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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Job Opening. Faculty Position in Plant Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Davis in the Department of Evolution and Ecology (EVE, my home department). More detail here. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis invites applications and nominations for a 9-month, tenure-track position in the Department of Evolution and Ecology at the ASSISTANT PROFESSOR level. The Department of Evolution and Ecology is seeking a plant evolutionary biologist with interests in the evolution of plants at any taxonomic, geographic, organizational, or evolutionary scale. Candidates must have a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in the biological sciences, evolutionary biology, ecology, genetics, or a related field, and will be expected to complement and build upon existing faculty strengths in the Department of Evolution and Ecology and across UC Davis.

We welcome applicants working on any group of plants and using empirical, computational, experimental, and/or theoretical approaches. Possible areas of study are broad, and include macroevolutionary research on plant diversification, trait evolution in a phylogenetic context, major evolutionary innovations, comparative genomics, and evolutionary developmental biology, as well as research focusing at or below the species level including population biology, quantitative genetics, adaptive evolution, speciation, biogeography, and the evolution of life histories or species interactions.

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Come back soon Yaniv! Preferably in June, so you can do some Scots pine crosses yourself!

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Jukka-Pekka Verta @jpverta.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Our brilliant PhD students are at #SMBE2026 ! S22: P334 Rachel Carboni with snMultiomics S22: P339 @xindih.bsky.social with epistasis vs modularity in GRNs (w/ @fishcongen.bsky.social) S22: talk at 17:45 @jennisiren.bsky.social with GxE in gene expression (w/ main sup @pyhatanja.bsky.social)

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We are looking for a PhD researcher to work for the “ClimatePine” -project, conducted in collaboration among Natural Resources Institute Finland, Metsähallitus Forestry Ltd and University of Helsinki. More info: valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...

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Research Scientist, doctoral researcher, forest breeding - Natural Resources Institute Finland

Open job: Research Scientist, doctoral researcher, forest breeding, Natural Resources Institute Finland - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi

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Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

#SMBE2026 MBE Editor Symposium @molbioevol.bsky.social 🗓️ Wed Jul 1, 3:50pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme Talks by: Daniel Falush @hlouchova-lab.bsky.social Hie Lim Kim Li Liu Flavia Mascagni @pyhatanja.bsky.social Tianqi Zhu

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How is fertilisation different between flowering plants🌺 and naked-seed plants, like conifers🌳? This illustration has been commissioned by @pyhatanja.bsky.social and Robert Kesälahti and is now freely available on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY 4.0 licence Link: bit.ly/4w9pyhq 🧪 #SciArt #EduSky

A graphic showing a fragment of an illustration with some text below on a cheerful yellow background. The text reads: Botanical illustration: Comparison between fertilisation in angiosperms and gymnosperms

A graphic showing a botanical illustration with some text below. The text reads: This illustration shows the comparison between angiosperm (A) and gymnosperm (B) fertilisation and the anatomy of the female reproductive organs

A graphic showing a screenshot from Wikimedia Commons with some text below. The text reads: It is available on Wikimedia Commons with a CC BY 4.0 licence. Free to share and remix, attribution required

A graphic showing a few small botanical illustrations and hand-drawn sketches with some text below. The text reads: I'm open to commissions of scientific figures, graphical abstracts, infographics and other learning materials. Drawing to explain and inspire. My portfolio: https://www.behance.net/dorotdesigns. Dorota Paczesniak (PhD), scientific illustrator

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Moritz K. Nowack @moritznowack.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Registration for the International PhD School Plant Development 2026 is up and running, half the places have been already booked! So don't wait until the deadline to register raissiglab.org/plantdevosch... ! Cost: €350.- for conference, accommodation, meals, and a wine tasting in a local winery 🍷

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

That time of year again! If you'd like an example of job apps in academia or industry, here's a good resource. If you got a job in industry or academia in the last few years, please consider adding yours! github.com/RILAB/statem...

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GitHub - RILAB/statements: Successful Job Applications and Grants

Successful Job Applications and Grants. Contribute to RILAB/statements development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Katrin Heer @katrinheer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🌿 PhD opportunity in forest molecular ecology! Study how trees and their microbiome respond to climate stress in the ECOSENSE forest 🌳 🧬 RNAseq | qPCR | Fieldwork | Interdisciplinary research 📅 Deadline: April 20, 2026 @uni-freiburg.de

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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Associate Professor in Zoology with focus on ecology and evolution

Department of Zoology at Stockholm University includes ca. 80 employees counting researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an internatio

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Thank you for hosting, Uppsala Universitet!

