I'm delighted to share I was granted tenure on July 1st :-)

Modeling of gene regulatory networks: an annotated glossary: Trends in Plant Science www.cell.com/trends/plant... This was a fun project with @morpholosophist.bsky.social to write a modeling glossary for my NSF CAREER grant together with students in my course.

#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...

UC Davis Ecology & Evolution Grad Preview Program is accepting applications until July 20th! It's a fully virtual program where you are paired with a grad student mentor and learn about what grad school entails, how to apply, and what student life is like! Please share widely!

I am incredibly thrilled to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Prof at Yale EEB in January 2027!! 🎉🎊 Stay tuned for student and postdoc openings, and please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in eco-evo, range dynamics, species interactions, and global change! 🌐🌱🦠🧬

I talked about this at PEQG a few weeks ago. In addition to github.com/RILAB/argprep (preps your genome assemblies for SINGER), argtest github.com/RILAB/argtest does some QC to clean up an ARG estimated with SINGER.

🌸 FLOWERING NEWSLETTER REVIEW 🌸 Qiu & Köhler synthesize the current knowledge of land plant Type I MADS-box transcription factors, highlighting their evolutionary history and divergence patterns, and their key roles in diverse reproductive programmes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Summer summer summertime… Rogers Lab @ucdavis.bsky.social is hopping! We have several summer students that are supported by our NSF FACES program, NIH MARC, @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social STAR, and UC Davis LEADS together with volunteers all mentored by our amazing PhD and DVM/PhD candidates. 🤩

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We're seeking technicians and postdocs interested in working on decrypting plant-fungal communication as part of a "Fungalphabet" MURI team! (see RFP language below) Official job ads to follow, but please get in touch with me if this sounds like you or someone you know!

I'd like to ask you to consider helping our people during this unprecedented catastrophe, either now or in the future as the media attention fades. This curated directory has an excellent list of opportunities to help through reputable organizations: donarseguro.com/en. I can't thank you enough! 2/2

Annual killifish continue to surprise us: they make neutrophils before almost every other cell type, even before gastrulation. Neutrophils usually arise from the lateral plate mesoderm (forming in cyan), but in killifish they are already patrolling around the embryo in gold. tinyurl.com/killiphil

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Good morning, #SMBE2026! To purge, or not to purge, *that* is the question 🧬 I'll be giving a talk on how mating system transitions shape transposable element dynamics in monkeyflowers this morning in S24 at 11:20 AM - come for the Hamlet pun, stay for the cool comparative genomics!

1/ Excited to share our new bioRxiv preprint! "4D spatial transcriptomics reveals nodule identity emerges through stacked parallel developmental programs" 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202... Using Xenium, we generated a 4D (3D space + time) atlas of nodule development in Medicago truncatula.

Supplementary Movie S4 shows cells responding to a stab wound to the yolk. 🤯 (2/2)

Spectacular preprint led by @sydsat.bsky.social in @ohnolog.bsky.social lab, @uwgenome.bsky.social. Neutrophils precede gastrulation in killifish and rapidly patrol the yolk. (1/2)

🌿🪨 #PaleoBotanyWeek 🦕 Convergent evolution in the late Permian megaphyllous leaves of the Noeggerathiales progymnosperm Paratingia and the cycad Plagiozamites by Qin and co-authors. #freeaccess article 👉 doi.org/q76t #Paleobotany #PlantEvolution #Botany

🌱 The CSHL Frontiers & Techniques in Plant Science course has just kicked off! 14 students, 24 international lecturers, 3 weeks of intensive plant biology at Cold Spring Harbor. Thrilled to co-instruct alongside Aman Husbands & Sharon Kessler! 🌿 👉 meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-PLAN

I did in fact come back from the American Malacological Society conference, but I had a great time at "snail con" as the teenagers called it.

🌸🧬 VIEWPOINT 🧬🌸 Khan et al. explore how newly evolved de novo genes shape both floral scent and plant defence, revealing their role in the evolutionary arms race between plants and pathogens. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Y'all - the Smithsonian is hiring three new curators - herpetology, ichthyology, and ornithology! Notably, this is a 2nd fish curator position - i.e., not the same as the one advertised last month. So if you applied for that one apply again. www.usajobs.gov/job/873849000

Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists: Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic

The @systbiol.bsky.social Mentorship Program is looking for a few more faculty/curators/etc. to help mentor the next generation of systematic biologists. Great way to meet new people and build community, and only takes ~1 hour per month. Link: forms.gle/1daBQbswoFqj... Please share!

