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Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology
Columbia University

E3B Columbia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Applications received by Oct 15 will receive full consideration.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/columbia-university-27778-assistant-professor-of-evolutionary-biology/

#evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Sci...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/columbia-university-27778-assistant-professor-of-evolutionary-biology/?fsp_sid=15167

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
#MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio09102601.html

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
#MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio09102601.html

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
#MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio09102601.html

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
#MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio09102601.html

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria possess a critical vulnerability within their cell wall transport systems that, when disrupted, drastically reduces their resistance. This discovery reveals an evolutionary trade-off where the genetic mechanisms bacteria use to survive antibiotic exposure can simultaneously be exploited to make them susceptible to existing treatments.
#MolecularBiology #Microbiology #Bacteriology #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/mbio09102601.html

Local evolutionary adaptation occurs when populations of a single species develop heritable, genetic traits that are finely tuned to the highly specific conditions of their immediate environment.
#EvolutionaryBiology #Ecology #ConservationBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/ebio09102601.html

https://www.europesays.com/ie/681036/ Adaptive zones of feliforms and evolutionary regimes within terrestrial mammalian carnivores #BiologicalAndPhysicalAnthropology #Ecology #Éire #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionaryEcology #general #IE #Ireland #LifeSciences #Palaeoecology #palaeontology #paleontology #Science #Zoology

Coevolution (Habitat 🌄)

In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection. The term sometimes is used for two traits in the same species affecting each other's evolution, as well as gene-culture coevolution. Charles Darwin mentioned evolutionary i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution

#Coevolution #Habitat #EcologicalProcesses #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionOfTheBiosphere #EnvironmentalTerminology

Coevolution (Habitat 🌄)

In biology, coevolution occurs when two or more species reciprocally affect each other's evolution through the process of natural selection. The term sometimes is used for two traits in the same species affecting each other's evolution, as well as gene-culture coevolution. Charles Darwin mentioned evolutionary i...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coevolution

#Coevolution #Habitat #EcologicalProcesses #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionOfTheBiosphere #EnvironmentalTerminology

It is a remarkably humbling realization that a single, unnoticed bite from an arthropod the size of an apple seed can completely rewrite an individual's relationship with the global food chain. Alpha-gal syndrome reminds us that the human immune system, for all its staggering sophistication and atomic-level precision, remains intimately and sometimes precariously tethered to the natural world.
#WhatIs #Immunology #MolecularBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #Entomology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/09/wi09102601.html

A cognitive study using non-invasive eye-tracking technology to quantify how gibbons visually process faces, revealing a strong preference for looking at the eyes, particularly those of their own species.
#Ethology #Primatology #EvolutionaryBiology #CognitivePsychology #BehavioralEcology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio08262601.html

A cognitive study using non-invasive eye-tracking technology to quantify how gibbons visually process faces, revealing a strong preference for looking at the eyes, particularly those of their own species.
#Ethology #Primatology #EvolutionaryBiology #CognitivePsychology #BehavioralEcology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio08262601.html

A cognitive study using non-invasive eye-tracking technology to quantify how gibbons visually process faces, revealing a strong preference for looking at the eyes, particularly those of their own species.
#Ethology #Primatology #EvolutionaryBiology #CognitivePsychology #BehavioralEcology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio08262601.html

A cognitive study using non-invasive eye-tracking technology to quantify how gibbons visually process faces, revealing a strong preference for looking at the eyes, particularly those of their own species.
#Ethology #Primatology #EvolutionaryBiology #CognitivePsychology #BehavioralEcology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio08262601.html

A cognitive study using non-invasive eye-tracking technology to quantify how gibbons visually process faces, revealing a strong preference for looking at the eyes, particularly those of their own species.
#Ethology #Primatology #EvolutionaryBiology #CognitivePsychology #BehavioralEcology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/ebio08262601.html

We are a species strictly engineered for deep, empathetic connection. Protecting the integrity of that connection—by understanding exactly how it functions, how it is genetically moderated, and how malevolent actors can exploit it—is arguably the most critical scientific and societal endeavor of our time.
#Neuroscience #CognitivePsychology #Neurobiology #BehavioralGenetics #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/wi08212601.html

