Dr Zac Wylde
@wyldescience.bsky.social
Evolutionary ecologist, entomologist. Interested in sexual selection, nongenetic inheritance, chemical signalling, and life in general!
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Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
buff.ly/gMbJWcX
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
buff.ly/gMbJWcX
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Twists and turns in the story of learned avoidance
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
buff.ly/gMbJWcX
Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.
buff.ly/gMbJWcX
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We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...
promislowlab.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
We have a new postdoc position available in the Promislow lab at the HNRCA at #Tufts in #Boston, to work on the #systemsbiology of #aging in #Drosophila. Come join us! For info on the position and to apply, see promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...
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"It may be uncomfortable to conclude that a widely used study design has been producing spurious results. But the evidence is in, and telling uncomfortable truths is a part of doing science."
Problems with twin studies.
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
Problems with twin studies.
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"It may be uncomfortable to conclude that a widely used study design has been producing spurious results. But the evidence is in, and telling uncomfortable truths is a part of doing science."
Problems with twin studies.
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
Problems with twin studies.
theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
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Funded PhD studentship available on the way that mating system affects coevolutionary processes with natural enemies. #ecoevo #sexualselection looking for a great candidate spread the word! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪
Mating systems, coevolution and resistance evolution. at University of Hull on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Mating systems, coevolution and resistance evolution. at University of Hull, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Funded PhD studentship available on the way that mating system affects coevolutionary processes with natural enemies. #ecoevo #sexualselection looking for a great candidate spread the word! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🧪
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BRAND NEW SENTENCE LEVEL RESEARCH
Dinidorid stinkbug females are armed with leg holsters containing cordyceps species that they use to inoculate their egg clusters & grow a fuzzy fungal blankie that excludes parasitic wasps.
There is a LOT going on down there! #虫🌎
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dinidorid stinkbug females are armed with leg holsters containing cordyceps species that they use to inoculate their egg clusters & grow a fuzzy fungal blankie that excludes parasitic wasps.
There is a LOT going on down there! #虫🌎
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
BRAND NEW SENTENCE LEVEL RESEARCH
Dinidorid stinkbug females are armed with leg holsters containing cordyceps species that they use to inoculate their egg clusters & grow a fuzzy fungal blankie that excludes parasitic wasps.
There is a LOT going on down there! #虫🌎
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dinidorid stinkbug females are armed with leg holsters containing cordyceps species that they use to inoculate their egg clusters & grow a fuzzy fungal blankie that excludes parasitic wasps.
There is a LOT going on down there! #虫🌎
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies?
Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!!
Check our new preprint:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!!
Check our new preprint:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
squidSim: a flexible R package for structured and reproducible simulations in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
ecoevorxiv.org
September 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Interested in simulating the kind of data that you might commonly find in evolutionary and ecological studies?
Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!!
Check our new preprint:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Then we have the R package for you - squidSim!!
Check our new preprint:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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The final round this year for international PhD scholarships at Monash are now open (August 31st 2025). Interested in evolutionary ecology, global change, sex differences, and/or infectious disease? Maybe some ecotox together with @bbmwong.bsky.social. Get in touch. There will be Daphnia involved...
August 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The final round this year for international PhD scholarships at Monash are now open (August 31st 2025). Interested in evolutionary ecology, global change, sex differences, and/or infectious disease? Maybe some ecotox together with @bbmwong.bsky.social. Get in touch. There will be Daphnia involved...
This is amazing. Scathing but so accurate.
There are so many wonderful sentences here I can’t pick just one to quote. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Complexity myths and the misappropriation of evolutionary theory | PNAS
Recent papers by physicists, chemists, and geologists lay claim to the discovery of
new principles of evolution that have somehow eluded over a cen...
www.pnas.org
June 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
This is amazing. Scathing but so accurate.
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Two jobs at a wonderful Zoo Dept at the University of Otago - a very high quality of life
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please repost and apply!
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please repost and apply!
Lecturer/Pūkenga - Evolutionary Ecology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
otago.taleo.net
May 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Two jobs at a wonderful Zoo Dept at the University of Otago - a very high quality of life
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
please repost and apply!
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
please repost and apply!
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"The house fly is a migrant, and it appears to suffer from an incurable case of wanderlust. The fly is born in a mass of filth, being, according to one philosopher, the resurrection, the reincarnation of man's own dirt and carelessness" - Murvosh & Thaggard 1966 Ann Ento Soc Am. Photo by M. Bertone
April 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
"The house fly is a migrant, and it appears to suffer from an incurable case of wanderlust. The fly is born in a mass of filth, being, according to one philosopher, the resurrection, the reincarnation of man's own dirt and carelessness" - Murvosh & Thaggard 1966 Ann Ento Soc Am. Photo by M. Bertone
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Been looking at these ARC changes. If they go through - as early as next year - I assume this means DE26 & FT26 will be the last time these schemes run. If that's the case - big decision for people putting in this yr, that's a lot of work for only one chance at the schemes (rather than the usual 3)
The ARC Board has proposed a major shake-up of the National Competitive Grants Program ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/co...
I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇
Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!
I've only skimmed so far, but they propose reducing 13 grant schemes to 6, with intent & scope in the table👇
Submissions are being accepted in response until 13 April. Get to it!
March 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Been looking at these ARC changes. If they go through - as early as next year - I assume this means DE26 & FT26 will be the last time these schemes run. If that's the case - big decision for people putting in this yr, that's a lot of work for only one chance at the schemes (rather than the usual 3)
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Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...