Come join the @socialfluids.bsky.social lab in Cambridge to study the evolution of Socially Transferred Materials! Fun new HFSP project btwn UK, NL and Costa Rica! Deadline September 7th #Postdoc #JobAlert #Evolution #Bioinformatics #STM #socialfluids www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... leboeuflab.com

🐝🌿 New in Cladistics: we describe †Eotenthredinidae fam. nov. — the oldest known crown-group true sawflies (Tenthredinoidea), from the ~125-Ma Yixian Fm (Jehol Biota). A transitional fossil bridging stem & crown sawflies, with clues to their coevolution with angiosperms. 🦴🌸 doi.org/10.1111/cla....

📢 JOB ALERT! 📢 I am recruiting a 30-month postdoc to work on modelling the vision of trilobites @hfspo.bsky.social ! If you like 3D data, fossils, and functional morphology, this is the one for you! 📆Deadline 27. Aug Pls contact me with any Qs and share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

It may be surprising to some that there are thousands of undescribed species just sitting in museums awaiting description. One of the main reasons this problem exists is that taxonomy is undervalued and underfunded, a trend that coincides with the devaluing of studies on natural history.

Second-chance speciation in the Clouded Apollo butterfly: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Second-chance speciation in the Clouded Apollo butterfly

Lancho-Silva et al. reveal two successive contacts between butterfly populations that capture the surprisingly rapid emergence of reproductive isolation driven by selection for chemical differences, a...

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📢 Heads-up: I'm currently finalising the job description for a 30-month postdoc modelling visual abilities in these very gorgeous and very dead creatures! If you're interested, please get in touch - anticipated start is late 2026/early 2027 and the project combines great colleagues in UK + S Korea!

Lauren Sumner-Rooney@laurensr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So excited to have received an #HFSPResearchGrant to study trilobite eyes with Luke Parry @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social and Gil Ju Lee (Pusan National University)!🥳 I'll be recruiting a postdoc @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - if 3D data, optical modelling, and fossils tickle your interest, stay tuned!

Our newest paper on mammalian dental evolution, out today as the cover article in @science.org, lead by @narimanechatar.bsky.social with a team of fantastic early career scientists!!! 🎉🥳 “Performance trade-offs define a fundamental dental dichotomy in mammals” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Super excited that our paper led by @sandinmm.eurosky.social in PNAS is out! We show that crown-group eukaryotes were already taxonomically and ecologically diverse throughout the Mesoproterozoic, revealing complex communities well before the Neoproterozoic radiation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Environmental phylogenetics supports a steady diversification of crown eukaryotes starting from the mid-Proterozoic | PNAS

Molecular clock and preservation of early microfossil assemblages suggest that eukaryotes were present and already diverse more than ~1600 million ...

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A mouse that lives higher than any other mammal has evolved unexpected adaptations that allow it to thrive from sea level to Andean summits, researchers report in a new Science study. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4bzjqWY

Adaptation across an extreme elevational gradient in Andean leaf-eared mice, the world’s highest-dwelling mammal

Andean leaf-eared mice (Phyllotis vaccarum) live at the highest elevations of any mammal, and they also have the broadest elevational range, from sea level to mountain summits of >6700 meters. Highlan...

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Join our HFSP team on this amazing project! This will be an experimental postdoc position based in Amsterdam. There will be a more bioinformatic/evolutionary postdoc position based in Cambridge coming up soon. #socialfluids

Joris M. Koene@joriskoene.bsky.social · 4w ago

Are you a biologist with experience in and enthusiasm for imaging and -omics techniques? Apply for working in Amsterdam (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) on the exciting topic of socially transferred materials! 🐌 🐸 🐜🧬🔬 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...

Last few days of my stay at @oistedu.bsky.social supported by JSPS. 🇯🇵 Huge thanks to Tom and the Evolutionary Genomics Unit for hosting me! ⚗️ 🧪 We’ve sequenced over 1500 specimens (my fingers hurt!) and done a whole bunch of CT scans. 🐜🪳 Lots of promising data and projects for the years ahead!

📄New paper alert: The earliest Cenozoic record of a horntail sawfly (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) in North America, from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation, Canada 🔗https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.9.3.7 With friends and colleagues from the University of Alberta

Have ideas for your own, independent research program in Theoretical Biology? Then come and join us as a Group Leader at the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social in Plön, Germany!

Group Leader in Theoretical Biology (m/f/d)

Experience in Theoretical Biology, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physics

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We all know what sperm does. But what is its origin story? 🧬 Excited to be speaking about our #sperm #phyloproteomics work tomorrow 29th at 15:05 in the Main Hall in the grad student award symposium! #SMBE2026 An update from our preprint with @adriatica.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The origins and molecular evolution of sperm

Sperm is a nearly universal cell type among animals, yet its evolutionary origins remain unclear. Using comparative proteomics and phylogenomics across 32 species, we reconstruct the 700+ million year...

