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Simon Evans

@sevans.bsky.social

Scientific & Technology Lead for ARIA's Accelerated Adaptation programme, and co-founder of BES Evolutionary Ecology Group. Views my own.

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Emily Gorcenski@emily.gorcen.ski · 2d ago

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Antigoni Samourdani@antisamourdani.bsky.social · 6d ago

An inspiring feminist talk! The science is great but what resonated with me most was taking the space to talk about all the societal obstacles she faced, the motivation from seeing other women suceed in what seemed impossible & the importance of trying and trying again.

BES Evolutionary Ecology Group@bes-evolecol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We’re very excited to confirm that Rosemary Grant will be giving our inaugural online webinar in September. It’s free to all, so please look out for details of how to sign up for tickets.

Simon Evans@sevans.bsky.social · 5d ago

Perhaps the most underappreciated negative impact of chatbots on science is that publishers reinforced paywalls just as we seemed on the brink of a revolution in access.

Simon Evans@sevans.bsky.social · 7d ago

Rosemary Grant telling us in her @bes-evolecol.bsky.social webinar that even after finishing school, as a woman she was not allowed to open a bank account without a man accompanying her. Ghastly experience, but wonderful to hear of the early steps on her path to such enormous scientific impact.

Simon Evans@sevans.bsky.social · 7d ago

One hour away! And you’re already halfway through the week! So reward yourself with some of the very best of evolutionary ecology, starting in just under one hour: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/evol...

Evolutionary Ecology Webinar: Darwin's Finches | BES 2026

Join the BES Evolutionary Ecology SIG webinar with Rosemary Grant on Darwin's finches, natural selection, genetics, behaviour and rapid evolution.

britishecologicalsociety.org

BES Evolutionary Ecology Group@bes-evolecol.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We’re very excited to confirm that Rosemary Grant will be giving our inaugural online webinar in September. It’s free to all, so please look out for details of how to sign up for tickets.

Simon Evans@sevans.bsky.social · last wk.

Building a tool to forewarn us of approaching (or surpassed) tipping points in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre. Innovative, exciting, impactful.

Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA)@aria-research.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are now accepting concept papers for the second phase of our Forecasting Tipping Points programme, which is looking to build on understanding of the science of climate tipping points towards a usable early warning system for the North Atlantic. Apply by 9 October: link.aria.org.uk/FTP-funding

Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · 2w ago

This animated map shows every river in mainland Spain and Portugal, animated using only its own water flow. The Iberian Peninsula practically breathes: river discharge swings from just 890 m³/s at the summer low to 33,600 m³/s at the February 2026 peak. A 38-fold difference. HT @AaronJBecker

Simon Evans@sevans.bsky.social · last wk.

This is potentially a very important result: reciprocal transplants show that most adaptation is so localised that we overlook it.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences@pnas.org · 2w ago

How local is local adaptation? Researchers transplanted more than 700 lab-raised stickleback fish among lake and stream environments, finding that adaptation to specific sites can outweigh adaptation to broader habitat differences. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/yTOk50ZP97o

Two threespine stickleback fish. Image credit: Marius Roesti.
Liam U. Taylor@liamtaylor.bsky.social · 2w ago

I haven't found the science that people are writing up with AI much more or less interesting than things previously. Neither are interesting compared to when my friends would tell me what they really thought, drunk or high or jacked up on coffee, in secret

Elias Greig@eliasgreig.bsky.social · 2w ago

I keep seeing articles about men worrying they won't pass on their genes, and I don't understand why the media won't tell the plain truth: as a man hoping to sire children, the most important thing to do is artfully assemble a bower and surround it with a collection of startlingly blue objects.

Simon Evans@sevans.bsky.social · 4w ago

Interesting that Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion was given a five-year jail sentence for *planning* to obstruct a motorway. His motivation was drawing attention the climate crisis.

HOPE not hate@hopenothate.org.uk · 4w ago

This morning at 7:30am, a group of men dressed in black and their faces covered, gathered in Dover. The men, members of the anti-migrant vigilante group Patriot Platform, proceeded to block the port of Dover and several roads nearby. Our briefing: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/05/p...