David Lowry
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Professor of Plant Evolutionary Genetics at Michigan State University.
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Anya Brown
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The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here:
brown-ecology.com/join-us/
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Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals
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Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals
There have been numerous treatments of specific topics in speciation, but surprisingly few papers have compared patterns and processes of speciation across different organismal groups. In this review...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.70004
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Claus Wilke
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My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have.
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Maybe a bit of aurora visible on an iPhone tonight in town in East Lansing, MI.
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Molly Schumer
3 days ago
I am so excited to share new work on a TE insertion that regulates iridescence in swordtails, led by fantastic grad student
@nadiahaghani.bsky.social
and with help from many coauthors! In a time that has been so difficult to navigate, this & other projects have kept my spirits up:
shorturl.at/NE65A
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Insertion of an invading retrovirus regulates a novel color trait in swordtail fish
For over a century, evolutionary biologists have been motivated to understand the mechanisms through which organisms adapt to their environments. Coloration and pigmentation are remarkably variable wi...
https://shorturl.at/NE65A
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The Penny Dies at 232
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
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The Penny Dies at 232
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/business/penny-coin-legacy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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MSU Plant Resilience Institute
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From growing smaller leaves to shape-shifting its insides, a desert flowering plant goes all in to flourish in the harshest of conditions. ☀️ Learn how in this
@sciencenews.bsky.social
story about the remarkable research of Dr. Karine Prado from
@rheelab.bsky.social
.
#PlantScience
#PlantResilience
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A special shape shift helps a shrub thrive in blistering heat
A microscope reveals an algae-like adaptation that might future-proof crop photosynthesis in extreme heat.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/death-valley-shrub-survival-heat
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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...
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Greg Copenhaver
5 days ago
Just a reminder that the application deadline for the
@uncbiology.bsky.social
tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology position closes in a week (Nov 17). Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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Chenxin Li, PhD
5 days ago
New paper is online! We used single cell RNA-seq & phylogenetics to identify 2 additional cell type specific TFs that control late-stage vinca alkaloid biosynthesis. The key insights originated from Camptotheca, another species that produces alkaloids.
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
#PlantScience
#SecMet
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Per Engzell
6 days ago
This will spark some great papers: an open digital dataset of roads in the Roman Empire
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03626-z
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Angela Hancock
7 days ago
I recently moved my lab to Purdue University and am looking for graduate students. We are working at the interface of population genomics, quantitative genetics and functional genomics to understand how plants adapt to extreme environments. Reach out if you would like to discuss potential projects.
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MSU Plant Resilience Institute
8 days ago
New research out of Death Valley from
@rheelab.bsky.social
! 🏜️ Learn how one desert plant beats the heat through photosynthetic acclimation in their
@currentbiology.bsky.social
paper:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PlantScience
#PlantResilience
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Photosynthetic acclimation is a key contributor to exponential growth of a desert plant in Death Valley summer
Heat waves, now more frequent and longer due to climate change, devastate plant productivity. Although they are rare, thermophilic plants could hold k…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225013120
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SFGATE
8 days ago
As the park's temperatures top 120°F, one native species thrives.
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Scientists conduct groundbreaking study in Calif.'s Death Valley National Park
As the park's temperatures top 120°F, one native species thrives.
https://bit.ly/4qLEDTG
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Seema Sheth
8 days ago
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a
#postdoc
to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost!
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
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Nice piece highlighting MSU’s Beal Seed Experiment in the context of other long-term experiments…and space missions.
www.snexplores.org/article/long...
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These ultra-long experiments outlive their scientists — on purpose
To study phenomena that unfold over decades or even centuries, scientists may launch long-running projects they may never see finished.
https://www.snexplores.org/article/long-term-experiments-outlive-scientists
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Brady Lab
10 days ago
Interested in learning about the latest and greatest research in how plants respond to excess salt, too little or too much water? Come to the GRC in Salt and Water Stress in Switzerland. Lots of opportunities for all career levels.
www.grc.org/salt-and-wat...
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2026 Salt and Water Stress in Plants Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Salt and Water Stress in Plants will be held in Les Diablerets, Vaud (fr) Switzerland. Apply today to reserve your spot.
https://www.grc.org/salt-and-water-stress-in-plants-conference/2026/
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Harvesting our switchgrass stand planting for the first time. Gosh, this is easy with the right farm equipment.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
14 days ago
Bay Area Pop Gen conference Dec 6! One of my favorite conferences. Registration is free! Only controversy is how to pronounce BAPG (bap-guh is the right answer).
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Registration for BAPG 2025, Stanford Dec 6 2025
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScswsjHaX0Rr12iDXznWc06c8Ck3BJoXQLI5vOLR2HLsURSOg/viewform
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Awesome aerial photo of our switchgrass harvest at the
@kelloggbiostn.bsky.social
by Ruben Ulbrich. You can see the progression of the harvest from right to left: cut plants to tied plants to soon to be tied plants.
@msupri.bsky.social
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Nice to see this great write-up about our recent paper in Molecular Ecology. "Chromosomal Rearrangements Might Play a Central Role in Adaptation"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Nice to see this great write-up about our recent paper in Molecular Ecology. "Chromosomal Rearrangements Might Play a Central Role in Adaptation"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The great switchgrass harvest of 2025 has begun at
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Oh my. This seems like an impossible task with all the nuance and different approaches to authorship across fields and even sub-disciplines. The incentive to leave early career technicians and others off of papers as authors is going to be high.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4
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Mike Moore
22 days ago
Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado.
