Tom Keaney
@tom-is-kean.bsky.social
Postdoc and Kokkonut @uni_mainz - evolutionary theory (sexual conflict, selfish genes etc) and other things (which is really just bike riding)
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How the elephant lost his tail
October 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
How the elephant lost his tail
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🧬✨ 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 🌍
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 🌍
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🧬✨ 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 🌍
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 🌍
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"The foundation for our current understanding of how phenotypic evolution operates in natural populations was laid by Lande (1976, 1979, 1982) and Lande & Arnold (1983)."
1. What a topic sentence from Vriend et al.:
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
2. What a collection of papers in a 7 year span!
1. What a topic sentence from Vriend et al.:
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
2. What a collection of papers in a 7 year span!
October 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"The foundation for our current understanding of how phenotypic evolution operates in natural populations was laid by Lande (1976, 1979, 1982) and Lande & Arnold (1983)."
1. What a topic sentence from Vriend et al.:
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
2. What a collection of papers in a 7 year span!
1. What a topic sentence from Vriend et al.:
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
2. What a collection of papers in a 7 year span!
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Do you like quantitative genetics, stats, experiments, and long-term studies? Check out this post doc opportunity with the wonderful Anja Felmy!
Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology!
Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
October 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Do you like quantitative genetics, stats, experiments, and long-term studies? Check out this post doc opportunity with the wonderful Anja Felmy!
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Congratulations to Fabian Salgado-Roa, winner of the Medalla Humbold-Caldas Best Publication in Biogeography! His paper is titled "The Andes as a semi-permeable geographical barrier: Genetic connectivity between structured populations in a widespread spider." tinyurl.com/2pmcem2c
September 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Congratulations to Fabian Salgado-Roa, winner of the Medalla Humbold-Caldas Best Publication in Biogeography! His paper is titled "The Andes as a semi-permeable geographical barrier: Genetic connectivity between structured populations in a widespread spider." tinyurl.com/2pmcem2c
At #ESEB2025 a high frequency of talks have ended with advertisements for PhDs and Postdocs. Grad students, crack in! You never know where a simple conversation might lead.
August 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
At #ESEB2025 a high frequency of talks have ended with advertisements for PhDs and Postdocs. Grad students, crack in! You never know where a simple conversation might lead.
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⭐Issue 6 of JEB is now online!⭐
This issue is headlined by a Target Review from @josselin-clo.bsky.social et al. on #matingsystems evolution, accompanied by several #invitedcommentaries expanding on this key discussion comparing concepts in plants and animals:
academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/6
This issue is headlined by a Target Review from @josselin-clo.bsky.social et al. on #matingsystems evolution, accompanied by several #invitedcommentaries expanding on this key discussion comparing concepts in plants and animals:
academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/6
Volume 38 Issue 6 | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | Oxford Academic
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
academic.oup.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
⭐Issue 6 of JEB is now online!⭐
This issue is headlined by a Target Review from @josselin-clo.bsky.social et al. on #matingsystems evolution, accompanied by several #invitedcommentaries expanding on this key discussion comparing concepts in plants and animals:
academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/6
This issue is headlined by a Target Review from @josselin-clo.bsky.social et al. on #matingsystems evolution, accompanied by several #invitedcommentaries expanding on this key discussion comparing concepts in plants and animals:
academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/6
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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
doi.org
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?
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Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Electroreception in treehoppers: How extreme morphologies can increase electrical sensitivity | PNAS
The link between form and function of an organism’s morphology is usually apparent
or intuitive. However, some clades of organisms show remarkable ...
doi.org
July 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Why do treehoppers look so weird?! Our latest paper, out this week in @pnas.org, suggests a perhaps unexpected reason - static electricity ⚡ We show that treehoppers can detect the electrostatic cues of predators and that their crazy shapes may boost their electrosensitivity! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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We're hiring. 2.5 year statistical ecology postdoc in Perth, Western Australia. Closing 6 July. 🌏 #bioinvasions #biosecurity Check it out: www.seek.com.au/job/85070198...
