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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Three new evolutionary ecology PhD positions are open in Switzerland (Eawag, and Uni. Bern) to work on Greenland lake ecosystems. We are interested in how stickleback and copepods evolve, and how their evolution affects the trajectories of lake ecosystem development. apply.refline.ch/673277/1403/...

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3 PhD positions in the fields of Evolutionary Ecology, Evolutionary Genomics, and Ecosystem Science

The Department of Fish Ecology & Evolution (FishEc) has vacancies for

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Lukas Schrader @shaggyschrader.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1/ New paper: doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🐜🧬 Ants exploded into >15,000 species just after the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth. We think we've found one catalyst behind that radiation: transposable elements. With @jannelrinke.bsky.social, @esthervandenbos.bsky.social & others not on here. 🧵1/11

A Pseudomyrmex ant walking casually on a drop of honey.

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Uthara Srinivasan @utharasrini.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stage‑structured population models + zooplankton life history data -- cool!

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Ashkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'd be grateful if you could circulate to good students: I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall '27 in the areas of species interactions and animal behavior. Ad here - jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Germain Montazeaud @germtz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Very happy to share that the @erc.europa.eu has selected PHYTOPOGON for funding! 😁🌱 In this project, we will test whether plants have greenbeard genes — an evolutionary mechanism that could allow them to recognize the genetic identity of their neighbours.

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Come and work with us (the Kokkonuts) as a postdoc! Our research within (theory-evo-eco) is broad; let's say it's implicitly defined by the journal club papers we read. Which is why the application process includes a JC-related task, I hope it'll be a fun one for you! www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/08/2026

The first insects had way more than six legs, according to a new study. Learn more: scim.ag/4qKu8AE

The first insects had way more than six legs
Previously collected fossils prove a treasure trove for understanding the origin of insects

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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

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Shikhara Bhat @shikharabhat.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Really excited to share that one part of my PhD research is now publicly accessible on preprint servers! Here is a thread explaining our (@kokkonut.bsky.social and I) work on ageing and stochastic damage/failure accumulation, available as a preprint at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

New paper on how an invasive parasite alters community structure - out now ahead of print in @animalecology.bsky.social! Co-led with Ryan Mohammed, with huge thanks to the very many interns who helped gather data over the years! A very brief thread on what happened and what we found out 🧪🧵:

Background image: giant worms from the Dune movies chasing a fleeing human populace. Lurid red text, in the style of a B-movie title reads: Attack of the killer worms!!!. There is also a screenshot of the journal article heading (Journal of Animal Ecology, researh article titled: Parasites alter host community structure in a natural experiment). Authors are me (Tomos Potter), Ryan S. Mohammed, Joshua F. Goldberg, David N. Reznick, Joseph Travis, and Ronald D. Bassar.

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Luisa Jaimes @jaimesnino.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Join us in Mainz for the first German Evolution Meeting 2027! A great opportunity to discuss with evolutionary biologists of several fields! For more information visit gem.uni-mainz.de

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FB 10 – GEM 2027

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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🚨 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING! 🚨 Only 1 week left to submit your abstract for #ExE2026! Submissions close April 1. All the details are at evoxeco.uk and below 👇

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Welcome

ExE 2026 is a 3-day conference aimed at evolutionary ecologists from around the world, hosted by the University of Exeter in beautiful Cornwall. It provides a friendly and inclusive platform for all c...

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Jordan S. Martin @jsmartin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Towards an evolutionary baseline model of Plasmodium falciparum for population-genomic inference www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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EMPSEB 31 @empseb.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🧬✨ It’s official! EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026! Link in Bio 😉 Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, by PhD students, for PhD students. 📍Oberwiesenthal, Germany 📅8–12 June 2026 🚨Save the date & follow us for updates! #EMPSEB31 #EvoBio #PhDLife #ScienceCommunity #EMPSEB

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Looking forward to the Modern Coexistence Theory workshop tomorrow. Please repost :)

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Lukas Groschner @lukasgroschner.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Come join us in July 2026 for the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology in Graz, Austria! Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org #ECMTB’26 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social

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European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology 2026

ECMTB is coming to Graz, Austria in July 2026. Registration and Call for Contributions are open!

