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Gustavo Burin 🍉 @gburin.com · 20/11/2025

Thrilled to see that Diego's paper was featured on the cover of the latest issue of @newphyt.bsky.social! Go check his paper if you haven't already (open access) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nectar-producing staminode of Eschweilera grandiflora, under autofluorescence, displaying nectariferous tissue and vascularization by phloem conducting elements. Image courtesy of Diego Graciano (Graciano et al., pp. 3297–3311).

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳 Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life? For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided. We provide new evidence suggesting that... 🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾‍♀️ @crazychipkali.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Happy to share this collaborative paper! It is an outcome of our collective experience studying Indian biodiversity & realisations about the need of having accessible natural history collections & data for the future of Indian biodiversity science. #biodiversity academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

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Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science

Abstract. India, one of the world’s most biodiverse countries and now the most populous, stands at a critical intersection of ecological wealth and intense

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Lars Gamfeldt @gamfeldt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Opportunity! Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Claire Merot opens the afternoon session at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about the structural genetic diversity across the tree of life. Structural variants (SVs) are in order de magnitude higher than SNPs. TEs accounts for many SVs. SVs are different across different lineages.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 24/10/2025

The economic effects of international students go far beyond their tuition dollars. Many stay, innovate, & shape the productivity of the entire economy. My co-authors & I estimate the impact of US international student exclusion policy in this new paper commissioned by the @nationalacademies.org.

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Christophe Dessimoz @dessimoz.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Our lab has published a couple of major papers in the past few months, which I would like to highlight in this thread! 🧵

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Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾‍♀️ @crazychipkali.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Enjoying terrific talks and discussions on #speciation in #roscoff this week! Such a beautiful coast :-)

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate. The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

New report on navigating challenges of doing science in Global South countries. We often hear about obstacles like bureaucracy and funding constraints. Some practical here on how to navigate

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That must have been a great talk with an optimistic end! Thanks for the article and summary Rishika.

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Anna R Landim @annarl.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️ We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation. You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Delayed recovery of seed-dispersal interactions after deforestation

Landim et al. show that seed-dispersal interactions require about two decades to functionally recover in tropical forests in Ecuador, but the recovery time of seed-dispersal functions is delayed in pa...

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Stephan Spiekman @stephanspiekman.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

PhD position available at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin on avialan ontogeny (birds and their closest non-avian dinosaur relatives)! jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/e...

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42/2025 Research Associate with the goal of a doctorate (f/m/d)

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Patrick Krapf @krapfpatrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

(1) So happy to share our recent work on Finish wood ants 🐜🧬🥳 "Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @helsinki.fi & @uvapress.bsky.social This integrative project was funded by the Research Council Finland & #MSCA of the European Comission

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Evidence for climate-mediated range expansion of hybrid wood ants

Climate change challenges many species. To persist, species can shift ranges, respond plastically, and adapt. Yet, these responses require variation - often limited in natural populations. While hybri...

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

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Melanie Brien @melbrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Wood tiger moth on leaf. Photo: Juhani Maamela.

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 25/09/2025

Only known from a single plant growing in the botanic gardens in Sri Lanka, the endemic Pini-Beraliya was declared Extinct in the Wild. But a post on social media about the tree has now led to the discovery of three wild populations and a recovery programme! 🌱🧪🙌🏻 news.mongabay.com/2025/08/soci...

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Social media post sparks rediscovery of endemic Sri Lanka rainforest plant

COLOMBO — In 2012, Sri Lanka’s National Red List delivered a grim verdict on endemic Pini- Beraliya, the towering dipterocarp Doona ovalifolia (syn. Shorea ovalifolia) tree by categorizing it as “exti...

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Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾‍♀️ @crazychipkali.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Using gene-order information to infer phylogenetic relationship seems super interesting. Yet to read!

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 22/09/2025

Axolotls may enjoy celebrity status among pet owners, but their wild populations have been dealt huge blows by habitat loss, water pollution, invasive species and the pet trade. Now, the success of reintroduction programs in their native ranges in Mexico brings new hope for their comeback.

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The return of the axolotl (cartoon)

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Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾‍♀️ @crazychipkali.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Looks a good opportunity for #postdocs studying #neurobiology or #behaviour or any research that studies intelligence in different contexts.

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Hanna Johannesson @hannajohannesson.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT! Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

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Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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Alexis Stamatakis @stamatak.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Want to spend time in the French Alps and talk about Machine Learning for Evolutionary Genomics Data? Join us for the 2nd Legend conference - abstract submission deadline is on September 22 legend2025.sciencesconf.org

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legend2025 : Machine Learning for Evolutionary Genomics Data - Sciencesconf.org

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Lucija Andjel @lucija-andjel.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

My first first-author article is finally here! Happy to share with you a little piece of the puzzle in the evolution of sex chromosomes in chameleons of the genus Furcifer. You can read the full text at academic.oup.com/jhered/advan... #reptiles #chameleons #evolution #sexchromosomes

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Comparison of non-synonymous/synonymous (dN/dS) ratios shows little evidence for a faster-Z effect in Furcifer chameleons after controlling for gene-specific evolutionary rates

Abstract. The faster-X/Z effect hypothesis states that genes linked to X/Z chromosomes should accumulate mutations faster than autosomal genes. Although fa

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Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾‍♀️ @crazychipkali.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Learnt loads working on this review together with incredible 🌿 biologists! We discuss the role of chromosomal rearrangements in population div. & speciation & attempt to bridge the gap between macro- and microevolutionary processes. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

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Frontiers | Bridging micro and macroevolution: insights from chromosomal dynamics in plants

Understanding the relationship between macro- and microevolutionary processes and their delimitation remains a challenge. This review focuses on the role of ...

