Päivi H. Leinonen

Puutiaishavainnot viime vuosina ennätyslukemissa – tänä vuonna käynnistyy valtakunnallinen puutiaiskeräys Puutiaiset ovat yleistyneet Suomessa ja levinneet yhä uusille alueille. Viime vuonna suomalaiset ilmoittivat Punkkilive-palveluun lähes 140 000 havaintoa eri puolilta maata.

Puutiaiset ovat yleistyneet Suomessa ja levinneet yhä uusille alueille. Viime vuonna Punkkiliveen ilmoitettiin lähes 140 000 havaintoa.

Tänä vuonna tutkijat kutsuvat kansalaiset mukaan näytekeräykseen! Ota siis löytämäsi punkit tänä vuonna talteen ja lähetä tutkijoille.

www.utu.fi/fi/ajankohta...

International Research Recruitment | Vice-Principal (Research) Join Canada’s next generation of research leaders  In response to the federal government’s suite of international talent attraction initiatives, Queen’s University is actively recruiting outstanding i...

Canadian universities received a big federal funding package to recruit international research leaders. Here is the call at my university, Queen's University, Ontario. If you are looking to move to Canada, this is the time!
First round of review begins January 9, 2026
www.queensu.ca/vpr/recruitm...

Which Arabidopsis gene discoveries have informed crop trait improvements? Here are just a few examples...

What are some of the others you're aware of? 🧪

#plantbiology #plantscience #scisky #cropscience

JOB ALERT! We are looking for a LAB MANAGER (7-year position!) to help us build the MOLECULAR BIODIVERSITY lab in our @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Are you a NGS wet lab expert, and you like the idea of supporting research on natural biodiversity, then apply!

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Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
@britishecologicalsociety.org
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social

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New paper by former MSc student @christeinecke.bsky.social! ⭐ A behemoth effort to apply artificial selection on clonal reproduction in #Mimulus guttatus. We show that clonality evolves quickly, but not symmetrically in both directions, and multivariate life history traits are altered too! 🧪🌾

Vaadin kissavusteisen biljardin ottamista mukaan olumpialaisiin

Introgression and Parental Conflict Underlie Repeated Occurrences of Postzygotic Isolation Postzygotic reproductive isolation is often thought to accumulate as a byproduct of neutral divergence. Yet, it frequently evolves rapidly, in line with non-neutral evolution. A major driver of intrin...

I'm so proud of this work!!! It was an incredible amount of effort that started when I was trapped in a greenhouse during the pandemic and is only now seeing the light of day. Kudos to Megan, Hagar, & Pia!

We'd love to hear your thoughts!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

From policy to practice: progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Announcing a new integration between openRxiv and Dryad | Dryad news Dryad is excited to announce a partnership with openRxiv to enable an integration with the preprint server bioRxiv. Beginning today, authors posting preprints to bioRxiv will have the opportunity to u...

Announcing a New Integration Between openRxiv and Dryad (via @datadryad.bsky.social) blog.datadryad.org/2025/09/17/a... #scholcomm #preprints #publishing @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

Is this platform useful for asking biology questions? 🌾🧪

Question for my plant-peeps:
Is there something newer and better than microsatellites for assessing paternity? (where newer and better means cheaper and easier?) Have field arrays, known parents, need to genotype offspring seed for paternity.

From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and ev...

Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social et al. From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... #OpenScience #OpenData

I'm making a collage of Arabidopsis habitats for a seminar. If you have photos to share, such as these iconic ones from @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social & @coevolution.bsky.social, please send to weigel@tue.mpg.de. Please let me also know how to attribute them. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

🚨 Postdoc opportunities! 🚨
We’re looking for postdocs in 🌿 biodiversity science, 🧬 genetic indicator assessment, and 📊 ecological statistics.

Join us in unraveling the drivers & consequences of global change on biodiversity — and be part of a supportive & collaborative environment!
DL 24 September

Among the Academies: Studying How Plants Adapt How can plants adapt to their environment, and how will they be able to adapt to climate change? Those are among the biggest questions Johanna Schmitt has sought to answer during her career as a plant...

A nice profile of the wonderful Annie Schmitt

www.ucdavis.edu/news/among-a...

Exclusive: Harvard University lays off fly database team The layoffs jeopardize this resource, which has served more than 4,000 labs for about three decades.

Utterly devastating: FlyBase zapped.

www.thetransmitter.org/community/ha...

#modelOrganism

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review Some studies containing instructions in white text or small font — visible only to machines — will be withdrawn from preprint servers.

"Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick artificial intelligence (AI) tools into giving them a positive peer-review report." www.nature.com/articles/d41... #OpenScience

Congrats to Mark and best wishes to you all!!

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??...

Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! -

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#StandUpForScience
#BethesdaDeclaration
#StopTrump

Also evolutionary biologists are eligible!

This Isn’t How You ‘Restore Gold Standard’ Science President Trump’s executive order is really about giving government officials the power to reject any scientific evidence they disagree with.

COS exec. director @briannosek.bsky.social spoke to @opinion.bloomberg.com's @fayeflam.bsky.social about widespread concerns over the 'Gold Standard Science' EO:

"The executive order converts principles of good practice into weapons against scientific evidence"

🔗: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Restoring Gold Standard Science By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe.

On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe.

This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!)

europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

SSE, SSB, and ASN logos. Text: Tri-societies Week of Action for NSF. Science under siege: Over 1000 NSF grants have been terminated by political appointees- threatening the foundation of American innovation and education, and more cuts loom; entire research programs are being erased without explanation. What’s at stake? STEM education for K-12 students, jobs and infrastructure in rural communities, support for veterans in research and education, cybersecurity and national defense innovation, global leadership in science and technology. Join the week of action: Contact Congress: Switchboard: (202) 224-3121, tell them to protect NSF. Share your story: Post on social media #WithoutNSF #SupportNSF #SaveNSF, engage local media; use our media tool to reach out to local reporters and newspapers; engage others: communicate the importance of NSF to colleagues, friends, and family.

Join SSE, @asn-amnat.bsky.social & @systbiol.bsky.social in a Week of Action for NSF!

Call and write congress and engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding!

Our Media Tool can help you get started:
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#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important?

Please share your stories!

Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience

Our Faculty is happy to receive expressions of interest for this call. 5 years salary and funding and we seek to find space in our budget for employment beyond that. No firm commitment needed at this stage. Email or DM me if even slightly curious #NewAdventure?

Very proud of this review & especially of the awesome folks who lead it. Congrats to @hybridzones.bsky.social, @nemovrobles.bsky.social sky.social, and @majorodriguezb.bsky.social who put in a tremendous amount of effort and came through with an insightful, interesting, and very thorough piece!!!

Composite image of map of North America, with route of travel. On the side are pictures of myself, Kevin, and a blooming monkeyflower.

Twenty years ago this month Kevin Wright and I set out on an 18,000 mile journey from Durham, NC across North America to collect monkeyflowers. The seeds from that trip (my third rotation project) have given rise to major advances and scores of scientific publications over the past two decades.