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Integration of Speciation (ESEB Special Topic Network) @speciation-network.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The next Integration of Speciation seminar will take place Tuesday 6th October at 9am CEST, featuring talks by Jahnavi Joshi and Olivier Hardy. Please share with anyone who might be interested! To join, find the link on our website.

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Integration of Speciation (ESEB Special Topic Network) @speciation-network.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

On Tuesday 1st of September, tune in to hear from these two exciting speakers! To join, find the link on our website.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

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Integration of Speciation (ESEB Special Topic Network) @speciation-network.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The Integration of Speciation Seminar will be back on September 1st at 5pm CEST, with these two exciting speakers. The link will be posted soon on the IoS website. Please spread the word!

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Integration of Speciation (ESEB Special Topic Network) @speciation-network.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

For our next seminar we'll move onto a new theme: "Ecological and Geographical Axes of Speciation" featuring talks by @ingridolivares.bsky.social and Dr. Alexandre Siqueira. 👉 To attend, find the link on our website and note the time change to 10am CEST!

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Integration of Speciation (ESEB Special Topic Network) @speciation-network.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Application deadline is coming up to join us in Glasgow for the next IoS workshop!

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Integration of Speciation (ESEB Special Topic Network) @speciation-network.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Happening today: the final "Early Career Researchers in Speciation" seminar! This session features talks by Aryeh Miller on Anolis lizards 🦎 and @rishidekayne.bsky.social on speciation research in industry 📊 + we'll hear from Dr Mariana Braga in the careers Q&A ✋ 👉 find the link on our website

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Integration of Speciation (ESEB Special Topic Network) @speciation-network.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Workshop Announcement: We’re hosting a second in-person workshop from *7–11 December 2026* at the Scottish Centre for Ecology & the Natural Environment (near Glasgow)! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In brief, the aim is to populate a database on RI 👩‍💻 To apply, please fill out this form by *May 20th*: forms.gle/ZJoqtwxDhT5g...

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IOS Speciation Network Workshop - December 2026

ESEB-funded Special Topic Network, Integration Of Speciation Research (IOS) is organizing a workshop to be held later this year (7th to 11th December 2026) at the Scottish Centre for Ecology & the Nat...

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Integration of Speciation (ESEB Special Topic Network) @speciation-network.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The final "Early Career Researchers in Speciation"-themed seminar is coming up on the 5th of May! This session features talks by Aryeh Miller on Anolis lizards 🦎 and @rishidekayne.bsky.social on speciation research in industry 📊 + we'll hear from Dr Mariana Braga about her career in the Q&A ✋

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Integration of Speciation (ESEB Special Topic Network) @speciation-network.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We are thrilled to announce the next ECR (and apparently butterfly)-themed session of the Integration of Speciation seminar, featuring @charlottewright.bsky.social and @thymelicus.bsky.social + careers Q&A with Dr Sally Potter. Find the link on the Ios website & mailing list.

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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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cfraisserios.bsky.social @cfraisserios.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We are offering a fully funded two-year postdoctoral position focused on sex chromosome evolution and speciation in the *Jaera albifrons* species complex. Please find the advertisement attached. We welcome applications from interested candidates. Join us :-)

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Integration of Speciation (ESEB Special Topic Network) @speciation-network.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The integration of speciation seminar series is restarting, with the first session coming up on *Tuesday March 3rd @ 5pm CET*, featuring two talks by @naturalselection.bsky.social and @andreaestandia.bsky.social + career Q&A with @markravinet.bsky.social as part of the ECR in Speciation theme.

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Integration of Speciation (ESEB Special Topic Network) @speciation-network.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

On March 3rd @ 5pm CET, we are re-starting the Integration of speciation seminar series! The first 3 sessions feature talks by *Early-Career Researchers*, and include a Q&A with an established PI about their career path. Sign up to get the link: speciation-network.pages.ist.ac.at/seminar-seri...

