We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...

I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...

I am looking to hire a postdoc interested in combining genetics and evolution to understand why telomeres vary so much in plants. My group has been developing Mimulus a genetic model for studying plant telomeres and we have really cool research brewing. Please check ad for detail. Deadline is 12/31.

New preprint from former Lowry Lab postdoc, Kathy Toll, providing evidence that delayed flowering time by coastal perennial Mimulus guttatus may be advantageous through avoidance of high wind speeds and salt spray. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out our new preprint on monkeyflower salt spray adaptation, with coauthors @pcdurant.bsky.social, Katherine Egeler, and @davidlowry.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Game-changer for evolutionary genetics!

New paper by former MSc student @christeinecke.bsky.social! ⭐ A behemoth effort to apply artificial selection on clonal reproduction in #Mimulus guttatus. We show that clonality evolves quickly, but not symmetrically in both directions, and multivariate life history traits are altered too! 🧪🌾

The new #NSF #GRFP application now excludes 1000’s of students, including those who were told they could apply this year, or who planned to apply next year. We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Late to the party, but I'm so excited about the first paper from our lab: ✨Unique genetic bases of repeated life-history divergence associated with high altitude adaptation in Mimulus perennials ✨ This work was led by the ABSOLUTE ROCKSTAR Hongfei Chen!

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Stop by the community table at Hooked in Lansing tomorrow to speak out for science funding! We'll be there from 9am-2pm.

I’m proud to present the main work from my postdoc, 3+ years in making from scratch, my ultimate #MimulusPropaganda up till now: The Moment That Symmetry Breaks. #plantscience #development #imaging #microscopy 🧪🌸🔬 w. Captain Yaowu & @biancatash.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We’re hiring for a major role in the US, an investigative journalist to cover what’s happening with science in the US and beyond. This is extremely important territory for us. 🧪 workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795 The Guardian :: Senior Science Investigative Reporter

Coming up! Find an action near you www.goodtroubleliveson.org

See my newest op-ed for the Baltimore Sun about how cuts to science funding harm Maryland. Now is the time to call your members of congress to protect the NIH and NSF! www.baltimoresun.com/2025/06/23/a...

Hi #evol2025, our paper came out yesterday and I'd love to chat about it. We used an underused tool for studying parasite local adaptation, the Host Reciprocal Transplant, to study switchgrass and its fungal rust. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

See my newest op-ed for the Baltimore Sun about how cuts to science funding harm Maryland. Now is the time to call your members of congress to protect the NIH and NSF! www.baltimoresun.com/2025/06/23/a...

My latest cover for @newyorker.com "On Parade"

Science is pure awesome. I hope we can all keep doing it.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

Gee... who'd a thought the racist guy who sunk the economy in his first term would do it again? Go figure.

You want our science? Then you get ALL of us. You need to stand up for ALL of our identities. When you don't, you give ammunition to the people who want us to disappear.

Science funding is not government waste - see my opinion piece in the Lansing State Journal about why cuts to science funding are bad for Michigan. @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/opinio...

Science funding is not government waste - see my opinion piece in the Lansing State Journal about why cuts to science funding are bad for Michigan. @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/opinio...

There are all sorts of wrong here. I want to point out one more. The US government makes promises. Recipients of funds expect promises to be honored. Without this surety, how do we plan, whether for USAID work, NIH grants, or ??? Reputation is a terrible thing to squander.

We have a new paper out today, where, among other things, we find evidence that a locally adaptive chromosomal inversion likely trapped an even older inversion along its path to becoming the supergene it is today. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you have experienced direct harm to your work/lab/job due to recent changes at US NSF, & are willing to share this on behalf of the Am. Society of Naturalists and NSF, please DM/ email me ASAP (this is time-sensitive) or submit story here sites.google.com/view/scienti... Please share widely

Join us on Wednesday, March 5, at 11 AM PST for the next #PolyploidyWebinar! This month features Maya Wilson Brown on Capsella genetic variation and Nomar Waminal on the Crocus panrepeatome! Sign up (if not already!) to get the zoom: www.barkerlab.net/polyweb

National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers this morning in Zoom call. This included workers who had completed a 1-yr requisite probation and shouldn't have been included in termination but were suddenly told recently that the 1-yr should have been 2-yrs, revoking their permanent status.

A teacher emailed me & said "My scientist didn't reply to me. My scientists ALWAYS reply to me! What the heck!". I was like "Well. Science is kinda crumbling. Friends/colleagues are losing their jobs or at least funding, & some are being told to cease all outside communications". She hadn't heard.

Hi, scientists. You're seeing what we all are: USAID illegally blown up, 20 yr olds dumping code into the Treasury's seven-trillion-dollar payment system, Senators and House members joining protests at Treasury today... It's a lot. It's a national crisis. What should you do now? 🧵 🧪 1/x

Many thanks to the MSU PRI for funding this project and supporting Sylvie's and my work! #MimulusPropaganda

One of the stories I will tell: I have maintained these experimental lines of live animals continuously for 10 years. They help us to understand the impacts of climate change in the ocean. They cannot survive for 90 days without care. A pause doesn't mean losing 90 days. It means 10 years.

Yellow monkeyflower in Mammoth Lakes, CA

New paper alert! We find evidence of greater selfing rates in in an annual wildflower after 8 generations of cultivation on a native seed farm: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

This course is the coolest!

There's a super fun story about these spurless Columbines! Pollinators mainly visit flowers for nectar, but these nectarless populations were very stable, and this study found both molecular & biological basis for these supposedly disadvantageous forms. 🧪 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have funding available in my lab at NC State for a graduate student interested in plant evolutionary genetics, especially in weeds. Please email me by Dec 20 for full consideration. Details and contact info on the lab website: avanwallendael.github.io/#joining-the-lab

I am currently searching for a new postdoc to conduct research using amazing data sets that we have accumulated over years through research on a continental-scale array of field experiments with switchgrass genetic mapping/GWAS populations. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/52...

New paper out from the lab, this one led by former undergraduate and technician in the lab, Thomas Zambiasi. "Ocean exposure and latitude drive multiple clines within the coastal perennial ecotype of the yellow monkeyflower, Mimulus guttatus" bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Come hear about life history evolution on small spatial scales in monkeyflowers tomorrow in Life History IV! Cool purple rhizomes will make an appearance. #Evol2024

As an additional plug, I'm looking for a postdoc position starting as soon as Summer 2025! So if you're looking or a postdoc and live on one of those blue states where I get healthcare + rights as a trans person, we should chat!

Genetically correlated leaf tensile & morphological traits are driven by growing season length in a widespread perennial #grass New #AJB research by @pcdurant.bsky.social, Amit Bhasin, Thomas Juenger & Robert Heckman bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #crops

I am currently looking to hire a field/laboratory technician to work on various aspects of switchgrass local adaptation, physiology, and improvement as a bioenergy crop. Please pass along to anyone who might be interested. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/51...

So excited to share our review of molecular mechanisms of underground storage organ development! A pleasure working with coauthors who helped this geneticist learn plant morphology: @jesusgm.bsky.social, Yesenia Madrigal, Adriana Hernández, and Carrie Tribble! authors.elsevier.com/a/1j5q04tPF3...

📣 Introducing 📣 microPublications in Ecology and Evolution! Please help support this effort by spreading the word and submitting and reviewing papers! #evolution 🌎 🌍 🌏 🧪 #PlantScience #conservation