#NSF is replacing the PAPPG with "NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance" (GFA) ("Guffaw"?). A notice in the Federal Register seeks comments, due in 60 days. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Yesterday marked the last day of my first year as a professor! Whew, what a whirlwind. But it’s been so rewarding! This is my Plant ID final—100 plant species for the students to identify. They did so well! I’m so grateful for such an amazing botany class 🌿 #iamabotanist #botanyprofessor

Headed to #SMBE2026? Come chat with me about an open postdoc/programmer position in my lab! See y’all in Copenhagen!

I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab

Flower Design \ ˈflau̇(-ə)r di-ˈzīn \ 1. The shaping of floral traits by pollinators, breeders, and bioengineers.

Job ad is not out yet, but we're going to be hiring an Asst Prof at Cal State Northridge who works on either birds or mammals (area of research is broadly defined). Track down @jbyoder.org, @mutualismecology.bsky.social, or me at #Evol2026 with questions!

#Evol2026 I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027. Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: [email protected] More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.

Dichelostemma ida-maia (Firecracker flower) One of my favorite flowers of Northern California. I thought I had missed it this year, but randomly saw it on the side of the road while coming back from Mendocino last week. #flower #CaliforniaNative #mendocino

Our lab has several #Evolution2026 presentations this year! Topics include SSE models, character maps, ancestral states, and deep learning Presenters: Raymond Castillo (@raymondcast.bsky.social), Sean McHugh (@phyllurus.bsky.social), Anna Nagel, Albert Soewongsono (@albertchristian.bsky.social)

New insights into cell fates of the Arabidopsis inflorescence meristem @sebamorenor.bsky.social generated the most detailed map to date of this critical stem cell niche, identifying 18 distinct cell type clusters, including precursors to cortex & vascular tissues www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ins...

Plant cell sculptures, hand-woven by @jodiearmand.bsky.social These are some of the coolest bio-inspired and bio-accurate works I've seen. Go check out her work!!

Seated for Neil Shubin’s Gould Award plenary, and excited to find out once and for all whether fish are real

🎉 PUBLISHED!!!! Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social 🎉 We found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity in a Monkeyflower species. This experiment used two big field transplants, greenhouse, AND growth chamber work. It was hard, but awesome. With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

What is going on?!

🌺 How does a hibiscus flower pattern its petals? A new computational model reveals hidden "boundary" cells can spontaneously emerge during flower development, helping to create stable petal patterns. Prediction confirmed experimentally! 🔗 www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/how-hib... #PlantsInTheSpotlight

Will you be at Botany 2026? Andy will be taking photos / recording social media content for the California Botanical Society at Botany 2026. If you are presenting a poster or talk about Cali or Western American Botany at the conference #Botany2026

Lab paper exploring integrated -omics in closely related C3 and CAM species of Yucca. I lured @wickellomics.bsky.social to the lab with this data set as "low hanging fruit" and it was anything but, hah. Thanks to David and all co-authors for getting this published! doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 1/2

The NSF Biology postdoctoral research fellowship is AI focused this time. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... I'd be happy to support applications on the use of AI in evolutionary analysis of gene expression / metabolome evolution in stickleback (or, wild yeast). Reach out if interested

Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity? I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University). I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat! Link below

Early-career scientists surveyed early 2025: “Barely half of respondents now say they are likely to remain in academia, down 22pp from how they felt 6 months earlier. The fraction likely to stay in the United States fell by 21pp. Even satisfaction w having pursued a PhD in science declined by 16pp”

#PEQG26 folks! I will be presenting my postdoc project with @jkpritch.bsky.social and @jeffspence.github.io about inferring population structure dynamics over time with tensor decomposition on ARG. The talk will be at the James Crow Talk session on Wednesday. Look forward to seeing everyone there!

New preprint from the last portion of my PhD! Despite low masked load, we found evidence for strong inbreeding depression in Devils Hole pupfish. The reason? A recessive lethal haplotype that causes a heart defect among developing embryos. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

my image is featured on the cover of New Phytologist! Interested in receptor proximity labeling and how receptors coordinate meristem regulation? Find out more here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Genes for genetic painting in flowers now available on Addgene!: addgene.org/browse/artic...