Martin Turcotte

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Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

Apply now: #PhD #position “Advancing environmental DNA (#eDNA) approaches to future-proof #environmental #monitoring of #aquatic #ecosystems” 🧬 🔎 🦐 🧪 🐟 (4 years position)

➡️ apply.refline.ch/673277/1268/...

Thanks for sharing to suitable candidates! @eawag.bsky.social

Local adaptation shapes community composition without affecting performance Eco-evolutionary theory predicts that local adaptation should influence community assembly and performance, yet empirical tests of these predictions remain limited, particularly at microgeographic sca...

New preprint dropped:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
by PhD student Swapna Subramanian. Wild yeasts on apple orchards in CT exhibit local adaptation (and sometimes maladaptation) to their particular orchard & apple variety. The dominant yeast's adaptation affects community composition

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Student-led experimental evolution reveals novel biofilm regulatory networks underlying adaptations to multiple niches We established a research-education partnership known as EvolvingSTEM that provides secondary school students the opportunity to conduct authentic research experiments centered on microbial evolution....

Sharing the most significant work from my group, led by the @evolvingstem.bsky.social team.

Come for the discoveries of how Pseudomonas adapts in biofilms, stay for the story of how they were discovered by thousands of young scientists in grades 9-12. 🧪🧫🧬🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

Get the word out far and wide. New opportunity from the Simons Foundation in the Eco-Evo space.

2026 Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology and Evolution Awards, due July 31, 2025, only for incoming PhD students who plan to start their PhDs in Fall 2026.

www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

#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

I think it will be complex due to time lags (ecological conditions --> evolutionary response) and complexity of the genetic basis (recessiveness, structure of genetic variation...) so a general pattern is unlikely.
As for variation itself, it can destabilize coexistence see 10.1111/ele.12618

Check out our new paper on how plasticity impacts species coexistence. This was an experiment I ran with Jonathan when I had less grey hair. Thanks @theogibbs.bsky.social for taking it over with a fresh analysis and excellent writing. Full text available below.

🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩

This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer.

Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature.

https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V

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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!

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Small consolation - the number of Honorable Mentions nearly doubled this year (2024 = 1719; 2025 = 3018), which allows folks that received Honorable Mentions to get fellowships via the eGRFP, a cool program to help increase the graduate student pool of EPSCoR states

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!!

But...good news and bad news.

👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.

👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%

(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)

See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

Can you add me to the freshwater ecology one please. Thanks.

Most of the Turcotte Lab is at #Evol2024. Come learn about duckweed:
- evo-coexistence (me)
- evolutionary alt. stable-states (Lacey)
- selection on plasticity (Trapper)
- evolution during invasion (Taylor)
Excited to be home and for everyone to enjoy this great city.

Proud of this massive project testing the tolerance of neopolyploid duckweed to various urban pollutants. This was a huge lab course conducted by 13 instructors and 836 students! @drtialynn.bsky.social

Research Technician Position:
Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman and I (Univ. of Pittsburgh) are hiring a research technician to study the consequences of polyploidy in a model plant system. Details: tinyurl.com/az8jy2n4

Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman and I (Univ. of Pittsburgh) are also looking to co-advise a Ph.D. student to study the ecological and evolutionary impacts of whole genome duplication (polyploidy) using our duckweed polyploids. Details: tinyurl.com/5dvatu4c

I am Martin Turcotte, Assistant Prof at the Univ. of Pittsburgh. I am recruiting a PhD student to study rapid evolution in response to environmental pollution using experimental evolution with our duckweed system.
tinyurl.com/25dzwtyc

Just pre-ordered, looking forward to reading it, I love this topic.

2nd #PhD position:
Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman and I (Univ. of Pittsburgh) are looking to co-advise a Ph.D. student to study the ecological and evolutionary impacts of whole genome duplication (polyploidy) using our duckweed polyploids.
Details: tinyurl.com/5dvatu4c
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I am recruiting a PhD student in my lab (Univ. of Pittsburgh) to study rapid evolution in response to environmental pollution using experimental evolution with our duckweed system.

More info here tinyurl.com/25dzwtyc
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