We are a species strictly engineered for deep, empathetic connection. Protecting the integrity of that connection—by understanding exactly how it functions, how it is genetically moderated, and how malevolent actors can exploit it—is arguably the most critical scientific and societal endeavor of our time.
#Neuroscience #CognitivePsychology #Neurobiology #BehavioralGenetics #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/wi08212601.html

We are a species strictly engineered for deep, empathetic connection. Protecting the integrity of that connection—by understanding exactly how it functions, how it is genetically moderated, and how malevolent actors can exploit it—is arguably the most critical scientific and societal endeavor of our time.
#Neuroscience #CognitivePsychology #Neurobiology #BehavioralGenetics #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/wi08212601.html

We are a species strictly engineered for deep, empathetic connection. Protecting the integrity of that connection—by understanding exactly how it functions, how it is genetically moderated, and how malevolent actors can exploit it—is arguably the most critical scientific and societal endeavor of our time.
#Neuroscience #CognitivePsychology #Neurobiology #BehavioralGenetics #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/wi08212601.html

We are a species strictly engineered for deep, empathetic connection. Protecting the integrity of that connection—by understanding exactly how it functions, how it is genetically moderated, and how malevolent actors can exploit it—is arguably the most critical scientific and societal endeavor of our time.
#Neuroscience #CognitivePsychology #Neurobiology #BehavioralGenetics #EvolutionaryBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/wi08212601.html

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.

#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon

University of Michigan researchers utilized advanced artificial intelligence to demonstrate that passerine birds (order Passeriformes) underwent rapid bursts of morphological evolution that directly coincided with major historical climate shifts.
#EvolutionaryBiology #Ornithology #Paleoclimatology #ComputationalBiology #AI #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/ebio07202601.html

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I found a much reduced copy of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of #Geology and #Palaeontology, published by Oxford University Press
- I was so taken with Guillermo del Toro's visual take on #Frankenstein, I bought the book on the making of the movie by Sheila O'Malley, published by Titan Books.
- I found a second-hand copy of The Spirit of System: #Lamarck and #EvolutionaryBiology, published by Harvard University Press, which should come in handy for a future review on Lamarck.

#Books #Bookstodon #Paleontology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #Scicomm @bookstodon

#HumanBrain #EnergyDemand #FatStorage #EvolutionaryBiology #Podcast #Science #Health #Nutrition #CalorieConsumption #wellnesszone #wellnessindustry #wellnessbox #wellnessweek #wellnessplanner #BrainPower https://mastodon.social/@biohackingpathway/116750295459505227

Rhodoliths are unattached, pebble-like marine nodules formed primarily by calcifying coralline algae that serve as vital habitats and contribute to long-term carbon storage in ocean sediments.
#Phycology #Botany #MarineBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #Taxonomy #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/bot06092601.html

“Unhappy is the land that needs a hero”*…

To the extent that evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist Robert Trivers has been in the news over the last decade, it has been for his entanglement with and highly-questionable defense of Jeffrey Epstein. But as Lionel Page reminds us, two decades before that– well before he could have known the execrable “financier”– Trivers made hugely important contributions to his field…

Steve Stewart-Williams announced… that Robert Trivers passed away.

Trivers was one of the most—perhaps the most—influential evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. His work should be much more widely known in social and behavioural sciences, in particular in economics, as Trivers’ intellectual approach is very much in line with a game theoretic understanding of social interactions.

It is hard to overstate the importance of his work. Einstein famously published four groundbreaking papers in 1905, a year often referred to as his “Annus mirabilis”, during which he revolutionised physics. Trivers might be said to have had a “Quinquennium Mirabile” for the five years between 1971 and 1976, during which he produced a series of ideas that revolutionised evolutionary biology…

[Page unpacks four of those contributions: Reciprocal Alturism, Parental Investment, Parental Offspring Conflict, and Self-Deception, each fascinating…]

… Trivers has been one of the most influential evolutionary biologists, and his papers are still worth reading today. His insights, published more than 50 years ago, are fascinating. They often align very well with economic theories of behaviour, and it is therefore regrettable that his ideas are not more well-known in economics, and in particular in behavioural economics.

