Have you ever wondered 🤔... Does phenotypic variance respond to environmental perturbation? Does it have a genetic basis? Are mean and variance regulating loci exposed to different selection pressures? These and more questions are explored in our new preprint 🔥
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
New Perspective!🔥It's fascinating how scientists from different fields but interested in the same question [e.g. genotype-phenoytpe relationship] can have such different perspectives. Here we put in our 2 cents wrt genetic effects being context-dependent, and pheno variation being mostly polygenic
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🚨We are hiring🚨
We are looking for an early-career computational evolutionary biologist with a PhD in comparative genomics, phylogenetic methods, or related fields.
We are part of @eawag.bsky.social a research insitutute of the ETH Domain in 🇨🇭
Super excited to join the Department of Environmental Sciences at @unibas.ch 🎉
www.unibas.ch/en/News-Even...
🚨We are hiring🚨
We are looking for an early-career computational evolutionary biologist with a PhD in comparative genomics, phylogenetic methods, or related fields.
We are part of @eawag.bsky.social a research insitutute of the ETH Domain in 🇨🇭
Postdoc position in Genomic signatures of adaptive evolution at Eawag, starting Q2 2026. Requires PhD, experience in comparative genomics, and fluency in English. Apply by 10 March 2026: https://apply.refline.ch/673277/1341/pub/1/index.html #postdoc
18.02.2026 07:20 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1A Postdoc in eco-evolutionary dynamics is available at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science. Applicants with a PhD in relevant fields should apply by March 10, 2026. More details: https://apply.refline.ch/673277/1340/pub/1/index.html #postdoc
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We are hiring🚨
We are looking for 2 postdocs and 1 reasearch assistant to work in the ERC project “Tipping dynamics and resilience in adapting ecological systems” at @eawag.bsky.social
Find the description of each position and the link to apply in the thread ⬇️
Looking forward to meet many women in (eco)Evolutionary Biology this Summer in the MPI in Plön.
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Screenshot of a webpage displaying endorsement quotes for the book "The Organism–Environment Pairing: A Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal" (MIT Press) by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. "This long-overdue history and philosophy of the 'environment' concept illuminates how biology thinks about one of its most fundamental ideas. A rewarding, eye-opening read for historians, philosophers, and scientists alike." --Tobias Uller, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Lund University; coauthor of Evolution Evolving and Evolutionary Causation "A formidable achievement, massive in scope, meticulously researched, densely argued, and timely. Fábregas-Tejeda's book is the definitive work on the history of thinking about the complex relation between organism and environment." --Denis Walsh, Professor, University of Toronto; author of Organisms, Agency, and Evolution "Fábregas-Tejeda's discerning analysis brings much-needed conceptual clarity to the enigmatic yet essential subject of biology--the organism-environment relationship. A lively, engaging book that will inform practicing biologists as well as philosophers and historians of science." --Sonia E. Sultan, Alan M. Dachs Professor of Science, Wesleyan University; author of Organism and Environment "A tour de force of integrated history and philosophy of biology. With impressive breadth and conceptual clarity, this outstanding monograph reshapes how we think about organisms, environments, and their entanglements." --Daniel J. Nicholson, Assistant Professor, George Mason University; author of What Is Life? Revisited
I'm touched by the incredibly generous assessments that some of the first readers of "The Organism-Environment Pairing" (@mitpress.bsky.social) have offered! I'm excited to exchange ideas with everyone once the book is published in May! 📗
mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #HPbio #HPS #evosky #philsky
Congratulations!!!
29.01.2026 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Many ideas to play with this toy 🤔
29.01.2026 12:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ohhh no. It's sooo sad to read this :'(
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Our new paper in @plosbiology.org reveals that life history evolution is at the core of an eco-evolutionary feedback that promotes diversity.
Do you want to know how? read more in: plos.io/4p7YT0a
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What is sexual selection all about... definitionally and mathematically? A super talented PI, Jussi Lehtonen, is looking for a postdoc to work it all out! Deadline end of this month.
ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...
Lamarck is coming back... 😳
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160 scientists, 23 countries, 1 report: The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, together with @exeter.ac.uk, highlights mounting risks across Earth’s systems, from melting glaciers & ice fields to slowing ocean currents, ice sheets & rainforests under pressure. Watch now👇
👉global-tipping-points.org
Book cover of "The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections" (Routledge, 2024). The book belongs to the "History and Philosophy of Biology" series. The editors are Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, and Gregory Radick. The design features a geometric pattern of interlocking, multicolored triangles and rectangular prisms in shades of red, yellow, teal, white, and pink. The Routledge logo appears in the lower right corner.
Still puzzled by the debate on organismal agency? Our edited collection brings historians, philosophers, and scientists into dialogue—offering a wide array of perspectives. An affordable paperback edition will be out at the end of the month! www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #HPS #evobio #philsky
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A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe
📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org
We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What Trump said are the well-worn and often rebutted lies of the fossil fuel lobby, whose lies are the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.
If you hear such climate science denial tropes, the answers to all of those can be found at skepticalscience.com
“Many scholars from historically overexploited countries (often referred to as the global south) expected that exposing the problem would trigger change. Four years on, I see it clearly: the scientific system was never designed for equity,” writes Dolors Armenteras in Nature. #Academicsky 🧪
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"Climate change made heatwaves more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed".
#ClimateChange
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌟 Super excited for the research to come, using models 📈 + experiments 🧪 to explore how evolution and plasticity shape tipping points.
#cienciacriolla #ERCStG #ecosystems
The @erc.europa.eu awards one of this year's starting grants to Catalina Chaparro Pedraza 💪🎉
In her five-year research project PHENOTIPPING she will address the question: How does adaptation contribute to ecosystem resilience?
#ERCStG #ecosystems
I'm very honored to receive an #ERCStG to fund my research project PHENOTIPPING.
Are you interested to know how adaptation contributes to resilience? Stay tune!
In the coming 5 years, PHENOTIPPING will use models 📈 + experiments 🧪 to explore how evolution & plasticity shape tipping points.
