Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Insects are increasingly pressured by climate change. Here the authors compile global evidence of range shifts in butterflies and call for more co-ordinated efforts in documenting such trends across c...

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Our latest contribution on #regulatoryevolution in which we show that the shape of fitness functions and the distribution of mutational effect sizes jointly limit adaptation by regulatory mutations. Led by @simonaube.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The shape of fitness functions and the distribution of mutational effect sizes jointly limit adaptation by regulatory mutations - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Saturation mutagenesis of the FCY1 promoter in budding yeast shows that adaptation to 5-fluorocytosine is not accessible through single cis-regulatory mutations, despite large mutational effects on pr...

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📢 PhD opportunity at the University of Helsinki! Join the ANEW project to study ecological networks, seed dispersal and biodiversity conservation under global change. Apply by 31 Aug 2026. 🔗 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/31_8_202... #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs

Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation

Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation

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Excited to share my final (and my favorite) PhD chapter, where we analysed male Bicyclus anynana butterfly spermatophore proteins, and its compositional plasticity following information acquired during the males' past social interactions (via mate preference learning), and his cryptic preferences!

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Proteomic consequences of male mate preference learning and female phenotype in the butterfly Bicyclus anynana https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.26.739888v1

lees dit. @sheilas.bsky.social overtreft zichzelf. helaas, gaat het niks uithalen, vrees ik 😢

My postdoc is coming to an end, so I'm looking for work! Let me know if you, or anyone you know, wants to hire a philosopher of biology/cognition with a knack for cross-disciplinary work, a focus on autonomy + agency, and experience writing for the broader public (10+ yrs in sci/tech journalism).

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation iucn.org/news/202607/...

From collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museums

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

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We remind the SMBE community that applications for the second edition of the SMBE Fellows Program are ongoing. Apply before August 15. 🔗 smbe.org/smbe-fellows-program #society

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We're excited to announce the second edition of the SMBE Fellows Program! ✍️ 🔗 smbe.org/smbe-fellows-program The SMBE Fellows Program provides mentorship to early-career researchers in scientific writing for evolutionary and molecular biology by writing Highlight articles for MBE and GBE. #society

From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”

Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · last wk.

Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’ * UK politics live – latest updates A senior judge has accused the Home Office of relying on “AI hallucinated” information to refuse an asylum claim. The case relates to a Moroccan woman and her child who fled her country after experiencing forced underage marriage and extreme violence, including rape. The woman claimed asylum on the basis of fears that she would be killed by her husband: a powerful, previously convicted criminal. Continue reading...

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My alma mater (College of the Atlantic) is hiring faculty in Field Ecology, Agroecology, and Chemistry. If you're looking for a very cool small liberal arts college on the coast of Maine with a strong environmental focus, check it out (happy to answer questions!): www.coa.edu/human-resour...

Career Opportunities | College of the Atlantic

Career opportunities at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine.

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⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk

We just released a new open resource for studying evolution, ecology, colour, behaviour & biodiversity. OzButterflies 🦋 ✨ 4,000+ individuals 🌈 Visible + UV images 🧬 CO1 barcodes 📈 Spectral reflectance data 🏞️ 125 species doi.org/10.1093/data... @mherberstein.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social

Klawitter & @alexeidrummond.bsky.social introduce novel and efficient methods for estimating the credible level of individual tree topologies using tractable tree distributions, specifically conditional clade distribution (CCD). 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag141 #societyjournal #compbio

Bayesian credible sets for phylogenetic tree topologies with applications to coverage analysis and cross-model comparison

Abstract. Credible intervals and credible sets, such as highest posterior density intervals, form an integral statistical tool in Bayesian phylogenetics, b

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Hot off the press @official-smbe.bsky.social MBE - a phylum-wide assessment to systematically evaluate, refine, and revise current understanding of the evolutionary dynamics of the #arthropod moulting genetic toolkit! academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

Evolutionary dynamics of the arthropod moulting machinery

Abstract. Exoskeletons define arthropods, providing support for segmented bodies and appendages while protecting against environmental stress and predation

