Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!

New preprint! We looked at age-specific preferences for protein and carbohydrate in males and females, where females lay their eggs vs what larvae choose& do best on, & found unexpected parental age effects. With @eivimeycook.bsky.social @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social Wilfried Haerty& Tracey Chapman

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Age-related shifts in dietary and oviposition preferences and steep costs of modest parental ageing in Drosophila melanogaster doi.org/10.32942/X26...

Really happy to share exciting news for the lab: @ukri.org has awarded us a ~£1M BBSRC New Investigator award over 5 years to investigate the neurobiological basis of 'safety in numbers'. 🧵 1/3

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#ExE2026 Excellent time at the poster session yesterday presenting this work on diet x heat stress from my visit to @amandabretman.bsky.social 's lab in Leeds last year. Had some great conversations!

1/3 Refugee Week is a moment to reflect on the role universities play in building cultures of welcome and belonging. At Leeds our University of Sanctuary status recognises ongoing work to support students and academics forced to flee, and the vital perspectives they bring to research + scholarship.

Read this month's Editors' Choice paper, Gut yeasts accelerate chill coma recovery in Drosophila melanogaster by Yanira Jiménez-Padilla and Brent J. Sinclair journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

We are now recruiting for a 3 year NERC-funded postdoc to study the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in migratory birds. Based in the Wild Microbiome Lab @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall.

Now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org "The seminal proteome of a monandrous fly, Drosophila subobscura". We discovered that, despite monandry, D subobscura's seminal fluid is surprisingly similar D melanogaster's, and likely shaped by conflict! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

🌍🔥🦋 Global collaboration: Ontogenetic Thermal Fertility Limits! We're bringing together researchers to understand how temperature affects fertility across life stages in a warming world. If you work on #insects #fertility, we'd love for you to join us. www.thermalecologyalliance.org #scicommUU26

New UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) report published highlighting the need for stronger evidence to support research culture reform. Delighted that @universityofleeds.bsky.social donated funds to support this work. www.ukrn.org/2026/06/01/n...

We're pleased to announce that our Outreach and Engagement Grant Scheme is now open to RSB members for applications! This grant is exclusively for funding of up to £1,000 to run a #CitizenScience survey, event, or activity. 📆 Apply by 6 July 2026 Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/oe-grants.html

📣🧬 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...

Funding-guaranteed PhD position in plant ecosphysiology and macroecology: data synthesis and tropical fieldwork opportunities. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

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🚨 New bee paper in press, with @jamiesmithbio.bsky.social at Hull and @ejduncan.bsky.social at Leeds! Delighted to have this accepted - huge congrats to Jamie on the first paper out of his PhD 🥳 🎉 Read the paper in online early view form, here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lasting Impacts of Sublethal Prepupal Heatwaves on Fertility-related Traits of the Solitary Bee Osmia bicornis

Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, which can have severe consequences for insect physiology, development, and repr…

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🎉 Exciting news for our lab: we will have open positions soon #PostdoctoralResearcher #ResearchTechnician! If you are interested in #SocialBehaviour, #FearResponses, and #DrosophilaMelanogaster, get in touch with a short CV and a statement of research interests.

New paper accepted in Proc B! 🎉 We disentangled how heatwaves affect maternal egg care in earwigs. We found that mothers adjust care depending on both their own heat stress and the stress of their eggs, but these effects act independently rather than interactively. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Heat stress disrupts maternal care through independent effects on mothers and eggs

Abstract. Parental care typically protects offspring from environmental stress. Yet, it remains unclear whether this protection arises from stress effects

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Feel privileged of being part of this study on shared mating traits of the banded cricket, Gryllodes sigillatus, superbly led by @tubariz786.bsky.social!

Tuba Rizvi@tubariz786.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper out in Evolution! @sse-evolution.bsky.social From mating to sperm storage: density-dependent plasticity in pre- and post-copulatory shared mating traits 🦗 doi.org/10.1093/evol... #openaccess

Latest paper. We studied ATF4 in ageing in the fly. We find in contrast to previous suggestions that ATF4 suppression rather than activation extends lifespan. The study was largely conducted in an MSc project by Miriam Götz who showed an exceptional drive for science. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

MBE's April Highlight by SMBE Fellow Shady Kuster features Harney and @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social transgenerational inheritance research in fruit flies. "A gift from a great-grand-fly—transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of heat shock response" 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag083 #evobio #molbio

How can we reconcile #SexualSelection in plants and animals? Some thoughts now published in a review led by Jeanne Tonnabel (@isemevol.bsky.social) in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Sexual selection in plants and animals: toward a unified framework

Sexual selection is a cornerstone of evolutionary biology in animals but remains underexplored in plants, where empirical work is often disconnected from sexual selection theory. A major barrier to cr...

