Jhelam N. Deshpande

Of the Structural Pressures That Silence Academics Since their inception, universities have been regarded as lighthouses guiding the storm-tossed ship of society. These institutions, tasked with generating ideas that shape and secure the future of…

Universities are meant to model openness and critical thinking. Yet many academics remain silent about injustice within their own institutions. This new article from @ecrlife.bsky.social examines two entrenched mechanisms that may be helping sustain that culture.
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Follow up to our work on eco-evolutionary dynamics of host parasite systems in complex landscapes up in Evolution @journal-evo.bsky.social. This work was done during Ruthvik's Erasmus M1 project @ruthvikpsi.bsky.social with me and @efronhofer.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

Ilustration of evolution in ecological communities, feuturing Drosophila

PhD-position vacancy in Jan Hrcek's lab lab.hrcek.net, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity. @erc.europa.eu 🪰 🧬 🌏 🧪Application deadline: January 7th 2026

One of the most unique aspects of ICTP is our Diploma Programme. Pre-PhD students from the Global South spend 1 year in Trieste to gain knowledge and skills necessary to pursue PhDs worldwide.

The 2026-2027 call is now open w/ a February 28 deadline. Please circulate.

www.ictp.it/news/2025/11...

Nice looking Jacques Monod conferences next year #1: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world (chaired by Oliver Kaltz and @bkoskella.bsky.social) cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

I like this piece a lot about Rosalind Franklin’s role in solving the structure of DNA. It really respects her as a full scientist - what she saw, what she didn’t appreciate, what could have been if she’d had true peers to support her, or had not died so young.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Jhelam Deshpande - Ecology, Evolution and Networks YouTube video by Fishers Fishes

I was recently invited by a cool student initiative from IISER in India @fishersfishes.bsky.social (fishersfishes.github.io) to talk about networks. I conveyed to undergraduates my ideas for how ecology, evolution and their interplay should be understood in light of biological system properties.

From proteins to species ranges: a framework for understanding thermal adaptation during range expansions Species distributions are governed by both ecological and evolutionary processes. Traditionally, ecological factors have been the primary focus of species distribution studies, but recent work emphasi...

Excited to share our new preprint!
Molecular processes of thermal adaptation shape how fast species expand their ranges:
doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.09.675142
#ecology #evolution #climatechange #preprint #Theory #Modeling

*eco-evolutionary

Read our study to learn more about spatial networks and evo-evolutionary feedbacks in host-parasite systems.
@efronhofer.bsky.social

Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems Abstract. Spatial network structure of biological systems drives ecology and evolution by distributing organisms and their genes. The ubiquitous host–paras

Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems
doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by J.N. Deshpande et al.

Landscape structure as a driver of eco-evolution in host–parasite systems Abstract. Spatial network structure of biological systems drives ecology and evolution by distributing organisms and their genes. The ubiquitous host–paras

Glad that the first thing that I share on here is our (@efronhofer.bsky.social , Vasilis Dakos and Oliver Kaltz) work from my PhD thesis at @isemevol.bsky.social on host parasite eco-evolution in spatial networks out now in Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social !

doi.org/10.1093/evle...