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1/3 🌍 We're hiring! The Medical Systems Biology Lab at Kiel University @uni-kiel.de is looking for a #PostDoc in #Metabolic #Microbiome #Modeling. Join us at one of Europe’s microbiome research hubs and push the boundaries of microbiome science! 🔗 jobs.uksh.de/job/Kiel-Pos...

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New episode!! 📣📣 A conversation w/ @kevinlala.bsky.social about his new (co-authored) book, ‘Evolution Evolving'! Ideas about evolution have changed a lot in recent decades. An emerging view—synthesized by Lala et al.—puts developmental processes front and center. Listen: disi.org/the-developm...

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The blog post was based on an article (which though behind a paywall, is here): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/676147/pdf

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Gerd Muller, University of Vienna biologist and former President of the Euro Evo Devo society, gives a great commentary our new 'Evolution Evolving' book here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLae... #philsci #philbio #evodevo

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Rethinking Evolution is available in several editions, including an affordable audiobook and an extensiveYouTube playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Excellent introduction to 21st century Evolutionary Biology,with a free online Wikipedia-enabled glossary #science #education #evobio #evodevo 🧪

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Do white-throated sparrows have four sexes? This bird challenges us to think carefully about what "sex" even means. Check out this article in Scientific American for my two cents: sex means many different things. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-ba...

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New paper alert! Led by the amazing Margherita Colucci and @mikleonardi.bsky.social, with @chrisbstringer.bsky.social, and Jason Hodgson, we explore the legacy of Luca Cavalli-Sforza on human evolution. Thanks to @louneschikhi.bsky.social who led this volume. www.pivotscipub.com/hpgg/5/1/000...

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You can watch University of Cambridge professor Tim Lewens give a talk about our new 'Evolution Evolving' book here. I was very pleased when he declared: "This is an excellent book!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDYD... #philsci #philbio #evolution

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Kim's response to our recent letter is now online. (Our original letter is linked as well).

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This is my talk at the 'Evolution Evolving' book launch. I describe what the book is about, new research in non-genetic inheritance, plasticity led evolution, niche construction, evolvability and how developmental processes affect evolution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sym... #evolution #philsci

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Thank you, @eseb.bsky.social!

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Feels strange to be sharing great science papers at the moment, but I love this paper published late last year from Georg Hochberg's team: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Evolution consistently produces molecular "spandrels" with no functional benefit

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#evolution #philsci #philbio

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Reminder of this #culturalevolution starter pack go.bsky.app/6mZJyQq

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Indispensable, information rich talk from @kevinlala.bsky.social . Should be watched by anyone doing #genetics, #evolution, or race studies. Maybe I’ll share some thoughts later. #sts #philbio #hps underline.io/lecture/1051...

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The third edition of 'Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour', co-authored with @kevinlala.bsky.social , is available to purchase! Get 30% off via the OUP website (code ASPROMP8): global.oup.com/academic/pro... Thank you to @rebeccasear.bsky.social for the endorsement!

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We were able to get a clip of the video to upload from the "turtle dance" research paper. 🧪

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There's been an amazing set of talks at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology in Ploen's "Concepts in Evolutionary Biology" workshop this week I'm really happy to have been invited to speak and particularly pleased to see niche construction chosen as a focal topic Thanks so much organizers. #evolution

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And here's another great interview by @drlynnchiu.bsky.social of Tobias Uller "organisms can become better or worse at evolving...and developmental processes are they key” www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1-G... #evolution

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We uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in whale song, published today in Science. @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @jennyallen13.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Its been great to work with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social on the 3rd edition of our book "Sense and Nonsense. Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour". Thanks to Sarah Hrdy for this nice endorsement. Get a 30% discount with code ASPROMP8 at shorturl.at/mmMID @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

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Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Looking for a first intro to theoretical models in cultural evolution? For yourself or your students? 🔍 In our chapter for an upcoming @ehbea.bsky.social textbook, we outline what models are for, what questions they address, and how they can be coded in R! Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Cliff ecosystems are rich in bizarre, unique plants and animals but many facts about their ecology, evolution, and conservation remain mysterious. Now out, open access, is an entire special issue devoted to cliff research in Basic and Applied Ecology: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Intriguing interview of Nathalie Feiner by @drlynnchiu.bsky.social "development sets the rules and boundary conditions so the developmental processes are loading the dice and throwing up variation that natural selection can then sort through" www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjZE... #evolution

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Fascinating interview of Marc Feldman by @drlynnchiu.bsky.social. "If you start to ask what other forces are operating then the principals and theory of evolution starts to change"..."Bring in niche construction then it changes again" #evolution www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ8D...

