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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There is still time to apply! I'll start reading the applications this Friday.

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Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A very cool paper and an important one for mtDNA research.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Equal Earth projection is nice. But the UN rejected an alternative proposal from the New Zealand delegation, the Middle-earth projection:

A map projection centered on New Zealand. It's Middle-earth, get it?

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Why grouping intralocus and interlocus phenomena under one umbrella of “sexual conflict” is a mistake. Insightful paper from @imprintedgene.bsky.social, @andygardner.bsky.social y.social, Tracey Chapman, and @jennyperry.bsky.social yperry.bsky.social. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Sexual conflict and sexual pleiotropy

Abstract. Natural selection might favour brightly coloured males and drab females. A male and a female might disagree about whether to mate. Such tensions

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 21/08/2026

Victoria has begun vaccinating about 5,000 little penguins at Phillip Island and St Kilda to protect them against the deadly H5 bird flu, in what is believed to be the world’s largest vaccination program involving wild birds.

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Tom Keaney @tom-is-kean.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thinking this could be you? Reach out if you have any questions about the position, the city of Mainz (e.g. where on earth is that), the lab group dynamics or just what it’s like to work with Hanna. We look forward to welcoming you!

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Luisa Jaimes @jaimesnino.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#iussi2026 #ants at the conference @boldest-ant.bsky.social is looking for a job! Look for the job hunter!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You're looking at a long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) Well, TWO, actually. These odd-looking animals native to Australia are in a group called "rat-kangaroos". They're also mighty 'truffle'-hunters. Let's talk about their neat relationship with subterranean FUNGUS.

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Darren Irwin (he / him) @darrenirwin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Interested in mtDNA variation in birds, butterflies, snakes, or others with ZW sex chromosomes? Then this preprint is for you: "The Driving W Hypothesis as an Explanation for Low Within-Population Mitochondrial DNA Diversity and Between-Population Mitochondrial Transfer": doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Transmission of the W and Z chromosomes via female meiosis and the potential of a driving W to gain a bias in transmission, resulting in spread of the driving W and associated mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). (A) Two possible alternatives for the Z and W chromosomes during asymmetric cell division during meiosis I, with one set of spindle fibers leading to the large egg and the other set leading to a small polar body. (B) If a mutant W interacts more strongly with the spindle leading to the egg, it has biased transmission and rises in frequency compared to the non-driving W in the next generation. (C) Jumping up to the level of populations of individuals on a landscape, spread of the driving W carries along the associated mitochondrial type, causing low mtDNA diversity and between-species mitochondrial transfer and replacement (often termed “mitochondrial capture”).

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

wanna read the latest overview of “internal evolutionary conflicts” — scenarios where genes spread despite being organism-deleterious? and wanna learn how to model them? look at our new preprint! we introduce unifying ideas, and try hard to write accessibly. small 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

.The very talented and fun Jonathan Henshaw has two positions to offer! If you like theoretical eco-evo questions, don't hesitate. Also, Freiburg is a very pretty place PhD: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... Postdoc: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Miraculously, all three of us managed to get our visas on time, and I’m now celebrating by reading the revised version of our MS (soon-to-be a preprint + @gauravathreya.bsky.social will be talking about it in our mini-symposium), accompanied by some Irish beer at a local pub 🤩

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Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on an Australian Research Council Laureate Project on climate change responses, applying a Julia implementation of the NicheMapR package. The work could go in control theory, DEB theory or population process directions unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...

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Research Fellow in Biophysical Ecology

Role type: Full Time (1.0 FTE); Fixed term for 2 years Faculty: Faculty of Science Department/ School: School of BioSciences Salary: Level A: $87,266 - $118,416 p.a. plus 17% super ARC-funded climate ...

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Craig Primmer @fishcongen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thanks to a couple of recent Ws on the funding front, we have 3 open postdoc positions in Helsinki, Finland in the field of salmonid fish ecological and evolutionary genomics. DL 7.8. More details in advert: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Basic details of the amazing post doc positions on offer with amazing image of a large Teno River salmon in background

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Ajay Narendra @pipilika.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Very excited to share our discovery of an engineering masterpiece from the Australian rainforest! In our latest paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social we report a hunting strategy in a spider, whose web outperforms every known biological catapult system.

Propostira sp spider with egg sac resting underneath a leaf during the day.

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NSF-Simons NITMB @nitmb.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🧬 Exploring the implications of within-organism conflicts for organismal biology with biology We’re welcoming the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation: Mathematical Foundations workshop to NITMB! A huge thank you to the organizers and speakers. We look forward to the week’s discussions!

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Ok so researchers 1600km off WA, 7km down - Find an active walefall. Cool! Many critters and a few new species. - Then realise there's 5 active whalefalls. - Then realise there's 476 whalefalls, some of them dating back 5.3 million years, including extinct species - One unknown to science

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World's biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off Australia

Hundreds of whale fossils, including those from extinct species new to science, range in age from recent to 5 million years old and are also home to undescribed deep-sea creatures.

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Itamar Harel @itamarh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

1/6) What if aging begins, in part, as a bargain made in youth? In turquoise killifish, editing vgll3—a gene linked to puberty-timing in humans and salmon—revealed one of the first causal single-gene examples of antagonistic pleiotropy in vertebrate aging 🧵

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Susan Johnston @susanjohnston.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

A female and male sparrow stand on a wooden post. Photo by Peter S. Ranke.

