Reposted by Fabian Salgado-Roa Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026Claude making a scientific discovery 182100483
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaJoe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I made a live dashboard of chromosome-scale genome assemblies on NCBI. hanliconius.github.io/eukaryote-ge...hanliconius.github.ioEukaryote Genome Watch 2177
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaRichard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Philosophy of Biology: The power of theory in the life sciences" elifesciences.org/articles/112... @zdblount.bsky.social shared this thought-provoking paper with the lab group.elifesciences.orgPhilosophy of Biology: The power of theory in the life sciencesTheory can help address cell and molecular biology’s major challenges, particularly those arising from large omics datasets. 110346
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaJoe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I hate to do this with real data, but this is a persistent data vis issue in chromosome synteny riparian plots that we Need to get better at. Left, a synteny plot published today. Right, a rearranged version with exactly the same gross arrangement but with reordered chromosomes: 29639
Fabian Salgado-Roa @facasaro.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I have the pleasure of collaborating with one of my best friends from my Ph.D. check out our work on the drivers of structural coloration in bees onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.com 020
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaFunctional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026📰Published📰Rain over heat: what drives colour diversity in a widespread spider🕷️ buff.ly/EGWaOr3fesummaries.wordpress.comRain over heat: what drives colour diversity in a widespread spiderFabian C. Salgado-Roa, Devi Stuart-Fox, Iliana Medina This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Many species come in different colours withi… 0114
Fabian Salgado-Roa @facasaro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Our work exploring the drivers of color polymorphism in spiders is now available in @funecology.bsky.social. Thanks to @sse-evolution.bsky.social and @ecolsocaus.bsky.social for the support to accomplish this type of studies! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comPrecipitation shapes colour polymorphism in a widespread spiderRead the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. 0164
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaLindsey Swierk @lindseyswierk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026 🦎*Please share!*🦎 The Swierk Lab is recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 27 / Spr 28 to study Neotropical anole 1) body coloration and visual signals or 2) predator avoidance, diving, and respiration. Please contact only by email. More info and contact details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TGmC... 04939
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaNicole Wonderlin @nicolewonderlin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Advancing ecological research through automated sensing networks: a field station perspective doi.org/10.1093/bios... Our paper describing key considerations for constructing a robust, long-lasting sensing system published today in #BioScience! 021
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaHenry Arenas-Castro @henryarenas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026"How two hybridizing monkeyflowers resist phenotypic homogenization" I'm very happy to share this. We would really appreciate your feedback! 27030
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaSantiago Claramunt @sclaramunt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on assembling and analyzing #genomes of the amazing Furnariidae. Let’s unlock the secret behind their #evolution. The official application portal will be available soon at www.uno.edu/careers. Feel free to contact me for details at sclaramu@uno.edu 13242
Fabian Salgado-Roa @facasaro.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Our work on gene expression differences between the color morphs of a colour variables spider is now published here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comGene Expression and Structural Differences Underpinning Black and White Colouration in SpidersThe presence of multiple color variants within a single population, known as color polymorphism, is a striking example of intraspecific phenotypic variation and a model for studying evolutionary proc... 040
Fabian Salgado-Roa @facasaro.bsky.social · 28/04/2026In Baños-Ecuador studying this colourful population 010
Fabian Salgado-Roa @facasaro.bsky.social · 25/03/2026We just published a first exploration using whole body RNAseq of the mechanisms shaping color variation in Gasteracantha. More work to come — stay tuned! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe Genetic Basis of Color Polymorphism in the Orb‐Web Spider Gasteracantha cancriformisThis study investigates the genetic basis of coloration in the polymorphic spider Gasteracantha cancriformis using RNA-seq data from different female color morphs. We assembled a reference transcript... 132
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaNatalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Hi 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 usnhcooper123.github.ioPhylogenetic Comparative MethodsPhylogenetic Comparative Methods 9288182
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaJeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 03/03/2026This looks neat, actually does a formal analysis of what I've suspected for a long time -- ΔK is an odd way to decide number of pops. H/T @biologyjoe87.bsky.social for the paper. (Personally I think K=0) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 0157
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 09/12/2025I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s... 12660233
Fabian Salgado-Roa @facasaro.bsky.social · 05/12/2025We decided to put this one out before the end of the year "Gene expression and structural differences underpinning black and white colouration in spiders" ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... 041
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaWill Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 01/12/2025🚨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration 🦋 with myself and Iliana Medina. One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st Please share among potential students! 03948
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaNicky Bay @nickybay.bsky.social · 29/11/2025This is the Sunburst Candy Spider from Thailand. Not AI (sucks to have to declare this). Very real and had been on my wish list for a long time. The taxonomic placement is unclear, so we are leaving it at Cyrtarachninae. 21663155
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaAlan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbiogithub.comGitHub - alanrogers/popgen: A course on population geneticsA course on population genetics. Contribute to alanrogers/popgen development by creating an account on GitHub. 5285103
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaAyush Parag @aparag49.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Hello everyone! One of my colleagues and probably one of the best supervisors I've met, Dr. Iliana Medina, is advertising a PhD position involving lots of bugs and many different colours! More info in the image below, do share this widely!! 052
Fabian Salgado-Roa @facasaro.bsky.social · 19/11/2025PhD opportunity in Melbourne, Australia, working in ecology and evolution of coloration with Iliana Medina (not on Bluesky). I can't recommend enough working with Iliana and living in that great city. Happy to chat if someone wants more details. 000
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaBecca Young @becca-young.bsky.social · 13/11/2025We are hiring in Evolutionary Biology — apply to join our department! 033
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaNicky Bay @nickybay.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Been looking for a fresh specimen of Leucauge sarawakensis for a long time! Each time we found one, someone walked into its web. Hence, the ex situ shots. 519047
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaHanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 29/10/2025A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...blogs.uni-mainz.deBehavioural Ecology and Social Evolution 02327
