PhD position on intraspecific floral trait variation, with @BeePlantChem, in collab w/ me. SCAPE Pollination Ecology Urban Pollinators @JPE12328968 International Commission for Plant-Pollination

Are parthenogenetic species avoiding the costs of parthenogenesis by having cryptic sex? In our new paper (doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…), we screen for genetic signatures of cryptic sex in 8 populations of parthenogenetic Timema stick insects and found evidence for sex in 2 of them!

Update on the upcoming Jacques Monod Conference: SEX UNFOLDED : SEX, ASEX, SEXES September 11-15, 2023 in Roscoff, France. The list of invited speakers and details are here: insb.cnrs.fr/fr/sex-unfolde… The application website is not yet open but will be soon. Stay tuned!

Please RT. Registration now OPEN for #SexUnfolded: sex, asex, sexes. Jacques Monod Conference. Third Edition in beautiful Roscoff Sept. 11-15 2023 Registration and details here: cjm3-2023.sciencesconf.org

I'd be grateful if you could retweet this #PhDposition once more...

Calling (potential) postdocs: interested in joining my group to study the colours and evolution of flowers (and animals)? I'm happy to discuss options for a MarieCurie or NWO Veni proposal nwo.nl/en/calls/nwo-t… & …sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-pos…

Please RT: Come join us on a tenure-track PI position LIB in vibrant Hamburg! We are looking for a Head of the Molecular Laboratory to develop omics methods & conduct own + collaborative biodiversity research. Application deadline is July 23. leibniz-lib.de/en/karriere/

Getting ready for tomorrow to talk about nematode genome assemblies in general and chromosome-level phased assemblies in particular 🪱

An inspiring few days of excellent science #TreeOfSex. Many thanks to @KamilSJaron, Dan Jeffries, and team for organising - exciting times ahead! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Just under 3 weeks until the application deadline!

Please RT! Only 6 days until the application deadline.

#SMBE2023 If you want to know about genome evolution under long-term absence of sex, conflict, speciation and sex determination drop by and talk to us. Today at posters 212, 239, 244, 267 and tomorrow 794, 866 at the San Paolo Cloisters Hüsna Mountain Nadège Guiglielmoni

Then talk to Hüsna at poster 267 about speciation of the oribatid mite Platynothrus peltifer with populations from 🇩🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇷🇺🇨🇦 #SMBE2023

Biologists/physicists/engineers who want to work on colour, light and insect vision University of Groningen please get in touch. I can host applicants for this HFSP initiative. #ScienceForUkraine 🇺🇦

Functionally different chromosome sets in a parthenogenetic animal showcase a survival strategy spanning millions of years. Where did we find this? In asexual #oribatid mites! With Jens Bast Mountain @Nguiglielmoni & more biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵 1/n

We laughed together, we cried together. And here it is out in the wild; Hüsna's Final PhD chapter and a true Magnum opus: Ancient asexual mites use independent haplotypes for novel purposes, which might help them to persist over time! Thanks all involved. The whole thread:

Excited to be a part of the #The 3rd AsiaEvoConference in Singapore! 🌏 ⁦Jens Bast⁩ ,⁦Hüsna⁩ and me organize a symposia “Why sex? insights from asexual genomes”. Join & hang out with us. The abstract submission deadline is 1st Oct 2023. phylorf.org/forums/topic/w…

Please RT! Come join my research group in Bonn LIB & Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn on an European Research Council (ERC)-funded PhD position to study population dynamics of the fascinating germline-restricted chromosome of songbirds. You can DM Yifan Pei and me for questions. 8101202752.karriereportal.cloud/job/2024-01-Ph…

After lots of blood, sweat and tears... one of the most challenging and most important work of my scientific career in many aspects. Mites are super old asexuals that do weird stuff with their chromosome copies... enjoy reading. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Also, this will be my last post here. I do not support fa$c1st maniacs and regimes. Bye and see you at Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/jensba…