Geography and admixture shape the genome‐scale phylogeny of North American #Delphinium 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Meek et al. Photo credit: Delphinium scaposum & Delphinium carolinianum www.wildflower.org/texas; Delphinium viridescens www.burkeherbarium.org

Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am! We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal. His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!

Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!

The first two articles of Volume 5 of the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists are now published at ssbbulletin.org.

Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Science communication is at the heart of why I love doing in science. Take a look at this paper we published on a workshop we did on effective ways of doing science communication across multiple settings. @esalatamcarib.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) is back!!! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

Ghouls, each and every one of you

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Behold

Check out AJB's special issue "Paradigm shifts in flower color" a bunch of cool papers on flower coloration with a focus on non-pollinator drivers of color variation 🌸🌼🌺https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197/2026/113/1

New preprint is up! Not going spoil the results for you 🤓 but we looked at some “bird” vs “bee”-pollinated Penstemon hybrid zones and came away with some pretty unexpected results!

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

It’s also very easy to spot which applicants just had it write all of their documents vs writing their own, or at the very least editing it afterwards

I am in the market for a PhD student this year. Please don’t use LLM to write your statement of research. Yes it is obvious. I want to know who you are, not how you prompt.

That moment you have thousands of lines of code and you need to clean it up for the GitHub repo for your paper I have 10 scripts just for this one analysis WHY DID I DO THIS TO MYSELF

This #VirtualIssue captures the breadth and momentum of current research in #nectar and nectary biology, spanning ecology, evolution, development, and physiology 👇 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #PlantScience

🌼🎨 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Paradigm Shifts in #Flower Color" 🎨🌼 #Pollinator, herbivore, & climatic selective pressures differ across a floral color transition zone By Sierra Jaeger, et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #herbivory #pollination @aeberardi.bsky.social

Blog post: Just quit Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it. open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...

A lot of focus on the slop that LLMs can produce and bad faith researchers (frauds) who cite these fake papers, and for good reason, but I’d also like to highlight the worthless journals that allow this crap to make it through copy editing. Everyone’s to blame!

Somehow in this entire thread not a single person has pointed out what they perceive to be the problem with the question. Just snide comments. Comes across as very elitist. Great example of how sometimes academic and STEM types can rub people the wrong way

We need more plant merch!!

The Linscott Lab at NMSU is looking for new graduate students interested in ecophysiology, systematics, and trait evolution (often in molluscs)! Please reach out to contact me and see more at my lab website (linscottlab.com) and here: shorturl.at/DvUZa.

With two months to go, @alwaysrong.bsky.social is dominating the Genomic History Inference Strategies Tournament leaderboards. Jump into the competition to help dethrone Stephen! Glory, money, and authorship are all on the line! ghi.st

While full solicitation isn’t up, looks like we have 2025 proposal deadlines for the GRFP: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

My first ever reagent ordered for the lab came in today! Never thought I would be so excited to see CTAB 😂

Our lab at Mississippi State is recruiting graduate students (PhD/MSc) to join us in Spring or Fall 2026! If you—or someone you know—are interested in researching evo-devo and comparative genomics of horned dung beetles, check out our site & get in touch! davidsonlab-msu.github.io

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!

Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

Looking for suggestions for outsourcing size selection on a Blue Pippin along with Illumina sequencing at a good price. I've previously used Novogene for sequencing, but they don't provide any size selection services.

The unique morphological basis & repeated evolutionary origins of personate flowers in #Penstemon New #AJB research by @trinitydepatie.bsky.social & @carriewessi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #phylogenomics #evolution #snapdragon

Breaking: the American Society of Plant Taxonomists now on BlueSky @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social! #botany2025 #iamabotanist

Just want to shoutout a new study from the Wessinger Lab by my colleague @trinitydepatie.bsky.social. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... She investigated the repeated evolution of personate flowers within Penstemon by examining patterns of introgression, topological discordance, and

Just in time for #botany2025, ya girl got her PhD 🎉

Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!

Wish I could have made it to #Botany2025 this year, but still getting a partial fix from all the awesome posts on here. Please keep it up! Love seeing what folks have been working on 🌱 🌺

It's my first time at #Botany2025 and I'm so excited! I'm giving a 3 min lightning talk about my work on hybrid speciation in Penstemons on 30th July (Wednesday). Room: Mesquite C, Time: 4:40-4:45 pm, Session: Lightning Talk.

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025 Reach out! www.martinezgomezlab.com

Are you a researcher 5+ years post-PhD and interested in moving to Ireland? We have a new scheme which will support relocation and start-up costs.

As Requested - A Starter Pack of PIs in Biology (or adjacent) fields who are recruiting POSTDOCS! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you wish to be added! go.bsky.app/4gbXXR3

Are you a PI in a biology field looking for postdocs? Here is a Starter Pack of early career biologists currently seeking postdoctoral positions! (Also if you are searching for a postdoc, let me know if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/8zZNEGV

Utah penstemon (Plantaginaceae: Penstemon utahensis) inhabits dry areas of the southwestern US. The bright tubular flowers provide nectar for hummingbirds, who are the primary pollinators. Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, 11 Apr 2014.

update: new version of our preprint "Low accuracy of complex admixture graph inference from f-statistics" available! based on very helpful reviewer suggestions, we added many more simulations to dig into what drives poor accuracy of complex network inference. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m thrilled to announce that next summer I’ll be joining the University of Maryland Department of Biology as an assistant professor! The Van Etten lab will study how horizontal processes (DNA and gene transfer + organelle acquisition) drive and are driven by ecology and evolution. vanettenlab.org

Monarda brevis finally blooming in the greenhouse!!! My first time ever seeing the flowers on a living plant. This species is endemic to limestone outcrops in a tiny part of West Virginia. one of the coolest Monardas imo with these waxy leaves, creeping habit, and dainty flowers

SCOOP www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s...

To me, passing this bill is akin to waging war on the American people. When Donald Trump signs this into law tomorrow, July 4, we enter a new chapter under authoritarian rule. What a difference nearly 250 years makes