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New light shed on who benefits most from weight-loss jabs

People who carry variations in two genes linked to appetite and digestion can lose more weight when taking drugs to treat obesity, research suggests.

From the BBC News-2026-4-8:14:6:1

'World first' gene project helping rare monkeys

Mapping the DNA of Crinkle, a Barbary macaque at Trentham Monkey Forest, will fight wildlife crime.

From the BBC News-2026-4-7:8:5:1

P.E.I. emerging as 'pre-eminent' site for fossil finds, geologist says

Prince Edward Island may soon be known for more than Anne of Green Gables, beaches and potatoes - a Nova Scotia-based geologist says the province is emerging as a promising new frontier for fossil discoveries.

From the CBC News-2026-4-7:8:5:2

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Genes, Environments and Interactions: Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics Brought Up-to-date, by Jos Álvarez-Castro, from Springer Nature. (Apr 4).

Eve: How the Female Body Drive 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).

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Apr 9 08:00	Chromosome-specific drift under stabilizing selection generates polygenic barriers to sex chromosome turnover - Pavitra Muralidhara, et al. (PNAS)
Apr 8 14:03	Bridging Micro- and Macroevolution: Phylogenomic Evidence for the Nearly Neutral Theory in Mammals by Haoran Cai (GBE)
Apr 7 17:03	Characterization of hairpin loops and cruciforms across 118,019 genomes spanning the tree of life by Nikol Chantzi and others (GBE)
Apr 7 08:00	An insect that cooperates like bacteria - Stuart A. , et al. (PNAS)
Apr 7 08:00	The central dogma in reverse - Natalia Mrnjavac, et al. (PNAS)
Apr 7 08:00	The fitness costs of reproductive specialization scale inversely with organismal size - Christopher Zhang, et al. (PNAS)
Apr 6 17:03	Detecting positive selection by modeling structure within images of genetic variation by Md Ruhul Amin and others (GBE)
Apr 6 17:03	Complex patterns of hitchhiking mutation load among stickleback populations by Jana Nickel and others (GBE)

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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

2355 State St Ste 101 
Salem, OR 97301-4541, USA

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