Post Doctoral Research Associate in statistical ecology Job in Bentley, Perth WA - SEEK
The Population Biology and genomics Group is seeking to appoint a Post Doctoral Research Associate.
www.seek.com.au
June 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
We're hiring. 2.5 year statistical ecology postdoc in Perth, Western Australia. Closing 6 July. 🌏 #bioinvasions #biosecurity Check it out: www.seek.com.au/job/85070198...
Next heatmap sorted.
Kimberley Colours.
Looking down on the Roebuck Bay shoreline. The turquoise waters, contrasting against the red pindan soil is quite the colour palette...
#photography #nature #landscapephotography
Looking down on the Roebuck Bay shoreline. The turquoise waters, contrasting against the red pindan soil is quite the colour palette...
#photography #nature #landscapephotography
June 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Next heatmap sorted.
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🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
June 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏
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Starting to post here on Bluesky👋
Hi! I'm Uthara Srinivasan, PhD student with Dr Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social + other amazing kokkonuts 🥥🌴 at JGU Mainz. Starting a PhD in theoretical eco-evo; hope to explore where adaptation meets processes like epigenetics and much more!
Hi! I'm Uthara Srinivasan, PhD student with Dr Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social + other amazing kokkonuts 🥥🌴 at JGU Mainz. Starting a PhD in theoretical eco-evo; hope to explore where adaptation meets processes like epigenetics and much more!
May 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Starting to post here on Bluesky👋
Hi! I'm Uthara Srinivasan, PhD student with Dr Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social + other amazing kokkonuts 🥥🌴 at JGU Mainz. Starting a PhD in theoretical eco-evo; hope to explore where adaptation meets processes like epigenetics and much more!
Hi! I'm Uthara Srinivasan, PhD student with Dr Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social + other amazing kokkonuts 🥥🌴 at JGU Mainz. Starting a PhD in theoretical eco-evo; hope to explore where adaptation meets processes like epigenetics and much more!
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#Ecology and #Evolution bluesky, a question: Do you think our field has famous open problems that essentially everyone in the field agrees are fundamental and important? If we had to come up with something like the Millennium Problems (www.claymath.org/millennium-p... ), are there clear candidates?
May 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#Ecology and #Evolution bluesky, a question: Do you think our field has famous open problems that essentially everyone in the field agrees are fundamental and important? If we had to come up with something like the Millennium Problems (www.claymath.org/millennium-p... ), are there clear candidates?
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The University of Melbourne seeks a female-identifying academic in genetics/genomics/epigenetics to join the School of BioSciences. Strong quantitative skills required. More info: https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/920074/lecturer-senior-lecturer-associate-professor-in-genomics #job
Details : Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in Genomics : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
May 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The University of Melbourne seeks a female-identifying academic in genetics/genomics/epigenetics to join the School of BioSciences. Strong quantitative skills required. More info: https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/920074/lecturer-senior-lecturer-associate-professor-in-genomics #job
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🎉 Thrilled to announce the second instalment of the Evolution of Ageing workshop, taking place 30th Sept – 2nd Oct in Ingelheim, Germany!
"The Evolution of Ageing: Traversing the Interdisciplinary Divide", hosted by the Gutenberg Workshops.
"The Evolution of Ageing: Traversing the Interdisciplinary Divide", hosted by the Gutenberg Workshops.
April 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🎉 Thrilled to announce the second instalment of the Evolution of Ageing workshop, taking place 30th Sept – 2nd Oct in Ingelheim, Germany!
"The Evolution of Ageing: Traversing the Interdisciplinary Divide", hosted by the Gutenberg Workshops.
"The Evolution of Ageing: Traversing the Interdisciplinary Divide", hosted by the Gutenberg Workshops.
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Why publish in JEB?
✅ Society-owned and not-for-profit model
✅ Dedicated submission support - in-house Managing Editor
✅ Range of article types
✅ Modern Open Science policies - our own Data Editor
✅ Large editorial board with wide-range of expertise
#societyjournal @eseb.bsky.social
✅ Society-owned and not-for-profit model
✅ Dedicated submission support - in-house Managing Editor
✅ Range of article types
✅ Modern Open Science policies - our own Data Editor
✅ Large editorial board with wide-range of expertise
#societyjournal @eseb.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Why publish in JEB?
