Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few examples... What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪 #plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience

Nicole Brown gave a fantastic talk on Identifying introgressions across pangenomes with Panagram It uses k-mer conservation to annotate genomic variation across hundreds of genomes, followed by normalization of k-mer profiles to identify introgression events github.com/kjenike/pana... #GI2025

Very excited to share our work published in Nature Comms last week! Here we describe a range of cool things that can be done once you have the power to control deposition of H3K4me3… rdcu.be/eNEf4 A short thread:

Hi folks- I recently saw a call from a journal that was looking for novel findings in Plant sciences. I can’t remember if it was a special issue or what but it was specifically for results that might not be a full publishable paper but were nonetheless important data sets or findings. Any ideas??

Only a few days left to register and join us in Lille for this first ever French edition of PopGroup!

Looking forward to the next POPGROUP meeting ? Still a few more days for registration. 👇

Hermaphroditic plants also use TIME ⏰🌿 to avoid selfing. Two new @currentbiology.bsky.social papers explore the rapid turnover of this trait in the wingnut family. Both @vincentcastric.bsky.social and I summarized these findings 👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1m2MA3QW8S... #Evolution #PlantBiology

With @aconga.bsky.social we wrote a short Dispatch to highlight two awesome companion papers in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @jeffgroh.bsky.social, @gcbias.bsky.social and by Liu et al. on how the control of heterodichogamy is going nuts in the Juglandaceae : www.cell.com/current-biol...

We have TWO post-doctoral fellowships in the Biodiversity Centre at UBC next year! Am happy to chat if you might want to be hosted in my lab. biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... Deadline January 15th!

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

"The pupils do not learn the scribal craft" is the new "the midterm average was 62%"

A wheat NLR conferring broad-spectrum resistance against powdery mildew by recognizing two structurally diverse AVR effectors. Interested? Check out our newest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The second Ph.D. chapter of Diane's thesis is out as a preprint. She studied the joint evolution of autopolyploidy and self-fertilization under a gametophytic self-incompatibility context. Feel free to comment, and congratulations, Diane! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

OMG you win Halloween ! Well done. Now would you return the jewels s'il vous plait ?

Notons que depuis deux ans, la probabilité de devenir ministre est plus élevée que celle d'obtenir une ERC. Peut-être lié au fait qu'une ERC, elle, dure 5 ans.

New Charlesworth & Charlesworth just dropped!!! 🧪🧬 HJ Muller and the relationship between sex chromosome degeneration and the evolution of dosage compensation url: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Quand notre ministre de tutelle nous insulte devant la représentation nationale. "Bande de nuls" "complètement à la ramasse". Nous reprocher des taux de réussite faible à Horizon Europe et ERC, quand manquent les moyens pour assurer nos missions de service public. Surtout changez rien!👌

Scottie has been coming back to the study area to rut for 5 years now. As an incoming rutter, we don't know where he lives for the rest of the year. He is very distinctive with his wide antlers and pale eyes. Saba is ruminating behind him.

Let's talk about barreleye fishes in family Opisthoproctidae. Take a minute to take in the image below. What look like 'eyes' above the tiny toothless mouth are in fact chemosensory organs equivalent to nostrils. The EYES are the green domes INSIDE THE TRANSPARENT HEAD. And they look *up*...

“The bad review will come from your list of suggested reviewers”

Autopolyploid establishment under gametophytic self-incompatibility: the impact of self-fertilization and pollen limitation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685356v1

50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵

We’ve set up a dedicated Bluesky space for structural phylogenetics: @strphy.bsky.social. Follow for community updates. #StrPhy #StructuralPhylogenetics

The lock and key system that we discovered evolves rapidly in the wild because of the species that cheat it (thank you 𝘈𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘴) - and creates a rich model for understanding how to encode a recognition system, adapt it when under pressure, and generally: how to change a nervous system.

Michigan Fall 2025 Phenology Watch Day 47.

Join our next ProSe seminar 11th November 5PM CET and follow us @proteinstructure.bsky.social!

I started a new job in Montpellier, France! Happy about new opportunities, sad about the state of things in the US. abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/w...

🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! 🎓 📍 Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.

⏰ Last week to apply! Don’t miss the chance to join our lab and explore the fascinating world of meiotic recombination 🌿 👉 Deadline: Nov 1, 2025

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu

🧬✨ It’s official! EMPSEB31 is coming to Germany, June 2026! Europe’s friendliest evolution meeting returns, organized by PhD students, for PhD students. Expect inspiring research, new connections, and a mix of science + fun, the EMPSEB way! 📍Save the date & follow us for updates! Link in Bio 🌍

Oh, this is wonderful news, congrats Cécile ! I look forward to the next steps !

#cjm25 It's already over (sniff), with a final day of fascinating talks and interesting discussions Goodbye Roscoff

Come join us in beautiful Britanny, France in May 2026 for a workshop that I am organizing with @lucievirevolte.bsky.social and @psudmant.bsky.social on Rapid host adaptations to infections: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu ) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!

Je vais conseiller ces stages à nos étudiants, c'est une belle occasion de découvrir un environnement très spécial en Europe

One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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trying to find a preprint, stumbled across this concurrent work published just a few weeks ago from an unrelated lab which is also based in new york. weird. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Wonderful day ending with @couplingdmi.bsky.social who spoke about dock mussels and how anthropogenic hybridization altered marine habitats Thanks, now I want to go diving in commercial ports in Brittany to see them

@crouxevo.bsky.social presented a project he led, recently published in @science.org, on the rapid establishment of species barriers in plants compared to animals

This is the saddest thing I have realized over the years. We train people to seek truth, facts, and rationality through education, but these values have little importance in politics and decision-making. When your job is to try to learn how the world works objectively, this is particularly hurtful.

20 years after ‘can a biologist fix a clock radio’, can a biologist make a plane fly The answer is still no

What a nice start to the Jacques Monod conference #cjm25 on speciation in Roscoff, Britany. What an inspiring lineup of talks and scientists. Even the weather is remarkably welcoming, for now, at least. 🤩

From @hmns.bsky.social: This fossil of a giant crinoid colony (Seirocrinus subangularis) attached to a piece of driftwood was found in Germany. Crinoid means "lily-like", but they're not flowers, they're animals, the ancestral line leading to modern sea stars & sea urchins.

'It is not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life' 🧪 🐋🍃 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35045910/

Congratulations to @jeffgroh.bsky.social on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sharing our new paper, "Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts". Genomics & evolution of a mating type system involving two morphs with alternating sexes in walnut relatives www.cell.com/current-biol...

New Article: "Ginger genome reveals the SMPED1 gene causing sex-phase synchrony and outcrossing in a flowering plant" rdcu.be/eJPdX SMPED1, located in a dichogamy-determining region in Alpinia species, controls the timing of sex-organ synchrony.