Missed this one... Thank you @laskyjr.bsky.social for the inspiring talk yesterday!
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

EcoCore; An ecologically diverse panel of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions for studying plant-environment interactions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

I am hiring a popgen postdoc!

Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed.

Job add & details 👇🏽

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Postdoc in Evolutionary Systems Biology - VIB About us The VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology (PSB, www.psb.vib-ugent.be) is a world-leading plant science institute with the mission to unravel the biology of plants and use the in

The VIB-UGent Center is seeking a postdoc in evolutionary systems biology to study whole-genome duplication impacts on plant evolution. Apply here: jobs.vib.be/j/133506/postdoc-in-evol... #postdoc

Very nice initiative from the Swiss railway company news.sbb.ch/en/019d7b77-...

Our review on adaptive introgression in the context of climate adaptation is now published in Mol Ecol:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In a nutshell: often invoked theoretically, rarely unambiguously demonstrated empirically!

Many thanks to everyone who shared feedback on earlier versions

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Professor in Epidemiology/Pathology for Agricultural Crop Plants - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Agroøkologi - Plantepatologi og Mikrobiologi, Aarhus Universitet

Exciting position open @aarhusuniint.bsky.social: Professor in Epidemiology/Pathology for agricultural crop plants www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

Two doctoral students in plant ecophysiology and ecosystem services of crop mixtures (Project: PhenoMix)

🌱 2 PhD positions open at @ethz.ch Grassland Sciences!

Join PhenoMix – a joint project at @ethz.ch, Swiss Data Science Center & @agroscope.bsky.social – studying legume-cereal crop mixtures in the field. Apply by 15 May 2026.

jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

@snf-fns.ch @usyseth.bsky.social

We are looking for a Tomato Breeder to join our Team @kwsgroup.bsky.social in Antalya, Türkiye.

jobs.kws.com/job/Eski%C5%...

Our Vegetable Division is expanding at the moment, and this is a good timepoint to get on board.

#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJob

If you are passionate about Plant Molecular/Developmental Biology and Genetics and hold an MSc. in plant biology, we can offer you a 4-year PhD position at @leibnizipk.bsky.social, starting earliest by 01.07.2026.

➡️Read more: tinyurl.com/4snhyjvy

Genome–host association mapping reveals wheat pathogen genes involved in host specialization - Nature Plants This study introduces genome–host association (GHA), leveraging natural epidemics to map the genetic landscape of host adaptation in the pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. Applied to 832 wheat fungal stra...

Thrilled to share our paper now out in Nature Plants 🎉
We developed a genome-host association (GHA) approach to study pathogen adaptation directly from field metadata by using the originating host cultivar as phenotype.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “Scientific Freedom Lecture” at NIH (Part I) Matt Ridley, global warming skeptic and co-author with Alina Chan of a book promoting a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, was invited by Jay Bhattacharya, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NI...

In March, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19.

The talk was so full of misrepresentations, omissions, falsehoods and lies that I will need several blog posts to debunk it. Here's Part I:

pandemonium.hypotheses.org/995

🧪 #covidorigin

Come listen to my talk about how enhancers evolve and how promoters emerge from randomly synthesized DNA sequences!

Postdoctoral Researcher, Plant Population Genomics We are now looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join us in Ecology and Genetics Research unit at the Faculty of Science, University of Oulu. At the University of Oulu Ecology and Genetics Research

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION OPEN

I have a 17‑month postdoc position open in a Research Council of Finland–funded project entitled “Genomics of high‑latitude parallel adaptation”. In this project we use Eurasian Arabidopsis lyrata as model system.
Read more from: oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/job...

🤩 Merci @inrap.fr pour cette belle expo sur le prince celte (?) de Lavau. Une excellent excuse pour découvrir cette magnifique ville de Troyes 🍾🥖🥐

Head of Department, Department of Biology

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We are soon to be headless....

So come be our new boss in lovely Copenhagen and lead a department with research interests
from genes to ecosystems, and everything alive in between.

#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

Deeply shaken by this news. Such a brilliant and kind human being.

These are, of course, war crimes and in fact totally intentional ones. The Israeli and American governments are demonstrating to the world their lack of regard for the most basic rules agreed to by civilized nations

W3-Professur für „Naturstoff- und Wirkstoffchemie“ und Direktor*in am IPB - Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (IPB) Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (IPB) bietet Stelle als W3-Professur für „Naturstoff- und Wirkstoffchemie“ und Direktor*in am IPB in Halle (Saale) - jetzt bewerben!

Professorship "Naturstoff- und Wirkstoffchemie". Halle, Germany.
#plantscijobs #plantscijob
www.academics.de/jobs/w3-prof...

Seminars

@clairemerot.bsky.social is speaking on Tuesday about "The role of structural genomic variants in the evolution of biodiversity" for our #PopGen Seminar Series. Our #PhD students look forward to meeting her! See full schedule and streaming details at www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/ #evolution

I am shocked I tell you. SHOCKED.

Granulés de bois : une énergie verte controversée.
Fabriqués à l’origine avec de la sciure et des copeaux de bois, ces pellets sont aujourd’hui produits par des sites industriels qui puisent davantage dans la ressource forestière.
'Grand Reportage' et série audio
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Ever wondered how the #cuticle, a hallmark of land plants, was established?

In our latest study, we show that the CUTIN SYNTHASE enzyme family was a key driver of this evolutionary innovation. #plantscience

▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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🎓 Applications open for Master 2 EvoGEM which provides theoretical and methodological training to interpret evolutionary patterns from genomic data.
✔️ Evolution, Maths, Population and quantitative genetics, Phylogenetics
✔️ Tutored projects
✔️Fully taught in English
📍Paris
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Two models for the nature of pleiotropy in adaptation. Left: Schematic of the environmental structure in this study. Environments can be mapped onto a multidimensional environment space characterized by chemical and physical compositions. The large green circle represents an environment where adaptive mutants evolved, and the large pink circle is a distant environment. Around each base, a set of identical environmental perturbations (arrows) is applied, generating clusters of similar environments around distinct base environments. Top right: Schematic of fitnotype map for adaptive mutants near their home base environment. By measuring fitness in each of the green environments, one can infer how many fitnotypes matter for this set of mutants in their home environment. Here, only four of the possible 8 fitnotypes matter. Bottom right: When the mutants are moved to the distant base environment, and their fitness is measured in all pink environments (base and perturbations), there are two possibilities. Either more fitnotypes become important and the space appears higher-dimensional (left, pleiotropic expansion), or the set of fitnotypes that matters remains low-dimensional, but shifts (right, pleiotropic shift).

Predicting the effect of a #mutation on #fitness is hard. @oliviamghosh.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social &co use fitness effects of adaptive yeast mutants to show that underlying genotype-phenotype-fitness maps are low-dimensional but context-dependent @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dLy2Ez

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Job advertisement for PhD and postdoc positions

For our project in the context of the Excellence Cluster GreenRobust
@greenrobust.de
we look for 2 PhD students and 1 postdoc in the area of plant molecular and evolutionary ecology.

Deadline: 15 April

Reposts are welcome

#plantjobs #plantscijobs