Tom Keaney

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 Student Paper Award: 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.

Read now ahead of print!
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How the elephant lost his tail

🧬✨ It’s official!
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍

"The foundation for our current understanding of how phenotypic evolution operates in natural populations was laid by Lande (1976, 1979, 1982) and Lande & Arnold (1983)."

1. What a topic sentence from Vriend et al.:
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2. What a collection of papers in a 7 year span!

Do you like quantitative genetics, stats, experiments, and long-term studies? Check out this post doc opportunity with the wonderful Anja Felmy!

Congratulations to Fabian Salgado-Roa, winner of the Medalla Humbold-Caldas Best Publication in Biogeography! His paper is titled "The Andes as a semi-permeable geographical barrier: Genetic connectivity between structured populations in a widespread spider." tinyurl.com/2pmcem2c

At #ESEB2025 a high frequency of talks have ended with advertisements for PhDs and Postdocs. Grad students, crack in! You never know where a simple conversation might lead.

Volume 38 Issue 6 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | Oxford Academic Journal of Evolutionary Biology

⭐Issue 6 of JEB is now online!⭐

This issue is headlined by a Target Review from @josselin-clo.bsky.social et al. on #matingsystems evolution, accompanied by several #invitedcommentaries expanding on this key discussion comparing concepts in plants and animals:

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The 1st author is here too: follow @tom-is-kean.bsky.social ! His clever idea was to highlight similarities between meiotic drive and inbreeding's "automatic transmission advantage". We ask: given structurally identical(ish) problems, why is what is viewed as paradoxical so different between fields?

Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity | PNAS The link between form and function of an organism’s morphology is usually apparent or intuitive. However, some clades of organisms show remarkable ...

Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Post Doctoral Research Associate in statistical ecology Job in Bentley, Perth WA - SEEK The Population Biology and genomics Group is seeking to appoint a Post Doctoral Research Associate.

We're hiring. 2.5 year statistical ecology postdoc in Perth, Western Australia. Closing 6 July. 🌏 #bioinvasions #biosecurity Check it out: www.seek.com.au/job/85070198...

Next heatmap sorted.

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍

We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

Starting to post here on Bluesky👋
Hi! I'm Uthara Srinivasan, PhD student with Dr Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social + other amazing kokkonuts 🥥🌴 at JGU Mainz. Starting a PhD in theoretical eco-evo; hope to explore where adaptation meets processes like epigenetics and much more!

#Ecology and #Evolution bluesky, a question: Do you think our field has famous open problems that essentially everyone in the field agrees are fundamental and important? If we had to come up with something like the Millennium Problems (www.claymath.org/millennium-p... ), are there clear candidates?

Details : Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Genomics : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne seeks a female-identifying academic in genetics/genomics/epigenetics to join the School of BioSciences. Strong quantitative skills required. More info: https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/920074/lecturer-senior-lecturer-associate-professor-in-genomics #job

Soon is sooner than later, but both can extend as much as a week into the future

4am-11am. Make of that what you will.

🎉 Thrilled to announce the second instalment of the Evolution of Ageing workshop, taking place 30th Sept – 2nd Oct in Ingelheim, Germany!

"The Evolution of Ageing: Traversing the Interdisciplinary Divide", hosted by the Gutenberg Workshops.

Why publish in JEB?

✅ Society-owned and not-for-profit model
✅ Dedicated submission support - in-house Managing Editor
✅ Range of article types
✅ Modern Open Science policies - our own Data Editor
✅ Large editorial board with wide-range of expertise

#societyjournal @eseb.bsky.social

Happy Tasmanian Devil Average Birthday! 🥳

Tasmanian devils breed annually during late Feb/Mar, & have a very short gestation (~21 days). This means the average birth date for devils is 1st April

So wish any devils you know a Happy Birthday! &, on average, you’ll be right on the money 🥳

Huge opportunity here. @lili-buche.bsky.social just defended her PhD and is on the market for a theory/empirical postdoc. This paper is just a small reflection of what she’s capable of.

Blue-lined octopus Hapalochlaena fasciata males envenomate females to facilitate copulation Chun et al. show that in the blue-lined octopus Hapalochlaena fasciata males envenomate females during copulation, most likely as a defense against being cannibalized.

Bloody hell! Blue-lined octopus males inject females with tetrodotoxin before mating with them. 🧪 Something for your sexual conflict lectures... www.cell.com/current-biol...

Couldn’t agree more. Domain specific knowledge cannot be overstated. Combine that with a clear research question and statistical prowess, and you’ve got all the tools to make accurate predictions.

I certainly believed and perpetuated the myth. Cool work proves me wrong.

Details : Research Fellow in Mammalian Movement Ecology and Energetics : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.

How much are two Charles worth?

Whoops, off to a good start, dropped the link 😅 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...