David Lowry

Assistant Professor of Biology The Biology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in conservation ecology. Initial appointment to this po...

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs

jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

Congratulations Daniel!

Personate flowered Penstemon hirsutus (top) and a closely related species with open flowers, P. smallii (bottom).

The unique morphological basis & repeated evolutionary origins of personate flowers in #Penstemon

New #AJB research by @trinitydepatie.bsky.social & @carriewessi.bsky.social

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#botany #plantscience #phylogenomics #evolution #snapdragon

A ln empty lab space with a few benches

Well here it is, the Li lab. It’s very empty now, but hopefully we will fill it with some wonderful people and interesting science soon enough.

Trail leading to vista

Dried grass in front of redwood trees

View of red slide and Rocky Mountain

A dried Bullfrog pond with redwoods behind

So nice to see Austin Creek SRA in Sonoma County, CA back open after a five-year closure following the fire that burned through it in 2020. Most of the live oaks and redwood trees survived the fire and are looking great.

Just want to shoutout a new study from the Wessinger Lab by my colleague @trinitydepatie.bsky.social. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... She investigated the repeated evolution of personate flowers within Penstemon by examining patterns of introgression, topological discordance, and

Evolutionary Genomics, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Fall 2026 The University of Tennessee - Knoxville: Knoxville Academic Units: College of Arts and Sciences: Division of Natural Sciences & Mathematics: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Open date: July 28, 2025 Description The Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, seeks applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genomics. We invite applicants whose research leverages modern genomic tools and statistical approaches to address fundamental questions in evolutionary biology. We are particularly interested in candidates working on functional and evolutionary genomics in any system—plant, microbe, or animal (including humans)—who bring innovative, integrative approaches to large-scale genomic data analysis. [more on description excluded due to character limit on bsky: please see ad at https://apply.interfolio.com/170735 ] Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in Biology, Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, Genomics, Bioinformatics, or a related field at the time of appointment and should demonstrate a strong record of scientific accomplishment, including peer-reviewed publications. Excellent communication skills and a commitment to effective and modern teaching practices are required. Applications will be reviewed beginning September 19, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled. This position has an anticipated start date of August 1, 2026. Interested applicants should submit via Interfolio (apply.interfolio.com/170735) a cover letter, curriculum vitae, two-page statement of research accomplishment and plans, two-page description of teaching experiences and interests, and contact information of at least three individuals who could write letters of reference. Please direct any questions to the search chair, Dr. Elizabeth Derryberry (ederryb1@utk.edu).

Tenure-track faculty job in Evolutionary Genomics in my department, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at U of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• Any system (even humans)
• Interdisciplinary, collaborative folks welcomed
• Review starts Sep 19, 2025
• Details at apply.interfolio.com/170735

#AcademicSky

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

Watching a pot, waiting for it to boil?

Downtown Detroit Is Back

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Ranked by impact on the world?

49. Sorry Philadelphia.

Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).

Speciationolious?

Big win for us here at MSU!

So excited for you!!!!!!

Martinez-Gomez Lab Plant Evo-Devo

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025

Reach out!

www.martinezgomezlab.com

Faculty (UWOFA) Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

Political Science at Western University, Canada is searching for three tenure track assistant professors. There are two ads, one in International Politics (IR or comparative) and one in Comparative or Canadian. Ads are here: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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*Nicole Salgar

Me in front of the mural

The monkeyflower mural

Description for the mural: Michigan's Monkeyflowers Michigan is home to six species of monkeyflower found across the state's varied habitats. The Michigan monkeyflower (Mimulus michiganensis, syn. Erythranthe michiganensis) is one of the state's few endemic species—a yellow-flowered plant found nowhere else in the world. This rare species grows in seeps, streams, and shorelines on both sides of the Straits of Mackinac and south through the Lower Peninsula to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. It also occurs on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan. Due to habitat threats and its limited range, the Michigan monkeyflower was listed as federally endangered in 1990. Two other yellow-flowered species occur in wetland habitats of the Upper Peninsula (M. guttatus) and Lower Peninsula (M. geyeri). Michigan's monkeyflowers also include species with purple and pink flowers. The Allegheny monkeyflower (Mimulus ringens) is a delightful plant with showy purple flowers, found widely throughout the state. The similarly looking sharpwing monkeyflower (M. alatus) is found in southeastern Michigan. The American lopseed (Phryma leptostachya) has recently been identified as a member of the monkeyflower family through genetic detective work. Its delicate pink and white flowers, scattered across the forest floors of eastern North America, represent an evolutionary surprise that has reshaped our understanding of the relationships of plant species. Both the Allegheny monkeyflower and American lopseed carry the historical weight of being among Carl Linnaeus's original 1753 plant descriptions, which connects Michigan's flora to the very foundations of botanical science.

A person shopping in front of the mural

I had the incredible opportunity to provide input on an amazing monkeyflower mural that was painted by the artist Nicole Sanger (www.instagram.com/nmsalgar/) in Grand Rapids, MI last week. Can’t believe how amazing it turned out.

I think it was the way NASA rolled it out that got to people. Seemed like the way they were building up the announcement that they had possibly discovered extraterrestrial life.

Thank you for sharing. I took Virology from Andy and what I learned from that course stuck with me over the years.

Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

Comparative Analyses of Four Reference Genomes Reveal Exceptional Diversity and Weak Linked Selection in the Yellow Monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus) Complex Yellow monkeyflowers (Mimulus guttatus complex, Phrymaceae) are a powerful system for studying ecological adaptation, reproductive variation, and genome evolution. To initiate pan-genomics in this gr....

Comparative Analyses of Four Reference Genomes Reveal Exceptional Diversity and Weak Linked Selection in the Yellow Monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus) Complex onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes and the lengths of evolutionary strata Abstract. The idea that sex-differences in selection drive the evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes is well-developed in populatio

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Figure 2: Gene expression patterns for the candidate gibberellin (GA) and jasmonic acid (JA) biosynthetic and signaling pathways. Genes that were significantly differentially expressed between coastal and inland plants (genotype main effect, yellow filled square) are shown. The names of genes with higher expression in inland plants are indicated with orange letters, while genes with higher expression in coastal plants are indicated by blue letters. Other significant contrasts are also indicated by filled squares: 4leaf vs. 2leaf (orange), bud vs. 2leaf (red), genotype interaction with 4leaf vs. 2leaf (blue), and genotype interaction with bud vs. 2leaf (purple). Bolded gene names indicate LFC > 2 for the genotype main effect.

A highly revised version of our preprint "Gene expression divergence between locally adapted inland annual and coastal perennial ecotypes of Mimulus guttatus across developmental stages" is now available. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It seems like the outcome of a change in policy like that would more of a decentralization of basic biomedical research, right? Also, the funding might go further? Or is the large medical center model superior for discovery because of the aggregation of scientists and colocalization with hospitals?

Do you see this as a model that will continue into the future or do you think we are about to see a major contraction of biomedical faculty positions? Just curious, as the only university I have ever been at with a large research Medical Center was Duke.