Jonathan Wendel

Assistant Professor in Integrative Environmental and Organismal Health Position Title: Assistant Professor in Integrative Environmental and Organismal Health Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: The Department of Ecology, Evo...

My department (EEOB at Iowa State) is hiring! See isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Differential LTR-retrotransposon dynamics across polyploidization, speciation, domestication, and improvement of cotton (Gossypium) - Genome Biology Background Transposable elements are major components of plant genomes and major drivers of plant genome evolution. The cotton genus (Gossypium) is an excellent evolutionary model for polyploidization...

Very happy that our research on TE dynamics accross cotton evolution at @cragenomica.bsky.social and in collaboration with @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social et al. is now published in Genome Biology!: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

YouTube video by Biochemistry Channel Letter from NAS Members to the Honorable Senators and Representatives of the United States

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This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants

This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Call your senator TONIGHT or tomorrow morning if they are on the appropriations committee and encourage them to support the subcommittee recommendation - i just did!

National Science Foundation Workers to Issue “Alexandria Declaration” Decrying “Catastrophic Changes” Under Trump Administration The new declaration echoes similar efforts from NIH and EPA.

Alexandria Declaration coming out from courageous NSF staff.

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I knew this was it in the works, but did not know the timing. Stay tuned...

Such an amazing story about meiosis in pentaploid roses...
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Comparative population genomics of relictual Caribbean island Gossypium hirsutum Gossypium hirsutum is the world's most important source of cotton fiber, yet the diversity and population structure of its wild forms remain largely unexplored. The complex domestication history of G....

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Pangenome analysis reveals yield- and fiber-related diversity and interspecific gene flow in Gossypium barbadense L. - Nature Communications Comparing to Gossypium hirsutum, G. barbadense cotton lines have superior fiber quality but lower fiber yield. Here, the authors construct pangenome using 12 newly assembled G. barbadense genomes and ...

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Jacob Suissa and I wrote a #book about #ferns! It's beautifully illustrated by the amazing artist Laura Silburn. Will be released in May and you can preorder from Amazon. We hope this book could help you forget all the bad things happening on Earth right now. More here: mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

Done; thanks for the link, Kelly

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

Check out Tatsuya Nobori’s amazing Tansley Review in New Phytologist on exploring the untapped potential of single-cell and spatial omics in plant biology

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Harvard Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.

Harvard Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/w...

Homoploid hybrid speciation and recurrent hybridization along the northwestern Iberian mountain chain AbstractBackground and Aims. Natural hybridisation can lead to diversification and adaptive introgression, among other outcomes. However, the mechanistic u

Explore how hybridisation drives biodiversity! New research shows recurrent hybridisation and HHS shape genetic diversity & create incipient hybrids in Iberian Phalacrocarpum 🌱⛰️
D. Criado, R. Piñeiro, @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social, and G. Nieto. @annbot.bsky.social

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Evolutionary and ecological genomics of polyploidy in plants: temporal dynamics across scales of biological organization from molecules to ecosystems Roscoff (Bretagne), France, September 15-19, 2025Deadline for application: May 5, 2025

Polyploidy Conference: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/evolution...
Registration deadline is fast approaching! (May 19th)

Ugh…. Sigh…. Slump…. Cry a bit…

Thanks for this series!

Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

Meh too!

Possibly the largest dandelion in the world? I love it!

New Article: "Phenotypic and genomic signatures across wild Rosa species open new horizons for modern rose breeding" rdcu.be/egIj3

With News & Views: "An evolutionary bouquet for roses" rdcu.be/egIkd

Why we keep going Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately.

Why we keep going
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Alligator pepper? But I'm confused too, because I thought this was only West African in distribution.... Anyway, I love plant quizzes, so thanks!

‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

"This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history." Story on the decimation of NIH by @maxkozlov.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...?

Rapid formation of stable autotetraploid rice from genome-doubled F1 hybrids of japonica–indica subspecies Nature Plants - This study details a process of duplicated (homoeologous) chromosome ‘scrambling’ in newly formed rice polyploids, indicating the possibility of natural...

Interested in the autopolyploid - allopolyploid "continuum"? If so, you might like this: rdcu.be/efNSq

Polyploidy Conference! Registration deadline is May 5th
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graph of NIH basisfor new drugs

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved