Out today from Isabelle Neylan, @rujutavaidya.bsky.social @brantfaircloth.bsky.social, M Dassnayake and me: The transcriptomic response to early life heat stress mirrors adaptive differences between populations – evidence for plasticity-led evolution. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

I'll be presenting a talk in Session 3 of the Hamilton Symposium at Virtual Evolution on Friday!! #Evol2026

Join us at virtual #Evol2026 this Friday to hear from the finalists for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Student Presentation! This symposium is in 3 sessions starting at 11 am Eastern.

Graduation day!!! Katie, you changed my life in the best way. Thank you so much for the mentorship, support, and care you’ve shown me over the years. What a ride! @ferrisifolius.bsky.social ❤️

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today theonion.com/biologists-c...

GSAC is gathering anonymous input on how funding uncertainty is affecting grad students and postdocs, including challenges and helpful strategies. Responses will be shared in aggregate to inform advocacy and discussions at Evolution. Share your perspective by May 1, 2026: forms.gle/c63zpSkwK3HT...

It’s official!!!! I’m Dr. Love!!!!

Today @jillmlove.bsky.social have an amazing talk in her public dissertation defense on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in #Mimulus . Jill, you’ve accomplished so much. I’m so proud of you. #ProudPI #Mimuluspropaganda

I’ll be there!! Hope to see some familiar faces! :)

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

Excited to share a new paper written by a AAAS Policy Fellow I mentor, Dr. Lisa Walsh. “This review synthesizes literature on fieldwork safety across scientific disciplines, highlighting four facets of safety for leaders and researchers to address: physical, social, financial, and psychological.”

A centromere but not just a centromere: structure and evolution of a selfish chromosomal supergene in monkeyflowers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.23.707561v1

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

All prospective biology postdocs should be allowed one public crashout tomorrow, as a treat

I won Tulane’s 3 Minute Thesis competition today! Woohoo! A big win for my campaign “Make Phenotypic Plasticity Easy To Understand” - next stop, regionals in Baton Rouge!

Another preprint to share from the Ferris Lab @ferrisifolius.bsky.social! This project started as co-author Aditi Mahesh’s undergrad honors thesis and became my first dive into bioinformatics. Excited to share these results on the genomics of photoperiod adaptation!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Another preprint to share from the Ferris Lab @ferrisifolius.bsky.social! This project started as co-author Aditi Mahesh’s undergrad honors thesis and became my first dive into bioinformatics. Excited to share these results on the genomics of photoperiod adaptation!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Paper submitted!!!! Way to go @jillmlove.bsky.social !!!! You're on 🔥 this year !!!!!!! #ProudPI Preprint coming soon to a screen near you... #Mimuluspropaganda (this post is sponsored by the "Katie thinks we should celebrate anything we can right now" corporation for public expressions of joy)

Preprint up now! With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social, we found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity across the altitudinal range of the cutleaf monkeyflower. This experiment was a HUGE personal undertaking. If you give it a read, I’d love to hear your thoughts! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Phenotypic plasticity is broadly adaptive across an elevation gradient in the Cutleaf Monkeyflower https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.19.695179v1

Novel major loci shape habitat-associated flowering time variation in Yellowstone monkeyflowers Berg et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/79IPVZ...

Preprint coming soon! 🎉

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

Apply by Monday to join the important work of the Access, Inclusion, and Community Committee! Learn more about the history of the committee and their work here: www.evolutionsociety.org/aic-committe...

The deadline to apply to the Access, Inclusion, and Community (AIC) Committee has been extended to December 15!

The Access, Inclusion, and Community (AIC) Committee is recruiting! Happy to answer any questions :)

#paper How do organisms adapt to changing environments? Through plasticity, evolution, or a combination of both? Find out in our new paper by Alger Jorritsma, where we show which strategies evolve under different environmental conditions. @journal-evo.bsky.social academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

The Society for the Study of Evolution offers International Travel Stipends for the Evolution 2026 meeting in Cleveland, OH. Applications are open until January 30. Details: https://www.evolutionsociety.org/content/society-awards-and-prizes/travel-awards.html#internatltravelsupp

We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...

🎉 Congrats to the 2025 Sectional Travel Award Recipients! These awards, given by BSA’s scientific sections, support students with travel and/or registration funding to present their research & build connections at the Botany Conference. botany.org/home/awards.... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

Matching study system license plates for our final year? Why not!!! @ssyates.bsky.social you’re the best cohort I could ask for ❤️

Annelise (@basicbiologist23.bsky.social) is one of the coolest scientists I know and her research totally reflects that. Highest vertebrate blood lead level ever recorded?!?!?! And her paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks @tulaneu.bsky.social for the short feature on my summer research! news.tulane.edu/news/tulane-...

We got ice cream and stood under the giant Marilyn Monroe statue after my talk - thanks to all who attended! #Botany2025 @whitneymk.bsky.social

Giving my first talk at Botany! So excited! #botany2025

Giving my first talk at Botany! So excited! #botany2025

Reflecting on two weeks of teaching a pre-college STEM course with my labmate Catherine… wow what an opportunity! We got to develop our own course materials from scratch and designed a lesson plan around plant evolution and adaptation. It was hard work but also a really fun experience!!

Super excited to see the published Editorial for our Special Issue on Ecology of Gene Expression. We began working on this in 2023, and we have some excellent papers to share (1) Molecular Ecology | Molecular Genetics Journal | Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Less than two weeks left to apply to join the SSE Graduate Student Advisory Council! GSAC represents student and postdoc interests to SSE Council, organizes networking events, and more throughout the year. @ssegrad.bsky.social Deadline: July 24 www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

NASA is more than rockets and moonwalks. NASA is behind much of our everyday technology. From space discovery, to Air Jordans, to CAT scans, NASA has played a role. We get it all on less than a penny of every federal dollar. Now their science may be gutted by 50%. #NASADidThat

Packing for #Evol2025? Bring your new and gently used field gear and clothes that you no longer use to donate to the Field Gear Swap! Hosted by the tri-society Diversity Committees - drop by their booth to donate or pick up! www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display... @evolmtg.bsky.social

Almost all Nobel Prizes are awarded for work that is exploratory, or absolutely basic science with no obvious commercial or medical benefit. You cannot predict where advancements come from, so you have to invest in science and scientists. Targeted (corporate) science investment will never do this.

Find me at Evolution this year and get free Mimulus art! It’s ✨shiny✨

Check out this brand new fellowship from the Simon’s Foundation in Ecology and Evolution. Incoming grad students this year are eligible to apply. No citizenship restrictions. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

🏳️‍🌈HAPPY PRIDE MONTH🏳️‍⚧️ This year I’m extra grateful for the people who’ve made space for diversity in STEM (and everywhere else) where institutions have folded. For the mentors, friends, and colleagues who choose inclusion every day, without anyone telling them to. Y’all are the real ones. #HappyPride

This made me tear up. The fear is real, especially now. Showing support is life-saving. This #Pride think about adding something to your wardrobe or workplace to show allyship. I am not trans, but I wear a 🏳️‍⚧️ pin. Even within the queer community we need to show allyship for those more marginalized.

pride is next week pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan. do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.

A gift from a student 😂

Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF! Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Our Media Tool can help you get started: shorturl.at/i7WfU #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF