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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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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ecological determinants of stability in dryland plant communities Gresse et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Overview of the study design and environmental context along the aridity gradient.

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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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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc position to work on plant robustness in an interdisciplinary project. Great for somebody with experience who can take a central role, coordinate experiments and co-supervise students, and contribute conceptually. @greenrobust.de @unituebingen.bsky.social Please re-post.

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Maria Paniw @paniw.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for a PhD student to join our DEMOCAST team (globalchangeeco.com/jobs). The general project is about ecological forecasting, but there is lots of flexibility to develop the thesis. We are at @eccb26leiden.bsky.social this week if anyone is interested and wants to chat.

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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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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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Henri Thomassen @hathomassen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Open postdoc position on genetic diversity in our groups at the Institute for Evolution and Ecology @unituebingen.bsky.social ! 🧬🌱🦋More info in the link ⬇️ @bexplo.bsky.social @bossdorf.bsky.social #biodiversity #genetics #evolution #conservation uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Genetic Diversity (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Finally, big paper #1 from GrENE-net, the unique distributed Arabidopsis evolution experiment! What an achievement, particularly by Moi, Niek and Francois who conceived the project (in Tübingen), and by the incredibly smart Moi Lab data analysis team: Lucas, Tati, Meixi, Xing and Moi!

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

FINDING THE BIG PICTURE FOR GENETIC DIVERSITY! We are offering a 2-year POSTDOC JOB to work on genetic diversity synthesis & metrics across species, as part of a larger @bexplo.bsky.social project on multi-species genetic diversity. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @eseb.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social

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Thomas Lesaffre 🌱 @thomaslesaffre.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🚨 PhD position available ! 🚨 I am hiring a PhD student to work with me on the evolution of plant sexual systems 🌺 at @unifrbiology.bsky.social ! The position is funded for 4 years by @snsf.ch as part of my Ambizione fellowship. More info here: tinyurl.com/monoecy 🌱 Please RP and share widely ! 🌱

View of the old city of Fribourg from the "Pont du Milieu".
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Young Modellers in Ecology @yomoseco.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Apply until Sunday! 🦊

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TERRA - Geo-Biosphere Interactions @terra-cluster.org · 13/03/2026

Do you want to join #TERRA? You're in luck, because the @unituebingen.bsky.social is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) for EXPERIMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH! The complete offer can be found under shorturl.at/0Aju0 We're looking forward to work with you!

Job Offer for a W3-Professorship of Experimental Biodiversity Research

The Faculty of Science at the University of Tübingen invites applications for a tenured
W3-Professorship.
If you work on soil fauna/fungi/food webs and their relations with environment, plants, ecosystem processes then you should join us and become a member of the TERRA family!

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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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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Many organisms, including humans, reshape their environments in ways that influence the conditions faced by future generations. We ask whether this can favour biological variation with @irisprigent.bsky.social in our new paper. Thanks to @dee-unil.bsky.social @snsf.ch www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

V happy to share new paper led by @schmidmax.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... We show that plastic germination timing not only buffers environmental fluctuations (storage effect) but also promotes divergence, temporal assortative mating and thus ecological speciation. Thx @dee-unil.bsky.social

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Plastic Germination, Temporal Niche Partitioning and Emergent Assortative Mating in Annual Plants

Temporal environmental fluctuations can drive genetic diversity and species coexistence via the storage effect. Using eco-evolutionary models of annual plants, we show that adaptive plasticity in see...

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Max Schmid @schmidmax.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

New paper out in Ecology Letters with Katja Tielbörger, Amaël Daval, and Charles Mullon 🥳! Using eco-evolutionary models of annual plants, we show that adaptive plasticity in seed germination promotes genetic diversification and ecological speciation. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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Plastic Germination, Temporal Niche Partitioning and Emergent Assortative Mating in Annual Plants

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The Tielbörger lab at @unituebingen.bsky.social is offering TWO PHD POSITIONS in rangeland ecology, as part of the sage-centre.org. It is about tipping points in Middle Eastern rangelands. A large interdisciplinary project with unique long-term experiments!

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

New paper with @vsudbrack.bsky.social. Using pop gen modelling, we show that partial selfing makes selection on tandem repeats more efficient, reducing the associated load across different scenarios. Thanks to @snsf.ch @dee-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The evolution of tandem repeat sequences under partial selfing and different modes of selection - Heredity

Heredity - The evolution of tandem repeat sequences under partial selfing and different modes of selection

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Hermina Ghenu (they/them) @a-hermina-ghenu.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Can interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers? peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html We're running an ethics-approved, pre-registered study thanks to funding from the University of Bern. Are you lecturing in the Spring? Contact me to receive the survey link!

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Piret Avila @piretavila.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Exciting postdoc opportunity in theoretical biology, working on sex differences in immunity as part of a new interdisciplinary consortium. Deadline is at the end of February, so there's still time to apply! #academicjobs #postdoc #theoreticalbiology #immunity #sexdifferences #lifehistorytheory

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Piret Avila @piretavila.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Postdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now! #postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical Ecology and Evolution

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Miya Qiaowei Pan @miyapan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Excited to share that I’m starting a research group at MPI for Biology Tübingen — and we’re recruiting PhD students! We are offering two fully funded PhD positions on sex determination and development in Hymenoptera 🐜🐝. Please share with prospective students who might be interested.

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Great opportunity for those interested in fundamental questions in evolutionary biology and mathematical models: postdoc opening in Laurent Lehmann’s group @unil.bsky.social. We have a lively community of theorists here in Lausanne with good interactions across groups. Join us ! Please RP

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Christian Rellstab @christian-rellstab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

i am offering a post-doc position in my brand-new project TreeGD that will investigate genomic diversity of trees species in switzerland, with a special focus on gene conservation units, rare species (but not only), and seeds stands. apply.refline.ch/273855/1782/...

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Postdoktorand/-in in ökologischer Genomik 80% (w/m/d)

Die Forschungseinheit Biodiversität und Naturschutzbiologie untersucht die Vielfalt des Lebens, von der genetischen Diversität bis zur Arten- und Lebensraumvielfalt sowie ihre Interaktionen. Das für m...

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply! Please re-post!

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Young Modellers in Ecology @yomoseco.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Announcing 🍱 Lunchbox Models 🍱 – an online seminar series all about ecological modelling & career insights, hosted by the @gfoesoc.bsky.social AKs Computational Ecology and YoMos 🦊 Find the topics and details as well as access to Zoom on our webpage: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod... Please share!

Image shows a poster for the 'Lunchbox Models' seminar series. It shows a sandwich illustration between green boxes with information regarding the seminar series. The left column has general information and the right side has the schedule for the first 11 talks. All the info can be found on the webpage of the seminar series (linked in posting text and QR Code in poster). Several other food item illustrations are used as decoration, e.g. onigiri, coffee/tea cups, and pasta on a fork.

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Plastic germination, temporal niche partitioning, and emergent assortative mating in annual plants www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Loraine Hablützel @lorhab.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

My paper with @schmidmax.bsky.social and @charlesmullon.bsky.social is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social 🌟 doi.org/10.1093/evol... 🌟 We show how the effect of longevity on local adaptation, rather than being unidirectional, depends on the life cycle and how frequent selection is relative to dispersal

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The evolution of local adaptation in long-lived species

Abstract. Many species experience heterogeneous environments and adapt genetically to local conditions. The extent of such local adaptation depends on a ba

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Last chance to attend the school for free if you're doing your PhD in an Official Development Assistance (ODA) country ! Apply by 15 May for a full scholarship covering tuition, travel, accommodation, and meals.

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