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaDepartment of Biology, Lund University @biologylu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology! Please apply no later than 31 October! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... 02116
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaMelanie Brien @melbrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Funded 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... 36749
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaGraham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 15/10/2025We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT 1163210
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaDaniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2025NSF unexpectedly changed (at the last minute) who is eligible to apply for the Grad Research Fellowship, dropping 2nd year students. We started a petition to reverse this unfair change, Sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/ and please spread the word!!!!laurenkuehne.github.ioPetition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition 22932
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiEnyti.ms 14147041812
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaIntegrative Biology - UT Austin @texas-ib.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Meet new Stengl-Wyer Scholar, Fabian Salgado-Roa! He studies phenotypic and genetic diversity change at multiple geographical scales, using arthropods as a model system. Learn more about him at our new blog post. biodiversity.utexas.edu/news/feature... #biology #ecology #science #entomologybiodiversity.utexas.eduMeet Stengl-Wyer Scholar: Fabian Salgado-RoaThis article is about 2025 Steng-Wyer Scholar Fabian Salgado-Roa 031
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-Roa闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 05/10/2025And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯 719058
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaDr. Sebastian A. Echeverri, PhD @spiderdaynightlive.bsky.social · 16/10/2024Most "tarantula-like" (Mygalomorph) spiders can't use silk to balloon around, unlike "typical" (Araneomorph) spiders. BUT. Ummidia trapdoor spiders can! (still only as babies, same as all spiders.) That's why theyre so widespread around the world compared to their relatives! #Arachtober 🧪🌿🕷️ 49018
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaIntegrative Biology - UT Austin @texas-ib.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Congratulations to Fabian Salgado-Roa, winner of the Medalla Humbold-Caldas Best Publication in Biogeography! His paper is titled "The Andes as a semi-permeable geographical barrier: Genetic connectivity between structured populations in a widespread spider." tinyurl.com/2pmcem2c 043
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaDr Mark E Hauber @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2025onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comAn Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range ExpansionWe document the first known hybridization event between the Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas) and Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata), two distantly related species whose ranges now overlap in Texas due to cli... 082
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaVolker Rudolf @volkerrudolf.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Awesome faculty position alert! Tenure-track assistant professor position in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on organismal responses to environmental change. Please help spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/173889apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 12732
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaNicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier. Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET) How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity 01828
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaIntegrative Biology - UT Austin @texas-ib.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Applications for the 2026 Stengl-Wyer Scholars Program are open! The program provides up to 3 years of support for talented postdoctoral researchers in the broad area of the diversity of life and/or organisms in their natural environments. Learn more here: utexas.infoready4.com/CompetitionS... 0812
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaIntegrative Biology - UT Austin @texas-ib.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Introducing the 2025 Stengl-Wyer Scholars, Fellows, and Grant Awardees! Another talented group we are excited to have! Learn about their fascinating research in our first blog posting of the fall semester. biodiversity.utexas.edu/news/feature... 042
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaLiana Lareau @lianafaye.bsky.social · 07/08/2025At the same time, we made thousands of synonymous mutations in endogenous yeast genes and measured their growth. We used careful statistics and controls. Only 3%, 204 of 6874, had a fitness effect! This goes against a controversial recent result that most synonymous mutations had fitness effects. 38029
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaBruno Alves Buzatto @brunobuzatto.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Following funnel-web spiders — amazing work by Caitlin Creak: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Study initially by @braxtonjones.bsky.social, Danilo Harms and I (funded by NatGeo and AusGeo), taken up by Caitlin with Russell Bonduriansky and Mike Kasumovic. Congrats all, especially Caitlin! :) 053
Fabian Salgado-Roa @facasaro.bsky.social · 19/08/2025I'm happy to share with you that in a couple of weeks I'll start as a Stengl-Wyer Scholar at the University of Texas at Austin. I'll join @becca-young.bsky.social's lab to study the ecology, genomics, and development of my favourite colourful spiders. 381
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaJosé Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19/08/2025The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...docs.google.comecoevojobs.net 2025-26 5207214
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaWill Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I am going to lodge a prediction: the AI bubble is going to start to deflate in the next 18 months. Chatbots have edge case utility, but are not themselves transformative. Agents are as controllable as an alcoholic rabbit; not fit for serious work. Foundation models are no longer improving rapidly 128713
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaEthan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 07/07/2025the ad is up! applications due 7/15: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...evol.mcmaster.cahttps://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/GradStudentPositions//MontanaStateU.SwiftFoxGenomicsMSc Assistantship ¨C Genetics and Movement Ecology of Swift Fox Following Establishment of a Translocated Population. Department of Ecology, Montana State University Smithsonian Institution National... 11719
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaiNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Goldenrod Crab Spiders (Misumena vatia) are sexually dimorphic in size & color. The spider here is one of a few iNat observations of the species that shows both variations of dimorphism! 📷 cryokinesis on iNaturalist 📍 Canada 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay 111120
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaDr Christopher Taylor @mimicryin3d.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Why do imperfect mimics (such as many hoverflies) exist? We created 3D printed replicas of flies, wasps and our own custom intermediates and then "asked" various predators what they thought of our 3D stimuli. Read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comMapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli - NatureBirds have an excellent ability to learn to discriminate harmless insects from those that they mimic on the basis of subtle differences in appearance. 24017
Reposted by Fabian Salgado-RoaEmily Roycroft @emilyroycroft.bsky.social · 26/06/2025📣 📣 Calling genomics-y and ecology friends, three permanent faculty positions at @monashbiol.bsky.social in Melbourne, Australia! See job listings here. 0912