Applications are currently being accepted for UBC's ✨️ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship ✨️ (two positions!!), due Jan. 15 Please share far and wide 🚀 (See thread)

One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great new postdoc fellowship for foundational plant research. If you’re into genetics and genomics of plant reproductive evolution or adaptive convergence (incl in the cool and charismatic nightshades!) I’d be happy to talk about possible projects! www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow (30 Sept) at 14:00 BST to hear from 2024 #TansleyMedal winner Matthew Naish! Matthew will be talking about unravelling plant centromeres in the telomere-to-telomere era. Registration is free: www.newphytologist.org/events/2025-... #PlantScience

Asters and goldenrods, Maple Grove Forest Preserve, yesterday morning. Fight for democracy, science, human decency, and the natural world, and continue celebrating what you are fighting for.

New — with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social, and many more — we created seven new high-quality genomes and explored pangenomic variation in the emerging oilseed crop pennycress (Thlaspi arvense). 1/

This was a HUGE effort, taking years of diligent work. Hongfei was a true leader, and I'm really proud of this cool piece. We'd love any feedback y'all might have. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks. Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fun to synthesize some exciting future directions for spatiotemporal genomics in this Tansley perspective. Check er out!

I'll start reviewing applications in a little over 3 weeks for this PhD position. You could be doing fieldwork here! (or focus only on dry lab work if that floats your boat)

Would be excited to chat with folks looking for a postdoc in AI to develop models for genomic prediction... A great opportunity for funding coming up soon is the Schmidt AI in Science fellowship, due October 13th! apply.interfolio.com/173322

Very excited to see this work in press! I think there is a reason to believe that this is a common means of stabilizing large-effect polymorphisms in general and might be an important reason for why diploidy is so common. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

How do populations maintain an evolutionary memory? I am happy to share that our work with Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social, Paul Schmidt, and colleagues on dominance reversal and stabilization of insecticide resistance in changing environments over time is now published at Nature EE.

We’ve just published a paper on Senecio showing that ecological speciation and mutation-order speciation can act together rather than as an either/or. Congratulations, Maddie James and MC Melo!

Our new Nature Plants paper is out (and we’re on the cover 😁)!👉 bit.ly/4lS8sOB By combining scRNA-seq with conserved TF binding (multiDAP) we define gene regulatory networks for 65 cell types across 4 tissues in a wide range of flowering plants!

Check out my primer in PLOS biology and the associated article by Wan and colleagues showing interesting new patterns in inducibility across multiple defense traits.

Pangenome analysis of transposable element insertion polymorphisms reveals features underlying cold tolerance in rice. #TransposableElements #TE #Pangenomes #RiceGenomes @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

Our latest preprint explores the evolution of the primate amylase locus, uncovering structural innovations, regulatory shifts and molecular convergence. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

On my way to #ESEB2025 ! I’ll share some new results showing bi-directional introgression of structural variants, which cause resistance to different insecticides, between native and invasive agricultural pests 🐛 Monday 10:30am, S05 rooms 120-121

#Viewpoint: Measuring #NaturalSelection on the transcriptome John R. Stinchcombe & John K. Kelly 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #LatestIssue

Excited to share our new paper led by @alexlewanski.bsky.social showing largely positive, multi-decadal consequences of translocations in Red-cockaded woodpeckers at Avon Park Air Force Range in central Florida: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

"...science loses meaning if it comes at the cost of human potential, and mentorship is, at its core, about nurturing that potential." Wise words from Brandon Gaut, whose essay is worth a read for mentors and mentees alike. We're so glad he is the recipient of our inaugural GSA Mentorship Award.

Our review on the last decade+ of hybrid incompatibility research is now out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Original thread here: bsky.app/profile/moll...

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...

Hopeful monsters? Great talk from @petrovadmitri.bsky.social at #SMBE2025 about dimensionality of adaptation. Here's one of the papers he mentioned (shift from pleiotropy to modularity) with @grantkinsler.bsky.social &co in @plosbiology.org: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

1/2 Somatic TE transposition in plants is getting traction again (70 years after McClintock's discovery of "controlling elements")! A very large collection of somatic TE insertions in A. thaliana described by Ambreen et al.(www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...).

For those at #SMBE2025, here's the cool @plosbiology.org Drosophila "museomics" paper name-checked by @philipphummer.bsky.social at the start of his talk on TE spread in global D. melanogaster populations: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.11.664181v1

Previous studies of extrachromosomal circular DNA #eccDNA in #plants are based on short-read seq. @vanderschuren-lab.bsky.social uses long-read seq to obtain a map of full-length eccDNAs from #Arabidopsis, identifying their genomic origins & epigenetic regulation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44Mq3RI

The evolution of tandem repeat sequences under partial selfing and different modes of selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.04.663195v1

Predicting fitness in future climates: insights from temporally replicated field experiments in Arabidopsis thaliana doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Romain Villoutreix et al. 📷: Krzysztof Ziarnek

Waterhemp has recently evolved separate M & F sexes from a monoecious ancestor. @jmkreiner.bsky.social @stepheniwright.bsky.social &co reveal surprising #chromosomal complexity associated with this transition, challenging assumptions of how separate #sexes evolve @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46sTg6u

Hi #evol2025, our paper came out yesterday and I'd love to chat about it. We used an underused tool for studying parasite local adaptation, the Host Reciprocal Transplant, to study switchgrass and its fungal rust. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

I was having lunch with an NSF program manager when her cell phone lit up, all with messages about the overhead rate. We won! The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts said NSF can't reduce the overhead rate to 15% for universities! 🥳 cases.justia.com/federal/dist...

I won't be at Evolution this year, but check out awesome talks & posters from four lab members: Gabe Preising will present on the genetic basis of body size polymorphism in swordtails (6/21 at 4:30 PM in Sexual Selection III)

I would love to host a PhD student on my lab with strong quantitative training interested in projects integrating ecology and evolution, or cell physiology and ecological dynamics www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

hey folks! so looking forward to seeing everyone at @sse-evolution.bsky.social! if you have space on your schedule, come check out the Kreiner lab contigent on Sunday morning in the Adaptation VI symposium.

Promontory point BBQ celebrations marking nearly a year at UChicago and the Carley lab's deployment into the field! Wahoo!

Really great couple of days with the lab group!!! We are in our second season of collections for an on-field select and resequence experiment with sites across the Midwest, and gearing up for some more herbarium genomic work (perfect time of year to visit @mobotgarden.bsky.social for sampling).

"Updates on #NSF Priorities" web page updated May 19. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

When should adaptation arise from a polygenic response versus few large effect changes? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654234v1

The distribution of fitness effects varies phylogenetically across animals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653358v1