Congratulations to Dr. Joey Bernhardt on winning the 2026 #StevensonLectureshipAward 🎉 An Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph she is recognized for her contributions to aquatic ecology, biodiversity research, and interdisciplinary scholarship. Learn more ▶️ https://ow.ly/tKnu50Y9U3w#StevensonLectureshipAward

Another announcement! 📣 Our work on hybrid incompatibility in cohesin protection in 🐭oocytes is published!! Congrats Warif El Yakoubi and Eddie Pan!!🎉 We found hybrids with cohesion errors in two distinct genus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My grad student, who got RWR and appealed, got an email from GRFP program today that said "Your application was screened by NSF program officers with expertise in your proposed field of study and was determined to be ineligible according to the solicitation requirements." No details were given. 😡

How does population density affect evolutionary trajectory? Microbes construct their own niche which in turn reshapes their evolution. Preprint drop from grad student @noahhoupt.bsky.social whose evolution experiments featured blue/white colonies, 1000 generations, a lab move, and much more!

Coming to #evol2026 this summer? The SSB Early Career Travel Funds competition is now live! Apply by February 27 for this years’ Tri-Society meeting. More info: www.systbio.org/early-career...

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Meiotic drive has long been considered as a genetic curiosity. Genomic "footprints" suggest otherwise. Check out our new review doi.org/10.1093/molb..., a cross-taxa synthesis arguing that recurrent drive is a pervasive and underappreciated force in genome evolution.

Just submitted my lab's abstract to #PEQG26 @genetics-gsa.bsky.social "Increased male frequency in C. briggsae intra-species hybrids occurs by genetic incompatibility that produces X nondisjunction" - & we're abstract #72, which means I hope many more will be submitting by the 2/5 deadline!

PEQG! My favorite conference ever*. Single session, fantastic talks, great discussions. Only once every 2 years. And in the best conference location too! Abstract deadline coming up Feb 5! *Disclosure: I am required to say it's the best conference because it is and I told my mom I wouldn't lie.

A plea from an editor: postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍

In @peoplemag.bsky.social today... When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy the book out tomorrow people.com/beronda-mont... @macmillanpubusa.bsky.social @henryholtbooks.bsky.social

What happens when scientists studying population, evolutionary, and quantitative genetics all get together in one room? You get #PEQG26! Hear why PEQG 2026 stands apart directly from conference organizers: buff.ly/O0jiIBE 1/2🧵

Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers. I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.

Another preprint to share from the Ferris Lab @ferrisifolius.bsky.social! This project started as co-author Aditi Mahesh’s undergrad honors thesis and became my first dive into bioinformatics. Excited to share these results on the genomics of photoperiod adaptation!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

ASN VP Symposium: Evolutionary Responses to Historic Drought across the Range of Scarlet Monkeyflower by Sheth et al. Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

! More heroic work from Zhongying Zhao's group Sequential evolution of antidote and toxin links genetic incompatibility with immune responses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This seems like a really great initiative! If you know any Trans scientists who might be interested in joining a broader community, please pass along! transscientistcollective.carrd.co

Are you an early-stage graduate student (2nd or 3rd year) or early-stage postdoc based in the US or Canada, working primarily in Drosophila? Would you like to help improve the experience of all trainees working in Drosophila research? If so, read on. (Please repost to reach a broad audience.)

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Urban Evolution and Ecology which will be held from Jan. 31 - Feb. 5, 2027. Please save the dates, and we look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Ventura Beach, California!

The programme is out for our Symposium, Exploring Queerness in Natural History, on 5 February. We're excited to hear from our Symposium Curators, Connor Butler and @aquadan1.bsky.social, as well as talks from Simon Goldhill, @canopyrobin.com and @rossbrooks.co.uk. (1/3) buff.ly/jc6Unz7

I am really glad this virtual issue is now complete! We would like thank all the authors to their contribution and Evin Magner for the contribution of the cover. Please check out. We have a wide range of research area covered with both research papers and reviews.

