So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

I’m starting at Oregon State University this September as Herbarium Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. An absolute dream job and I am so grateful! Looking to grow the lab soon and will update here. In the meantime please don’t hesitate to reach out!

New paper led by Célia Neto presenting a multiparent intercross population (and trait mapping) from Cape Verde Arabidopsis parents

The secret's out – thrilled to share I’ve been selected as a member of the inaugural class of @sciam.bsky.social's Young American Scientists! It's been so fun to learn about the work of the other 27 awardees from around the country. www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/202...

We have openings at the University of Cologne, come and join our consortium in Plant Ecological Genetics TRR341!Applications open soon for 10 PhD position. Description here: trr341.uni-koeln.de/join-us #TRR341 #PlantEcologicalGenetics

Excited to share our new paper in which we test how competition alters adaptation at a warming range edge @science.org We find that competition can increase adaptation to warming when there is a shared evolutionary response to both biotic and abiotic drivers of selection: tinyurl.com/3j8s9t8b

The GREG grants helped me travel to and and spend a couple weeks collecting in the field. Support the program! Shameless self promotion, you can see my talk on growth rate in hybrid seedlings at the link!

Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social). We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT) 1/n 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I’m looking to hire one or two postdocs - possible projects include pop gen theory, methods development, and human evolutionary inference. Please share, and email if you are interested. More info: evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

Here's the article from the Siebel Center for Design: designcenter.illinois.edu/stories/IB-1... Very proud of my awesome students!

Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics // University of Wyoming jobs.chronicle.com/job/37995586... The Department of Botany and the School of Computing invites applications for a tenure-track position in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the rank of Assistant Professor. #BotanyJobs

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

You may have noticed I disappeared from social media after my launch of @beyondxandy.bsky.social I was violently attacked by a transphobe who recognized me and have been in the hospital and resting If you'd like to help me with my medical bills, please consider donating here: gofund.me/9328f91f2

The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an evolutionary ecologist at the assistant professor level for fall 2027. Come and be my colleague! jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

“I Married a Morning Person,” a new murder drama from Lifetime, coming soon. Inspired by true life events. 🙄🙄🙄

WAHOO!!! GO JILL GO!!!! #Mimuluspropoganda #MonkeyflowerMafia

I'll be presenting a talk in Session 3 of the Hamilton Symposium at Virtual Evolution on Friday!! #Evol2026

I am delighted to share new work with Simon Myers (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...), on how genetic variants that influence binding patterns of PRDM9 and slow down the repair of meiotic double-strand breaks impact mammalian spermatogenesis and fertility. 1/n

UVic is hiring a Terrestrial Plant Ecologist Assistant Professor! Come join our department! We're nice and Victoria is awesome. www.uvic.ca/science/biol...

McKenzie et al. applied a novel pipeline to automate floral color phenotyping from community science photographs, supporting anecdotal evidence that Monarda fistulosa is deeper purple in western vs. eastern North America. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Hope I've given some science pals a morning chuckle when, in a fit of not-enough-coffee, I sent a mass email addressed to "Dear Dr. Colleague". Cool cool cool.

This should be super useful for undergrads and grad students thinking about career options -

Help needed! Does anyone have experience extracting nuclei from flash frozen tissue? Especially helpful if it is fish skin or tail tissue! We are trying to get some precious melanoma samples processed for snRNAseq but are having issues with either nuclei number and/or quality

Excited to share this new pre-print from the fantastic @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social! Kelsie put together a thoughtful and thorough review on hybridization in animal evolution: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v.... She tracks notable shifts in perspectives on the study of hybridization through time.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Plant Developmental Biology // University Of Sydney www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list... The research will focus on flower development using the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana, as part of a project by Dr Marcus Heisler & colleagues. #BotanyJobs

How do generalist parasites stay adaptable across many hosts? Root-knot nematodes show balancing selection maintaining host-specific variation in key pathogenicity genes. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... Image Wikimedia

How do migratory birds navigate massive barriers like the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau? Asian stonechats reveal migratory divides, hybridization, and evolving routes across extreme landscapes. doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image credit Wikimedia.

Rear-edge populations may not be evolutionary dead ends after all. Campanula americana shows strong local adaptation to warming climates despite reduced genetic diversity. doi.org/10.1093/evle... @perrierecoevo.bsky.social Image credit Wikimedia

Heidbreder et al. leveraged natural hybrids of wood ant species to highlight the underappreciated impact of Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibility connectivity on the persistence of reproductive barriers over time. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag063 #evobio #molbio #speciation

🌱 We’re hiring in Plant Biology at Penn State! The Department of Biology at Penn State University Park is searching for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor in any area of plant biology.

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog, featuring flowers! Parental conflict explains how introgression can contribute to postzygotic isolation avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/p... Based on the Current Biology paper by Megan Frayer and her colleagues

We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪

I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can!

I am SO excited for this!!! New Haven-ers, run to this event!!!!

I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here: mhibbins.github.io I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!

📢🎉@hhmi-science.bsky.social HHMI competition for the next cohorts of #HannaGray Fellows and #FreemanHrabowski Scholars opening 11/3/2026. Senior postdocs and faculty within 7 years of appointment. Up to $10M over 10 yrs, + salary & benefits. Spread the word and consider applying! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

We are looking for a postdoc to help with a project on eelgrass genomics, in collaboration with the O'Connor and Rieseberg labs at UBC - see ad here tinyurl.com/2yd487p4! Come and join us in beautiful Vancouver 🌊🌾🏔️

If you are around New Haven on Wed, April 22 come see my public Yale University Peabody Museum talk in O.C. Marsh Hall at 5pm! peabody.yale.edu/news/bass_le...

Today @jillmlove.bsky.social have an amazing talk in her public dissertation defense on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in #Mimulus . Jill, you’ve accomplished so much. I’m so proud of you. #ProudPI #Mimuluspropaganda

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A horrific story. Donovan's work has been very influential over my own college teaching and leadership. I'm so sorry for him, our field, and our society.

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

go @naomibot.bsky.social go!!!!!!! Such important work!

For more than 15 years, botanist Naomi Fraga has been trying to collect seeds from the rare Death Valley sage, for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds. n.pr/4ttOsq4

I wrote about why every lab should have AI use guidelines, and how to do it. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

Congratulations to this year’s Dobzhansky Prize recipient, Dr. Wendy Valencia-Montoya! She will give the Dobzhansky Prize talk at #Evol2026 in Cleveland, OH in June. Learn more about her work: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @wendyssae.bsky.social

Congrats @wendyssae.bsky.social and @seananderson.bsky.social, you both embrace a humane academia and your work is outstanding and a constant source of awe. Richly deserved! 👏🏽🍾🤩

We are also pleased to announce the Dobzhansky Prize Honorable Mention, Dr. Sean Anderson! Learn more about his work: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @seananderson.bsky.social

Alencar et al. use a macroevolutionary framework to reveal how environmental, life history, and geographical factors interact with thermal tolerance to shape the distribution of the most diverse lizard family from North America. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...