APPLICATIONS welcomed for the ESEB #Outreach Initiative Fund for educational initiatives that promote #evolution, public outreach seminars, public exhibitions, workshops, etc.
Up to €4K available per project.
eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
17.11.2025 10:42 — 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
📣CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!!
The next deadline for the #GodfreyHewitt mobility award is 31st January 2026. Open to ECRS in support of research trips or lab visits.
For more information, eligibility and how to apply: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
13.11.2025 12:30 — 👍 13 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 0
Get in touch and talk to me if you’re interested in any of this.
17.11.2025 13:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Projects | TREES DLA
Other projects can be designed jointly with the applicant under the TREES “route 2”:
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects
17.11.2025 13:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
If you or any potential candidate you know are interested, I offer two projects as part of this programme.
17.11.2025 13:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🚨 1 month to go! Applications for TREES close 17th Dec. If you're interested in topics like climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem resilience, this is your chance to get involved in a major national initiative.
🌳 Apply now and help shape the future of UK environmental science.
17.11.2025 10:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
We're looking for papers! If you're working on internal conflicts - selfish genetic elements, cancer, etc. - consider submitting your work to our special issue. You'll be in good company, plus all the other benefits that come with supporting society journals like JEB.
17.11.2025 11:04 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
📣 CALL FOR PAPERS!!
New Special Issue on "Foundations of Internal Conflicts":
academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
#internalconflict #selfishelements #meioticdrive #imprintedgenes #reproductiveparasitism
13.11.2025 12:42 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
Every year #ESEB distinguishes a young evolutionary biologist with the John Maynard Smith Prize! Nominations for the 2026 prize are due by January 15th!
Find out more here: eseb.org/prizes-fundi...
11.11.2025 10:50 — 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
Cover of book titled The Tree of Life: solving science's greatest puzzle.
My book 'The Tree of Life' is published in the USA and Canada today.
Available as book, on kindle and as audio.
I would be really grateful for reposts.
www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...
www.amazon.ca/Tree-Life-So...
11.11.2025 12:01 — 👍 69 🔁 48 💬 4 📌 5
Do you have something to say about evolutionary biology? Consider a Review or Target Review at @jevbio.bsky.social ! Target reviews are an especially fun way to express your opinion, and then get your friends and frenemies to converse with you on that topic.
bsky.app/profile/jevb...
23.10.2025 18:50 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis?
@jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles!
Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here:
academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...
23.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 12 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 1
We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)
19.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 48 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 3
Social media postcard that says: Are you an early-career researcher within five years of your first appointment to a faculty position? You could be eligible for our new grants for junior faculty staff.
The Journal of Experimental Biology logo is in the bottom left corner. The Kickstart grant logo, two hands shaking, is in the bottom right corner.
The next deadline for ECRs, within 5 years of their first faculty position, to apply for JEB's next round of Kickstart Travel Grants and ECR Visiting Fellowships is 28 November, so don't miss the chance to apply for helpful funding
biologists.com/grants/#jeb
17.10.2025 10:03 — 👍 4 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
But most editors would probably much rather have reviewers tell them that they’d be able do it for a week later than turn down the invitation.
17.10.2025 10:41 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Many reviewers, including myself, will send their review on day 14 (or 15 or 16…) of the 14-day period. So being more vague about the deadline might not be the best approach.
17.10.2025 10:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📣CALL FOR PAPERS!
Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges
Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg
More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...
08.10.2025 14:53 — 👍 25 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
LMB PhD studentship available in the Baum lab to use informatics to infer cell structure from genomic data in collaboration with the brilliant Tom Williams. If you write to me and I don’t reply - try again - the spam filter is hungry…
02.10.2025 09:04 — 👍 17 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 2
![Screenshot of first part of letter (continues in next image). Text reads:
Dear Sir Adrian
I write to request that in its deliberations tomorrow the Council resolves to take a principled stand to defend the scientific values written into its code of conduct.
In its attempts to deal with the actions of Elon Musk FRS, the Royal Society has repeatedly failed to explain how his repudiation of those values is consistent with the code of conduct that all Fellows must adhere to as a condition of their fellowship. As is now well established, these actions include attacking Antony Fauci FRS without good cause; spreading scientific misinformation on X [through his own utterances and by relaxing controls on the platform]; recklessly and unlawfully degrading the research ecosystem of the US as part of DOGE; and bragging publicly about "feeding USAID into the wood chipper", which the Lancet estimates will cause the deaths of 14 million people, many of them children under the age of five, by 2030.
The Society’s inaction extends to the recent brief exchange of correspondence between Prof Sir Paul Nurse and Mr Musk. Although there was some initial contact, when Sir Paul laid out the Society’s specific concerns there was no reply or explanation from Musk. For reasons that I’m afraid I cannot fathom, you chose once again not to enforce your code of conduct.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jviud2kbpxo3lwd3do4mqepg/bafkreiev6nrcxar4eabbnj3t2p5tfi4icoeagakrqrtc5jhcq6op3424me@jpeg)
Screenshot of first part of letter (continues in next image). Text reads:
Dear Sir Adrian
I write to request that in its deliberations tomorrow the Council resolves to take a principled stand to defend the scientific values written into its code of conduct.
