New preprint: human lice are not only a itchy nuisance but also have some very unusual genetics: males inherit and express genes from both parents, but eliminate their fathers DNA from their sperm! This insight is important for pesticide resistance evolution

Today is Tuberous Sclerosis Awareness day nationaltoday.com/national-tuber…. Thanks to all the carers, teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers and scientists that have lightened the load. Tuberous Sclerosis Association

Come and join our lab as a postdoc! The project focuses on the evolution and molecular mechanisms of unusual chromosome behaviour in fungus gnats, a clade of flies with arguably the most complex chromosome system of any organism. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… deadline 20/6 please RT

Why do some fly females produce only one offspring sex? Some description of patterns across species, their unusual sex chromosomes and thoughts about why it evolved

Amazing find in east lothian, so rare to see one above ground with Jarrod Hadfield

Thanks so much for hosting me and for the incredible meeting!

In 1000s of insects males eliminate all the genetic material inherited from their dads when making sperm. How? Why? We review the little that we know here authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09… as part of a great special issue Judith Mank Harmit S. Malik

Thanks for highlighting our work!

Come and join Bungo's lab in Edinburgh!

Great new funding opportunity from the Royal society!

Lovely morning collecting fungus gnats with the lab @RBGE_Science thanks for having us! Elpida Skarlou @MelanyHenot Tamsin Woodman

Couple of weeks left for this, feel free to email with any questions:)

Looking for a three year fellowship in Zoology, Biodiversity, Conservation, etc? We have a funded opportunity for you Science at Sheffield Ecology and Evolutionary Biology tinyurl.com/344y4m3v

Just heard that I got promoted to professor (personal chair equivalent to full prof in the US)! My official title: "chair of non-Mendelian genetics". Very excited and would not have been possible without my fantastic lab (past and present)!

I wrote a journal club article highlighting the early discovery of DNA elimination in insects, by the early cytogenetic pioneers that had only just discovered "classic Mendelian" chromosome behavior

Please RT - I want to hire a talented postdoc with experience in microscopy/cytology, to study adaptation to temperature of #meiosis in plants. Interested? Contact me directly (email, not here). Image is of a temperature stressed meiocyte, by Chris Morgan Chris Morgan

Larger colony sizes favoured the evolution of more worker castes in ants nature.com/articles/s4155… Gijsbert Werner Laura Ross Juliet Turner @philiBeeDowning

Evolutionary genetics folks, does anyone know of a data practical suitable for undergrad teaching that focuses on sex ratio theory or sex chromosome meiotic drive? Before I invest a lot of time developing one I thought I ask around first! Thanks

Extremely honoured to receive the ZSL scientific medal last night! And thanks for having me for a lovely evening

The first Scientific Medal goes to Laura Ross, University of Edinburgh, for her work on the evolution and evolutionary consequences of unusual reproductive strategies and inheritance in animals 🏆