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Jukka-Pekka Verta @jpverta.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

The Functional and Evolutionary Genomics group (me!) at Nord is recruiting a PhD student on an exciting project on dwarf Atlantic salmon - please share widely! Applications and more information: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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John Lovell @jotlovell.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

Our groups' goal is to produce genomes that are useful; this does not always mean 'telomere-to-telomere' assemblies. The hybrid sugarcane genome is a nice example of this. The article is out this week in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

I can now share some of the illustrations I’ve been working on last summer. These are from an upcoming book about the links between aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity. Thanks @florianaltermatt.bsky.social for the opportunity to design the figures. The book link: www.haupt.ch/buecher/natu... 🧪🐡

A screenshot of two pages from a book including an illustration of an alpine floodplain landscape (cross section) with a stream and surrounding vegetation. The second page includes four large close-up photos of sedges and flowering plants

A screenshot of two pages from a book including an illustration of a lake shore cross section with different vegetation zones

A screenshot of two pages from a book including a two-panel illustration of an agricultural landscape cross section with a stream and zones with different land use designations

A screenshot of two pages from a book including an illustration of a riverbank cross section with different vegetation zones

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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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Tuomas Hämälä @thamala.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Happy to say that I have started a permanent research job at the Natural Resources Institute Finland! I will continue studying plant genetics and genomics, but now directly in crops.

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Just in time for the holidays, Jeff Groh cracks the story of an ancient, balanced polymorphism for heterodichogamy (male vs female flower order) in walnuts & pecans www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Distinct ancient structural polymorphisms control heterodichogamy in walnuts and hickories

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Current starting point for postdoc salaries at Oxford University is just over £36k - £2.7K under threshold. According to The Royal Society 62% of postdocs are non-UK nationals (5/6 in my lab). Two things: (i) postdocs are underpaid; (ii) UK science is screwed royalsociety.org/-/media/poli...

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

The origins of maize were the subject of controversy for well over a century. Even in the 1950's botanists like Edgar Anderson weren't totally sure what continent it came from! We published today a new model for maize origins (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Let me tell you how we got here. 1/

table of crop plants and their origins referencing Edgar Anderson 1952 showing uncertainty of the origins of maize as "South East Asia?"

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Tanja Slotte @tanjaslotte.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

New preprint out on the genetic causes and genomic consequences of breakdown of distyly in Linum. We present a new high-quality genome of the homostylous self-compatible species L. trigynum and compare it to its close distylous relative L. tenue. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

As jobs are coming out and folks are applying, here's your regular reminder of lots of examples of successful job apps (mostly research academia but also industry, PUI, gov). And if you've gotten a job recently, please consider contributing! github.com/RILAB/statem...

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Jonathan Wendel @jonathanfwendel.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

How much homoeologous gene conversion actually happens in allopolyploids? See our new work using Gossypium led by Justin Conover (conjustover.bsky.social): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Little Evidence for Homoeologous Gene Conversion and Homoeologous Exchange Events in Gossypium Allop...

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Doc Edge @docedge.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

First author Josh Schraiber posted this new preprint of ours on the other place, but he's not on here yet, so I guess it's up to me www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... And here's Josh's thread: twitter.com/jgschraiber/...

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Tuomas Hämälä @thamala.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Check out our new preprint on adaptation to whole-genome duplication. Great work by @sianbray.bsky.social and @leviyant.bsky.social

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Dan Koenig @evogen.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

So excited to announce our search for an Assistant Professor focused on understanding plant response to climate change! Come join us at UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01827

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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Hi BlueSky - I’m a biologist and scientific illustrator open to commissions of scientific figures, illustrations, infographics, etc. I’ve designed infographics about forest tree breeding, love drawing plants and silly characters for fun, and also made a logo for @pyhatanja.bsky.social 🧪🐡 #SciComm

An infographic illustrating the concept of genetic gain.
Genetic gain is the change of the average phenotypic value between the parent and offspring populations due to selection.
For a given trait (e.g. tree height), the frequency distribution has a peak around the mean and tails of extreme values.
In the offspring generation, the distribution is shifted to desired direction as a response to selection.
Genetic gain realised in forest reproductive materials is further modified by other factors such as pollen contamination in seed orchards.

A comic style illustration of 4 species of European owls (sizes not to scale). Top left: eagle owl (Bubo bubo); bottom left: tawny owl (Strix aluco); top right: barn owl (Tyto alba); bottom right: snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus)

An illustration of black alder (Alnus glutinosa) tree and branch fragment with male and female flowers

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Levi Yant @leviyant.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

We are hiring! TWO ERC and ERC-CZ postdoc positions in the population and structural genomics of polyploidy. Join us in stunning Prague to study the evolutionary consequences of whole genome duplication! Apply by 30 Oct. static1.squarespace.com/static/5e39c... and tinyurl.com/4e43wcy7

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Tuomas Hämälä @thamala.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Our new paper is up on bioRxiv! We study how whole-genome duplications influence structural variant evolution in a natural diploid—autopolyploid system. With @leviyant.bsky.social and others. Check it out if you like polyploidy, SVs, long-read sequencing, or pangenomes. #evobio

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Impact of whole-genome duplications on structural variant evolution in the plant genus Cochlearia

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