🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!
My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.
We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.
#Postdoc #EcoEvo
Pls RT!
Shared from my PhD lab’s WhasApp chat, how a journal published a paper about the Arctic fox which is 100% an AI hallucination, and journal isn’t retracting it.
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Damn depressing how fake science and AI is increasingly flooding real science and real work.
Recently we're working with SNPs from whole genome assemblies to estimate ARGs. It's a pain to go from alignment files to vcf, keeping track of masked and invariant sites. So we wrote a snakemake/SLURM pipeline. Hope it's useful to others, and don't hesitate to post issues if there are problems!
Phylogeny and biogeographic distribution of Delphinium sect. Diedropetala.
Geography and admixture shape the genome‐scale phylogeny of North American #Delphinium
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by Meek et al.
Photo credit: Delphinium scaposum & Delphinium carolinianum www.wildflower.org/texas; Delphinium viridescens www.burkeherbarium.org
Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am!
We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal.
His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!
Glad to know I’m not the only one
Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!
The first two articles of Volume 5 of the Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists are now published at ssbbulletin.org.
Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cool, thanks!
I like this approach too, except when my figure has a large number of elements (like a manhattan plot) which causes pdf storing the vector graphics to struggle. Do you know if magick struggles with conversion in this case?
It’s definitely a bird
Great! Excited to see your updated poster.
Congrats! And nice Penstemon! Is there a digital version of this you could share? Or will you be presenting this at Botany this year?
Science communication is at the heart of why I love doing in science.
Take a look at this paper we published on a workshop we did on effective ways of doing science communication across multiple settings. @esalatamcarib.bsky.social
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) is back!!!
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Awful. Really sad to hear. I’m sorry that happened to your student.
Text: Society for the Study of Evolution Graduate Research Excellence Grants, Rosemary Grant Advanced Award, 2025 Recipients: Diego Beltran, Josh Felton, Brian Kirz, Stephen Kupchella, Hossein Madhani, Catherine Ogoma, Gabriel Priesing, Yanã Rizzieri, Juliana Rodriguez Fuentes, Wyatt Toure, Hannah Walton.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Rosemary Grant Advanced Awards!
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Ghouls, each and every one of you
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
I saw penstemon incertus blooming in December in western Mojave this year
We have FACSaria machines here that I am able to use with assistance — I’m hoping that will work out
Looks very useful! Going to try some flow myself but no prior experience
An angry and wet Virginia Opossum in a small tree at night
Behold
Check out AJB's special issue "Paradigm shifts in flower color" a bunch of cool papers on flower coloration with a focus on non-pollinator drivers of color variation 🌸🌼🌺https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15372197/2026/113/1
Agree
@carriewessi.bsky.social @trinitydepatie.bsky.social @zackradford.bsky.social
New preprint is up!
Not going spoil the results for you 🤓 but we looked at some “bird” vs “bee”-pollinated Penstemon hybrid zones and came away with some pretty unexpected results!
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