Our study shows repeated adaptation of the freshwater goby Rhinogobius kurodai from lotic to lentic environments in Japan’s Kanto Plain, integrating morphological, behavioural and genomic data: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Takada et al. 2026

Repeated adaptation of the freshwater goby Rhinogobius kurodai from lotic to lentic environments in the Kanto Plain, Japan: morphological, behavioural, and genetic approaches

Abstract. Habitat generalists, which occupy a variety of environments, provide valuable systems for investigating how microgeographic adaptation drives pop

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Now out in PNAS: our latest exploration of the interplay between interspecific interactions and adaptation to a changing abiotic environment! This time it’s about predator-prey interactions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Coadapting but not static predators facilitate prey adaptation to a fluctuating environment | PNAS

Understanding how between-species interactions influence adaptation and population persistence in the face of environmental change is one of the gr...

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Are you into mathematical modelling of ecological and evolutionary systems? Look at this job ad for a senior lecturer in Lund. I've visited many times, splendid compact city, splendid department! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology

Lund University welcomes applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. Gender equality, equal opportunities and diversity are fundamental principles in all parts of the University’s activit

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What happens when you mix up host-parasite interactions in nature? "Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Infection and Immunity in Experimentally Founded Lake Populations of Threespine Stickleback" Find out in Am Nat: led by @danielbolnick.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Great collection of Shiny apps (and R package) for #teaching #ecology. Apps come in different languages (including Spanish) ecoevoapps.gitlab.io

Working with minimal genomic samples from two species? I’ve put together DemogFit, a small R package for fitting IM models and estimating gene flow parameters from a single whole-genome sample per species, plus a Snakemake pipeline to generate the input files. github.com/LeebanY/Demo...

@vakirlis.bsky.social and I are proposing a new term in the de-novo genes / molecular evolution cinematic universe. The term is: "Emergence Bias" and our perspective piece describing it was published in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social today! So, what is an emergence bias? (1/7)

Emergence Biases in Molecular Evolution

Abstract. Biases in molecular evolution can significantly influence evolutionary trajectories. They have been described in a variety of contexts, such as d

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Excited to share this perspective article from my group - how can the interactions between microbes shape the spread of antibiotic resistance mutations? Thank you @microbiologysociety.org for inviting us to submit this 🦠 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Microbial interactions as key players shaping the emergence and spread of de novo resistance mutations

Antibiotic resistance and the microbiome are two of the most prominent and highly active research areas currently in microbiology. However, these studies are commonly siloed. Research into antibiotic ...

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If you're looking for a PhD position, or know someone looking checkout our interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship program! We are always looking for talented students with a physics or computational background to join our group to work on the physics of living systems!

Biozentrum, University of Basel@biozentrum.unibas.ch · last mo.

Ready for the next step in your scientific career? Apply now for a fully funded Biozentrum PhD Fellowship and explore a wide range of research fields before choosing your PhD lab. 🧪 Applications for the current call are open until October 18, 2026. More information 👇

Happy to share this preprint of one of my PhD chapters with @cbank.bsky.social and @spei.bsky.social! We use a population genetics model and find the conditions under which hybrid incompatibilities can be maintained in an isolated population when BDMI loci are overdominant. 1/3

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · last mo.

The influence of incompatibilities and heterosis on hybrid population genetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.04.742766v1

Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

The @cbank.bsky.social lab is going 🚄 to #MMEE2026 in Cork next week! @ayalopjulio.bsky.social will present Thursday afternoon on hybrid incompatibilities, and @lorhab.bsky.social will present Wednesday afternoon on the repeatability of adaptation (1/3)

🚨Join us at the University of Geneva! We're seeking an outstanding junior researcher to apply for an ERC or SNSF Starting Grant with our institutional support in host–pathogen interactions, bacteriology, virology, parasitology, or mycology. www.unige.ch/medecine/mim... Please share!

Nemo2.4: fast and accurate quantitative genetics forward-time simulations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.02.736177v1

Analysis code is an increasingly important part of science but how do we ensure we keep it reproducible and future-proofed? Hit the link below to throwback to Oakleigh Wilson's conversation with Dr Ed Ivimey-Cook discussing all things code review. sortee.org/blog/2025/09...

How do coevolutionary interactions begin in nature, and what are the first steps of reciprocal adaptation? Our preprint investigates these questions in a natural experiment: an introduced cricket (T. oceanicus) and its acoustically hunting parasitoid (O. ochracea) in Hawaii. shorturl.at/7llsA 1/n

Ecological genomics of a novel host-parasitoid arms-race in nature

Novel antagonistic interactions between species are expected to drive especially rapid coevolution. However, little is known about the genomic basis of such coevolution in nature because novel inter-s...

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New paper out in Evolution 🧫🧬 doi.org/10.1093/evol... with a pretty big crew & @stelkens.bsky.social ! Story started over 20 years ago, fun to jump in late and help wrap it up :)

Adaptive Benefits of Hybridization in Saccharomyces Yeast are Constrained by Genomic Background and Depend on Temperature

Abstract. Climate change urges us to better understand and predict evolutionary responses to temperature shifts. Hybridization, by increasing genetic varia

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New for @undark.org: Mathematicians have signed the Leiden Declaration for AI. I argue that the life sciences needs one: built for noisy, context-dependent systems, w/ disclosure, human accountability, wet-lab validation, & rules that evolve as fast as the tools do. undark.org/2026/07/02/o...

