Turner et al. investigated the role of chromosomal rearrangements during habitat shifts in two locally adapted populations of Drosophila from the island of São Tomè; findings suggest that rearrangements may act as a source of innovation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf236 #genome #evolution #drosophila

Dance of the Wood Storks.

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The program for the 2026 New York Population Genetics meeting, hosted by at the @simonsfoundation.org on March 9th 2026, is now up: events.simonsfoundation.org/event/7c91dd....

What happens when the ocean — and the expectations placed on scientists — are changing at the same time? As a Bilinski Fellow at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory, Mikhaila Redovian explored how marine scientists are responding through collaboration and new ways of working:

This feels straight out of an intense dream about our switchgrass diversity panel experiments.

New preprint from our big collaborative evolution experiment in 9 whole lakes in Alaska, written by McGill grad student @lucaseckert.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... What happens if you put a mixture of multiple source populations together to complete & evolve in multiple new lakes?

This article is now published! academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... We’ve added a few new analyses. First off, we show that, while gene presence absence variation (PAV) scales with evolutionary distance in both plants and animals, the base level and rate of accrual are both twice as high in plants.

New review! Theory & a practical guide to structural variants in popgen🧬 Many thanks to my co-authors: @rebekahoomen.bsky.social @annatigano.bsky.social @marenwellenreuther.bsky.social @janawold.bsky.social @dlfield.bsky.social @clairemerot.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PEQG! My favorite conference ever*. Single session, fantastic talks, great discussions. Only once every 2 years. And in the best conference location too! Abstract deadline coming up Feb 5! *Disclosure: I am required to say it's the best conference because it is and I told my mom I wouldn't lie.

The genetic and developmental enigma of rhizomes: crucial traits with limited understanding. arxiv.org/abs/2601.10847

Michigan midwinter phenology watch: no leaves, -20F windchills. See you in spring.

Check out AJB's special issue "Paradigm shifts in flower color" a bunch of cool papers on flower coloration with a focus on non-pollinator drivers of color variation 🌸🌼🌺https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197/2026/113/1

The snow is coming down sideways. The windchill is at -6. There is a dude at the Meijer in shorts. Michigan, you never fail.

New preprint is up! Not going spoil the results for you 🤓 but we looked at some “bird” vs “bee”-pollinated Penstemon hybrid zones and came away with some pretty unexpected results!

2 postdoc openings in my lab: anelab.wisc.edu/join-us.html One for a maize geneticist and one for a bacterial geneticist Picture featuring @manishbiotechie.bsky.social, @balptekin.bsky.social and @sairamnagalla.bsky.social. The first two left my lab over the last few months to start their own labs!

Nice to see strong support in Congress: “In an 82-15 vote, the Senate approved a minibus budget bill to fund agencies involved in science and the environment, among other issues, through Sept. 30. The bill passed in the House last week by a vote of 397 to 28.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

The Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Forest Genetics, Genomics and/or Tree Breeding at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/464...

Abstract submitted for #PEQG2026. Hope to see lots of you there! Just as a reminder, abstracts are due February 5th. genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/ab...

Pangenomics in the Mimulus guttatus Species Complex onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Howdy, Whoop. Big news from Texas AgriLife Genomics Service. Effective today, our Illumina 10B NovaSeq X+ pricing drops 35 percent. We are also continuing to absorb Illumina tariff surcharges. Email us at [email protected] for our new prices. Marcel and I will be at #PAG33 if you'd like to chat

I'm looking for a postdoc to work at the interface of molecular biology, comparative genomics & single-cell data science, a great opportunity to lead projects on regulatory evolution and cell-type-specific stress responses. Find me at PAG or reach out kenchanmanelab.com #SingleCell #PostdocPosition

Want to study the genomics of repeated adaptation with data from hundreds of species? New funding for non-Canadians @ grad or postdoc level. Internal competition at UCalgary with very short deadline so please get in touch ASAP!! sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/o...

I’ve been to Madison, WI ~8 times and I still find it to be a confusing place for my sense of direction (which generally is quite good). The combination of the diagonally oriented isthmus, two lakes that sound/ look like each other, and the often cloudy skies in winter really throw me off.

Fieldwork in Venezuela in 2004. Thinking a lot about all the things I saw there (good and bad) back during the Chavez years.

Swam with a pod of Waymos on 19th Avenue this morning.

I'm rarely on Bluesky so maybe I've missed this shared before. But I stumbled upon a fun, daily game called Metaflora (and it's partner Metazooa). You guess the mystery plant or animal by navigating through the tree of life. I figured folks here would enjoy it! flora.metazooa.com

The stuff of legends

Some winter scenes in California.

Did you know there are 2 types of avocado varieties? A-types switch from female to male, B-types male to female, within a single day. This reciprocal sex alternation promotes cross-pollination and has a simple genetic basis. Read more in this recent preprint from the final chapter of my PhD thesis 🥑

The National Science Foundation starts 2026 with a new management structure that affects every scientist with--or applying for--NSF funding. Here's what you need to know. www.science.org/content/arti...

Devastating read.

Preparing a traditional coastal Northern Californian Christmas Dinner.

Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.

There are some magic little lands out there in the world.

Happy Solstice to all who experience the joy of the tilt of the Earth.

New special issue in Molecular Ecology on Conservation Genomics #popGen #evolution 🧪🧬🖥️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1365294x...

Happy Hanukkah

We’re excited to share the MSU Plant Resilience Institute’s 2025 Annual Report! From breakthrough discoveries to global collaborations, join us in celebrating another year of extraordinary growth and scientific achievement at PRI. 🌱 Explore the report: plantresilience.msu.edu/about/annual...

My essay on Bill Burger's contribution to ecological species / syngameon concepts is in revision for International Oak Society. Preprint here, comments appreciated. @roderickcameron.bsky.social @davidlowry.bsky.social @roblanfear.bsky.social @cavenderg9.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Nice new review on my favorite topic. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Second time in a row being stuck at the Westchester Airport (HPN) for 5+ hours waiting for a Delta flight. I do not recommend.

Cool!

Rapid adaptation follows experimental assisted gene flow in subset of annual monkeyflower populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

NIGMS R35 Maximizing Investigator's Research Award (MIRA) for Outstanding Investigators new NOFO is available!! Submission dates starting in January 2026 through May 2028. See link below: simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/...

Frozen Delaware Water Gap.

A resurrection study of scarlet monkeyflower populations across the species' range finds relatively little adaptive response to a seven-year drought event, showing that evolutionary rescue is not as predictable as we might hope 🌿 buff.ly/L8o4hhr

UNC-Wilmington is hiring 3 faculty positions: Assistant Professor of Invertebrate Biology: jobs.uncw.edu/postings/38056 Distinguished Professor of Marine Science: jobs.uncw.edu/postings/37951 Distinguished Professor of Marine Biology: jobs.uncw.edu/postings/38009

Comment in @nature.com: "Food will be more affordable — if we double funds for agriculture research now" www.nature.com/articles/d41... A global drop in public and private investment in agricultural science in the past four decades is partly to blame for high food prices, an analysis reveals.