📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Nå har forskere fra @biovitenskap.bsky.social og @unioslo-cees.bsky.social kartlagt hvordan den potente giften til #Nordvintergulløye produseres og hvilke giftstoffer som er i den. @mariusmaur.bsky.social Dette kan være en veldig god nyhet til frustrerte hageeiere som er plaget av #bladlus i hagen.

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Larven til Nordvintergulløye har potent gift. Nå har forskere kartlagt hvordan giften produseres og hvilke giftstoffer som er i den.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1st runner up: Well done Emma Falkeid Eriksen! @biovitenskap.bsky.social #bluefin tuna

Five millennia of mitonuclear discordance in Atlantic bluefin tuna identified using ancient DNA - Heredity

Heredity - Five millennia of mitonuclear discordance in Atlantic bluefin tuna identified using ancient DNA

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New publication provide new insights into the #evolution of #venom in insects. With Marius Maurstad @mariusmaur.bsky.social, Bea Ramiro, Jan Philip Oeyen, Pedro Nachtigall, Kjetill Jakobsen, Eivind Undheim from @biovitenskap.bsky.social & @unioslo-cees.bsky.social Published @molbioevol.bsky.social

The green lacewing venom system and the complex mechanisms underlying its evolution

Abstract. Venom has independently evolved across many lineages, yet relatively few have been studied in detail, particularly among insects. Of these, Neuro

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Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology

Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

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Super happy to see our paper out! Reference choice matters, especially if you work with species that has lots of chromosomal rearrangements 🧬🐟

Sissel Jentoft@jentoft.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New paper out where we demonstrate how pop gen parameters and scoring of structural variants (inversions) could be affected by the choice of reference genome (both in terms of both quality and relatedness). @unioslo-cees.bsky.social @biovitenskap.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A while back (maybe 3-4 years?) there was a paper on common misconceptions of the genetics of various traits. One of them was eye colour in humans. I have lost this reference and can't find it anywhere. Does anyone recognise what I mean?

Our paper is now published in GBE! We find that transposable elements (likely) facilitated several large chromosomal inversions in Atlantic cod. So proud of the work by our team! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/...

Chromosomal Inversions Mediated by Tandem Insertions of Transposable Elements

Abstract. Chromosomal inversions play a crucial role in evolution by influencing phenotypes through the linkage of coadapted alleles. While inversions have

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Nice to see this preprint on the factors shaping Macaronesian chaffinch microbiomes out. A fantastic collaboration with @andalgalornis.bsky.social and his team. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Host filtering and biogeography structure island bird gut microbiomes

Gut microbiomes are central to host ecology and evolution, yet the mechanisms driving their diversification remain elusive, partly because host evolution and biogeography are often confounded. The rec...

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#eseb2025 talks were great so far. Subjective ranking of the most common quotes: - theory and modeling: "with this very simple approach" - genomics: "using methodology you all know" - plenaries: "Nature/Science" in the bottom right of a slide - posters: "una cerveza por favor"

Surely one of the all-time best conference outreach activities: an evolution-inspired decorated street for Les Festes de Gràcia #ESEB2025

Jana Nickel: little evidence of deleterious variants hitchhiking on freshwater adaptation in stickleback. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #eseb2025

Complex patterns of hitchhiking mutation load among stickleback populations

Positive selection causes beneficial alleles to rapidly rise to high frequency in a population. This can cause linked genetic variation to " hitchhike " , and thereby also rise in frequency. This link...

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Also, I'm talking at #eseb2025 on the evolutionary history of a commensal species at 2 pm on Monday in S51-02. Come along to hear about how cool house sparrows are and all the exciting work from the sparrow team @melissahrowe.bsky.social @eriksroeed.bsky.social @ruthfawthrop.bsky.social

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

PhD position alert! Fully-funded PhD in my group to work on avian reproductive microbiomes and immunity. Please RT! Deadline June 29th, reach out for more information. #microbiomes #sparrows #spermbiology

Thrilled to share new work from @stochasnick examining how gene regulatory networks influence quantitative trait evolution! His forward-time simulations reveal fascinating dynamics in the genetic architecture of adaptation. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The genetic architecture of polygenic adaptation under a network-derived trait

The genetic architecture of adaptation varies across species, populations, and traits. While existing models capture aspects like the number of loci, effect sizes, and allele frequencies, they often o...

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Some years ago I wrote a simple R app to explore colors in HCL space. While it's clunky, it still is my preferred way of selecting colors, because it offers features other color selectors don't normally have. Today, thanks to shinylive, the app is available standalone. 🧵

Looking for someone to review a manuscript? Is it on avian urban-rural ecology/evolution, dietary adaptation, or dietary analysis using metabarcoding or stable isotope analysis? Then please send me a request. I am looking for an opportunity to review a manuscript with a PhD for training purposes.

At Stockholm University, we are now starting a 2-year Master’s programme in Evolutionary Genomics! Topics include population genetics, phylogenetics, molecular & genome evolution, DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and palaeogenetics. Please spread the word! www.su.se/english/sear...

My very first publication here and for a great reason 🎉 It was lovely to interact with @homerej.bsky.social during my time at the Technical University of Denmark. It is even better to see his article now out 🦪 🧬 📄

Homère J. Alves Monteiro@homerej.bsky.social · 2y ago

🦪 Out yesterday some genome-wide work on the native European flat oyster , <i>Ostrea edulis</i>. Once widespread along European coasts but is now functionally extinct due to overfishing and disease. Threads 1/n 🦪 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Hot off the press! Useful read in TREE on how we can meaningfully and consistently define human-commensalism in other species. Congrats to Ruth Fawthrop, @melissahrowe.bsky.social, @naturalselection.bsky.social, @markravinet.bsky.social, @pachecoevolbio.bsky.social et al!

Melissah Rowe@melissahrowe.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congratulations to Ruth Fawthrop - brilliant to see the first paper from her PhD out today in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. A great opinion piece with collaborators @markravinet.bsky.social, @naturalselection.bsky.social, and others. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...