This study of intelligence in the UK Biobank is typical of a lot of current social science genomics. Impressive technically, and not over-interpreted. But still, a main result gets lost in the sauce. Within-families, the direct-effect polygenic score explains no more that 1-3% of the variance. /1

bioRxiv partners with Dryad to enable easier, better linking to curated datasets connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/09...

Now published in @newphyt.bsky.social, @1pantunes.bsky.social and I review evidence for the "Novel Weapons Hypothesis" and the role of allelopathy during invasion. Bottom line: there is very good reason to be skeptical. dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph....

A pensive Minerva contemplating the precarious state of science in the world.

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...

Ahh, that most wonderful time of year when the hot weather starts to cool down, leaves start to change colour, and grant application spam starts to nestle into your inbox

One of the most enjoyable parts of my book was inviting researchers I admire to contribute essays This what David Wardle said: Every manuscript needs a simple take-home message. Every sentence must earn its place. Keep it clear, keep it simple.

I miss the old brand #CDC

New paper out of the lab today: “Gene Expression Divergence Between Locally Adapted Inland Annual and Coastal Perennial Ecotypes of Mimulus guttatus Across Developmental Stages” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

"Everyone should think carefully about using generative AI simply because the technology is built on environmental destruction, labor exploitation, and IP theft"

Delighted to share the lab’s first independent publication, a Tansley Insight in @newphyt.bsky.social where we analyse new crop genomics studies to show how we can engineer plants that can grow at different latitudes (key for climate-smart Ag) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social

Bittersweet to be leaving @docedge.bsky.social after a wonderful postdoc, but excited to share that I'm joining @uoregon.bsky.social next month as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Science.

Just got the final proofs of my book💓 Available on Amazon worldwide next week Very exciting! I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪

Post promotion, I quit tracking conference presentations, titles of seminars, run of the mill service, etc. OOPS! You'll eventually run into someone who cares what year you were on Grad Admissions or gave an SSE talk. Asking people to track their years on the seminar committee is really stupid.

A THREAD: Our new paper, with @colauttilab.bsky.social, critically assesses whether allelopathy truly gives invaders their edge. Key takeaways 👇🧵 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Our latest work with @colauttilab.bsky.social is out today! Always great to work with Rob, one of the best evolutionary biologists out there. We hope this work sparks some important conversations on allelopathy and reproducibility in ecological research. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Friends don't let friends collect data without adding data validation. From Rebekah Jacob 😉

Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026 Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS! Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us

1) kids pbs is completely free, everyone with a kid should get that because regular kids shows suck- loud and obnoxious with really rapid scene changes that suck my kids in and make them hyper. 2) being able to watch any nova/ nature/ secrets of the dead/ walk with dinosaurs anytime is awesome

Coming soon (with @1pantunes.bsky.social)...

I’ll be at #CSEE2025 talking about patterns of collaboration in the Canadian eco/evo research community 🇨🇦 If you’re a eco/evo prof in Canada, odds are you were one of my data points… so come check it out! Wednesday - 4:30 - Science in action @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social

Yes actually now is a great time to share good news Now is a great time to celebrate the good news of strangers To be the kind of people who are happy for other people to have good things happen to them Yes indeed

Exciting news from the IU Biology Greenhouse! Wally, our corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum), is officially preparing to bloom! 🪴🌸 🎥You can watch the livestream: go.iu.edu/8tM8 📷: Jessica L. Hooten, Department of Biology

Hey #Evol2025 Interested in developing tools to assess novel trait variation in a wild organism? Come check out @inam-j.bsky.social's work using fast neutron mutagenesis in the common morning glory, today at 12:15pm in Olympia 1

I'm missing #Evol2025 @sse-evolution.bsky.social this year, but representing the lab is fantastic grad student @isabeaulewis.bsky.social speaking on Mon Jun 23 in Evolutionary Ecology III at 2:45 on kin discrimination in #Mimulus plants! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Time for #bloomscrolling!

New paper from Sasha Bishop’s PhD in the lab - we combine quan gen with resurrection ecology to examine plant evolution in light of global change. The take-home is that constraints among floral traits have ⬆️ in strength leading to a decline in the rate of adaptation by 96% over a 9-yr time span.

Interested in using phylogenetics to study arboviruses? Our new review in @natrevgenet.nature.com‬ by @viralverity.bsky.social‬, @sdellicour.bsky.social‬, and Marta Giovanetti has you covered! 📖 👉 rdcu.be/epH2U Short 🧵

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

“All your bases are belong to us” vibes

For more details on graduate opportunities in my lab see: rdinnager.github.io/dinnage_lab_...

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇

Psuedoscorpion hitching a ride on a moth that I pinned yesterday!

Preprint of our first manuscript from the PERSIST project (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species In Space and Time), with @lucasjalbano.bsky.social and many other co-authors not on BlueSky

Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬 Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

What Canadians think about when we hear “51st state” youtu.be/JYqfVE-fykk

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

So excited that one of my MSc chapters is out now! We used a large-scale, multi-year survey to empirically test the metapopulation hypothesis for range limits: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... (1/9)

NEW PAPER: Joint species distribution modelling of multiple taxonomic groups shows that water quality explains most of the variation in aquatic community composition along a lake trophic gradient doi.org/10.1007/s104.... #AcademicSci 🧪

I wrote this in a week where it felt like professoring while parenting (and equally, parenting while professoring) was impossible. This feeling ebbs and flows. Seems like Mothers Day is as good a time as any to share, maybe it will help someone else feel less alone. The More Paradox 1/8

All set for Science Rendezvous at Slush Puppy place tomorrow (Sat May 10)! Come learn about tick-born diseases and plants on the move

An important part of a broader conversation about how we support scientists trying to wrestle with their roles. "Ecology for a social revolution: Re-defining the role of ecological and environmental science professionals and their responsibilities towards society" riojournal.com/articles.php...

Brilliant new paper by Jill Anderson and colleagues using 9 years of transplant experiments and integral projection models to predict the capacity of populations for adaptation and persistence under new climates in Boechera stricta. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It really is amazing how these myths persist for so long

#ICYMI Science Rendezvous will see hands-on #STEM learning come to #YGK next month. Visitors can take in some or all of the 60 booths featuring topics ranging from wildlife conservation to robotics & climate change. Learn what's new this year: www.kingstonist.com/news/science...

Very interesting election returns. Collapse of socially progressive NDP breaking evenly between Liberals and Conservatives. But in Quebec, loss of separatist BQ seats going heavily Liberal…

🙏 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

🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 For American students planning to start grad school who are reconsidering their USA offers (or had offer rescinded), my Canadian university #QueensU announced a special funding call. Want to join my lab to study #plant #evolution? Get in touch! 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