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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Delighted to share that my final PhD chapter is now published in @molbioevol.bsky.social! 🤩 Read all about our study testing whether trade-offs can explain why genetic variants promoting breast cancer persist in populations: doi.org/10.1093/molb... 🧵

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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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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The excellent Hanna ten Brink in Amsterdam is advertising "a super cool Phd project on modelling krill and salps and, most importantly, their poo" that'd suit someone into mathematical modelling, coding, and marine ecosystems, polar regions, and/or biogeochemistry werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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Vacancy — PhD candidate in ecological modelling of krill and salps in a changing Southern Ocean

Are you excited by ecosystem modeling, climate change and polar oceans? Do you enjoy quantitative work, coding, and turning ecology into equations? We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate ...

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s been so rewarding to brainstorm with this super talented and enthusiastic bunch; I’m very happy to be a part of this paper 🤩 Check out @gauravathreya.bsky.social’s thread and our preprint to learn more!

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

Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution starts tomorrow in Cork, Ireland! @shikharabhat.bsky.social, @gauravathreya.bsky.social and I are organizing a mini-symposium on internal evolutionary conflicts, join us on Thursday! #MMEE2026

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Very stimulating Evolutionary Demography conference in Fort Collins, CO – many thanks to @aubrypopecolab.bsky.social and all the organizers! Will now spend the next few days digesting all the cool science and delicious tacos 😊

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Very excited about this special issue! Our goal is to bring together empirical and theoretical work across a wide range of “unusual” systems of aging. Sounds like a good fit? Consider submitting to our SI 🤩 Unsure? Feel free to contact us. And please spread the word!

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology are now published in the Peer Community Journal! 🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

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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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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Early-bird deadline now extended until Feb 22! Please spread the word.

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MPI for Evolutionary Biology @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Today is the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience ✨ To celebrate, we’re opening registration for our workshop "Women in Evolutionary Biology II" — keynotes, research, networking, and discussions on equality & inclusion in science. 📍 Plön (Germany) | 🔗 workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/144/ov...

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Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza @ecoevodevolab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We are hiring🚨 We are looking for 2 postdocs and 1 reasearch assistant to work in the ERC project “Tipping dynamics and resilience in adapting ecological systems” at @eawag.bsky.social Find the description of each position and the link to apply in the thread ⬇️

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Université de Montpellier @umontpellier.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

#FemmesEnScience 🎉 Fierté pour l'UM! Isabelle Olivieri figure parmi les 72 femmes scientifiques proposées pour être inscrites sur la tour Eiffel. 1ère professeure de génétique des populations à #Montpellier, son parcours d’exception est aujourd’hui reconnu à l’échelle nationale @isemevol.bsky.social

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Theoretical biology fuelled by copious amounts of coffee and karjalanpiirakka in Helsinki on a very cool topic with @piretavila.bsky.social? Don't miss this (3-year!) postdoc opportunity!

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Any suggestions for a text-to-speech app to listen to scientific papers? I'm looking for something like Speechify that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, preferably, and got a bit lost in the sea of options when I tried to search for this 😅

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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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Euan Angus Young @euantheyoung.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age @hannahdugdale.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social

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Dugdale Research Group @hannahdugdale.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

As part of @react-enlight.bsky.social we have a public lecture next Thursday on the evolution of ageing across the tree of life by @yagmurerten.bsky.social, come along! 👇

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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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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Always assumed Michaelis & Menten were two guys; turns out Menten was a badass woman and is my new academic crush! Wikipedia: “She played the clarinet, created paintings worthy of art exhibitions, climbed mountains, went on an Arctic expedition, enjoyed astronomy, […] had mastered several languages”

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Just discovered this year's IgNobel Peace Prize winner, "Dutch courage? Effects of acute alcohol consumption on self-ratings and observer ratings of foreign language skills", very relatable as someone who's learning Dutch 🙃 doi.org/10.1177/0269...

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Join @cmaley.bsky.social, @lucielaplane.bsky.social, Joel Brown and Benjamin Spada for a live EvoChat discussion about "How we define cancer matters", hosted by the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer (ISEEC). Oct 1st at 8am PST, 11am EST, 5pm CEST ucsb.zoom.us/j/8313111375...

Abstract: Current definitions of cancer describe what cancer does but not what it is. Furthermore, they derive largely from human cases and may not apply to other multicellular organisms, especially those lacking a basal membrane. Comparative oncology, however, has shown that cancer occurs across a broad diversity of organisms. What definition should be adopted when framing cancer in a comparative and evolutionary perspective? And can an evolution-based definition be applied in clinical oncology? We will show that a universal definition of cancer not only helps provide a basis for progress in comparative oncology, but can also help to explain the diversity of cancer phenomena within humans.

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Dugdale Research Group @hannahdugdale.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 17/09/2025

New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

We’ve got seven places left! Sadly, this is the last Evolution of Ageing workshop to be held with the Gutenberg series. It won’t be continuing next year!

