We all have a sense that our lives are strongly shaped by contingent events outside of our control (‘luck’). But how do we test that hypothesis? In a new pre-print, we do so by replaying the tape of life of genetically identical mice living in the field. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A free online two-weeks crash course in evolutionary biology for students who did not have much exposure to evolutionary biology yet. Ideal for applying for a PhD or Master. evobiocrashcourse.github.io. Run by an excellent team of grad students on 10-21 of June. Register by 4 June.

Last day to apply for this #bioinformatics #pipelines #Nextflow job TODAY!! UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research Queen Mary University of London Seqera

Three day *free* workshop in ecological statistics in Lancaster: 1-3 July lancaster.ac.uk/maths/research…

This position is now re-advertised until June 16th. Please share or apply!

Our new paper on disentangling coadaptation in pre-hatching care behaviours between parents, using experimental evolution populations of burying beetles. Published in The Royal Society Royal Society Publishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

!!!JOB ALERT!!! Assistant/Associate Prof in One Health UCL. We are looking for a fabulous new colleague UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research for our People & Nature Lab UCL East campus - deadline 10th July nature.com/naturecareers/…

Exciting PhD opportunity (for UK-fee students) available in my lab and also with @FleurPonton! Please share with your networks! Open to anyone interested in insect behaviour, vector ecology and developing (evo/epi) models (i.e. experience not required, just enthusiasm to learn!).

📢 Global PhD opportunity: very happy to update that our advertised project on maternal behaviour and larval environment in mosquitoes is now open to applicants from *any* country and the deadline has been extended to 31 August! with @FleurPonton Ajay Narendra Dr Helena Stage

🚨Mark your calendars! We are launching the London EvoDevo club, a space to learn great new science, meet new colleagues and have fun! First meeting on Nov the 8th at Queen Mary University of London Register now! shorturl.at/34BOj Margarida Cardoso Moreira Alex de Mendoza Ferdinand Marlétaz

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