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If you enjoy our phyloproteomic approach you see in Arthur’s talk #SMBE2026, get in touch! I am #hiring for an HFSP-funded #postdoc that should start toward the end of the year. Looking for a postdoc skilled in comparative phylogenetic methods and proteomics!

🐞 There is amber in Belgium; it is 50 myo and only yielded a handful of animal inclusions: a termite, a true bug, a mite. This new belgian report is a ladybird🐞- a coccidulini ! @naturalsciences-be.bsky.social @osurennes.bsky.social #belgium #entomology #fossils #ladybird mapress.com/pe/article/v...

More from the Eocene Belgian amber: a new ladybird fossil of the genus Rhyzobius Kugelann (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) | Palaeoentomology

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🧵 Excited to share my final PhD paper in Ecology Letters! A classic question in ecology is why some clades contain more species in local assemblages than others. We argue that part of the answer lies in the timing of speciation itself. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Great talk @arthurmatte.bsky.social #SMBE2026 on the evolution of sperm. If you are interested the preprint is here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge Fish Curator gig is advertised! Assistant Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History (part of Uni of. Florida) explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...

Latest from the lab: @ruolinwu.bsky.social integrates fossil and molecular evidence to estimate the timing of origin of flowering plants. Thanks to @sabifo4.bsky.social @jameswclark.bsky.social Yue Tong, Shan Wan, Davide Pisani, Harald Schneider and Daniele Silvestro for helping to make this happen

Ruolin WU@ruolinwu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The broader implication extends beyond flowering plants. Many famous "rocks vs. clocks" debates may not require choosing sides. The challenge is finding better ways to let fossils and molecules speak to each other. Link to our latest: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What is the evolutionary origin of the organizer? New work from @kremnyovs.bsky.social, @tclebedeva.bsky.social & Hejnol Lab @uni-jena.de reports the blastopore lip of the #ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, a member of the evolutionary sister group to all other metazoans, exhibits organizer activity.

A blastoporal organizer in a ctenophore - Nature

Experiments using the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi and the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis reveal that the emergence of a core signalling pathway may have been a key innovation enabling the transit...

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A deep dive into the fossil record of diving beetles (Dytiscidae): origins & pulsed diversification onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @datadryad.bsky.social @jules2701.bsky.social @cocomacro.bsky.social @davidperis.bsky.social @ibb-botanic.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social

From fossil evidence, millipedes were the first animals adapted to life on land about 425 million years ago. In this new paper, we reconstructed their ancient evolutionary history across nearly half a billion years. 🌎 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Reshaping the millipede tree of life by inclusion of the last two unsampled orders

Vasquez-Valverde et al. estimate the ancient evolutionary history of millipedes and analyze the last two remaining unsampled orders, Siphonocryptida and Siphoniulida, two rare paleoendemics whose plac...

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Professor Joe Felsenstein FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. After initially working on population genetics theory of recombination, of migration, and of speciation, his main focus has been on phylogenetic inference. #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/people/joseph-felsenstein-38106/

Assistant Professor position in paleontology @uugeo.bsky.social 🤩 🐚 🌊 🧪 ⚒️

Assistant Professor in Paleontology

Are you a team player and proactive innovator in an emerging field of paleontology? Please apply!

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🚨new paper alert🚨 In this review paper including an international team mixing geologists, biologists, and paleontologists, we synthesize current approaches for integrating paleoclimate and paleogeographic data into macroevolutionary models. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... (1/n)

#Palaeoworld,35(4)OpenAccess "The first record of Achilidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) in Miocene Dominican amber revealed by synchrotron X-ray tomography" #Insecta#fossil_record @mat-bod-evo-23.bsky.social ,Peng,A., Garrouste,R., Nel, A. @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al. ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🪲 A PhD position in my lab will open soon! Work includes Caribbean fieldwork, visits to major European entomological collections, and cutting-edge morphology, phylogenomics & museomics. If you’re interested in beetle evolution and biodiversity research, consider applying! 🔬🌍

#FlyFriday #InternationalBiodiversityDay #BiodiversityDay Exciting mass digitization project at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | >325,000 pinned specimens of pollinating insects are being digitized on a conveyor system developed by Picturae #USNMDiptera

Happy to have been able to help Michael Calonje and James Clugston build this excellent resource! A comprehensive phylogenomic framework for cycads (Cycadales) phytokeys.pensoft.net/articles.php...

A comprehensive phylogenomic framework for cycads (Cycadales)

Here we present a time-calibrated phylogeny of 346 cycad accessions, covering ≈86% of the 380 accepted species, across all 10 extant genera, inferred from 1,409 single-copy nuclear loci (411,345 amino...

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