Aaron Liston

#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

Phylogenomic analyses of the diverse desert-alpine plant lineage Cistantheae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.10.680062v1

Mapping-based genome size estimation - BMC Genomics While the size of chromosomes can be measured under a microscope, obtaining the exact size of a genome remains a challenge. Biochemical methods and k-mer distribution-based approaches allow only estim...

Mapping-based genome size estimation
doi.org/10.1186/s128...

#Genomics #Python #Sequencing #PlantSci #BigData #DataScience

Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

My department at UC Davis is hiring a mycologist, broadly interpreted. Please repost, share, and consider applying. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07339

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

Very important paper and resource. Bryophyte genomes expanded by one order of magnitude. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Flyer titled Botanical Society of America – Ecological Section Student Presentation & Poster Awards, 2025 Recipients. Background of bright green leaves. Photos of graduate student awardees: Brooklyn Richards (Oregon State University), Graduate Student Presentation Award; and Alex Arena (Christopher Newport University), Graduate Student Poster Award. Undergraduate Student Poster Awards go to Bjoyrn Domst and Sarah Jones (Willamette University).

Honoring the 2025 Ecological Section Student Presentation & Poster Award Recipients!

🏅 Graduate Presentation: Brooklyn Richards
🏅 Graduate Poster: Alex Arena
🏅 Undergraduate Posters: Bjoyrn Domst & Sarah Jones

Learn more: botany.org/home/awards/...

#BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...

Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵

Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.

doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Speak up now if you care about the benefits of roadless areas for biodiversity, ecosystem services, & wilderness experience!

Proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule: www.regulations.gov/document/FS-...

Comments due 9/19: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS...

"Graphic for ""A Day for BSA"" on August 27, 2025. The image features the Botanical Society of America logo inside a circular emblem labeled ""A Day for BSA"" with the words Students, Journals, and Conference. Large text reads ""Celebrate over 130 years of BSA today!"" The graphic includes a URL (www.day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025), bullet points encouraging donations toward the $15,000 Endowment campaign goal, and an invitation to share BSA stories on social media using #ADayforBSA. Decorative plant illustrations are at the bottom, and a QR code is on the lower right. "

Today is 'A Day for BSA!' Join us as we celebrate 130+ years of BSA supporting the botanical sciences!

🌱 Visit: www.day-for-bsa.botany.org/2025

🌱 Help us reach our $15,000 August Endowment campaign goal–every gift makes a difference!

🌱 Share your stories with #ADayforBSA

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

Harvesting plant samples for nucleic acid extraction

Looking for an exciting bachelor/master thesis in plant genomics, applied bioinformatics, or evolutionary biology?

We have a number of opportunities and are happy to host motivated visitors:
www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/teach...
@puckerlab.bsky.social

Research Botanist ...

Let me be the (perhaps) the first to promote this job on bsky. BRIT is a super important herbarium run by some of the nicest folks I've met in Botany. I'd love to have another great colleague in this neck of the woods...
www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

🍄 UGA Plant Pathology is hiring TT faculty in Mycology/Fungal Biology/Fungal Ecology at the Asst/Assc level! Please pass along this opportunity to anyone you know who may be interested. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions. 🍄 www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/445...

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions!

plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species
yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

The @cbg-uofg.bsky.social has ten (10) posiitons for Arthropod Taxonomic Specialists available. 2 year positions, deadline September 15, 2025 graduatestudies.uoguelph.ca/postdoctoral...

Herbarium Manager - Biology The Department of Biology invites applications for a full-time Herbarium Manager position to begin as soon as September 2025. We seek an exceptional candidate with expertise in plant systematics, taxo...

My department is hiring a herbarium manager: www.schooljobs.com/careers/uvu/...

It's a great place to work with a close knit botany group 🙂

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

Recruiting an NSF-funded Post-Doctoral Researcher in EEB The Budke Lab in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee (http://jmbudke.github.io/) is seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Associate to work on an NSF-funded project. This project is investigating morphological evolution in a phylogenetic context using moss plants as the experimental system. The research responsibilities will include (1) assembling morphological datasets using the literature and herbarium specimens, (2) compiling DNA sequence datasets from publicly available resources and laboratory-based methods using herbarium specimens, and (3) combining these data to analyze the evolution of morphological structures across a phylogeny. Opportunities will also be available to develop novel research questions focusing on the functional morphology, physiology, and evolution of the parent-offspring relationship in mosses. Supervising and mentoring undergraduate researchers in both the laboratory and herbarium will be required. An additional aim of this project is to build awareness of and appreciation for plants and botanical natural history collections. As part of the team, the postdoc will participate in hands-on outreach events, such as Darwin Day. The postdoc will also co-lead a May-term course for undergraduate students on collections-based research. Apply by 17 August 2025 for full consideration.

Looking for a #postdoc in evolutionary biology?
Come join the Budke Lab! Read more about the lab jmbudke.github.io & apply at this link fa-ewlq-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
This is the last weekend to apply before applications will be evaluated and zoom interviews scheduled.

Image: Striped tulips. Credit: Kerstin Riemer / Pixabay

Mathematicians solve centuries-old mystery of how ‘broken’ tulips get their stripes

Researchers have found an answer to a centuries-old floral mystery, using a mathematical model to explain how striped tulips get their distinctive pattern.

buff.ly/qJAkgP2 via @UAlberta #PlantScience #Science

Published version of our collaborative work! Congrats to @laskyjr.bsky.social @upenn.edu & Lua Lopez who lead the work, and to all the authors. tinyurl.com/mu8uht92 @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @cloeucl.bsky.social

Phylogenomics and Systematics of African Sesuvium (Aizoaceae) Sesuvium (Sesuvioideae-Aizoaceae) comprises leaf succulent annual and perennial herbs distributed in coastal or saline sites of subtropical and tropical regions. Some species of the genus tolerate hig...

Happy to see this one out. We did a phylogenetic analysis of African Sesuvium using herbarium collections and genome skimming. We assembled ~9000 loci from orthologous genes identified from transcriptome data. We also described a new species! 🌿 #evobio #iamabotanist

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

Oak Origins From ancient acorns to future forests, the story of how oaks evolved and the many ways they shape our world. An oak begins its life with the precarious journey of a pollen grain, then an acorn, then a...

Ebooks from @uchicagopress.bsky.social are 75% off through Aug 17! If you were planning to buy, for instance, Oak Origins as an ebook, there's never been a better time.

Use code EBOOOK75 at checkout to get the discount.

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Do you love alpine plants, ancient DNA, and/or population genetics? My lab will be hiring a postdoc soon to be based at the University of Maine! We’re looking for someone who uses genetic tools and thinks like a community ecologist. Happy to chat at #ESA2025 if you’re interested.

Any ECR folks (esp postdocs) want to review a paper on polyploid gene expression? 🌾

Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is hiring a Directory of the Herbarium

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!

We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

M O I L A B - Join us! Join us! Our lab is based at the University of California, Berkeley, embedded in the vibrant and multicultural San Francisco Bay Area, surrounded by astonishing nature!

Network, we are looking for PhD students and Postdocs on evolutionary and ecological genomics in 2025/2026

Join our diverse and welcoming lab at UC Berkeley & HHMINEWS!

Check job ads-> www.moilab.science/team/join-us

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

Dear Colleagues, I'm asking for help: do you have contacts at #OUPAcademic ?
We asked for a change of corr. author over 40 days ago, received no answer or support, & upcoming deadlines means publication will not proceed - so we're pretty worried >>>
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social