Wouter van der Bijl

Evolution | brains | behavior | coloration | guppies | butterflies | #rstats | Post-doc at UBC. Rhymes with internet router. @[email protected]

[Wouter van der Bijl @_Axeman_]

Read the full paper here: https://t.co/dNo0QuvGww

[Wouter van der Bijl @_Axeman_]

🚨 Super exited to see our paper on the inheritance and genetic basis of guppy color variation come out in
@NatureEcoEvo

Guppy males have enormous variation in color patterns, with many combinations of ornamental spots and stripes. But where does all this variation come from?

[Wouter van der Bijl @_Axeman_]

This paper is the result of years of hard work, and would not have been possible without all the help from my co-authors. Special thanks to @jacejostles for taking ~8k photos (+fig 1a), and to @judithmank for her unwavering support of this project.

[Max Farnworth @max_farnworth]

Really happy to share that our story on mosaic evolution in the internal mushroom body circuit in Heliconiini butterflies is now published @CurrentBiology. https://t.co/1tN41bt0rm @EBaBlab #brainevolution @DZG_FG_Neurobio @neuroethology

[Wouter van der Bijl @_Axeman_]

{phylopath} 1.2.1 is now on CRAN.

This release fixes a bug where some rare combinations of path models would generate an error.

It also adds some additional input checks to increase usability.

[Judith Mank @judithmank]

Just out @NatureEcoEvo - @CorralLopezA 's tour de force! Functional convergence of genomic and transcriptomic genetic architecture underlying sociability. Heritability, GWAS and neuro-transcriptomics of collective behaviour https://t.co/gH25EhdNnv w Niclas Kolm & many others.

[Wouter van der Bijl @_Axeman_]

.@thorson_esq kindly asked me collaborate on an R package for Phylogenetic Structural Equation Models: {phylosem}

This package can fit all models {phylopath} can, but adds support for:
- latent variables
- imputation
- more distributions

Out now in JEB: https://t.co/QW8yNxDXz6

[Judith Mank @judithmank]

. @Y_Lin_Evo's paper on variation in germline de novo mutations in guppies made the cover of @genomeresearch! https://t.co/oOS6muoN8Y Art by @jacejostles , science contributions from @IDarolti @_Axeman_
and Jake Morris.

[Krista van den Heuvel @KristavdHeuvel]

One of my PhD chapters is out today! Three generations of great tits and hundreds of reversal learning tests reveal limited repeatability and no heritability of cognitive flexibility. Shoutout to @KvanOers, @KotrschalA and John Quinn for their guidance.
https://t.co/EFYkeprURT

[Christopher Wheat @ChrisWWheat]

Curious how butterflies evolve across Europe? Me too!!!

Let's join forces in sampling butterflies and moths across Europe, studying their evolution across latitudes and through seasons.

Help start

LepEU, the European Lepidopteran Population Genomics Consortia
#LepEU
1/n

[Judith Mank @judithmank]

For those headed to #evolution2023, you can catch up on what we've been doing! - @Square_Hare's talk about the Signature of Early Y Chromosome Divergence on the Guppy Sex Chromosome is on Saturday at 11:15 in Pecos 230... 1/5

[Matt Rockman @wormsrock]

🚨Preprint!
Sex ratio is under strong selection. With random mating, frequency dependence leads to a 50:50 ratio, but in patchy populations, female bias evolves. You might think that this is a solved problem, thanks to decades of theory starting with Hamilton. You’d be wrong! 🧵

[Jochen Mierau @JOMierau]

Engelstalig onderwijs is dé reden dat het Nederlandse hoger onderwijs boven haar gewicht kan boxen en daarmee waarde toevoegt aan de Nederlandse samenleving en de Nederlandse economie. 1/16