@cudenverclas.bsky.social
🧪🌍🐙 Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details
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Molly Schumer
23 days ago
Anyone looking for an undergrad research assistant this coming summer? I have a truly phenomenal undergrad with expertise in genetic mapping, long read sequencing & bioinformatics who wants experience in another lab before grad school. She has been in our lab for 3 years & writing her first paper!
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Great visit this morning to the Carnegie Institution for Science and Jasper Ridge with Joanna Feehan and
@lauracleventhal.bsky.social
. Sat at the “co-evolution” table and found some photos of young Clausen, Keck, and Hiesey.
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Last bloom of the season for the magnificent monkeyflower in Northern California.
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Woooo-hooooo!!!!!
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The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
30 days ago
"Assistant Professor - Plant Resilience to Climate Change at University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here:
https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=job_10-16-25.pdf
#PlantSciJobs
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Kelly Dawe
about 1 month ago
The UGA Plant Biology Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!
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jmb, phd
about 1 month ago
We're hiring! Please spread the word. We have an opening for an Assistant Professor in Plant Synthetic Biology for Strategic Resources Research. See ad for details – and apply to join us here in Athens, GA! 🪴
#PlantBiology
#SyntheticBiology
#PlantScience
#AcademicJobs
#UGA
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Daniel Ibrahim
about 1 month ago
What is a promoter? And how does it work? We very happy to share our latest work trying to understand enhancer-promoter compatibility. I am very excited about the results of
@blanka-majchrzycka.bsky.social
, which changed the way I think about promoters
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Enhancer-promoter compatibility is mediated by the promoter-proximal region
Gene promoters induce transcription in response to distal enhancers. How enhancers specifically activate their target promoter while bypassing other promoters remains unclear. Here, we find that the p...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.14.682013v1
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Graham Coop
about 1 month ago
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...
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Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts
In the angiosperm mating system of heterodichogamy, two hermaphroditic morphs temporally alternate between male and female flowering phases, promoting…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225012618?dgcid=coauthor
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Graham Coop
about 1 month ago
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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Botanical Society of America
about 1 month ago
Just add water: A simple floral bud injection method for stable Agrobacterium-mediated transformation in two ecotypes of
#Mimulus
guttatus New in
#AppsPlantSci
by
@lestanley.bsky.social
&
@davidlowry.bsky.social
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#botany
#Agrobacterium
#plantscience
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Ryo Yamaguchi
about 1 month ago
New review out! With students in my lab, we explore how population size shapes speciation—from drift in small populations to selection in large ones. Do small or large populations speciate faster? The answer is more nuanced than you might think.
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Speciation Through the Lens of Population Dynamics: A Theoretical Primer on How Small and Large Populations Diverge
Population size and dynamics fundamentally shape speciation by influencing genetic drift, founder events, and adaptive potential. Small populations may speciate rapidly due to stronger drift, whereas...
https://esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/1438-390X.70008
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William Curtis
about 1 month ago
Your daily dose of botanical drawings from the Botanical Magazine. Orange monkey flower (Mimulus aurantiacus) Plate 354 in volume 10, 1796.
#magazine
#artist
#plants
#curtis
#botany
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept
@ucalgary.bsky.social
@ucalgaryscience.bsky.social
in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science.
careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...
(please reskeet widely!)
#academicsky
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Opportunities matching 'earth'
Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.
https://careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?q=earth&ns_job_type_page=&ns_faculty_unit_page=
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Excited by this breakthrough work led by Dr. Lauren Stanley (now Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University). Lauren was able to develop for the first time floral dip/spray transformation methods in the yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus).
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Just add water: A simple floral bud injection method for stable Agrobacterium‐mediated transformation in two ecotypes of Mimulus guttatus
Premise Stable transformation is the biggest barrier to studying gene function in plants. In most species, transformation requires tissue culture and regeneration methods that may be arduous and cau...
https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aps3.70025
about 1 month ago
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Christy Schnitzler
about 2 months ago
Now Hiring! Whitney Laboratory Assistant/Associate Professor in Marine Bioscience Apply & More Info -
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
We seek a creative, collaborative scientist whose research harnesses or advances cutting-edge tools. Please help spread the word & reach out with any questions!
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Excited by this breakthrough work led by Dr. Lauren Stanley (now Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University). Lauren was able to develop for the first time floral dip/spray transformation methods in the yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus).
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Just add water: A simple floral bud injection method for stable Agrobacterium‐mediated transformation in two ecotypes of Mimulus guttatus
Premise Stable transformation is the biggest barrier to studying gene function in plants. In most species, transformation requires tissue culture and regeneration methods that may be arduous and cau...
https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aps3.70025
about 1 month ago
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
about 1 month ago
I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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Gina Baucom
about 1 month ago
I'm the incoming SSE president and am behind this idea -- if you're interested in putting together an app and have questions, pls reach out!
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Mike Grillo
about 1 month ago
I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Evolutionary Genomics
The postdoctoral researcher will work in Dr. Michael Grillo’s plant evolutionary genetics lab. The goal of this research project is to understand the genomic basis of plant-microbiome variation in leg...
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
about 1 month ago
PEQG website live!
genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/
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Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference
Visit our website to learn more.
https://genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/
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Kim Rosvall
about 1 month ago
Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's
@science.org
. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with
@juncowren.bsky.social
@mathcancer.bsky.social
@imillercrews.bsky.social
#NSF
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WALIIAnhydro
about 1 month ago
TOMORROW is the LAST DAY to submit an abstract for the first annual WALII Symposium! 💧🗓️ Submit your abstract now!
www.walii.science/virtual-symp...
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