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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🫜 Looked for an S-locus by investigating the genome of Beta vulgaris, found really weird stuff! Shamelessly repeatedly telling you about this latest publication. I'm also looking for a new position practically anywhere in Europe, so please forward! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Identification of a candidate self-incompatibility locus in beet (Beta vulgaris) - Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Key Message This study provides the first genomic evidence for a candidate self-incompatibility locus in beets (Beta vulgaris), identifying T2/S-RNase candidate genes and a complex S-locus on beet chr...

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Delighted to share that this is now published: Identification of a candidate self-incompatibility locus in beet (Beta vulgaris) This was a deep bioinformatic search for the so-far-undescribed SI system in Beta, and like all SI systems, we found complexity! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Identification of a candidate self-incompatibility locus in beet (Beta vulgaris) - Theoretical and Applied Genetics

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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 07/12/2025

"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common "I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Update: very pleased so far, several software issues have improved, package management is quite sane. 8/10 needs larger community support.

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Noooo, this is not how spiders work 😢

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

A few words about chestnuts. Autumn is setting in much faster this year and the days turned suddenly cloudier, suddenly colder. Luckily, the beautiful succession of trees changing follows: leaf senescence, the yearly dance of leaf colors. The earliest are the chestnuts, Aesculus hippocastanum.

A view of a paved paved in a park, lined by green grass on the right side and trimmed green bushes, with full foliage, on the right. Also on the right is a tree with much of its foliage lost and the rest brown - the horse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum

A leaf of Aesculus hippocastanum, the horse chestnut, held by a hand wearing a cycling glove. The leafs was previously green, but presents many large browned dry-looking spots and a yellow color gradient at the tip.

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Leonie Moyle @speciationlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Hello, I'm an evolutionary biologist in a film. I can identify any species from 30 base pairs of DNA, including human-alien hybrids. I quote Darwin and Gould ad libitum to compensate for my lack of emotional depth. Inexplicably, I'm unable to correctly pronounce 'genome' or 'drosophila'.

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Today is the day I give Debian a go on the 6-year-old, always-Ubuntu laptop. Wish us luck! ✨

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🌱 Phylogenomics, hybridization and species network in our latest paper 📜 The explosive radiation of the Neotropical Tillandsia subgenus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) has been accompanied by pervasive hybridization ⭐ Open Access! Also w/the excellent @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Dear Colleagues, I'm asking for help: do you have contacts at #OUPAcademic ? We asked for a change of corr. author over 40 days ago, received no answer or support, & upcoming deadlines means publication will not proceed - so we're pretty worried >>> @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

doi.org/10.1038/s415... Just finished reading this amazing manuscript and what a ride! This is a great reminder to what collaborative work can achieve. Excuse the corny tone: we do amazing things when we work together. Also, will Chloranthales ever behave?

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Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms - Nature

Phylogenomic analysis of 7,923 angiosperm species using a standardized set of 353 nuclear genes produced an angiosperm tree of life dated with 200 fossil calibrations, providing key insights into...

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Community gardening update: In spring, we fought hard to eliminate Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) from the bed and give wildflowers a chance. It seems like we've lost 🥲 So it's an excellent opportunity to talk about invasive species - and to enjoy some beautiful sunflower in summer!

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no gods, no masters, only alts @dither-fish.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Dear German postdoc I worked with in 2015: I was wrong about density plots, please forgive me

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Manuscript accepted with minor revisions - after a revision that lasted a year, analyses that lasted 3 years, before repeating mapping twice, DNA extractions that took a year, and many things that went "wrong". This is for your, whoever is in an infinite project. This week, we celebrate!

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Chicory, Deutsche Flora, 1894.

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Rude plants, in random order: Mint - all varieties. Pretends it's a fun herb, really contemplates world domination. Palms - look like trees, technically are giant grasses (debate me). Home of rats. birch - the whole genus. Nice tree, its male gametes (pollen) cause unbelievable allergies. Rude!!

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

No matter how bleak things look or how unemployed you are (hint: me), your local community gardens are a great way to connect with people and other fun organisms. Experience shows that everyone loves a scientist on their gardening team🌱

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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Onychiopsis psilotides, a fern from 130 million years ago (Lower Cretaceous English Wealden). #FossilFriday 🌱🌿🧪⚒🌏

Onychiopsis psilotides, a fern from 130 million years ago (Lower Cretaceous English Wealden) preserved as compression fossil

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Quick, post your giant tree photos. That's me on February 26 in Apuglia, Italy, with an oak.

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SIMONE 🩷 @simonee.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

we always got Ursula Le Guin

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Did not expect to spend a whole year on paper revisions but here we are

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Breakfast today is 8/10, Pinguicula flowering is 9/10. It seems to pick any random time to flower, even so close to solstice. This one was a gift from a student, too

A light purple flower of Pinguicula sp., indoors in natural low light.
The flower is held by a long stalk, is zygomorphic, with two lower lip petalsand a spur extending from the back of the flower. The calyx has five sepals, and the petals are arranged in a two-part lower lip and a three-part upper lip.

A loaf of sourdough and a jar of artichoke dip in low natural light, near window sill. In the background is a Pinguicula plant in a box.

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is your annual reminder to update that git repository now and preferably every day. Closely documenting code improved my life and can do the same for you.

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Not sure why I gained so many followers in a month but hi everyone! No nice to see you again! I'm an evolutionary biologist studying plant reproduction and hybridization, and I'll try to post more frequently!!

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you have several filtering steps remember to update your INFO fields after each

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Especially if you want your descendants to be funny

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Looking for advice on handling multi-mapping mRNA reads. Got a genic region with duplications, <97% similar, nothing maps uniquely even when PE mates are merged. How do you approach this? Random assignment?

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kc kc kc (ichabod era) @katecrane.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

big tillandsia vibes

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Gil Yardeni @gilyardeni.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

Hi everyone! Happy to share our latest preprint: The explosive radiation of the Neotropical Tillandsia subg. Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) has been facilitated by pervasive hybridization >> doi.org/10.1101/2023...

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