My department (EEOB at Iowa State) is hiring! See isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Very happy that our research on TE dynamics accross cotton evolution at @cragenomica.bsky.social and in collaboration with @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social et al. is now published in Genome Biology!: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Call your senator TONIGHT or tomorrow morning if they are on the appropriations committee and encourage them to support the subcommittee recommendation - i just did!

Alexandria Declaration coming out from courageous NSF staff. www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s... I knew this was it in the works, but did not know the timing. Stay tuned...

Such an amazing story about meiosis in pentaploid roses... rdcu.be/esxPd

Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

Check out Tatsuya Nobori’s amazing Tansley Review in New Phytologist on exploring the untapped potential of single-cell and spatial omics in plant biology www.tsl.ac.uk/news/emergin...

Harvard Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...

Explore how hybridisation drives biodiversity! New research shows recurrent hybridisation and HHS shape genetic diversity & create incipient hybrids in Iberian Phalacrocarpum 🌱⛰️ D. Criado, R. Piñeiro, @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social, and G. Nieto. @annbot.bsky.social academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

Polyploidy Conference: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/evolution... Registration deadline is fast approaching! (May 19th)

Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

Meh too!

Possibly the largest dandelion in the world? I love it!

New Article: "Phenotypic and genomic signatures across wild Rosa species open new horizons for modern rose breeding" rdcu.be/egIj3 With News & Views: "An evolutionary bouquet for roses" rdcu.be/egIkd

Why we keep going open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

"This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history." Story on the decimation of NIH by @maxkozlov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...?

Interested in the autopolyploid - allopolyploid "continuum"? If so, you might like this: rdcu.be/efNSq

Polyploidy Conference! Registration deadline is May 5th cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

Wow www.espn.com/olympics/ski...

This Octopus’s Other Car Is a Shark www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/s...

Awwww yeah, check this out: snowflake yeast making their cover debut! www.nature.com/nature/volum... We have two papers in this issue: 1) A paper examining whole genome duplication in the MuLTEE 2) A review of long-term experiments in evolutionary biology led by @jameststroud.bsky.social 🧪

1/ Hey y'all, I'm excited to share my latest paper, which is out now in PNAS! We introduce FAVA, a statistical framework to measure compositional variability across microbiome samples. If you want to measure variability across a stacked bar plot, FAVA is for you! Paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Incredible and important.

New Resource: "Transposon proliferation drives genome architecture and regulatory evolution in wild and domesticated peppers" rdcu.be/d7YSt 11 genomes of wild and domesticated pepper: transposable elements have shaped the evolution of genome structure.

Centrophilic Retrotransposons of Plant Genomes www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... new review @annualreviews.bsky.social from @abousios.bsky.social, Tetsuji Kakutani, and myself on my favourite type of mobile genetic element

Where to publish? Thoughtful essay in the new Mol. Biol. Evol. by Gaut and Russo. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

Botanist Agnes Arber was born 146 years ago today! Her 1950 book The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form was the culmination of a half century of research into plant morphology and the continuity of processes driving plant development. Here is her story. tinyurl.com/46c9m778 #WomenInSTEM #botany 🧪🌱

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

Post-doc alert: Evolutionary genomics of diploidization of polyploids, with a terrific team careers.kew.org/vacancy/post...

Jacob Kiplimo smashes the half marathon world record 🤯 56:42 🔥 #running #worldrecord

Fantastic review on the evolutionary new allopolyploids!

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Allegory alert!

I Used to Run the N.I.H. Here’s What Worries Me. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Here, a celebration of Apocynaceae (dogbanes, milkweeds, swallow-worts etc.) fruits and flowers tucked into a phylogenetic study. Remarkable diversity. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

You’ve Seen One Snake Plant, You Haven’t Seen Them All www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/r...

This is outstanding. All academic scientists should be required to watch this.

A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/full/10.... "This is a moment to unite."

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

See Lucy Run, 3.2 Million Years Ago www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/s...