Emily Josephs

It's an interesting choice to refer to the majority of people on earth as "some groups".

Thank you for making me cackle with delight.

Are they supposed to do this??? I was worried my little garden Opuntia had given up on the world.

This is our daycare. Our 3 year old daughter keeps saying "everyone was sad so school was cancelled". Fortunately she didn't see the abduction, just the aftermath in the parking lot.

Happy Plants: Chamaecrista + Capsella!

Should I sign you up for an HPCC account now?

Educator of the Month, November 2025: Sophie Buysse Michigan State University is fortunate to have passionate educators who are committed to enhancing the experience of their students and who help to provide the best education possible.The Graduate Sch...

Lab grad student Sophie Buysse is the MSU grad school's Educator of the Month! I'm so lucky I've gotten to work w/ Sophie, both in the lab and the classroom grad.msu.edu/spotlights/e...

Speaking as someone in a newly unionized workplace, Vance is obviously one hundred percent wrong.

Genetic and developmental constraints drive parallelism in flower evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.684842v1

I mean, I'm white and we used "auntie" and "uncle", but same. This is all just made up controversy.

This was a type II error demonstration, Yaniv is apparently on bluesky @ybrandvain.bsky.social

Oops!!!

A real highlight is sending cartoon Yaniv around a field to collect flowers (and, I guess, learn about the normal distribution): ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/boo...

Hey Yaniv Brandvain is not on Bluesky but his most recent biostats ebook is live ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/. His stats resources have been so helpful to me as I develop my own stats course, so check it out. Github repo here: github.com/ybrandvain/b...

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

And now Brown University has rejected the Trump Loyalty Oath. Two down and seven to go! @aaup.org @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Evolutionary Genomics The postdoctoral researcher will work in Dr. Michael Grillo’s plant evolutionary genetics lab. The goal of this research project is to understand the genomic basis of plant-microbiome variation in leg...

I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word.
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But no skulls + flowers!!!

There's an updated version!!! I bought it for my kid and she loves it.

One of my fave things about Lauren's talk is how she showed that so many of ecology's big problems can be solved with clever data collection, whether from a 100s of AstroTurf squares or a really really tall windsock :)

A woman giving a talk with a slide that says "how can organisms respond to change? Adapt, move, die". Another woman in the front row wears a blouse with skulls on it.

This photo does not capture the amazing energy & enthusiasm of @llseedsull.bsky.social's amazing tenure talk today!!! (Although I did manage to get the Capsella cameo & @andreacase.bsky.social's "not a threat I promise" blouse

Hey sorry for the slow response -- send me an email josep993 at msu . edu and I can share our syllabus. Yaniv Brandvain also teaches an undergrad biostats class that I borrowed a lot from when I was developing my section

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Applications are now being accepted for the MSU EEB Presidential Postdoc Fellowship. We’d be happy to sponsor your application so please get in touch!

eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

And also fwiw this is what I replaced HWE with.

Thanks to both for this great resource

Visualizing Human Genetic Diversity A key insight from human genetics is that, as a species, we are all very genetically similar to one another and share much of our genetic variation. Our genome can be depicted as a string of letters (...

Another year using @kitchensjn.bsky.social + @gcbias.bsky.social's intuitive circle plots to discuss human genetic variation in my undergrad genetics class james-kitchens.com/blog/visuali...

I'll add here that MSU's Plant Biology Dept is world class, has a great chair, and is full of excellent scientists. #scijobs

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Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

The Coughlan lab is on 🔥🔥🔥