Post-doctoral Researcher - Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit Post-doctoral positions are available in the Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit (https://www.oist.jp/research/research-units/sbn) at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate Univers...

We are recruiting a post-doc to study olfactory processing and decision-making in rodents, combining quantitative behavior with neurophysiology.

www.oist.jp/careers/post...

Please share with interested colleagues and trainees 🙏

Excited to share a new review by @kocherlab.bsky.social and me:

Nature-inspired neuroscience

We discuss diverse sensory systems and behaviors across the animal kingdom and argue for their integration into neuroscience. New tools in diverse systems are making this possible ✨

tinyurl.com/y5y9du27

NAVIGATING UNCERTAINTY Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology LIGHTNING TALKS: 9:15 - 10:30 AM EDT Focus on the collective: what can our community do in a time of uncertainty? PROTHAMA MANNA, CLEMSON UNIV. MOHAMED NOOR, DUKE UNIVERSITY RUTH SHAW, UNIV. OF MINNESOTA JOSEPH GRAVES, NC A&T STATE UNIV. SCOTT EDWARDS, HARVARD UNIV. EMILY JOSEPHS, MICHIGAN STATE UNIV. ALISON DAVIS RABOSKY, UNIV. OF MICHIGAN WORKSHOP & BREAKOUTS: 11 - 12:30 PM EDT Focus on the individual: how scientists can respond constructively, creatively, and sustainably in the face of instability NELIA VIVEIROS, UNIV. OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS

👋 👋 SSE members, I hope you'll join me May 21 for the virtual SSE Presidential Symposium:

Navigating Uncertainty: Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology

Pls RT to help get the word out!

Many wild populations are fragmenting and declining, leading to inbreeding.
We are studying how animals avoid inbreeding and the consequences of inbreeding an in a >20 year study of >20,000 wild mice with whole genomes.
We are recruiting a postdoc at Columbia and two PhD students in U Zurich.

Genetic architecture of cichlid brain morphology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

Figure contrasting biological intelligence with cartesian agents, where cartestian agents form an inverted pyramid of control in biological cognition.

Today’s AI agents share the same basic architecture: a thinking part (the LLM) is coupled to an acting part (an engineered runtime + tools) through a narrow symbolic interface (e.g. json & text).

In our new paper, we call this split *Cartesian agency*.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.07745

Babies synchronize their daily rhythms to mom before birth! Work by @circatwenty4.bsky.social and colleagues. source.washu.edu/2026/04/when...

The McBride Lab at Princeton U. seeks a lab tech for mosquito research starting summer 2026. Requires a biology degree, lab experience, and interest in evolution/neuroscience. Apply at: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21661/research-spec... #job

thanks, as always, to the deer mouse for teaching us so much!

And thanks also to @siddhantpusdekar.bsky.social for covering our work!

This was a great collaboration with @adamhantman.bsky.social and lab!

We just published a review 🗞️😁:

‘The ecology of adaptive radiation’ revisited: A 25-year reflection

Dolph Schluter’s book inspired the interest in adaptive radiation, and we wanted to revisit it.

academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

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Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

Evolution seems to have repeatedly converged on a similar architecture in the early olfactory system of many animals. We offer an efficient-coding framework to understand this. Out in @pnas.org now! Led by @jzv.bsky.social, driven by Juan Carlos, + help from Farhad. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Why Evolution Keeps Returning to the Same Solution for Smell - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Why do animals as different as insects and mammals process smells in nearly the same way? A new theoretical study published in PNAS takes on this question by […]

Why Evolution Keeps Returning to the Same Solution for Smell
🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @neurovenki.bsky.social @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social @pnas.org @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @jzv.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social

We have an opportunity to join our team at @arcadiascience.com jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien...

We're looking for an evolutionary biologist who thinks a lot about protein evolution. If you have experience investigating genomic and amino acid sequence evolution and protein structural evolution, apply!

Recently amplified gene arrays are a super interesting phenomenon, but many still resist our attempts to assemble them. @dantipov.bsky.social has developed a new method (Trivial Tangle Traverser) that resolves assembly graph tangles caused by such sequences (1/4) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I’m happy to share that the third chapter of my doctoral dissertation has been published in Global Ecology and Biogeography: Diversification and Evolutionary Dynamics in Tropical Montane Regions

Huge thanks to my co-authors for their support!

doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Accelerating minimap2 for whole-genome alignment academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/at-cg/mm2-plus

Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece)

We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution

marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...

22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

Introgression and parental conflict shape repeated occurrences of postzygotic isolation in Mimulus Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet it frequently evolves rapidly, in line wit…

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!)

link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

MKado: a toolkit for McDonald-Kreitman tests of natural selection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...

David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).

Screenshot of the COI Pond webpage: Upload your academic CV and generate a draft NSF Collaborators and Other Affiliations (COA) Form to submit with your NSF grant proposals. COI Pond parses your CV to extract: Coauthors of articles published, in the last 48 months Collaborators on funded projects, in last 48 months Past PhD advisees & your own PhD advisor(s) Editorial roles, in last 24 months After extraction, you can edit the draft COA form before downloading a final version (in xslx format) that you can submit to NSF. COI Pond is a free tool* from Cevian Labs.

Today we’re excited to announce a new product: COI Pond is a tool for faculty and grant staff that converts an academic CV into a draft NSF Collaborators and Other Affiliations (COA) Form. COA forms are tedious work, and COI Pond makes it a snap. Try it for free, here cevianlabs.io/coipond/start/ /1

Happy to share scHiCAR, an ultra-high throughout (millions of cells), low cost (5 cents/cell including NGS), and trimodal platform for integrated single-cell level analysis of mRNA, open chromatin, and 5-kb resolution looping with ground-truth data the same individual cell.

Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour - Nature Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances...

Why are some males caring toward infants while others are neglectful or abusive? I'm so pleased to share work that my colleagues and I @princeton.edu have just published @nature.com (an explanatory thread to follow!) (1/8)

Over the moon to be featured on NPR’s The Wild with Chris Morgan 🎧✨🌍🎶

From turning animal & plant data into music—🐢 🐜 🐦 🌿 —to educational programs

I also share how music + nature supported me through my cancer survivorship journey 🎻🏥

🎧👇 www.kuow.org/stories/let-...

The first paper from the lab is now out in Science Advances: Multimodal social context modulates larval behavior in Drosophila
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We find that fly larvae keep their distance to conspecifics in the absence of food, enjoy reading! @cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary Simulations Across Multiple Chromosomes and Full Genomes Abstract. Evolutionary simulations of multiple chromosomes, even up to the scale of full-genome simulations, are becoming increasingly important in populat

Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Calling all OrthoFinder users!

We’ve just released GLADE, a tool to infer gene gains, losses, duplications, and ancestral genomes across a phylogeny.

GLADE runs directly on OrthoFinder results.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
github.com/lauriebelch/...

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