Luke Holman
@lukeholman.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Edinburgh Napier U and Commissioning Editor at Journal of Evolutionary Biology. @lukeholman_evo elsewhere
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Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@gensocuk.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@gensocuk.bsky.social
Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer - Heredity
Heredity - Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@gensocuk.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@gensocuk.bsky.social
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meanwhile pigeons be like
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
meanwhile pigeons be like
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Sex-specific mutation accumulation: A parsimonious explanation for sex differences in lifespan and ageing
doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Sex-specific mutation accumulation: A parsimonious explanation for sex differences in lifespan and ageing
doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
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@sacrozhangt.bsky.social and I wrote a commentary on Jordi van Gestel and Carol Gross's latest paper, check it out!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sadly, the Editors at PNAS rejected our initial introduction, which was a David Attenborough style voice over of the microbial Serengeti (included below)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sadly, the Editors at PNAS rejected our initial introduction, which was a David Attenborough style voice over of the microbial Serengeti (included below)
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
@sacrozhangt.bsky.social and I wrote a commentary on Jordi van Gestel and Carol Gross's latest paper, check it out!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sadly, the Editors at PNAS rejected our initial introduction, which was a David Attenborough style voice over of the microbial Serengeti (included below)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sadly, the Editors at PNAS rejected our initial introduction, which was a David Attenborough style voice over of the microbial Serengeti (included below)
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As someone who looks at a lot of Manhattan plots, I can say that an under-appreciated cause of false positive GWAS hits is stuff stuck to my computer screen.
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
As someone who looks at a lot of Manhattan plots, I can say that an under-appreciated cause of false positive GWAS hits is stuff stuck to my computer screen.
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PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
hoehnalab.github.io
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
PhD position available in evolutionary genomics/bioinformatics (hoehnalab.github.io/job_adverts/...). Topic: analyzing gene expression evolution across several firefly species and linking expression changes to genomic architecture. The position is jointly supervised with @anaevolcatalan.bsky.social
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What is sexual selection all about... definitionally and mathematically? A super talented PI, Jussi Lehtonen, is looking for a postdoc to work it all out! Deadline end of this month.
ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...
ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...
October 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
What is sexual selection all about... definitionally and mathematically? A super talented PI, Jussi Lehtonen, is looking for a postdoc to work it all out! Deadline end of this month.
ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...
ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...
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My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!
Exciting PostDoc and RA opportunity with two lovely supervisors!
2 job adverts on a NERC project w myself + @darrenobbard.bsky.social on “What determines the virome: ecology and the environment, evolution, or species history?” early 2026 in
@uniexecec.bsky.social
- Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
- RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Pls share!
@uniexecec.bsky.social
- Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
- RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Pls share!
September 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Exciting PostDoc and RA opportunity with two lovely supervisors!
Some more bizarro ant genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
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September 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Some more bizarro ant genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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If you work on the internal conflicts, do consider proposing a paper for our upcoming special issue in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
More info here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/special-issue/
More info here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/special-issue/
August 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If you work on the internal conflicts, do consider proposing a paper for our upcoming special issue in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
More info here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/special-issue/
More info here: internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/special-issue/
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We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇
September 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇
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debugging some slim code, and these flashing haplotypes are mostly gratuitous, but the closest I'll ever get to the matrix I think
August 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
debugging some slim code, and these flashing haplotypes are mostly gratuitous, but the closest I'll ever get to the matrix I think
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Excited to be a part of this new paper with Alphey Lab- out in pre-print.
Multiplexing overrides resistance for #genedrive in Anopheles stephensi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Multiplexing overrides resistance for #genedrive in Anopheles stephensi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Excited to be a part of this new paper with Alphey Lab- out in pre-print.
Multiplexing overrides resistance for #genedrive in Anopheles stephensi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Multiplexing overrides resistance for #genedrive in Anopheles stephensi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Postdoc opportunity in disease ecology at @uniexecec.bsky.social with the excellent @btschirren.bsky.social and @andyyoung.bsky.social in evergreen Cornwall UK.
**Postdoc opportunities**👇👇 Find me at poster 302 today between 17:30-18:00 for a chat. 🦡🦠🔬🧬 #eseb2025
August 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Postdoc opportunity in disease ecology at @uniexecec.bsky.social with the excellent @btschirren.bsky.social and @andyyoung.bsky.social in evergreen Cornwall UK.
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I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.
August 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.
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Come work with my amazing new colleague!
Hello bluesky community!
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The department of Biology is a large, unified department with strong undergraduate degrees, nationally-ranked graduate programs, and world-class research spanning the breadth of biological questions a...
indiana.peopleadmin.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Come work with my amazing new colleague!
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In another milestone for human genetics, the world's largest set of whole-genome DNA sequences now encompasses data from nearly half a million people, described in this new @nature.com paper from @ukbiobank.bsky.social: 🧪👇
Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants - Nature
A study reports whole-genome sequences for 490,640 participants from the UK Biobank and combines these data with phenotypic data to provide new insights into the relationship between human variation a...
www.nature.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
In another milestone for human genetics, the world's largest set of whole-genome DNA sequences now encompasses data from nearly half a million people, described in this new @nature.com paper from @ukbiobank.bsky.social: 🧪👇
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We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.
This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.
Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.
More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...
This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.
Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.
More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...
Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) at the Chair of Behavioral Physiology & Sociobiology
Biocenter of the University of Würzburg Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
August 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
We are looking for a Postdoc (up to 5 years) who wants to study neural mechanisms of spatial memory in honeybees.
This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.
Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.
More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...
This includes tetrode recordings in behaving honeybees.
Application Deadline is 1st of October 2025.
More details:
www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/services/...
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Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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July 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Job Search
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July 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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The 1st author is here too: follow @tom-is-kean.bsky.social ! His clever idea was to highlight similarities between meiotic drive and inbreeding's "automatic transmission advantage". We ask: given structurally identical(ish) problems, why is what is viewed as paradoxical so different between fields?
Why zoologists should not treat the automatic transmission advantage as an afterthought: a commentary on Clo et al. (2025)
Thomas Keaney & @kokkonut.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Thomas Keaney & @kokkonut.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Why zoologists should not treat the automatic transmission advantage as an afterthought: a commentary on Clo et al. (2025)
Clo et al. (2025) provide a welcome synthesis of the plant and animal literature concerning the propensity (or lack thereof) for inbreeding. A review of th
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July 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The 1st author is here too: follow @tom-is-kean.bsky.social ! His clever idea was to highlight similarities between meiotic drive and inbreeding's "automatic transmission advantage". We ask: given structurally identical(ish) problems, why is what is viewed as paradoxical so different between fields?