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Gemma Murray @gemmamurray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m hiring two postdocs to join my group at UCL, both funded for 3 years, to investigate how commensal bacteria contribute to the evolution and spread of antimicrobial resistance in pathogens. Please share! Links below 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSU266/r... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSU268/r...

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Self-fertilization reverses the direction of selection on recombination www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

With @ewanflintham.bsky.social @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social and @sarperotto.bsky.social we've been thinking about what theory tells us about sexual antagonism (SA = when selection favours different trait values in females and males). Our review is here: tinyurl.com/ct5mk8mv

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Filip Ruzicka @filipruzicka.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A new preprint with @cmackintosh.bsky.social and Tim Connallon, where we revisit Haldane's idea that dominance might evolve during the spread of a beneficial mutation to fixation. Happy for any feedback!

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The evolution of context-specific dominance during selective sweeps www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Peter Price @petedp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📣 Searching for a PostDoc! 📣 Soon to be moving to San Sebastian, Spain, as @georgiamneuro.bsky.social starts her new position 🎉. Looking for a remote/hybrid position within ecoevo. Broad interests in sexual selection, mutation rates, genomic conflicts and gametogenesis. Get in touch!

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Susan Johnston @susanjohnston.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

A female and male sparrow stand on a wooden post. Photo by Peter S. Ranke.

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Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Our postdoc ad is live! 🔥 We're seeking a researcher to lead computational work on mitochondrial heteroplasmy in bees. You'll analyse single-cell datasets exploring heterplasmy dynamics. PhD + NGS/bioinformatics expertise required. 🔥 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"Sexually antagonistic selection: a review of the theory and its implications" doi.org/10.32942/X28M22

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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

If, like me, you didn’t get EvolDir posts anymore, then search your spam for a message from evoldir@evoldir.net… You need to give your consent before you can receive messages again.

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)! For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions). Scholarships available, Pls RP! shorturl.at/fo1GA

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Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🔥 We'll soon be advertising a 2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at UCL, focusing on insect single-cell mitochondrial genomics. 🔥 More details coming soon. Feel free to get in touch in this sounds fun or share with anyone who might be interested.

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Thomas Lesaffre 🌱 @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🚨 PhD position available ! 🚨 I am hiring a PhD student to work with me on the evolution of plant sexual systems 🌺 at @unifrbiology.bsky.social ! The position is funded for 4 years by @snsf.ch as part of my Ambizione fellowship. More info here: tinyurl.com/monoecy 🌱 Please RP and share widely ! 🌱

View of the old city of Fribourg from the "Pont du Milieu".
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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🇨🇭 To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀 tinyurl.com/2wem36zz

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Unil center for theory in ecology and evolution (UCTEE) - FBM Unil

Page Unil Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution of site Faculty of Biology and Medicine hosted by the University of Lausanne

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Thomas Lesaffre 🌱 @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🌺 New preprint out with John Pannell and @charlesmullon.bsky.social ! 🌺 We show that selection broadly favours a form of plasticity for the selfing rate where individuals adjust their mating behaviour to their condition — their overall vitality owing to their genetic background and environment. ⤵️

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The evolution of condition-dependent self-fertilisation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Effects of deleterious mutations on the fixation of chromosomal inversions on autosomes and sex chromosomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Aida Andres @aidaandres.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Jasmin Rees PhD chapter as a paper just out at the AJHG @ajhgnews.bsky.social, with Sergi Castellano, who first envisioned the study. Jas investigated signatures of human local genetic adaptation in hundreds of micronutrient-associated genes.

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Agnieszka (Aga) Lipinska @agalip.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I'm very happy to share that our paper describing the evolution of sex chromosomes in brown algae is out!🎉 This project was a long journey, but it came together into a nice story 🧬 🌊 Grateful to everyone who helped along the way!

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Carl Mackintosh @cmackintosh.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I'll be presenting poster 327 at #ESEB2025 today - come have a look if you're interested in the evolution of sex and haploid-diploid life cycles!

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Thomas Lesaffre 🌱 @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

My poster P02.385 is now up on its board! Come say hi if you want to learn about the role of sexual conflict in transitions from combined to separate sexes is plants! 🌱 #ESEB2025

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Carl Mackintosh @cmackintosh.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Thanks for putting this together Flo - I'm here too but missing from the pack!

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