New paper by former MSc student @christeinecke.bsky.social! ⭐ A behemoth effort to apply artificial selection on clonal reproduction in #Mimulus guttatus. We show that clonality evolves quickly, but not symmetrically in both directions, and multivariate life history traits are altered too! 🧪🌾

Excited to share our new paper in @GeneticsGSA ! We developed "Retriever," a novel method that enables high-quality genotype imputation in non-model organisms. 🧬 Congratulations to Charles on his first PhD paper! Paper: doi.org/10.1093/gene... A thread 🧵👇

AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 Viral-induced flower colour breaking reveals that turnip mosaic virus infection prevalence increases with urbanization in the invasive Hesperis matronalis Kaitlyn Dawson et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience #Botany

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

🌿 We’re proud to recognize Kyra N. Krakos (Maryville University) as the 2025 recipient of the Samuel Noel Postlethwait Award! Presented by the BSA Teaching Section, this award honors excellence in teaching botany. Learn more here: botany.org/home/awards/... #BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

This is true, and funny because it's true, and also an argument for "early writing" - you can write much of your paper, even most of it, well before the work is complete and thus before you're too late for "should have done".

Is this platform useful for asking biology questions? 🌾🧪 Question for my plant-peeps: Is there something newer and better than microsatellites for assessing paternity? (where newer and better means cheaper and easier?) Have field arrays, known parents, need to genotype offspring seed for paternity.

Just arrived back home from Utah - spent most of the second half of the drive realising that this could happen, calculating when to hit the trip button so it would happen, and then waiting for it to happen. 😂😂😂

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... ), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

MSc position in my lab. Come study the evolutionary & behavioural ecology of insects! @stfx-university.bsky.social

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Crackweed Lesser Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) on the sidewalk of Columbus Boulevard, shot the day before yesterday.

Interested in learning how to draw wildflowers? There are still a few spaces available in my online course starting next Wednesday, September 10th. We will spend five weeks exploring different species and shapes to create realistic drawings. You can register here: www.mcnallyrobinson.com/classes

Do you mentor scientific writing, or use written assignments in the science courses you teach? Do you find mentoring/teaching writing hard, or time consuming? (Because it is!) Our new book can help, and it's getting close to being in your hands.

'Overall, the message from this survey is positive– evolutionary biologists are readily employable outside of academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction in their non-academic careers.' #Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Surely someone can write a browser plug-in/extension that will fill in online meeting polls based on my calendar's availability. Please?

Sunny afternoon measuring field experimental plants #mimulus #SequoiaNatlPark #iamabotanist 🧪🌾

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

New paper out of the lab today: “Gene Expression Divergence Between Locally Adapted Inland Annual and Coastal Perennial Ecotypes of Mimulus guttatus Across Developmental Stages” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

Something that might help: change the culture where editors are expected to make decisions on resubmissions based on a revised manuscript & cover letter. Most ms are sent for re-review, and if the original reviewers are unavailable (or fatigued), it gets new reviewers... and new objections.

Yes yes yes! I use a big spreadsheet for this, with tabs for various categories (talks, institutional service, outreach/knowledge transfer, publications, funding, supervision, teaching, media, etc…) I also have a sheet where my students track all of *their* stuff so we can track lab accomplishments

I had to look very closely, but a twiggy Coprosma (family #Rubiaceae) plant in the garden is in full flower. It's a female and here's a flower.

The Royal Pain-In-The-Ass Tree (Paulownia tomentosa) emerges victorious from the rubble. #DestructiveTrees #WeedTrees #UrbanTrees

I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos. I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

The conservation science community lost an amazing soul--Dr. Sheila Colla, the leading expert on wild bees and wild-domestic bee interactions in North America. Sheila was a tremendous advocate for nature and environmental justice. 🧪 www.heritagefuneralcentre.ca/obituaries/S...

Sheila was a remarkable friend, colleague, mentor, neighbour, and mother, who gave so much to all of her communities. I looked up to her immensely as a colleague who thought deeply about the way we do science and who we include and uphold. She will be deeply missed. www.gofundme.com/f/support-sh...

Chris Eckert is the professor who convinced me to go into evolutionary biology! In 2nd year undergrad I was juggling physics, english, and biology. His population genetics class got me hooked, and ultimately changed my life trajectory :)

Great #CSEE2025 meeting @csee-scee.bsky.social in Sherbrooke! Thank you @csee-sceemtgs.bsky.social -- Canadian E&E is a fantastic community! Super proud of lab members for stellar (award winning!) talks and poster! And the most creative swan-song poster by my colleague Chris Eckert!

Has hypothesis driven research lost ground to big data? As data grows, often so do costs - how do we find balance? Join us on July 18th for a deep dive into one of the field’s most pressing questions with two leading experts: Ivan Baxter and @kamounlab.bsky.social 🌱💰

In case you missed my talk at #CSEE2025, you can explore your own collaborative networks and see a little summary on my website! www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...

🌿 Annals of Botany is excited to sponsor Marcelo Aizen as the Botany 2025 Keynote on Plant Reproduction! 🗓 July 29, 1:30 PM 🌾🐝 Crop pollinator dependence & long-term yield decline 📲 @annbot.bsky.social Thanks to Annals of Botany for sponsoring #Botany2025!

TIL that Niko Tinbergen’s PhD thesis was only 29 pages long.* Still outdone by David Sloan Wilson, whose thesis consisted of his 4-page PNAS paper on trait-group selection (1975), framed by a two-page introduction and a one-page conclusion. *Niko's Nature (OUP 2003, p. 56)

Overfishing has caused cod to halve in body size since 1990s, study finds

I'm missing #Evol2025 @sse-evolution.bsky.social this year, but representing the lab is fantastic grad student @isabeaulewis.bsky.social speaking on Mon Jun 23 in Evolutionary Ecology III at 2:45 on kin discrimination in #Mimulus plants! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I'm missing #Evol2025 @sse-evolution.bsky.social this year, but representing the lab is fantastic grad student @isabeaulewis.bsky.social speaking on Mon Jun 23 in Evolutionary Ecology III at 2:45 on kin discrimination in #Mimulus plants! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

"Work on things you really care about, not just the latest trend." Meet Prof. Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social, the evolutionary biologist uncovering the secrets of plant-pollinator relationships. wp.me/pdRZhH-lXk #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

More about this #QueensU recruitment initiative for doctoral students who are reconsidering studying at a top US institution: www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 For American students planning to start grad school who are reconsidering their USA offers (or had offer rescinded), my Canadian university #QueensU announced a special funding call. Want to join my lab to study #plant #evolution? Get in touch! 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴

For our newer followers, this is one in a series of short appreciations of @ijpsjournal.bsky.social papers that we solicited to mark our 150th birthday in 2025. Check out the collection here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ijp... #PlantScience

Disappointing (but not surprising) to see this program lose its funding. I participated as a PLANTS mentor, and the program has so many strengths for young scholars. Proud of the @botsocamerica.bsky.social for making sure the program proceeds as planned this summer.

🗳️CSEE Election Voting is Now Open!🗳️ Voting runs from May 6–20. Candidate statements are available here: csee-scee.ca/elections/. All members with active memberships as of May 6 can vote. How to Vote: Check your inbox (and spam) for an email from ElectionBuddy with your voting link & instructions.

"An auditor general’s report in 2021 found that the Ontario government provides the lowest level of funding per pupil in Canada, a gap that education experts say has only widened over the last four years."