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Alex Papadopulos @metallophyte.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

During covid my nephew metamorphosed into a phenomenal guitarist and songwriter. Here's the first single from the band he fronts (guitar/vocals: Evyn Smith, drums: Rhidd Smith, bass: Croc Smith, yes they're a talented family). Best consumed LOUD. open.spotify.com/track/7nrj2C...

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HOLLOW - Single Version

Zana Billionara · HOLLOW · Song · 2025

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phyloevolution.bsky.social @phyloevolution.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🗞️📜Fresh from the press! Our new paper shows that the Cape Verde date palm actually evolved from the date palm crop🧬 with interesting implications for conservation and breeding of drought resistant varieties 🌴🏝️ Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Genomics and morphometry of herbarium specimens elucidate the origin of the Cape Verde date palm (Phoenix atlantica A.Chev.) and highlight its agronomic potential

As climate change accelerates, breeding resilient crops is urgent. The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.), a crucial 18 billion USD fruit crop, underpins North African and West Asian oasis agroecosys...

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Owen Osborne @owengosborne.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders. Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328

Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)

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Alex Papadopulos @metallophyte.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Photographic evidence that it has also colonised a galaxy far, far away...Silene uniflora growing on Luke Skywalker's island retreat (aka Skellig Michael)!

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Lynda Delph @ldelph.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Years of work by a tremendous group, lead by Gabriel Marais. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Screen shot of an article in Science titled “The Silene latifolia genome and its giant Y chromosome”.

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Sam Yeaman @samyeaman.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Gabriele's paper is out in PNAS! He found a large number of genes with repeated sweeps in multiple plant species. Most interestingly: they tend to be peripheral in co-expression networks (low pleiotropy), consistent with mig-sel theory!! @gabnocgenomics.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Alex Papadopulos @metallophyte.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @meebangor.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @ukri.org @pnas.org

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Senior Editor position!!! Please feel free to get in touch with me via DM or email if this is of potential interest to you, even if you don't think you're 'ready' (I didn't!). Serving on a @britishecolsoc.bsky.social journal is for me a joy and a privilege.

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Aaron Comeault @aaronc-research.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Looking to build your CV by doing a Masters project? Lots available at Bangor University in zoology-related fields and more:

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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature

Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

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Andrew Whitehead @andrewwhitehead.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Are you interested in evolution in the Anthropocene?... in evolved resistance to pollution?... in the genetic architecture of rapidly evolving traits?... You are in luck! I have something for you to read... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Mark Ravinet @markravinet.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

PhD opportunity in my group at UiO on adaptation to shifting temperatures in house sparrows. Looking for candidates interested in combining evolutionary genomics and ecological approaches! Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Chris Oakley @quercus62.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Thrilled to finally see this out. Work led by former postdocs in the lab, @leegwonjin.bsky.social and Brian Sanderson. A large-effect fitness trade-off across environments is explained by a single mutation affecting cold acclimation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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