😂 😂 Finally we are ahead of Max Planck, I think that our corridors are full of various pieces of conceptual art, just unlabeled..

The deadline is slowly coming, do not forget. Postdoc at the transdisciplinary institute of CTS.

Biology is crazy 🤪

Can you guess which group this fascinating plant belongs to? Its species name is ‘medusa,’ which I think is quite fitting.

Look at this rainbow hematite 🌈 🪨! The collection of minerals of the National Museum in Prague is just amazing. We always spend more time there than I expect.

Alpine vegetation of Georgia is just incredible ❤️ 🌸

Proud that this is my mom ❤️

Lilium martagon from Slovakia. Did you know that it's toxic to cats?

I ❤️ my localities #ArabidopsisArenosaIsTheBestModelSpeciesEver

How much do flowers heat up on sun ☀️? And which part of the light spectrum contributes the most? We will hopefully know soon 💡 @janmartinek.bsky.social @svosolsobe.bsky.social

Having a great time at #smbe2025! So many great talks and conversations. Thank you again to @iamphioxus.bsky.social for the opportunity to present our work! Much of it is from the paper by @grantkinsler.bsky.social and @yuping-li.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 1/n

If Filip weren’t too lazy to set up Bluesky, he could have reposted this himself :D. Still, I’m proud of him and Patrick Mairmans for this piece of work.

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Nice empirical evidence for thinking about adaptive and non-adaptive phenotype evolution at range margins.

I love this approach and I love the result 🧡 ♥️ Hope we can use it in the future to understand the flower color composition of alpine vegetation.

⭐Issue 6 of JEB is now online!⭐ This issue is headlined by a Target Review from @josselin-clo.bsky.social et al. on #matingsystems evolution, accompanied by several #invitedcommentaries expanding on this key discussion comparing concepts in plants and animals: academic.oup.com/jeb/issue/38/6

Apparently, my move from Twitter is a decision worthy of a post. I feel important 😄

Great idea to look into this :)! Would be actually very cool to find out which genes pseudogenised in high altitude plants! 🌱 🏔️

Convergent reduction of olfactory genes and olfactory bulb size in mammalian species at altitude: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

How can magellanic #penguins navigate tidal currents while balancing #EnergyEfficiency & foraging opportunities? This study reveals how they adaptively make S-shaped return paths to their colony, optimizing travel in complex oceanic flows @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/40nKyD4

Thank you GRC on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics 2025. For the stimulating environment. For the diverse talks. And for being able to be fully involved, even with the baby company. Great job @samyeaman.bsky.social @chicascientifica.bsky.social for organizing such a great meeting 🧬 🌱 🐟 🦠

#PamětníGrantMartinyRoeselové podporující mladé vědkyně a vědce, kteří kombinují kompetitivní vědeckou činnost s kvalitní péčí o malé dítě, se vedle přírodních věd nově otevírá i humanitním a společenským vědám. Žádosti na rok 2026 přijímáme do 19. září 2025. nf-iocbtech.cz/projekty/4/p...

When I got the offer to write a dispatch for Current Biology, I hesitated. Then I realised it’s the perfect chance to introduce people to the Bulgarian seer Baba Vanga! And that was reason enough to make it happen. 🧵 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Since I finally decided to properly move to Bluesky, I'm archiving here the link to my JMS prize talk from the Evolution 2024 in Montreal. Even after one year I feel very honored and grateful for the opportunity ❤️👇 youtu.be/ZCxufrteETA?...

1/5 ✨Proud✨ to see our review with Katie Peichel as featured content in Trends_Ecol_Evo, with my beloved alpine lineages of Arabidopsis arenosa on the cover. Hope that you find it interesting! doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.11.007

Excited to share my first first-author paper! 🌱🧬 'Planting Genomes in the Wild: Arabidopsis From Genetics History to the Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics Era' with Dr. Megan Ruffely and @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu... #PlantScience #Genomics #Arabidopsis #EvoEco

Why do I have to travel to a GRC conference in Italy to learn that this was happening right where I live?! I hope not to miss it next time, if there is any next time.. #tcteac

On my way to Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics GRC. Hiking to the venue through the mountains was the best decision (where else to practice my talk on repeated alpine adaptation 😁..) 🌄

I enjoyed Carl Bergstrom's @carlbergstrom.com talk today @unswbabs.bsky.social on the current 'Peer review meltdown' phenomenon. Misery loves company, so I was glad to find out I'm not the only editor struggling to find reviewers. Carl et al. have narrow it down to a few factors including ->

Using photos of multiple pots to estimate germination rates. Once it's zoomed in, it looks doable. Any experience to share? 🌱

Have you ever seen variegated wild garlic? I have 😲. I wonder what kind of mutation might have caused that. 🔎

Flowers of the Ophrys orchid mimic female bees 🐝 to fool males into mating with the flowers. We found this particular species in Slovakia and it's not even sure how often it reproduces sexually. But nice try anyways 😜

I find Patrick's work on flower color analysis from these huge datasets fascinating!

Fieldwork + mountains = ❤️

Mutant Hunter mission completed: 🤍 white flowering Linum austriacum (💙 for contrast)

My love among study systems, Arabidopsis arenosa, now flowering in Slovakia, in the centre of it's genetic diversity 🌱🌿 🔎

Proud to see the work of my friends and colleagues out in PNAS🥲 Plants actively regulate their pollen release and here is how: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🌼 🌞 🌼

Perspective 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟑𝟎: 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭🌱 Sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome 25 years ago transformed plant biology. The 4th MASC roadmap drives innovations to tackle global challenges 👉 doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70047 🧵👇

The joy of mendelian genetics: white alpine Arabidopsis arenosa made by crossing heterozygotes for my candidate pigmentation gene from a fully pink population.

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Hello BlueSky! Super excited that this work is out thanks to a great team work with Nélida Padilla-Garcia as lead author! We looked at what shaped the purging and fixation of TEs in populations across Arabidopsis lyrata species range. Short answer: the usual suspects, but also genomic imprinting!

Setting up an experiment in the mountains. Can't wait to see how many plants survive and if petal pigmentation 🤍 -> 💜 brings any advantage? Any guesses/predictions❓🤔

Just noticed this in last Sunday’s Observer, a week in the life of an Orange-tip as told to Simon Barnes. Brilliant.

I like finding nature’s little mistakes, like these two white forget-me-nots in an otherwise blue population 🌱

I really like having a simple growth chamber at home. It's enriching to watch the plants grow everyday 🌱 🔎

Happy to visit my second workplace today 😊 Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences 🌱 🌸🌼

Despite heavy rain, we found two trilobite babies today ❤️ (which are worth getting our three babies soaked 🌧️🌧️)

Super nice work and I love this video summary ❤️❤️

One week left to apply for this PhD student position on plant evolutionary genomics! 🧪 #StockholmU #ECR #PhD #evolution #genomics #pollen

Many thanks to my wonderful supervisor @majdabohu.bsky.social, without whom this project would never see the light of day 🌱🤍. This award belongs to her as well! We are also extremely grateful to all our collaborators!