Loraine Hablützel

Claudia Bank's (@cbank.bsky.social) research group, Theoretical Ecology and Evolution (THEE) is now on Bluesky! I posted a thread showing some of the group's publications from 2025 to get the account going. Please consider following the group for updates related to ecology and evolution 😀

Can interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers?

peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html
We're running an ethics-approved, pre-registered study thanks to funding from the University of Bern.

Are you lecturing in the Spring?
Contact me to receive the survey link!

A new (and improved) version of the fantastic BES’s reproducible code guide is now live.

Seriously amazing resource for those wanting to produce code that enables reproducible research.

Featuring some SORTEE members and also code review!!

@sortee.bsky.social

Summer school:<br> Evolutionary Biology in Guarda Information about the annual summer school Evolutionary Biology in Guarda

The 2026 Guarda Summer Course in Evolutionary Biology is now accepting applications. Amazing place, amazing course, amazing opportunity for early grad students.

tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...

BIODIVERSITY DATA MOBILIZATION INTO GBIF Please click the link to complete this form.

🟢 Are you a researcher in #Switzerland involved in collecting species observations #data ? 🗺️🦋🐸🦉
🟣 Then you can help assess the needs, practices, & challenges on Swiss #biodiversity data mobilisation, publication, & sharing !
🔵 How ? Fill this short survey: form.jotform.com/253342763497...

Don't ask “when is it coevolution?”—ask “how?” Abstract. Coevolution has come to be widely understood as specific, simultaneous, reciprocal adaptation by pairs of interacting species. This strict-sense

It's in print! My opinionated dive into the definition of "coevolution" is officially out in the December issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/evol...

I wrote a guide on constructive peer review. This is a polished version of an internal guide I had for my group. Of course, constructive feedback is welcome, peers!
deboer.bme.ubc.ca/2025/12/09/g...

Strong genotype-by-genotype and genotype-by-environment interactions induced by antibiotic resistance mutations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.692229v1

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

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

We have an open PhD position (application deadline 9 January 2026) in "Theory of fitness landscapes" at @unibe.ch 🤓⛰️📊👩‍💻🎓: banklab.github.io/positions/

Please share widely!

#QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

Looking forward to this! A non-Elsevier alternative to Theoretical Population Biology / Journal of Theoretical Biology

@eseb.bsky.social would be amazing to see the diversity in this eseb eo card truly more reflected in the list of plenary and invited speakers of this conference!

The evolution of local adaptation in long-lived species Abstract. Many species experience heterogeneous environments and adapt genetically to local conditions. The extent of such local adaptation depends on a ba

My paper with @schmidmax.bsky.social and @charlesmullon.bsky.social is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social 🌟 doi.org/10.1093/evol... 🌟 We show how the effect of longevity on local adaptation, rather than being unidirectional, depends on the life cycle and how frequent selection is relative to dispersal

Check out my first PhD paper on between-species genetic interactions (intergenomic epistasis) with @cbank.bsky.social 🌿↔️🦠✨ We define intergenomic epistasis mathematically and highlight its potential in understanding co-evolution :)