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

What a memorable day to give and listen to inaugural lectures of new professors at University of Helsinki! Here we are after the lectures with colleagues Fred Stoddard and Anne-Maria Pajari and the dean Ritva Toivonen from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. @helsinki.fi

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

It is a little bit depressing that 80 % of papers applying population genetic methods typically estimate π (nucleotide diversity per bp) wrong, and even worse, do not realize that when looking at the point estimates.

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Out after peer review, collaborative study from Nordborg & Weigel labs with help from many others. Not the largest collection of new Arabidopsis thaliana genomes, but we hopefully put forward some good ideas for how to think about pangenomes and their analysis! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Roli Roberts @roliroberts.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Baffling failure of a well-studied trade-off in plants to survive the transfer from greenhouse studies to the open field. Intriguing study from @derekseveri.bsky.social @plantevolution.bsky.social and colleagues in @plosbiology.org

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

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Two postdoctoral researchers and/or doctoral researcher, Future Forests

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

You know over the years what I have been really bothered by? When I was in college, bryophytes were taught as if they were relics of the past. Its sole purpose was to demonstrate trait progression leading to angiosperm, w/o mentioning their importance in nature, research, or potential in biotech.

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Googlen NotebookLM on alkanut tehdä suomenkielisiä pocasteja. Nais-AI:n ääni kuulostaa karmivan samalle kuin Tuija Pehkonen. Pehkonenhan on ollut radiossa paljon äänessä.

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

jobs.helsinki.fi

Two postdoctoral researchers and/or doctoral researcher, Future Forests

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Who started this ridiculous habit of using K for thousands? 10K run? 10 kelvin run is freezing! And now in scientific writing too. I know there are big battles going on now, but I will focus on this one instead.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The de-extinction of the dire wolves? "Colossal Baloney"— @stemcells.bsky.social www.latimes.com/business/sto... @latimes.com by @hiltzikm.bsky.social

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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The NSF discontinuing “misinformation” research b/c it threatens free speech is laughable. 9/

NSF Q&S highlighting response to question "Are you still funding research on misinformation?". RESPONSE: NSF will not support research with the goal of combating "misinformation" "disinformation" or "malinformation" that could be used to infringe on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the US

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Still waiting for a reimbursement from a US University that invited me there to give a talk last August. My advice: do not ever pay the travel expenses yourself when invited and promised reimbursement.

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Me to my lab members: "No need to stress about your Lab Meeting presentation. Just show us where you are at in your project". Also me: *spending 8 hours to prepare my own lab meeting presentation and getting nervous about it*.

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kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .

ALT: kermit the frog is using a typewriter in a messy room .

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Today I have spoiled myself with reading just single review paper all day, taking pauses to think. Luxury!

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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I'm excited to share our new preprint on the molecular evolution of heterodichogamy in two wingnut genera of Juglandaceae. Heterodichogamy features two morphs synchronously alternating male and female flowering phases in time to generate disassortative mating. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Pictures of two dichogamy morphs in Pterocarya trees, a graph visualizing flower dimorphism, and a phylogeny of the Juglandaceae family showing divergence times and origins of genetic systems for heterodichogamy.

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Outi Länsman @outilansman.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

"Yleisradion perinteiset alueelliset iltapäivälähetykset Radio Suomessa ovat loppuneet." "[---] Ylen johto tapaa parhaillaan aluetoimitusten henkilöstöä ja kertoo heille heidän työsuhteensa kohtalosta." www.lapinkansa.fi/yle-lopetti-...

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Yle lopetti radion alueelliset iltapäivälähetykset vähin äänin – johto ei kommentoi sanallakaan

Yleisradion perinteiset alueelliset iltapäivälähetykset Radio Suomessa ovat loppuneet. Esimerkiksi Yle Lapista ei tule enää itsenäistä iltapäivälähetystä.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The newer sequencing tech, Oxford Nanopore, is traded on the London exchange as part of the FTSE 250, and it is likewise having a rough day, down 10% today so far, 42% since Trump took office. These tools are how we genotype cancer, flu, measles, etc., by the way.

