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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🌿 Congratulations to Dr. Jenn Coughlan (Yale University), recipient of the 2026 BSA Emerging Leader Award! We're honored to recognize them as a rising star in our community. 👏 Learn more at www.botany.org (click Awards). #BSA2026AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🌿 Help us celebrate the 2026 BSA Award Winners all week long! This year, over $150,000 in awards was given out supporting research, travel, and service. Thank you to all who applied, nominated, and judged! 👏 botany.org/home/awards.... #BSA2026AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist #PlantPeopleFTW

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Congrats to @reginafairbanks.bsky.social for successfully exiting their PhD (we have exit seminars not defenses)! From ARGs to archaeology Regina has been fantastic and fun to work with. They are off next month to start a pdoc with @jmkreiner.bsky.social!

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For folks interested I just posted my keynote on ARGs from #PEQG26 on youtube (with permission). Thanks again to @genetics-gsa.bsky.social and organizers for what was a wonderful conference (except for the 24hrs prior to my talk when I was too nervous to sleep or think straight) youtu.be/ntJOdZd0mwc

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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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Alyssa R Phillips @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Looking forward to Botany next week! One of my post-baccalaureate mentees, Quix Malpass, will be presenting two posters on Sarracenia conservation genetics at the Monday evening poster session (P196 & Recent Topics). Come say hi!

screengrab of posters titled: "Genetic diversity analysis of in situ and ex situ populations of federally endangered carnivorous plant, Sarracenia jonesii (P196)" and "Conservation Genetics Inform Reintroduction and Management of imperiled Sarracenia purpurea montana"

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Alyssa R Phillips @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Popped down to Karl Fetter's lab at the USDA Fruit and Nut Tree Research Station this week for HMW DNA extractions and came home with some of the best peaches I've had this year (and good quality DNA). I think the variety is July Prince. All around 10/10 trip.

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Dr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Hey team - it’s looking very likely that I’ll be hiring not one but two four year postdocs! We’re a fun lab with tons of theoretical and applied pop gen projects - broadly in polyploid, conservation, and human evo. Competitive salary, sunny San Diego! Do share with your about to defend grads!

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I am not at #Evol2026, but @conjustover.bsky.social is! Go check out his talk on collaborative work we have been doing with John Wakeley on simulating autotetraploids tomorrow at 4:15pm.

Developing a SLiM model to accurately assess patterns of coalescence in selfing tetraploids with double reduction

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Excited to share that I will be joining Florida State University as an Assistant Professor starting in January 2027! I’m thrilled to build my lab at FSU in the Ecology & Evolution Division within the Department of Biological Science — stay tuned! A huge thank you to my village for all the support!

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Alyssa R Phillips @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It's been a beautiful spring at the garden and I am looking forward to a busy summer starting new projects.

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Alyssa R Phillips @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Thrilled to announce that I have started at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. We are working to conserve rare and imperiled plants of the Southeastern US. I am leading the Conservation Genetics Laboratory and serve as curator of our DNA Biorepository (containing almost 1,300 species!).

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Claire Menard @clairecodes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I’m headed to #PAG33 in San Diego, CA this week! Very excited to present a poster on some LTR TE family clustering titled “Full Sequence Clustering Reveals Hidden Structural Diversity and Evolutionary Dynamics in LTR Retrotransposon Families”. I’ve attached the abstract if you’d like to read more.

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Peter Sudmant @psudmant.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The registration deadline is fast approaching for probgen 2026! Abstracts due by January 15, registration by January 31 probgen2026.github.io

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Has your EEB/Biology department updated its minimum PhD pay for 2025-2026? Let us know here: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...

Annual guaranteed salary to MIT annual living wage. Only 4 programs pay above the 1:1 line.

