Make students rediscover evolution by reasoning. Check out this project! Students never exposed to evolution used evolutionary thinking to interpret the results. Only afterward we connected this to biology!
If you try it, reach out to us (@izziehb.bsky.social and me) 😊 We'd love to hear feedback!
"Gene Sharing has Stabilised the Genetic Code"
by Peder Worning & Rodrigo Ibarra-Chávez
FREE till March 13th at
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I'm really excited to join ISTA's scientific community! I feel really welcome 🤗 Looking forward to doing awesome science together!
So hyped to see the paper out!! 🤩
A great within-lab collab: 2 undergrads, 2 postdocs, 1 PI, cute rainbow darters, and much fun! 🌟
Please read (now-faculty ❤️) Kara's recap to learn more about what we did, she has a real knack for storytelling! ⏬️
The @fusanilab.bsky.social + vogelwarte.at will be there to talk about sexual selection 🐦🐠 & human impact on animal behaviour and physiology 🪶🐦🐊
Come and visit our stations! langenachtderforschung.at/station/6662
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For all age groups & German/non-German speakers!
With @eliamascolo.bsky.social we'll be presenting this project at the #EvoKE2025 conference in Athens🇬🇷 this November! Check out what the initiative is doing to promote the education and outreach of (biological) evolution in Europe!
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In case you missed it: our review titled "Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities" is out! 🚨
Let me hit you with some highlights on why spatial structure matters. (and why you should care!)
Sharing is appreciated 🙏 🧵👇
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Trends in Genetics
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Replicards: Teaching and simulating evolution with a card-based experiment: doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
With @eliamascolo.bsky.social we developed an interactive class on biological evolution (focusing on mutations 👾) for science #teacher through a card game 🎲 We crash-tested it with #HighSchool students from Milan and made it available online for broader use: replicards.netlify.app #SciCom #EvoBio
First rule of darter fight club is... nah, we're totally going to talk about darter fight club right here in our new paper!! I'm pleased to share the latest from myself, @izziehb.bsky.social ,
@tamramendelson.bsky.social, and two brilliant undergraduate co-authors! #FishSci #FishSky 🐟❤️ 1/
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Article in TIME, featuring ISTA postdoc @eliamascolo.bsky.social. After 4 years in the US, he moved to Austria with the APART-USA fellowship, a program that supports outstanding researchers in relocating their work to Austria.
🔗 https://time.com/7379376/scientist-migration-us-to-europe/
Ah ok, yes the note is a good idea. But also in the main text I've found a bit weird the def of s_net implies additive effects, right after the section on why one should consider that multiplicative effects. Which is why I checked S1. But in any case, really great paper 👏🤩 I enjoyed the read a lot!
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In this study, we assessed the possible dual utility of nuptial color patterns in male rainbow darters (Etheostoma caeruleum) in the context of male-male territorial interactions and female mate ch...
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For big enough s and c (or long enough evo time) the average fitness overshoots (compared to geom mean), as you explained. I wonder if in the case of your work that approximation is really needed/appropriate. [2/2]
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Beautiful work!!! 👏
Question: you derived the selection direction threshold starting from the geom mean (in S1.2), but then, due to an approximation for small s and c, you get a result consistent with simply averaging fitness (as in the def of s_net) rather than geom mean fitness. But [1/2]
