Bing Dong董冰
@bingdongevo.bsky.social
PhD with Andy Gardner & Silvia Paracchini at the University of St Andrews | Kin selection | Human handedness | Metamorphosis | Social behaviour in jumping spiders oOOo | Lazy birder ❤️🦉
The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students. tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...
Summer school:<br> Evolutionary Biology in Guarda
Information about the annual summer school Evolutionary Biology in Guarda
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Empseb is simply the best. If you're a PhD student of evolutionary biology, do go there!
EMPSEB 31@empseb.bsky.social · 8mo ago📢 The Call for Abstracts for #EMPSEB31 is now open! 🔗 Full details & submission info on our website. ✈️ Applying for an ESEB Travel Grant? ⏰ Abstract deadline for travel-grant applicants: January 15, 2026 ⏳ General abstract deadline: February 1, 2026 #EvoBio #PhD #EMPSEB31
New paper: "A formal theory of group-level adaptation for obligate eusociality", with Kalyani Twyman (@kztwyman.bsky.social) #OpenAccess academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... #Image #GoogleGemini @jevbio.bsky.social #OA
New paper out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3.... The total size of the body’s fat stores is a crucial factor in understanding animal health, life history and conservation biology, but no established method exists to measure it in large marine animals without capturing them.
Very happy to see our opinion article out in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social today. 🥳 We ask whether sexual signals can influence the evolutionary trajectory of naturally selected adaptations, such as protective colouration, for better or for worse 🧐 1/n doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Happy to share that our paper ‘a formal theory of group-level adaptation for obligate eusociality’ (with @andygardner.bsky.social) is now out in @jevbio.bsky.social advances. doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... #OpenAccess #Eusociality #GroupAdaptation #FormalDarwinism
Go arachnids!!
Rachel Ignotofsky@rachelignotofsky.bsky.social · 12mo agoIllustration of the Silurian Period based on fossils in Scotland. The first animals to live on land were tiny arthropods, escaping predators and eating food in fields of cooksonia plants. Art from my new book DINOSAURS preorder here: a.co/d/fGVwsX0 #sciart #paleoart #evolution #fossiladdict
new paper, led by Lin Yan from the Elias Lab at UCB Latent preference for red ornamentation drives interspecific mating in nascent jumping spider species (Habronattus americanus group, F. Salticidae) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Hey #ESEB2025 folk! I'll be presenting my work on describing evolution in finite populations at 11:30 am on Tuesday in S-03. Drop by to learn how taking ecology and variable population size seriously changes classic pop gen descriptions like the Price eqn, revealing novel directional eco-evo forces.
hello to everyone going to #ESEB2025! want to hear about the consequences of age-dependent plasticity in reproducing via sex vs. asex? I will give a talk at 11:15am on Thursday in S15.02. come for the pretty Hydra illustrations, stay for the novel evolutionary insights on facultative sex!
Thanks, Hanna! There are quite a few Kokkonuts at #ESEB2025! On Thursday, @gauravathreya.bsky.social talks about ageing + sex, @tomospotter.bsky.social talks about guppy polymorphisms, @ccrowther.bsky.social has a poster on nesting 🐢, and Victor Ronget has a poster on ageing trends in mammals + 🐦!
Hanna Kokko@kokkonut.bsky.social · 12mo ago#ESEB2025 Very concentrated looks when @shikharabhat.bsky.social educates us about pop noise! One of the last talks I could attend, sorry I had to leave early (planned, still 🫤) The lab's presence continues without me so grab them for a science chat!
Two other members of the research group have successfully made it to @eseb2025.bsky.social ahead of me. Look out for @kztwyman.bsky.social, whose poster "A formal theory of group-level adaptation for obligate eusociality" (P01.068) is in this evening's session.
And Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn, whose poster "The consequences of constrained sex allocation under local mate competition" (P02.036) is in Tuesday's session. This is based on his recent paper in Journal of Evolutionary Biology: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @jevbio.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social
New paper: "The consequences of constrained sex allocation in diploids and haplodiploids under local mate competition", with Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @jevbio.bsky.social
Really happy to share this article I'm grateful to have been a part of: 'Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience' coauthored with @kevinlala.bsky.social, @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social and Marcus Feldman. Check out a preprint here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #ScientificRacism #Antiracism
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Kalyani Twyman@kztwyman.bsky.social · last yr.Very excited to share that our paper, ‘The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour’, is out now in @journal-evo.bsky.social advances. With @andygardner.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol... #OpenAccess #Evolution #Multicellularity
New paper with @andygardner.bsky.social and @geoffwild.bsky.social in which we ask whether the ability to recognise relatives causes individuals to be more or less cooperative overall. doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping
Abstract. Kin selection theory predicts that individuals should evolve to help relatives, either by helping indiscriminately in a population where they do
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Sex-ratio optima for haplodiploid parents converge in viscous populations when dispersal is density-dependent. Read 'Density-dependent dispersal reduces conflict over the sex ratio': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #BiologyLetters #evolution
New paper: “The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour”, with @kztwyman.bsky.social #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/evol... @journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA
Very excited to share that our paper, ‘The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour’, is out now in @journal-evo.bsky.social advances. With @andygardner.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol... #OpenAccess #Evolution #Multicellularity
The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour
Abstract. Cellular division of labour is closely associated with the emergence of organismality in the evolution of obligate multicellularity. Michod has s
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New paper: "Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping" with Tom Scott (@tomwscott.bsky.social) & Geoff Wild (@geoffwild.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/evol... @journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA
Genetics of Left-Handedness: Major Breakthroughs | @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
Genetics of Left-Handedness: Major Breakthroughs
About 10 in 100 people are left-handed, but why? A new article highlights the crucial role of early brain development for left-handedness.
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New handedness review article with @silparacchini.bsky.social Jutta Peterburs & Annakarina Mundorf in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond
Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritabilit…
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My paper is out! "Kin competition drives the evolution of earlier metamorphosis" (#OpenAccess), with @andygardner.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70806
Kin Competition Drives the Evolution of Earlier Metamorphosis
We develop a mathematical model to investigate how kin selection shapes the optimal timing of metamorphosis. We consider the full range of larval competition intensities and the full range of related...
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New paper: "Kin competition drives the evolution of earlier metamorphosis", with @bingdongevo.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
🚨Fully-Funded UK PhD Opportunity!🚨 I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity! Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED
Please re-post: I have a postdoc position open! Helsinki is great and working environment is fantastic! #colours #polymorphism #behavior #experiments #lepidoptera jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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