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This is a great interview of Scott Gilbert about our 'Evolution Evolving' book. As always, @drlynnchiu.bsky.social did a fantastic job of leading the discussion and asking inciteful questions, while Scott is just wonderful. It makes for terrific viewing. #evolution www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTx1...

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🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

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Looking at Simon Pollard's latest book - The Little Book of Spiders, published by @princetonupress.bsky.social. There's lots to love about this book, but this beautiful illustration of Evarcha culicivora is a definite highlight!

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Awesome video!

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My new book 'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', written with Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marc Feldman & Scott Gilbert, is published by @princetonupress.bsky.social For more information see www.evolutionevolving.org #science #evodevo #plasticity

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Proposals are due Feb. 19 for the R.C. Lewontin Early Awards, which provide funds for beginning Master’s and PhD students. Check your eligibility and review the proposal requirements here: https://buff.ly/3YZlUHf

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Our revised preprint following peer-review: “Why did the human brain size evolve: a way forward”. We suggest a simulation-based inference approach to infer why the human brain size evolved. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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You can find out more about my new 'Evolution Evolving' book at www.evolutionevolving.org @princetonupress.bsky.social #science #evolution #evodevo #plasticity #animalbehavior

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Hi #booksky 👋 My book Disbelief asks why humans are a uniquely religious species, and how atheists arise within it. Musing on culture, evolution, the New Atheists & what they got wrong, morality, and an occasional f-bomb for seasoning. Enjoy & spread the word! 💙📚🧪 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...

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Eva Jablonka on #EvolutionEvolving @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... @eesupdate.bsky.social @kevinlala.bsky.social #evolution #evobio #philbio #philsky

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We're hiring! Are you a cultural evolutionary modeller who wants to understand how and why children's peer cultures evolve? Here's a postdoc position for you! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @durhampsych.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social Apply here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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A few years ago, @kevinlala.bsky.social & I put out a #nicheconstruction resource site stocked w/ beautiful examples, explanations, readings, glossary. The amazing @designscience.bsky.social just relaunched the site w/ an impressive new design! www.nicheconstruction.com #evobio #philbio #evolution

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Terrific to see our new book reviewed in Nature "It’s rare that researchers question theories that make up the backbone of whole fields... This shift in thinking — which amounts to a new way of unifying the life sciences — is long overdue" Eva Jablonka Read the review: shorturl.at/YuHcP #science

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What a fantastic job Anne Odling-Smee and her team at DesignScience have done at renovating the niche construction webiste. It is really beautiful and easy to use, and an extremely valuable resource for anyone interested in this topic. www.nicheconstruction.com

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There's a great interview of Tobias Uller and Scott Gilbert about our new 'Evolution Evolving' book on the latest episode of the Big Biology podcast. You can listen to it here: bigbiology.substack.com/p/devo-lutio... #science #evolution #evo-devo #plasticity #microbiome

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Don't be missing it!

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Boreal forests are on the edge of a tipping point! 👉 by R. Rotbarth et al., Jan 2025 in @pnas.org 🔑 Boreal forests might shift to an open state with just 30-50% tree cover. This profound shift will disrupt #Gaia balance, altering fire regimes, carbon storage, and global climate regulation! 🌐🍁🌍🔥

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I'm really thrilled that my new book 'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity' is selected as one of the "Best Scholarly Books of 2024", in Chronicle of Higher Education. Read Jessica Riskin's review here www.chronicle.com/article/the-... #evolution #evo-devo

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Thanks. In my latest ‘Evolution Evolving’ book I discuss how the evolution of bipedality created an “obstetrical dilemma” partly resolved by culturally inherited childbirth practices but also by evolved correlations between pelvis shape, stature, and head shape. See www.evolutionevolving.org

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Building a capacity for making Turing patterns into bacteria. This is very cool. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

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Killifish are great in general, but this one: jumping through the jungle and breathing through its tail while doing so...the jumping guabine of Trinidad. @amydeacon.bsky.social and friends created some spectacular footage: www.iflscience.com/tail-breathi...

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Quotation and image from my 'Evolution Evolving' book. Find our more at www.evolutionevolving.org @princetonupress.bsky.social #evolution #evodevo #philsci #philbio #animalbehavior

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