🚨 1 Week Left to Apply! 🚨 The Krieg Lab is hiring a Research Professional in Plant Ecophysiology & Evolution. 📅 Deadline: October 1, 2025 📧 Sending materials (Cover Letter, CV, References) to: kriegc[at]wfu.edu

Awesome: Undergraduate and professor discover several new species of violets in the mountains of Virginia. “Put very simply, we looked." #iamabotanist #plantpeopleFTW www.ohio.edu/news/2025/09...

Friday Flower 005: Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱✨ A tiny flower, but a giant in research, thale cress enabled our understanding of flower development through the "ABC Model". With this knowledge, their flowers can be essentially reprogrammed to produce micro-roses 🧬🌹

Honored to have been selected for this award! 😊 Happy national postdoc appreciation week everyone!

Annnnd first lab meeting + first lab photo done! Here’s my baby lab with 1 undergrad, 1 masters student, 1 PhD student, 1 postdoc, and 1 PI! 😁👩🏻‍🔬👨🏻‍🔬 #newPI

Okay, gonna try something new (for me). Im gonna send a few colonies of Agrobacterium to @plasmidsaurus to see if agro has my plasmid, via their zero prep service. Typically this is done with ecoli so not sure if results will be guarenteed but this will save me months of guessin

The origin & diversification of #Amaryllidaceae: A phylogenetic & biogeographic analysis New #AJB research by Zoë Dennehy-Carr, Kálmán Könyves, Chris Yesson, John David & Alastair Culham doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #plantscience #biogeography #FossilFriday #evolution

Friday Flower 004: Hibiscus trionum 🌺✨ Hibiscus trionum displays a dark bullseye in the center that acts as a landing pad for pollinators 🎯 The bullseye is made by a developmental boundary delineating distinct cell shapes and pigments.

After a 4 yrs, colleague & I in collab w/ grad college to revive our GRFP grant writing workshop we ran through the ISU+KU SACNAS chapters, 2016-2021. Friday evening: lightning talks. Saturday: grant writing panel, broader impacts 2025, & 1on1 coaching with faculty for Grad students/Senior UGs.

The LSRF post-doc fellowship is open (due Oct 31)! The LSRF is a supportive and kind community. We *always* celebrate each other. On a personal level, they've always greeted me with open arms and an abundance of kindness. If you are thinking of applying and have questions, feel free to reach out!

oh hey, I just learned that the ~2005 website we made to function as a fully illustrated, HTML-based key to California's arthropods is STILL THERE, a miracle in this age of linkrot essigdb.berkeley.edu/biokeys/inve...

Excited to share a new paper! "Sorting of ancestral polymorphism and its impact on morphological phylogenetics and macroevolution". Part of some work I've been doing on modelling the evolution of polymorphic traits in fossil echinoderms. academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

Applications for the 2026 Pivot to Plants Fellows Program at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are now open. Location: St. Louis, MO Application Deadline: October 15, 2025 Dates: Jan. 5, 2026 – Dec. 23, 2026 Estimated Stipend: $37,275 Learn more: www.danforthcenter.org/our-work/edu...

More fruits of studying natural variation in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris): an interesting genetic basis for insensitivity to caterpillars' In11 elicitor 🐛 Our new bioRxiv preprint from star technicians Brian Behnken and Wesley George below 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My department is hiring a Plant-Fungal Assist Prof!! As the newest #NewPI here, don't get me started on how wonderful my colleagues, how smooth my onboarding has been, how supportive the school and the department are, how nice my brand new lab is, and how convenient living in Champaign Urbana is!

Our department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049

Almost 10 years ago Smith and Baum's textbook introduced me to Phylogenetic Comparative Methods. We now have our own review on PCM! Come for history, traits and spicy takes! We welcome any comments/ concerns/ jokes! @tribblelab.bsky.social @crothfels.bsky.social and MRM! doi.org/10.32942/X28...

What's the difference between dominance and epistasis? Two physically distinct mutations in a gene interact such that the het is identical to one of the homozygotes. If I define the gene as a locus, we call this dominance. If I define each bp as a locus, we call this epistasis.

Here is the package Tapestree used in the paper (by @ignacioq.bsky.social and @jeremy-andreoletti.bsky.social): github.com/ignacioq/Tap...

Yesterday was the last day of data collection for our scarlet monkeyflower project involving a resurrection study in 3 latitudinally arrayed common gardens. With tons of support from family, friends, and colleagues along the way, the literal seeds of this project developed in 2010.

