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Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The winner of the MBE Best Graduate Student Paper Award for articles published in 2025 is Julia Camacho García. Read her winning paper on the MBE website to learn more about visual adaptation in cichlids. 🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... #society #societyjournal

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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If you're at #smbe2026 and you have an interest in drug resistance, pop gen or story telling in science, come check out my poster today! It's upstairs in Arkaden 6.

Short haired white woman (pleuni pennings) in black t shirt in front of poster with text and drawings.

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João M Moreno @jm-moreno.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Happy to present the work from my PhD on the use of cell culture to study phenotypic plasticity in freshwater fish 🐟 at #SMBE2026. If you're around come check poster 132 in Poster Session A in room Harlekin!

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Sofia L. Mendes @sofialmendes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Excited to be at #SMBE2026 and looking forward to so many interesting talks and posters! I'll be presenting a poster today on pervasive hybridization and conservation challenges on a very cool group of freshwater fish 🐟🐟 at Arkaden 4+5. Come say hi! (if you can find the posters upstairs)

6 freshwater fish in a tank (Sado chub - Squalius caetobrigus)

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LIB @leibnizlib.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Biodiversity doesn’t always arise through isolation. Genomic analyses of sailfin silversides from Sulawesi reveal that ancient and recent gene flow fueled their adaptive radiation, contributing to the evolution of unique forms within a single lake system. #LIBresearch © De Keyzer et al., CC BY 1/3

Map showing the Malili Lakes system location on Sulawesi on the left and a detailed map of Lake Matano with inflow river Lawa and outflow river Petea on the right, six sampling sites along the lake and one in the inflow marked, images of six fish species from the sharpfin and roundfin clades labeled with letters at top right and bottom right.

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Simon Baeckens @simonbaeckens.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

"Science has achieved some wonderful things of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day." "And are you?" "No. That's where it all falls down of course." "Pity," said Arthur with sympathy. "It sounded like quite a good lifestyle otherwise."

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Martin Genner @mgenner.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

New research in Molecular Ecology shining light on the riverine ancestors of the Lake Malawi cichlid fish adaptive radiation, led by Sophie Gresham and Hannes Svardal doi.org/10.1111/mec....

A scenic image of rocky shoreline of Lake Malawi, near Cape Maclear

A deep water Lake Malawi cichlid fish - Lethrinops 'gossei white bar' from Nkhata Bay

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Curro Campuzano @currocam.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

We can (and should) do better by incorporating biological knowledge about species invasions and recent advances in population genetics in our models. If you want to see the poster (or try it out), contact me and check it out! (2/2) currocam.github.io/eseb_barcelo...

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Els De Keyzer @elsdekeyzer.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

If you like adaptive radiation and the effect of gene-flow on diversification, come have a look at my poster 03.340 at #eseb2025

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Steven Van Belleghem @svbelleghem.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

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Hugo Gante @hugogante.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

And before the day ends, perhaps my most anticipated paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #eDNA #metagenomics applied to *all* organisms, including (and especially) macroorganisms/eukaryotes See how to and shoot me an email if you want to know more. - species IDs - eDNA decay

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Improving Whole Biodiversity Monitoring and Discovery With Environmental DNA Metagenomics

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metagenomics sequences all DNA molecules present in environmental samples and has the potential of identifying virtually any organism from which they are derived. However, du...

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eDNA-OPTIMA @edna-optima.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We officially kicked-off eDNA-OPTIMA. In this project, we deploy samplers on a USV, improve detection of benthic invertebrates, aim to understand how eDNA is transported by ocean currents, etc. @vliznews.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social @vlaio.bsky.social

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Hugo Gante @hugogante.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

🚨 New paper alert! Environmental DNA metabarcoding is being used to monitor animal communities, due to it being non-invasive and cost-effective. But is it comparable to traditional sampling methods? We decided to look into this. Check our preprint! /1

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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Freshwater fish community assessment using eDNA metabarcoding vs. capture-based methods: differences in efficiency and resolution coupled to habitat and ecology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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