📢 Our meta-analysis on indirect genetic effects is now out Evolution Letters 🔗📰academic.oup.com/evlett/advance… 🔗 data & code: github.com/ASanchez-Tojar… 🇩🇪 press release: aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/2024/10/10/soz…

It's done. I have just submitted my Crick biography to Profile Books and Basic Books. Over three years of work, 160,000 words, covering eighty years of thinking about science. This impression, from Oliver Sacks, is what I want to convey. Next year, you can judge if I succeeded.

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I am looking for a postdoc to join the lab! Come study the evolution of sexually selected weapons and shields with us! $60,000 annual salary, plus benefits. Start date will ideally be between January and May, but the exact start date is flexible. apply.interfolio.com/157125

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Evidence suggests that genes associated with variation in advertisement song within species may be under divergent selection between closely related field cricket species. doi.org/10.1093/evlett… Now in Evolution Letters by Leeban Yusuf et al.

The Daniel Promislow Lab has moved to HNRCA in #Boston. We have #postdoc openings in the #systemsbiology of #aging, using #Drosophila as a model. For more info, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/upl… Postdoc Predoc Opportunities PostdocOpenings.com

Delilah approves weathering the amazing Josef Martinez and Montreal. Vamos #atlunited.

I'm super stoked to announce that I will be starting my own lab in January at Clemson University in the department of Biological Sciences! If you're interested in working on seasonal plasticity in butterflies and moths, feel free to contact me!

I would expect nothing less.

Our paper on the #seasonal correlates of #behaviour, physiology and #lifehistory in wild populations of #buryingbeetles is out now in Ecology and Evolution! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Can AI help us identify beetle species and save countless hours of counting? BeetlePalooza 2024, hosted by Imageomics Institute, brought together diverse scientists to explore AI tools for beetle identification and measurement. New NEON blog: buff.ly/3Yi3OA0

Readers angered over The Washington Post decision not to endorse a candidate for president shouldn’t cancel their subscriptions—they should cancel Amazon Prime instead, Ellen Cushing writes: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Looking for an MSc on bugs, behaviour, evolution? Come join us on the east coast! I'm happy to work with students to apply for CGS-M funding: nserc-crsng.gc.ca/students-etudi… We study sexual selection, social behaviour, evolutionary conflict, insect thermal ecology - lab site in bio

Congrats to our newest Genetics PhD, Dr. Felicia Ebot-Ojong! Here Felicia is with her advisor Dr. Zack Lewis Zachary Lewis Felicia will start a position at the Van Andel Institue Van Andel Institute (VAI) with Dr. Peter Laird Peter W. Laird (@peterwlaird.bsky.social) We are proud of you Dr. Ebot-Ojong!

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Congratulations Amanda! So cool.

I used to order a lot of things from Amazon although have been trying to shop local more. I have not ordered a single thing from Amazon since Jeff Bezos killed the The Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris. Gonna try to keep this up as long as possible.

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