Ted Morrow @tedmorrow.bsky.social · 6hresearchonresearch.org/could-agenti...researchonresearch.orgCould agentic AI topple grant-funding systems?RoRI’s James Wilsdon and UCL’s Geraint Rees argue in Nature that the rise of agentic AI threatens to collapse traditional research funding systems 100
Ted Morrow @tedmorrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Registration is open for Evolution in Sweden 2027, that will be held in Karlstad 11-13 Jan 2027. It gathers together evolutionary biologists working in Sweden at all career stages. More details here: sola.kau.se/evolutionins...sola.kau.seEvolution in Sweden 2027 057
Ted Morrow @tedmorrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Looks very cool: Sexual selection purges mutation load, but not overall genetic diversity, decreasing vulnerability to extinction www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings 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... 042
Ted Morrow @tedmorrow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Maybe you should run in a forest "Running wild: Forest running enhances performance, enjoyment, mood and future exercise intentions" academic.oup.com/emph/article...academic.oup.comValidate User 000
Ted Morrow @tedmorrow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026RIP Dolly www.theguardian.com/music/2020/n...theguardian.comDolly Parton partly funded Moderna Covid vaccine researchThe country music icon’s $1m donation supported the latest breakthrough by Moderna and several research papers 010
Reposted by Ted MorrowTim Janicke @timjanicke.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Led by my talented PhD student @justine-armg.bsky.social we’re running a #meta-analysis of #cross-sex-genetic-correlations in fitness components. If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not appear in a systematic search, please reach out, we’d love to include them! Please share! 01519
Ted Morrow @tedmorrow.bsky.social · 24/01/2025New paper from Jon Harper and myself in Proc B! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...royalsocietypublishing.orgThe adaptive value of recombination in resolving intralocus sexual conflict by gene duplication | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRecombination plays a key role in increasing the efficacy of selection. We investigate whether recombination can also play a role in resolving adaptive conflicts at loci coding for traits shared between the sexes. Errors during recombination events ... 171
Ted Morrow @tedmorrow.bsky.social · 16/02/2024Job alert! The biology group here at Karlstad University, which has a strong research profile aquatic ecology and a growing group of evolutionary ecologists, is recruiting a senior lecturer in aquatic ecology: Please repost if you can! kau.varbi.com/en/what:job/... 000
Ted Morrow @tedmorrow.bsky.social · 30/11/2023Bed bugs are truly fascinating animals- Very happy to be involved in this study with Steffen Roth, Klaus Reinhardt and others. Just out in Evolution: "The Evolution of Female-Biased Genital Diversity in Bedbugs (Cimicidae)" academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... 083