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

First post! New paper in Infection & Immunity. We asked: what do #probiotics do to microbiome & immune system? They do more to microbiome than immune system, but depended on probiotic & effects fleeting with cocktail impacts different than individual strains. journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Photographic evidence that it has also colonised a galaxy far, far away...Silene uniflora growing on Luke Skywalker's island retreat (aka Skellig Michael)!

We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders. Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328

Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @meebangor.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @ukri.org @pnas.org

In 2013 Liz Scordato & I did a ~6k mi transect of Russia. It was *part* of a larger study of how divergence in traits used in mate choice & competition affects the formation of new species. Today, we have a paper in Science, led by Drew Schield & Becca Safran 🧪🪶🦚 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In 2020, we showed that studies published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy showed a 21% reproducibility potential at max (Culina et al 2020, @plosbiology.bsky.social) We've now investigated journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy. The results are worrying. 📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...