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

We’re getting excited about Botany!

BREAKING: We're filing a new class-action lawsuit to challenge President Trump's lawsuit restricting birthright citizenship. The 14th Amendment is clear: Every child born on U.S. soil is a citizen, whether the president likes it or not.

Email from NSF just now: “NSF will not implement [15%IDC] policy at this time”

Always take the opportunity when given to see cool plants with interesting history The Tree That Owns Itself in Athens, GA

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

Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget

I had a blast chatting with JoeySantore on Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t! We talked polyploidy, weird desert mustards, monotypic families, and Tiganophyton—a wild new species from Namibia. 🎧 www.podbean.com/ew/dir-en8pq... #Botany #Brassicales #PlantScience

If a foreign government conspired to decimate US science and technology in a manner akin to what Project 2025 architects purport to do, we would go to war. Just because they are under a cloak of self declared patriotism does not mean that they are not effectively acting as enemies of the state.

We can’t just sit around and let these things happen

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

Found this swamp puppy the other day

My NSF PRFB on the genetics of female polymorphism in hummingbirds was terminated yesterday. I don't have much to say, I'm just sad. We've discovered so much, and could have gone so much further. If anyone else is in the same boat, esp postdocs, please reach out, it would be good to connect.

@ssbbulletin.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social We are happy to announce that all articles in the Species Network special issue edited by Claudia Solís-Lemus George Tiley have now been published. You can view the special issue here: ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bs...

Every member of Congress should be standing up for the Constitution and demanding that the administration act to return Mr. Abrego Garcia to the U.S. and to his family. And we must all remember an attack on the right to Due Process of anyone is a threat to the due process rights of everyone.

Happy international plant appreciation day!! Shout out to this amazing Bristlecone pine and the perfect Penstemon plants that I love so much! #LetsGoPlants #IamaBotanist

Re-upping this post! Email me!

Soon there will be blueberries

Don't mind me, just asking ChatGPT a purely hypothetical question about how to do something.

A visit from a friend yesterday evening (Antheraea polyphemus)

The University of Toronto's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department invites postdoc applications. Salary: $70K; start: July–Dec 2025. Deadline: April 25, 2025. More: https://eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/ #postdoc

Really excited to say that my lab's paper on color transitions in Mimulus sect. Erythranthe is out! We found that some traits demonstrate evolutionary convergence in phenotype & genotype, while others are divergent, & that - as Bob Vickery found - bees prefer yellow! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OK who's ready for some science? Do you like speciation? Genomics? Hybridization? Bioinformatics? Then this is for you: Published today: "The Distribution & Dispersal of Large Haploblocks in a Superspecies" Bonus interest if you like ring species and cute greenish birds: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Hoping for some peaches this year

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)