Now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org "The seminal proteome of a monandrous fly, Drosophila subobscura". We discovered that, despite monandry, D subobscura's seminal fluid is surprisingly similar D melanogaster's, and likely shaped by conflict! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Join us in May 2027! Thanks a lot @janhrcek.bsky.social for hosting the 17th @droseu.bsky.social workshop! @fly-eds.bsky.social @drosospain.bsky.social #Drosophila

DrosEU@droseu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Save the date! The 17th DrosEU workshop will be held in České Budějovice on the 24th to 26th May 2027. Thanks to @janhreck.bsky.social for hosting us! #Drosophila #genomics

Poikela, @vihoikka.bsky.social M. Ritchie & @maariakankare.bsky.social show that a 9.5 Mbp polymorphic inversion of Drosophila montana can contribute to population adaptation and divergence 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag101 #genome #evolution #drosophila

Examining the Role of a Chromosomal Inversion in Accumulating Adaptive and Barrier Loci in a Cold-adapted Insect Species

Abstract. Chromosomal inversions can play a crucial role in population adaptation and divergence by reducing gene flow and preserving adaptive allelic comb

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Also, happy voting day! If you're eligible, please go vote!

Bingo! Do I win a prize now?

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

🪰🧬 What a fantastic start! Yesterday kicked off #DrosEU2026 at #Genopolys in Montpellier, France 🇫🇷 Exciting discussions on #Drosophila research, #genomics, #evolution, and #CitizenScience.

We have a growing collection of resources for women in ecology that support, celebrate and advocate for women's roles in research and practice.  Check our collection of resources here 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/gtwczvuefr

Booty bumping is officially a scientific term!!!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Multispecies analysis of social effects on same-sex sexual behavior challenges mistaken identity hypotheses in insects | PNAS

Same-sex sexual behavior (SSB) in insects has historically been considered a byproduct of sex recognition failure, or “mistaken identity,” and cons...

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We are calling for Reviews, Commentaries or research papers for our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction, covering the entire reproductive process, from mate selection, mating and egg-laying or pregnancy through to parental care bit.ly/3ZT42hY

The Plakke lab seeks students for funded M.S. positions in Fall 2026 at Governors State University, focusing on dichotomous sperm in insects. Info session on March 26. Email CV to mplakke@govst.edu. More info at: https://www.govst.edu. #gradstudent

question to those doing sperm motility analysis. Are there any recent resources/reviews you'd recommend? What software are you using? Thanks

New paper from our lab showing that larvae exposed to thermal stress suffer higher mortality, but for those that survive, there are no long-term effects on reproduction later in life www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌡️🐞 Congrats to @jakobwiil.bsky.social on his first paper from his PhD! 🥳

🧵1/4 We are calling for submissions for our upcoming Special Issue: The Integrative Biology of Reproduction bit.ly/3ZT42hY

Watch Isobel Grieve talk about research published in #BiologyLetters that investigated the effect of temperature stress on male and female reproductive success and offspring fitness in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides: cassyni.com/events/9iJ8J... @izzygrieve.bsky.social

Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · 9mo ago

New research from #BiologyLetters: Heatwaves impair female but not male fertility in a subsocial insect royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #Behaviour #Ecology

Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution! friedmanlab.ca

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An important study maps how nerves control the Drosophila male reproductive tract, revealing two types of glutamatergic neurons that also release serotonin or octopamine. 🔗 buff.ly/3PV2YQW

Sunday read 😍 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PIS49F...

Is speciation usually allopatric? Genomic analyses of 93 Drosophila species pairs show that gene flow during divergence is common—even among allopatric species—challenging the classic allopatric model of speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Genomic analyses in Drosophila do not support the classic allopatric model of speciation

Abstract. The allopatric model of speciation has dominated our understanding of speciation biology and biogeography since the Modern Synthesis. It is uncon

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I really need the announcer at the station to stop saying “we’re sorry that your journey will take longer than planned”

📣 PhD opportunity in my lab 📣 We're looking for a motivated student interested in the effects of thermal stress on animal survival and reproduction: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Project is open-ended to allow student to define its direction depending on their interests Please share widely!

I've been running around like a headless chicken all day and am very frazzled, so I am going to eat some popcorn and see if I can muster some thoughts about research culture. (These are not necessarily subtweets of anyone at my institution, I'm just thinking out loud.)

Size does matter for mating success in two species of seed bugs in the wild. #sexualselection #lygaeidae #mating #naturalselection #malematechoice #sicily doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @opheliasfritsch.bsky.social and Shuker

Sexual selection in wild populations of seed bugs: the role of size in pre-copulatory mate choice by females and males

Abstract. Although sexual selection is a well-established part of evolutionary biology, controversies remain about the roles of males and females. For inst

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When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...

Vagina Museum@vaginamuseum.bsky.social · last yr.

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

I thought I saw some auks, but it was just a skua flying backwards.

CRE reunion at BoS17! @nalini-drp.bsky.social @martingarlovsky.bsky.social @yazbraimah.bsky.social plus Zee and Stefan.

Looking forward to #BoS2025 tomorrow and when I come back I can harvest this beetroot

Sharing because I'm pretty chuffed with how it turned out. I knitted a bag with strawberries on it for my niece's first birthday. I even managed to line it and add drawstrings.

New account - It turns out that changing your email includes Bluesky sending a verification code to your current address. Unfortunately, mine had expired, so here we are.