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Sam England @samjakeengland.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org - we show that crab spiders (the ones you usually see ambushing pollinators on flowers 🕷️🌸) get worse at hunting if their eyes are covered!🫣 Sounds obvious? It's actually quite surprising, here's why... 👀 (1/8) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

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EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"Sexually antagonistic selection: a review of the theory and its implications" doi.org/10.32942/X28M22

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Anne Aulsebrook @anneaulsebrook.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

📣 #PhDOpportunity in Geelong, Australia Ever wondered how urbanisation affects sleep in birds? 🐦 Interested in #behaviouralecology and #biologging? Come and work with me and Kate Buchanan at @deakinuniversity.bsky.social! Applications close 31 May Details: www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...

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HDR Scholarship - Avian sleep in urban environments

Conduct research in in urban bird behaviour with Deakin's PhD scholarship.

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We noticed these fruit flies are behaving like tiny big horn sheep of fly world so we went back today to see if I could get some photos of the action. Here you have it, a play in 4 acts! Make me wonder if they evolved the elongated eyes for this purpose. Zygothrica sp. Intag Refugio, Ecuador

A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.

The fight continues with the challengers evenly balanced.

A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.

The fight continues with the fly on the right seeming to gain an upper hand and pushing the fly on the left backwards. The fly on the right is putting all his might into the battle, back legs in the air.

A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.

The fly on the right emerges victorious with the fly on the left exiting toward the back of the scene.

A pair of flies smashing their heads together with front legs clasped. The have black on the abdomen, brown on the thorax, and bright red eyes, They are fighting on the top of a mushroom.

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 07/04/2026

Anatidaephobia: the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Join us in Chicago in June!

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

We've had so much fun teaching in this program already. Looking forward to welcoming the next cohort! Might it include you?

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Are you an early career researcher who want to visit another lab to collaborate on a project on internal conflicts? Apply for our ECR Research Visit Grant! Deadline is April 30.

We are happy to announce that the Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN has funding available to support several small travel grants for early-career researchers to enable them to visit another laboratory.
What is this for?
This funding is intended to enable early-career researchers – PhD students, postdocs, and junior research fellows – to visit another laboratory. In so doing, they can learn a new method or approach and/or initiate novel collaborations in the form of manuscripts, grants, or fellowship proposals. We envision that these visits are short stays (a week up to a month) but longer stays are also permitted.
Who can apply?
Early-career researchers, i.e. PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and up to junior research fellows (i.e., those in tenure-track positions but not tenured yet). Priority will be given to ESEB members and to trips that reflect novel collaborations (i.e., between people who have not previously collaborated, defined by co-authorship). ESEB membership is cheap (€40 annually, €20 for students) and discounts are available for residents of low to upper-middle economy countries (see ESEB website for details). Membership also comes with additional benefits such as reduced fees for conference attendance.
What can be requested?
Applicants can request funding to support a short research visit at another institution. The maximum amount of support that can be requested is €1.000, to be used for travel and accommodation. The provided funding cannot be used to cover research costs, wages, and/or stipends. ESEB policy states that we should minimize the environmental impact of e.g. travel; therefore, we will only support travel by airplane if the distance travelled exceeds 500 km and the travel time with alternative forms of transport would be more than 6 hours.

How to apply:
Download the application form and fill it out.
Obtain two short letters of support, one from your supervisor/line manager and one from the host research group explai…

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Piret Avila @piretavila.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students. tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...

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Summer school:<br> Evolutionary Biology in Guarda

Information about the annual summer school Evolutionary Biology in Guarda

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Hannah Thomasy @hannahthomasy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Artificial light at night (ALAN) can be bad for bugs - Pacific field crickets exposed to ALAN during development laid fewer eggs & produced fewer viable sperm as adults. But why? Like us, insects have natural rhythms of melatonin production, which can be disrupted by light. 🧪🪲

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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Anyone looking for a Australia-based postdoc? Like animal behaviour / coding / birds? My fantastic collaborator, Iliana Medina, is advertising a position researching bird nests: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

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Research Fellow in Behaviour and Ecology

Role type: Full Time; Fixed Term for 2 years Faculty: Faculty of Science Department/ School: School of Biosciences Salary: Level A: $87,266 - $118,416 (PhD Entry Level - $110,319) plus 17% super Colla...

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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

How the elephant lost his tail

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EMPSEB31 @empseb31.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

🧬✨ It’s official! EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026! Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students. Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way! 📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"The foundation for our current understanding of how phenotypic evolution operates in natural populations was laid by Lande (1976, 1979, 1982) and Lande & Arnold (1983)." 1. What a topic sentence from Vriend et al.: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... 2. What a collection of papers in a 7 year span!

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Do you like quantitative genetics, stats, experiments, and long-term studies? Check out this post doc opportunity with the wonderful Anja Felmy!

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Integrative Biology - UT Austin @texas-ib.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Congratulations to Fabian Salgado-Roa, winner of the Medalla Humbold-Caldas Best Publication in Biogeography! His paper is titled "The Andes as a semi-permeable geographical barrier: Genetic connectivity between structured populations in a widespread spider." tinyurl.com/2pmcem2c

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Tom Keaney @tom-is-kean.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

At #ESEB2025 a high frequency of talks have ended with advertisements for PhDs and Postdocs. Grad students, crack in! You never know where a simple conversation might lead.

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

⭐Issue 6 of JEB is now online!⭐ This issue is headlined by a Target Review from @josselin-clo.bsky.social et al. on #matingsystems evolution, accompanied by several #invitedcommentaries expanding on this key discussion comparing concepts in plants and animals: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/6

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Volume 38 Issue 6 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | Oxford Academic

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The 1st author is here too: follow @tom-is-kean.bsky.social ! His clever idea was to highlight similarities between meiotic drive and inbreeding's "automatic transmission advantage". We ask: given structurally identical(ish) problems, why is what is viewed as paradoxical so different between fields?

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Sam England @samjakeengland.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity | PNAS

The link between form and function of an organism’s morphology is usually apparent or intuitive. However, some clades of organisms show remarkable ...

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

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