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Joe Hanly

@hanliconius.bsky.social

interested in evolution, population genetics, the genotype-phenotype map, and butterflies. Postdoc at GWU. #albinism. He/him 🏳️‍🌈

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Rebekah Rogers@evolscientist.bsky.social · yesterday

Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).

Joe Hanly@hanliconius.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm a fan of the new(ish) Comparative Genome Viewer feature on NCBI: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/cgv which provides interactive whole-genome riparian plots, like this for Helicoverpa sp, which allows you to quickly and easily examine interesting features. Only a handful of genomes on there for now though!

a whole genome riparian plot from the NCBI Comparative Genome Viewer. Two parallel rows; top labelled for Helicoverpa zea, bottom for Helicoverpa armigera. Each row is divided into 31 Chromosomes. Each chromosome is connected by a lines, which correspond to homologous regions. The connecting lines are green to indicate same-orientation homology, and blue to indicate reverse-orientation homology. A zoomed-in view of a small region of Chromosome 24 from the previous figure, with one inversion labelled centrally. Gene tracks are present on both chromosomes.
Henry Arenas-Castro@henryarenas.bsky.social · 2d ago

"How two hybridizing monkeyflowers resist phenotypic homogenization" I'm very happy to share this. We would really appreciate your feedback!

Slide with the title and authors list of a manuscript along with illustrations of the monkeyflowers Mimulus guttatus (left) and Mimulus glaucescens (right). In the background, a Manhattan plot with outlier loci and QTL locations. Title: Maintenance of phenotypic divergence in two sympatric monkeyflowers with weak reproductive isolation Authors: Henry Arenas-Castro, Cage Cochran, Quinn Evans, Hongfei Chen, Jenn M. Coughlan Manuscript: bioRxiv, 10.64898/2026.07.28.741377
Jenn Coughlan@jenncoughlan.bsky.social · 3d ago

So proud of this manuscript- lead by the fantastic @henryarenas.bsky.social with two undergraduates (Cage Cochran and Quinn Evans) each doing a Herculean effort during their honors theses, and Hongfei Chen helping out tremendously with lab work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Joe Hanly@hanliconius.bsky.social · 2d ago

Really quite remarkable preprint from Wei Lu and the Kronforst lab, diving into the cellular evolutionary mechanisms behind mate choice in Heliconius. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Evolution of compound eye cell types shapes visual behaviors across Heliconius butterflies

The evolution of visual systems is tightly linked to the diversification of visually guided behaviors. Using Heliconius butterflies, renowned for their rapid diversification of wing color patterns and...

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Joe Hanly@hanliconius.bsky.social · last wk.

In @dev-journal.bsky.social, an 'In Preprints' perspective on our recent biorxiv paper. Honestly a massive honour to be written up by the great @pbeldade.bsky.social !!! journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

In preprints: the genetic basis of the development and evolution of melanic pigmentation on butterfly wings

A recent preprint by Joseph Hanly and colleagues (Hanly et al., 2026 preprint) investigates the role of a recently identified long non-coding RNA, ivory, and an associated microRNA, mir-193, on wing s...

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Arif M@arf-mln.bsky.social · 2w ago

Very excited to see the first chapter of my PhD out on bioRxiv! It began as a rotation project and became a pivotal part of my PhD on beetles, adding a complementary macroevolutionary perspective to my second chapter on early-stage speciation in Indonesian herbivorous ladybird beetles.

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 2w ago

338 coleopteran genomes reveal exceptional rearrangement variation compared to other insect orders https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.17.739156v1

Joe Hanly@hanliconius.bsky.social · 2w ago

NCBI's Genome Viewer is now live for H. melpomene rosina, making it very fast and easy to go and look at your favourite locus and to directly view data tracks like RNAseq evidence. Below having a look at the ivory:mir-193 locus.

a screencap of the NCBI genome data viewer.
Joe Hanly@hanliconius.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy to spread the word that there is now an NCBI / RefSeq-annotated Heliconius melpomene (rosina) genome, thanks to efforts by Krista Pipho and the Wray lab at Duke. Please use it, share it, and let us know if there are issues. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/gen...

Daniel Bolnick@danielbolnick.bsky.social · 3w ago

For the handful of people out there studying Schistocephalus solidus tapeworms (which infect copepods, stickleback, and birds): we just wrapped up a new & improved genome assembly using long read, Hi-C, and short read sequencing. Not published yet, but reach out if it would be helpful

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Joe Hanly@hanliconius.bsky.social · last mo.

A great Perspective in @dev-journal.bsky.social on Waddington's landscape, including some silly songs recorded for Waddington's 50th birthday party in 1955 journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... 1/2

C.H. Waddington's lasting achievements in development and evolution

ABSTRACT. C.H. Waddington (1905-1975) was a British biologist and perhaps the major figure in developmental biology between the 1940s and 1960s. He is one of the few pre-molecular-age developmental bi...

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Joe Hanly@hanliconius.bsky.social · last mo.

If anyone wants info or insights on what it's like being a postdoc / postodctoral fellow with STRI, hit me up! These positions sound really cool!

Noah Whiteman@nkwhiteman.bsky.social · last mo.

So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

Joe Hanly@hanliconius.bsky.social · last yr.

While helping out on a cool genomics project recently, I came to realise I’d been taught a pretty big inaccuracy about the events that occur at fertilization. I suspect that almost everyone reading this has the same misapprehension, so let’s do some learning together: 1/

Joe Hanly@hanliconius.bsky.social · last mo.

Strong agree with this - I think we can all do this here on bluesky too! It helps to spread new work in areas where we have expertise in a less formal setting than a journal or conference, which can only be a good thing.

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · last mo.

I know it seems like a heretical idea, but one way to figure out if a preprint is really interesting (to you) is... to read the preprint. Then, in the spirit of sharing, send a note to authors: a simple kudos or a more detailed question. I do this a dozen times a year. It's awesome. Try it.

Joe Hanly@hanliconius.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've banged this drum both in conversations and in reviews in the past, but here is a perfect example of how lack of care around gene naming can lead to major issues in publications. Everyone collectively needs to take gene naming and ID reporting very seriously.

Sholto David@sholtodavid.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins. forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...