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The American Naturalist, scholarly journal of evolutionary biology and ecology, pioneer of Open Data, affiliated with American Society of Naturalists and our nonprofit publisher (UChicago Press). All articles are Green Open Access compatible.

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The War Within: Exploring the Evolutionary Dynamics of Genomic Conflict <p>Read about &ldquo;Cytoplasmic Male Sterility Declines in the Presence of Resistant Nuclear Backgrounds&rdquo; by Fanny Laugier, K&eacute;vin B&eacute;thune, Florian Plumel, C&eacute;line Froissard,...

The War Within: Exploring the Evolutionary Dynamics of Genomic Conflict
Summary & Analysis by Andrew Cameron of “Cytoplasmic Male Sterility Declines in the Presence of Resistant Nuclear Backgrounds” by Laugier et al.

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02.12.2025 23:06 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
The Journal of Politics

The Journal of Politics

The new Journal of Politics collection on Higher Education is FREE to read, featuring research on whether higher education is living up to its promise and how to respond to political threats. Find it here: https://ow.ly/eYOy50Xm7xq @thejop.bsky.social

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Career Opportunities

If you're a cellular, molecular, micro- or immuno- biologist, we're hiring for a new faculty position!
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Career Opportunities

If you have experience working with grad students in an administrative capacity, we need somebody great to fill this AVP role in Grad Studies:
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02.12.2025 16:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Host a Workshop or Symposium If you are interested in hosting a special event of some type as part of the conference (e.g., a reception, editorial/council or other meeting, workshop, information session, special presentation,...

Interested in hosting a symposium, workshop, or other special event?! Please see these instructions and reach out to your societies.
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17.10.2025 14:29 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

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Nominations for the ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences <p>The Conceptual Unification award is given annually and honors a senior but active investigator who is making fundamental contributions to the Society&#39;s goals in promoting the conceptual unifica...

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!

3. The ASN Conceptual Unification of Biological Sciences award is for a late career investigator www.amnat.org/announcement...

25.11.2025 18:59 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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American Society of Naturalists Student Research Award Outcomes The American Society of Naturalists (ASN) gives out student research awards (generally $2000 each) to support activities of our student members. We request that Student Research Award recipients provi...

Did you receive a Student Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social ? We'd love to hear what you achieved with those awards (or, please share with someone who had one), even going back many years:
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ASN DC Membership Application 2025 The ASN Diversity Committee (DC) seeks to add 2 new members starting in January 2026. The DC works to promote diversity, equity, and inclusiveness to enhance the study of evolution, ecology, and behav...

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!

8) The ASN Diversity committee is seeking 2 new members to start Jan 2026, Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

25.11.2025 19:20 — 👍 10    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!

7) ASN will have its stand-alone meeting Jan 8-10 2027, so save the date. To vary things up from our (wonderful, but repetitive) Asilomar venue, this meeting will be on the east coast...

25.11.2025 19:18 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Call for Symposium Proposals for Evolution 2026 <p><strong>Due January 15, 2026:</strong> The ASN invites proposals for a special symposium at Evolution 2026! Have an idea? We want to hear it!</p><br/>

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!

6. For the Virtual Evolution meeting 2026 ASN will have a symposium we organize. Please submit a proposal!
www.amnat.org/announcement...

25.11.2025 19:16 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Nominations for Honorary Lifetime Membership in the American Society of Naturalists <p>Send in nominations by April 1. Please include a short paragraph on why.&nbsp;</p><br/>

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!

5. We are always open to nominations for Lifetime Membership awards. These are given out rarely to senior leaders in our field. You can nominate someone here: www.amnat.org/announcement...

25.11.2025 19:14 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Nominations for the Distinguished Naturalist Award <p>The ASN Distinguished Naturalist Award is given to an active investigator in mid-career who has made significant contributions to the knowledge of a particular ecosystem or group of organisms. Nom...

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ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!

3. The ASN Distinguished Naturalist award is for a mid career investigator (<= 20 years from PhD). Go here to nominate someone: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

25.11.2025 18:38 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Applications for the 2026 ASN Early Career Investigator Award <p>Nominations/Applications for the 2026 Early Career Investigator Award are <strong>due January 5, 2026</strong></p><br/>

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ASN President for announcements, please share widely!!!
2. ASN Early Career Investigator awards are now open for application. Self-nominations okay! Due Jan 5
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25.11.2025 17:59 — 👍 12    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
Student Research Award <p>The ASN Student Research Awards support research by student members that advances the goals of the society: the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, and behavior. Each award consists of a ...

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for a minute for a string of announcements, please share widely!!!

1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each)
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25.11.2025 17:55 — 👍 24    🔁 32    💬 1    📌 1
Topology of Taste: Carotenoid Metabolism Networks and Adaptive Diet Transitions <p>Read about &ldquo;Stronger Historical Contingency Facilitates Ecological Specializations: An Example with Avian Carotenoid Networks&rdquo; by Erin S. Morrison, Caitlin M. Hill, and Alexander V. Bad...

Topology of Taste: Carotenoid Metabolism Networks and Adaptive Diet Transitions
Summary & Analysis by Naama Weksler of “Stronger Historical Contingency Facilitates Ecological Specializations: An Example with Avian Carotenoid Networks” by Morrison et al.

