As everyone's winding down on #evol2026 we want to share our survey link with you again. Whether you work in reproductive biology specifically or not, please take a minute to help us understand how the scientific community uses reproductive terms in research! And hope to see you at #SMBE!

🚨 Last call for registrations 🚨 Only D-39 days to go until our conference !! ⏳ Don't forget to register - February 20th is the deadline ! ⏰👇 📍https://biology-of-vsd.my.canva.site/ We are looking forward to see you all in Crete ! #VSD2026 #RegisterNow

We are delighted to present the official #VSD2026 poster featuring our keynote and plenary speakers, and the organizing committee @nitzan-gonen.bsky.social @nicolevalenzuela.bsky.social Special thanks to our sponsors @biologists.bsky.social & the Society for the Study of Reproduction. 3/3

We all look forward to seeing you at the #VSD2026 symposium in Crete this March. 🔔 Please remember to finalize your registration - Registration closes end of february 👉 More info : biology-of-vsd.my.canva.site Use #VSD2026 to share research, questions & insights during the symposium 2/3 👇

👋 Welcome to the official BlueSky account of the #VSD scientific community ! This account was created to 👇 -share official announcements -highlight scientific content & speakers during the #VSD2026 meeting - support live discussions and help our community stay connected 1/3👇

🚨Check our new preprint (and another chapter of my PhD) ! We are investigating the proximate causes of territoriality in females of the African pygmy mouse !

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Evaluating the roles of testosterone and sex-linked genes in territorial aggression of sex-reversed XY females in the African pygmy mouse https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.05.692630v1

🎉 PAPER OUT ! Happy to see another chapter of my PhD out in #MBE ! The African pygmy mouse flips the script on sex determination. Its multiple sex and neo-sex chromosomes 🤯 shape brain transcriptomes and drive sexual polymorphism, reflecting new evolutionary trajectories for sex-linked regions.

Molecular Biology and Evolution@molbioevol.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Heitzmann et al. compared brain transcriptomes of four sexual genotypes of the African pygmy mouse, showing how sex and neo-sex chromosomes impacted transcriptomes to reflect their transmission mode, evolutionary trajectories, and genomic conflicts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf208 #evobio #molbio