Martin Garlovsky

Ichetucknee Springs State Park, a short drive from Gainesville, FL

The Hopkins Lab (hopkins-lab.com) at the University of Florida is looking to recruit a postdoc to work on the genetics of organ function and evolution across Drosophila and beyond. Please visit tinyurl.com/vcsjpmzz or email me for more info. And please RT or send to anyone who might be interested!

Female fruit flies use social cues to make egg-clustering decisions - BMC Biology Background The ability to respond plastically to environmental variation is a key determinant of fitness. Females may use cues to strategically place their eggs, for example adjusting the number or lo...

Out now - female fruit flies cluster their eggs together depending on their social environment 🪰🧪 Just wish they'd let us know why... led by @emilyrosech.bsky.social Emily Fowler, Lucy Friend and Tracey Chapman. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Big Science vs. Little Science: How Scientific Impact Scales with Funding Agencies that fund scientific research must choose: is it more effective to give large grants to a few elite researchers, or small grants to many researchers? Large grants would be more effective only...

Research also shows that spreading smaller amounts of funding out over more researchers generally delivers better scientific outcomes per dollar spent than focusing bigger grants on fewer researchers.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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🚂 This petition needs your signatures! Save the wonderful nighttrain that gets you into the center of Paris/Vienna/Berlin in time for breakfast whilst you doze off or have memorable encounters and conversations with fellow travellers agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

Wood tiger moth on leaf. Photo: Juhani Maamela.

Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

The htslib.org web site for samtools/htslib/bcftools, or generally get source code from the respective (mostly) GitHub repositories. Build binaries yourself or get them from relatively trusted sources like Linux distributions, brew, or bioconda.

What are the right links?

Green butterfly sat on a flower.

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

Mike Ritchie emphasising the huge importance of supporting society journals like JEB in his ESEB presidential address, Barcelona. @eseb.bsky.social @eseb2025.bsky.social

Fly folk:

The Amazing and essential @flybase.bsky.social is in existential need due to Trump termination of the grant that supports this vital resource.

Please donate to help keep Flybase alive. I just did. Info here on how to make a tax deductible donation:

wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

Excited to share my recent paper on the evolution of atypical sperm morphology in a passerine bird (the red-browed finch) in @jevbio.bsky.social with @danielmhooper.bsky.social and others. Check out their weird #sperm!

academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Postdoctoral researcher: avian microbiomes and reproduction We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...

3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info!

nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Digest: Sex-specific benefits of mitochondrial introgression Abstract. Disrupting mitochondrial and nuclear coadaptation is expected to reduce fitness, especially in males and with age. But is that always true? Garlo

New Evolution-Digest out! 🎉
Intergenomic discordance should reduce fitness, especially in older males. Well, @martingarlovsky.bsky.social et al., showed that it might not always be the case. 🪰
@sse-evolution.bsky.social

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

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:

academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/6

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update

It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes

Let’s break it down (1/10)

github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sperm length and seminal fluid proteins promote male reproductive success in Drosophila melanogaster Abstract. Spermatozoal morphology varies widely within and among species, often corresponding to the shape of the female sperm storage organs in ways that

Research reveals that long sperm testes upregulate genes enriched for seminal fluid proteins (Sfps) and lncRNAs. Knockouts of key Sfps reduce sperm length, suggesting unexpected role for Sfps in sperm development:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Galvin et al. @ellarson.bsky.social @uofdenver.bsky.social

Quick put it back in

www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/BCDWV... a pdf link

Diagnosing confounded Bateman gradients Abstract. The Bateman gradient is a fundamental metric of sexual selection, often interpreted as the fitness advantage individuals gain by increasing their

How to interpret sexual selection using Bateman gradients? When are these not informative & how should researchers identify, deal with confounded gradients? We simulate anisogamy & sperm competition to provide a guide for using Bateman gradients. Out in Evolution

academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation Abstract. Determining the genetic architecture of traits involved in adaptation and speciation is one of the key components of understanding the evolutiona

Replicate geographic transects across a hybrid zone reveal parallelism and differences in the genetic architecture of reproductive isolation
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Georgy Semenov et al.

Just hours before the end of the early bird, registrations are rapidly going up. We had an overwhelming response to the abstract. call (>2000) and the possibility of reaching the capacity limit is not so unlikely.

So better hurry up to secure your spot at #ESEB2025

eseb2025.com/registration/

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

A 🧵

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

No evidence for a trade-off between reproduction and survival in a meta-analysis across birds | elifesciences.org/ar... | eLife | #ornithology 🪶

It's finally out! This paper took quite a while but I'm so excited to share now! For anyone who studies sex chromosomes, take note: we found a rare "slower X"! (dN/dS_X < dN/dS_Autos) 👀

In relation to positive futures, I would add:
✅ Join learned societies
✅ Publish in their journals

#SocietyJournals #SciPub

Time is running out! ⏳
Only few days left to apply to our PhD program—don’t miss your chance! 🚀

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📆 Deadline: June 14th, 2025

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Focus on single gene effects limits discovery and interpretation of complex trait-associated variants https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.06.658175v1