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Lovely article about the impactful and inspirational career of Roger Butlin (now retired). I've always admired how he worked hard at community building and research synthesis, and his research achievements were even more extensive than I realised: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

A career in pursuit of the origin of species: celebrating Roger Butlin’s contributions to the advancement of knowledge and growth of our scientific community

In 2025, the annual meeting of the Population Genetics Group (PopGroup) returned to Sheffield, U.K., for the third time. The timing could not have been mor

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Safe to say that we are very excited about this here at ESEB! Huge thanks to Brian Golding for entrusting us with the fantastic service that you have created and curated for the years! Follow @evoldir.bsky.social

EvolDir@evoldir.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

Tsang et al. used four species of Drosophila to investigate how climate affects gene expression in different sexes of insects, showing that protein-coding genes and microRNAs have undergone different selection between sexes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #genome #evolution #drosophila

Response of Protein Coding Genes and microRNAs to Temperature Changes in Four Species of Drosophilids

Abstract. Insects are the most abundant described living animals in the world, and they play important roles in the environment and in human society. Clima

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Dietary restriction shapes intergenerational ribosome abundance and early growth of Caenorhabditis elegans offspring @PLOSBiology.org

Dietary restriction shapes intergenerational ribosome abundance and early growth of Caenorhabditis elegans offspring

by Sigma Pradhan, Klement Stojanovski, Ferdinand Dellemann, Sacha Psalmon, Joel Tuomaala, Nicholas E. Stroustrup, Benjamin D. Towbin Cells adjust their proteome to their environment. Most prominently, ribosome expression often scales near linearly with the cellular growth rate to provide sufficient translational capacity while preventing metabolically wasteful ribosomal excess. In microbes, such proteome adjustments can passively perpetuate through symmetric cell division. However, in animals, a passive propagation is hindered by the separation between soma and germline. This separation raises the question whether the proteome of animals is reset at every generation or can be propagated from parent to offspring across this barrier. We addressed this question for the intergenerational effects of dietary restriction in Caenorhabditis elegans, combining proteomics and live imaging. Under ad libitum feeding, the offspring of dietarily restricted mothers grew more slowly than progeny of well-fed mothers. However, this growth disparity was attenuated when mTORC1 signaling in the progeny was inhibited, creating conditions in which the protein-synthesis capacity at hatching is less limiting. Maternal inhibition of mTORC1 signaling, either ubiquitously or specifically in the pharynx, similarly reduced growth and ribosomal protein levels in offspring, whereas other growth-reducing perturbations, such as reduced insulin signaling or mTORC1 inhibition in the epidermis, did not reduce progeny ribosomal protein levels. We conclude that maternal physiology shapes ribosomal protein provisioning across the soma-germline boundary, thereby modulating early offspring growth in accordance with post-hatching ribosome demand.

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PhD-position ALERT! 🧪🪲 🧬 Interested in studying the genomics of local adaptation and niche breadth using long-term experimental evolution? Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala Univ. Read more and apply here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 22nd of May!

Happy to share that my third PhD chapter has been published in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. In this paper, we investigated how developmental temperature (26°C or 30°C) and inbreeding affect sexual traits in male guppies (Poecilia reticulata).👇

📢 New work with @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social out now in Molecular Biology and Evolution! Transgenerational effects of heat shock 🥵 on gene regulation 🧬 and fitness-related traits in natural Drosophila 🪰 populations: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Transgenerational effects of heat shock on gene regulation and fitness-related traits in natural Drosophila populations

Abstract. Heat stress will increasingly affect populations as climate change leads to higher temperatures and more frequent heat waves. Recent work suggest

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🔥 We'll soon be advertising a 2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at UCL, focusing on insect single-cell mitochondrial genomics. 🔥 More details coming soon. Feel free to get in touch in this sounds fun or share with anyone who might be interested.

Female discrimination between sperm has been seen in animals, affecting reproductive outcomes, but what about large mammals? This study shows that the baboon #vagina can alter #sperm survival via vaginal immune responses & pH, depending on male genetic relatedness @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4sL2Zxl

April 1st is Live Comedy Day, the only day when it's legal to watch live comedy. So come and see my show in Leeds: leedsheritagetheatres.com/whats-on/alasdair-beckett-king-2026/#book