New paper: we modelled how pollinators grooming their bodies between visits affects pollen transfer between plants. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

SAVE THE DATE! #Botany2027 is heading to Buffalo, NY, July 31-August 4, 2027! Lake Erie shoreline, Niagara Falls nearby, and a rich variety of native flora await. Get ready to shuffle off to Buffalo with your botanical science community! More details soon. #IamaBotanist #BotanistsinBuffalo

So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

New paper out @pnas.org: We explore why fly wings evolve along "lines of least resistance" and reconcile the "rate paradox" between population variation and divergence. Check out how a low dimensional model of selection on size explains it all: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Looks awesome - Sherwin Carlquist Charitable Trust Field Course in Functional Xylem Biology, which will be held at the Chamela Tropical Biology Station in Jalisco, Mexico, from 25 November to 4 December 2026. 🧪🌾🌐 #FunctionalTraits

We work really hard at the Journal of Pollination Ecology @jpollecol.bsky.social but this was still a (very pleasant) surprise - JPE's 2025 impact factor is 1.8. Keep supporting Society-published, independent open access journals! #OpenAccess #Pollination

Robert Ricklefs - in memoriam dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

🎉 PUBLISHED!!!! Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social 🎉 We found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity in a Monkeyflower species. This experiment used two big field transplants, greenhouse, AND growth chamber work. It was hard, but awesome. With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Some angiosperm groups are highly diverse, yet their flowers are surprisingly uniform. Investigating Mimosa flowers, we found that floral morphology is homogeneous and constrained, especially for traits linked with inflorescence, suggesting that development and function canalize floral evolution.

A type of natural selection known as negative frequency dependent selection is thought to be a major force promoting genetic diversity in important traits. Read research in a new issue of #PhilTransB: buff.ly/bOhpNlE

I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Proud supervisor @bobmuscarella.bsky.social and his first PhD student Laura Moro after the defence! Congrats to both of you!

The new flower in my parents’ balcony in Mexico City

Tropical Bee Assemblage Diversity Decreases With Elevation While Body Size Increases - Turley - 2026 - Biotropica - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Today is the last day of the Princeton University Press summer sale. Get the English translation of The Man Who Organized Nature, Gunnar Broberg's majestic biography of Carl Linnaeus for 50% off. What Broberg didn't know about Linnaeus is not worth knowing. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

El vídeo es muy mejorable, pero se puede ver cómo la pequeña abeja Lasioglossum recolecta el polen de Campsis pasando el polen con la pata delantera a la pata media que a su vez lo pasa a la pata trasera. En tiempo real toda la secuencia dura menos de un segundo.

A grass snake with a big meal in its belly showed up today in our walk in the Fyris river in Uppsala!

Our Deep Arctic Expedition has now ended but you can still watch ALL of our deep-sea LIVE streams on youtube! 🐙 @greenpeace.org @sponbiodiv.bsky.social

Professor Joe Felsenstein FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. After initially working on population genetics theory of recombination, of migration, and of speciation, his main focus has been on phylogenetic inference. #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/people/joseph-felsenstein-38106/

Hey IQTree3 paper is out. Bread and butter for tree building anything in my workflow. They have a pretty standout documentation too. 🖥️🧬 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

[new paper!] All-female, polyploid salamanders are weird: they have 3-4 sets of giant chromosomes, a mitochondria that doesn't match their nuclear genomes, and are made of fewer, bigger cells. We've thought about the consequences of this in lots of ways, stumbling on a neat one during my PhD..(1/n)

Countdown to #Botany2026 is on! Whether you are presenting research, exploring the Sonoran Desert on a field trip, diving into workshops, or reconnecting with your botanical community, this is going to be a meeting to remember. Prices go up after June 15, so register now! www.botanyconference.org

Look this absolutely elegant creature, just found in a human-constructed tunnel, 25 m below the surface on a Greek island. 🦗 🇬🇷 Article 🔗 www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts... Peer reviewed paper 🔗 jor.pensoft.net/article/1879... 🪲 🪳 🧪 🌍

🌱🪴🏫 Has your college / university built a greenhouse recently? We're at the early stages of a major renovation to our science building, including the greenhouse. I'd LOVE to get a functioning head house with dedicated rooms for teaching, research, and collections. All advice/guidance & help welcome!

Looking forward to Sam Yeaman's seminar about repeatability of adaptation on Thursday May 28 at 4 pm CET. Join us online!

“Academic science is not only about productivity but also deep understanding, creative solutions & training critical thinkers as next generation of researchers. Now is the time for our community to evaluate whether AI products help or hinder these.“ @lmesseri.bsky.social & @mjcrockett.bsky.social🧪👇

#ProcB in @theguardian.com | First direct quantification of floral handling costs in bees: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Happy International Bee Day! In the Rethinking Lawns lab @negauneeinstitute.bsky.social Chicago Botanic Garden, we're working to help turn our lawns into better spaces for native pollinators. To celebrate, have some id keys for Midwestern/NE American bumblebees! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

And another paper out, which has just been covered by The Guardian! www.theguardian.com/environment/... original article: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @bethbees.bsky.social @nicrodemo.bsky.social

Bees spend a lot of energy while buzz-pollinating flowers. We used respirometry, lasers, and bees in 3D chambers to figure just how energetically expensive it is. Thanks @bethbees.bsky.social and @natacharossi.bsky.social for this fun collaboration! royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Don’t forget! Book reviews are free for authors, no publication fees, and free to read!

🎉Good news! The paper ‘Intra-individual variation in pollen availability: an experimental analysis of its impact on plant–pollinator interactions’ in @annbot.bsky.social by González-Almansa Laredo et al. is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵1/9 👉 doi.org/q6hr @lilianmelo.bsky.social @nicrodemo.bsky.social

How do non-native monkeyflowers adapt to new pollinators? Check out our new paper on selection and differentiation in Mimulus. Led by Violeta Simon-Porcar using a reciprocal transplant in Shetland and Isle of Wight, in the British Isles. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Saying that this work is "impressive" would be egregious understament. Along with the earlier monograph on Iberian Andrena (also from Thomas Wood), we get the most ambitious treatment to date of a hyperdiverse bee lineage in the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot jhr.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Curious about the dark side of plant biology? Check out our latest preprint on the secrets of black pigmentation in Rubus: doi.org/10.64898/202... #Anthocyanins #Transcriptomics #PlantScience @puckerlab.bsky.social

My first @csee-scee.bsky.social meeting was the second one in 2007 in Toronto. #SCEECSEE20 Here's a photo of all of us attending from the Barrett Lab at the time @nicrodemo.bsky.social @colauttilab.bsky.social @shaky-dingo.bsky.social #CSEE

Interested in bee evolution? This preprint of @charliezoology.bsky.social is a must read. Due to the remarkable preservation of an amber fossil, it was possible to get insights into the ecology of an extinct leaf-cutter bee. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @nicrodemo.bsky.social

I love unexpected natural history! I noticed my Penstemon were trapping flies on their inflorescences, looked it up, and found that someone who appeared to have done a PhD in retirement wrote a whole dissertation on this and used radioactive fruit flies to show N/P transfer from flies to the seeds!🌍

It’s with a heavy heart that I tell you that on Thursday 23 April 2026 Peter Chandler, one of the most eminent Dipterists & all round amazing person, died after a fall at his home Peter’s passing will be a huge loss to the Diptera community. Such an intelligent, witty & kind man. A huge loss

Las avispas "sin cintura" (suborden Symphyta) son seres de aspecto bastante estrambótico cuya abundancia ha disminuido dramáticamente en las últimas décadas. Por eso me alegra tanto ver alguna. Esta criatura visitaba hoy flores de Ranunculus bulbosus, debe ser alguna especie de Calameuta (Cephidae)

What a surprise to see a new species of Amorphophallus in bloom! I bet my colleagues at the Evolutionary Biology Centre were also a bit surprised by its rotting smell when they walked into the building! It is quite a stinker!

👋 👋 SSE members, I hope you'll join me May 21 for the virtual SSE Presidential Symposium: Navigating Uncertainty: Individual Resilience and Collective Action in Evolutionary Biology Pls RT to help get the word out!

Alessandro Nobile tells us about his dissertation work on using multispectral drone images to characterise vegetation in Swedish forests during the Plant Club at the Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University

Sad news to hear about Doug Allan’s passing. He was a U Stirling alumnus and came by to talk to the students about his work a few times when I was there. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Interested in big flowering plant genera? Come work with the exciting global Solanum group - based at @nhm-london.bsky.social - phylogenomics, diversification, nightshade fun! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Spring watch in the garden, post 4: At last the crocuses are out, and the bees have already found them! This is Crocus sieberi ‘Tricolor’.

New paper alert‼️Collaboration with @nicrodemo.bsky.social and Fernando 🐝🌼✨️

MS student Kaitlyn Pankratz & I got the chance 2 write a @funecology.bsky.social Spotlight besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... highlighting cool results of a test of Pollen Presentation Theory in besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Lundgren & @nicrodemo.bsky.social

The new bee documentary is out today in Disney+. Our buzzing bees did make the cut at the end! It is really nice to see the clip of how bees use previously collected nectar to pack pollen even in nectarless flowers! There are lots of other cool things in this two-part film!