Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

This sounds so cool!

Promotional graphic for the Jane Silverthorne Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Text reads: 'Jane Silverthorne Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Supporting early-career scientists with high-risk, high-reward research projects that bridge fundamental science with real-world solutions. BTI – Powered by the Jane Silverthorne Innovation Fund. Now Accepting Applications.' On the right side, there is a circular photo of a woman with long blonde hair and glasses, wearing a black top. The design includes green and white waves with a leaf and circuit logo.

Now accepting applications for the Jane Silverthorne Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at BTI! 🌿 Supporting bold scientists tackling plant science frontiers with cross-disciplinary approaches. Full funding for high-risk, high-reward research. Apply by Jan 15, 2026! 🧬 spf.btiscience.org

⚡ Only a few days left to submit your abstract & present a lightning talk during the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference (Oct 29–31 | online & free).
🧬 Topics: conservation, bioeconomy & data standardisation.
Deadline: Sept 15
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System - East Lansing, Michigan, United States Working/Functional Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Tenure System Position Summary The Plant Resilience Institute (PRI) at Michigan State University invites applications for multiple tenure-st...

Super excited about this new Open Rank tenure-track faculty search for the MSU Plant Resilience Institute. We successfully hired two excellent new faculty in our last search and we are hoping to build on that success with this search. careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!

We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝

Applications are due October 6 2025.

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Thanks!

Help needed! Do these herbarium pecimens actually come from the British museum? Any idea who the purple monogram belongs to?
#herbarium

Help needed! Do these herbarium pecimens actually come from the British museum? Any idea who the purple monogram belongs to?
#herbarium

I'm delighted to present this Science special issue on Plants and Heat! Through a series of Reviews and Perspective articles, covering topics from cell signalling to ecology there is something for everyone here. (1/8)

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

My lab is keen on recruiting grad students for 2025 (fully funded positions! Living wage!) on topics related to phylogenomics, macroevolution, and adaptation to dry environments:

See: edelinegagnon.wixsite.com/gagnon-lab-1...
Grad ad: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Cartesian map of the landmasses, divided by administrative regions, and with different colors reflecting differences in richness of poricidal plant taxa.

How are buzzing bees & poricidal flowers globally distributed? Curious about the ecological drivers of their distribution?

Check out our preprint w/ @achughes.bsky.social, @mcorr.bsky.social, Diana Jolles, Ricardo Kriebel, Zhiheng Wang, Steve Buchmann, John Ascher!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Part of this manuscript actually used herbaria to examine evolution of prickles loss across the spiny Solanum... How cool is that!

Feel free to get in contact and ask details!!

Papers should cover the diversity, distribution, ecology, traits, or genomics one or more of the 87 big plant genera, or a significant part of one of those genera. The deadline is the 25th of February 2025. Please contact me if you have any questions!

Do you work on the 87 #BigPlantGenera that include 25% of all plant species? We are putting together a special issue in
@annbot.bsky.social
for studies investigating Angiosperm genera with >500 species. See the link below for details: shorturl.at/dfsw4