We are often asked whether pangenomes are worth the hassle. The files can be large and methods to explore them are much more challenging than linear references. Earlier this week, we preprinted a clear example of how and why pan-genome graphs are so important for trait discovery.

Revision of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification has been underway! The group is requesting community feedback until April 22nd. Here is a link to a survey to gather feedback, which includes links to the manuscript and the new classification: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Introgression fuelling reproductive isolation? 👀 Impressive work & fascinating story ✨

I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!) link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Awesome to see @cfcollins.bsky.social first paper out from her PhD - a huge amount of work!! Regulatory features determine the evolutionary fate of laterally acquired genes in plants url: academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Collins et al. combined expression, methylation, and genomic data to investigate long-term persistence of laterally acquired genes in the grass Alloteropsis, showing that those capable of regulating their own expression are more likely to persist. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag042 #evobio #molbio

So cool. Multiple cell lineages contribute to the germline in maize -- and differences between apical and lateral branches! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🏵 Check out the latest #AJB Synthesis article, by Haley Branch! 🏵 The sleeping giant needs coffee: Overlooked areas for integrating plant #ecophysiology & evolutionary biology doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #ecology #evolution

Updated tutorials for nQuack today. Want to predict ploidy level of sequence data? See this new tutorial on how to process and model data faster: mlgaynor.com/nQuack/artic...

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

Really excited to share our latest paper led by @simonaube.bsky.social. Fascinating results examining whether regulatory mutations can lead to adaptation as fast as coding mutations do. #mevosky #evobio #evoSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣 The Call for Symposia for the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2026 Annual Meeting is now open. 🌍 The meeting will be in Copenhagen June 28th to July 2nd 🖊️ We invite you to submit a symposium proposal and help shape the scientific content of SMBE 2026 Best the organisers

Environmental conditions drive variation in C4 photosynthetic capacity more than species traits Fan, et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience @yuzhenfan.bsky.social

I've set off to Bougainville,PNG, for another #NoFly journey. I want to complete my research there. Travelling the ~25,000km distance from Italy by🚢,🚅,&🚌,I'll emit ~10 times less than✈️ (computations to come).Here the long read on my motivations: gianlu777.substack.c...#NoFly1/🧵

So excited to see our review on how to detect horizontal gene transfers and their impact on plant functional evolution finally published in @theplantcell.bsky.social! Great teamwork between @lrsv-toulouse.bsky.social and LGDP-Perpignan 😎🥳🌱 academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

Excited / nervous to share the “magnum opus” of my postdoc in Andreas Wagner’s lab! "De-novo promoters emerge more readily from random DNA than from genomic DNA" This project is the accumulation of 4 years of work, and lays the foundation for my future group. In short, we… (1/4)

Happy to see our latest work out in @molbioevol.bsky.social. We revisit the evolution of 5-methylcytosine across neglected eukaryotic supergroups, establishing an ancestral repressive role silencing genome invaders, both transposons and viral elements👾: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... 🧵 1/7

Our #research on #drought #recovery, now published with @springernature.com in @natcomms.nature.com: Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation. doi.org/10.1038/s414... Read thread below 👇

Bourne et al. analyzed immune receptor gene repertoires of 15 domesticated crop species, showing that grapes, mandarins, rice, barley, and yellow sarson exhibit reduced immune receptor gene repertoires compared to wild counterparts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf147 #genome #evolution #PlantSky

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) is a pan-European community initiative to coordinate the generation of reference genomes representing European eukaryotic biodiversity @ergabiodiv.bsky.social #eseb2025

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today also, @thorstenreusch.bsky.social presented the fascinating work conducted on somatic mutations in the clonal seagrass Zostera! ✨ #ESEB2025

Inspiring talk from @marcrr.bsky.social presenting student Christabel Bucao’s work. Expression variability predicts retention and functional divergence of genes after WGD! « variability creates » #ESEB2025

Unfortunately, I couldn't join in person #eseb2025, but the organizers kindly accommodated a video. Posted here in case you missed it! youtu.be/n9Ls9-8p8x0?...

