NHGRI is recruiting genomics oriented researchers through the Stadtman mechanism. It is also open to any kind of research, the goal is to match your interests to an institute. The applications are now open until Oct. 1st. Details below:

Excited for @gabrielesgarlata.bsky.social’s new preprint on the Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single Generation 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Genome-Wide Effect of Drift and Selection over a Single Generation

The relative importance of genetic drift versus selection to evolutionary change has long been debated. This debate has mainly focused over long-time-scales (e.g. hundreds of thousands of generations)...

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I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

No. Someone did a TINY trial on 47 overweight people, 26 of whom had restricted eating hours. They presented their non peer reviewed findings at a conference. Science journalists who should know better bigged up the press release. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Restricted eating hours may reduce cognitive decline in older age, researchers find

Preliminary study shows older people who avoided food four hours before bed did better in problem solving tests

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Excited to launch the first call for proposals focusing on policy and/or societal impact of evolutionary biology research. Activities might include: ✅ local meetings on policy and/or societal impact ✅ actions to influence policy 💰€500-2K available Read more here and apply: shorturl.at/ixlby

Congratulations to Gemma @gemmamurray.bsky.social for securing this award! She will study antimicrobial evolution across UCL’s centres UGI @ugiatucl.bsky.social and CBER @uclcber.bsky.social.

UCL Faculty of Life Sciences@ucllifesciences.bsky.social · 4w ago

Congratulations to UCL’s Dr Gemma Murray on receiving a prestigious Wellcome Career Development Award, recognising her pioneering research into bacterial evolution and antimicrobial resistance. @ugiatucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

It was a great experience chairing S15 sympo at #SMBE2026 with @carolinapacheco.bsky.social & Cindy, but it was tainted by Anubhab's absence, which is a reminder that the world is not equally open to all. Imagine the kinds of talks we can get if the world is more open!

Interested in ARGs and balancing selection? @deboraycb.bsky.social nicely links both at her #SMBE2026 talk today in the S07 symposium (Trees to Graphs, in the Pjerrot room) at 11:05.

#SMBE2026, to learn about our approach to investigate mtDNA adaptation in humans (in the Americas) stop by the poster of Finley Grover, PhD student with @fcamus.bsky.social and me. Today Monday in the Main room, number 079.

Time to retire? A study of 12.5 million scientists’ careers suggests that older scientists are less likely to produce disruptive work and instead build on existing theories. Younger researchers are more likely to overturn established ideas or open entirely new lines of inquiry. 🧪

Why science is becoming less innovative

A huge study suggests ageing scientists are part of the problem

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A fully-funded opportunity to join an amazing group of UCL colleagues to work on a super-interesting PhD project.

Max Reuter@maxreuter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are advertising a PhD studentship to study the effects of mitochondrial function on cell motility in flies. The project is supervised by myself, Nick Lane and @fcamus.bsky.social, in collaboration with Anna Franz at UCL, @stramerlab.bsky.social at KCL and Michael Sixt at ISTA. Please repost!

Wrote a short piece about the opportunities and challenges of pushing ancient pathogen genomics into a new frontier: the zooarchaeological record. Pretty excited about what is going to come. www.science.org/eprint/MSG3Z...

Tracking the roots of zoonoses

Ancient pathogen DNA from animals elucidates the origin and evolution of infectious diseases

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Had a really fun day of science by PhD students (mostly!) in Sussex.

Uli Rass@u-rass.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A favorite day in the academic calendar @sussex.ac.uk is the Sussex Life Sciences PGR symposium: PhD students from all departments present their research, everything from evolutionary genetics to mechanisms of genome maintenance; keynotes by @aidaandres.bsky.social and Nitin Kapadia – what a treat!

New preprint from the lab! 👀 - expression of male germ line specific microproteins in cancer - enrichment in cancer-amplified genomic regions - generation of HLA-I peptides with @forteslab.bsky.social @michalbassani.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am delighted to share new work with Simon Myers (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...), on how genetic variants that influence binding patterns of PRDM9 and slow down the repair of meiotic double-strand breaks impact mammalian spermatogenesis and fertility. 1/n

Always great to see the papers formatted as MBE. Really nice work by Finley Grover-Thomas on local adaption in human mtDNA.

Flo Camus@fcamus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A nice way to kick-off the weekend! Just saw that our @molbioevol.bsky.social paper was published! 🎉 Congrats to Finley Grover-Thomas for doing an amazing job, and massive thanks to co-supervisor @aidaandres.bsky.social, and collabs @lucyvandorp.bsky.social @proffballoux.bsky.social!! 🥳

🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

A great lab doing fantastic science! PhD opportunity to join @fcamus.bsky.social‘s group in our department. Must like mitochondria :)

Flo Camus@fcamus.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🧬 Funded GTA PhD in my lab at UCL @ucllifesciences.bsky.social ! Looking for a motivated student to work on how mismatches between mitochondrial & nuclear genomes shape health, ageing & evolution. Experimental (Drosophila) | Computational genomics The project is flexible & shaped around you.

Out today is our paper 'Genomic history of early dogs in Europe', in which we uncover the identity of the dogs that lived in Europe before agriculture—during the Paleolithic & Mesolithic periods: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... A thread ⬇️ (10) @biouea.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social

#RIP European rabbit 🐰 When myxoma virus devastated rabbit populations in Australia, UK & France in the 1950s, survivors in all three places independently evolved resistance driven by changes in the same immune genes. Evolution finding the same solution 3X! #2026MMM www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dogs evolved to eat your leftovers! Comparing dog & wolf genomes revealed dogs have up to 30 EXTRA copies of the amylase gene (AMY2B) that helps digest starch. This is a key genomic signature of living alongside humans & table scraps for thousands of years 🐕 www.nature.com/articles/nat... #2026MMM

🗳️ Nominations for SMBE President-Elect, and two Councilors 🗓️ Deadline: March 15, 2026 The SMBE is soliciting nominations for SMBE President-Elect and two Councilors whose terms will begin on January 1, 2027. Each of these positions is for a duration of three years. #society

Job alert: open position for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London. Based in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment of UCL, and UGI, and funded by the UCL Health Strategy. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 🧪

Many living people carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA, remnants of ancient interbreeding events, with uneven distribution across chromosomes. New work by @sarahtishkoff.bsky.social lab suggests patterns are most consistent with Neanderthal contribution to human populations being highly male biased.🧪

Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased

Sex biases in admixture and other demographic processes are recurrent features throughout human evolution. For admixture between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs), sex bias has been p...

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A reviewer just very clearly used AI to write a review. What do I do (as an author)?

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

Davis Summer Population Genomics Program

Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

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anyone know if there is childcare at @official-smbe.bsky.social 2026 this year? #SMBE2026

❗⏰ Please remember that the deadline for submitting your applications for abstracts and awards for SMBE 2026 ends today. Join us in Copenhagen from June 28 to July 2 for a fantastic meeting! #SMBE2026

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Abstract submission & Award applications for SMBE 2026 are now open! Submit your research and apply for SMBE awards via the submission portal. 📝 Read more & submit here: smbe2026.org/abstracts And symposium selection is now finalized! 👉 See all accepted symposia: smbe2026.org/programme #SMBE2026

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS': uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