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Ben Hopkins @brhopkins92.bsky.social · 8h

The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!

Ichetucknee Springs State Park, a short drive from Gainesville, FL

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Amanda Bretman @amandabretman.bsky.social · 18h

Out now - female fruit flies cluster their eggs together depending on their social environment 🪰🧪 Just wish they'd let us know why... led by @emilyrosech.bsky.social Emily Fowler, Lucy Friend and Tracey Chapman. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Female fruit flies use social cues to make egg-clustering decisions - BMC Biology

Background The ability to respond plastically to environmental variation is a key determinant of fitness. Females may use cues to strategically place their eggs, for example adjusting the number or lo...

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 11d

Research also shows that spreading smaller amounts of funding out over more researchers generally delivers better scientific outcomes per dollar spent than focusing bigger grants on fewer researchers.

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Big Science vs. Little Science: How Scientific Impact Scales with Funding

Agencies that fund scientific research must choose: is it more effective to give large grants to a few elite researchers, or small grants to many researchers? Large grants would be more effective only...

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Hilde Schneemann @hildeschneemann.bsky.social · 17d

🚂 This petition needs your signatures! Save the wonderful nighttrain that gets you into the center of Paris/Vienna/Berlin in time for breakfast whilst you doze off or have memorable encounters and conversations with fellow travellers agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne

Signez la pétition maintenant !

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Melanie Brien @melbrien.bsky.social · 21d

Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Wood tiger moth on leaf. Photo: Juhani Maamela.

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 26d

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

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John Marshall @johnm.bsky.social · Sep 15

The htslib.org web site for samtools/htslib/bcftools, or generally get source code from the respective (mostly) GitHub repositories. Build binaries yourself or get them from relatively trusted sources like Linux distributions, brew, or bioconda.

Samtools

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Martin Garlovsky @martingarlovsky.bsky.social · Sep 15

What are the right links?

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Kathy Darragh @kdarragh.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · Aug 22

Mike Ritchie emphasising the huge importance of supporting society journals like JEB in his ESEB presidential address, Barcelona. @eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

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Josh Dubnau @joshdubnau.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fly folk:

The Amazing and essential @flybase.bsky.social is in existential need due to Trump termination of the grant that supports this vital resource.

Please donate to help keep Flybase alive. I just did. Info here on how to make a tax deductible donation:

wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

FlyBase:Contribute to FlyBase - FlyBase Wiki

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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · Aug 15

Excited to share my recent paper on the evolution of atypical sperm morphology in a passerine bird (the red-browed finch) in @jevbio.bsky.social with @danielmhooper.bsky.social and others. Check out their weird #sperm!

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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · Aug 12

3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info!

nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Postdoctoral researcher: avian microbiomes and reproduction

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...

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Stefano Bettinazzi @stefanobettinazzi.bsky.social · Aug 4

New Evolution-Digest out! 🎉
Intergenomic discordance should reduce fitness, especially in older males. Well, @martingarlovsky.bsky.social et al., showed that it might not always be the case. 🪰
@sse-evolution.bsky.social

Digest: Sex-specific benefits of mitochondrial introgression

Abstract. Disrupting mitochondrial and nuclear coadaptation is expected to reduce fitness, especially in males and with age. But is that always true? Garlo

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@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Jul 26

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

⭐Issue 6 of JEB is now online!⭐

This issue is headlined by a Target Review from @josselin-clo.bsky.social et al. on #matingsystems evolution, accompanied by several #invitedcommentaries expanding on this key discussion comparing concepts in plants and animals:

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Volume 38 Issue 6 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | Oxford Academic

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

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Laurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · Jul 16

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update

It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes

Let’s break it down (1/10)

github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · Jul 9

Research reveals that long sperm testes upregulate genes enriched for seminal fluid proteins (Sfps) and lncRNAs. Knockouts of key Sfps reduce sperm length, suggesting unexpected role for Sfps in sperm development:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Galvin et al. @ellarson.bsky.social @uofdenver.bsky.social

Sperm length and seminal fluid proteins promote male reproductive success in Drosophila melanogaster

Abstract. Spermatozoal morphology varies widely within and among species, often corresponding to the shape of the female sperm storage organs in ways that

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Martin Garlovsky @martingarlovsky.bsky.social · Jul 7

Quick put it back in

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Krish Sanghvi @krishsanghvi11.bsky.social · Jul 3

www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/BCDWV... a pdf link

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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Krish Sanghvi @krishsanghvi11.bsky.social · Jun 27

How to interpret sexual selection using Bateman gradients? When are these not informative & how should researchers identify, deal with confounded gradients? We simulate anisogamy & sperm competition to provide a guide for using Bateman gradients. Out in Evolution

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Diagnosing confounded Bateman gradients

Abstract. The Bateman gradient is a fundamental metric of sexual selection, often interpreted as the fitness advantage individuals gain by increasing their

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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · Jun 19

Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation
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Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Georgy Semenov et al.

Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation

Abstract. Determining the genetic architecture of traits involved in adaptation and speciation is one of the key components of understanding the evolutiona

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Toni Gabaldón @tonigabaldon.bsky.social · Jun 16

Just hours before the end of the early bird, registrations are rapidly going up. We had an overwhelming response to the abstract. call (>2000) and the possibility of reaching the capacity limit is not so unlikely.

So better hurry up to secure your spot at #ESEB2025

eseb2025.com/registration/

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Jun 15

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

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