Nine years ago today 🌿
Lomatium orientale, our Salt-and-Pepper, blooming on the Towhee Trail #nativeplants
They are trying to destroy American science
All signs continue to point to an exceptional, long-duration, and record-breaking to (in some cases) record-shattering March heatwave initially centered across U.S. Southwest but expanding to much broader region next week. This is effectively a full-on summer heatwave in March.
📣 New EVOLTREE webinar!
🗓️ 8th April 16:00 CET
Prof Rasmus Nielsen will talk on "Mapping adaptive genetic variation in non-model species"
Link: vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/rasm...
Save the date and visit www.evoltree.eu/webinars in a few days for registration and additional information.
Upcoming seminar in the @eseb.bsky.social Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation Special Topics Network
Really looking forward to Tuesday next week, March 17, when we have @mobilepurin.bsky.social and @manishamuna.bsky.social presenting.
Join us!
Zoom links etc in the post below.
A fitting end to teaching speciation in the last week of undergrad evolution. Darwin 1858 March 11th, definitely was running on empty in week 10 of the quarter.
arXiv to spin out as an independent non-profit. They are seeking a CEO jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...
Got to see them with the kids this fall at pinnacles national park. Pretty magical.
California has had about the average amount of rain expected for this time of year, but snowpack is half of normal and melting fast.
This is absolutely evidence of #climatechange.
Summer School on Stochastic Population Dynamics led by Alex Hening. A great opportunity for anyone interested in learning about stochastic methods and their applications to population dynamics.
stochasticsummerschool.com
www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/...
Please repost.
Doing science is just an endless cycle of moving the Overleaf tab to a new window to get it away from all the tabs you accumulated while not writing in the Overleaf tab
Proud that this work is now published!
We hope it helps orient future #Nanopore long-read sequencing studies hunting for structural variants
Also really happy to share eight new high-coverage (>100x) long-read read pools and assemblies with the #Drosophila community!
doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
Sexually antagonistic environments and the stability of environmental sex determination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.08.710415v1
I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!)
link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Final version @nature.com of our paper describing unconventional multicellular development in a choanoflagellate inhabiting an extreme environment. A ton of new data since the first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint (which we've kept updating).
A brief 🧵 (carried over from the old place)
Petunia hybrida has been bred into an incredible diversity of colors and patterns.
Most arise from mutations in the anthocyanin pathway or post-transcriptional gene silencing that turns pigment genes on and off 🧬🎨
Meiotic cohesin Rec8 imposes fitness costs on fission yeast gametesfavoring the evolution of parental bias in gene expression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.07.710300v1
Striking signal for much above-normal temperatures across California, the Great Basin, northern Rockies and Desert Southwest from March 15-20. Temperatures will be more typical of summer than early spring (potentially 25 degrees above normal) in many areas and monthly records could be shattered.
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
Hahah correctly guessed they'd named it after the county.
Great to see such a large crowd out today! #standupforscience
Smarts.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#StandUpForScience
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025.
Discovery of a Genetic Toxin-Antidote System in Vertebrates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.04.709565v1
The American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social
will be holding our next meeting in Glen Cove, New York on 8-12 January 2027!
Have an idea for a special symposium? We want to hear it!
#ecology #evolution #behavior 🧪 #popgen 🧬
Applications due Apr 30: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I think the rink-neck colour varies a bunch geographically even within California academic.oup.com/jhered/artic...
Northern Californian central valley foothills reptiles
Spotted male California condor Hasso on Henrietta Peak 2. This camera is set to "patrol mode," which means it is programmed to spin 360 degrees to take six images every two minutes. We stitched adjacent images together to show his full impressive 9-10 foot wingspan.
