📢 New Paper @royalsociety.org Our new study traces palm evolution to uncover how genome size, trait evolution, and allometry have shaped biodiversity @renskeonstein.bsky.social @biggenomes.bsky.social WilliamBaker SidonieBellot Link: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @idiv-research.bsky.social #sDiv

Excited to see our new paper online! I’m thrilled to have been involved in this project with two fantastic collaborators. We demonstrate new methods for branch-length estimation, with implications for divergence times inference and analyses of diversification. academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

We can now also predict the difficulty of the multiple sequence alignment task with our new ALDiScore tool www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... The plot shows MSA difficulty prediction performance on completely unseen data

As animals with relatively large mouths, such as tortoises, have been extirpated from or declined on the Virgin Islands, plants with relatively large seeds have become “orphaned.” Without animals able to eat them, the seeds are not dispersed. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/KJn450Z6hqQ

Great new paper on the biogeography of the Brazil nut family #Lecythidaceae led by #UMichEEB PhD student Diana Medellín-Zabala. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

El levantamiento andino y la biogeografía histórica de la familia de la nuez de Brasil. Lecythidaceae se diversificó durante el Mioceno. La mayoría de especies conservaron nichos en la selva de tierras bajas, pero varios linajes se desplazaron hacia los andes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Large circular chromosomes -> mini circular chromosomes -> hairpin chromosomes Huge congrats to Saelin Bjornson, a trainee I have the privilege to co-advise with Hereon Verbruggen, who has reported her analysis of the stepwise evolution of hairpin chromosomes in algae www.cell.com/current-biol...

In a recent @annbot.bsky.social paper, Bianca Schindler and colleagues explore the distribution and conservation of a microendemic species from the Brazilian Cerrado. doi.org/10.1093/aob/... Read more in my latest post at @botany.one! #Botany #PlantScience #SciComm 🧪 www.botany.one/tracking-and...

The most incredible phylogenetic tool! I highly recommend it to everyone in the phylogeny/genomics community. I'm sure @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social has just mastered the field! 🎉

Once again, thank you @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social Just keep going, please!

I have more suggestions, don't worry! I will appear 😇 Thank you so much for all your contributions to the field and for your kindness and efficiency in helping!

Grateful to have been able to help someone by adding a new function to PhyKIT. In v2.1.20, users can specify an occupancy threshold when creating a concatenation matrix. jlsteenwyk.com/PhyKIT/usage... bsky.app/profile/lati...

Thank you for your request, @latincassia.bsky.social. The create_concat function now has a thresholding argument as of version 2.1.20 Docs: jlsteenwyk.com/PhyKIT/usage... pypi release: pypi.org/project/phyk...

Potapenko et al. studied two species of barley, finding that TE silencing is central to genome size regulation, with selection maintaining smaller genomes among individuals with higher fitness in favorable habitats. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag051 #evobio #molbio #TEsky #PlantSky

Just gonna put this here for now www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... bsky.app/profile/jlst...

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

Check out the recent publication in Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics where the authors explore genomic species delimitation in depth. You'll see a number of #sciart figures I created to help explain some of the concepts! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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...

In @theguardian.com : "Plant that mimics odour of half-eaten ants to attract pollinators discovered" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Original publication: academic.oup.com/bioinformati... GitHub repo: github.com/JLSteenwyk/P... Docs: jlsteenwyk.com/PhyKIT/

Congratulations to @benbotanical.bsky.social with new publication on 'The global conservation status of plants growing on cliffs and rocky outcrops'. See paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba... Includes nice dashboard available online shorturl.at/iAPY9. doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

Did you catch this editorial in our July issue? Join Dayu Wu and Kangshan Mao as they explore how #genomic #data bursts and methodological innovations might be used to improve #plant #phylogenetics and #evolution. 🔓 ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/jse.... #systematics #JSE

Highland #milkweed from Bolivia, #Asclepias barjoniifolia #flowers

ICYMI: New online! Mining, biodiversity and social conflict in the renewable energy transition

Opinion: How can we preserve #biodiversity in the #Amazon? The #BelémDeclaration seeks to prevent collapse—but success hinges on structured, collaborative action. 🌿 Learn how: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AmazonRainforest #conservation #deforestation #sustainbility #StructuredDecisionmaking

Southeast Asia covers multiple global biodiversity hotspots — but is experiencing a biodiversity crisis. Our new article in Nature Reviews Biodiversity asks: What’s really driving the losses, and what can we do about it? 👉 rdcu.be/expy6 1/7

A Amazônia está mais inflamável e a exploração de petróleo na foz do Amazonas só vai gerar mais incêndios. Entrevista comigo no @uolonline.bsky.social www.uol.com.br/ecoa/ultimas...

‘Too loud’, ‘too messy’, ‘too much’ … why should women be expected to shrink and shut up?

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Strawberry DNA extraction.. my first fun outreach workshop with @latincassia.bsky.social organized by @biggenomes.bsky.social for the visitors of #communityweek @rbgkew.bsky.social .. very engaging and curious interaction with people of all ages

Join Kew botanist David Goyder and scientists from the Forgotten Parks Foundation and local experts in the DRC on an unforgettable expedition, working together to uncover rare and beautiful plant species in one of Africa’s most remote landscapes. 🌿📷 👇 Dive into the story: ow.ly/1sLa50VeTAq

Apocynaceae wood #evolution matches key morphological innovations New #AJB research by Vicky Beckers, Mary Endress, Pieter Baas, Erik Smets & Frederic Lens doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #PlantAnatomy

Interested in evolutionary biology? 🧑‍🦳🦇🪰🍄🌳🦠🧬 Visit this feed and click the Pin to Home button to track posts tagged with #evobio (+several others): bsky.app/profile/did:...

Wow, what an humungous and amazing effort! One single #plant family comprises 6% of all the Brazilian #flora, with nearly 3000 species, half of which are #endemic. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The #Rubiaceae website contains the contact details of researchers working on this plant family, an up-to-date list of the systematic literature (3500+ references), and more. If you are interested in the #systematics and #evolution of this large family, please visit the website!