New paper out in American Naturalist with Maria Servedio on the evolution of mate attachment! We study the conditions under which it is advantageous to become attached to one's mate. 1/7 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

New preprint out on biorxiv! I propose a model for the stability of sex chromosome systems based only on the operation of stabilizing selection on polygenic traits. This will be a short thread on the main results 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy #Caturday! 😺When we see our cats nap, we may ask how did this "ferocious" creature make its leap off the African plain? Attend the #EvolutionMatters talk & book presentation on 9/21 to hear Jonathan Losos Jonathan B. Losos answer these types of questions. tinyurl.com/CatsMeowTalk

Graham Coop gave such a nice talk at Berkeley last week on walnuts, pecans, hickories and the ancient evolution of the maintenance of polymorphic timing of male and female flowering on these important (and beautiful) trees: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. Thank you Graham for visiting.

Thrilled to share that in spring 2025 I'll be joining the Dept. of Biology at Loyola University Chicago as an Assistant Professor! Invertebrate evolution, genomics, phylogenies, gastropods/mollusks, marine biogeography, and more… here we go! #newPI

V happy to announce that the Research Council of Norway has awarded me a 'Young Researcher Talent' grant to work on diversification dynamics and genomics of Galápagos plants. If you're excited about this, there will be a PhD position out soon. Here's DALLE's depict of the work

Paper with Carl Veller & Molly Przeworski now out Causal interpretations of family GWAS in the presence of heterogeneous effects pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

The Evolution & Ecology dept at UC Davis is searching for a tenure-track Asst Professor of Teaching in ecology and evolution. This is my dept and I truly love it - collegial, incredible support and great group of humans. Send us your apps by Nov 1 pls! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06690

Come join us! UChicago Human Genetics has an open broad computational faculty search (with an emphasis on probabilistic machine learning). First round of application review will begin ~October 15th. apply.interfolio.com/149891 EOE/Vet/Disability.

The UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoctoral fellowship is now being advertised. This is a great opportunity to come join our wonderful community of Evolution & Ecology here at Davis. Please RT cpb.ucdavis.edu/cpb-postdoc-fe…

Our paper on sex-differential selection in humans is now out in PNAS! Check it out: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… See the thread below on the original pre-print for more! 👇

New work out, on the evolution and diversity of sex in waterhemp!

The University of Chicago has two faculty searches that should interest evolutionary biologists/geneticists. A fantastic university with lots of strong colleagues across departments. Get in touch if you have any questions! academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/1460… academicjobs.uchicago.edu/positions/1430…

Widely observed negative correlation between recombination rate and TE abundance is usually interpreted as recombination rate being the "cause," influencing the efficacy of selection purging TEs. Yet, our recent study "flipped" this causality! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…… (1/5)

🥳 So happy to share the published version of our paper on the gradual emergence of XY and ZW sex determination during gradual transitions from hermaphroditism to dioecy, now out in PNASNews ! 🥳

📎🎓PhD Research Fellow in Evolutionary Genomics and Island Biology CEES - Univ. of Oslo to work w/ me All info you need to know is here: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j… Read more about us and what we're doing here islandevolution.github.io >> Please RT << Thank you🫂

Sharing this happy news about our PI, Martha Muñoz! 🥳

our second session of the q&a panel series is in a few weeks! this one will focus on the technicalities and tacit rules of applying to phd programs. open to anyone, but focus will be on biology programs. please share widely with your networks of potentially interested folks ✨

I'm looking to change my career path and am quite excited about exploring jobs in biotechs in the Bay Area (or remote). I'm very keen to start a career that offers stability so my partner and I can finally live in the same state. Does anyone know of organizations that are hiring?