🚨 PhD position available ! 🚨
I am hiring a PhD student to work with me on the evolution of plant sexual systems 🌺 at @unifrbiology.bsky.social ! The position is funded for 4 years by @snsf.ch as part of my Ambizione fellowship. More info here: tinyurl.com/monoecy
🌱 Please RP and share widely ! 🌱
Thomas Lesaffre 🌱
What sets the strikingly similar #mutation rates seen for certain animal cell types? In this Essay, @marcdemanuel.bsky.social , @mollyprz.bsky.social , @natanaels.bsky.social and Anastasia Stolyarova discuss how #selection may shape cellular mutation rate patterns🧪#AcademicSky
plos.io/4oDvrQR
Are you looking for a PhD position, hoping to learn sexual selection theory from one of the true experts in the field? Lehtonen's work is awesome - Look at this and apply!
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The Department of Biological and Environmental Science is seeking to recruit Doctoral Researcher in sexual selection theory (1-2 positions) starting 1.9.2026, or as soon as possible after that for a m...
Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)!
For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions).
Scholarships available, Pls RP! shorturl.at/fo1GA
PLOS Biology
Hanna Kokko
Open Postdoctoral Researcher position in Biodiversity Economics for a new collaboration between @rececochange.bsky.social and Environmental and resource economics group @helsinki.fi
DL 18 February
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
"results reveal 1) a population “boom” among early farmers (~8,500 BP) coincided with reduced body size, consistent with a shift in life history that prioritized reproduction over growth; 2) divergent trends in body size & diet between north & south Europe suggest region-specific adaptations"
Sneak peek at the US cover for THE THINKING ANIMAL, coming Jan '27. Looking forward to sharing more - soon!
@stmartinspress.bsky.social @zcosini.bsky.social
New paper with the brilliant @ewanflintham.bsky.social
How fast does recombination suppression evolve among sex chromosomes? We show that even weak sexual antagonism (so hard to detect) makes this fast, often via inversions fixing on X/Z depending on mating system:
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
1 week left to apply for scholarships ! If you are based at an institution in an ODA recipient country (e.g. Brazil, South Africa, India, Mexico; full list: tinyurl.com/5dv7vvs8), you can get all expenses covered to attend the summer school in Lausanne for a week.