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In #GENETICS, @hildeschneemann.bsky.social and John Welch introduce a simple fitness landscape model to predict hybrid fitness with arbitrary ploidy and an arbitrary number of hybridizing lineages using data from #maize and rye. buff.ly/E24fZsM

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Henry North @henrylnorth.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I got to think about lots of cool/scary things working on this: (very) rapid adaptation, introgression of structural variants, invasive species, reproductive isolation, pesticide resistance, the precarity of food production. Grateful to have worked on such a big dataset with amazing collaborators

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Hilde Schneemann @hildeschneemann.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

New paper published together with John Welch on hybrid fitness and how it depends on ploidy and # of distinct ancestries, incl some remarkable fits of data & theory 😶. Keen to hear any thoughts/comments/questions! doi.org/10.1093/gene... Thanks to the team @ Genetics for the smooth experience :)

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Predicting Hybrid Fitness: The Effects of Ploidy and Complex Ancestry

Abstract. Hybridization between divergent populations places alleles in novel genomic contexts. This can inject adaptive variation – which is useful for br

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Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu

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Kathy Darragh @kdarragh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

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Hilde Schneemann @hildeschneemann.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

🚂 This petition needs your signatures! Save the wonderful nighttrain that gets you into the center of Paris/Vienna/Berlin in time for breakfast whilst you doze off or have memorable encounters and conversations with fellow travellers agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

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🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne

Signez la pétition maintenant !

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Laura K Hayward @lkhayward.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Why do males and females often differ in traits? The expected answer: selection. But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same

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Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Now out in print! Elli Cryan (coadvised by @spicybotrytis.bsky.social) digs deep into the sgtructure and function of hybrid incompatibility loci in maize. Among other things she discovers a conserved, ancient pseudogene haplotype that silences the locus in trans! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

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Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Really excited that our DFG grant on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size variation in *Heliconius* has been funded :) In the next weeks, I will post an advert for a PhD, but if you know of good students, please suggest they get in touch. Please repost.

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Shreyas Pai @theshreyaspai.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Why is sex so common if it's so costly? Super excited to share our new preprint “Sex decreases the pleiotropic costs of local adaptation”, where we bring a new angle to this age-old evolutionary question. Co-led by Parris Humphrey, in Michael Desai's lab. Short thread here: (1/n)

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James T. Stroud @jameststroud.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Exciting news! @wcratcliff.bsky.social and I published an essay last week in @nature.com reviewing the substantial contributions of 'long-term' studies to evolutionary biology www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

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Norm Wickett @reactionnorm.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Just extended the deadline to March 21 for this position in the Plant Phylogenomics group at the University of Vienna. It is sort of a "post doc plus" position funded for up to six years. Please reach out if you want to chat - I'd love to talk to you about it! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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University Assistant postdoctoral

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Jesper Boman @jesperboman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Do you want to map the loci underlying selection but you're on a budget? Let me introduce you to the concept of sequencing the living and the dead. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A plot showing allele frequencies along a chromosome for two groups: those that survived the selective event (Alive) and those that perished (Dead).

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Ole Seehausen @oleseehausen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Please circulate widely: We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

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PopGen Vienna @popgenviennaphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The PopGen Vienna Seminar series schedule is ready for the next term (Mar-Jun). It's jam-packed with fantastic speakers in #evolution, #genetics, #genomics, #popgen, and more! Details and streaming link signup can be found on our website www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

PopGen Seminar Series
Summer Term 2025

04.03.25 – Lutz Becks (Univ. of Konstanz, DE) The evolutionary dynamics of novel endosymbiosis.
11.03.25 – Ilkka Kronholm (Univ. of Jyväskylä, FI) How chromatin structure influences genetic and epigenetic variation.
18.03.25 – Katja Hoedjes (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, NL) Understanding functional impact of genetic variation on complex traits at a single nucleotide resolution.
25.03.25 – Sophie Armitage (Freie Univ. of Berlin, DE) Evolutionary ecology of host-pathogen interactions.
01.04.25 – Matthew Rockman (New York Univ., US) Developmental evolution is a population-genetics problem.
08.04.25 – Wen-Juan Ma (Vrije Univ. Brussels, BE) The evolution of sex chromosomes and sex determination in frogs.
15.04.25 – Almorò Scarpa (Vetmeduni, AT) Two centuries of transposable element invasions in Drosophila melanogaster
22.04.25 – Julia Kreiner (Univ. of Chicago, US) The mode and tempo of genomic adaptation to contemporary agriculture.
29.04.25 – Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Inst. for Chemical Ecology, DE) Microbial symbionts as sources of evolutionary innovations in beetles.
06.05.25 – Luisa Pallares (Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, DE) Phenotypic robustness across the genotype-phenotype map, from genes to environment and back.
13.05.25 – Diana Rennison (Univ. of Calif., San Diego, US) Understanding the predictability of evolutionary trajectories using threespine stickleback.  20.05.25 – Filipa Sousa (Univ. of Vienna, AT) Bioenergetics Evolution: The link between Earth’s and Life’s history.
27.05.25 – Yun Song (Univ. of California, Berkeley, US) Learning and applying complex probability distributions over biological sequences.
03.06.25 – April Wei (Cornell Univ., US) Enabling efficient analysis of biobank-scale data with genotype representation graphs.

