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Loraine Hablützel

@lorhab.bsky.social
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Eco-evo PhD student in @thee-bank-lab.bsky.social 🧫👩🏽‍💻📈 Trying to make intergenomic epistasis happen 💅🏽 (she/her) 🇨🇭🇩🇲🏳️‍🌈

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New paper out with @kaylastoy.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our latest, spearheaded by the truly indefatigable @emderrick.bsky.social in which we search for selective sweeps in nature and genetic targets of selection within a species in the context of a diverse background community @isme-microbes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isme... 🧵 1/n
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is an excellent resource for anyone who supervises trans+ folks doing fieldwork but, also, many of these recommendations are applicable well beyond fieldwork, for anyone leading, supervising, mentoring, employing, or otherwise collaborating with trans+ colleagues I highly recommend it:
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Mozammel Hoque @mozammel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1/ New paper out in ISME Communications now in full version. Bacteria rarely live alone in nature, so we ran a 6-month evolution experiment asking what happens when species are forced to share the same biofilm. Turns out, company changes everything. 🧵 doi.org/10.1093/isme...
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Mixed-species interactions constrain diversification and shape biofilm evolution
Abstract. Experimental evolution provides a powerful framework for dissecting how ecological interactions shape adaptive trajectories. Here, we evolved Kle
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Snorre Sulheim @sulheim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Finally online! Cross-feeding enables robust coexistence between four bacterial species | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #microsky
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Cross-feeding enables robust coexistence between four bacterial species | PNAS
Resource supply is generally considered a dominant driver of microbial diversity. Here, using a four-species bacterial consortium, we asked whether...
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Our study shows repeated adaptation of the freshwater goby Rhinogobius kurodai from lotic to lentic environments in Japan’s Kanto Plain, integrating morphological, behavioural and genomic data: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Takada et al. 2026
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Repeated adaptation of the freshwater goby Rhinogobius kurodai from lotic to lentic environments in the Kanto Plain, Japan: morphological, behavioural, and genetic approaches
Abstract. Habitat generalists, which occupy a variety of environments, provide valuable systems for investigating how microgeographic adaptation drives pop
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Luis-Miguel Chevin @lmchev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Now out in PNAS: our latest exploration of the interplay between interspecific interactions and adaptation to a changing abiotic environment! This time it’s about predator-prey interactions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Coadapting but not static predators facilitate prey adaptation to a fluctuating environment | PNAS
Understanding how between-species interactions influence adaptation and population persistence in the face of environmental change is one of the gr...
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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are you into mathematical modelling of ecological and evolutionary systems? Look at this job ad for a senior lecturer in Lund. I've visited many times, splendid compact city, splendid department! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology
Lund University welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. Gender equality, equal opportunities and diversity are fundamental principles in all parts of the University’s activit
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Andrew Hendry @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What happens when you mix up host-parasite interactions in nature? "Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infection and Immunity in Experimentally Founded Lake Populations of Threespine Stickleback" Find out in Am Nat: led by @danielbolnick.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Great collection of Shiny apps (and R package) for #teaching #ecology. Apps come in different languages (including Spanish) ecoevoapps.gitlab.io
Partial list of Shiny apps designed for teaching ecology, hosted at https://ecoevoapps.gitlab.io/
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Leeban Yusuf @leebanhy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Working with minimal genomic samples from two species? I’ve put together DemogFit, a small R package for fitting IM models and estimating gene flow parameters from a single whole-genome sample per species, plus a Snakemake pipeline to generate the input files. github.com/LeebanY/Demo...
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GitHub - LeebanY/DemogFit: Have minimal genomic samples from two species and want to infer their demographic history? DemogFit is an R package for fitting four simple likelihood-based demographic mode...
Have minimal genomic samples from two species and want to infer their demographic history? DemogFit is an R package for fitting four simple likelihood-based demographic models using the distributio...
