For folks in #Ecology and #Evolution, we are hosting a conference here in Cornwall UK! Great chance for a summer staycation June 29-July 3. Plus, we've managed to make it affordable: £250 + £49/night for accommodation. #EvolBiol #EcoEvo sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/

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Welcome

ExE 2026 is a 3-day conference aimed at evolutionary ecologists from around the world, hosted by the University of Exeter in beautiful Cornwall. It provides a friendly and inclusive platform for all career-stages to showcase

Evolution x Ecology 2026 Conference in Cornwall
For UK folks in #Ecology and #Evolution, we are hosting a conference here in Cornwall! Great chance for a summer staycation June 29-July 3. Plus, we've managed to make it affordable: £250 + £49/night for accommodation. #EvolBiol #EcoEvo sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/

Welcome
Welcome

ExE 2026 is a 3-day conference aimed at evolutionary ecologists from around the world, hosted by the University of Exeter in beautiful Cornwall. It provides a friendly and inclusive platform for all career-stages to showcase

Evolution x Ecology 2026 Conference in Cornwall
Paper for the #Drosophila community on a food recipe that rears dozens of species. This was a full team effort, with key contributions from UG, MSc, and PhD students! 👩‍🎓🎉 Plus an #infection observation re: Diet x #Microbiota 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #EvolBiol #AcademicSky #SymbioSky 1/4
Evolutionary mechanisms underlying differences in the innate immune response to infection mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-swb... #Drosophila #Evolution #Immunity #EvolBiol #Infection #HostPathogen 2/4

PhD studentship! Deadline Dec ...
PhD studentship! Deadline Dec 3rd 2025

SWbio application link: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-research/funding/phdfunding/fundedcentres/swbio/ For inquiries, please email: [email protected] Based in: University of Exeter, Penryn,...

MARK A. HANSON LAB

This is so cool, and makes me thing of Lynn Margulis claims that cell fusion, symbiosis are at the heart of speciation. #wildlife #evodevo #evolbiol #combjellies

https://www.popsci.com/environment/comb-jellies-fuse-together/

Two comb jellies can fuse together into one–and keep both butts

They heal. They poop. They live on.

Popular Science
This is so cool, and makes me thing of Lynn Margulis claims that cell fusion, symbiosis are at the heart of speciation. #wildlife #evodevo #evolbiol www.popsci.com/environment/...

Two comb jellies can fuse toge...
Bluesky

Bluesky Social
More science fun/. Mystery tunnels carved by giant sloths. Later used by humans. #science #evolbiol #wildlife www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Did giant ice age beasts carve...
Bluesky

Bluesky Social

Our paper with Luis-Miguel Chevin on the partitioning of variance of reaction norm for plastic traits has now been published in @PeerCommunityJournal.

#evolbiol #phenplas #quantgen

https://peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.24072/pcjournal.515/

If you wonder what additive genetic variance could mean in the context of a plastic trait in a heterogeneous environment, and how to estimate it, go check it out!

This has been a long time in the work, and we realised quite a few things ourselves doing it!

Partitioning the phenotypic and genetic variances of reaction norms

West Virginia opens the door to teaching intelligent design

Governor poised to sign bill allowing teachers to discuss antievolutionary “theories”

https://www.science.org/content/article/west-virginia-opens-door-teaching-intelligent-design

#evolbiol

#science

#HPBIOL

Tonight's bird is a great frigate bird male hoping to attract a female. Taken on North Seymour Island, Galápagos'. Distinguishing feature (to tell it apart from the Magnificent FB) is the green iridescence. #birds #evolbiol