Really cool story about long-distance pollen transport by migratory hoverflies. The actual research paper is here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Hey #pollen people! @theobrominated.bsky.social would like to know which species these mixed pollen grains are from, and I admit except for pine and lily, I'm not sure. Would anyone be able to help? #botany #plantscience #bioimaging #microscopy

#PortraitdeScience 👩‍🔬 Découvrez le Portrait de @mariemonniaux.bsky.social, chargée de recherche #EvoEcoPaleo ! Marie Monniaux consacre ses recherches à un phénomène fascinant : l’auto-incompatibilité chez les fleurs🌷 ➡️ www.hauts-de-france.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/... 👋 @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

QUEBEC CITY! I’m coming over for the weekend. Details below 👇

Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Our department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Lausanne @unil.bsky.social is recruiting a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the field of Plant-Organism Interactions 🌱🐛🦠🍄! Application before November 30, 2025. See the official job ad for more details: tinyurl.com/mtxdcz6p

There’s a leak - and a conceptual artist - at the Max Planck 👌

Interested in repetitive DNA? We are organising a free workshop on Oct 2nd at the Botanical Institute of Barcelona! All organisms included - not only plants ;-) Last chance for registration, don’t miss it! bit.ly/repetitiveDN...

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

Meng gave such a great talk, and her work highlights the power of using distantly related species to really interrogate common evolutionary forces shaping variation in nature academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Our review in discusses how pri-miRNA and DCL1 structures shape plant microRNA biogenesis, and why collaboration between plant and protein scientists is key ☘️🤝

Very nice indeed !

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

Very excited to see this work in press! I think there is a reason to believe that this is a common means of stabilizing large-effect polymorphisms in general and might be an important reason for why diploidy is so common. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

Happy to see my work “12 Little Flowers” and “Epi-Bouquet2” on the walls of my former institute :)

Join this year's Non-Seed meeting to exchange findings, share resources and foster collaborations between researchers studying all aspects of #plantbiology using species outside of seed-bearing plants (incl. #mosses, #liverworts and #ferns). Established thanks to the support of the Genetics Society

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

In the September 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social From the Archives: Essential Readings in Plant Mating System Evolution: Three Classic Contributions from Lloyd and Schoen @flwrecoevo.bsky.social, Carol Goodwillie www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience

In the September 2025 @ijpsjournal.bsky.social Heterodichogamy in Ascarina lucida (Chloranthaceae) @theobrominated.bsky.social et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... #PlantScience

1/2 Many years ago, @plantylisasmith.bsky.social identified an Arabidopsis hybrid incompatibility due to interaction between different alleles at the OAK receptor-like kinase (RLK) locus, but it was unknown why there is so much sequence diversity at this locus journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

Really excited to share our latest paper led by @simonaube.bsky.social. Fascinating results examining whether regulatory mutations can lead to adaptation as fast as coding mutations do. #mevosky #evobio #evoSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A balanced inversion polymorphism exhibits a dominance reversal at the gene expression level that depends on developmental context academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Breaking genetics news‼️🌱🌽 A natural DNA trick triples recombination in maize. What we first saw in Arabidopsis (@hendersi lab) a decade ago is now confirmed in crops—opening new doors for plant breeding. Published today in Nature Plants! More details 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 Postdoc Opportunity – Université Paris-Saclay 🌾🧬💻 Reproductive isolation between crops and their wild relatives Candidates with PhD in evolutionary genomics & programming skills. 👉 Full description & how to apply: [https://moulon.inrae.fr/en/] #Postdoc #EvolutionaryGenomics #Speciation

🌟 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 🗣️ Excited to share the first members of our keynote lineup! 🔹 Federico Ariel 🔹 Brian Gregory 🔹 Polly Hsu @pollyhsulab.bsky.social 🔹 Rosa Lozano-Durán @geminiteamlab.bsky.social 🔹 Hervé Vaucheret More speakers and more info coming soon!

