Luke Holman
Associate Prof at Edinburgh Napier U and Commissioning Editor at Journal of Evolutionary Biology. @lukeholman_evo elsewhere
- Reposted by Luke HolmanWe're advertising a PhD project on how social isolation influences aggression in flies. Based at Durham, co-supervised by @clarahowcroft.bsky.social . Despite what the ad says, this is also open to international applicants! Any questions, shoot me a msg! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanJob alert! We're recruiting for a #lecturer in marine conservation to direct our new #Marine #Conservation MSc and have the ?pleasure of working with me 'cos I run the Wildlife Conservation MSc. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQF022/l... 🧪 We're friendly and you can still buy a house on an academic salary here!
- Very interesting new preprint on detecting genome wide signatures of balancing selection (it’s hard, and we probably miss lots of them) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanJust a week left to apply for a position in our Editorial Board!
- Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology: 🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑💻🪸🦎 Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi... DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣
- Reposted by Luke HolmanCome and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:8…
- Reposted by Luke Holman📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
- Reposted by Luke Holman🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching... 6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Social monitoring & manipulation #meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
- Reposted by Luke Holman*Guaranteed funding* PhD opportunity in my group. Work with damselflies, UN global biodiversity targets, genetic data, and NatureScot policy groups; the project will advance comparative population genetics and provide evidence feeding directly to policy. www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
- Reposted by Luke Holman🚨 Tenure-track professorship at Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany, with a focus on evolutionary ecology of social hymenoptera 🐝🐜 Initially for 6 years: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/pr...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanInterested in metabolomics/systems biology and aging in Drosophila? We have a post-doc opening! And of course, there will be plenty of opportunities for side projects on the @dogagingproject.bsky.social. 🐶 promislowlab.org/wp-content/u...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanThrilled!
- Congratulations to Hanna Kokko for receiving this year’s ASAB medal! Hanna has done extraordinary work and we are so pleased to honour her at #ASABWinter2025
- “Our findings provide evidence for more divergent evolution of reproductive traits under stronger sexual selection, in line with the tenet that sexual selection may promote divergence even in the absence of environmental differences between populations.”
- p.s. didn’t mean to imply this was my paper!
- Reposted by Luke HolmanThe new Ze Frank video reminded me about an adaptation found in some entomopathogenic nematodes - using both their own muscle power and static electricity, they can leap into the air and home in on their host, like an anti-insect surface-to-air missile #Invertebrate 🧪 news.emory.edu/features/202...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanPlease consider submitting a paper! Deadline: 28th February 2026
- 📣 CALL FOR PAPERS!! New Special Issue on "Foundations of Internal Conflicts": academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca... #internalconflict #selfishelements #meioticdrive #imprintedgenes #reproductiveparasitism
- Reposted by Luke HolmanLove this! (Thanks to @blongdon.bsky.social for altering me!) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanParasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gensocuk.bsky.social
- Reposted by Luke Holmanmeanwhile pigeons be like
- Reposted by Luke HolmanSex-specific mutation accumulation: A parsimonious explanation for sex differences in lifespan and ageing doi.org/10.32942/X2K...
- Reposted by Luke Holman@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)
- Reposted by Luke HolmanAs 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.
- Reposted by Luke HolmanPhD 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
- Reposted by Luke HolmanWhat 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...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanMy 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
- Reposted by Luke HolmanAcademics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
- Reposted by Luke HolmanWe 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!
- Some more bizarro ant genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanIf 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/
- Getting ready for another semester of seminars for the @eseb.bsky.social STN Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation. First seminar on September 19 internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/seminars/
- Reposted by Luke HolmanWe’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 👇
- Reposted by Luke Holmandebugging some slim code, and these flashing haplotypes are mostly gratuitous, but the closest I'll ever get to the matrix I think
- Reposted by Luke HolmanExcited 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...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanPostdoc 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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- Reposted by Luke HolmanI just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.
- Reposted by Luke HolmanCome work with my amazing new colleague!
- Reposted by Luke HolmanIn 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: 🧪👇
- Reposted by Luke HolmanWe 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/...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanTwo (!) 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...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanAn 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...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanThe 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?
- Reposted by Luke HolmanOut now in @molbioevol.bsky.social with Michelle Liu (co-first), Ryan Frost, Matthew Lindsay, Malak Bayoumi, Martin Brengdahl, @ruxmolnar.bsky.social and @aneil-agrawal.bsky.social, we evolved ~40% of the D. melanogaster genome under male-limited inheritance, ... academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanNew paper: "The consequences of constrained sex allocation in diploids and haplodiploids under local mate competition", with Chedhawat Chokechaipaisarn: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @jevbio.bsky.social
- Reposted by Luke HolmanA new paper by my academic grandchild @ewanflintham.bsky.social, now out in @jevbio.bsky.social:
- Reposted by Luke HolmanI probably won't have time to make a video out of this. But the materials are available online, and should be pretty self-explanatory. Hope this is useful to some people. privefl.github.io/statgen-cour...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanNow proper out: doi.org/10.1093/gene...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanThat's why I am helping the European Society for Evolutionary Biology @eseb.bsky.social organise a hub conference in 2027 instead of a regular 1 site congress. 4 hubs across Europe so most can travel by train/bus and still meet colleagues in person (website at eseb 2027.org live in August)
- Reposted by Luke Holman#Evol2025 was for me maybe the most important meeting I have ever been to. My science will be drastically improved by my interactions over the past week. It was bittersweet due to the current situation and the people who weren't there, but I'm optimistic that we are strong enough to overcome this.
- Reposted by Luke HolmanLong running project in the ant community finally out!
- Reposted by Luke HolmanSelection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanThe three academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University are now advertised. Details here: Ecology: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanCongrats to @emilyroycroft.bsky.social on receiving this year's Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize. Fantastic work! #Evol2025
- Reposted by Luke HolmanWhy did bees become haplodiploid & birds didn't? And why are stick insects perfect just the way they are? This is probably the coolest paper from @koraklein.bsky.social 's PhD thesis (though there's Colias butterfly work in the pipeline which I shouldn't diss...) academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
- Reposted by Luke HolmanSo NERC have quietly announced this afternoon that they're delaying/cancelling/suspending, whatever 'not launched at this time' means, their 2025 Independent Research Fellowship round. After announcing it 34 days ago. Flip-flopping like this is really detrimental to early career researchers.
- Reposted by Luke HolmanAustralian friends! I'm going to be visiting Sydney in just over a week. I'll be at UNSW on June 23-25th and Macquarie on June 26-27th. I'd love to catch up with people in person, and also will be giving (at least) two talks at UNSW. The first is science-of-science modeling talk, on June 23:
