Emily Josephs

I was wondering if you'd been affected, I'm really sorry to hear it

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My first first author manuscript has posted! I’m very excited to share SWIF-TE with yall. It is a fast, memory efficient tool to identify novel TE insertions from short-read data. 🧬 #TEworldwide #transposons

I'm so excited to share my master's research! Do pollinators change their foraging behavior depending on floral and ambient temperatures? Do flowers that thermoregulate experience higher rates of pollinator visitation? Check it out below! 🏵️

AVITI library prep miniaturization and combining with Illumina data for phylogenomic and population genomic analyses Recent advancements in next generation sequencing approaches allow for expansion of evolutionary research into the discovery of genetic patterns and processes underlying diversification across scales....

Took longer than expected, just like everything these days, but the preprint for our project comparing AVITI with Illumina came online last night. Overall, the data are highly similar and combinable for downstream applications. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎉🎉🎉 congrats and thanks for sharing it with me!!!!

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Want to learn how the Guidelines are written and where there might be threats to the process this time around? Here's another thing I wrote!

Such a good one too!!

Trump administration reaches $50 million deal with Brown University to restore funding | CNN Politics The Trump administration has reached a multimillion-dollar agreement with Brown University to restore federal funding – its second major deal with an elite university after last week’s $221 million se...

Brown brown noses brown shirts

Says the person at a university with a Dept of Plant Biology, Dept of Plant and Soil Sciences, and Dept of Horticulture

Same, especially since as far as I know this is not something anyone has ever done for women, Black people, or other minorities.

The worst is when they take a 3 hour nap and instead of being glad that your child is well-rested it's like "how much was a paying for you to be unconscious on a cot?"

But also, who first made the "Manhattan, Kansas plot" joke?

It's been so lovely to have Claire in the lab for the last few years, first as an undergraduate research assistant and then as a full-time research tech. I'll miss her tons but I'm so excited for her to start her PhD!!!

Very lucky to have been able to work at such an amazing lab with so many fantastic people. Thanks Josephs Lab, for these lovely years of science and friends!

But have you ever flown with a 3 year old whose passion is repeatedly opening and closing the shade? I mean... I definitely don't know anyone who would do that.

Eleiezer and Derek standing in front of a scientific poster

We've been lucky this summer to have Eleiezer Majambare in our lab as a Plant Genome REU student. Today he presented work with his mentor @derekdenney.bsky.social to look for selection on flowering time genes in Chamaecrista fasciculata!!

Sophie did do a lovely job! Dedicated to our late friend and co-author Steve Tonsor @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social @xavierpico.bsky.social @gbradburd.bsky.social @quercus62.bsky.social @avawobbles.bsky.social

Thanks Magdalena!!!

Hey #Botany2025 folks -- Asia Hightower @puffballove.bsky.social will be talking about leaf shape G x E x Development in Capsella bursa-pastoris. Tuesday Jul 29 at 9:15 in Mesquite B!!

Early on I was worried that I liked hanging out with scientists more than "doing science". Turns out it was totally fine.

Sophie did a really lovely job bringing together trait data, population genetics, and GWAS to try to understand how traits are lost.

Evaluating the roles of drift and selection in trait loss along an elevational gradient The evolutionary mechanisms underlying loss or retention of traits that have lost function are poorly understood. Short stamens in Arabidopsis thaliana pro

Sophie Buysse's paper on short stamen loss in Arabipsis is published in this month's Evolution issue!! academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... @journal-evo.bsky.social

I apparently chose to list only my current institution for some reason, I'm not sure why tbh.

I've had it with stories/anecdotes about how the research grant purges are often purging the "wrong" grants, usually going on to describe how that research could benefit people. /1

First, by calling any of it "mistakes," you've already surrendered the field by tacitly accepting the premise that there is some coherent concept of the "right" group of grants to illegally cancel to inflict ideological punishment on hated groups while dismantling US science. /2

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✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨

Please spread the word!

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A big rock painted "land of the free? Home of the brave?"

I appreciate whoever painted the rock today.

A graphic with a dark blue-green gradient background and the MSU PRI logo in the upper left corner. There are photos of Drs. Emily Josephs, Hatem Rouached, and Addie Thompson behind a light green arrow with the following text: Congratulations to Associate Professors Emily Josephs, Hatem Rouached & Addie Thompson!

PRI faculty members @emjo.bsky.social, @hatem-rouached.bsky.social, and Addie Thompson have been promoted to associate professors! Each of these scholars has made exceptional contributions to advancing #plantresilience research and mentoring the next generation of scientists. 🌱 Congratulations! 🎉