The Oxford Nanopore Technologies stock performance on the GBX exchange, showing a strong downward trend.

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I do not talk about politics a lot here. But the way Trump and Vance talked to Zelenskyi is the most disgusting thing I have seen for a long time. So sad, we are not able to really stand up for Ukraine. We could do so much more.

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

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Andrii Tarieiev @andriitarieiev.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Watched meeting between Trump and Zelensky and all I can say is that I have never ever seen something like that. IMO, disrespectful were Trump and Vance, not Zelensky. And not only to the US but to Ukraine and Europe as well.

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

seriously, how did nobody question (from the ethics review stage to publication) this 🔽 research using and abusing rats! #AnimalEthics #AnimalWelfare

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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A few warm days stimulate early-flowering trees. This hazel alder, Alnus serrulata, has opened long yellow catkins - male inflorescences - to release pollen to the wind. The red female inflorescence opens a bit later on an individual tree to minimize self-pollination. Are you seeing tree flowers?

A flowering stem of hazel alder, Alnus serrulata with long yellow catkins of male flowers and smaller bright red female flowers against a light-dappled background. Copyright Tom Kimmerer

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Sami Syrjämäki @samisyrjamaki.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Tutkijat hei! Miten käytettä tekoälyänne työssänne vai käytättekö lainkaan? Kysymystä sopii jakaa.

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Veli-Matti Karhulahti @mkarhulahti.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Not all is well in the academic system, but one thing that continues to surprise positively is the improving research assessment here. New guidelines take a stronger stance still & explicitly forbid even mentioning IF in CVs, applications etc julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/user...

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

People that use Mac, and have to deal with exchange/outlook and google calendars! Is there a solution, where only one calendar application would allow you to see, sync, invite and RSVP all accounts? The multiple calendar sync issues ruin my life and mental health!

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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We are searching broadly for a PhD candidate interested in the evolvability of heat tolerance and the interaction between evolution and plasticity in 🐦🐣, based at @biologylu.bsky.social. Be great if you could re-post. Details 👇 #ERC #HotLife @ercresearch.bsky.social

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 29/01/2025

Highly multiplexed spatial transcriptomics in bacteria www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science…

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Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

For something uplifting... Mimulus is kind to its kin! We add to the growing evidence that plants sense their neighbours and respond differently to kin vs unrelated individuals! Congratulations to @isabeaulewis.bsky.social 🧪🌾 #evolution #mimulus #botany royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Photograph of perennial Mimulus guttatus along a creek

Image from published paper showing that plants invest in more flowers and more stolons when surrounded by unrelated plants, compared to when their neighbours are relatives.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

* Spending freeze was blocked by a judge! * Collaborators found backup DNAs! * Campus told us business as usual! * NSF emailed to tell us to stop everything. * Campus told us to keep going anyway. ...quite the emotional rollercoaster.

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Chris Ponting @cgatist.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

What DNA variants alter transcription factor (TF) binding affinity? Here, we describe a new workflow baal-nf. We used it to trawl through 6017 ChIP-Seq data sets for 558 TFs and 46 genotyped cell lines, finding 298,783 allele-specific binding sites (ASBs). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/2

Description of image: Workflow for identifying high-quality ASBs through baal-nf. ChIP-sequencing data from genotyped cell lines is used to infer ASBs at heterozygous SNPs using BaalChIP. Identified ASBs are further characterized by mapping them to JASPAR and NoPeak motifs for a given TF. High-quality ASBs show concordance in the corrected allelic ratio and motif score difference.

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Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Please circulate: Postdoc position on responses of Australian mammal pests to climate change. Part of my ARC Laureate Fellowship research. Lots of hands-on fieldwork. Learn about biophysical models. Remote locations. Collaboration with #EcologicalHorizons and #AWC jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91880...

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Details : Research Fellow in Mammalian Movement Ecology and Energetics : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Ei ihan vielä ole opettajan graafikkokaveriksi tästä tekoälystä.

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Oh no, no...., no! This was not what I wanted to see.

Google Scholar prompt "adaptive storytelling evolution" and results to articles about storytelling as an adaptation.

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