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Pleiotropy has long been assumed to hinder adaptation. Alex Couce explores a #PLOSBiology study that instead suggests that regulatory networks may evolve to ensure mutations are beneficial in correlated environments. Primer: plos.io/4fby0D8 Paper: plos.io/4glXoXJ

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We are excited about next summer! Along with #ScopesSymposium, we're hosting #ISEMPH2025. We are so grateful for folks like Paul Turner Lab, Nicole Bender & Michelle Blythe. We hope you'll join us in Nashville. Registration sites will be live soon! ISEMPH

Come be our colleague! UMass Food Science and UMass Institute for Applied Life Sciences are co-hiring an Assistant professor for Foods for Precision Nutrition. 🍲 🥘 Questions? Ask away! Please share widely and retweet. careers.umass.edu/en-us/job/5254…

NEW preprint!🥳 Orthogroups are a prerequisite for comparative genomics and Tree of Life inquiries Introducing #OrthoHMM, software that improves orthogroup inference, which may refine our understanding of genome evolution and the Tree of Life 🔗 tinyurl.com/4s9mwxz6

We had a great ESI retreat last week Thursday at Fat Bottom Brewing! #TBT We heard talks from Martha Munoz, Amy Goldberg, and Caiti Smukowski Heil and had lightning talks from many folks in our group! Ended with trivia from Nerdy Talk Trivia

I have no words. My sister lost her house to the SoCal fire, leaving her family of four with a handful of suitcases and no home. If you are feeling particularly generous, please consider this gofundme gofund.me/3752eb40

Looking for fun in a nice place for next summer? Then, join us at the Yeast 2025 meeting! Save the date: 21-24 July 2025 Registration and abstract submission are now open!

The Evolutionary Studies Initiative of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, will be hosting ISEMPH 2025! We are very excited to see you all in such a unique location! Details here: buff.ly/40zGJLx EvolutionVU

Had a wonderful time at the first Scopes Festival event - American Religious Landscape During the Scopes Trial! Drs. James Byrd & Hudnut-Beumler gave great recaps of prevailing religious thoughts of the early 1900s. Dialogue Vanderbilt. #Evolution #Fundamentalism

Will this be the best ISEMPH ever? Nashville, Tennessee is calling for #EvMed! The tenth anniversary of the best conference for researchers and clinicians to meet and find the cutting edge. Abstract deadline Feb 3! buff.ly/40zGJLx EvolutionVU

This sounds like a neat conference! isemph.org/ISEMPH-2025/ #evolution #medicine ISEMPH

I’ll share a positive. We had a great lab lunch this week. I am super proud of my team for their scholarship, dedication, collaborative spirit, and coming together to form a family. I’m very fortunate to lead this team! ⁦Vanderbilt University⁩ ⁦Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science⁩ ⁦EvolutionVU⁩

In honor of #SuperBowl Sunday, we bring you ""Coach Scopes"" - about John T. Scopes's little-known life as a football coach. ncse.ngo/coach-scopes #ScopesSunday #ScopesTrial #History

We've just hit a Project Steve milestone on this fine Darwin Day! Steven A. Wernke, Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University makes Steve #1500! ncse.ngo/project-steve-… #projectsteve #darwinday2025

We kicked off our public Scopes Centennial programming at Vanderbilt University with a thought-provoking conversation between Richard Dawkins and David French! You can find more great events here: bit.ly/4hByX9h

In opening remarks at Dialogue Vanderbilt's Darwin Day Lecture, Chancellor Diermeier welcomed renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and Open Dialogue Visiting Fellow David French of the @NYTimes for a thought-provoking discussion at the crossroads of science and philosophy.

A primer on subfunctionalization. A commentary article by James Birchler in #G3journal helps make an informed decision about subfunctionalization occurring with a duplicate gene pair and what caution should be exercised in concluding when they occur. buff.ly/4jkKaNf

Did you miss the conversation on evolution with Richard Dawkins & David French? The Vanderbilt University has got you covered! youtube.com/watch?v=BF7-d4… Also, check our website for Scopes events, including one featuring a Star Trek: The Next Generation star! vanderbilt.edu/dialogue-vande…

Took much longer than it should have, but we've finally made the jump. Please follow us there! bsky.app/profile/rokasl…