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James Clark

@jameswclark.bsky.social

Prize Fellow at the Milner Centre, University of Bath - plant evolution, genomes, trees and sometimes ferns

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🌱 Open PhD Position in Plant EvoDevo 🌱 Thinking about a PhD in plant evodevo? The Becker Research Group (JLU Giessen, Germany) has a fully funded 4-year PhD position in the ICIPS II research unit! πŸŽ“ πŸ“ Where? Gießen, Germany – great research environment & vibrant plant science network.

23.10.2025 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Our new pre-print (with @erichagen.bsky.social, @latinorchidbot.bsky.social, @jameswclark.bsky.social , Elizabeth Forward and Nick Priest) reveals rapid pollinator evolution in orchids, but no clear impact on diversification. Perhaps pollinator specialisation is not such a powerful force. 🐝🌱

28.08.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Uncertainty in the timing of diversification of flowering plants rests with equivocal interpretation of their fossil record | Royal Society Open Science The timing of the origin of crown-angiosperms exemplifies the impact of competing approaches to establishing evolutionary timescales. Fossils of unequivocal crown-angiosperms are not known from before...

Our latest, led by @jameswclark.bsky.social of @milnerevolution.bsky.social shows that the notorious mismatch between molecular and palaeontological estimates for the timing of origin of angiosperms is a consequence of equivocal interpretation of their fossil record @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social

28.05.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Delighted to see this paper from danderson123.bsky.social 's PhD out. We have been building tools for AMR gene detection for over a decade now, but multicopy genes remain challenging. Dan shows that with a gene-space de Bruijn graph and long reads, you can do well
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

19.05.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4
Sexual reproduction in land plants: an evolutionary perspective

🌱🌻Finally out! All ICIPS PIs had their say in a seminal 31 page review on the evolution of land plant sexual reproduction. With lots of fine figures to share! Thanks to @icips.bsky.social and @dfg.de for funding our work.
#PlantScienceResarch, #PlantEvoDevo
rdcu.be/elOeI

13.05.2025 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two weeks left to apply!

26.04.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Our 2025 Irene Manton Prize winner is Dr Jamie B Thompson! His research into the diversification of flowering plants is revolutionising our understanding of biodiversity, showing that they weren't wiped out by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. @jamiet-E442.bsky.social
www.linnean.org/the-...

10.04.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dating Bacteria is hard due to the lack of maxima. Assuming aerobes likely postdated the GOE gave us better resolved ages, but also surprised us, but not Dr Dayhoff, showing O2 use predated its atmospheric rise by 900 Mys and helped oxygenic photosynthesis to evolve. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

04.04.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4

This position will centre around phylogenomic approaches to characterising duplication and diploidisation, and will be part of a large team across Bath, Bristol, Edinburgh, Kew, Oxford, Trinity, UCD and more! Details of the project at rediploidisation.org

06.02.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
ED12442 Research Associate in Phylogenomics (fixed-term) - Jobs at Bath

Please share! A 4-year position to work on genome duplication and evolution in Bath, part of our BBSRC sLOLA project determining the extent and effects of rediploidisation across eukaryotes! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

06.02.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Internal goings-on in an early something-ophyte!

21.11.2024 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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