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Scotland becomes first in UK to test newborns for rare genetic condition

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) causes progressive muscle weakness and, without treatment, can limit life expectancy to just two years.

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'It guts us': Curator fears for future of Joggins Fossil Institute after provincial funding cuts

The curator of the Joggins Fossil Institute says a 20 per cent cut to its provincial funding will devastate operations and force the cancellation of educational programs that reach hundreds of students each year.

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Ancient hedge laying used to boost biodiversity

Bristol Water is using ancient hedge laying techniques to improve biodiversity near Blagdon lake.

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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, by Cat Bohannon, from Vintage Canada, (Mar 21).

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea, by Matt Ridley, from Harper. (Mar 7).

The journal Insects has a call for papers for a special issue on "Evolutionary and Ecological Mechanisms of Plant Defense Against Insects". (Feb 28).

Mismatch Theories in Evolutionary Medicine: A Philosophical Exploration, by Jonas Pold, from Springer. (Feb 21).

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Apr 15 18:10	Evidence for strong purifying selection of human 47S ribosomal RNA genes - Xufan Ma, et al. (PNAS)
Apr 15 18:10	Recurrent mutations drive rapid HIV escape from two broadly neutralizing antibodies in vivo - Elena V. , et al. (PNAS)
Apr 14 16:00	Habitat-specific temporal variation in the pace of fish diversification - Nick Peoples, et al. (PNAS)
Apr 14 16:00	Cooperative traits maintain bacterial niche breadth - Shryli K. , et al. (PNAS)
Apr 13 18:03	The use of dN/dS ratios to investigate types of selection in related sexual and asexual lineages by Finn L Klemp and others (GBE)
Apr 13 18:03	Snakes (Colubridae: Erythrolamprus) with a complex toxic diet show convergent yet highly heterogeneous voltage-gated sodium channel evolution by Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda and others (GBE)
Apr 13 18:03	Patterns of conservation and loss of Hox genes in xenacoelomorph lineage since divergence from last common bilaterian ancestor by Ariane Buckenmeyer and others (GBE)
Apr 13 18:03	AliFilter: a Machine Learning Approach to Alignment Filtering by Giorgio Bianchini and others (MBE)
Apr 13 18:03	Benchmarking imputation accuracy in the presence or absence of a reference panel by Alexandros Topaloudis and others (MBE)
Apr 13 18:03	Comparative phenotypic analysis of rhodopsin supports stepwise evolution of dim-light vision in early vertebrates by Yimeng Cui and others (MBE)
Apr 13 18:03	Phylogenomic mixture models outperform homogeneous and partitioned models by Davide Pisani and others (MBE)
Apr 13 18:03	Pangolin museum genomics reveal the dynamic genetic consequences and extinction risk of the critically endangered Chinese pangolin by Jing Yang Hu and others (MBE)

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SORTEE Conference 2026: Save the Date!

Dear Colleague,The sixth annual SORTEE conference (The Society/for Open,
Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) will be
held virtually in October 2026. The conference will run continuously
from October 13th to October 14th.

Dear Colleague,

The sixth annual SORTEE conference (The Society/for Open, Reliable, and
Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) will be held virtually in
October 2026. The conference will run continuously from October 13th to
October 14th, to cover all time zones.

The conference is a forum to discuss and develop ideas, while also
exploring current practices for advancing research in fields related to
ecology and evolutionary biology.

The conference will be a mix of 5 session types:

Unconferences: Facilitated discussions of ideas for how to make ecology,
evolutionary biology, and related disciplines more open, reliable,
and transparent.

Hackathons: Group projects with well-defined goals (papers, techniques,
software, protocols, organizations, etc.).

Workshops: Facilitators will teach tools to implement open, reliable,
and transparent practices.

Plenaries: Two plenaries about recent initiatives in open
science.Introductions to open science: Two sessions dedicated to people
new to open science.

To have an idea of what a SORTEE conference looks like, check the 2025
SORTEE conference program here and the summary of previous conferences
at https://www.sortee.org/past.

Content submissions will soon open on this page

To have a great conference, we need motivating events and keen
facilitators! We invite anyone interested in facilitating an unconference,
a hackathon or a workshop to submit their content. You don't have to be
a SORTEE member.

The conference will be FREE for SORTEE members, and range from 0$ to 60$
for non-SORTEE members.  Become a member!

We are trying our best to make this conference as inclusive as
possible. We encourage individuals with questions regarding accessibility
when facilitating a session or attending the conference to reach out to
us at conference@sortee.org.

We hope to see you in October.

Sincerely,
The SORTEE Conference Committee

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