⏰ Reminder: Applications for the James F. Crow Early Career Researcher Award are due in 1 week! Students and recent PhDs can earn a featured talk at #PEQG26. Deadline: Jan 14, 2026. Apply now: buff.ly/pEW1oiU

Applications now open for the International Travel Stipends to attend #Evol2026! Funds cover registration, travel, food, and lodging. Apply by January 30: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci... @evolmtg.bsky.social

This webinar by @stephenbheard.bsky.social looks fabulous!!! Aimed at professors mentoring ECR writers (rather than the writer's themselves)! If you're not a member of @csee-scee.bsky.social, join now for only $65 CAD (less for students). You do not need to be Canadian: csee-scee.ca/signup/

I'm stoked to talk about this (and some other cool things these plants do) Tuesday at 10:45 in the Sex Across Origins complementary session in B113 at #SICB2026. #PlantsAreCoolToo #SICBplants #PUI #SICBPUI

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

A final new paper out from the lab, work from Steve Johnson, @joannarifkin.bsky.social & @stepheniwright.bsky.social We asked what maintains the striking variation in floral color, size, and shape within and among populations of Dame's Rocket, Hesperis matronalis

Season's greetings from all of us at New Phytologist and The New Phytologist Foundation!

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies an ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.695989v1

Now accepted in Genetics! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv... We ask why and when rescaling of forward simulations in population genetics is not accurate. There are some interesting results for people performing simulations with selection.

Preprint up now! With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social, we found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity across the altitudinal range of the cutleaf monkeyflower. This experiment was a HUGE personal undertaking. If you give it a read, I’d love to hear your thoughts! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New Ferris Lab preprint demonstrating adaptive plasticity in Mimulus laciniatus! See @jillmlove.bsky.social post below for the link. Check it out y’all!!!! #Mimuluspropaganda

#TansleyInsight | The genetic architecture and spatiotemporal dynamics of adaptation across human-modified landscapes @jmkreiner.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience #TansleyMedal

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal is @camilledelavaux.bsky.social! Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @niooknaw.bsky.social 🧵1/2

Grateful to share our paper on gene-specific selective sweeps in human gut microbiomes, now out in Nature! It has been a joy to work with @rwolff.bsky.social, whose insights and hard work made this possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you are interested in this work and are looking for a postdoc position, please get in touch -- we are actively looking for someone to join our group at UCLA!

NIGMS R35 Maximizing Investigator's Research Award (MIRA) for Outstanding Investigators new NOFO is available!! Submission dates starting in January 2026 through May 2028. See link below: simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

Join our online seminar on December 16, 2025, at 16:00 UTC to celebrate the book release "The Paradox of the Organism". More info: https://internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/ #conference

Please apply to the ASN student research awards! This is such an amazing opportunity to get experience grant writing as a grad student, and the $$$ has funded some really fantastic research!!!

Putting on my hat as @asn-amnat.bsky.social ASN President for a minute for a string of announcements, please share widely!!! 1. Student research awards are open for applications, to fund research expenses for 10 graduate students ($2000 each) nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

EEB Postdoctoral Fellowship @ U.Toronto app deadline Jan 15 2026. Opportunity for independent research, encourages collab across labs/disciplines. Lots of great folks to interact with, Come join us! eeb.utoronto.ca/employment-2/

Excited to share work from my postdoc with @docedge.bsky.social and collaborators Matt Pennell and @jgschraiber.bsky.social, newly out over the weekend: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)

It was a total pleasure to work with @roshnipatel.bsky.social on this, who really led the charge in all respects. Anyone interested in learning about the intersection of population genetics and statistical genetics should check out her new lab in Oregon!

WOW! Congrats Ana, @duartedf.bsky.social , and the whole team!!! This is awesome!!!!

#Genomic #imprinting in an early-diverging lineage ✉ nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Letter article by Florez-Rueda et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

Did you receive a Student Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social ? We'd love to hear what you achieved with those awards (or, please share with someone who had one), even going back many years: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

One week left to apply to the UVA Biology PhD program! If you or someone you know are interested in contagion from a complex systems perspective, please reach out! I'm looking for a grad student! bio.as.virginia.edu/how-apply-gr...

I have literally gifted these to my entire family- you can too!!!!

I'm hiring a full time fixed-term 1yr lab tech to assist with field and greenhouse projects related to floral evolution and plant reproductive ecology. Please share! Ideal start date early 2026. jobs.clemson.edu/psc/ps/JOBS/...

"Her wit was as sharp as her convictions, and her honesty was refreshing and rare." A wonderfully written (by @gbaucom.bsky.social) obituary for my grad school friend and Auburn University Prof. Vanessa Koelling, who passed away last week. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/m...