Excited about connecting with other popgen folks in NY, NJ, CT area and sharing my work at the Coughlan lab on Mimulus adaptation/speciation, feedback will be greatly appreciated 🌱
The final part of the story: "The arduous path to obligate asexuality in Daphnia" is out in #ProcB 🥳 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article.... 1. Instead of comparing long-established asexuals to sexuals, we generated new asexual lineages to observe the transition in action.
David Marques was an amazing speciation genomics researcher, a passionate birder, and a wonderful friend, husband, and father. May he rest in peace. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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eyerolling at biorxiv
Olha aí gente! Free registration to virtual Evolution 2026.
Crop scientists have long recognized that reproduction is going to be the first point of failure for plants with rising global temperatures. However, this has often been overlooked by those studying natural populations. In this new review, we try to change that. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Emocionado por compartir, en español, un poco de mi investigación con @jenncoughlan.bsky.social sobre las bases genéticas de la coexistencia de dos plantas con poco aislamiento reproductivo en el marco del día de la niña y la mujer en la ciencia y el día de Darwin en Colombia. Nos vemos el jueves :)
Graphic announcing new AJB Synthesis article by Haley Branch.
Methodological illustration for asking whether X affects plants. “Question” provides an example of a question that both ecologists and evolutionary biologists ask, with categories of traits often of interest. “Experiment” shows trait examples and comparisons (populations, environmental, across time). Types of traits are where evolutionary biologists could expand their breadth. “Outcome” describes lasting effects of whether X affects traits to the point that it is passed on and contributes to future generations or it leads to extinction. “Outcomes” is where ecophysiologists could expand their work. Images courtesy of Dr. Stefanie Sultmanis (vein density), Dr. Beatrice Harrison Day (root section), and Dr. Vanessa Tonet (leaf cavitation).
🏵 Check out the latest #AJB Synthesis article, by Haley Branch! 🏵
The sleeping giant needs coffee: Overlooked areas for integrating plant #ecophysiology & evolutionary biology
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #ecology #evolution
Emocionado por compartir, en español, un poco de mi investigación con @jenncoughlan.bsky.social sobre las bases genéticas de la coexistencia de dos plantas con poco aislamiento reproductivo en el marco del día de la niña y la mujer en la ciencia y el día de Darwin en Colombia. Nos vemos el jueves :)
La Asociación Colombiana de Biología Evolutiva #COLEVOL tiene nueva página web www.colevol.org. Conócenos y mantente informado sobre nuestras actividades. #cienciacriolla
First in-person evolution symposium in Colombia since 2019! Tons of enthusiastic, talented scholars looking for opportunities/networks. If you conduct research in LA, consider to participate/send students or organize a session/workshop. #COLEVOL has connected generations of evolutionary biologists!
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@esalatamcarib.bsky.social
The Prototaxites specimen resting on a mossy floor
21 / 23 This means that the first giant organisms on the Earth’s surface were not closely related to anything alive today. But despite its strangeness, in its time Prototaxites would have had an important role, being eaten by arthropods and having impacts on the ecosystem that we don’t yet know.
So proud that this is out 🐺⏳🧬🦏. First paper as a senior author (co-shared with @lovedalen.bsky.social; thanks for a great opportunity) and led by my awesome former MSc student @solveiggudjonsd.bsky.social and a brilliant CPG postdoc @edanalord.bsky.social (1/n)
OA: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...
New paper out: “allopatric” Drosophila species aren’t so allopatric after all. We show that most currently allopatric species pairs probably overlapped in the past and exchanged genes at levels similar to sympatric pairs. @evolletters.bsky.social
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Abstract submitted for #PEQG2026. Hope to see lots of you there! Just as a reminder, abstracts are due February 5th. genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/ab...
Registration for the 2026 NY Area Population Genetics meeting is now open, at events.simonsfoundation.org/e0mEoL?rt=8k.... Registration is free but required; if you are submitting an abstract, note that the deadline is *January 30th*.
Did you know there are 2 types of avocado varieties? A-types switch from female to male, B-types male to female, within a single day. This reciprocal sex alternation promotes cross-pollination and has a simple genetic basis. Read more in this recent preprint from the final chapter of my PhD thesis 🥑
I got to think about lots of cool/scary things working on this: (very) rapid adaptation, introgression of structural variants, invasive species, reproductive isolation, pesticide resistance, the precarity of food production. Grateful to have worked on such a big dataset with amazing collaborators
I am very excited to share our new paper with my amazing co-authors and mentors @dmacguig.bsky.social @fishgenomes.bsky.social @tjnear.bsky.social . We investigate a secondary contact zone in #darters. track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.
🚀 Exciting Opportunity for Early-Career Scientists! 🚀
Join AGA SEA Awardee RADCamp for a hands-on bioinformatics workshop in Monterrey, Mexico, July 20-27, 2026! Over 8 days, you'll prepare your own samples, run dual digest RAD-seq libraries, & analyze your data using ipyrad.
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Pangenomics in the Mimulus guttatus species complex, by Maddie James
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Great perspective piece about the recently released monkeyflower genomes. Love the collision of my two academic worlds: Mimulus research through the lens of a Senecio scholar 🌼
Blue poster with text: “Botanical Society of America, Corresponding Members, 2025 Recipient.” Below is a photo of Natalia Pabón-Mora indoors, smiling and seated next to a microscope while holding a green potted plant. Text below reads: “Natalia Pabón-Mora, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia.” Bottom corner includes a QR code with the text: “Learn more about the BSA Corresponding Members here!” and the BSA logo.
🎉 Help us celebrate Natalia Pabón-Mora (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia), the 2025 BSA Corresponding Member!
This recognition is given to distinguished international scientists who have made major contributions to the plant sciences.
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#BSA2025AwardsBlitz #IamaBotanist
Wendy Valencia is the epitome of the 21st century naturalist. She enriches our community with her sensibility to natural phenomena and generosity. Looking forward to reading this highly integrative study about cycads pollination!
I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills!
I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
I am currently searching for a new postdoctoral researcher to study the evolution, genetics, and physiology of cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in switchgrass at Michigan State University. This work will be funded by a newly funded five-year DOE grant. careers.msu.edu/jobs/researc...
Our NY area population genetics meeting is back and "upgraded", as Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org generously agreed to host. Please save the date: March 9, 2026. Look forward to seeing many of you from NY and beyond.
