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

A really nice description of Roger Butlin's contribution to speciation biology in JEB by @ruimmfaria.bsky.social and colleagues. Roger is one of the good ones!

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The deadline for submitting an abstract for this fantastic conference ends this week (15th of April). Hurry up!

TiBE-STRiVE Conference 2026 | The Evolutionary Role of Structural Genomic Variation

⏳ Abstract submission: 15th April 2026

Register now: structuralvariantsstn.github.io/porto_registration
Details: structuralvariantsstn.github.io/porto_about

Join us!
#Biodiversity #Evolution #Genomics #Conference

🧬We are launching STRiVE, a @eseb.bsky.social Special Topic Network on the evolutionary role of structural genomic variation.

🗓️Std:
29/04: Online seminar w/ L. Rieseberg
8-10/07: Kick-off in Porto

Join us: structuralvariantsstn.github.io #Evolution #Genomics #StructuralVariants #Biology #PopGen

A long-awaited, deeply rewarding achievement made possible only by the dedication, perseverance, and passion of incredible collaborators and friends 😍: @anjamwestram.bsky.social @ruimmfaria.bsky.social ‪@carmelofruciano.bsky.social‬ & many others not here

a nice group of people and researchers, nice shores, new research facilities, fantastic Littorina system

In my case, it all changed with a Marie Curie MC fellowship. I know there is not much time left to apply but if you want to come to the sunny Portugal, near Porto, to work on Littorina inversions (adaptation, sex chromosome evolution, speciation),contact me ruifaria@cibio.up.pt to try out for a MC

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For those interested in attending EVOP 2026 evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de
these are the last days to apply!

Hi everyone. New deadline to submit your abstract to ESEB: 5th of May. Please consider our interesting symposium!

Postdoc position with @milocco.bsky.social at @scilifelab.se and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social in predictive modeling in evolution and development.

#Evolution #Popgen #Modeling #Postdoc

Two more weeks to apply for a PhD position in our yeast genomics and evolution lab at Stockholm University! Please share widely. 🧪🧬🌳🍄

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Post-Doctoral Researcher – Haplotype-Resolved Assembly and Structural Variation of Polyploid Genomes in Transmissible Cancers of the Blue Mussel (M/F) - work environment: Host-Pathogen-Environment Interactions Laboratory (UMR5244 IHPE), Montpellier - main mission:

#PostDoc in #Montpellier on mussel transmissible cancers #TransCan These weird cancers have undergone genome doublings and aneuploidisation You will play with PacBio and Nanopore data Join the #HyperCan team in a joyfull environment. #MarEvol #PopGen #MusselsAreCool euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333894

Organized by @aruizherrera.bsky.social and Thea Rogers with the wonderful speakers @clairemerot.bsky.social and Harris Lewin

Together with @aruizherrera.bsky.social (UAB and Thea Rogers (Univ. of Vienna)

NEW FRONTIERS IN GENOME DIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION: if you have work on 3D organization and function of genomes submit your abstract to our symposium!

We are recruiting a PhD student We are offering a fully funded PhD Position in Evolutionary Genomics of Seasonal Camouflage, at Stockholm University and SciLifeLab. The project focus on characterizing phenotypic and genomic varia…

Read more about the project and requirements here:

seasonalgenomics.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/w...

Montenegro pode ser Sócrates 2009 - quem tem ética passa fome Um primeiro-ministro cuja ética já causava muitas dúvidas foi reeleito perante a anomia do seu partido e do eleitorado. Muitos do que falam de “lama” no caso Montenegro já usavam a palavra em 2009.

"Era aceitável que Luís Montenegro continuasse em funções se fosse ministro de um outro qualquer primeiro-ministro? Não."

A opinião de Ana Sá Lopes

Fantastic Cátia! Well done! we hope to interact :)

A single theory for the evolution of sex chromosomes and the two rules of speciation - Events - Cibio The mission of the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources is to develop world-class research in the areas of biodiversity and evolutionary bi

For those interested in sex chromosomes and speciation, Thomas Lenormand from CEFE, University of Montpellier, will visit us and present a seminar about his work on these topics. For more information (and the zoom link), please follow the link here: www.cibio.up.pt/en/events/a-...

If you have a dream of combining genetics, ecology and marine organism, this is for you. If not, this may still be for you!
We are looking for candidates to apply for a FCT PhD fellowship within SEAGEN-CIBIO on evolutionary genomics of marine organisms! Please spread the word.

Top: Topology weightings across chr15 showing how the karamu haplotype is related to the klugii and orientis haplotypes. Upper panel shows three possible rooted genealogical topologies. Second panel shows weights for each topology along the chromosome, smoothed with a 20 kb span. Arrows above the plot indicate the locations of inversions. Third panel shows unsmoothed topology weightings across a 1.5 Mb region corresponding to Inversion 2. Bottom: Ancestry painting across a 100 kb region within Inversion 2, showing ancestry tracts for two homozygous karamu individuals compared to two representative individuals homozygous for the orientis and klugii haplotypes. Coding regions are indicated below the plot, with the candidate gene for background colouration yellow indicated. Green triangles represent the top 10 SNPs for background colour in our GWAS. There is evidence for recombination throughout the supergene region, and specifically in the vicinity of yellow, consistent with the hypothesis that orientis ancestry at this locus (i.e., the B allele) is associated with darker colouration in karamu individuals.

Dynamics of a supergene. A study of the BC supergene in wing color morphs of the African monarch #butterfly by @rishidekayne.bsky.social &co reveals dynamic evolution of #supergene haplotypes, fueled by incomplete recombination suppression 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3DiFhnL

A genome-based phylogeny for Mollusca is concordant with fossils and morphology Extreme morphological disparity within Mollusca has long confounded efforts to reconstruct a stable backbone phylogeny for the phylum. Familiar molluscan groups—gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods—e...

Mollusks encompass species ranging from squid 🦑 to sea snails 🐌 - 13 new #genomes from across the phylum to assemble a new phylogeny for Mollusca www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #biodiversity #genomics #evolution #phylogenomics

O que é que Luís Montenegro tem na cabeça? Aquilo que temos na prática é um primeiro-ministro a ser pago por empresas privadas no exercício do cargo. Isto vai muito para além dos conflitos de interesses. É mesmo um enorme escândalo nacional.

João Miguel Tavares: "Aquilo que temos na prática é um primeiro-ministro a ser pago por empresas privadas no exercício do cargo. Isto vai muito para além dos conflitos de interesses. É mesmo um enorme escândalo nacional."

Com a crise que temos no sector imobiliário, parece-me eticamente degradante que muita gente do nosso governo tenha exactamente um negócio nesse sector e lucre com isso. Não resolvem os problemas como aliás contribuem para a subida do preço das casas e ganham com isso.

Short INDELs and SNPs as markers of evolutionary processes in hybrid zones Abstract. Polymorphic short insertions and deletions (INDELs ≤ 50 bp) are abundant, although less common than single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Evide

Short insertions and deletions are abundant but are they useful markers in genome scans for divergent selection? Hybrid zones in Littorina suggest they can add to information from SNPs, despite stronger purifying selection:

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Perini, Butlin and @anjamwestram.bsky.social

nice!