ALT TEXT OUT OF SPACE, GO TO https://www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

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Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The 2nd conference of the Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Population Biology @smtpb.bsky.social will be in Chicago @nitmb.bsky.social June 2-6. Applications are now open, both to attend (junior applicants can apply for financial support), and to present, at www.nitmb.org/modeling-and...

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Modeling and Theory in Population Biology | NITMB

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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Job alert! We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Job alert! Lectuter in Evolutionary Biology out now

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

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Hilde Schneemann @hildeschneemann.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Check out our exciting programme of early-career speciation research talks for the Gordon Research Symposium on Speciation, this March in Ventura www.grc.org/speciation-g... Graduate students & postdocs, if you'd still like to join us: make sure to register before the 1st of Feb!

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2025 Speciation (GRS) Seminar GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Speciation (GRS) will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

@tbadet.bsky.social and I have a preprint out on transposon silencing in fungi! Genome size evolution is fascinating and showcases the dynamic nature of transposon activation. What we understand less are the dynamics of transposon defense systems encoded by the genomes. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Fungal phylogeny highlighting genome size changes

Summary of genome size variation among groups

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Marie Monniaux @mariemonniaux.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Please forward: 2-year post-doc position in the lab Evo-Eco-Paleo (Lille, France) to work on plant self-incompatibility & evolution - email me if interested!

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Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

We identified protein domains in LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). Their distinctive amino acid usage reveals the order amino acids were added to the genetic code, based mostly on size. Older proteins hint at earlier alternative codes. 1/15 @seekingluca.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Order of amino acid recruitment into the genetic code resolved by last universal common ancestor’s protein domains | PNAS

The current “consensus” order in which amino acids were added to the genetic code is based on potentially biased criteria, such as the absence of s...

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Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The Institut Pasteur is recruiting group leaders! Pasteur is an absolute incredible environment to start your lab. Surrounded by so many great scientists, in the beautiful city of Paris. Come eat 🥐 and conduct awesome science. Contact me if you want info ! research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...

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Call for applications 2025 – Creation of new research groups at the Institut Pasteur | Research - Institut Pasteur

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Jeff Spence @jeffspence.github.io · 17/12/2024

Why do association studies prioritize trait-specific variants??? A quick thread about the importance of thinking about all traits at once 👇 1/6 (🧪🧬)

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Please share news of this new post. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in the philosophy of medicine and the biomedical sciences. Closing date February 2nd 2025 #philsci #philsky

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Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Life Sciences - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Life Sciences in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I often show my students this visualization of how atmospheric CO₂ travels around the globe. Our attitude toward burning fossil fuels would change significantly if we could actually see CO₂. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?11719

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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Recent studies have revealed unexpected Y chromosome diversity and suggest that the Y may play a big role in evolution. @vdbijl.bsky.social and I wrote this perspective for @evolletters.bsky.social with a few suggestions and requests. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... Figs by www.jacelyndesigns.com

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Hilde Schneemann @hildeschneemann.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Extended abstract submission deadline for the Speciation GRS: December 8th! Encourage your graduate students, labmates, academic buddies, inspiring postdocs to join us in Ventura this March to marvel over Darwin's mystery of mysteries: The Origin of Species. www.grc.org/speciation-g...

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2025 Speciation (GRS) Seminar GRC

The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Speciation (GRS) will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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