New paper in Systematic Biology with cool dude @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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🎙️Season 2 of our podcast is here! Kicking things off with the mind-blowing study below. This research shatters the assumption that herbarium specimens are unsuitable for transcriptomics, successfully extracting mRNA from historical plant samples: open.spotify.com/episode/1cqA...

Getting quality transcriptome assemblies from Herbarium samples is possible doi.org/10.1101/2025.... Work led by @atyszka.org. Another fun collaboration with @philcarella.bsky.social and @khongsamchia.bsky.social, who functionally validated an NLR immune receptor from a sample collected in 1956.

RNA from herbarium specimens is more stable than you think. Cool new study from @atyszka.org @evojfwalker.bsky.social and team. @khongsamchia.bsky.social and I were happy to contribute by functionally validating an NLR immune receptor last expressed in 1956 : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Don’t fall into the trap of normalizing any of this with this sort of language that we’ve seen from so many universities, falsely equating the current situation with other presidential transitions This is unprecedented, unconscionable, and deliberately disruptive. Have the backbone to say that.

Rapid detection of RNase-based self-incompatibility in Lysimachia monelli New #AJB research by Karolis Ramanauskas, Francisco Jiménez-López, Mercedes Sánchez-Cabrera, Marcial Escudero, Pedro Ortiz, Montserrat Arista & Boris Igić doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #pimpernel #evolution

Happy year of the snake! I would argue that the snakes of the United States are just as varied and pretty as our birds. A few years ago I made a poster to try and prove it. Drawing this took many months and a lot of research. You can get it here: topatoco.com/collections/...

Hello! This is my intro post (and a well-timed reminder to myself to get working on conference presentations for the year). I am finally making the long-overdue move from twitter. Here are two papers I've been a part of recently! - www.cell.com/cell-host-mi... - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39613559/

Very happy to share the final version of our work on the evolution of broad host virulence in Pseudomonas out now @cellhostmicrobe It’s just in time for the holidays 🎄🦠 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...