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Judith Mank @judithmank.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Many of us are using LLMs in coding and scientific writing. They are very helpful tools, but we need to be thoughtful as we integrate them into our work flows to preserve accountability, voice and trust. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan.... An editorial at @evolletters.bsky.social for discussion:

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Editorial: Accountability, voice, and trust - responsible use of GenAI in scientific publishing

Over the last few years, the development and rapid advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatG

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Agreed! I was super keen to see both but they were literally at the same time as the symposium I was talking in 🥲 would it somehow be possible to repeat these online for those of us who couldn’t attend? #ESEB2025

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A general conclusion of the talk by @yagmurerten.bsky.social: Age-specific cancer incidence data can help us estimate the level of cancer suppression across species #ESEB2025

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Now at the #ESEB2025 cancer evolution symposium, @yagmurerten.bsky.social presents collaborative work with @amyboddy.bsky.social (sorely missed here!) on cancer across species in lemurs (photos not permitted)

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Great talk by @gauravathreya.bsky.social about his work on age-dependent facultative sex! It’s been a super fun and interesting project to work on 🤩 and a preprint will be coming soon! #ESEB2025

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

MEME alumni (www.evobio.eu) at #ESEB2025! We span so many generations now, from the first cohort (graduated in 2012) to those who are still studying, with master students, PhD students, postdocs, and PIs among us! So happy to get together in every ESEB 🤩

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Very excited about our symposium “Aging Outside of the Box”, today at #ESEB2025. Room 129+130, 14:00. And we will continue the discussion right after at the poster session (P02.001-021). Lots of cool aging research ahead! 🤩

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Gaurav Athreya @gauravathreya.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy pride from Groningen! 🌈 celebrating diversity in science!

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Juan J. Lagos-Oviedo @jjlagosoviedo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

We are launching the Fourth Edition of the Evolutionary Biology Crash Course ⭐ @evobiocc.bsky.social ⭐. There will be three weeks covering a myriad of topics in evolutionary biology with many practicals. Please RT to reach as many students as possible. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Had a great week in Switzerland, interacting with Xiang-Yi Li, her group elvia.iee.unibe.ch and others in Bern & Zurich :) many thanks for inviting me! It’s always fun to be back in Switzerland when the opportunity arises and I’m very happy that the Amsterdam-Zurich night train exists 🚂

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

My department is hiring! Permanent faculty job (research + teaching) in applied maths. Mathematical biology would be highly appropriate. We're a friendly department in a large university in central London, recently merged with a big medical school. Apply by 1st June. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY889/l...

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Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at City St George’s, University of London

Apply for the Lecturer in Applied Mathematics role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

My knees tell me I’m aging—but do you also wonder what we can learn about aging by looking beyond humans? If you study aging in corals, duckweed, or other "unusual" systems, join us at @eseb2025.bsky.social to talk about aging outside the box! Abstract deadline: 5 May. eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

The poster for the symposium titled: "Ageing outside of the box: insights from unusual and non-model species" within the ESEB 2025 conference. The symposium is organised by Margaux Bieuville from the University of Mainz and Yagmur Erten from the University of Groningen. The invited speakers are Thorsten Reusch from GEOMAR and Robert Laird from the University of Lethbridge. The conference takes place on 17-22 August 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. The abstract submission deadline is 5 May 2025.

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Beata Ujvari, Andriy Marusyk and Aurora Nedelcu are organising a symposium on “Cancer in an evolutionary framework: across species and within individuals” at the @eseb2025.bsky.social conference in Barcelona this August. Abstact submission closes on Friday: eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...

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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🚨 ESEB 2025, here we come! 🚨 Abstract submissions are now open for our symposium - "Enhancing Diversity & Transparency in Ecology & Evolution: Reliable Practices for Research & Organizations" 🌍✨ Featuring invited speakers: 🔹 Dr. Malgorzata (Losia) Lagisz 🔹 Dr. Joel Pick #ESEB2025 #SORTEE

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Brandon Samuel Whitley @brandonswhitley.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We also have a Starter Pack of MEME alumni, as it grows you can see the many different and incredible fields that MEME alumni have gone into! It’s a very versatile and customizable program! go.bsky.app/QCDqsWu

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Sebastian Schreiber @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Teaching #MathematicalMethodsInPopulationBiology again. This course covers basic methods for deterministic & stochastic dynamical models in population biology. In this thread*, I'll highlight topics from all twenty 90-min lectures. *Redoing this thread as I didn't complete it in 2024

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Thank you all for the suggestions, I compiled them all here for the time being (might try to make something more stable than a google doc later), in case it is useful for anyone else: docs.google.com/document/d/1... In the meantime, I will keep editing with new resources and recommendations!

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Evolutionary Biology Teaching Resources

(Evolutionary) Biology Teaching Resources YouTube Channels/Videos https://www.youtube.com/@PrimerBlobs/videos https://www.youtube.com/@complexly https://www.youtube.com/@TEDEd https://www.youtube.com/...

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Do you have any favourite evolutionary biology resources that are not textbooks? E.g. podcast/youtube series or episodes, blogs, websites, news articles.. I am trying to diversify the resources I recommend to the students in the courses I teach 🤓

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