iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

S. Wren Sorkhabi @ssorkhabi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just to say, I have hugely enjoyed watching this observatory “evolve”. It’s such a great passion project!

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wrote up that thread on the new paper on Rosalind Franklin as a Substack post. matthewcobb2.substack.com/p/how-our-vi...

A DNA image with the title of the post on it.

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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Our paper on detecting (or not) balancing selection is now out, in all its typeset beauty, in the October issue of @molbioevol.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This has been a really fun project to be a part of, and now we have a cool cover! My co-editors are Alison McConwell, Michael Dietrich, John Beatty, with authors from across biology, history, and philosophy (including one from me). It's due out in June 2027 -- can't wait! 🌱🐋

Artwork that depicts an alternative evolutionary pathway, with fantastical colors and even, improbably, a frog with wings.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 05/10/2026

Forest fragmentation increases local temperatures in temperate and tropical zones and has a stronger effect on local temperature than overall forest cover, according to a study of high-resolution remote-sensing data from around the world. In PNAS: ow.ly/QZjT50ZUyMj

Fragmented forest patches in the Loess Plateau region of north-central China.
CREDIT: Tiewei Xie (Fudan University, Shanghai, China).

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Simon Evans @sevans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Evolution and adaptation are frequently used interchangeably when describing trait change. Does it really matter? Our new paper in PLOS Biology shows that yes, it really does. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... Buckle up, we're going for a ride...

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Gene flow drives periods of both evolutionary stasis and change in a wild bird population

Why do we not see evolutionary change in heritable, fitness-related traits of free-living populations? This multi-decade study of the evolution of clutch size in populations of great tits before, duri...

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S. Wren Sorkhabi @ssorkhabi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excited to be able to share the first chapter of my master’s thesis which was an absolute blast to think about and write with my amazing co-authors :)

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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm sorry, but there's no way to describe this but as a pro-eugenics Op-Ed disguised as a scientific review, and is a complete failure of editorial and ethical standards at @cellpress.bsky.social . This article should be retracted. 5/5

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EvoBio Crash Course @evobiocc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Evobio Crash Course is coming back for its fifth edition! Join us from December 7 to December 18 for an incredible line up of classes and tutorials from amazing researchers in the field! The course is open to all, completely free and held online. Registration is OPEN, please share widely!

Poster for the Evobio Crash Course. Online from December 7-18, 2026.

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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I made a live dashboard of chromosome-scale genome assemblies on NCBI. hanliconius.github.io/eukaryote-ge...

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Eukaryote Genome Watch

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Eamon Duede @eduede.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Silvia De Toffoli and I wrote a guest article for Terence Tao's blog in response to the recent AI Navier-Stokes result. We argue that the 'AI has "solved" mathematics' idea rests on two assumptions, both seductive & plausible, but both wrong. #philsci #AI #math terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/a...

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After Math

[This is a guest post by Silvia De Toffoli and Eamon Duede. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Silvia De Toffoli (University School …

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Richard Merrill @dickmerrill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Very excited to see this multi-faceted* study, led by Shane Wright and representing years of work on visual evolution and perception in Heliconius as part of our ERC Starting Grant, released into the world! 🦋*pun very much intended www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Charlotte Wright @charlottewright.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Delighted this huge team effort is out! By surveying >20,000 people from >100 countries, we used to butterflies to show that aesthetic biases distort scientific research & environmental policy. Understanding this bias is a key step towards more balanced decision-making 🦋 www.doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Large numbers of ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz are likely becoming increasing fouled by algae & diverse invertebrates. These species will subsequently be dispersed over a global scale when normal shipping operations resume. #bioinvasions #invasivespecies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Closure of the Strait of Hormuz may trigger a bioinvasion super-spreader event - Biological Invasions

The ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are causing substantial humanitarian, economic, and geopolitical impacts and disrupting global trade. While the human and economic effects remain the focus of ...

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Quentin Bacquelé @quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

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Joe Hanly @hanliconius.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Happy to spread the word that there is now an NCBI / RefSeq-annotated Heliconius melpomene (rosina) genome, thanks to efforts by Krista Pipho and the Wray lab at Duke. Please use it, share it, and let us know if there are issues. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...

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Heliconius melpomene rosina genome assembly ASM5695672v1

- Heliconius melpomene rosina

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Jake Berv @jakeberv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Here is Supplementary Figure 18, which better showcases the beautiful illustrations we commissioned from @umich.edu undergrad Olivia Stein. These illustrated species represent clades where our method identifies significant increases in the rate of body-shape evolution. Also see Supp Table 7.

Supplementary Figure 18. from Berv et al 2026. Figure 1 is reproduced, with enlarged illustrations that are approximately to scale relative to one another and suitable for printing. Illustrated species
names are noted in Supplementary Table 7.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

might as well just... add some additional panels

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Henry North @henrylnorth.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Shamelessly plugging my partner @andrewsagar.bsky.social's very cool new paper on fundamental 'translation errors' between legal systems and the science of ecology, and what this means for effecting conservation and restoration escholarship.org/uc/item/1jn0...

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Henry North @henrylnorth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I'll be presenting on behalf of @ssorkhabi.bsky.social, who is doing some exciting work on the genetic basis of repeated adaptation to altitude in >10 Andean butterfly species 🦋⛰️

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