Alec Downie
@aedownie.bsky.social
Postdoc studying evolutionary ecology, trait evolution, and immunity at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social; he/him
Great work, Yuki – congrats!
October 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Great work, Yuki – congrats!
I await in joyful hope the day someone demonstrates the evolution of reproductive isolation occurring downstream of diversifying selection on immune phenotypes. That'll be a difficult one to prove though...
September 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I await in joyful hope the day someone demonstrates the evolution of reproductive isolation occurring downstream of diversifying selection on immune phenotypes. That'll be a difficult one to prove though...
The Vancouver island sticklebacks have supplied a lot of tantalizing evidence of such processes occurring in nature. This preprint feels like an exciting piece of that: advantageous immune variants driving genome-wide introgression and evolution, potentially changing a number of phenotypes.
September 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The Vancouver island sticklebacks have supplied a lot of tantalizing evidence of such processes occurring in nature. This preprint feels like an exciting piece of that: advantageous immune variants driving genome-wide introgression and evolution, potentially changing a number of phenotypes.
@jarome.bsky.social asked me during my PhD defense about immune variation as a driver of genuine diversification, whether it might occur and whether any cases are known. I said at the time that in theory it might occur, and although I didn't know of any, it would be a dream to find such a case.
September 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
@jarome.bsky.social asked me during my PhD defense about immune variation as a driver of genuine diversification, whether it might occur and whether any cases are known. I said at the time that in theory it might occur, and although I didn't know of any, it would be a dream to find such a case.
Reposted by Alec Downie
One of ICE's checkpoints is ~0.5 a mile south of my house, outside the church where I got married, and next to a playground where I take my child to play. I have never felt unsafe there, and for people who don't live here to give cover for snatching my brown neighbors off the street is despicable.
August 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
One of ICE's checkpoints is ~0.5 a mile south of my house, outside the church where I got married, and next to a playground where I take my child to play. I have never felt unsafe there, and for people who don't live here to give cover for snatching my brown neighbors off the street is despicable.