It's good to be back in Bristol (already!) for the EPPEC 2026 conference eppec2026.com - really enjoyed the talks today and looking forward to tomorrow!

Terrific article in @quantamagazine.org about polyploidy and featuring our snails, along with some amazing other scientists! ❤️🐌🧬 www.quantamagazine.org/genome-dupli... @johnlogsdon.bsky.social @chelseahiggins.bsky.social @kylemcelroy.bsky.social @peterdfields.bsky.social @jsharbro.bsky.social

Genome Duplication Is a Radical Evolutionary Gamble | Quanta Magazine

By doubling their entire genome, organisms can evolve extremely rapidly — or they can lose it all. New studies reveal how to survive the high-risk, high-reward evolutionary event.

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🚨Breaking news UKHSA finds invasive Aedes aegypti breeding in east London, prompting enhanced surveillance. ⬇️ Invasive mosquito species detected in east London - GOV.UK www.gov.uk/government/n...

Invasive mosquito species detected in east London

UKHSA finds invasive Aedes aegypti breeding in east London, prompting enhanced surveillance.

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📢 My colleague Daniela Perez (not on Bluesky) is looking for a postdoc! The position is for 2 years, working on cooperation, competition & collective decision-making in 🪱. More info: tinyurl.com/mr2vd57n 📅 Deadline: 25 September 2026 📩 Interested? Contact Daniela directly!

Research Position (m/f/d) (Postdoc)

<div style="margin:0;">The Department of Evolutionary Biology explores how organisms' traits and behaviours evolve in response to envi...

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Max is great, Mainz is great, mushroom bodies are... also great?! Apply!!!

Max Farnworth@maxfarnworth.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.

I am also advertising a 4 year (!) PhD student position. The PhD student will design developmental brain atlases and help establish comparative projectomics in key cell groups of the central complex and mushroom bodies. See details in the ad.

I am advertising a 3 year postdoc position. This person is going to focus on cell type development and evolution across key integration centres of the insect brain in four insect species. See details in the ad.

🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.

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First day at work on this lovely, leafy campus and it made me very happy to see "Life-History Evolution" on the sign outside our building. Looking forward to growing our group, research and teaching here at @unimainz.bsky.social in the next years!

Paper out today led by Hongxin Xie answering a question we have been asking for years! how did viviparity evolve in common lizards? 🦎 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Genome-wide barriers to gene flow reveal the genetic basis of viviparity evolution in a lizard

Viviparity (live-bearing) is a major evolutionary transition repeatedly linked with ecological and evolutionary diversification throughout vertebrates…

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We have a ca 1.5 yr postdoc available in our team, asking, 'what is the shape of the fitness landscape between oviparity and viviparity?' and 'what drives viviparity to evolve'? 🧬 using 🦎 as a model. closes 16 Sept. Details on EvolDir evoldir.net/brian/evoldi... @glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

Come and work with us (the Kokkonuts) as a postdoc! Our research within (theory-evo-eco) is broad; let's say it's implicitly defined by the journal club papers we read. Which is why the application process includes a JC-related task, I hope it'll be a fun one for you! www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

KU Leuven | Doctoral researcher on uncertainty and causality in climate models - Application deadline 📆 Aug 31, 2026

Doctoral researcher on uncertainty and causality in climate models

Interested in uncertainty and causality in climate models?

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@w-s-w.org is providing 6.7 million € to support the appointment of 6 internationally renowned scientists to German universities. Their fields of expertise include marine research, evolutionary biology, theoretical physics, theoretical and materials chemistry, as well as robotics. #AcademicSky 👇

Exciting times both professionally and personally - we're moving to Mainz as I am starting a professorship in September! Thank you to the Wübben foundation @w-s-w.org for the amazing support. Really looking forward to the work and life adventures to come! (1/3)

Mainz University@mainzuniversity.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wübben Foundation @w-s-w.org supports two faculty appointments at #MainzUniversity: Evolutionary biologist Sinead English and chemist Emanuele Penocchio will take up professorships in Mainz 👉 press.uni-mainz.de/wubben-founda…

Thanks to our colleagues from around the world who signed the Open Letter against redundancies in CRAB. The letter surpassed 700 signatures in just over 1 wk. We hope execs will now see the harm they are doing to the University of Exeter's global reputation. sites.google.com/view/save-cr...