Biologists Should Articulate Their Position on AI

Opinion | In the Leiden Declaration, mathematicians issued a treatise on how AI challenges their field. Others must do the same.

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We’re now looking for evolutionary ecologists to join our committee to build #ExE2026 into the start of something great, not just a one-off. Details here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/evol...

The first articles for the new society-owned journal Population Biology Modeling & Theory are underway! We're accepting research articles and beyond - get in touch with us to discuss your ideas for submissions. pbmt.journals.sup.org/index.php/pbmt

New #microsky#AMR Perspective paper with @penamiller.bsky.social rdcu.be/fqBJo ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE (IE MIC) AND TOLERANCE ARE NOT BACTERIAL TRAITS! Please read on if you want an explanation for this provocative claim.

Beyond resistance and tolerance: rethinking evolutionary responses to antibiotics from the perspective of individual bacterial cells

Nature Communications - Beyond resistance and tolerance: rethinking evolutionary responses to antibiotics from the perspective of individual bacterial cells

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1/3 🚨New Perspective🚨 (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social) "When evolvability meets constraint: reflections on empirical fitness landscapes after Weinreich et al. (2006)" 20 years after a seminal study, I discuss the forces that both constrain evolution + make it possible academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

When evolvability meets constraint: reflections on empirical fitness landscapes after Weinreich et al. (2006)

Abstract. In 2006, a manuscript appeared with a provocative title: “Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutational paths to fitter proteins.” Twen

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Evolutionary rescue in a phage community! New paper from former PhD student, Sam Greenrod, with brilliant colleague @craigmaclean.bsky.social : academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Rapid adaptation accelerates competitive suppression in a parasite community

Abstract. Environmental stress leads to changes in community composition by altering competitive hierarchies and pushing taxa towards extinction. Parasites

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2026. Resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists. A collection of websites and literature for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and allies. www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/reso... by @britishecologicalsociety.org

Resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists - British Ecological Society

A collection of websites and literature for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and allies.

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Eye-opening work by @olimeacock.bsky.social (former postdoc, now PI in Sheffield). He presents an exact mapping from steady-state consumer-resource to generalized Lotka-Volterra models, revealing that cross-feeding can lead to competition for other limiting resources. Feedback pls!

Oliver Meacock@olimeacock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New preprint from @saramitri.bsky.social and me: tinyurl.com/3dsjnm4d The headline result - we derive a general way to connect mechanistic ecosystem models to the gLV equation. This reveals that strengthening cooperative mechanisms can make effective gLV interactions increasingly competitive. Weird!

Please join us at this #EMBOEvoEco Workshop on 6-9 October 2026. It is hands down one of my (if not THE) favourite conferences with a real community feeling and it's great for networking! Also, the catering is excellent. :)

The Rokas Lab at Vanderbilt University@rokaslab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Want to gain mechanistic insights on major outstanding questions in #ecology and #evolution? Join us 6-9 October 2026 for the #EMBOEvoEco Workshop at @events.embl.org in beautiful Heidelberg, Germany Abstract submission deadline is June 30 - submit one now! www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Our first study from the Hasli Outdoor Mesocosm Experiment (HOME) is out!! Here we focus on plant responses to extreme heat and drought during the first two years of the experiment, and we found that fast- and slow-growing plants fully recovered to drought onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Convergent Post‐Drought Recovery of Biomass and Functional Traits Under Constant and Periodic Warming in Slow‐ and Fast‐Growing Plants

In a 2-year outdoor mesocosm experiment, slow- and fast-growing grassland plants exhibit biomass-trait decoupling 1 month after drought, particularly under warmed conditions. This decoupling disappea....

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Our work characterizing how mutational bias is influenced by the local sequence context beyond trinucleotides is out now @pnas.org! We also showed which motifs are most prone to mutations caused by strand misalignment, revealing several new hotspots! 🧬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Join us next Wednesday in Bern! 🌈🚀 astronomyontap.org/event/astron...

Theoretical Ecology and Evolution (THEE) Group@thee-bank-lab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy Pride month PhD candidate @lorhab.bsky.social will also be speaking at the next "Astronomy on Tap Bern" on Wed, the 10th of June at Stellwerk. Scan the QR-code in the image if you want to participate!

A bit late, but @msrivastava95.bsky.social , @cbank.bsky.social , Suman Das, and Joachim Krug recently released a manuscript on arXiv titled: "Evolution as fitness landscape navigation: Concepts, Measures, and Emerging Questions". Check out their work here! arxiv.org/abs/2604.17036

Evolution as fitness landscape navigation: Concepts, Measures, and Emerging Questions

Fitness landscapes are mappings between genotypes, phenotypes, and fitness that shape evolution. In recent years, empirical work and theoretical models have greatly advanced our understanding of how p...

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