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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A young PI here in Mainz has a fabulous PhD position that will be filled soon! By you? Keywords: Social insects, ageing, gene expression. www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evoluti...

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Behavioural Ecology and Social Evolution

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu ) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

🚨 Master’s project! Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦 Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

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Melanie Brien @melbrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Wood tiger moth on leaf. Photo: Juhani Maamela.

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naturepoker @binomicalabs.org · 28/09/2025

I just love that our civilization is capable of being curious about termite fungus farming and pest control behavior. They use soil balls to contain contamination of their crop, which also happens to carry fungistatic bacteria. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🦠🧫

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Fungus-farming termites can protect their crop by confining weeds with fungistatic soil boluses

The symbiotic agriculture of fungus-farming termites can collapse if they fail to prevent invading weeds. Previous studies suggest a role for symbiotic fungistatic microbes in bringing about weed cont...

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Chris Jiggins @chrisjiggins.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Looking for a PhD? I am advertising two industry sponsored PhD projects. One on black soldier fly genetics with #betabugs and another on searching insect biodiversity for novel enzymes #Syngenta. Get in touch if you are interested!! bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/available-ic...

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Available iCASE projects | Cambridge Biosciences DTP PhD Programme

iCASE projects for academic year 2026-2027 line_divider.png Project: Understanding cellulose digestion by cryo-EM structure of cellulose microfibril-enzyme complexes Project reference: ICS-BIO-PD26 S...

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

SINGER, our ARG inference method, is finally published and freely available online: doi.org/10.1038/s415... It was a long journey – 16 months from initial submission to acceptance. Is it just me, or has peer review gotten more arduous lately? 4+ rounds of review isn't so unusual these days...

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Robust and accurate Bayesian inference of genome-wide genealogies for hundreds of genomes - Nature Genetics

SINGER is a method for creating ancestral recombination graphs to understand the genealogical history of genomes. The method has increased speed, and thus scalability, without sacrificing accuracy.

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Quasi epigenetic equilibrium: the implications of plasticity and variability on evolution and extinction www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution! Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

a bit unhappy that the talks about being trans & Palestinian in academia were concurrent with other science talks #ESEB2025. How will these inspiring people’s stories percolate / get everyone to reflect if the schedule selects for attendance only by those who are already sympathetic?

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Lisandro Milocco @milocco.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

🚨 We're hiring! PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab 🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction 📍 Stockholm, Sweden 🕒 4 years, fully-funded 🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share!

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Erik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

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Arvid Ågren @arvidagren.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Finally had time to watch John Welch’s excellent AV Hill lecture Recent Controversies in Evolutionary Theory. youtu.be/iOnpLT8p500?...

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Dr John Welch - A V HILL Lecture – Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

YouTube video by Cambridge Philosophical Society

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Tomos Potter @tomospotter.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

What if your family members turn out to be your worst enemies? Come see my talk at #eseb2025 on using pedigree and mark-recapture data to explore how relatedness structures competitive interactions, and whether this maintains variation! Thursday, 11am, S48.02, meeting room 122+123

The title slide of the talk I'll be giving. It reads: Are mitochondrial sisters their own worst enemies? Testing for negative frequency-dependent selection via resource competition in Trinidadian guppies. There is a depiction of a guppy family tree.

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Pedro Ribeiro @pedrogribeiro.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

@pavelmatosm.bsky.social has a new PhD position opportunity to work with conservation genomics of European butterflies! The project involves very cool collaborations with @projectpsyche.bsky.social, @10klepgenomes.bsky.social and the LepEUConsortium! Deadline Sep 12 pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. PhD position (full-time doctoral funding) We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join our team. The goal of the project is…

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Uthara Srinivasan @utharasrini.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Eagerly awaiting possibly, the most eco-evo-packed experience of my scientific career so far, at #ESEB2025!! Come by to my Poster P01.216 on 18/08, if you want to know about some previous work about population genomic inference of life history traits (1/2)

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Ecology Group Basel - Sabine Rumpf @ecologybasel.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

*Job alert* Come work with us! We have a fully funded 4yr #PhD position in #alpine & #Arctic plant #ecology available in our group @unibas.ch. The project includes fieldwork & connects to other ongoing projects on species range shifts & microclimate. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell... Please repost! 🌐🧪

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Universität Basel: PhD position in alpine and arctic plant ecology

The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position in alpine and arctic pla...