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Timothy Fuqua @timothyfuqua.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
@vakirlis.bsky.social and I are proposing a new term in the de-novo genes / molecular evolution cinematic universe. The term is: "Emergence Bias" and our perspective piece describing it was published in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social today! So, what is an emergence bias? (1/7)
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Emergence Biases in Molecular Evolution
Abstract. Biases in molecular evolution can significantly influence evolutionary trajectories. They have been described in a variety of contexts, such as d
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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Excited to share this perspective article from my group - how can the interactions between microbes shape the spread of antibiotic resistance mutations? Thank you @microbiologysociety.org for inviting us to submit this 🦠 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Microbial interactions as key players shaping the emergence and spread of de novo resistance mutations
Antibiotic resistance and the microbiome are two of the most prominent and highly active research areas currently in microbiology. However, these studies are commonly siloed. Research into antibiotic ...
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David Brückner @davidbrueckner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If you're looking for a PhD position, or know someone looking checkout our interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship program! We are always looking for talented students with a physics or computational background to join our group to work on the physics of living systems!
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Julio Ayala-López @ayalopjulio.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Happy to share this preprint of one of my PhD chapters with @cbank.bsky.social and @spei.bsky.social! We use a population genetics model and find the conditions under which hybrid incompatibilities can be maintained in an isolated population when BDMI loci are overdominant. 1/3
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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Theoretical Ecology and Evolution (THEE) Group @thee-bank-lab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The @cbank.bsky.social lab is going 🚄 to #MMEE2026 in Cork next week! @ayalopjulio.bsky.social will present Thursday afternoon on hybrid incompatibilities, and @lorhab.bsky.social will present Wednesday afternoon on the repeatability of adaptation (1/3)
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Kimberly Kline 🏔 @kimingeneva.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🚨Join us at the University of Geneva! We're seeking an outstanding junior researcher to apply for an ERC or SNSF Starting Grant with our institutional support in host–pathogen interactions, bacteriology, virology, parasitology, or mycology. www.unige.ch/medecine/mim... Please share!
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Open call : MIMOL Junior Group Leader’s application for a Starting Grant - Microbiology and molecular medicine - UNIGE
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Nemo2.4: fast and accurate quantitative genetics forward-time simulations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Analysis code is an increasingly important part of science but how do we ensure we keep it reproducible and future-proofed? Hit the link below to throwback to Oakleigh Wilson's conversation with Dr Ed Ivimey-Cook discussing all things code review. sortee.org/blog/2025/09...
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Leeban Yusuf @leebanhy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
How do coevolutionary interactions begin in nature, and what are the first steps of reciprocal adaptation? Our preprint investigates these questions in a natural experiment: an introduced cricket (T. oceanicus) and its acoustically hunting parasitoid (O. ochracea) in Hawaii. shorturl.at/7llsA 1/n
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Ecological genomics of a novel host-parasitoid arms-race in nature
Novel antagonistic interactions between species are expected to drive especially rapid coevolution. However, little is known about the genomic basis of such coevolution in nature because novel inter-s...
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Chloé Haberkorn @chloehbk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
New paper out in Evolution 🧫🧬 doi.org/10.1093/evol... with a pretty big crew & @stelkens.bsky.social ! Story started over 20 years ago, fun to jump in late and help wrap it up :)
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Adaptive Benefits of Hybridization in Saccharomyces Yeast are Constrained by Genomic Background and Depend on Temperature
Abstract. Climate change urges us to better understand and predict evolutionary responses to temperature shifts. Hybridization, by increasing genetic varia
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
New for @undark.org: Mathematicians have signed the Leiden Declaration for AI. I argue that the life sciences needs one: built for noisy, context-dependent systems, w/ disclosure, human accountability, wet-lab validation, & rules that evolve as fast as the tools do. undark.org/2026/07/02/o...
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Biologists Should Articulate Their Position on AI
Opinion | In the Leiden Declaration, mathematicians issued a treatise on how AI challenges their field. Others must do the same.
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BES Evolutionary Ecology Group @bes-evolecol.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
We’re now looking for evolutionary ecologists to join our committee to build #ExE2026 into the start of something great, not just a one-off. Details here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/evol...
