Excited to present my PhD work today on adaptation and maladaptation under climate change in Arabidopsis at #evol2026 at 4:45pm in Evolutionary Ecology: Adaptation! Come by to learn about what happened under this rainbow as well as my new final chapter quantifying global adaptation lag! 🌱🌱🌱

How does phenotypic plasticity shape adaptation in the wild? Love and Ferris @jillmlove.bsky.social @ferrisifolius.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you’re in Cleveland for #Evolution26 RUN don’t walk to @jillmlove.bsky.social ‘s talk on the genomic basis of local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in Mimulus laciniatius!!!! Tomorrow at 5:15pm!!! #Mimuluspropaganda

🎉 PUBLISHED!!!! Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social 🎉 We found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity in a Monkeyflower species. This experiment used two big field transplants, greenhouse, AND growth chamber work. It was hard, but awesome. With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Heading to #Evol2026? Stop by the GSAC booth for free swag, great conversations, and fun with fellow evolutionary biologists! We’ll also have a job board for faculty, students, and postdocs. If you’d like to advertise a position or your profile, bring a copy of your job ad. See you in Cleveland!🎉

LGBTQIA+ at #Evol2026! 🏳️‍🌈 Did you sign up for the LGBTQIA+ Networking Lunch? Check your email! 🏳️‍⚧️ The LGBTQIA+ Mixer is set for Sunday, Jun 21 @ 3:45 PM in Room 26C. All are welcome! 🏳️‍🌈 Come grab some swag at our Access, Inclusion, and Community (AIC) booth and see what else we have going on!

We can't wait to see everyone in Cleveland in a couple of days! You can find the schedule here and the QR code to download the app: www.evolutionmeetings.org/program.html

🎉 Happy Birthday to Barbara McClintock, GSA’s first female president (1945) and a pioneer who transformed genetics. Born June 16, 1902, her discovery of transposable elements, or “jumping genes,” reshaped our understanding of genomes and earned her the 1983 Nobel Prize. 🧬🌽

Amy Angert and I are recruiting 2 temporary field technicians to assist with demographic surveys across the range of scarlet monkeyflower in California and Oregon. Perfect for recent graduates who are considering applying for grad school. Apply here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/231.... Please share!

This spring I took over and redesigned the only Gen Ed on plants here #IB103. We walked through every core aspect of plant bio in lectures & labs, but also through art & design. I had a blast, the evaluations are rewarding (4.9/5), the redesign got an award from the college, and a little press too!

Meet our newest #BSASpotlight, Jill M. Love, a graduate student at Tulane University studying how the cutleaf monkeyflower (Mimulus laciniatus) adapts to extreme environments through the lens of phenotypic plasticity! Read more at botany.org/home/careers... #IamaBotanist

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

I’m grateful for spaces that celebrate visibility and remind us that representation matters, especially in this uncertain political landscape. Thanks @botsocamerica.bsky.social for the spotlight! botany.org/home/careers...

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