Friday Flower 002: Mirabilis jalapa🌺✨ Four O’Clocks, like other Caryophyllales, produce red (betacyanins) and yellow (betaxanthins) petal sectors through differential regulation of betalain biosynthesis during corolla development.

3D digital plant organs? What for? Curious? Have a look at our review. Nice work by Tejasvinee Mody and Ratula Ray from our lab.

Arrived and ready for #PDevSRC!! 🌱🧪

The colours of this plant are amazing! Delighted to find Marsh Gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe) for #WildflowerHour #GentianFamily Dorset 23/8/25 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

In the Gesneriaceae, sometimes these leaves are really hitting it out of the park though

Friday Flower 001: Mimulus lewisii 🌸✨ Monkeyflowers are masterpieces of design with nectar-guide spots formed by an activator–inhibitor system of MYB transcription factors. These generate reaction–diffusion patterns across the ventral petal.

48 confirmed attendees already for #SSB2026, within a week of registration opening. Remember that the meeting attendance cap is 200. Register today to join us in January! ssb2026.github.io @systbiol.bsky.social

Plz share! (I am a co-author from NAASC) “An unwelcoming climate & culture at scientific conferences is an obstacle to retaining scientists w/marginalized identities. Here we describe..a professional plant science societies..collaboration to make conferences more inclusive.” doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Graph Neural Networks for Likelihood-Free Inference in Diversification Models https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.14.670341v1

On the cover of @natplants.nature.com this month: @leobaumgart.bsky.social @greensi.bsky.social @abmora.bsky.social @omalley-regulome.bsky.social et al. map binding sites for 360 TFs across 10 🌿plant🌿 species using a new multiDAP approach Here is Sharon's explainer 🧵: bsky.app/profile/gree...

Heat waves decrease fitness & alter maternal provisioning in natural populations of #monkeyflower New #AJB research by Nicholas Kooyers, Mark Genung, Simon Innes, Andrea Turcu, Donna Hinrichs, Benjamin LeBlanc & Courtney Patterson doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #globalchange #Mimulus

Is the Most Effective Pollinator Principle a zombie idea? How do plants adapted to one pollinator shift to another without traversing an adaptive valley? How should we measure fitness in pollinator selection studies? We explore these questions and more in a new review doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Xiao et al. tested the role of genome size in adaptation in 53 Alpine ginger herb populations, finding that genome size has undergone adaptive evolution driven by environmental stress; smaller genomes are advantageous in changing alpine habitats 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf151 #genome #evolution

The evolution of reversible plasticity in stable environments doi.org/10.1093/evle... Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Nicole Walasek et al.

The original circos plot? From the 1947-1948 Carnegie Yearbook, the page prior to McClintock's Mutable Loci in Maize paper.

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

Another exciting #SSB2026 workshop to highlight: A Primer for Phylogenetic Causal Inference with @oschwery.bsky.social & @pseudacris.bsky.social Also, lots of new info on the website and more soon: ssb2026.github.io Follow for the latest updates! @jembrown.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social

My Department (Biology) at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social is hiring this year! We have an opening for a Tenure Track Cell and/or Molecular biologist (broadly defined). Please share with your trainees/labmates/friends and reach out if you have questions. apply.interfolio.com/171625

THRILLED to announce that my NSF "Closing the gap: The history of river connections with the formation of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on the evolution of plants in rivers" in collab w/Carlos Jaramillo at STRI and Caroline Strömberg at UW was awarded! Add for a PhD student+a postdoc to come🧵

Come be my boss! My dept. at GT is searching for a new chair. Drop me a line if you are interested, I'd be happy to talk about this position, GT, ATL- anything. It's a drama-free department filled with cool people in a dynamic city. www.biosciences.gatech.edu/chair-search

Thanks @tulaneu.bsky.social for the short feature on my summer research! news.tulane.edu/news/tulane-...

T-DNA insertions can hide in plain sight 🌱🧬. PCR may miss extra copies & structural variants. Long-read sequencing reveals the full picture - extra T-DNAs, unexpected rearrangements. Still relevant! 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s128... #PlantScience #Genomics @puckerlab.bsky.social

The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052

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

My sister department EEB is hiring an animal evo-devo assistant prof! I'm the plant evo-devo person on the SC and happy to answer any questions! (spoiler alert: This is a GREAT place to be and with fantastic colleagues & support!!!!) @socdevbio.bsky.social illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Michigan State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary simulations across multiple chromosomes and full genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.07.669155v1

To promote the collection, I’ve launched a designer clothing line where synthetic biology meets aesthetics. I will give out 100 free limited edition shirts to the first who retweet and order with their handle in the name! Available here → nickdesnoyer.com 🧵(6/7)