This image illustrates how combining perennial genes with prostrate growth genes allows cultivated rice to mimic wild rice.

Wild rice is a perennial, creeping plant. The secret to its perennial growth habit lies in a developmental reversal directed by small RNAs. This image illustrates how combining perennial genes with prostrate growth genes allows cultivated rice to mimic wild rice.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/40GOjDb

Storm-induced mass mortality results in both immediate and long-term consequences for a migratory songbird Nature Ecology & Evolution - Combining 27 years of citizen science data with whole-genome sequencing, the authors show that mass mortality of purple martins caused by a severe winter...

Spring is arriving, but there's still snow in the forecast! How do late #winter storms affect our migratory #birds? Out now in @natecoevo.nature.com, we ask that Q with 25+yrs of #CitizenScience data and ~400 museum specimens collected after the 2021 Great TX Freeze: rdcu.be/e7aUy
#EcoEvo #evolution

In an era of highly partisan politics in the US, I want to highlight this promising bi-partisan bill to study biodiversity genomics in US National Parks. Consider sending a letter of support to these reps for the Living Library Act! www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

You know, it’s hard to keep them straight

Thanks @elinck.bsky.social @mdcarling.bsky.social for the opportunity to assemble this genome, which will be an important resource for future comparative and pop gen work. Given its close and iconic mutualism with whitebark pine, Clark’s Nutcracker is basically a plant, hence my role in the project

Phylogeny and biogeographic distribution of Delphinium sect. Diedropetala.

Geography and admixture shape the genome‐scale phylogeny of North American #Delphinium

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Meek et al.

Photo credit: Delphinium scaposum & Delphinium carolinianum www.wildflower.org/texas; Delphinium viridescens www.burkeherbarium.org

Forecasting Genomic Change with Time Series Sequence Data | The American Naturalist: Vol 207, No 3 Abstract Humans drive species evolution in numerous ways, ranging from the deliberate interventions of domestication to the indirect but far-reaching impacts of climate change. Anticipating how specie...

This paper doi.org/10.1086/739046 by @jacksondanny.bsky.social et al, plus the rest of the hot new Am Nat special issue on genomic forecasting

Evolutionary roles of recombination suppression.

Recombination suppression in plant adaptation and speciation

#TansleyReview by Zhang et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#plantscience

Genomic Evidence for Local Adaptation to Elevation and Climate Sheds New Light on Variable Responses to Global Change in American Pikas (Ochotona princeps) Click on the article title to read more.

my Ph.D. student Lizzy & I contributed to this perspective on range-wide signatures of local adaptation in American Pika—her first coauthuored paper: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Just saw this new preprint - includes flow ctyometry on 45,000 silica-dried samples for 1135 species - this is amazing and such a great resource for anyone attempting to do flow cytometry: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Fig. 1 Evolution and potential contributions of alternative splicing (AS) along the speciation continuum.

#TansleyInsight: Evolutionary #genetics of alternative splicing in #plants

@peterinnes1.bsky.social, Nolan Kane & @chriscrsmith.bsky.social
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📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue

Can we predict gene expression evolution? In flour beetles, transcriptome-wide selection predicts expression change, with indirect selection acting strongest on pleiotropic, network-central genes—linking co-expression architecture to adaptation.
academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... Photo: Udo Schmidt

Why do selfing rates vary across a species’ range? In alpine monkeyflower, self-fertilization increases away from the range center, supporting the abundant center hypothesis over historical range expansion in shaping reproductive assurance.
academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
Photo Credit: Brewbooks

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

Sites of sunflower multi-environment trials.

Climate drives variation in optimal phenology

Clark et al.

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MCQ8GR...

Thanks nature news for featuring our recent preprint on 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘣𝘢 led by @hbrappap.bsky.social

(check out preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...) #protistsonsky

🌻 Sharing this preprint where we assembled 3 new chromosome-level genomes, including the first for Asteraceae's South American sister Calyceraceae! Asteraceae uses all the tricks when it comes to being the most ecologically successful family of flowering plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our review on alternative splicing evolution, with @peterinnes1.bsky.social and Nolan Kane!

Evolution and potential contributions of alternative splicing (AS) along the speciation continuum.

Evolutionary #genetics of alternative splicing in plants

#TansleyInsight by @peterinnes1.bsky.social, Nolan C. Kane and @chriscrsmith.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience #speciation

Thanks to @chriscrsmith.bsky.social for the invitation to write this Tansley Insight together! First pub in one of my favorite journals @newphyt.bsky.social 🌱 🥹

Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book.

gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b...
book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/

Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable

dm me with comments , ideas etc

@ecoevorxiv.bsky.social Excited to read this review, “Genomic insights into the origin of ecotypes”, by Johannesson et al ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Check out our new preprint! This was such a great paper to work on with @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social and the rest of the team!

Plant genome sequencing needs to go tropical Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Whole-genome plant sequencing is heavily biased towards species from temperate regions and species with utilitarian values. An expansion of efforts to include tropical...

Plant genome sequencing needs to go tropical. Check out this commentary I wrote with Felipe Zapata (UCLA) and María José Sanín (Montgomery Botanical Center) out today in Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1/5 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Research Assistant/Technician 3 Staff - Non Union Job Category Non Union Technicians and Research Assistants Job Profile Non Union Salaried - Research Assistant /Technician 3 Job Title Research Assistant/Technician 3 Department Rese...

The Todesco lab at MSL UBC is looking for a Research Tech to help us run the lab and do fancy science! Good wet lab skills and enthusiasm for plant research are required, experience with genomics and bioinformatics is a plus. See ad below, please spread the voice! 🧬🌻🧪🌱🔬🧫
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Hello bluesky community!

I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

The final version of our paper on the evolution of supergenes and mechanisms underlying distyly in Linum is now up at New Phytologist doi.org/10.1111/nph....

maybe my favorite paper I've written, I have a synthesis out today early access in @asn-amnat.bsky.social today that attempts to answer a simple but slippery question: what is an elevational range? doi.org/10.1086/737130