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

*PhD position* 🦉 Would you like to do a PhD with Indo-Pacific birds and evolutionary genomics? Join us in Stockholm: <deadline> 05 September 2025, 23:59 PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

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PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds

The Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics is offering a four-year PhD position focused on analyzing population-level genomic data from museum bird samples. The project will employ cutting-edge gen...

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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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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:

figure 1 from https://doi.org/10.1086/737588 describing (a) our conceptualisation of an evolutionary transition in individuality, (b) an interpretation of the traits that we consider in our mathematical model, and (c) a graphical representation of the population dynamics in the model.

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026 Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS! Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us

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M O I L A B - Join us!

Join us! Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 15/07/2025

Mutations generate variation, critical for #evolution, but #MutationBias restricts the choice of mutation type. @deepaagashe.bsky.social &co use #Ecoli strains with different mutation biases to show that changing an old bias should yield more beneficial mutations @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46LjCRt

$Schematic of the key prediction tested in this work. As the transversion (Tv) mutation bias of WT E. coli is shifted away from the ancestral bias, the resulting distribution of fitness effects (DFE) is predicted to change. Specifically, it should shift left with a bias reinforcement, with a lower fraction of beneficial mutations. In contrast, reversing the ancestral bias is predicted to cause right-shifted DFEs with higher proportions of beneficial mutations.$

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Wolf Lab @jochenwolflab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Is there an independent role of epigenetic variation in speciation? We looked for answers in the crow hybrid zone. In brief: DNA seems to be in the driving seat. Congrats Justin! This was a long journey. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Dirk Metzler @dirkmetzler.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Can genetic drift generate enough variation between subpopulations to allow for the evolution of defence against predators or parasites via multi-level selection? In www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... we have explored this for a structured population model.

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Selection for altruistic defense in structured populations

We model natural selection for or against an anti-parasite (or anti-predator) defense allele in a host (or prey) population that is structured into ma…

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Chyiyin Gwee @chyiyin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Despite their strikingly different plumage, carrion and hooded crows show strong asymmetrical gene flow hidden beneath the feathers #hybridzone #evolution #demography #bird onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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The Stanford Biology Preview Program @stanfordbpp.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Planning to apply to Biology PhD Programs this year? Let us help you out!! At the Stanford Biology Preview Program, we aim to support students from all backgrounds through the graduate school application process. Apply here: forms.gle/EvTyUWXFMRSL...

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Morgan M. Oberweiser @mmoberweiser.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

PhD position open with Dr. Jutta Schneider and @mherberstein.bsky.social in Hamburg, on sub-social behavior in crab spiders 🕷️ It even includes field work in Australia! Application deadline is 15 July, more info at the link: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

A crab spider with bright yellow/green prosoma and legs and a light brown opisthosoma sits on a leaf

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

📝 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORIAL 📝 🧬 Epigenetics 🧬 🔎 Guest editors Catoni, Lechon & Probst dive into expert views, reviews, and original research exploring how plant epigenetics integrates developmental & environmental signals 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @alineprobst.bsky.social

Box 1 The organization of genomic DNA into chromatin permits a dynamic regulation of the gene expression programme. Environmental and developmental signals that need to translate into an altered gene expression programme may elicit changes at the level of chromatin organization including the methylation of cytosines in the DNA molecule, the incorporation of specific histone variants into the nucleosome, and the setting of histone post-translational modifications. Together these different layers of epigenetic information allow the control of genome plasticity (e.g. by controlling mobile genetic elements), and permit the establishment of transient or heritable gene expression states to orchestrate developmental programmes and stress responses. The development of tools including cytidine analogues or epigenome editing provides the opportunity to artificially interfere with epigenetic regulation and to investigate chromatin-based epigenetic mechanisms. Created in BioRender. Catoni, M -2025

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