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As of 2026-07-14, this open letter has been signed by 754 people Signatories include 198 Professors and members of 11 National Academies, including 12 Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS) Signatories a...

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Our Conversation article here about our new paper on heatwaves and bee fertility theconversation.com/heatwaves-ar... Read the journal article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Heatwaves are destroying the sex lives of bees – new research

Sperm activity in bees dropped after being exposed to heatwave conditions.

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So much fun to take 20 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social undergraduate students to Adelboden CH for the 2026 Alpine Interactions field course with @chrisleduck.bsky.social & 2 fantastic PhD demonstrators (Mini Graydon & Kath Leon). Lots of cool insects & larger critters, beautiful views and enthusiasm!

Don’t forget to get these in by Monday ! 🚨

ASAB@asab.org · 4mo ago

Reminder that a lot of grants are due in little over a week (June 1)! This includes Research grants, Undergraduate Project scholarships and the ECBB Conference Attendance/Childcare/Accessibility grants 💸🏃 www.asab.org/grant-overview

Link broke, but now alive again here! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Stephen Montgomery@ebablab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨Job claxon🚨 4-year #Postdoc available in our lab in @camzoology.bsky.social developing molecular and anatomical approaches to mapping evolutionary changes in the brain, using #Heliconiini butterflies. Come join us, we are nice. 🧪 www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Four current special issues and calls for papers related to cancer evolution/ecology and mathematical oncology (details also in the alt text for you to copy and search)

Modern medicine has transformed how we age, with more people surviving to old age with chronic disease. Karen Modig & Marcus Ebeling examine how aging, health, and care should be redefined to reflect these increasingly complex later lives. 🧪 #aging #healthcare

Beyond survival: Redefining successful aging in the era of medical complexity

Modern medicine has transformed not only how long we live, but also how we age, with more people surviving to old age with chronic disease. This Perspective examines how aging, health, and care…

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Congratulations to our 2026 Huxley Award recipient, Matheus Januario Lopes de Sousa, for the educational resource: “evolved: an open-source R package designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate instruction in evolutionary biology”! Read more: shorturl.at/1ZdFE@mjanua...

Temporarily keeping parents’ genetic contributions separate promotes normal development, a new mouse study suggests. https://scim.ag/4cZgItZ

Battle over DNA within fertilized eggs may explain why some IVF procedures fail

Temporarily keeping parents’ genetic contributions separate promotes normal development, mouse study suggests

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How do cell lineages evolve, and how does that shape trait evolution? Join our symposium Tracing Evolution Through Cell Lineages (Plön, 12–14 October). Hear perspectives from leading scientists and contribute with your own. Read more at: workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/145/ #EvoDevo #StemCell

Evolutionary landscapes of zygotic genome activation across animals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.16.718233v1

Applications for our international Master‘s programme in Evolutionary Biology open again soon! We offer teaching and exciting research in molecular and experimental evolution, behaviour, ecology to genomics, bioinformatics and modelling. Come join us at JGU Mainz!

Pleased to finally share this fun collab that began at #Ento23 @cedricaumont.bsky.social presented & I had seen NCBI annotated some cockroach genomes as "contaminated." Turns out NCBI & I were wrong (much more fun). Horizontal transfer of an #AntimicrobialPeptide across insects bit.ly/DrsHGT 1/🧵

Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Then you cannot miss #ExE2026! Hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall, this #conference has a stellar line-up of speakers and lots of pre-and post-conference workshops. Space is limited, so register now at evoxeco.uk!