📢 NEW GENOME ALERT

In #G3journal, @owengosborne.bsky.social et al. present a high-quality genome assembly and high-density linkage map of Silene uniflora, a hermaphroditic species that is emerging as an important model for rapid adaptation to human disturbances. buff.ly/dnhnUDF

🎉 Exciting milestone … my first PhD paper has been accepted in the Journal of Experimental Biology! 🥳
Not all winter warming is equal: steady, mild winters increase activity and can cause molecular damage, but short, warm spells have little effect on wall lizards 🦎

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

First post! New paper in Infection & Immunity.

We asked: what do #probiotics do to microbiome & immune system?

They do more to microbiome than immune system, but depended on probiotic & effects fleeting with cocktail impacts different than individual strains.
journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Photographic evidence that it has also colonised a galaxy far, far away...Silene uniflora growing on Luke Skywalker's island retreat (aka Skellig Michael)!

With me, @amyellison.bsky.social @briangratwicke.bsky.social, Louise Barwell,
@lancasterlt.bsky.social & @gretabocedi.bsky.social.

@meebangor.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

Eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)

We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders.
Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328

Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @meebangor.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @ukri.org @pnas.org

Sexual selection promotes reproductive isolation in barn swallows Despite the well-known effects of sexual selection on phenotypes, links between this evolutionary process and reproductive isolation, genomic divergence, and speciation have been difficult to establis...

In 2013 Liz Scordato & I did a ~6k mi transect of Russia. It was *part* of a larger study of how divergence in traits used in mate choice & competition affects the formation of new species. Today, we have a paper in Science, led by Drew Schield & Becca Safran 🧪🪶🦚
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In 2020, we showed that studies published in ecological journals WITH a code-sharing policy showed a 21% reproducibility potential at max (Culina et al 2020, @plosbiology.bsky.social)

We've now investigated journals WITHOUT a code-sharing policy. The results are worrying.

📰 doi.org/10.32942/X21...