I'm looking for postdoc opportunities for the 2026-2027 academic year. If you're looking for a postdoc with a broad skill set spanning evolutionary genetics, bioinformatics, and various omics methods, feel free to reach out.
Some recent pubs:
(1) doi.org/10.1126/scie...
(2) doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
The regulation of messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein abundances is well-studied, but less is known about the evolutionary processes shaping their relationship. To address this, we derived a new phylogen...
This year's SMBE Mid-Career Excellence Award goes to Matt Pennell, professor @cornelluniversity.bsky.social
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Alex Cope, PhD (he/him)
Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...
Special Issue on Genetic Rescue is out ๐๐๐
The 21 papers on the SI highlight how evolutionary biology can enhance resilience & long-term survival of biodiversity. Introducing genetically diverse individuals can boost fitness in small, isolated populations ๐งฌ๐ฟ
doi.org/10.1111/eva.70225
๐ฃ The ESEB Equal Opportunities Committee invites proposals for activities that increase awareness of inequalities and improve representation and equal opportunities within evolutionary biology
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One of Ireland's less common butterflies, the green hairstreak, in a rewilding part of the farm yesterday.
Rewilding isn't just about getting more trees and forests back, but increasing diversity and abundance of *all* our natural species and ecosystems.
Safe to say that we are very excited about this here at ESEB!
Huge thanks to Brian Golding for entrusting us with the fantastic service that you have created and curated for the years!
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Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists:
Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic
Great to see this out! doi.org/10.1093/evle.... Lead by
@karenbisschop.bsky.social
and Thomas Blankers. It discusses: If you repeat ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ญ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ญ๐๐ฌ, do you get the same result in terms of fitness? The answer isโฆ not necessarily. Glad to have played a part!
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
๐ฃ EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social!
We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now ๐
You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net
In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.
Abstract. The repeatability of evolution is fundamentally important for understanding the origin and diversification of life as well as for developing evol
๐ฃ EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social!
We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now ๐
You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net
