I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you?
PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028)
Please share!
abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...
#janeUM 🎓 Bienvenue aux nouveaux étudiants ! Aujourd’hui à l’UM, le campus s’anime : services universitaires, associations, culture, partenaires… et remise du Prix de l’égalité 🏆 avant de poursuivre la soirée en musique 🎶
#Rentrée2026#VieÉtudiante
Massive retreat of the #Corvatsch Glacier over the past 57 years. Hard to imagine that summer skiing once took place here for around 30 years. Today, only a small remnant of ice remains.
As I & @satavisha-de.bsky.social , move up the career ladder, the tampons in the bathroom may increase, but the women around us do not.
Despite policies meant to patch its cracks, academia continued to sieve out women. We saw it, we heard it from our peers. So we looked for the literature.
As policy does not by itself reshape the informal norms, expectations and networks that govern opportunity, active allyship is vital to boost female representation in #STEM, say Saismit Naik and Satavisha De #WomenInStemhttps://ow.ly/TCPW50ZEAwi
As policy does not by itself reshape the informal norms, expectations and networks that govern opportunity, active allyship is vital to boost female representation in #STEM, say Saismit Naik and Satavisha De #WomenInStemhttps://ow.ly/TCPW50ZEAwi
One of ecology’s oldest questions - how does population growth change as density increases? - remains surprisingly contentious.
In our new @plosbiology.org paper we contribute to the ongoing debate by applying the idea of “Growth-Density Inversion”: doi.org/10.1371/jour.... 1/6
Have ideas for your own, independent research program in Theoretical Biology? Then come and join us as a Group Leader at the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social in Plön, Germany!
Are you looking for a PhD on the intersection between evolutionary and ecological theory? Join us @univie. Fully funded PhD position in fundamental eco-evolutionary theory, open to international students. Apply by 13.7.2026: ecoevo.owlstown.net/search Reposting appreciated. #evolbio#evoeco#ecology
L’Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier (ISEM) est né en 1981. Son histoire reflète la vision intégrative et pluridisciplinaire de la biologie évolutive. Vous pouvez découvrir son historie sur la nouvelle rubrique sur notre site web :
isem-evolution.fr/lisem/histoi...
Here is a short thread summarising our new paper: "From proteins to species ranges: a framework for understanding thermal adaptation during range expansions" with @efronhofer.bsky.social now available @royalsocietypublishing.org
New paper: "From #proteins to species #ranges: a framework for understanding #thermal#adaptation during range expansions" led by @saismit.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1098/rspb... @isemevol.bsky.social @royalsociety.org@cnrsecologie.bsky.social@cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social
From proteins to species ranges: a framework for understanding thermal adaptation during range expansion doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #ProcB#Biophysics#Ecology#Evolution
Hey Young Modellers,
unfortunately, our 🍱 Lunchbox Models 🍱 seminar next week has to be postponed to another time - please instead mark our next session on May 27th with Meike Wittmann (Uni Bielefeld) in your calendars already! 🦊
Find the full seminar schedule here: www.yomos.org/lunchbox-mod...
Isabelle Olivieri entre dans l’histoire ✨ L’écologue montpelliéraine rejoint les 72 femmes scientifiques désormais inscrites sur la tour Eiffel. Une reconnaissance pour ses travaux en écologie évolutive & son héritage scientifique durable. @isemevol.bsky.social
👉 www.umontpellier.fr/hall-of-fame...
Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#FemmesEnScience 🎉 Fierté pour l'UM! Isabelle Olivieri figure parmi les 72 femmes scientifiques proposées pour être inscrites sur la tour Eiffel. 1ère professeure de génétique des populations à #Montpellier, son parcours d’exception est aujourd’hui reconnu à l’échelle nationale @isemevol.bsky.social
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.
I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
🌎 Experiments are central to understanding community dynamics, yet their use is declining.
We're trying to understand why.
If you work in community ecology, we'd really appreciate your input in a quick survey (<5 mins).
👉🏼 link.webropolsurveys.com/S/2022629791...
Reposts welcome!
🧬✨ It’s official!
EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026!
Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students.
Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way!
📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍
Do you want to study #Quantitative#Ecology & #Evolution? Are you interested in a research-oriented #MSc program? Apply & join us at @umontpellier.bsky.social in the #IDIL program. #Fellowships available for #international#students
It took decades for the work of Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi—the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology—to have clinical relevance. That and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
I was recently invited by a cool student initiative from IISER in India @fishersfishes.bsky.social (fishersfishes.github.io) to talk about networks. I conveyed to undergraduates my ideas for how ecology, evolution and their interplay should be understood in light of biological system properties.
Do you want to study #Quantitative#Ecology & #Evolution? Are you interested in a research-oriented #MSc program? Apply & join us at @umontpellier.bsky.social in the #IDIL program. #Fellowships available for #international#students
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Excited to share our new preprint!
Molecular processes of thermal adaptation shape how fast species expand their ranges:
doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.09.675142#ecology#evolution#climatechange#preprint#Theory#Modeling
🌡️ Rares voire rarissimes en France au XXe siècle, les températures dépassant localement les 40 degrés sont devenues fréquentes depuis l’an 2000. Voici une carte animée localisant chaque année où les stations de Météo-France ont relevé ou dépassé 40 degrés (données au 17 août).
New paper from the group by Peter Kamal et al: #Dispersal#evolution can only rescue a limited set of species from #climate#change. In ProcB doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
New preprint about open science in eco-evo!
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...#ScientificPublishing#OpenScience#ecology#conservation#EvolutionaryBiology#paleobio#systematics#archeology
Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt
"The myth of meritocracy in science collapses under the financial sacrifices expected at every career stage. From unpaid internships and self-funded conferences to underpaid positions, these hidden costs disproportionately exclude those without generational wealth, compounded by race and gender."
@cnrsecologie.bsky.social regrette profondément l'adoption de cette loi à la vision court-termiste & ses conséquences graves sur l’environnement, qui méprise santé & bien-être de la population & le rôle des espèces sauvages dans la prod. agricole. La communauté scientifique n'a pas été entendue.
Le Parlement a définitivement adopté mardi la proposition de loi agricole Duplomb-Menonville, comprenant entre autres une mesure décriée de réintroduction sous conditions d'un pesticide néonicotinoïde, et présentée comme une réponse à la colère agricole de 2024.
Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing#ecoevo#archaeology#EthicalPublishing#SocietyJournals#DiamondOpenAccessdoi.org/10.32942/X24...
Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by J.N. Deshpande et al.
The two pictures are 11 years apart.
On 10 May 1933 the Nazi party staged ideological spectacle of burning of 'un-German’ books.
2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber V, 1944.
#Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead to.