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Alyssa R Phillips @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Big bluestem has been a lovely and complex system to work with for the majority of my PhD and will always have a piece of my heart! Very excited to share this work with the community.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

In honor of @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social new preprint, here's me standing in her common garden taking a photo op to troll her with all the grass species in the plot that are *not* big blue stem.

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Morgan Mouchka @morgan-mouchka.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If you are affiliated with a UC institution of live in a community that benefits from UC institutions, please consider signing this letter calling on UC Leadership to stand up to the Trump Administration. sites.google.com/view/ucstand...

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Claire Menard @clairecodes.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

My first first author manuscript has posted! I’m very excited to share SWIF-TE with yall. It is a fast, memory efficient tool to identify novel TE insertions from short-read data. 🧬 #TEworldwide #transposons

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

A focus on the futures we will lose if the WH continues to dismantle research across agencies spanning the EPA, DHS, NIH, NSF, USAID, and DoD (via NASA Watch). When: Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET Where: Rayburn Foyer, Rayburn House Office Building nasawatch.com/congress/con...

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Congressional Event: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants

The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants.

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Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt @evolutionvu.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Here's the phylogeny for Day 2 and Days 1 & 2 from #Evol2025! Again, made in Time Tree. Is your organism represented??

A cropped version of the same phylogenetic tree shown in Image 1, focusing only on a subset of organisms from Mycetohabitans rhizoxinica to Matteuccia struthiopteris. The geologic timescale background is still visible, with fewer early-branching taxa shown. The bottom text reads "#Evol2025 Day 2" alongside the Evolutionary Studies Initiative and Vanderbilt University logos.

A colorful phylogenetic tree spanning across the geologic timescale, with organisms ranging from bacteria and fungi to vertebrates and flowering plants. The background features labeled time divisions by eon, era, and period, using a gradient from pink (Archean) to pale blue (Phanerozoic). Blue dots indicate evolutionary nodes. The bottom text reads "#Evol2025 Days 1 & 2" with the Evolutionary Studies Initiative and Vanderbilt University logos in the lower right corner.

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Regina Fairbanks @reginafairbanks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Pleased to share that my first, first-author publication was published yesterday in @pnas.org ! We (me + @jrossibarra.bsky.social) did a little bit of detective work to better understand the age and origin of a mutation that played a key role in maize domestication. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... (1/n)

Scattered teosinte kernels in their fruitcases, which are triangular in shape and a mottled brown in color

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Alyssa R Phillips @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Looking forward to seeing folks at #Evol2025! I'll be sharing some of our preliminary work on the 2,000 Aspen Genomes Project in Poster Session 2 on June 23 at poster A4. "Evolutionary and ploidy-informed tools for quaking aspen management"

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Super excited to release a huge evolution project on the works for many years: Evolution experiments synchronized across climates to understand rapid adaptation Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... All data available: www.grene-net.org/data #MOILAB @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi.org 🧵👇

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

TLDR: the administration wants to remove habitat loss from the definition of "harm" for endangered species, which will effectively gut the ESA. I just commented. If you're in any way interested in ecology, nature, and the protection of endangered species, you should, too. Free daily action!

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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It's here and ahead-of-print at @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! 🎉 Our 22-page polyploid coexistence model is now available: doi.org/10.1086/734411 This work wouldn’t be possible without NSF support—including funding from an NSF GRFP, an NSF PRFB, and NSF DMS & DBI grants. @soltislab.bsky.social l

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UCD Proposal Development Services @ucdproposaldev.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Someone on our team found this one: new.nsf.gov/events/propo...

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The consequences of polyploidy are... well, complicated. A deep dive into polyploidy in a massively successful tribe of grasses. A masterpiece led by Michelle Stitzer, representing the work of a lot of folks on the PanAnd project over last 7 years. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Extensive genome evolution distinguishes maize within a stable tribe of grasses

Over the last 20 million years, the Andropogoneae tribe of grasses has evolved to dominate 17% of global land area. Domestication of these grasses in the last 10,000 years has yielded our most product...

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