Group leader at the Swedish Museum of Natural History Evolutionary naturalist focusing on island biology, adaptive radiation, genomes and ecological niches. Islandevolution.github.io
Our criteria for success are disastrously skewed. In my view, a successful person is one who does more good than harm, on any scale. On this measure, most billionaires are massive failures, while humble folk in my neighbourhood who look after other people are highly successful.
Renowned Evolutionary biologists Peter & Rosemary Grant are back with new research on adaptive radiation in Geospiza finches on Daphne Major, looking at the long term impacts of hybridization on 3 species of ground finch! You can read the full paper below 👇 🧪 (1/2) doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Fission, fusion and the generation of novelty in Geospiza species on Daphne Major Island, GalápagosAbstract. Early stages in the adaptive radiation of Darwin’s finches are characterized by divergence (fission) and convergence (fusion) caused by natural sdoi.org
New preprint on the effect of ancient admixture / structure on genealogical trees. I introduce a new way of summarising reconstructed genealogies that captures a clear signal of ancient gene flow into the ancestors of modern humans. Feedback welcome!
bioRxiv Evolutionary BiologyThe distribution of integer partitions in human genome-wide genealogies reflects gene flow from a super-archaic lineage https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.14.738421v1
Casillas et al. investigated the genetic basis of a unique longitudinal dorsal stripe pattern in adders from Gossa Island, identifying a significantly differentiated genomic region containing PMEL and a missense variant in this gene. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag144 #societyjournal #genome #colour
The greatest global threat to both peace and a habitable planet is the government of the USA. It has been so for a long time, but Trump has nixed the deniability. We should stop treating it as an ally that has mysteriously gone astray and start treating it as a hazard to be avoided and contained.
Applications to the Gordon Research Seminar in Speciation are now open! We encourage PhD students & postdocs from all geographies, backgrounds, disciplines to APPLY! This 2d seminar in beautiful Lucca 🇮🇹 will be followed by a 5d conference open to the broader community. www.grc.org/speciation-g...
We published a new paper, which was a fun side quest of mine ➡️ 🧭❓🗺️ : Hybridization with wild individuals fuels reindeer domestication. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Hybridization with wild individuals fuels reindeer feralizationAbstract. Domestication has profoundly influenced the development of human agriculture, and is characterized by intense artificial selection. Feralizationroyalsocietypublishing.orgReally fascinating (and sad) article.
Xavier Grau-Bové 🌾As necessary as it is to put faces and voices to the victims of Fascism, this is too little, too late, and too partial. It comes with neither reparations nor a true reckoning with the murderous ideology that brought this about, and the very real people behind it. www.science.org/content/arti...
V interesting perspective on how Nordic (Scandinavian) culture should not be linked to far-right movements. Also, this quote 🔥: "The alternative to cultural diversity is not progress but a global monoculture driven by hypercapitalism and American cultural imperialism". jacobin.com/2026/07/norw...
Norway’s Vikings Are Reclaiming Valhalla at the World CupThe far right spent a century claiming the Vikings. Norway’s World Cup team — horned helmets, runes, a viral row-chant and all — just took them back.jacobin.com