Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today STANFORD, CA—Calling it a “pretty slow one” as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. ...

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today

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Thank you Fernando!! :)

Thanks Seema! I’m so glad you were able to tune in!

It’s official!!!! I’m Dr. Love!!!!

Today @jillmlove.bsky.social have an amazing talk in her public dissertation defense on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in #Mimulus . Jill, you’ve accomplished so much. I’m so proud of you.

#ProudPI #Mimuluspropaganda

I’ll be there!! Hope to see some familiar faces! :)

This looks awesome!!!

Hey Asia Hightower's @puffballove.bsky.social cool paper analyzing 1000s of leaf shapes in published in #AppsPlantSci doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

Enabling Fieldwork for All (EFFA) Framework: Supporting physical, social, financial, and psychological safety in the field Comprehensive review of fieldwork safety literature across disciplines yields synthesized recommendations.

Excited to share a new paper written by a AAAS Policy Fellow I mentor, Dr. Lisa Walsh.

“This review synthesizes literature on fieldwork safety across scientific disciplines, highlighting four facets of safety for leaders and researchers to address: physical, social, financial, and psychological.”

A centromere but not just a centromere: structure and evolution of a selfish chromosomal supergene in monkeyflowers www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

All prospective biology postdocs should be allowed one public crashout tomorrow, as a treat

Thanks Jannice! I have a video from the audience, at least :)

Jill holding her grand prize certificate

I won Tulane’s 3 Minute Thesis competition today! Woohoo! A big win for my campaign “Make Phenotypic Plasticity Easy To Understand” - next stop, regionals in Baton Rouge!

The genomic basis of local adaptation to photoperiod across altitude in a self-fertilizing monkeyflower Local adaptation along altitudinal gradients is well documented in many plant species, however the genetic basis of adaptive variation over these steep environmental clines remains poorly understood. ...

Another preprint to share from the Ferris Lab @ferrisifolius.bsky.social! This project started as co-author Aditi Mahesh’s undergrad honors thesis and became my first dive into bioinformatics. Excited to share these results on the genomics of photoperiod adaptation!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The genomic basis of local adaptation to photoperiod across altitude in a self-fertilizing monkeyflower Local adaptation along altitudinal gradients is well documented in many plant species, however the genetic basis of adaptive variation over these steep environmental clines remains poorly understood. ...

Another preprint to share from the Ferris Lab @ferrisifolius.bsky.social! This project started as co-author Aditi Mahesh’s undergrad honors thesis and became my first dive into bioinformatics. Excited to share these results on the genomics of photoperiod adaptation!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Paper submitted!!!! Way to go @jillmlove.bsky.social !!!! You're on 🔥 this year !!!!!!! #ProudPI

Preprint coming soon to a screen near you... #Mimuluspropaganda

(this post is sponsored by the "Katie thinks we should celebrate anything we can right now" corporation for public expressions of joy)

Down for me too! On the day my manuscript dropped 🤨

Phenotypic plasticity is broadly adaptive across an elevation gradient in the Cutleaf Monkeyflower Phenotypic plasticity is a key mechanism by which organisms can cope with environmental heterogeneity, but its evolutionary consequences depend on how plastic responses align with the broader adaptive...

Preprint up now! With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social, we found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity across the altitudinal range of the cutleaf monkeyflower. This experiment was a HUGE personal undertaking. If you give it a read, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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Phenotypic plasticity is broadly adaptive across an elevation gradient in the Cutleaf Monkeyflower www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12...

Fine-scale geothermal variation shapes flowering phenology in the extreme AHQ habitat.

Novel major loci shape habitat-associated flowering time variation in Yellowstone monkeyflowers

Berg et al.

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Preprint coming soon! 🎉

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here

Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

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The deadline to apply to the Access, Inclusion, and Community (AIC) Committee has been extended to December 15!

The Access, Inclusion, and Community (AIC) Committee is recruiting! Happy to answer any questions :)

The evolution of plasticity and evolvability in a simple gene regulatory network How do organisms adapt to changing environments? Do they respond plastically or evolve through genetic alterations? We present a large-scale simulation stu

#paper How do organisms adapt to changing environments? Through plasticity, evolution, or a combination of both?
Find out in our new paper by Alger Jorritsma, where we show which strategies evolve under different environmental conditions. @journal-evo.bsky.social

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We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...