A key feature of Trivers’ take across these contributions was to see that beneath the world of social interactions we observe, there are deep structures in terms of incentives that shape the game we play. Understanding these games and their structures helps us make sense of the seemingly endless complexity of human psychology and social dynamics. In several key contributions, Trivers helped lift the veil on the underlying logic of human behaviour…

From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions: “The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers” from @lionelpage.bsky.social.

For more on Trivers and the controversies in his life (Epstein, but also the Black Panthers and a Rutgers set-to), all of which followed the burst of productivity described above, see here.

And for some thoughts on how one might reconcile appreciation for a scientist’s work with abhorence of his later sins, see “Ghosts of Science Past Still Haunt Us. We Can Put Them to Rest.“

* Bertolt Brecht (through the mouth of Galileo, in The Life of Galileo)

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As we linger over legacies, we might send material birthday greetings to a man who helped lay the groundwork for the field to which Trivers contributed, Ludwig Büchner; he was born on this date in 1824. A philosopher, physiologist, and physician, he became one of the leading exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism. Büchner was an early champion of Darwin’s theory of evolution, endorsing it within a decade of its first issuance, then did much to spread it by citing and building on it in his own books.

As far as we know, Büchner’s life was free of the scandal and conflict that plagued Trivers. He taught at the University of Tübingen and published dozens of books and papers. Later in his life he founded he “German Freethinkers League” (“Deutsche Freidenkerbund”) and served as a member of the second chamber of the Landstände of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as a representative of the German Free-minded Party from 1884 to 1890. He was the younger brother of Georg Büchner, a famous revolutionary playwright, and Luise Büchner, a women’s rights advocate; and he was the uncle of Ernst Büchner, inventor of the Büchner flask.

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🍼More children, shorter #lifespan?

UG researcher Euan Young found clear evidence in #parishrecords from the Great Finnish Famine.📖

'Our findings suggest that under harsh conditions, reproductive effort certainly affects lifespan.’

Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/highlighted-papers/2025/more-children-shorter-lifespan-clear-evidence-from-the-great-finnish-famine

Published in #ScienceAdvances

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom
#reproduction #research #evolution #evolutionarybiology #biology #populationstudies #science #ScientistsOnMastodon
@universityofgroningen

Here’s something to think about next time you eat some fermented food.

https://scitechdaily.com/harvard-scientists-discover-surprising-hidden-catalyst-in-human-brain-evolution/

#brain #evolution #microbiome #GutMicrobiome #FermentedFood #EvolutionaryBiology

Excited to have been interviewed about my research in "Big Biology" - my favourite biology podcast! A nice conversation between myself and my colleagues Cameron Ghalambor and Marty Martin.

FYI: this is my first podcast ever! Check it out:

https://www.bigbiology.org/episodes/2023/10/19/ep-108-the-dialectical-biologists-challenges-of-studying-evolution-in-nature-with-erik-svensson?fbclid=IwAR1chACvVMdaHVL_RrMGETR6-Glxn6kT4QfAFd3fyozYIeR-3bsu9u4-dRM

#evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #ecology #damselflies #PhenotypicPlasticity

Next #KLIColloquium with Orsolya Bajer-Molnar is on #EIDs:

All hands on deck – Transdisciplinary Approaches to Coping with Emerging Infectious Diseases

Dec 6, 3PM #Hybrid #Zoom

https://kli.ac.at/en/events/event_calendar/view/649

#Transdisciplinary #Transdisciplinarity #EmergingInfectiousDiseases #EID #EvolutionaryBiology #Evolution #StockholmParadigm

A #thread of recent papers coauthored by Eörs Szathmáry on learning and evolution, covering Darwinian principles in the immune system, brain, Bayesian learning theory.

Mentioned in today's #KLIAustria #KLIColloquium talk.

#evolution #ecoevo #EvolutionaryBiology #EvolutionaryAlgorithm #Darwin #Darwinian #Learning #LearningTheory #Bayesian #neuroscience #immunology #PaperThread #