✅ Society-owned and not-for-profit model
✅ Dedicated submission support - in-house Managing Editor
✅ Range of article types
✅ Modern Open Science policies - our own Data Editor
✅ Large editorial board with wide-range of expertise
#societyjournal @eseb.bsky.social
✅ Society-owned and not-for-profit model
✅ Dedicated submission support - in-house Managing Editor
✅ Range of article types
✅ Modern Open Science policies - our own Data Editor
✅ Large editorial board with wide-range of expertise
#societyjournal @eseb.bsky.social
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Happy Tasmanian Devil Average Birthday! 🥳
Tasmanian devils breed annually during late Feb/Mar, & have a very short gestation (~21 days). This means the average birth date for devils is 1st April
So wish any devils you know a Happy Birthday! &, on average, you’ll be right on the money 🥳
Tasmanian devils breed annually during late Feb/Mar, & have a very short gestation (~21 days). This means the average birth date for devils is 1st April
So wish any devils you know a Happy Birthday! &, on average, you’ll be right on the money 🥳
April 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Happy Tasmanian Devil Average Birthday! 🥳
Tasmanian devils breed annually during late Feb/Mar, & have a very short gestation (~21 days). This means the average birth date for devils is 1st April
So wish any devils you know a Happy Birthday! &, on average, you’ll be right on the money 🥳
Tasmanian devils breed annually during late Feb/Mar, & have a very short gestation (~21 days). This means the average birth date for devils is 1st April
So wish any devils you know a Happy Birthday! &, on average, you’ll be right on the money 🥳
Huge opportunity here. @lili-buche.bsky.social just defended her PhD and is on the market for a theory/empirical postdoc. This paper is just a small reflection of what she’s capable of.
The ASN President’s Award is given to an outstanding paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social in the past year. This is a tough process to read through and compare such diverse papers over a year. This year’s award goes to a paper by Lisa Buche et al www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Multitrophic Higher-Order Interactions Modulate Species Persistence | The American Naturalist: Vol 203, No 4
Abstract Ecologists increasingly recognize that interactions between two species can be affected by the density of a third species. How these higher-order interactions (HOIs) affect species persistenc...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
March 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Huge opportunity here. @lili-buche.bsky.social just defended her PhD and is on the market for a theory/empirical postdoc. This paper is just a small reflection of what she’s capable of.
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Bloody hell! Blue-lined octopus males inject females with tetrodotoxin before mating with them. 🧪 Something for your sexual conflict lectures... www.cell.com/current-biol...
Blue-lined octopus Hapalochlaena fasciata males envenomate females to facilitate copulation
Chun et al. show that in the blue-lined octopus Hapalochlaena fasciata males envenomate
females during copulation, most likely as a defense against being cannibalized.
www.cell.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Bloody hell! Blue-lined octopus males inject females with tetrodotoxin before mating with them. 🧪 Something for your sexual conflict lectures... www.cell.com/current-biol...
Couldn’t agree more. Domain specific knowledge cannot be overstated. Combine that with a clear research question and statistical prowess, and you’ve got all the tools to make accurate predictions.
I spoke with @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for this story on the many analysts paper in ecology. To me the concerning thing is the interpretation, not the (expected) finding.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Even faced with the same data, ecologists sometimes come to opposite conclusions
Study highlights powerful role subjective choices can play in research, though some critics urge caution about applying findings too broadly
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Couldn’t agree more. Domain specific knowledge cannot be overstated. Combine that with a clear research question and statistical prowess, and you’ve got all the tools to make accurate predictions.
I certainly believed and perpetuated the myth. Cool work proves me wrong.
Check out the latest @evolletters.bsky.social cover article! Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth, by Weeks and colleagues. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
February 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I certainly believed and perpetuated the myth. Cool work proves me wrong.
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Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...
Details : Research Fellow in Mammalian Movement Ecology and Energetics : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
January 15, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...
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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
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Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.
December 17, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Postdoc @ evol-lab. A Leverhulme funded 3-year postdoc studying body shape evolution (through a sexual conflict lens) on Exeter's Penryn (UK) campus. Starts April 2025. Contact David Hosken @ U of Exeter for detail.