I am incredibly thrilled to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Prof at Yale EEB in January 2027!! 🎉🎊 Stay tuned for student and postdoc openings, and please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in eco-evo, range dynamics, species interactions, and global change! 🌐🌱🦠🧬

This fall I'm thrilled to be joining UMass Amherst (@umassamherst.bsky.social) as an assistant prof. My lab will study photosynthetic evolution, diversity & resilience, focusing on C4 photosynthesis, one of the most remarkably convergent traits in the biosphere. #PlantScience #Evolution #NewPI

SSB Prez Tracy Heath announcing awards! 2026 Ernst Mayr Award goes to Dr. Rowan French​ for the talk Function and macroevolution of exaggerated male antennae in longhorned beetles Watch the Mayr talks from virtual #evol2026 on YouTube: youtu.be/QMiKMC9ctjw?...

Interested in gene family evolution, mutualism, & gene expression ? Check out this talk by post-doc @damianmicroeco.bsky.social with @meafkhami.bsky.social Connections between gene family expansion and context-dependent expression in mutualism! Wed, 6/24, 4:15-4:30, Room 25B. #Evol2026.

#Evol2026 I’m launching a new research group at UNC Charlotte in January 2027. Prospective students, postdocs, and collaborators are welcome to get in touch: [email protected] More at jakeberv.com, lab website coming soon.

The amazing Amanda Peake is presenting this work at #Evol2026. Go check it out, where she boils down several years of work into 15 minutes! Ecological Genetics II, 4:30 - 4:45, Room 24, Monday 6/22/2026.

"I know there's a lot of concern about the proliferation of journals, slop in the in the literature — the best way to combat this is to publish in society-owned journals." — @asn-amnat.bsky.social President @beckyfuller82.bsky.social preaching the Gospel #Evol2026

Excited to share my new paper in Syst Biol! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

How do you turn a purple flower white? Another from lab, led by @damianmicroeco.bsky.social and Emily Glasgow, with big contributions from Martin Henry, Margaret Li, and Amanda Peake. Mendelian Polymorphisms for the Win! #evolbio #plantscience

Check out our new issue - including the Editor's Choice article by @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social et al! They show that despite phenotypic plasticity, flower morphology of the spotted jewelweed has evolved in urban habitats to better suit bumblebees, their main pollinators doi.org/10.1093/evle...

Why are leaves the shape that they are? What controls intraspecific, genetic variation in leaf shape? New from my lab, in collaboration with many others, led by PhD student Amanda Peake: mapping the leaf shape polymorphism in Ipomoea hederacea.

Professor Joe Felsenstein FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. After initially working on population genetics theory of recombination, of migration, and of speciation, his main focus has been on phylogenetic inference. #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/people/joseph-felsenstein-38106/

HUGE kudos to SSE leadership for spearheading collective action against OMB's proposed rule. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🧪 Societies matter!! Support them with your engagement, conference attendance, and choice of journals. SSE members: please consider signing these letters! SSE non-members: please consider joining ☺️

Its hard for me to critically evaluate this paper because its conclusions align so tightly with my world view: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.

Stephen Wright appointed dean of #UofT’s Faculty of Arts & Science ➡️ uoft.me/cpH

Don’t forget! Book reviews are free for authors, no publication fees, and free to read!

Current, former, and future Stinchcombe lab members who were in attendance @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social tgs.bsky.social ... Fun to see the interaction b/w my very first UofT undergraduate research student from Fall 2005 and an entering PhD student for Fall 2026... Super fun meeting! #CSEE

More on the immediate effects of the institution’s support of the attack on Roger Innes www.ipm.org/news/2026-05...

Herbarium collections for the win. Maybe not the time to be dismantling your collections, @duke-university.bsky.social ?

This review by @jonothingeb.bsky.social, a post-doc @utoronto.ca is PURE 🔥. "The book reads like an Eat Pray Love of biotech grifting, designed to make her into a public figure based on her personal journey, now presented as the living impetus for her advocacy." lareviewofbooks.org/article/orig...

Over the moon for @jrossibarra.bsky.social ! A great scientist, colleague, and friend. Still terrible puns though.

Hey Toronto 👇

I'm not sure I get the distinction being suggested here... @jeffollerton.bsky.social have you tried experimenting with www.qedscience.com , as developed (in part) by @odedrechavi.bsky.social ? Many of the preview uses I've seen have been for less ecological fields, and this might be a comparator

Peter Raven, RIP

Epstein Craved Harvard Connections. Many There Were Eager to Help. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

Collections + experiments at 2 field stations, ecology.louisiana.edu and @ksrjokershill.bsky.social , for the win.

Huge congrats to Tess!!!

Hey Asia Hightower's @puffballove.bsky.social cool paper analyzing 1000s of leaf shapes in published in #AppsPlantSci doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

🚨 My first first-authored paper is out in @evolletters.bsky.social 🌆🏵️ Urbanization changed the pollinator community and flower morphology of Impatiens capensis. 🐝 The size of bumblebees—the main pollinators—correlated with sepal size, driving selection for larger sepals in urban populations. 🧵⬇️

1 billion percent endorse this. My colleague @mfrederickson.bsky.social and I share this paper when teaching field courses....

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!

UofT's field station, @ksrjokershill.bsky.social , in the news: macleans.ca/economy/real...

Dan Kois deep dive on … bar soap? Heck yeah The humble bar of soap used to define the American way. Now it’s dying. I will not let it go down without a fight. slate.com/life/2026/02...

You've got to put the fact you're an Olympic athlete in the first sentence. No prof is getting that far into an email.

Report: Even Grok grossed out by how much Elon Musk is in Epstein Files

Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Rittenhouse had a rifle which he brandished, Pretti had a pistol he kept holstered. Rittenhouse shot and killed two people while Pretti didn’t shoot anyone. For that, Rittenhouse became a cause celebre on the right, meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, speaking at TPUSA events, and raising big money.

The ass kissing of Trump by execs of Apple and Amazon and others coupled with ongoing silence from many in the tech and biotech and science areas about ICE and related evil activities is extremely disappointing.

Bill Kristol is making a clearer case for what Democrats can and should do in the minority than Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries ever has

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

I'd like to thank Slack for hiding configuration tools in : 1, the workspace name & its menus; 2, the gear icon next to the workspace name; 3, the Admin gear icon in the left navigation panel ; 4, the three horizontal lines on the top left (on a PC); 5, the question mark icon on the right.

Trump threatens tariffs on champagne so nobody can celebrate when he dies

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Weird to recall what a bombshell Biden’s fumbling debate performance was and now it’s like, ah yes, the president is demented in public every week, what can you do?

"The power of the less powerful begins with honesty." Bravo, and well-said, Mr. Carney.

A pattern of escalating, unnecessary violence: www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

New paper in Paleobiology! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...