R. Axel W. Wiberg
@rawwiberg.bsky.social
I am an evolutionary biologist. Broadly interested sexual selection and conflict, genomics, and bioinformatics. | biology | evolution | insects | drosophila | uncharismatic minifauna | climbing | reading | video games
I posted a pre-print today. It's a big deal for me as it's the first paper as an independent PI. It's the culmination of 2 years worth of work and I'm really proud of it.
Sexually antagonistic co-evolution at the molecular level predicts phenotypic outcomes of mating interactions. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686516v1
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I posted a pre-print today. It's a big deal for me as it's the first paper as an independent PI. It's the culmination of 2 years worth of work and I'm really proud of it.
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Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
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🪰 🧬16th #DrosEU2026 Workshop & Satellite #DrosophilaSuzukii Meeting Conference will take place 13–17 April 2026 in #Montpellier, France 🇫🇷.
We look forward to connecting with colleagues across Europe to discuss new research in #Drosophila #genomics #evolution & #CitizenScience +info 👉 droseu.net
We look forward to connecting with colleagues across Europe to discuss new research in #Drosophila #genomics #evolution & #CitizenScience +info 👉 droseu.net
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🪰 🧬16th #DrosEU2026 Workshop & Satellite #DrosophilaSuzukii Meeting Conference will take place 13–17 April 2026 in #Montpellier, France 🇫🇷.
We look forward to connecting with colleagues across Europe to discuss new research in #Drosophila #genomics #evolution & #CitizenScience +info 👉 droseu.net
We look forward to connecting with colleagues across Europe to discuss new research in #Drosophila #genomics #evolution & #CitizenScience +info 👉 droseu.net
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#festamajordegràcia is concluded for @lcatmon.bsky.social it's been 1 more bucket list ✅️ to bring #evolution to one of the most important festivities of #Barcelona
Thanks #44Perill, @ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social #eseb2025 @sesbe-org.bsky.social and for the support and trust! Activities Summary 👇
Thanks #44Perill, @ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social #eseb2025 @sesbe-org.bsky.social and for the support and trust! Activities Summary 👇
August 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
#festamajordegràcia is concluded for @lcatmon.bsky.social it's been 1 more bucket list ✅️ to bring #evolution to one of the most important festivities of #Barcelona
Thanks #44Perill, @ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social #eseb2025 @sesbe-org.bsky.social and for the support and trust! Activities Summary 👇
Thanks #44Perill, @ajuntamentbcn.bsky.social #eseb2025 @sesbe-org.bsky.social and for the support and trust! Activities Summary 👇
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We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)
October 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
We are in Bluesky and we are happy to share our two last consortium publications: the DrosEU expanded DEST dataset and a Continent-wide study of phenotypic differentiation among European #Drosophila melanogaster populations (1/7)
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Avez-vous déjà vu... un tardigrade faire le tour de sa petite planète de cellules d'algue Volvox ?
Maintenant oui 😊
Cette vidéo a été classée 4ème au concours de microphotographie Nikon Small World 2025.
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
cc @eloscicomm.bsky.social 😉
Maintenant oui 😊
Cette vidéo a été classée 4ème au concours de microphotographie Nikon Small World 2025.
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
cc @eloscicomm.bsky.social 😉
September 30, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Avez-vous déjà vu... un tardigrade faire le tour de sa petite planète de cellules d'algue Volvox ?
Maintenant oui 😊
Cette vidéo a été classée 4ème au concours de microphotographie Nikon Small World 2025.
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
cc @eloscicomm.bsky.social 😉
Maintenant oui 😊
Cette vidéo a été classée 4ème au concours de microphotographie Nikon Small World 2025.
www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
cc @eloscicomm.bsky.social 😉
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Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
September 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned
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This Saturday 13 September at 19:00 I’m giving a talk in the Linnaeus orangerie as part of the Culture night events. Stop by if you’re around! I heard there will be music and dance events at the gardens. www.uu.se/en/faculty/s...
UppTalk at Kulturnatten: What’s the ‘buzz’ about?
- Uppsala University
www.uu.se
September 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This Saturday 13 September at 19:00 I’m giving a talk in the Linnaeus orangerie as part of the Culture night events. Stop by if you’re around! I heard there will be music and dance events at the gardens. www.uu.se/en/faculty/s...
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FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
Harvard University lays off fly database team
The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.
www.thetransmitter.org
August 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
FlyBase, a Drosophila database, will lose a third of its team in early October because the Harvard grant that covered the employees’ salaries was canceled. Scientists warn that losing FlyBase could devastate fly research.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...
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🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025!
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:
Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:
Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)
August 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
🚨 Exciting news for #ESEB2025!
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:
Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)
Join us in Barcelona for our symposium:
Cooperation, Conflict & the Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials (S08)
📅 Thursday, 21 Aug 2025
🕥 10:30–12:30 | 🕔 17:00–19:00 (Poster Session)
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MassLive.com recently interviewed several Harvard FlyBase people and wrote this news article about the importance of FlyBase: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f
Why a database of bug genes could be one of Trump’s most devastating cuts at Harvard
FlyBase, the world's only fruit fly database, is in the crosshairs of Trump's attack on Harvard. Here's why it could matter for your health.
tinyurl.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
MassLive.com recently interviewed several Harvard FlyBase people and wrote this news article about the importance of FlyBase: tinyurl.com/4chpts9f
This is a super important resource provided by an amazing team of people. It's a travesty that it has come to this, but please consider supporting them in some way.
URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below.
This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.
My lab studies bacterial infections. We spend a lot of time looking at (or for) species-specific genetic and genomic databases for hosts and microbes. FlyBase is the best of all—there is literally no comparison. Its existence is under threat. Please donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
June 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
This is a super important resource provided by an amazing team of people. It's a travesty that it has come to this, but please consider supporting them in some way.
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Excited to see our most recent MS finally out in the world. We used F1 female hybrids (of two behaviourally-isolated cricket species) to show that broad gene expression divergence in the brain underpins context-dependent divergence of female response to male sexual signals.
Cis-regulatory divergence and mate recognition in behaviourally isolated cricket species. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.654830v1
May 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Excited to see our most recent MS finally out in the world. We used F1 female hybrids (of two behaviourally-isolated cricket species) to show that broad gene expression divergence in the brain underpins context-dependent divergence of female response to male sexual signals.
Former MSCA fellow for a project in evolutionary biology here, please get in touch if you want to ask questions about the process.
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
May 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Former MSCA fellow for a project in evolutionary biology here, please get in touch if you want to ask questions about the process.
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Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
May 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
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The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration.
We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs
The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...
www.techspot.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration.
We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
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Excellent piece from Adam, though perhaps a bit too restrained.
The resurrection circus keeps clowning, but make no mistake, Dire wolves remain very extinct.
An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
An angry, sweary piece by a frustrated geneticist.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Dire wolves remain very extinct
Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.
arutherford.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Excellent piece from Adam, though perhaps a bit too restrained.
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I am looking for a Postdoc (3 years, start Mid-2025) to work on conservation genomics of ringed seal in the Baltic.
The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations.
#conservationgenetics
#consgen
Apply here:
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations.
#conservationgenetics
#consgen
Apply here:
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
March 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I am looking for a Postdoc (3 years, start Mid-2025) to work on conservation genomics of ringed seal in the Baltic.
The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations.
#conservationgenetics
#consgen
Apply here:
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations.
#conservationgenetics
#consgen
Apply here:
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
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Neural circuits that link genetic variation to #behavior: This study of mate choice behavior in Heliconius cydno #butterflies shows that alterations to the peripheral nervous system, driven by genetic & gene expression differences, can alter essential behaviors 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4iHQDRd
March 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Neural circuits that link genetic variation to #behavior: This study of mate choice behavior in Heliconius cydno #butterflies shows that alterations to the peripheral nervous system, driven by genetic & gene expression differences, can alter essential behaviors 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/4iHQDRd
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Dear All, I believe that this thread will become one of my most important contributions to the fly field (I hope I will make other contributions)! Here, I introduce the Soy Milk Machine Fly Food Method, a.k.a., DeepCook!#Drosophila#NewPI
February 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Dear All, I believe that this thread will become one of my most important contributions to the fly field (I hope I will make other contributions)! Here, I introduce the Soy Milk Machine Fly Food Method, a.k.a., DeepCook!#Drosophila#NewPI
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The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌
300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co.
Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co.
Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
February 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌
300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co.
Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co.
Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Med uppblåst mage och håriga ben försöker honflugor se större ut för att få mat från uppvaktande kavaljerer. Men hanflugorna har vässat synen för att kunna avslöja bluffen. Det visar en ny studie i @journal-evo.bsky.social med forskare från Göteborgs och Stockholms universitet.
tinyurl.com/yc3uh5jm
tinyurl.com/yc3uh5jm
February 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Med uppblåst mage och håriga ben försöker honflugor se större ut för att få mat från uppvaktande kavaljerer. Men hanflugorna har vässat synen för att kunna avslöja bluffen. Det visar en ny studie i @journal-evo.bsky.social med forskare från Göteborgs och Stockholms universitet.
tinyurl.com/yc3uh5jm
tinyurl.com/yc3uh5jm
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Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio
January 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio
Our paper on co-evolution between male eye morphologies and female ornaments in dance flies has been picked up by Newsweek! www.newsweek.com/evolution-fl...
Male flies sharpen eyesight to avoid being tricked by females
In an evolutionary battle of the sexes, scientists have found that male flies sharpen their eyesight to avoid being tricked by females into sharing food.
www.newsweek.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Our paper on co-evolution between male eye morphologies and female ornaments in dance flies has been picked up by Newsweek! www.newsweek.com/evolution-fl...
Budget planning for applications is hell. Most company websites have quite unhelpful (if any) price guides. What are your tips/tricks? At the moment my numbers are based in reality, but feel very "ball-park guesstimate"-y.
December 7, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Budget planning for applications is hell. Most company websites have quite unhelpful (if any) price guides. What are your tips/tricks? At the moment my numbers are based in reality, but feel very "ball-park guesstimate"-y.