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Damian Hernandez

@damianmicroeco.bsky.social
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Microbial Ecologist | PRFB | Stinchcombe and Kokkoris Labs | Whoopsie Ecologist damianmicroeco.wixsite.com/my-site

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Joelle Lafond, PhD @joellelafond.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨Our new preprint is out! 🤩 🌟 Mutation rates vary widely across taxa, and decades of research have sought to explain why. ♀️♂️ Reproductive modes, and evolutionary shifts between them, could help explain some of this variation. ❓ So what does the evidence tell us? 👀 Read our preprint to find out!
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Reproductive mode and the evolution of mutation rate
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Isabel @isabelott.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“In other words, unwritten science is not just incomplete; it simply does not exist for the purposes of the field. When you look at it this way, the job of a scientist - having ideas, testing them, and persuading others they are right - turns out to be, fundamentally, an act of writing.”
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Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Check out our new issue - including the Editor's Choice article by @jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social et al! They show that despite phenotypic plasticity, flower morphology of the spotted jewelweed has evolved in urban habitats to better suit bumblebees, their main pollinators doi.org/10.1093/evle...
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Damian Hernandez @damianmicroeco.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Awesome display of non-additive effects in multi-mutualist contexts! Fantastic job @arawstern.bsky.social
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Damian Hernandez @damianmicroeco.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Super cool paper showing how competition shapes adaptation under different environmental contexts! Honestly, a gorgeous experimental design. Great job @usuitakuji.bsky.social!
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Anne Katula @mycorrhizanne.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Check out our new paper, Multilevel selection informs context-dependent mycorrhizal functioning! This is my very first first-authored publication, and I worked w some incredible folks to make it happen: @meafkhami.bsky.social @balachaudhary.bsky.social and Nancy Johnson! doi.org/10.3389/frmb...
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Frontiers | Multilevel selection theory informs context-dependent mycorrhizal functioning
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form widespread, ancient, and critically important symbioses with plants, but their functioning and beneficial effects are ...
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Amanda Rawstern @arawstern.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
My 2nd dissertation chapter is out in Plant, Cell, & Environment! We use a model legume to assess how plant host genotype and microbes non-additively interact to shape plant growth and disease ecology. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1111/pce....
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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Interested in flower color evolution? Geographic clines which might be due to selection or drift, or both? Check out this work by @katiemaunder.bsky.social and Chris Eckert. Super excited to see how this has developed. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Random and non-random variation in flower color along an urban-rural gradient in the introduced mustard Hesperis matronalis
Premise: Urbanization can alter the interplay of stochastic genetic drift and natural selection but these effects will depend on the biology and history of the species. We investigated the influences ...
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
next Canadian government should think of boosting research funding up here and trying to grab as many American postdocs and researchers as possible
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Amanda Rawstern @arawstern.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
My dissertation chapter is in Ecology Letters! We tested microbiome network theory empirically in nature and found central early colonisers significantly (1) enhanced biodiversity, (2) reshaped assembly trajectories and (3) increased recruitment of non-peripheral microbes. doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Central Taxa Are Keystone Microbes During Early Succession
For decades, microbiome network theory has predicted that highly connected ‘hub’ taxa act as keystone species that disproportionately affect their communities. However, this has never been empiricall...
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