Dugdale Research Group
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
Hannah Dugdale is a Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Chair in Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Groningen, NL. Conservation biology, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary medicine, Personalities, Senescence, Women in science
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Delighted to share that my final PhD chapter is now published in @molbioevol.bsky.social! 🤩 Read all about our study testing whether trade-offs can explain why genetic variants promoting breast cancer persist in populations: doi.org/10.1093/molb... 🧵
October 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Delighted to share that my final PhD chapter is now published in @molbioevol.bsky.social! 🤩 Read all about our study testing whether trade-offs can explain why genetic variants promoting breast cancer persist in populations: doi.org/10.1093/molb... 🧵
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🌟 Final month to nominate projects for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards!
Know a project promoting Open Science in ecology & evolution, such as workshops, tools, repositories, outreach & more? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual.
sortee.org/awards/
Know a project promoting Open Science in ecology & evolution, such as workshops, tools, repositories, outreach & more? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual.
sortee.org/awards/
August 3, 2026 at 11:23 AM
🌟 Final month to nominate projects for the 2026 SORTEE Commendation Awards!
Know a project promoting Open Science in ecology & evolution, such as workshops, tools, repositories, outreach & more? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual.
sortee.org/awards/
Know a project promoting Open Science in ecology & evolution, such as workshops, tools, repositories, outreach & more? Projects can be local or global, team-based or individual.
sortee.org/awards/
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I did a thing :D
First chapter of my PhD out now! 🌱 (first paper ever 🥳)
Traits are historically hypothesized to age synchronously, but it is no longer the case. We quantified asynchronous ageing in Seychelles warblers and reviewed potential reasons for why this may be.
First chapter of my PhD out now! 🌱 (first paper ever 🥳)
Traits are historically hypothesized to age synchronously, but it is no longer the case. We quantified asynchronous ageing in Seychelles warblers and reviewed potential reasons for why this may be.
Do all traits age together? A long-term study of wild Seychelles warblers shows ageing is surprisingly asynchronous, with some traits senescing while others remain unchanged. doi.org/10.1093/evle...
July 30, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I did a thing :D
First chapter of my PhD out now! 🌱 (first paper ever 🥳)
Traits are historically hypothesized to age synchronously, but it is no longer the case. We quantified asynchronous ageing in Seychelles warblers and reviewed potential reasons for why this may be.
First chapter of my PhD out now! 🌱 (first paper ever 🥳)
Traits are historically hypothesized to age synchronously, but it is no longer the case. We quantified asynchronous ageing in Seychelles warblers and reviewed potential reasons for why this may be.
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📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣
We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂
Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂
Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
June 1, 2026 at 8:29 AM
📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣
We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂
Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂
Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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🚨New paper 🚨“Gut Microbiome Communities Vary Across Translocated Populations of the Seychelles Warbler” 🐥🏝️💩http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73750
Gut Microbiome Communities Vary Across Translocated Populations of the Seychelles Warbler
Conservation translocations are an increasingly common tool used to help combat species extinction but their success is dependent on a wide range of abiotic and biotic factors. To date, the potential...
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June 1, 2026 at 8:23 AM
🚨New paper 🚨“Gut Microbiome Communities Vary Across Translocated Populations of the Seychelles Warbler” 🐥🏝️💩http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73750
Well done to Agus Bentlage and @friggspeelman.bsky.social on their #TopViewedArticle in @animalecology.bsky.social 2024 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Rainfall is associated with divorce in the socially monogamous Seychelles warbler
To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to show that extreme rainfall increases the prevalence of divorce in a socially monogamous population. Our findings add to the growing literature ...