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24.11.2025 18:57 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize to recognize the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Nominations due December 1, 2025.

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize to recognize the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Nominations due December 1, 2025.

Less than two weeks left to submit your nominations for the Dobzhansky Prize! This award recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. Submit your nomination by Dec. 1! shorturl.at/p70wY

18.11.2025 22:16 — 👍 8    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

This hasn't actually been a requirement, but maybe it should be! (At list for papers that focus on a single species.) But to be fair, one of the keywords is "Parus major". In the PDF, the keywords appear directly after the abstract, though I grant you they're harder to spot in the HTML version...

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VP Symposium: Preservation of Genetic Diversity and Selection over a Century in a Coral Reef Fish (Taeniamia zosterophora) in the Philippines by Fitz et al.

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17.11.2025 20:51 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Just to clarify, winners of the AmNat Student Paper Awards for 2025 and 2026 articles have yet to be decided. We apologize for implying otherwise in some recent posts. We have been in touch with the authors in question with apologies & further explanation. All eligible papers remain in the running!

17.11.2025 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So cool to see ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada) -- my native language in @asn-amnat.bsky.social 😍

14.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Call for Symposium Proposals for Evolution 2026 <p><strong>Due January 15, 2026:</strong> The ASN invites proposals for a special symposium at Evolution 2026! Have an idea? We want to hear it!</p><br/>

Have thoughts for a special symposium at the Virtual Evolution meeting (May 20-22, 2026)? The @asn-amnat.bsky.social is looking for proposals! Click here to pitch your idea or find out more: www.amnat.org/announcement... #Evol2026

14.11.2025 17:20 — 👍 5    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Available now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! Taking on some big-scale natural history: processed >40k @inaturalist.bsky.social images of Monarda fistulosa using computer vision to query for flower presence and phenotype flower color: doi.org/10.1086/739413

14.11.2025 18:29 — 👍 34    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 1
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Do older birds claim better territories, and does this drive age biases in space over time? Woodman et al. use 45 years of data to suggest that habitat quality - not age - shapes spatial demography.

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Pollinator and Flower Morphology Interact to Affect Pollen Receipt by Newman et al.

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Yuan et al. discover why female frogs grow larger: male competition drives size when mates are scarce. Monogamous species show the strongest link, and both temperature and predation shape this dance.

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Using Sex-Specific Robertson Covariances to Estimate Within- and Cross-Sex Responses to Selection on Reproductive Traits in Drosophila melanogaster | The American Naturalist Abstract In organisms with separate sexes, the expected evolutionary change in a trait due to selection can be expressed using sex-specific Robertson covariances (RCs), that is, the additive genetic c...

Evolution in one sex is often affected by selection acting on the opposite sex. Geeta Arun et al. explore this using fruit flies and find that responses to selection are largely parallel between sexes.

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The Contributions of Microbial Interactions to Abrupt Ecosystem Changes during the Late Quaternary* | The American Naturalist Abstract Abrupt ecosystem shifts during the Late Quaternary coincided with major climatic changes and intensified human activities, but the precise causes of these shifts remain debated. Here, buildin...

VP Symposium: The Contributions of Microbial Interactions to Abrupt Ecosystem Changes during the Late Quaternary by Braga et al.

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14.11.2025 22:55 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Good Colonizers Diversify Faster | The American Naturalist Abstract Variation in colonization ability (comprising the dispersal and successful establishment of lineages in new regions) and its connection to species diversification may be one of the major reas...

Faurby et al. analyze diversification and colonization rate in living and extinct Carnivora, finding that colonizers diversify faster and suggesting that the patterns are best explained by heritable variation in completive ability between clades.

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www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Using Sex-Specific Robertson Covariances to Estimate Within- and Cross-Sex Responses to Selection on Reproductive Traits in Drosophila melanogaster | The American Naturalist Abstract In organisms with separate sexes, the expected evolutionary change in a trait due to selection can be expressed using sex-specific Robertson covariances (RCs), that is, the additive genetic c...

2025 ਵਿਦਿਆਰਥੀ ਪੇਪਰ ਅਵਾਰਡ: ਇੱਕ ਲਿੰਗ ਵਿੱਚ ਵਿਕਾਸ ਅਕਸਰ ਵਿਰੋਧੀ ਲਿੰਗ 'ਤੇ ਚੋਣ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਵਿਤ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ। ਗੀਤਾ ਅਰੁਣ ਅਤੇ ਹੋਰ। ਫਲਾਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਮੱਖੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਵਰਤੋਂ ਕਰਕੇ ਇਸਦੀ ਪੜਚੋਲ ਕਰੋ ਅਤੇ ਪਤਾ ਲਗਾਓ ਕਿ ਚੋਣ ਪ੍ਰਤੀ ਪ੍ਰਤੀਕਿਰਿਆਵਾਂ ਲਿੰਗਾਂ ਵਿਚਕਾਰ ਵੱਡੇ ਪੱਧਰ 'ਤੇ ਸਮਾਨਾਂਤਰ ਹਨ।

ਹੁਣੇ ਛਪਾਈ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਪੜ੍ਹੋ!
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