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SMTPB @smtpb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The first articles for the new society-owned journal Population Biology Modeling & Theory are underway! We're accepting research articles and beyond - get in touch with us to discuss your ideas for submissions. pbmt.journals.sup.org/index.php/pbmt
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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
New #microsky#AMR Perspective paper with @penamiller.bsky.social rdcu.be/fqBJo ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE (IE MIC) AND TOLERANCE ARE NOT BACTERIAL TRAITS! Please read on if you want an explanation for this provocative claim.
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Beyond resistance and tolerance: rethinking evolutionary responses to antibiotics from the perspective of individual bacterial cells
Nature Communications - Beyond resistance and tolerance: rethinking evolutionary responses to antibiotics from the perspective of individual bacterial cells
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
1/3 🚨New Perspective🚨 (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social) "When evolvability meets constraint: reflections on empirical fitness landscapes after Weinreich et al. (2006)" 20 years after a seminal study, I discuss the forces that both constrain evolution + make it possible academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
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When evolvability meets constraint: reflections on empirical fitness landscapes after Weinreich et al. (2006)
Abstract. In 2006, a manuscript appeared with a provocative title: “Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutational paths to fitter proteins.” Twen
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Kayla King, Ph.D. @kayla-king.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Evolutionary rescue in a phage community! New paper from former PhD student, Sam Greenrod, with brilliant colleague @craigmaclean.bsky.social : academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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Rapid adaptation accelerates competitive suppression in a parasite community
Abstract. Environmental stress leads to changes in community composition by altering competitive hierarchies and pushing taxa towards extinction. Parasites
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
2026. Resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists. A collection of websites and literature for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and allies. www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/reso... by @britishecologicalsociety.org
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Resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists - British Ecological Society
A collection of websites and literature for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and allies.
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Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Eye-opening work by @olimeacock.bsky.social (former postdoc, now PI in Sheffield). He presents an exact mapping from steady-state consumer-resource to generalized Lotka-Volterra models, revealing that cross-feeding can lead to competition for other limiting resources. Feedback pls!
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please join us at this #EMBOEvoEco Workshop on 6-9 October 2026. It is hands down one of my (if not THE) favourite conferences with a real community feeling and it's great for networking! Also, the catering is excellent. :)
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Gerard Martínez-De León @gerardmdl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Our first study from the Hasli Outdoor Mesocosm Experiment (HOME) is out!! Here we focus on plant responses to extreme heat and drought during the first two years of the experiment, and we found that fast- and slow-growing plants fully recovered to drought onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Convergent Post‐Drought Recovery of Biomass and Functional Traits Under Constant and Periodic Warming in Slow‐ and Fast‐Growing Plants
In a 2-year outdoor mesocosm experiment, slow- and fast-growing grassland plants exhibit biomass-trait decoupling 1 month after drought, particularly under warmed conditions. This decoupling disappea....
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Matt Jago @mattjago.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Our work characterizing how mutational bias is influenced by the local sequence context beyond trinucleotides is out now @pnas.org! We also showed which motifs are most prone to mutations caused by strand misalignment, revealing several new hotspots! 🧬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Loraine Hablützel @lorhab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Join us next Wednesday in Bern! 🌈🚀 astronomyontap.org/event/astron...
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Astronomy on Tap Bern – Rainbows in Space – Astronomy On Tap
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Theoretical Ecology and Evolution (THEE) Group @thee-bank-lab.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A bit late, but @msrivastava95.bsky.social , @cbank.bsky.social , Suman Das, and Joachim Krug recently released a manuscript on arXiv titled: "Evolution as fitness landscape navigation: Concepts, Measures, and Emerging Questions". Check out their work here! arxiv.org/abs/2604.17036
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Evolution as fitness landscape navigation: Concepts, Measures, and Emerging Questions
Fitness landscapes are mappings between genotypes, phenotypes, and fitness that shape evolution. In recent years, empirical work and theoretical models have greatly advanced our understanding of how p...
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Timothy Fuqua @timothyfuqua.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Our study comparing promoter existence and emergence in random vs genomic DNA is finally published!!! TLDR: the E. coli genome has more promoters than random DNA (even in intergenic regions), and promoters emerge ~3x more readily from random DNA than genomic DNA. (1/2)
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De novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA
Promoters emerge three times more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA.