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May 19, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Well done to Agus Bentlage and @friggspeelman.bsky.social on their #TopViewedArticle in @animalecology.bsky.social 2024 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Congratulations @euantheyoung.bsky.social for winning the NLSEB Prize 2025 @nlseb.bsky.social for the paper that you can find a thread about 👇
1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
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@erikpostma.bsky.social
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
April 14, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Congratulations @euantheyoung.bsky.social for winning the NLSEB Prize 2025 @nlseb.bsky.social for the paper that you can find a thread about 👇
Super interesting plenary by Marta Szulkin on Evoulion from the Anthropocene and differences between cavity and nest boxes @nlseb.bsky.social
April 14, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Super interesting plenary by Marta Szulkin on Evoulion from the Anthropocene and differences between cavity and nest boxes @nlseb.bsky.social
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New preprint looking at the associations between maternal mortality and having sons in preindustrial Finland from work with León van Dorp during his master’s project. Also with Mirkka Lahdenpera, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @hannahdugdale.bsky.social
April 14, 2026 at 11:04 AM
New preprint looking at the associations between maternal mortality and having sons in preindustrial Finland from work with León van Dorp during his master’s project. Also with Mirkka Lahdenpera, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @hannahdugdale.bsky.social
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New paper! 🐦🦠
Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
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Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
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Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species
Social transmission of microbes has profound impacts on disease epidemiology and host health. However, how social factors influence gut microbiome (GM) transmission in wild populations is not well un...
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April 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM
New paper! 🐦🦠
Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
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Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
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🧵 New paper!
How does the immune system shape the gut microbiome in wild animals?
We studied the Seychelles warbler using shotgun metagenomics to test how variation in MHC genes (key immune genes) influences both the taxonomy and function of gut microbes.
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Here’s what we found 👇
How does the immune system shape the gut microbiome in wild animals?
We studied the Seychelles warbler using shotgun metagenomics to test how variation in MHC genes (key immune genes) influences both the taxonomy and function of gut microbes.
rdcu.be/e7Wxv
Here’s what we found 👇
Host immunogenetic variation and gut microbiome functionality in a wild vertebrate population
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March 12, 2026 at 8:15 AM
🧵 New paper!
How does the immune system shape the gut microbiome in wild animals?
We studied the Seychelles warbler using shotgun metagenomics to test how variation in MHC genes (key immune genes) influences both the taxonomy and function of gut microbes.
rdcu.be/e7Wxv
Here’s what we found 👇
How does the immune system shape the gut microbiome in wild animals?
We studied the Seychelles warbler using shotgun metagenomics to test how variation in MHC genes (key immune genes) influences both the taxonomy and function of gut microbes.
rdcu.be/e7Wxv
Here’s what we found 👇
Congratulatiosn to MSc student Mariia Vlasova, PhD student @yuhengsun.bsky.social, and Janet Chik on their Mol Ecol paper ‘Parental Age Effects on Offspring Telomere Length Across Vertebrates: A Meta-Analysis’ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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January 30, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Congratulatiosn to MSc student Mariia Vlasova, PhD student @yuhengsun.bsky.social, and Janet Chik on their Mol Ecol paper ‘Parental Age Effects on Offspring Telomere Length Across Vertebrates: A Meta-Analysis’ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations to Dr @euantheyoung.bsky.social who defended his PhD yesterday on 'Family matters: The role of trade-offs in shaping human life-histories and health' research.rug.nl/en/publicati... @rug.nl supervised with @erikpostma.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social 🎉
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Congratulations to Dr @euantheyoung.bsky.social who defended his PhD yesterday on 'Family matters: The role of trade-offs in shaping human life-histories and health' research.rug.nl/en/publicati... @rug.nl supervised with @erikpostma.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social 🎉
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A week before his defence @rug.nl, the publication of @euantheyoung.bsky.social's chapter on the lifespan cost of reproduction in @science.org Advances - with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social and myself - couldn't have been better timed! 👍 🥳 🥂https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adz6422
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
A week before his defence @rug.nl, the publication of @euantheyoung.bsky.social's chapter on the lifespan cost of reproduction in @science.org Advances - with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social and myself - couldn't have been better timed! 👍 🥳 🥂https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adz6422
Super proud of @euantheyoung.bsky.social PhD work being featured in the NRC
Hoe meer kinderen een moeder krijgt, hoe minder lang ze zelf leeft. Tenminste, dat gold voor Finse moeders ten tijde van de Grote Finse Hongersnood. Deze en andere opmerkelijke feiten destilleerde Euan Young uit grote historische bevolkingsregisters.