Determining presence-absence variation (PAV) across reference genomes is a major goal of pangenome analysis. It turns out that A LOT of gene PAV is due to methodological artifacts. We explore the causes of this in soybean and cotton datasets in our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to be in Barcelona for #ESEB2025 So many great talks, familiar faces and cool posters already!

This collaboration was so much fun!! I’m excited to see it online! www.cell.com/trends/genet...

Paper led by @movillome.bsky.social on unbiased detection of (somatic) #TE insertions in #Arabidopsis with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads out after peer review. Thanks to academic editor Leandro Quadrana for shepherding it through the review process. #plantscience link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

Please RT! I'm hiring a postdoc to work in my new lab at UCSB (!) on an NSF-funded project investigating the phenotypic consequences of WGD for photosynthesis and respiration. Check out the full posting here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02986 And more info about the lab here: sharbroughlab.com

Il faut un sursaut collectif pour relancer l’action climatique et permettre l'accès à une transition pour tous : consolidation du cadre d’action publique, gouvernance solide, cap clair pour 2030 & 2040. Dans notre rapport, nous formulons 74 recommandations : www.hautconseilclimat.fr/publications...

Could manage to add a bluesky widget on my website 🙌 ✨ 👉 nicolasmouquet.free.fr 🤖 how to here : github.com/Vincenius/bs... 💡use you DID identifiers rather than your handle in the code (here is where to find it : ilo.so/bluesky-did/) 👏 thanks to @vincentwill.com for sharing 🧪

Qques mots forts que j'ai prononcés avec émotion @franceinfo.fr C'est un mensonge de laisser croire que l'on s'adaptera sans casse irréversible dans une France à 4°C. On ne s'adapte pas a un effondrement de la biodiversité; on meurt avec! Les régressions actuelles sont irresponsables & suicidaires.

Ok, fine I'm willing to admit it now: Mimulus is interesting www.authorea.com/doi/full/10....

Hey, Miles' @milesroberts.bsky.social beautiful paper showing that sequence diversity missed by standard methods contributes to Lewontin's paradox is officially published in @evolletters.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

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...

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇

Ooh, I've run a session on basically "How to Conference" for the undergrad diversity program at the Evolution conference for the past few years. Some of what I cover:

This week in my graduate-level Science Communication class, we're discussing scientific conferences, including how to find a conference that's helpful for you, how to make the most of attending a conference, networking, and effective presentation skills. Anyone have any advice to share? 🧪🦑🌎

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New #CAM paper dropped! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #plantscience

Are you interested in the genomic basis of repeated adaptation? The RepAdapt group now has >70 members working to re-run their whole genome shotgun datasets through a common SNP calling pipeline, sharing VCFs, and working together to analyse data. Please contact me if you'd like to contribute!

Chute de 63% de l’abondance des insectes volants entre 2021 et 2024 (UK). Je pensais avoir donné l’information la plus importante de la journée, mais en fait non. La contraction de 0,3% du PIB américain est ce qui compte vraiment. www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Due to all the NOAA cuts, we have less real time data to work with regarding today's storms. There's no profile of the current atmosphere for the entire state of WI.

New preprint using Aristidoideae genomes to identify genetic precursors to C4 photosynthesis at the base of the PACMAD clade - where all the C4 fun happens in grasses 🌾 Led by @lara-pereira.bsky.social & Ahmed @colinplants.bsky.social @biggenomes.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

OH COME ON. NIH cancels a 34-year-old longitudinal study on women's health that started with 160,000 volunteers and continues to answer urgent questions about aging, heart disease, cancer & more 🧪 in @science.org

At an Earth Day event this evening, I was asked to talk about the 'Overview Effect' - the profound sense of awe many people feel when seeing the Earth from space.

Happy Earth Day!

Our new research shows that forest recovery from tree mortality has slowed in recent decades. This reduction is primarily associated with rising temperatures and increased water scarcity. Recovery of forest canopy water content lags behind that of vegetation greenness www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm compiling a #Botany2025 #StarterPack to help bring together our Blue Sky community for the upcoming conference: go.bsky.app/Gu9T4st Once you submit your abstract and/or registration, reply here and I'll add you!