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Cool new preprint on sperm gigantism evolution as quantified with electron microscopy by recent PhD Rebecca Schalkowski #celegans www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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This little methods paper to help with read counting allele-specific expression in interspecies hybrids by Santiago Sanchez-Ramirez has escaped biorxiv limbo to find a happy home in @micropub7n.bsky.social doi.org/10.17912/mic...

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#Celegans peel-1/zeel-1 is one of the best-characterized animal #toxin-antidote systems, but how does it work? @lewsiferase.bsky.social &co show that PEEL-1 co-opts the PMPL-1 to exert toxicity by creating a novel #IonChannel that leads to cell swelling @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3HfH8LN

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NEW REVIEW! Experimental tests on the evolution of sex and recombination and their adaptive significance Parée and Teotónio doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

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Latest needlepoint creation. Made for a friend & colleague Prof Annalise Paaby whose lab studies genetics and evolution using C. elegans. Will post the figure it’s based on below. 🪱🧬

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#Ecology and #Evolution bluesky, a question: Do you think our field has famous open problems that essentially everyone in the field agrees are fundamental and important? If we had to come up with something like the Millennium Problems (www.claymath.org/millennium-p... ), are there clear candidates?

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Six #UofT faculty members recognized with Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Awards 🙌 uoft.me/bAa

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On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

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Upset about federal funding cuts in the US? Want some ideas of what to do? I wrote a long-ish blog post about it here ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com summarizing things I learned meeting with Senate & House aides this week with the @aibsbiology.bsky.social Congressional Visits Day event.

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Bebe and Oona new double-single is now OUT! Whichever city these kids end up in for college is going to be one lucky town open.spotify.com/track/3FUBtp...

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Fun to be involved in this project on alternative splicing led by grad student Pallavi Pilaka-Akella & John Calarco @uoftcellsysbiol.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social now out in Genetics @genetics-gsa.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gene...

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Glad to give my support of bike lanes to the CBC on my ride in to @uoft.bsky.social yesterday morning in this little clip! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

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Fantastic Atwood Colloquium this year at @uoft.bsky.social featuring amazing line up of EEB grad student and postdocs, plus Rising Stars @cbo.bsky.social and @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and Atwood Lecture by @fukamit.bsky.social made all the more special by live support from the Atwood family!

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📢 ONE MORE DAY!! 📢 Meet Dr. Tadashi Fukami, our #Atwood2025 Memorial Lecturer! 🐦🌺🦠 Who else is excited for his talk?! 🙋‍♀️ Learn more about Dr. Fukami’s work here: web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/ Atwood details here: eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

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With @hybridzones.bsky.social & @jenncoughlan.bsky.social, we have been working on an update to Daven Presgraves' influential 2010 review on hybrid incompatibilities (shorturl.at/cJndf). The preprint is available here (shorturl.at/DTC48) with an updated table of almost 100 incompatibilities!

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It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...

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Please read @csee-scee.bsky.social's statement in solidarity with US scientists and science. "We stand at the ready to support member-driven initiatives aimed at standing up for science on both sides of the border."

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Who does that? We rented a train JUST for the conference, that will take the participants from Prague to the woods of Bohemia. There'll be talks ON THE TRAIN. In Prague we'll have 5 locations with different atmospheres. #theconferencetoendallconferences Register now: woodstock.img.cas.cz

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Our department (@EEBUofT) is searching for a Post-Doc! Post-docs funded by this fellowship are independently supported, with research funds available. We invite applications from innovative, collaborative candidates. See the job ad here: eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

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And now, we also have a 2-year postdoc position in the Stelkens Lab! 🧪 If you are interested in parallel evolution, genomics, yeast, and climate adaptation, this could be for you! Please apply through U Stockholm's job platform here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Hey folks, its time to celebrate some outstanding scientists & science. The American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social gives out a variety of awards each year. It is my great privilege to announce this year’s slate of awards. These will also be announced in the next ASN newsletter. 1/N

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America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

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Tl;dr: The editors of a @official-smbe.bsky.social journal ask “The question for you, as an author, is where to spend research funds. Is it better to publish in journals that profit your academic community or profit from that community?”

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This has been in the works for a while, and is not a response to recent events, but the timing couldn't be better: Canada now allows foreign students and postdocs to apply for more doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships! www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

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Male secreted short glycoproteins link sperm competition to the reproductive isolation of species www.cell.com/current-biol...

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New preprint characterizing diverse hybrid dysfunction phenotypes (sperm, gonads, copulatory structures) despite no detectable pre-zygotic isolation, work led by students Maia Dall'Acqua and Amanda Peak (now with @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social ) #celegans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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I am thrilled to share our new review on holocentric chromosomes. It was a lot of fun to write it together with Ines Drinnenberg! Same but different: Centromere regulations in holocentric insects and plants doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

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Motonormativity: who must travel out of their way to go through a dingy underpass, and who gets a smooth uninterrupted route across the surface?

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I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

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New research officially out #EcologyLetters! Exciting compendium of experiments links 2 species community coexistence to reproductive interference from sperm cells by recent grad Rebecca Schalkowski + @katjakasimatis.bsky.social + Megan Greischar #celegans #science 🧪 dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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An unprovoked economic attack, intent on crushing US’s historically closest ally. If you can, please buy 🇨🇦 and 🇲🇽 products. & keep up the calls to your senators and reprentatives in 🇺🇸! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Lots of meat to think about in Gibson's blog post. When getting into collectivist effects, genetic drive in humans would be next to have to consider. Here's my bioethical take on that (or see paywall version at J. Medical Ethics): osf.io/preprints/so...

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The second chapter of my PhD is now available as a preprint! We sampled ant-plant interactions across a ~20° latitudinal gradient across the Indian subcontinent to test the biotic interactions hypothesis for mutualism. Check it out!

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Excited to use Evolving Tomorrow as conceptual framing for my @eebtoronto.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social undergrad biology seminar course this semester! Chapters as background paired w/ research articles on each topic as focus for student presentation + discussion + written critiques ++

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Very cool paper by @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social, which I had completely missed!

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A nice piece of work by @wormsrock.bsky.social. Highly recommend! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

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Very proud to share this outstanding work by @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social - now out in Genetics!

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Now in print, led by @katjakasimatis.bsky.social: Transcriptomic Sexual Conflict at Two Evolutionary Timescales Revealed by Experimental Evolution in Caenorhabditis elegans. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

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Congratulations to Matt Osmond on publication of the final version of "Estimating dispersal rates and locating genetic ancestors with genome-wide genealogies" elifesciences.org/articles/72177

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A shared developmental genetic basis for sexually antagonistic male and female adaptations in the toothed water strider doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Claudia Pruvôt et al.

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