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De risico’s en voordelen van oudere broers en zussen
Jong Geleerd: Hoe meer kinderen een moeder krijgt, hoe minder lang ze zelf leeft. Tenminste, dat gold voor Finse moeders ten tijde van de Grote Finse Hongersnood. Deze en andere opmerkelijke feiten…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Super proud of @euantheyoung.bsky.social PhD work being featured in the NRC
Read all about @euantheyoung.bsky.social ’s fantastic work on lifespan costs of reproduction in the thread below 👇
1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
@hannahdugdale.bsky.social
@lummaalab.bsky.social
@erikpostma.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Read all about @euantheyoung.bsky.social ’s fantastic work on lifespan costs of reproduction in the thread below 👇
Chinna Susan Philip @unitartupress.bsky.social on Stress and immune system @react-enlight.bsky.social workshop @rug.nl
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Chinna Susan Philip @unitartupress.bsky.social on Stress and immune system @react-enlight.bsky.social workshop @rug.nl
Kai Kisand @unitartupress.bsky.social is now presenting on Aging, Covid-19 and autoantibiodies at the @react-enlight.bsky.social workshop @rug.nl
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Kai Kisand @unitartupress.bsky.social is now presenting on Aging, Covid-19 and autoantibiodies at the @react-enlight.bsky.social workshop @rug.nl
So nice to meet @react-enlight.bsky.social members in person, at today’s workshop @rug.nl on Modern Perspectives on the Biology of Aging
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
So nice to meet @react-enlight.bsky.social members in person, at today’s workshop @rug.nl on Modern Perspectives on the Biology of Aging
Now the @unitartupress.bsky.social afternoon of the @react-enlight.bsky.social workshop on modern perspectives on the biology of aging by Pärt Peterson on the aging immune system
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Now the @unitartupress.bsky.social afternoon of the @react-enlight.bsky.social workshop on modern perspectives on the biology of aging by Pärt Peterson on the aging immune system
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We’ve arrived in Groningen! Excited to connect and exchange ideas on ageing research from diverse perspectives.
A big thank you to the organisers @rug.nl and #UniversityofTartu
#AgeingResearch #ENLIGHTREACT #BiologyOfAging #Networking
A big thank you to the organisers @rug.nl and #UniversityofTartu
#AgeingResearch #ENLIGHTREACT #BiologyOfAging #Networking
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We’ve arrived in Groningen! Excited to connect and exchange ideas on ageing research from diverse perspectives.
A big thank you to the organisers @rug.nl and #UniversityofTartu
#AgeingResearch #ENLIGHTREACT #BiologyOfAging #Networking
A big thank you to the organisers @rug.nl and #UniversityofTartu
#AgeingResearch #ENLIGHTREACT #BiologyOfAging #Networking
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Hannah Dugdale on Evolutionary Medicine and Aging at the first ENLIGHT-REACT workshop 'Modern Perspectives on the Biology of Ageing'
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November 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Hannah Dugdale on Evolutionary Medicine and Aging at the first ENLIGHT-REACT workshop 'Modern Perspectives on the Biology of Ageing'
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Great talk from postdoc Natalia Ortí on Targeting neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases! 🧠✨
#ENLIGHTREACT #AgeingResearch #Neurodegeneration
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#ENLIGHTREACT #AgeingResearch #Neurodegeneration
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November 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Great talk from postdoc Natalia Ortí on Targeting neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative diseases! 🧠✨
#ENLIGHTREACT #AgeingResearch #Neurodegeneration
@rug.nl
#ENLIGHTREACT #AgeingResearch #Neurodegeneration
@rug.nl
Great to have the mobile speech lab at the @react-enlight.bsky.social workshop @rug.nl
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Great to have the mobile speech lab at the @react-enlight.bsky.social workshop @rug.nl
And now @miles2708.bsky.social is talking about non-invasive neurophysiological and stimulation methods for a modern perspective on aging @react-enlight.bsky.social @rug.nl
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
And now @miles2708.bsky.social is talking about non-invasive neurophysiological and stimulation methods for a modern perspective on aging @react-enlight.bsky.social @rug.nl