A type of natural selection known as negative frequency dependent selection is thought to be a major force promoting genetic diversity in important traits. Read research in a new issue of #PhilTransB: buff.ly/bOhpNlE
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants.
The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ
Inspiring plenary talk on variation in water striders by Abdou Khila at the EuroEvoDevo conference in Glasgow. #EED2026
Mark A. Hanson
Royal Society Publishing
Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful!
here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments
The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about the recent announcement on changes to the re-submission rules. The changes, intended to manage the ...
How iNaturalist, a citizen-science platform, led to the rediscovery of a species thought to be extinct. These platforms are powerful tools for the monitoring of biodiversity.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Great new study about the loss of a colour morph in Common Wall Lizards (Podarcis muralis)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Human long-distance runners struggle with dehydration after losing 2% body mass, but common lizards still run well after losing 30% of their body mass. However, cold (20C) lizards are only half as fast as 35C lizards, so temperature impacts them more
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Genetically determined color morphs are found in many animals. Polymorphism can be maintained by social selection if competitive interactions allow each morph to increase in frequency when rare. This ...
www.science.org
Charles et al. rediscover the presumed-extinct greater chestnut weevil (Curculio caryatrypes)
in the eastern US via iNaturalist, and genomic data and field surveys confirm identity
and active reproduc...