In its attempts to deal with the actions of Elon Musk FRS, the Royal Society has repeatedly failed to explain how his repudiation of those values is consistent with the code of conduct that all Fellows must adhere to as a condition of their fellowship. As is now well established, these actions include attacking Antony Fauci FRS without good cause; spreading scientific misinformation on X [through his own utterances and by relaxing controls on the platform]; recklessly and unlawfully degrading the research ecosystem of the US as part of DOGE; and bragging publicly about "feeding USAID into the wood chipper", which the Lancet estimates will cause the deaths of 14 million people, many of them children under the age of five, by 2030.
The Society’s inaction extends to the recent brief exchange of correspondence between Prof Sir Paul Nurse and Mr Musk. Although there was some initial contact, when Sir Paul laid out the Society’s specific concerns there was no reply or explanation from Musk. For reasons that I’m afraid I cannot fathom, you chose once again not to enforce your code of conduct.
Screenshot of letter. Text continues:
"You will be aware that the sense of bewildered dismay over this affair is shared by Royal Society Fellows, medallists and journals editors, and many thousands within the scientific community here and abroad. The Royal Society still claims to speak for scientists in the UK, but on this vital issue, its inaction represents an inexplicable rupture with values that our community holds very dear.
In all this my primary concern is has been for the good standing of the Royal Society as the UK’s national academy. As I am sure you understand all too well (given your recent remarks in the wake of Mr Musk’s ill-judged speech at the Tommy Robinson rally), the country, the world at large, and the very practice of science itself face severe challenges from technologies and populist politics that foment division and ignorance. In such troubled times, people look to our established institutions to have the courage to stand by long-held values of truth and decency.
It is my sincere hope the Royal Society will demonstrate tomorrow that it is just such an institution.
Yours faithfully,
Stephen"
I am so dismayed a the statement today from the President of the @royalsociety.org that I want to publish here the letter I wrote to him yesterday urging him to address the clear concerns of the UK scientific community.
01.10.2025 17:42 — 👍 87 🔁 39 💬 2 📌 0
SMBE2026 | Final call for symposia
🔁 Please share - we remind the SMBE community that the Call for Symposia for SMBE2026 in Copenhagen is open.
We invite you to submit a symposium proposal to help shape the scientific content of our annual meeting.
🗓️ Deadline: October 15th
More information: smbe2026.org/symposia
#SMBE2026
01.10.2025 08:36 — 👍 7 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
Read the latest issue of @jevbio.bsky.social here:
academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/9
On the cover: A yellow-billed long-tailed finch
Poephila acuticauda acuticada and a red-billed long-tailed finch P. a. hecki.
📸 Simon C. Griffith.
30.09.2025 19:28 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Information flow between omic levels in Arabidopsis thaliana
We have just published a paper in Genome Biology, rdcu.be/eIMLf. We explore the information flow between genome, gene body methylation, transcriptome, translatome and proteome in Arabidopsis. This is part of a BBSRC-funded collaboration with UCL, Rothamsted Research and University of Cambridge.
30.09.2025 08:54 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Population Genetics group 59
Exciting news!
The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris.
This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics.
More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk
See you there !
29.09.2025 08:52 — 👍 45 🔁 53 💬 1 📌 2
Postdoc in evolutionary genomics 🧬
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Associate prof, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa @uottawa.ca
Co-director, Scholarly Communications Lab #ScholCommLab #FirstGen
open science | bibliometrics | open access | research assessment | metascience
Assistant Prof @ Yale EEB. Lover of evolutionary genetics, speciation, adaptation, and plants. Mimulus fanatic.
Evolutionary biology, population genetics. Marie Curie fellow at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Scientist in transit. Meet me @College-de-France Paris🇪🇺 or @Arolla🇨🇭#InHoxWeTrust #GesamtNaturWerk. Et Ce Fut Tout.
Max Planck Research Group Leader, MPI for Biology | ERC Investigator | EMBO Young Investigator | Symbiosis, genomics & development
www.mutualisms.net
We want to understand how pathogens adapt and cause diseases. Also passionate about TEs, pangenomes & population genomics, bioinformatics and conservation genomics.
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Interdisciplinary thinker way before it was overrated by research councils.
Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Mathematics @uniofaberdeen
Professor in the postgraduate program of Ecology and Conservation @UFPR
Evolutionary biologist at National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid
Biodiversity genomics; reproduction; k-mers; Evolution of species with weird genomes; frequently featuring diptera and collembola; group leader at the Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute; dysorthographic
Professor @Universitat Autonoma Barcelona-Understanding how genomes organize, evolve & are transmitted to the offspring. #genomics #evolution #meiosis #3Dgenome #biodiversity
Co-EiC @heredityjournal.bsky.social
👉https://webs.uab.cat/evolgenom/
Cuenta oficial de la Sociedad Española de Genética. Para la SEG retwitear NO es refrendar.
Posting facts. democrats.org
Global energy think tank accelerating the clean energy transition with data and policy #CleanPower info@ember-energy.org
https://ember-energy.org/
Evolutionary ecologist and open science advocate. Interested in social evolution, population dynamics, statistics, and open science. Parent x2. Incompetent but enthusiastic naturalist
Evolutionary Geneticist at UQ, Australia. Speciation, adaptation, future resilience. #senecio
Investigating how the brain solves conflicts.
@fkne-scholars.bsky.social
https://www.rezavallab.org
Neuroscientist at Champalimaud - #food #brain #microbiome using #Drosophila. PI @RibeiroLab and former Secretary General @FENSorg on X
