Kathy Darragh

How Inventors Find Inspiration in Evolution Soft batteries and water-walking robots are among the many creations made possible by studying animals and plants.

#NSF funding is crucial for uncovering and developing new engineered solutions to our probleme based on plant and animal biology. #saveNSF www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Hi Folks !

Just a few more days to register for the POPGROUP meeting (deadline = this Monday 10/11/2025).

Join us in the beautiful city of #Lille just across the Channel for three exciting days of science and more !

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My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

Three people dressed in Halloween costumes as a pupa, butterfly, and caterpillar

Darragh lab ready for Halloween! @zar-rebholz.bsky.social

Just a few days left to apply to our TT position in Plant Physiology in the Dept. of Biology @UMassAmherst! Join a great group of plant scientists (and physiologists 😉) AND fall in love with small town New England! Please repost. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

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

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!

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

If you are a plant biologist interested in collaborating on an evolutionary floral scent/plant volatile project please reach out!
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Very happy to announce that the next POPGROUP meeting will take place in Lille on 7-9 January !

Follow ‪@popgroup2026.bsky.social for all updates.

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Exciting news!
The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris.

This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics.

More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

See you there !

Buscando estudiantes para empezar en agosto de 2026. Estudiamos la evolución de las señales químicas de los insectos con biología evolutiva, ecología química, biología molecular, y estudios de comportamiento. Más información aquí: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

Green butterfly sat on a flower.

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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@zar-rebholz.bsky.social

Come here me talk at #Evol2025 about butterfly chemical evolution today (Saturday) at 3pm in room Athens AB (Parallel Evolution I).

Stay for Zarley Rebholz on chemical convergence between plants and ladybirds!

Ah that's so exciting - congratulations!! 🎉

I am delighted to be starting as an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology at the University of Florida in January 2026. The lab is broadly interested in the functional, developmental, and evolutionary genetics of cell types and organs across flies and beyond 🪰🧬

The @labschulz.bsky.social worked out how to make HNDB, a species-specific perfume compound of the orchid bee Euglossa dilemma - and here they are collecting their freshly synthesized compound of choice!!
Now published in Synlett:
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#natprod

“This grant means freedom… I can take more risks.”

Join us in congratulating the 2025 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award recipients, @aiinglim.bsky.social, Pavitra Muralidhar & Kavita Rangan 👏

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What happens to floral scent when it is no longer needed? At the genetic level, are genes lost or down-regulated? Fun new open access paper in MBE! #evosky #PlantScience

Thank you so much, it was a lot of fun!

Thanks Graham!

¡Nuevo estudio! Encontramos que las especies de caña agria polinizadas por colibríes han perdido en su mayoría su aroma floral. Me encanto trabajar en este proyecto y me alegra mucho verlo ya publicado en MolBiolEvol. El resumen en español se puede encontrar en "supplementary materials".

Flowers from two species of spiral ginger (Costus). On the left a bee-pollinated species, and on the right a hummingbird-pollinated species.

Convergent floral scent loss following transition to hummingbird pollination in spiral gingers (Costus).
I had so much fun on this project with @kathleenmkay.bsky.social and Santiago Ramirez and am thrilled to see it published now in @MolBioEvol! academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.

(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving.

osf.io

Contact support@osf.io if you need assistance

Multiple, Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Computing in Biology, Health, and Wellness - Bloomington, Indiana job with Indiana University Bloomington | 664327 Invite applications for multiple tenure /tenure-track positions at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor ranks

🚨🚨🚨Jobs at IU!🚨🚨🚨
Multiple positions in computational biology, broadly interpreted. Positions can be in multiple depts, including Biology, Informatics, and CS.

Please apply--we want new colleagues!

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Save the date! 🚨🚨🚨

The annual Midwest Population Genetics meeting will be held here at Indiana University, Bloomington on August 9-10.

Stay tuned for more info #MWPG24

AmNat fact 1: Did you know that you can publish bilingual abstracts & titles (i.e. other than English) in The American Naturalist? This increases the visibility & inclusivity of your work, by making it accessible to non-English speaking communities. (3/5)

Male orchid bees collect compounds to use as pheromones, a behaviour with cognitive and physiological demands. We detected associated gene expression changes in the Malpighian tubules but none in the brain or hind legs.
@kdarragh.bsky.social & Santiago Ramírez

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¿Cómo afecta el comportamiento a la expresión génica? Investigamos los cambios en a expresión génica después de la recolección de perfume en abejas de las orquídeas y no encontramos ninguna diferencia en los tejidos que esperábamos.