Excited to launch the first call for proposals focusing on policy and/or societal impact of evolutionary biology research. Activities might include: ✅ local meetings on policy and/or societal impact ✅ actions to influence policy 💰€500-2K available Read more here and apply: shorturl.at/ixlby

Reminder to all that us associate editors would FAR RATHER you promptly decline a review than simply not answering. This is THE major factor that slows down the review process for EVERYBODY.

📢 We're hiring! The Cell & Developmental Biology department (CDB) and other departments in Bioscience @ UCL are delighted to be recruiting for several Lecturer / Associate Professor positions. 👉 View full details and apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

This week we and our society journal @jevbio.bsky.social are proudly sponsoring #ExE2026 @uniexecec.bsky.social 😁 A very friendly meeting that is “just right” in size! Thank you for having us at the inaugural event!!

🚨Interested in #evolutionary #genomics and #popgen #theory? My lab just opened a 1+ year #postdoc position to work on sex chromosome dosage compensation. At #CEFE Montpellier 👉 bit.ly/4eMWDIh Informal enquiries welcome to me🙂 or Paul Saunders and Sylvain Glémin at #SMBE2026 Thanks for sharing!

For those interested in more sustainable (evolution) conferencing options like #NOFLYSMBE, consider the next @eseb.bsky.social meeting #eseb2027 which is a 4 city hub meeting aimed at allowing #nofly participation eseb2027.org #smbe2026 #Istanbul #London #Munich #Gothenburg

Marc Robinson-Rechavi@marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 4mo ago

Are you going to #SMBE2026 Copenhagen by train, or are you hesitating? Let's share experiences and give ideas to those who think to fly from Western or Central Europe with the hashtag #NoFlySMBE. If you're coming from 🇨🇭, there are night trains from Zürich or Basel to Hamburg. ✅🚆 ❌✈️

📢 Need time to draft your public comment on the proposed OMB "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance"? Join GSA for a one-hour virtual working session on June 29 from 4–5 pm EDT. ⏰ Register: buff.ly/d8Ks0D7 Work quietly or collab with others; you don't need to join for the full hour.

Still some time to apply to our postdoc position - deadline 3rd July. I'll be at #SMBE2026 if anyone would like to chat about it 😊

Susan Johnston@susanjohnston.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

We are advertising a 3-year Evolution Education Trust funded #PhD studentship at @ugiatucl.bsky.social UCL to investigate the genomic history of infectious diseases preserved within historical pathology collections. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... #findaphd #EET

Unlocking the Genomic History of Pathogens Through Pathology Archives at University College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Unlocking the Genomic History of Pathogens Through Pathology Archives at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Very cool new pre-print from @rmash.bsky.social and team “…parental care shapes the storage, expression and release of genetic variation…” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Parental care is a genetic capacitor

Parental care is widespread across the animal kingdom and plays a critical role in offspring development. Yet, its broader genetic and evolutionary impacts remain underexplored. Here, using the bipare...

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We are advertising a PhD studentship to study the effects of mitochondrial function on cell motility in flies. The project is supervised by myself, Nick Lane and @fcamus.bsky.social, in collaboration with Anna Franz at UCL, @stramerlab.bsky.social at KCL and Michael Sixt at ISTA. Please repost!

New academic posts in @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk APPLY NOW! Deadline 10th July Work with us: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science... Current academic opportunities: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science... UCL Biosciences homepage: www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

Reminder that the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) is asking members to sign letters regarding the OMB rule (by 6/15) and to submit individual responses (by 7/13!!). We have >250 signatories right now, GREAT!, but we have ~4k members, give or take, so pls get those signatures in!

Gina Baucom@gbaucom.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨SSE members: check your inbox!🚨 SSE has sent an important email regarding the OMB's proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations--changes that could affect peer review, publishing, conferences, professional societies, international collaborations, and more. @sse-evolution.bsky.social

Done. Phew!

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 Last call - the deadline to cast your votes for the 2026 SMBE Election is tomorrow. You still have time to participate in shaping the future of SMBE - we're counting on you! 🗓️ June 12, 2026 🗳️ SMBE members - check your email (and SPAM folder) for the voting link ℹ️ smbe@am.kwglobal.com #society

Two pleas from a journal editor: 1. If you're mid-career or senior and are declining a review, please recommend a junior colleague. 2. If you're early-career and want to be asked to review papers, please ensure editors can readily discover your expertise, current affililation, and email address.

We urge GSA members and the genetics community to submit a public comment on the recently proposed OMB regulations—which pose drastic challenges to the scientific enterprise—by July 13, 2026! Submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB...

Coalition for Life Sciences@c4lifesciences.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you are at #SMBE2026 at the end of the month, go and listen to @deboraycb.bsky.social about detection balancing selection with ARGs! S08, on Tuesday morning.

Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Talks by: Evan Forsythe @deboraycb.bsky.social @jasondekoning.bsky.social Irene Julca Bui Quang Minh Iker Rivas-González Madeline A. Chase Hongjin Wu

Talks by: Evan Forsythe @deboraycb.bsky.social @jasondekoning.bsky.social Irene Julca Bui Quang Minh Iker Rivas-González Madeline A. Chase Hongjin Wu

🚨SSE members: check your inbox!🚨 SSE has sent an important email regarding the OMB's proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations--changes that could affect peer review, publishing, conferences, professional societies, international collaborations, and more. @sse-evolution.bsky.social

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Excited to launch the first call for proposals focusing on policy and/or societal impact of evolutionary biology research. Activities might include: ✅ local meetings on policy and/or societal impact ✅ actions to influence policy 💰€500-2K available Read more here and apply: shorturl.at/ixlby

Working on ageing in unusual taxa? Consider submitting to our Special Issue on the Journal of Evolutionary Biology: "Ageing outside of the box: insights from unusual and non-model species". With @yagmurerten.bsky.social and @MargauxBieuville, we are looking forward! academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...

Official petition for the UK to rejoin the EU, open to UK citizens and residents: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74... Takes literally 1 minute, very quick. With changing political climate, worth making your UK voice heard if this is your view. Petition closes June 8th 2026.

Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK

We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...

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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)

To writers who use AI even just for research, I strongly recommend reading the @authorsguild.org guide: "AI Best Practices For Authors" www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... (via @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social buff.ly/IblvLDa)

Authors Guild Issues Updated AI Best Practices for Writers

As questions continue to swirl around how to ethically and legally use AI in the writing and publishing of books, the Guild has updated its guidance to help authors better navigate the changing landsc...

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📣 The ESEB Equal Opportunities Committee invites proposals for activities that increase awareness of inequalities and improve representation and equal opportunities within evolutionary biology 💰€1K grants available 👥 All ESEB members eligible to apply 🌐 Find out more: shorturl.at/7GEAo

Thread about the current round of BBSRC Early Independence fellowships, with some very good points about shifting the review burden to universities and the treatment of the ECRs.

Daniel Padfield@padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BBSRC Early Independence Fellowships had an Outline stage this year to try help with amount of peer review. Turns out they received 586 applications, a 110% increase on 2025, and only typically fund 15 a year. They are cancelling this stage and going straight to full app with an institutional sift.

"Sexually antagonistic selection: a review of the theory and its implications" doi.org/10.32942/X28M22

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Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)! For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions). Scholarships available, Pls RP! shorturl.at/fo1GA