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Really saddened to hear that was my first postdoc advisor David Penny has passed away. Dave made so many great contributions to phylogenetics and evolution. I was very lucky to have such a mentor and a remarkable human with no sense of hierarchy.

On Friday we had the #EED2024 finale in #PikkuFinlandia! What an evening 🤩! We wish you all a safe trip home and see you all in 2 years!!!

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So when will the Second Church Estates Commissioner be appointed then!?

🚨 Job Opening! 🚨 The Natural History Museum is hiring a Head of Molecular Labs to lead and advance our labs and sequencing facility, aligning with the Museum’s evolving and dynamic research needs. Learn more and apply: jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job/J…

I am sad to report that Euan Clarkson - who made us understand how trilobites saw the world - has just died. He was one of a kind.

I am saddened to hear about the death of a conservation hero of mine - Tony Soper aged 95. He inspired me as a child with his smooth knowledgeable style. He was a wonderful man. Rest in nature Tony Soper ❤️

New Mozart dropping soon.

Our new paper out today uses a mathematically-tractable model of collective navigation to study accuracy trade offs from individually rational behaviour, effects of group composition and emergence of leadership royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

📢 I’m hiring a 3yr postdoc Interested in evolutionary origins of miRNA/RNAi in animals? Keen on working with early branching metazoans and unicellular relatives? Please join my lab 🧬 MBA - Marine Biological Association ⏳Deadline 25th October 2024 ℹ️ Details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJW823/pos… Please RT!

How Important Is Budding Speciation for Comparative Studies? academic.oup.com/sysbio/article… Society of Systematic Biologists

Extremely sad to have to report that Stefan Bengtson died at the weekend, one of the most influential palaeontologists of the last few decades.

ZOOLOGY JOB ALERT!🚨🪱 Are you interested in microscopic worms, asexual reproduction, or EvoDevo? We are hiring a post-doc (18 months) in our newly established group Institute of Evolutionary Biology UW Wydział Biologii UW funded by NAWA Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange Apply by 15.12.24 More details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/283654

Very sad to learn of the passing of Michael Ruse. His blend of history and philosophy of biology was a delight and my bookshelf is full of his books.

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New PhD opportunity: harnessing real-world network experiments to aid prediction of how natural social systems will respond to change & perturbations, using 🐦 Wytham Tit Study yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/under… feel free to get in touch for more info. Please share!

I've just heard the news that my science hero Richard Fortey has died, so very sad.

Archaeologists working at Knossos, on the island of Crete, have found an ivory staff or scepter engraved with the longest Linear A inscription ever found. Linear A, as you may know, is an undeciphered script. This inscription of approximately 119 signs will assist in helping us

Looking forward to the 11th ICT-4-Ageing Well conference in Porto Portugal next week! A first-ever ICT conference for me, and also the first-ever where me & my identical twin give keynotes on the same day (finally proving we aren’t just the same person!) ict4awe.scitevents.org/KeynoteSpeaker…

Very sorry to hear of the death of Alisdair MacIntyre. ”After Virtue” was never more apposite. dailynous.com/2025/05/22/ala…