece of work in @plosbiology.org, inferring the hidden layer of "fitnotypes" that link genotypes to fitness, and finding surprisingly low dimensionality. From @oliviamghosh.bsky.social @grantkinsler.bsky.social @benjaminhgood.bsky.social & @petrovadmitri.bsky.social

The people who make policies turning airport terminals into paramilitary dystopias travel by private jets and do not directly face the consequences of their decisions.

Aging is messier, and more interesting, than a simple oxidative-stress story.

@natureportfolio.nature.com #Aging #EvoSky #Aedes

Shared earlier as a preprint, but NOW OUT in npj Aging! 🎉

We used experimental evolution to test the redox theory of aging under parasitism, and the answer was much less straightforward than expected: life-history divergence evolved clearly, but redox state only poorly predicted longevity.

I appreciate someone took the time to write this. I profoundly disagree with their view, but if I take the spirit of what they're saying as a good faith attempt to raise a mental issue, there's at least a conversation to be had.

Let's have it 1/🧵

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Using mosquitoes to vaccinate bats could curb the spread of deadly diseases Nature - But scientists say there are practical and ethical challenges to overcome before the strategy could be deployed in real-world settings.

Vaccinating bats could reduce the risk of these viruses infecting other animals, including people

go.nature.com/3NcXrwh

🧵 New paper out today in @peercommunityin.bsky.social Journal!

@joelpick.bsky.social et al. introduce the first standardised guidelines for data & code quality control in #ecology & #evolutionarybiology, on behalf of @sortee.bsky.social 🔓

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#OpenScience #EEB [1/5]

Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species - Nature Analysis of the asexually reproducing Amazon molly Poecilia formosa and its sexually reproducing progenitors Poecilia mexicana and Poecilia latipinna reveals that it maintains a divergent mutational l...

Cool paper, turning evolutionary theory on its head - gene conversion overcomes the cost of asexual reproduction…

Gene conversion empowers natural selection in a clonal fish species www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Call for Papers: Microbial Evolution - Impacts on Human Health A defining characteristic of infectious diseases is that they evolve. The consequences of this evolution are among the most pressing medical issues facing human

We are already seeing some great submissions, please join them!

Call for papers: Microbial Evolution-Impacts on Public Health at EMPH, a society journal with a thoughtful and constructive ed board!

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How bioRxiv changed the way biologists share ideas – in numbers Four million articles are now downloaded from bioRxiv every month, according to an analysis of the life-science preprint server’s first 13 years of existence.

I'm a big fan of bioRxiv, so it was fascinating to dig into the stats behind the rise of this preprint server from its first 13 or so years for Nature News @nature.com 🧪 @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social #preprints

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

At ~$1 billion/day, the US has spent as much on the war in Iran in ten days as the entire FY25 budget for the National Science Foundation ($10 billion).

Trump's FY26 budget request for the agency declined to $3.9 billion, due to a "realignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment."

Scientists, more than ever, have a responsibility to bridge the gap between science and the public, for more reasons than I could ever list.

Very grateful for the chance to give back to my hometown, Porto, last week — and hopefully inspire and educate a new generation of young minds 🫶

#AcademicSky

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📣 JOBS!!! We're looking for new colleagues in the School of Biology @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social - two associate profs (plant sci and animal biology) and a lecturer (ecology/zoology)...

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Flyer for symposium: https://ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org/

Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.

A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8

Lilian Vaughan Morgan was an incredible #WomenInSTEM that ought to be a household name.

The fly community still uses tools she discovered a century ago. 🪰🤯

Her findings seeded "Bridges' theory" of sex determination by genic balance.🧬❤️

Lilian Vaughan Morgan 👏👏

#InternationalWomensDay #Drosophila

2027 SSE Council Nominations The SSE Nominating Committee invites nominations for five Council positions beginning January 2027: President Elect, North American Vice President, and three Councilors. Nominations are…

Want to get more involved in SSE? Consider nominating yourself for SSE Council! On the ballot this year: President Elect, North American VP, and 3 Council seats. Nominations are due April 1 for full consideration! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

People have always been captivated by crystals. Turns out we’re not the only apes to find them fascinating. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis!

Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠

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New paper showing that bacteria with more genes for cooperation can live in a broader range of habitats and that genes for cooperation are more more likely to be in the accessory genome www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @lauriebelch.bsky.social