I’m late to the party but this is such a cool paper. Most mosses have several archegonia that each make an egg, but typically only one forms a sporophyte even though it seems like multiple eggs could be fertilized. This points to a possible mechanism to suppress the growth of all but one offspring

No models. No satellites. Just 50 years of Burgundy harvest dates: ~4.1 days earlier every decade. Climate change, written on a cellar wall. 🍷 🇫🇷 🧫

For this new OMB rule I had mostly been thinking of "grants" in the science and arts sense but as OMB defines it I gather also includes a lot of what until now has been considered routine transportation, education, and healthcare transfers to to state and local government.

Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.

Dieter Lukas put together a Google Sheet listing a large number of independent postdoctoral fellowsips in biology

Using the GoFlag probe set for bryophyte phylogenetics? Check out this new tool from the lab

UVfinder: a tool to extract bryophyte sex-linked gene copies from the GoFlag408 probe set https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.01.735932v1

Heads up #PlantEcology folks - maybe no surprise but this amazing thread about garden gear has some gems that could be great for field experiments too

‼️ Get ready for the motherload of Saharan dust! In #Florida, the #Caribbean and #Gulf later this week, into this weekend. Dust is normal in July. But this is certainly one of the bigger invasions I’ve seen. Most of this remains aloft, but some settles to the ground.. 1/

“puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth.” Is a better description of and defense of higher education than anyone has made around here.

“There's a piece of NIH's mission Atlas never mentions, because it doesn't fit his story: NIH doesn't just fund experiments, it funds people. Training grants, fellowships, career development programs, and research project grants that carry graduate students and postdocs through their formative yrs”

today in destroying higher ed, the country's second largest export (not for long now!), the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties economic sabotage AND epistemic warfare www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

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Ngl, pretty stoked to see Cape Verde go!

Daaaaamn Cabo Verde!

Instructions for building the latest Mini-NFT hydroponics system for Marchantia. USB powered pod with self-contained media circulation and LED lighting. Based on GN1/6 kitchen vessel. Larger scale DIY hydroponic systems on the way. https://marchantia.org/mini-nft-hydroponics

More excellent UF student journalism on plans for ICE detention center in Starke www.alligator.org/article/2026...

Sad to report that my colleague Dr. Jim Hamrick - a giant in the early study of plant population genetics, though in these 2017 photos he was contributing to the understanding of *barnacle* diversity - has passed.

Say what you like about the PNW, but we have good moss here

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

The green roof above the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland is hosting a lawn tools show with some unexpected crossover with #Evol2026

CT technician position available at the U-M Museum of Zoology/Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

This is really great to see! Nice work @rensingstefan.bsky.social @theplantjournal.bsky.social

This was a very interesting read

Huge Fish Curator gig is advertised! Assistant Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History (part of Uni of. Florida) explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...

Job! Biodiversity science communications. Austin, Texas.

Totally unrelated but this skeet reminded me that a guy spent five years making a stop-motion version of the Sabotage video by hand and finally finished it a couple weeks ago.

This obit and the thread above about Michael Klein hit hard in an inspiring kind of way

What does it take for an insect or worm to live full-time on a glacier?

We pay a connection fee plus tax (~$19) and the difference between what we use - what our panels produce; we overproduce except Jan and Feb. our excess kWh roll over until Dec when utility cuts us a check (they pay wholesale ~0.04$/kWh so we get <$10). We’ll prob break even ~10yrs after install

This is a very nice review of several of my favorite topics to cover in plant diversity

My PhD advisor, Bob Ricklefs, passed away early this week. Bob took a chance on a very young and VERY green student, in me, and I owe him a lot. Brian McGill has written an excellent tribute: dynamicecology.wordp... 🧪🌎 Bob on the right; me (probably after my defence??) on the left.

Next week is World Sea Turtle Week, and the ACCSTR will be celebrating the birthday of Archie Carr with a local event. If you are in Gainesville, join us for Science on Tap with engaging talks about sea turtles at Cypress & Grove on June 17th from 6:30-8:00pm.

We invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in evolutionary ecology, beginning in the academic year 2027. Review of applicants will begin on November 1, 2026 & will continue until the position is filled. For more details and to apply, visit: jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

People felt this on the fifth floor of Bartram-Carr, but nothing down on the second floor

Looking back at yesterday's earthquake it's pretty impressive how many folks reported feeling it across #florida. From I-10 south to Central and south Florida. This is a map of all the zipcodes that felt the shaking. #weshwx

This is completely bonkers. I would not have been able to participate in all but one of the panels I’ve been on since coming to UF

W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. Apply if you’d like to be my successor. #plantscijobs #plantscijob #plantsciencejob uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

This thread is a year old but still provides excellent context for recent screwworm updates

🚨SSE members: check your inbox!🚨 SSE has sent an important email regarding the OMB's proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations--changes that could affect peer review, publishing, conferences, professional societies, international collaborations, and more. @sse-evolution.bsky.social

Anybody addressing evolutionary psychology in intro bio?

Friends, lets do this

Speaking of crow calls, this kid is AMAZING and his peers are absolutely enthralled

This is an inspirational hands on plant lab in a gen ed class w 100+ students, really cool

Asst Professor - Plant or Fungal Genomics // University of Wyoming jobs.chronicle.com/job/37995586... The Department of Botany and the School of Computing invites applications for a tenure-track position in Plant or Fungal Genomics at the rank of Assistant Professor. #BotanyJobs

If you are interested in collecting specimens for chromosomal genomes and/or generating chromosomal reference genomes from specimens that were not cold-chain preserved, please read on and share this thread.