We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT! Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

🌿 Women in Science Day :: organized by the Collaborative Research Center CRC1644 on Phenotypic Plant Plasticity 🌿 📅 21 November 2025 📍 University of Potsdam, Campus Golm Welcoming participants of all gender identities. 📌 Register now 👉 www.uni-potsdam.de/en/ppp/news-...

A wonderful day for @bonsaiseqbioinfo.bsky.social, with @camillemrcht.bsky.social's and @npmalfoy.bsky.social's HDR defenses. Congrats for the amazing work! It's a great chance for the team to have you both!

You may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm very happy to share that our paper describing the evolution of sex chromosomes in brown algae is out!🎉 This project was a long journey, but it came together into a nice story 🧬 🌊 Grateful to everyone who helped along the way!

IT BEST HEALTH! FOR SKIN! MAYBE ELAINE FUCHS INVOLVED! NEED CELLULAR EPIGENETICS FOR EVERYTHING PLEASE!

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

Want to make recombination maps from sperm/pollen/gametes? There is an easy way, based on Hi-C sequencing. Full details in the Hi-reComb paper now in Genetics: doi.org/10.1093/gene... Thanks to Richard Durbin and Ed Green and a great group of co-authors for contributions.

Editor searching reviewers in August

If you want to walk on water, it helps to have fancy feet.

It's almost like even scientific categories have normative as well as descriptive functions and you can't separate science from the sociopolitical context in which it's practiced

Cette année, le congrès international de cryptologie se tiendra à Xk1jWlssh0j7gv37BXTUQ8fRnde3xWGSsOOvSd4VS83LWzMzyeQv9zWUIWENN7HUntmL0AEiC3ZjYXJkX3Bob3RvKihjZTE3OWE2ZmRkOTc2ODczZDQ2NDY5ZGI4NDgxMjhmM2MwODIzMjQxMAHNqdULtIhlIR5g9f50B47KLnAtgEsDEKgehNFb5Jx67txftc:M-ILgqALbp0Yj5vJgO-VbZS0mqM

Why do males and females often differ in traits? The expected answer: selection. But our new paper in GENETICS shows that genetic drift alone can generate sexual dimorphism — even when male & female optima are the same

A tiny silly fun thing in the midst of all the chaos... We're on the hunt for a mate for Ned, a 1 in 40,000 left-spiralling snail. www.nzgeo.com/stories/lets...

I'm Vinny. We mostly study how big, long-lived things like 🐘, 🐋, and long-living 🦇 don't get #cancer, and how we know so little about human pregnancy, including what the signal that initiates labor is. 🫄 Like WTF, how do we not know this already‽ And some woolly mammoth stuff thrown in there too 🦣

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Finally had time to watch John Welch’s excellent AV Hill lecture Recent Controversies in Evolutionary Theory. youtu.be/iOnpLT8p500?...

new work from the lab. Degeneration of Y chromosome does not seem to be one-way street. As a refugium of transposons @Alex Suh @valentinapeona.bsky.social , Y chromosome can recruit some genes by accidental TE burst: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1673852725002243

Will be presenting this work today at #eseb2025 poster P02.184, come by if interested about whether we should expect recombination suppression on sex chromosomes should evolve through modifiers on the X or the Y

My poster P02.385 is now up on its board! Come say hi if you want to learn about the role of sexual conflict in transitions from combined to separate sexes is plants! 🌱 #ESEB2025

Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.

A PhD position is open at the Teotónio lab in Paris to study genetic assimilation in C. elegans. Applicants with a master's in evolutionary biology are preferred. Apply by 19 Sept 2025. More info: https://www.ibens.bio.ens.psl.eu/?rubrique28 #phd

💧Water shapes the fate of polyploid plants! In Dianthus broteri, higher polyploids thrive in dry conditions, while lower ploidy levels win when water is abundant, thanks to key functional physiological traits.🌼#Polyploidy buff.ly/alH3z1m

Junior #GroupLeader position @mpipz.bsky.social on Plant Development & Diversity ‼️ #plantsci www.mpipz.mpg.de/5697690/job_...