💬 In the latest Evolution Exchange, SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom talks with @journal-evo.bsky.social Editor in Chief Dr. Jason Wolf about his role, the success of the journal, and the benefits of publishing in society journals. www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...

New paper out @pnas.org: We explore why fly wings evolve along "lines of least resistance" and reconcile the "rate paradox" between population variation and divergence. Check out how a low dimensional model of selection on size explains it all: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Ça se passe à Montpellier lundi prochain! Venez sur place ou en ligne, ça promet d'être très intéressant 😁

Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations@cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Exceptional seminar, Monday June 1st, 2pm (FR time) "Anticipating ecological disruptions with measurement of network coherence" by #Dominique_Gravel @usherbrooke.bsky.social, Canada Zoom: tinyurl.com/fdwnf2wz Pwd: DG@cbgp!01 #food_webs #ecological_networks #biodiversity

Congrats to @jrossibarra.bsky.social for getting elected to the NAS!

National Academy of Sciences@nasonline.org · 3mo ago

We are thrilled to announce the election of 120 members and 25 international members to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continued achievements in original research. Congratulations to our new #NASmembers and welcome to the Academy! 🎊

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2026 SSE Lifetime Achievement Award, Dr. Samuel M. Scheiner! Read more about his work as a researcher and NSF Program Officer, as well as his service to the biology community: www.evolutionsociety.org/society-awar...

Did you know that many organisms delete parts of their genome during development? To know more please join us at the Roscoff meeting on "Mechanistic and Evolutionary Basis of Programmed DNA Elimination" Sep21- 25, 2026. Please share!
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Now out in Oikos: check out our paper led by @paulcuchot.bsky.social, on how to use citizen data such as mist net captures to infer breeding phenology!

Paul Cuchot@paulcuchot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New paper out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social w/ @lmchev.bsky.social 🐦 How can we infer breeding phenology and reproductive success from bird counts or captures? nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

We found a viral Trojan Horse: a virus can hide inside another virus.This one surprised us: deltaviruses don’t just borrow a helper virus. They can travel inside it. A literal Trojan Horse “virus-in-a-virus” route into cells. 🤯 Kudos to 1st author @viroscope.bsky.social and co-authors !

Deltaviruses spread through a viral Trojan Horse

Hepatitis D-like satellite viruses, known as deltaviruses, have been recently discovered in a wide range of animals. These viruses are thought to expr…

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The final part of the story: "The arduous path to obligate asexuality in Daphnia" is out in #ProcB 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article.... 1. Instead of comparing long-established asexuals to sexuals, we generated new asexual lineages to observe the transition in action.

Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am! We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal. His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!

Society for the Study of Evolution@sse-evolution.bsky.social · 5mo ago

💬 In the second installment of The Evolution Exchange, retired NSF Program Officer Dr. Sam Scheiner returns to discuss how to craft a successful research proposal. Watch or read the transcript here: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...

"There is still life in the old dog." Brian Charlesworth on Fisher's Fundamental Theorem in @journal-evo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Is the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection of any use?

Abstract. There have been many recent discussions of the Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection, with an emphasis on its mathematical accuracy. It is arg

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The book I am most looking forward to this year. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746822...

The Co-Creation by Olivia Judson: 9780593831045 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A daring and visionary new narrative of the emergence of life, one that refocuses our attention on the beautiful and mysterious tango between life and Earth itself, from Olivia Judson, the bestselling...

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Lifemap is now installable as an app on your desktop (PWA). 🖥️ Just one click from your browser! lifemap.cnrs.fr #Lifemap #CNRS #LBBE

Wikipedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem go.nature.com/4pXIv2d

Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on

The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.

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La loutre dans le Lez!

CNRS@cnrs.fr · 6mo ago

INÉDIT 🎬 Elle avait disparu des radars depuis les années 70, pourtant la loutre fait son grand retour, notamment sur le Lez qui traverse Montpellier 🦦. Découvrez dans ce reportage les signes que laisse l’espèce derrière... 🐾 Le reportage 👉 lejournal.cnrs.fr/videos/le-re...

