Drew Sauve (he/him)

Enjoyed reading this Perspective from Tautz and colleagues which calls for a re-engagement on the part of classical genetics with the realities of complex phenotypes as revealed by quantitative genetics
academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Led by my talented PhD student @justine-armg.bsky.social we’re running a #meta-analysis of #cross-sex-genetic-correlations in fitness components.

If you have unpublished data or know of studies that might not appear in a systematic search, please reach out, we’d love to include them!

Please share!

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary Simulations Across Multiple Chromosomes and Full Genomes Abstract. Evolutionary simulations of multiple chromosomes, even up to the scale of full-genome simulations, are becoming increasingly important in populat

Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

📣🐦This is a reminder that early bird registration for the CSEE 2026 Conference ends tomorrow, January 30!

Register here: event.fourwaves.com/csee2026/reg...

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

Organizing an intensive writing day for a group of experienced & junior scientists!Goals are to outline manuscript, agree on questions/hypotheses, draft sections, start analysis.

Team will be split into outlining/writing + stats/analysis group.

Tips for max progress & momentum after?

trans scientist collective Trans Scientist Collective Landing Page and Interest From

This seems like a really great initiative! If you know any Trans scientists who might be interested in joining a broader community, please pass along!

transscientistcollective.carrd.co

This is a beautiful, hypnotising bit of footage of a lobate ctenophore from @schmidtocean.bsky.social 🧪 🦑
#MarineLife.

And no, it's not a jellyfish, it's a comb jelly

Haller, Ralph & Messer present SLiM 5, a major extension of the SLiM simulation framework for simulating multiple chromosomes, enabling a heightened level of realism for full-genome simulations.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf313

#evobio #molbio #compbio

How can natural history museums help nature recover? It is widely accepted that we face a biodiversity crisis due to human activities, and we need active conservation interventions to address it. Natural history museums have recently made public commitm...

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Three stages of manuscript development – and why they matter to you as a mentor When folks find out that Bethann Garramon Merkle and I have written a book called Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-based Approach, they often ask: “What’s your #1 tip?”* …

How to work on a draft manuscript with a developing writer - through three stages of manuscript development. You can do less work and be more effective! 🧪

Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential A capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognised as a global conservation priority. Adaptation requires additive (heritable) genetic variatio...

I'm excited to share that our preprint is now available on bioRxiv! Our study challenges the widespread use of molecular genetic diversity as a predictor adaptive potential, with important implications for how genetic data is used to inform conservation decisions.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

Academia friendly peer-reviewed journals in EEB: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Adaptive tracking with antagonistic pleiotropy results in seemingly neutral molecular evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution Population genetics simulations and analysis of experimental datasets in yeast, Drosophila and E. coli show that beneficial mutations are abundant but transient, as they become deleterious after environmental turnover (antagonistic pleiotropy). Consequently, populations continuously adapt to changing environments (adaptive tracking), yet most mutations that reach fixation are neutral.

Adaptive tracking with antagonistic pleiotropy results in seemingly neutral molecular evolution | Nature Ecology & Evolution

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02887-1

Opposing Effects of Succession on Bacterial Diversity and Function within Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) Leaves | The American Naturalist Abstract How biodiversity and ecosystem functions change with succession has proven to be difficult to predict. Generally, it is thought that species accumulation over time should increase function, y...

Within a pitcher plant, bacteria break down prey to feed the plant. As the leaf ages, bacteria become less diverse, but more efficient at degrading insects. It appears that species that are strong degraders are weak competitors.

Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Biologists who teach: in what order do you teach the four forces of evolution? Genetic drift first or selection first? And I'm still struggling to smoothly fit in HWE so that its utility is emphasized (students focus so much on how likely it is that assumptions are violated).
#iteachbio 🧪 #Evolution

🔈 CALL FOR PAPERS

IBIS Special Issue

Collections-Based Ornithological Research in a Changing World

Submission deadline: 30 June 2026

onlinelibrary.wiley....

#ornithology 🪶

Congratulations to Hélène Dion-Phénix and Gabrielle Gingras for publishing this new paper studying why female blue tits add aromatic plants to their nest. @oikosjournal.bsky.social @nordicoikos.bsky.social

I have a new preprint demonstrating a genome-architecture-aware approach to inferring species trees and introgression landscapes from a small number of genomes. If you are interested in phylogenomics, birds, or hybridization, this is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Took me a year (😱), but I finally published a blog post about our article on the #quantgen variance partition of phenitypic plasticity with @lmchev.bsky.social, published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social.

🇬🇧 devillemereuil.legtux.org/quantitative...
🇫🇷 devillemereuil.legtux.org/fr/genetique...

Anthropogenic change and the loss of behavioural diversity Abstract. Behavioural diversity is an important but understudied facet of biodiversity that enables wildlife populations to cope with rapidly changing envi

What are the causes & consequences of behavioural diversity loss in a changing world? And how do we harness this knowledge for conservation? New open access paper led by @odedberger-tal.bsky.social with David Saltz and @mrmic1.bsky.social

#BobWongLab

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

This is the moment we realised what we were looking at.

During @nemo-tools.bsky.social ROV surveys to map gorgonian & coralligenous habitats, the seafloor suddenly turned into a landscape of circular nests, each guarded by a male.

We weren’t searching for spawning grounds – we dropped onto one.

Geneviève Bergeron
Maryse Laganière
Hélène Colgan
Maryse Leclair
Nathalie Croteau
Anne-Marie Lemay
Barbara Daigneault
Sonia Pelletier
Anne-Marie Edward
Michèle Richard
Maud Haviernick
Annie StArneault
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Annie Turcotte

Never forgotten #Dec6 #EcolePolytechnique

Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution Long-term research projects are essential for predicting the ecological and evolutionary responses of species to global change, yet their continuity is often threatened by uncertainties over funding. ...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New species of tinamou, the slaty-masked tinamou (Tinamus resonans): mapress.com/zt/article/v... 🪶🧪 (📷Luis A. Morais)

"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg

Duration of nest-building in passerine birds: the roles of latitude, nest size, and nest type Why do birds build nests at different speeds? Nest building is crucial for reproductive success, but the drivers of its varying duration across species wer

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Study shows genetic drift & gene flow from the wild are driving observed trait changes in an endangered #migratory #songbird - will this affect its breeding program & #reintroduction success? #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #genetics @sauvedrew.bsky.social

Warning to environmental scientists! 🧪🦑🌎🐟

The journal STOTEN has been placed on hold by Clarivate, meaning it is under investigation and may lose its indexing (including impact factor). Consider publishing elsewhere.

mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

Ord: interesting comic-book approach explaining evolution using the hunting-induced decrease in horn size of bighorn sheep at Ram Mountain 🧪
www.ordlab.unsw.edu.au/sites/defaul...
For the data, see onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...