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Our paper on how better amino acid substitution matrices trained on cleaned alignments improve gene tree inference, and on best practice for cleaning MSAs more broadly, is now out academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-.... New options in both IQTree and Muscle5. @phylowheeler.bsky.social

Improved gene tree inference from removing alignment errors both from focal genes and when training substitution models

Abstract. Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is a key step in phylogenetic analysis and is prone to error. Unfortunately, algorithms that remove likely alig

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Joanna Masel@joannamasel.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Sequence alignments are notoriously prone to error. Our latest preprint offers a new tool for filtering errors out, assesses it and other filtering tools, and recommends new best practice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @phylowheeler.bsky.social 1/10

Please share, I am hiring an evo devo postdoctoral research fellow! 📍: The Sleight Lab, University of Aberdeen, Scotland (5th oldest University in UK & English-speaking world) 📅: start after 1st December 2026 🐌: Evolution and Development (molluscs) ⌛: 3 year contract sleightlab.com/vacancies/

Our paper is out! 📣 we find that molecular measures of genetic variation do not predict heritable genetic variation across species - important implications for the application of genomic data for conservation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential | PNAS

The capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognized as a global conservation priority. Ad...

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Thanks to a couple of recent Ws on the funding front, we have 3 open postdoc positions in Helsinki, Finland in the field of salmonid fish ecological and evolutionary genomics. DL 7.8. More details in advert: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Repeated evolution of iridescence and hindwing tails is associated with morphometric flight proxies in skipper butterflies academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Repeated evolution of iridescence and hindwing tails is associated with morphometric flight proxies in skipper butterflies

Abstract. Phenotypic evolution is shaped by phylogenetic history, ecology and biomechanical constraints. Butterfly wings offer an ideal system to explore t

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There are no words that can describe the horror of seeing this happening in Ireland today.

🦋 Excited to share "How to be Rare – A Butterfly's Story", a comic inspired by my PhD research on colour pattern polymorphism in the Evening Brown butterfly 🧑‍🎨 A fantastic collaboration with illustrator Ellen McNamara and Professor @hudrewthis.bsky.social from Massachusetts College of Art and Design

If you are interested in collecting specimens for chromosomal genomes and/or generating chromosomal reference genomes from specimens that were not cold-chain preserved, please read on and share this thread.

"Phylogenomics beyond the “bag-of-genes” model" by Siavash Mirarab & colleagues "[T]he time is ripe for a paradigm shift in phylogenomics to account for genomic position in all analyses." FREE till July 16th at authors.elsevier.com/a/1nAUrcQbJI...

Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

We’re hiring for OrthoFinder! Great role for someone who enjoys scientific software development: Python, data analysis, workflows, Git, scalability, and making tools nicer to use. Comparative genomics or open-source bioinformatics experience would be a lovely bonus. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Working on ageing in unusual taxa? Consider submitting to our Special Issue on the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: "Ageing outside of the box: insights from unusual and non-model species". With @yagmurerten.bsky.social and @MargauxBieuville, we are looking forward! academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...

A reminder that this position closes in a few days time!

Fiona J Whelan@whelanfj.bsky.social · 3mo ago

After a few technical glitches... 📣 Whelan lab is hiring 📣 We are looking for an entry level technician to help us with our culturing and DNA sequencing prep of cystic fibrosis lung microbiome samples. Applications close 28 May 2026 Any queries, please reach out!

We’re hiring Research Assistants with the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project! Help contribute to a growing wild chimpanzee research & conservation project in West Africa 🐵 Apply now (open until filled, starting dates from July). More info👇or dm for Qs #conservation #science #fieldwork #primates 🧪

How tropical butterflies tune their reproduction to the seasons - out now in Ecology Letters! Led by @marcushicks.bsky.social as part of his PhD at @qmulsbbs.bsky.social together with colleagues from Peru, Sweden, UK and USA. www.qmul.ac.uk/news/latest-...

Tropical butterflies adapt mating habits to climate change

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Marcus Hicks@marcushicks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our new paper is out now in Ecology Letters, completely open access! doi.org/10.1111/ele.... Many thanks go out to all of our co-authors, especially those who helped with the fieldwork in Peru - it wouldn't have been possible without you @climate-adaptation.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social