Happy to share our new bioRxiv preprint 🔗https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.05.723031v1 🌊 We show repeatable patterns of introgression across continents, even when different lineages hybridize, emphasizing the role of demographic history in speciation in cryptic Ectocarpus species!

Haplotype tagging sheds light on speciation between two divergent cryptic species of the brown algae Ectocarpus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.05.723031v1

Applications to the Gordon Research Seminar in Speciation are now open! We encourage PhD students & postdocs from all geographies, backgrounds, disciplines to APPLY! This 2d seminar in beautiful Lucca 🇮🇹 will be followed by a 5d conference open to the broader community. www.grc.org/speciation-g...

The final part of the story: "The arduous path to obligate asexuality in Daphnia" is out in #ProcB 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article.... 1. Instead of comparing long-established asexuals to sexuals, we generated new asexual lineages to observe the transition in action.

The arduous path to obligate asexuality in #Daphnia #ProcB #OpenAccess #Evolution #Genetics royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Rare Sex in “Obligate” Asexuals. Earlier this year, I was pleased that the first part of our work on Daphnia reproductive modes was published in JEB doi.org/10.1093/jeb/.... In brief, females from so-called obligate parthenogenetic lineages, are in fact able to rarely reproduce sexually. Thread👇

Olfaction written in bones 👃🧠🦴🧬 Thrilled to see our latest study showing that the olfactory bulb endocast is a reliable proxy for mammalian olfaction, now published in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Thread 👇

What’s your favorite Wildlife Photographer of the Year image? Mine is the gathering of treefrogs by my friend and colleague Quentin Martinez : @quentinwildlife.bsky.social www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/...

Frolicking Frogs | Wildlife Photographer of the Year | Natural History Museum

Quentin Martinez (France) discovers a gathering of lesser tree frogs in a breeding event.

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