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

A great and engaging set of students for the #Biodiversity bioinformatics @sib.swiss training couse in #Lausanne this week - congratulations to you all! www.sib.swiss/training/cou... @dessimoz.bsky.social @marcrr.bsky.social

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Rob Waterhouse @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Epigenetics and #chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera #eseb2025

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Aurora Ruiz-Herrera @aruizherrera.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Wonderful wrap up for a great symposium #ESEB2025 - thank you to all parcitipants for their high quality presentations, talks and posters (here most of the female contributors, but there were more 😉)

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Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾‍♀️ @crazychipkali.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Here for @eseb2025.bsky.social ? Catch my posters on the 19th (Tue.). 1: How can we measure genomic structural variants (P02.308), & 2. Genomic drivers of karyotype change & impacts on the linear & 3D genome structure (P02.328). Photo: cool decorations from the #gracia festival last night! #ESEB2025

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Going to eseb2025.bsky.social? 🇪🇸 Into heterogeneity in parasite transmission? 🦠 Or just feel like playing a board game? 🎲 Then come say hi and check what @kayla-king.bsky.social and I have been cooking! 🧪✨ Poster P01.365 in session 1 (Monday 18, 5pm) See u there ✌️ 🌞 🍻 #EvoSky #ESEB2025

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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

@alisondawnscott.bsky.social et al. use genome data from >400 Arabidopsis lyrata sampled across Eurasia to show it as the most polyploid-rich species complex in Arabidopsis, with multiple origins of autotetraploidy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf153 #evobio #molbio #PlantSky

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Multiple Autopolyploid Arabidopsis lyrata Populations Stabilized by Long-Range Adaptive Introgression Across Eurasia

Abstract. Abundance of established polyploid lineages varies across lineages, evolutionary time, and geography, suggesting both genetics and environment pl

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Rebecca Cooper @rebeccasaurus.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Really happy to see chapter 2 of my PhD published today in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. DeepDiveR is an R package to assist with deep learning inference of biodiversity change through time 🤿🦊 Thanks to @bethanyjallen.bsky.social & Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration doi.org/10.1111/2041...

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Anne-Claire Fabre @grumpydrfabre.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Huge congratulations to Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé on publishing the first paper of her PhD! 🎉 Ever wondered whether paedomorphic species change their feeding strategies from larval to adult stages? Is adulthood in axolotls just an illusion? 🧠👀

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Ashwini V. Mohan ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ 🧬 🙋🏾‍♀️ @crazychipkali.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

So, more rejections ➡️ more applications in the future? Can just perseverance beat the Matthew effect?

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Juliana Rodríguez-Fuentes @julianaxrf.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Really excited to share my first PhD paper about fitness effects of chromosomal inversions! Using an experimental approach we explored if inversions involved in ecotype divergence in threespine stickleback affect fitness-proxies 1/🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @heredityjournal.bsky.social

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Experimental test of the fitness effects of divergent marine–freshwater chromosomal inversions in stickleback under different salinity conditions - Heredity

Heredity - Experimental test of the fitness effects of divergent marine–freshwater chromosomal inversions in stickleback under different salinity conditions

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Juliane Glaser @julianeg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Finally out! 🥳 Our paper showing how a transposable element (TE) insertion can cause developmental phenotypes is now published @natgenet.nature.com 🧬🦠🐁 Below is a brief description of the major findings. Check the full version of the paper for more details: www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02248-5

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Enhancer adoption by an LTR retrotransposon generates viral-like particles, causing developmental limb phenotypes - Nature Genetics

Activation of an LTR retrotransposon inserted upstream of the Fgf8 gene produces viral-like particles in the mouse developing limb, triggering apoptosis and causing limb malformation. This phenotype c...

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Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be... Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community

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Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Nice editorial job here for a life sciences graduate interested in remote work!

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Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research @mpipz.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

📣📣We are #hiring! 📣Please RT! @mpipz.bsky.social has a group leader position available in the broad area of Plant Development and Diversity 🌿. Apply now!🌿 👉http://bit.ly/4nkUvLa #plantsci

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EvoBio Crash Course @evobiocc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Please share widely! We are offering the 4th iteration of our free & online crash course in Evolutionary Biology, catered to students in the Global South! Join us this summer for an incredible line of up classes & tutorials from amazing graduate student researchers, covering a vast array of topics!

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Science Magazine @science.org · 12/06/2025

As the world warms, plants in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings find ways to respond to the heat. In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. scim.ag/44cSw3Z

Infrared imaging shows heat levels in sun-exposed leaves of Alstonia scholaris from the Australian Wet Tropics. As climate change increases temperatures and the severity of heat waves, both natural ecosystems and agricultural plants are increasingly affected by heat. Examining heat responses at cellular, genetic, physiological, and ecosystem scales, this special issue explores how plants sense and respond to high temperatures.

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Two research teams from @cnrs.fr @sbroscoff.bsky.social carried a comparative analysis in flowering plants that supports the prediction that inbreeding, such as self-fertilization, selects for higher recombination rates: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Brazier et al. (@romanstet.bsky.social)

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Mating system and the evolution of recombination rates in seed plants

Abstract. Meiotic recombination is a central mechanism underlying sexual reproduction among eukaryotes. In many species, the recombination rate is strongly

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We hear a lot about how Africa has 'become too dependent on aid' We don't hear much about how Africa was impoverished & exploited and why they are owed reparations for colonial damages

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Samanth Subramanian @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Out in the US and UK in less than six months! Pre-order here, pretty please — it makes a world of a difference to sales. And please RT / spread the word! www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Beneath-...

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