My #ExE2026 conference post is now live! It was great chatting with attendees about their research and learning more about the field. Thanks again to the organisers @erikpostma.bsky.social, @btschirren.bsky.social, @blongdon.bsky.social, @ali--wilson.bsky.social, and @hansonmark.bsky.social!

PLOS One@plosone.org · 2w ago

Our Associate Editor @sarahjose.bsky.social reports back from #ExE2026 at @uniexecec.bsky.social. Key themes included microbiomes, ageing, behaviour, environmental change, long-term studies such as @soaysheep.bsky.social, and @plos.org focus area of Open Science. everyone.plos.org/2026/07/21/f...

📣 Spread the news to any recent graduates who dare to dream big: Only 10 days left to apply to join #Mast-EER, a cohort of MbyRes students based at the @uniexecec.bsky.social in #Cornwall funded by @aria-research.bsky.social. Places are limited, so apply now!

Erik Postma@erikpostma.bsky.social · last mo.

Spread the word! 📢 Funded by @aria-research.bsky.social, @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall is creating a cohort of 20 (!) MbyRes students that will tackle some of the biggest questions in order to bring about a step-change for ecosystem resilience. For more information, see 👇!

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.

This was such an amazing conference!! So well-organized and amazing speakers and venue! Looking forward to the next edition in Edinburgh!

Erik Postma@erikpostma.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our stellar 🤩 list of invited speakers #ExE2026: @danielbolnick.bsky.social Trine Bilde, Dan Nussey, @sevans.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @cleliagasparini.bsky.social Sarah Knowles, @liamlachs.bsky.social, Lizy Mittell, @keesvanoers.bsky.social, Alex Popadopolous & Katja Räsänen. evoxeco.uk

I had a great time at the 1st #ExE2026 conference! Lots of amazing talks spanning genetics, behaviour, ecology and evolution 🐤 I presented a poster about the effects of sublethal pesticide exposure on cricket behaviour. The paper is in the final stages of review, so hopefully more to share soon 🦗🤞

Back to Switzerland after the blast that was #ExE2026! Fantastic talks and posters, lovely people, biggest gulls I’ve seen in my life! Very pleased to present our cool time-machine eyes to this lovely crowd 🧿 See you all in Edinburgh 🍺

Our paper is out! 📣 we find that molecular measures of genetic variation do not predict heritable genetic variation across species - important implications for the application of genomic data for conservation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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#ExE2026 goodbye! What an excellent conference: great science, super well organized ( definitely not short of food!), beautiful venue, incl dinner. Now treveling back to @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social with a new ideas and a new book to read 🙂 see you in Edinburgh next year!

Sad that #ExE2026 is over - it was fantastic to visit Falmouth! Thank you so much to all the organisers. From the @egioxford.bsky.social we had a range of talks from @rona-learmonth.bsky.social @davididiaquez.bsky.social @celestineadelmant.bsky.social and Lucy Morley

The evolutionary ecology #ExE2026 conference in Cornwall had a very similar vibe to the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social stand alone meetings. It would be great to have more European participation in ASN and coordinate future meetings, maybe alternating sides of the Atlantic.

The sun is setting on another day of #ExE2026. Thanks to the organisers @erikpostma.bsky.social @btschirren.bsky.social @blongdon.bsky.social @ali--wilson.bsky.social and @hansonmark.bsky.social for a fantastic meeting!

A reminder for everyone at #Ex2026: if you’d like to get involved in keeping our new community thriving and growing, come along to an open conversation about future plans at 9:30 on Friday. We’ll meet outside the campus bar.

You know you’re at the right conference when the last session of the day on #quantitativegenetics is standing room only 🤩 #ExE2026

I've been to a lot of meetings where the timekeeping signals are bird calls, but it's special when the meeting's outing goes to that place where you can see & hear the birds! The scenery was OK too. #ExE2026

What a fabulous excursion we had yesterday to Lizard peninsula! Perfect weather and gorgeous views. Seals, choughs, and a kestrel. 🦭🐦☀️ Lovely break in the middle of the conference week. #ExE2026 Special thanks to @erikpostma.bsky.social for herding the big group.

Fifteen minutes into @danielbolnick.bsky.social plenary at #ExE2026 and it’s already clear this is a fabulous presentation. A great start to day 3.

After one and a half days of amazing talks at #ExE2026, it was time to show off some of the best coastline #Cornwall has on offer ☀️🌊⛰️ Lizard Point to Kynance Cove, with seals, choughs and ice cream. What a day!

@erikpostma.bsky.social opening the #ExE2026 conference, having explained it’s the “Goldilocks Conference”, with the winning recipe combining ecology and ecologyl

Kicking off #ExE2026, @erikpostma.bsky.social introduces the room to the "weaponisation of sea shanties" as a VERY STRICT timekeeping measure to ensure speakers keep to time. Will we all be cursing or singing "Wellerman" by the end of it? We shall see!

The #ExE2026 conference is officially starting today! @erikpostma.bsky.social introduces ExE with the analogy of the goldilocks fairy tale, with it being 'just right', or "lagom" as we say in Swedish. 😄

#ExE2026 Simon Evans showing convincing evidence on genotypic correlation between survival and clutch size in wild in NL and GB. This is what was missing!

Excellent plenary on the evolutionary ecology of senescence in animals from Dan Nussey this morning at #ExE2026! If you liked that, you might enjoy his recent Essay on the evolutionary genetic and physiological theories of aging in @plosbiology.org: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002513

A great start to #ExE2026 this morning! We’ll be at our stand if you want to chat about anything MEE or BES (or if you just want to draw your study organism!)

Half a dozen talks & posters by members of my group at the inaugural #ExE2026 conference this week - sorry to be missing this new meeting as looks excellent

Edward Grey Institute@egioxford.bsky.social · last mo.

Strong EGI team at #ExE2026 this wk: @devisatarkar.bsky.social on climate extremes @davididiaquez.bsky.social on mass change @celestineadelmant.bsky.social on phenology drivers, Hannah on number-quality trade-off @rona-learmonth.bsky.social on plasticity & carry-over effects & Lucy on spatial scales

Looking forward to a brilliant week of Evolution and Ecology at #ExE2026, hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social! I'm here from @plos.org (@plosone.org) so please feel free to come chat about publishing with us, or just to show off your research! 🦔🌱🧬🦊🦠🌲

My poster and I on our way to #ExE2026 in #Cornwall! If you want to learn about peeling eyes (yes, you read it right) & what insights we get about individuals’ dietary history come say hi! 🧿

It’s game on at #ExE2026 in Penryn @uniexecec.bsky.social. The first symposium on wild animals microbiome just kicked off!⚽️

En route to #Cornwall and #ExE2026! 🌿🚄 Looking forward to a great conference, and to presenting tomorrow at 16:00 in the Ecological Genetics session - Come hear about the weird #QuantGen of threshold traits under fluctuating selection☀️🌧️☀️🌧️

On my way to #ExE2026 in #Cornwall! ☀️ Into transmission heterogeneity? 🦠 🪱 🌎 Then come check my talk this Thursday, July 2nd at 16:30 in the Host-Pathogen Session 3 :)

Very timely! Giving a talk next week at #ExE2026 in Cornwall!

Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · last mo.

How to give a bad talk www.nature.com/articles/s41...