Registration for the DrosEU/D. suzukii meetings is extended to Jan 30, 2026. The events will be held in Montpellier, France, on Apr 13-17, 2026. Free registration at: https://droseusuz.sciencesconf.org #conference

Join Peter Grant FLS FRS & Rosemary Grant FRS on Wed 4 March as they discuss their landmark research on Darwin’s finches and how new species form. Peter and Rosemary are renowned evolutionary biologists, having studied these finches on the Galápagos islands since 1973. buff.ly/ZbYnmf2

Thanks to @eseb.bsky.social for funding our proposal for a Special Topic Network on Polygenic Adaptation. Watch out for workshops/seminars and more activities. The STN runs for several years, so we hope this innitiative can sustain the network of oldies and new members of the polygenic community!

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PolyAdapt STN@polyadapt-stn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hello world! This is the account of @eseb.bsky.social ESEB STN on Polygenic Adaptation. Have a look at out members and programs here: polygenic-adaptation-network.org and sign up to our email list docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How do bacteria deal with double costs? And how costly are unusual levels of mistranslation anyway? In short - antibiotics are more of an issue than less/more mistranslation, but the latter changes how populations deal with antibiotics. For the long story, check out our new paper!

Laasya Samhita@laasya2.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So happy that this work simultaneously measuring the costs of antibiotic exposure and mistranslation is finally out in MBE! Work from @deepaagashe.bsky.social (who was ultra patient!) and my labs. Do see the research highlight here, with Nishant's lovely graphic. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Kudos to @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social for writing a blog post about our paper published earlier this years in the one and only @peercomjournal.bsky.social ! You want to know how genetically variable plasticity is in your fav system, and what components of reaction norm shape vary the most? Try this!

Pierre de Villemereuil@pdevillemereuil.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Took me a year (😱), but I finally published a blog post about our article on the #quantgen variance partition of phenitypic plasticity with @lmchev.bsky.social, published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. 🇬🇧 devillemereuil.legtux.org/quantitative... 🇫🇷 devillemereuil.legtux.org/fr/genetique...

Well done @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues, looking good !

Evolution Letters@evolletters.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.

The Black Death was history's worst documented demographic disaster. New research shows it was also a bizarre anomaly, the unlikely result of volcanic eruptions, multiple consecutive poor harvests in Italy, a war between Genoa, Venice and the Mongols, AND a Black Sea plague outbreak. @science.org

Medieval volcano may have indirectly sparked Europe’s Black Death

Crop failures caused by eruptions possibly forced grain imports from plague-ridden regions

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A new study by Evin et al. @isemevol.bsky.social with Colline Brassard #MECADEV in Science reveals that dogs already exhibited a wide variety of shapes and sizes more than 11,000 years ago, long before modern breeding practices. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The emergence and diversification of dog morphology

Dogs exhibit an exceptional range of morphological diversity as a result of their long-term association with humans. Attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began to expand have been con...

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Check out the paper explaining what this is about, and also the database itself!

Luís M. Silva@luismsilva.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

I was quite impressed and humbled yesterday to give a talk at the @linneansociety.bsky.social, in front of this very portrait and plate!

Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41... Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU

Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Long-term research projects are essential for predicting the ecological and evolutionary responses of species to global change, yet their continuity is often threatened by uncertainties over funding. ...

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Congratulations to Joe Felsenstein on being awarded the 2026 Mendel Medal!

The Dobzhansky Prize recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The awardee will present the Dobzhansky Prize plenary at #Evol2026. Apply by December 1! shorturl.at/p70wY

A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology | PNAS

Temperature has strong impacts on all biological and ecological processes, and thermal performance curves (TPCs) have been employed recurrently to ...

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Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu