“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🧪👇

Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

New paper out in Evolution Letters! @evolletters.bsky.social We explore the legacy of past warming at the rear edge of Campanula americana. Spoiler alert: we did not find higher drift load as often expected at the rear edge, but strong local adaptation! doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Fast developers in native habitats show higher survival in new environments suggesting development time forecasts adaptive potential in Sicilian daisies. By @gmwalter.bsky.social and @jonbridle.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... @gmwalter.bsky.social Image credit A Moro at Wikimedia

Now out in Evolution Letters - Ongoing adaptation of the partridge pea boosts fitness across generations and helps buffer populations against harmful environmental change. By Ruth Shaw et al. Image credit Patrick Alexander doi.org/10.1093/evle...

So happy to see the 2nd chapter of my PhD out! doi.org/10.1093/evol... Here, we studied populations sampled from their local elevational edges and centers on mountain slopes, and characterised the variation in G-matrices (comprised of growth and leaf investment traits) among these populations. 1/5

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

New Evolution Digest out! 🎉 Does balancing selection maintain fitness variance? Yes, when drift and environmental fluctuations are in play! I discuss why this matters for plant adaptation to climate change. 🌱🌡️ doi.org/10.1093/evol... @sse-evolution.bsky.social @journal-evo.bsky.social

Nice to see this out! Thanks to all the coauthors. Really appreciate the work from the editors and reviewers at Evolution Letters.

The breeding season 2026 has started, our 72nd breeding season!

Excited to share my second thesis chapter is published today as part of this issue 🎉 Exploring variability in physiological traits between (and within) individual fish can help us understand how metabolic performance and growth rates change in response to factors like warming temperatures 🔥 🧪🐟🦑

Fish will have to adapt to a warming world, what will that adaptation do to fisheries yields? We answer that question today in Science. I’ll summarise our findings very briefly in this thread www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

What an amazing feat- congrats to everyone!!!!!!!!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to share out latest work in Ecology Letters! We show how how genetic differences in plasticity determine fitness at different environmental scales from native to novel elevations. @jonbridle.bsky.social @jameswclark.bsky.social Many thanks to the reviewers! doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Preprint up now! With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social, we found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity across the altitudinal range of the cutleaf monkeyflower. This experiment was a HUGE personal undertaking. If you give it a read, I’d love to hear your thoughts! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A bit late, but really happy to see my first PhD paper out! We studied trait-elevation relationships in multiple traits spanning growth, size (both above and belowground) and leaf economics to understand whether these align at within- and among-species scales. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

1. My first ever paper is out! With @euantheyoung.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social @hannahdugdale.bsky.social How do older siblings, and their sex and age, affect the survival of younger siblings? Find out by checking below. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

First post here 😬 .. hi everyone! Our new paper is the first from my short foray into a non-plant system! [don't worry, back to plants!] We show how clinal patterns in climate tolerance and plasticity are environment-dependent! doi.org/10.1098/rspb... Thanks to ProcB and the reviewers!

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

and, @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social ! My favorite part of this paper: the collaboration started after I sent Meng a biorxiv preprint from Stuart's lab.. She contacted him with questions about that work, and the collaboration grew from there.

Sophie Buysse's paper on short stamen loss in Arabipsis is published in this month's Evolution issue!! academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... @journal-evo.bsky.social

John Maynard Smith on adaptationist cleaning up their act following the spandrels paper. From Dinosaur Dilemmas, NYRB April 25, 1991.

SO excited for #Evol2025 @sse-evolution.bsky.social!!!!!!! The Coughlan lab has a stellar line up of folks giving talks (on lab projects and beyond!)- please check them out! We welcome all feedback and would love to hear from you!!!

I'm so excited to be at #evol2025!! Lab talks: "Adaptive and maladaptive plasticity in leaf number among populations of A. thaliana" from Sophie Buysse at 9:30 in Sunday in Adaptation V

Shout out to this excellent & thorough paper: Leaf venation: structure, function, development, evolution, ecology and applications in the past, present and future A compendium, really, especially if you include the supplemental info. #PlantScience 🧪 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How many times have buzz pollinated flowers evolved? Read the latest version of our preprint here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Hey, Miles' @milesroberts.bsky.social beautiful paper showing that sequence diversity missed by standard methods contributes to Lewontin's paradox is officially published in @evolletters.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇

Our paper on evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment is now published as early view in Evolution. Check it out if you're interested in eco-evolutionary dynamics, coevolution... and plasticity of course! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

📢 New publication 'Multi-response #phylogenetic mixed #models: concepts and application' by Ben Halliwell, Barbara Holland and Luke Yates in Biological Reviews 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Finally out: Predicting adaptation to climate warming www.nature.com/articles/s41... We find that there are many genomic routes to heat-adaptation, but this can also make genomic data of limited value for prediction. A tour de force by @denovorego.bsky.social , with @stelkens.bsky.social.

Very happy and humbled to have received this award. A huge thanks to all my wonderful colleagues @scienceanu.bsky.social and abroad who made this possible!

Currently developing a workshop for postdocs on mentoring and managing in EEB! What are some topics/pieces of advice you'd have wanted to learn about as a postdoc?

Last year I posted too early and had to retract my post 🫣, but now that all @niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social nest boxes on #Vlieland have been checked, we know for sure that it is - yet again - a very early start of the breeding season! @uniexecec.bsky.social @sevans.bsky.social

👋 Interested in working on the evolution of genetic architecture 🧬 of complex traits using linked-read sequencing of thousands of common lizards 🦎 from a wild population and common garden experiment? #evolution #genetics Well, I have a PhD offer for you 👇 devillemereuil.legtux.org/erc-funded-p...

Interested in other approaches to measuring selection on gene expression? The incomparable John Kelly and I have written a perspective piece describing why one might want to measure selection on gene expression, and exploring a few ways one might use to do it.

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION is the independent development of similar traits or features in distantly related or unrelated organisms, often occurring when they occupy similar ecological niches or face similar environmental pressures 🦉 🍏

Excited for @kalebgoff.bsky.social's 1st dissertation chapter to be out w co-authors M Oldfather, J Nachlinger, B Smithers, @mikoontz.bsky.social, J & C Bishop & M Burke. Limited Directional Change in Mountaintop Plant Communities over 19 years in Western North America doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

A greenhouse full of one’s first true love always raises the spirits!!! #ragweed #iamabotanist #botany #plantbiology @isabeaulewis.bsky.social 🌾🧪

Very excited to introduce the newest genus of wild sunflowers, a tiny desert annual covered in dense wool and heads with just two small ray florets. Ovicula biradiata, a new Composite from Big Bend National Park in Trans-Pecos Texas doi.org/10.3897/phyt... via @phytokeys.pensoft.net

1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬 But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯 Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread 🧵👇

A popular account by @cogniivan.bsky.social of our study on sexual selection and intelligence in fish that is now out in Nature Ecology & Evolution. The journal link is in the article. theconversation.com/smart-is-sex...

You never know what’s on the road least traveled. New species discovery! Ovicula biradiata. Researchers have classified it as a brand-new genus within the daisy, or Asteraceae, family.  #botany #newspecies #NationalPark #preserveNationalParks #Asteraceae #Texas apple.news/Ac151CXcQQKC...

Local Adaptation Is Highest in Populations With Stable Long-Term Growth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N

Australian Researchers, If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support. forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn... Q: "Are they eligible?", A: "Let's find out" Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!