Next virtual talk in our @eseb.bsky.social Special Topic Network on polygenic adaptation:
I am extremely grateful to receive a Research Leadership Award from the Leverhulme Trust to study the epigenetic mechanisms underlying environmental stress memory in crops @dundee.ac.uk and @hutton.ac.uk 🍓🍅🌱
I’ll be advertising positions in our group soon - stay tuned!
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#BadenWürttemberg hat weiter bundesweit die meisten Exzellenzuniversitäten: #Tübingen, #Karlsruhe und #Heidelberg dürfen ihren Titel mindestens bis 2033 tragen. Mehr: mwk-bw.de/4hs7 #exzellenz #wissenschaft #forschung @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @kit.edu @unituebingen.bsky.social
A very important editorial:
Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Very happy to serve a society journal!
It's been 10 years since I gave a talk at the Micro-Evo-Devo symposium in the #EuroEvoDevo in Upsala 🤯 (I feel old) This year me and my lab will be in Glasgow, and won't miss this symposium!
With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭
To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀
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You want to work on Transcriptional Regulation in Beetles 🐞? Join our GEvol Community and work with many great people ➡️ Two open PhD positions in @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social lab in Frankfurt: g-evol.uni-muenster.de/open-positio...
Quick plug for our new resource, the Drosophila Species Stock Exchange. This is a database and mailing list that documents species currently in culture and the labs holding them. If you want to know more or sign up then please get in touch. See attached for more info and please share!
Congrats to both of you! 🎉
Dear 🪰folks, for a project I am looking for D. buzzati, D. gaucha, D. recens and Z. sepsoides. Please get in touch if you have them in your lab and willing to share.
Excited to see our FML Research Group Leader
@luisapallares.bsky.social
in the latest Max Planck Research! 🎉
The article follows her journey from Colombia to Germany and her work on how genes and environment shape complex traits using fruit flies.
Read the full story: www.mpg.de/26180374/W00...
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
Beyond Mendel. FINALLY.
Brilliant, thought-provoking read! This new perspective argues that our obsession with single genes and clean knock-outs is holding us back. Couldn't agree more, and I hope Reviewer #2 reads this.
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There is a week left to apply for two available positions in my lab @ipbhalle.bsky.social
- PhD: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/12-phd-posit...
- Postdoc: ipb-halle.mhm.jobs/13-postdocto...
Earliest start date: 01/05/2026.
We are interested in plant immune receptor biochemistry and evolution. Please share!
Thrilled to share my recent perspective piece with
@diogromelo.bsky.social
and
@evodaveo.bsky.social
on the empirical measurement of developmental bias in a GP map and its conceptual links with other quant gen variational properties.
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Some of us know how sweet procrastination can be! If you feel the same, good news:
The abstract deadline for the EMBO Workshop has been extended to March 19!
Don’t miss the opportunity to present your work June 2–5 2026 in Oeiras, Portugal!
Did you know that most knockouts in Arabidopsis actually do have phenotypes and aren't some redundancy situation? All you have to do is measure in multiple tissues in multiple environments and then the phenotypes show up. Redundancy was an assumption never tested.
Kick-off meeting of our GreenRobust cluster of excellence last week. Exciting times ahead for plant sciences by bringing together an extraordinary bunch of enthusiastic scientists and human beings!
We recommend a read of the new MBE editorial on how society journals work towards protecting the scientific record.
Publishing in society journals, such as @molbioevol.bsky.social or @genomebiolevol.bsky.social, promotes transparent science that benefits the research community.
Join us at the #SEBconference Florence 2026 to discuss #Plant Robustness! 🌱🔥
@kaspervangelderen.bsky.social and I are organising the P12 session "Plant robustness from molecules to ecosystems" with the support of @greenrobust.de
Check the program and submit your abstract by March 6th! 👇
An exciting opportunity in our department at UCL. Are you working on human (evolutionary) genomics, the genetics of complex traits or related questions? Then have a look at the advert.
UCL is a big, stimulating and collegiate place to work, right in the centre of London.
We're #hiring a new Insect Husbandry Technician (f/m/d) from 50% in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg. Apply today or share this post with your network:
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Thanks, Jesse! Yeah, we're doing the same here 🤔
That's frustrating. Specially because one could use the same argument for genetic regulation of the mean. I think organisms experience different microenvironments all the time, but how they deal with them is, at least in part, geno-dependent. Think developmental noise in symmetric structures.
You're right here, we could find plenty of examples of 'microenvironments' each species experiences, not necesarily more or less than the other... I guess I was thinking more in the sense of a plant which grows continuosly vs a relative static adult as a fly.
Ah! I hadn't seen this paper - it's brilliant, and extremely relevant for us now, as we are attempting something similar with higher order phenotypes (non molecular). Thanks for sharing!
(3/3) What do you mean with results of space biology data?
(2/3) So, we are thinking an active -but selective- mechanism is making transcription more accurate? more precise? This is mindblowing to me, because explaining an increase in variance can be done more easily, than a reduction...
(1/3) Hi Alexa, this gets more interesting because these developmental pathways not only remain robust (i.e. don't have variance changes) BUT they become less variable (i.e. significant reduction in variability compared to control conditions)
