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This Thursday, March 19 is #SunDevilGiving Day!

Please consider donating to @evmedasu.bsky.social at #ASU
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We have a $2000 match so even a small gift is doubled and will help us support students!

#SunDevilGivingDay #ChangingFutures #EvMed #Impact

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Methods matter and the debate over the meaning and means of studying #PetosParadox are revisited, revisited, revisited, revisited, revisited, and revisited yet again. I'm here for it... #EvMed 🧪 ♋

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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A recent Spotlight article I wrote for @cp-molcell.bsky.social about one of the mechanisms that may contribute to the exceptional longevity in bowhead whales (over 200 years!) 🧪 🐋 #EvMed #PetosParadox #DevoEvo

www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Way to go Erin! #EvMed #ASU #GradLife

🧪 #LifeHistory #EvMed #OutDatedReference

Well this is problematic for those of us studying aging –– "Our study provides rare evidence of heritable longevity in a wild population and highlights how genetic conflicts between the sexes may constrain evolution and help maintain sex-specific genetic variance in fitness." #EvMed #DevoEvo 🧪

Rare longevity-associated variants, including a reduced-function mutation in cGAS, identified in multigenerational long-lived families Life expectancy has steadily increased in the last two centuries, while healthspan has been lagging behind. Survival into extreme ages strongly clusters within families which often exhibit a delayed o...

Something very cool is going on with cGAS-STING signaling in #ageing and #cancer #PetosParadox #EvMed

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet Celebration. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us as we celebrate NCSE's 2025 Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awardees. This online event is free and will include a Q&A after brief comments from the winners. This year's Friend of D...

TONIGHT join the National Center for Science Education zoom webinar for their Friends of Darwin and Friends of the Planet 2025 Awards! #EvMed #SciComm #Biology #Conservation us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

WE HEAR HE'S A FUN GUY!
#IRegretNothing

You can attend in person or via Zoom! #EvMed

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Noon Thursday, November 6th, join us for David Engelthaler's lecture "Cocci and Crypto: Evolving fungi in an evolving world". Prof. Engelthaler is Executive Director of the Health Observatory at ASU & the Director of TGen North
@tgenresearch.bsky.social #EvMed asuevents.asu.edu/event/cemina...

The Darwinian factor in medicine The relatively new discipline of evolutionary medicine is making strides in the fields of cancer treatment and antibacterial resistance.

"But Nesse – the man who kickstarted it all – says evolutionary medicine still has the power to provide new questions and new answers about disease." #EvMed www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A cGAS-mediated mechanism in naked mole-rats potentiates DNA repair and delays aging Efficient DNA repair might make possible the longevity of naked mole-rats. However, whether they have distinctive mechanisms to optimize functions of DNA repair suppressors is unclear. We find that na...

This is so cool! Four amino acid changes in the naked mole rat cGAS turn it from a DNA repair inhibitor into an enhancer

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What is going on in armadillos, which have lost the cGAS and STING genes‽ #PetosParadox #EvMed 🧪

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40463121/

Agree, plus this research question is in constant debate; I still talk to OBGYNs talking about the OB dilemma and there’s that #EvMed talk from a while back; seems like we need a good fight to get this over with :-)

Dr Gaye described his extremely compelling research program to map disease related genetic diversity - 1000 genomes in Senegal - and elsewhere #EvMed

Amadou Gaye plenary talk on the need for a representative human pangenome. #Isemph2025 #EvMed

Great talk on the risk of egg donation as a source of genetic conflict in pregnancy by @reallymccoy.bsky.social winner of the Omenn prize at #ISEMPH2025 #EvolutionaryMedicine #EvMed

Tagging some people who might be interested in modularity and psychiatry, thanks for RT! @randynesse.bsky.social @realadamhunt.bsky.social @dpietra.bsky.social @evmed.bsky.social @dconroybeam.bsky.social @anniewertz.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @maxkraz.bsky.social #EvMed #EvPsych

I think the framing and shifting definitions are because the field of Comparative Oncology was niche, even within #EvMed, until the elephant p53 papers blew it up. Not saying ours played a role; we all just realized we now had the data and methods to start getting into it.

WTAF biology‽ 🧪 #EvMed

Lara Durgavich: An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease How does your genetic inheritance, culture and history influence your health? Biological anthropologist Lara Durgavich discusses the field of evolutionary medicine as a gateway to understanding the qu...

Yessss #EvMed!! Here's my TED talk on the topic, in case it's helpful:
www.ted.com/talks/lara_d...

The best 2024 article about evolution, medicine and public health will win the $5000 Omenn Prize. Nominate an article now. It is easy. And the winner-and all of us- will REALLY appreciate it!
isemph.org/Omenn-Prize

🧪E. #EvMed @evmed.bsky.social @tricem.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social

Shameless self promotion of an excellent article on #EvMed #PetosParadox by @vcallier.bsky.social heads up @ubuffalo.bsky.social 🧪 🐘 🦇🐋🧫🧬

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Tried this and the #EvMed #PetosParadox field exploded in my face. Study elephant cancer I said, who else is going to do that? Maybe armadillos or bats or whales‽ That’s so niche and rando, naked mole rats aside, who else would be interested in studying their cancer? Turns out…

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Club Ev Med: Bringing Up Baby. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Club Ev Med: Bringing Up Baby. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Really interesting ClubEvMed discussion with Dr. Paul Turke on Evolutionary Pediatrics on Wednesday at noon ET. Based on his new book Bringing Up Baby. All welcome. A great group! Free. Join us! @evmed.bsky.social 🧪 #evmed

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The chaos from Washington in the last week has made travel planning impossible for many scientists, so the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health meeting is allowing submission of talk abstracts until Feb 28. 🧪 #EvMed @evmed.bsky.social @evmed.bsky.social evmed.org

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Nashville!
And to hearing some talks that look super.
And the food.
And I hear they have music there.
isemph.org
Our Tenth Annual Meeting! #evmed @evmed.bsky.social

ISEMPH - Gilbert S. Omenn Prize

Nominations are open for the $5000 Omenn Prize for the best 2024 article in the area of evolution, medicine and public health. Nominate an article that you think deserves the prize. Including yours! @evmed.bsky.social
isemph.org/Omenn-Prize @sse-evolution.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social #EvMed

Will this be the best ISEMPH ever? Nashville, Tennessee is calling for #EvMed! The tenth anniversary of the best conference for researchers and clinicians to meet and find the cutting edge. Abstract deadline Feb 3! https://buff.ly/40zGJLx
@evolutionvu.bsky.social

The 10th annual meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health

The Abstract deadline is Feb 3 for the 10th annual meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health in Nashville. All welcome, esp. students and clinicians. Full info at iemph.org Please repost #EvMed 🧪 @evmed.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social