So excited to have been accepted to write this piece. Thanks to all who have entertained my ramblings over the years and have encouraged me in my passion for #ecophysiology and #evolution 🙏 #IAmABotanist 🌱

Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution! friedmanlab.ca

@yu1cheng.bsky.social, in collaboration with Filip Kolar and me, published an article looking at how the genetic architecture of unreduced gametes and environmental factors can affect autopolyploidy evolution. Congrats Yu! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jantar de Rainhas e Reis do FLOWer Lab na boa companhia de muitas das caras-metade dos membros do FLOWer Lab! Um 2026 cheio de ação, biodiversidade e interações planta-polinizador! Queens and Kings Dinner, wishing for a 2026 full of action, biodiversity, and plant–pollinator interactions!

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

Canadian universities received a big federal funding package to recruit international research leaders. Here is the call at my university, Queen's University, Ontario. If you are looking to move to Canada, this is the time! First round of review begins January 9, 2026 www.queensu.ca/vpr/recruitm...

Check out our new paper! :)

Contemporary hybridization among Arabis floodplain species creates opportunities for adaptation Rahnamae et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It’s that time of the year again: we are looking for a new cohort of @jevbio.bsky.social editors. Join our board and support your #SocietyJournal!

Are you an evolutionary biologist? Would you like to support your society journal? We are looking for new editorial board members across the field of evolutionary biology: 🧬🌿🪰🐀🦀🔬🧫🦠🐟🐦🧑‍💻🪸🦎 Learn more and find out how to apply: jevbio.net/call-for-edi... DEADLINE 19th January 2026 📣

Happy to see this out - started with some crosses almost 15 years ago... finally ready to share this resource with the community. Massive team effort over the years to make the NIL panel. Special shout out to fantastic post-doc Sam Mantel for leading the charge on the experiment and manuscript.

If you're in Ghent tomorrow ! I'll be sharing our recent progress deciphering the sRNA-based dominance/recessivity interactions at the self-incompatibility locus in Arabidopsis 🌱

Hi Folks ! Just a few more days to register for the POPGROUP meeting (deadline = this Monday 10/11/2025). Join us in the beautiful city of #Lille just across the Channel for three exciting days of science and more ! www.hautsdefrancetourism.com/destinations... --> populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

Autopolyploid establishment under gametophytic self-incompatibility: the impact of self-fertilization and pollen limitation doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The second Ph.D. chapter of Diane's thesis is out as a preprint. She studied the joint evolution of autopolyploidy and self-fertilization under a gametophytic self-incompatibility context. Feel free to comment, and congratulations, Diane! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Autopolyploid establishment under gametophytic self-incompatibility: the impact of self-fertilization and pollen limitation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.30.685356v1

#PhD Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication? Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids Details: shorturl.at/nQ8UW

The #PolyploidyWebinar series is back for another season! 🧬 Join us for talks at 9AM Pacific on the second Thursday of each month. Are you working on something exciting in polyploidy? We'd love to have you speak! Sign up for open dates at the link below. Looking forward to the great research ahead!

Happy to share that our study on heat-induced secondary dormancy is now published! 🌱 Here we studied how natural populations differ in their dormancy response to heat, and how this natural variation can shape local adaptation and future range shifts.🌦️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣CALL FOR PAPERS! Upcoming SPECIAL ISSUE: Evolution at species range edges Guest Edited by Shengman Liu, John Pannell and Sophie Karrenberg More information here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/ca...

Very happy to announce that the next POPGROUP meeting will take place in Lille on 7-9 January ! Follow ‪@popgroup2026.bsky.social for all updates. 📢 Please share widely ! 📢‬

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

Out First Release in @science.org this week: A large scale analysis of the epigenetics of transposable elements in Arabidopsis shows transgenerational stability www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PlantScience

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

A very interesting monkeyflower in Denmark!

This is an extension of nQuack: bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Find more here: mlgaynor.com/nQuack/

Hi #Botany2025 - In my quest to never do flow cytometry again, I am collecting sequence data (radseq, target enrichment, WGS, ect.) with confirmed ploidal level. If you have samples, reach out!

Carlos and Diane just published a preprint about genetic diversity in a selfing polyploid species complex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... First (and hopefully not the last) great collaboration with Spanish colleagues! @mabdelaziz.bsky.social @anagarciamunoz.bsky.social

Propagating the #Kalanchoe collection @sphaeromeria.bsky.social

⭐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

Carlos and Diane just published a preprint about genetic diversity in a selfing polyploid species complex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... First (and hopefully not the last) great collaboration with Spanish colleagues! @mabdelaziz.bsky.social @anagarciamunoz.bsky.social

The effects of ploidy and mating system on the evolvability of populations: theoretical and empirical investigations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.17.665335v1

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?...

Congrats to Violaine for this well deserved prize!! Champagne! sfecologie.org/2025/07/16/p...

Anyone planning to recruit future postdocs at #Botany2025? I'm on the market for a faculty position, but I know a great future-postdoc who wants to network!

Happy Canada Day! 28 years ago today, I started my faculty position at UBC. How can that be? 20 years ago, I was got tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor. Today, I get to update my title to Professor. I’m pretty excited, and also have a few thoughts.

How does genome doubling modulate the action of natural selection in a population ? --> Check out our theoretical and empirical analysis of an iconic balanced polymorphism in plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Whole genome duplication enables rapid evolution of male-biased sex allocation in Galax urceolata https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.19.660553v1

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

Interested in the evolution of molecular interactions ? We are recruiting a new PhD student with a background in proteomics to study the diversification of the receptor-ligand interaction controlling plant self-incompatibility. --> details here : initiative-excellence.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/us...

Join us in Lille to work on the amazing diversity of receptor-ligand complexes involved in plant self-incompatibility! At the interface of evolution, structural and plant biology

Did you know plants can change sex expression within a single generation, and reversibly at that?🌱 What else but #epigenetics might play a role in this? 🧬 Read more in the new study published at @camphilsoc.bsky.social's Biological Reviews ⬇️ 🔗 buff.ly/oL0JETy (TŽ)

Is the study of mating system evolution comparable between plants and animals? A commentary on Clo et al., 2025 url:https://academic.oup.com/jeb/article/doi/10.1093/jeb/voaf034/8161282

Super glad to see this out ! Lovely collaboration with @russcd.bsky.social @crouxevo.bsky.social and the groups of @meauxjuliette.bsky.social @plantadaptation.bsky.social

Giving embodiment woskhops for #EMPSEB30! We're quite well treated and the program is quite exciting!

#Postdoc Position: Interested in the evolutionary and ecological impacts of whole genome duplication? Join Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman @drtialynn.bsky.social and I at the U. of Pittsburgh, to test what drives the competitive outcomes between diploids and #polyploids Details: shorturl.at/EHOeJ

Very happy to announce the publication of our latest work by my former student Sylvain Pouzet in @journal-evo.bsky.social: "Gene network topology drives the mutational landscape of gene expression". doi.org/10.1093/evol... #GeneRegulatoryNetworks #PopulationGenetics #EvolutionarySystemsBiology

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!

Polyploidy Conference: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/evolution... Registration deadline is fast approaching! (May 19th)