@naturalselection.bsky.social
Group leader at the Swedish Museum of Natural History Evolutionary biologist interested in island biology, adaptive radiation, genomes and ecological niches. Islandevolution.github.io
Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.
30.06.2025 13:32 — 👍 40 🔁 47 💬 2 📌 0Very pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
27.06.2025 13:22 — 👍 44 🔁 28 💬 0 📌 0Excellent piece. LLMs can be useful for automating tedious tasks, but for tasks that require rigour and critical thinking, such as peer review, it's problematic on multiple levels.
25.06.2025 13:16 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
The aim of this proposal is to place population genomic insights into a comparative framework to gain fundamental insights into the determinants of evolutionary outcomes. The project will work within LepEU, the European Lepidopteran Population Genomics Consortium (https://lepeu.github.io/). LepEU provides access to field samples from European populations of diverse species. Chromosome-scale reference genomes are provided by Project Psyche (https://www.projectpsyche.org/). Networking during the postdoc will be facilitated by participation in the 10kLepGenomes COST Action (https://10klepgenomes.eu/). Existing datasets await analysis, while additional samples need DNA extraction and submission for sequencing. Functional validation capability (CRISPR/Cas9 gene manipulations) is also available to test emergent hypotheses of allele-to-phenotype impacts. Personal research interests of the postdoc will be important to determine the exact project, as the project has a generous sequencing budget.
The successful applicant should have a PhD (obtained within 6 years of the application deadline) in a suitable subject area, such as evolutionary biology or population genomics. A strong interest in population genomics, local adaptation, comparative analyses, and experience working with genomic-scale data is essential. The candidate must have a documented publication record demonstrating relevant skills. Experience working with bioinformatic pipelines (e.g., Snakemake), or working with butterflies is welcome but not essential. The net salary is 28,000 SEK/month (~2,430 Euro, not subject to Swedish income tax) and comes directly from the Carl-Trygger Foundation stipend, which is paid out directly to the postdoc. Only PhD candidates acquired outside of the host department can apply. Currently, the lab of Prof. Wheat consists of 3 postdoctoral researchers, while the Dept. of Zoology provides a vibrant and excellent research environment of active, dynamic researchers. Applications should include: i) a succinct description of research interests and experience, detailing your contribution to any relevant publications (max 1 page), ii) why you are the ideal candidate for this position in the lab (max 1 page); iii) a CV including a list of publications, and iv) the name and contact information of two personal references. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with a deadline of 23 August 2025. The project is planned to start on 1 October, but flexibility in the starting date can be provided for a suitable candidate. Please contact Prof. Wheat for additional information.
🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies
2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ.
Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct.
Details:
christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com
Angel standing at a podium with the title slide of his presentation on "The Pacific acorn barnacle genome highlights the dynamics of evolution in extremely large populations"
Evolutionary dynamics in large population sizes in Pacific acorn barnacle @arcolon14.bsky.social
#Evol2025
How did evolution drive massive genome contraction during oceanic island colonization? A new paper from our lab.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thank you! I will perhaps contact other authors and the HoD - I appreciate your response!
12.06.2025 12:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Genomics people - can you help me? 🆘
This publication writes: "Data will be made available on request."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ENA: "No public data is associated with this project."
What do you do when the author and the editor in chief @mariannakruithof.bsky.social do not answer?
They bypass scientific rigor in their messages for marketing purposes, they show no regard for the impacts of their work on conservation biology.
11.06.2025 08:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My nuanced take: it's complicated.
De-extinction is very interesting from a fundamental science POV. However, what Colossal has been doing is just the typical neoliberal/tech-infected mentality of not caring about rigor or consequences.
"Move fast and break things".
"The abuse of species concepts to justify ethically and scientifically questionable work has caused me to lose (...) respect (...). This isn't just marketing hype, it's a complete sell-out of intellectual integrity and rigor for shareholder value and salary from supposed role models"
🫳🎤
EcoEvo jobs is having an interesting anonymous discussion on de-extinction:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
Only two more days to apply!! Put your name in the hat, even if you feel like you don't match all criteria listed. Happy to chat regardless!
09.06.2025 09:55 — 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
🧬 Microbial Marvels: Biodiversity & Evolution of Yeasts
Top scientists @hittingerlab.bsky.social & @stelkens.bsky.social reveal how yeasts evolve, adapt, and speciate. @uv.es @upv.es Don’t miss this inspiring workshop!
📅 June 16 📍 @iatacsic.bsky.social🔗https://bit.ly/4mytSC2 #YeastScience
I'd dare say general!
02.06.2025 08:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So our conclusion was
📉 Rather than fueling macroevolution, TEs might just be "along for the ride", and we emphasize the distinction between TEs as drivers of specific phenotypes (e.g. melanic form of the pepper moth) and TEs are drivers of diversification (which they do not seem to do).
We found no accumulation over time or specific groups of TEs.
02.06.2025 06:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🔍 Despite rapid speciation, niche shifts, and hybridization, we found no significant TE accumulation differences across species or hybrids.
🌵 Even in arid-adapted lineages—where genome downsizing may be expected—TEs didn’t decline.
We tested whether TEs were associated with diversification, speciation, hybridization or niche shifts.
We did this in response to the growing literature that claims that TE bursts are drivers/associated with diversification.
New publication out! 🆕 📤
"No evidence of transposable element bursts in the Galápagos Scalesia adaptive radiation despite hybridization, diversification and ecological niche shifts"
mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#TransposableElements #Speciation #AdaptiveRadiation #Genomics
Well done @saabalde.bsky.social !
27.05.2025 18:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Absolutely love this.
From:
"The what, how, and why of trait-based analyses in ecology" in ECOGRAPHY
Guillerme et al
🧬 🕷️ I spoke about the wild side of evolutionary biology—sexual dimorphism, maternal effects, even sexual cannibalism.
Grateful for the chance to share how nature really works!
📖 Read the article: www.delo.si/novice/znano...
#EvolutionaryBiology #ScienceCommunication
Rosemary Gillespie 🕷️ 🕸️ was awarded the 2025 Molecular Ecology prize🏆 - so well deserved!
www.molecularecologist.com/2025/05/21/2...
Here’s an exciting PhD opportunity for those interested in genomics and adaptive radiation: jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/8...
21.05.2025 16:16 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Just out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast". Beautiful work using experimental evolution forecasting climate impacts on biodiversity by Jennifer Molinet @jennifermolinet.bsky.social
20.05.2025 18:01 — 👍 107 🔁 45 💬 7 📌 1
🚨Field assistant job in South Africa working with sociable weavers 🚨
🔌Experienced in electronics?
🏷️Enjoy working with RFID technology?
🪶Like working with birds?
Find more information below!
Applications close on 08/06/2025
sociableweaverproject.com/recruitment/...
#fieldwork #ornithology
People vote and choose to enable a capitalist system - where everything is measured/valued/considered in the lens of money.
We need societal change and that begins with moving from a capitalist economy.