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Ella Rees-Baylis @ellamrb.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Check out my first PhD paper, a model investigating life-history trade-offs and the evolution of sex differences in longevity, just out in @natcomms.nature.com! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Big thanks to Xiang-Yi Li Richter and @lottedevries.bsky.social!
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Asymmetric life-history trade-offs shape sex-biased longevity patterns - Nature Communications
Males and females often live different lengths of time, but why remains unclear. Here, the authors present a theoretical model showing that trade-offs between survival and reproduction, together with ...
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Meike Wortel @meikewortel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Great to see this out! doi.org/10.1093/evle.... Lead by @karenbisschop.bsky.social and Thomas Blankers. It discusses: If you repeat 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬, do you get the same result in terms of fitness? The answer is… not necessarily. Glad to have played a part!
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Additive effects of environmental and demographic variation shape the repeatability of evolution across replicated experiments
Abstract. The repeatability of evolution is fundamentally important for understanding the origin and diversification of life as well as for developing evol
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Alf Soler-Bistué 🦠🔬🧫 @alfmicrobe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"Function-specific epistasis shapes evolutionary trajectories towards antibiotic resistance". Huge parallel experimental evolution effort in E. coli under antimicrobial pressure by @gabypetrungaro.bsky.social at Bollenbach Lab at University of Cologne. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment (now out, but previously posted here as a preprint) with Ville Mustonen, Lutz Becks @jcairns.bsky.social & others. Experiment continues @utu.fi and now 5+ years www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment | PNAS
Biological communities are complex, dynamic systems that underpin ecosystem functionality, yet their long-term dynamics and predictability remain p...
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Nora Martin @n-martin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Out now in PLOS Computational Biology 🧬 We have an established theoretical framework for genotype–phenotype (GP) maps, describing their structural features and how those features shape evolution. But much of this assumes one discrete phenotype per genotype - which is often not true.
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Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Check out our pre-print led by the fantastic Massimo Amicone, collaborating with the Bollenbach lab! tinyurl.com/4h9p8mfb We build a simple intuition on how ecological interactions affect resistance evolution by expanding evolutionary rescue theory and testing it with two large sets of experiments
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
New paper with the brilliant @ewanflintham.bsky.social How fast does recombination suppression evolve among sex chromosomes? We show that even weak sexual antagonism (so hard to detect) makes this fast, often via inversions fixing on X/Z depending on mating system: doi.org/10.1093/evle...
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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New results from our synthetic communities, antibiotics & resilience project: Eco-evolutionary dynamics and environmental detoxification jointly shape bacterial community response to antibiotic perturbation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Work led by @jcairns.bsky.social
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Timothy Fuqua @timothyfuqua.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
We are setting up some LTEE experiments and want to formalize some hypotheses prior to completing the study in a database or report. Does anyone have any experience with this? What platforms are available for hypotheses ”publishing“? TYSM!
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
New research in #GENETICS from @msrivastava95.bsky.social, Ard Louis, and @n-martin.bsky.social focuses on fitness landscapes built from genotype–phenotype maps with a random phenotype-fitness map and makes analytic predictions about their topographical properties. 🔗 for the paper: buff.ly/VnQ796V
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Universität Bern @unibe.ch · 23/04/2026
@oleseehausen.bsky.social from the Institute of Ecology and Evolution #unibern has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Congratulations! 🎉 Seehausen joins the company of notable members comprised of today’s leading thinkers, including 250+ #Nobel and #Pulitzer Prize winners. 💡
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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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Timothy Fuqua @timothyfuqua.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I’m excited to share the draft for our perspective piece on »Emergence Biases« that I wrote with @vakirlis.bsky.social on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2604.20477
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Emergence biases in molecular evolution
Biases in molecular evolution can significantly influence evolutionary trajectories. They have been described in a variety of contexts such as development and mutation, but not for acquiring new funct...
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Snorre Sulheim @sulheim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy to finally share these results: Cross-feeding enables robust coexistence between four bacterial species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With @saramitri.bsky.social @lambdapp.bsky.social @dan1elmachado.bsky.social @lhtxra.bsky.social Eric Ulrich, Alisson Gillon & Sam Testa #microsky
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