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 👇🏽
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
If you are researcher or student in Latin America apply for our Biodiversity Genomics course in Colombia from 27th-31st July 2026 (10 days left for registration) biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com
This unbelievable microscopic image taken by Hans Kerp is of an early land plant from ~409 million years ago. Exquisite preservation in Scottish sandstone (Rhynie Chert) reveals sperm cells (upper right) released on a fateful day by the “antheridium.” The paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Home page of manakin app showing some butterflies found in connecticut
A species page for Spring Azure, photo at the top, then the phenology plotted as a histogram, and some information about the species.
The dataset loading page, you can request a location, taxa, and the minimum observations
An organism of the day page showing a Four-toed Salamander
I made a little android app to better explore what species are around! It's called Manakin (play on the Merlin app) and it lets you download and explore iNat data. It can also help you plan out trips and remind you when your target species is active.
We are looking for a postdoc to help with a project on eelgrass genomics, in collaboration with the O'Connor and Rieseberg labs at UBC - see ad here tinyurl.com/2yd487p4! Come and join us in beautiful Vancouver 🌊🌾🏔️
biologists, we just fold right away. 'sexual size dimorphism' means males are bigger than females! 'latitudinal gradient' means higher values in the tropics! zero resistance to whatever majority view fixed in the 1970s, or whatever, lol
VIII Simposio Colombiano de Biología Evolutiva
Bogotá, 23-25 de julio
Inscripciones abiertas 📣
Recepción de resúmenes para presentaciones orales y carteles hasta el 22 de mayo.
Más info: lasalle.edu.co/es/viii-simp...
NEW PAPER 🎉🎉 I am very excited to share this work that took us more than a decade. Snakes that feed on poisonous frogs have very diverse NaV channels ❤️🐸🐍. Vivan las serpienticas y sus múltiples formas de comer! @rdtarvin.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
📣 2026 winner of the JMS Prize:
⭐ Wendy Valencia-Montoya
🐝🌼 "...a tiny insect pollinator must find its rare host plant. How do they find each other? What signals and sensory systems allow them to communicate? And once they meet, how do insects survive feeding on plants packed with neurotoxins..."
Al simposio, también le seguirá un curso de Genómica de la Biodiversidad, del 27 al 31 de julio.
¡Imperdible!
bsky.app/profile/joan...
Póster anunciando que las inscripciones para el VIII Simposio Colombiano de Biología Evolutiva están abiertas. Inscripción temprana hasta el 24 de abril.
VIII Simposio Colombiano de Biología Evolutiva
Bogotá, 23-25 de julio
Inscripciones abiertas 📣
Diversidad de invitados, cursos precongreso y simposios temáticos: Biogeografía, filogenética, EvoDevo, morfometría, enseñanza de la evolución y mucho más...
Más info: lasalle.edu.co/es/viii-simp...
Pablo Villar et al discover male octopus mating arms are sensory organs used to find females, navigate internally to the oviduct & deliver sperm. From behavior to structure, these findings offer a framework for how sensory systems shape reproduction & species barriers
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Congrats @wendyssae.bsky.social and @seananderson.bsky.social, you both embrace a humane academia and your work is outstanding and a constant source of awe. Richly deserved! 👏🏽🍾🤩
Delighted and grateful for this recognition from @sse-evolution.bsky.social. The Dobzhansky Prize is a special honor, and I'm thrilled to have been in the conversation this year. Big congrats to Wendy Valencia-Montoya!
Headshot of Wendy Valencia-Montoya. Text: Wendy Valencia-Montoya, 2026 Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize.
Congratulations to this year’s Dobzhansky Prize recipient, Dr. Wendy Valencia-Montoya! She will give the Dobzhansky Prize talk at #Evol2026 in Cleveland, OH in June. Learn more about her work: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...
@wendyssae.bsky.social
My PhD paper on my beloved cycads and beetles on the cover of Science!!!
Check out how we studied thermal infrared as a pollination signal, from molecular mechanisms to the wonders of behavior...
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Flyer of the course on "Introduction to Biodiversity Genomics". All information are also here: https://biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com/
In July, we will teach the 3rd biodiversity genomics course in Latin America, this time in Bogotá, following the COLEVOL meeting. We invite applications from students, postdocs and PIs from Latin America interested in learning how to analyse genomic data. biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com
Check out this paper by Shelley Sianta, myself, undergrad Amal Suri, @ybrandva, and Dave Moeller! Despite the notable absence of ANY early-generation hybrids in our dataset of 410 plants from selfing and outcrossing #clarkia sister taxa, we found substantial admixture. 1/4
Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...
Delighted to see our work on the cover of Systematic Biology!! We introduce an approach for analyzing pairwise-defined traits (e.g. 'strength of RI', 'diet niche overlap') in a phylogenetically informed context (R package 'phylopairs' now on CRAN). Read it here: academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...
¿Cómo llegó la agricultura al sur de los Andes? ¿Por migración o transmisión cultural? Nuestro nuevo paper en @nature.com combina ADN antiguo, isótopos, arqueología y paleoclima para reconstruir más de 2.000 años de historia en Uspallata, Mendoza.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Abro hilo🧵
(1/28+)
Wow, teaching evolution in Spanish, what a dream! Paving the way for that day yet to come, I’ve started to include full translations of my papers as part of supplementary materials.
Four major themes: Conditions & outcomes of hybridization, "cryptic" reproductive barriers, complex life cycles & mismatches in RI-gene flow measurements.
Reach out to us if you have any questions. @cecilemolinier.bsky.social & I are working to make this seminar as accessible as possible.
Screenshot of the registration page of the Gordon Research Seminar in Speciation 2027 at Lucca, Italy
Applications to the Gordon Research Seminar in Speciation are now open! We encourage PhD students & postdocs from all geographies, backgrounds, disciplines to APPLY!
This 2d seminar in beautiful Lucca 🇮🇹 will be followed by a 5d conference open to the broader community.
www.grc.org/speciation-g...
I am SO THRILLED to share our first fully-lab lab paper!!!!!! Led by @hybridzones.bsky.social & @hagarsoliman.bsky.social, w/ a major assist from @pfschwarz.bsky.social!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more below, if you're curious (you should be- it's AWESOME!!!!!!!)
link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Conceptual diagram of touch-sensitive stigma movements in Mazus miquelii. Higher temperatures accelerate both temporary closure and reopening. whereas permanent (irreversible) closure tracks pollination progress: greater pollen deposition and faster pollen-tube growth accelerate permanent closure, while pollen-tube position is positively associated with the time to permanent closure. Pollen source shows no detectable effect.
Linking environmental & pollination-related factors to touch-sensitive stigma closure dynamics in #Mazus miquelii
New #AJB research by Xiao-Fang Jin, Tian Luo, Chun-Feng Yang & Zhong-Ming Ye
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
#botany #plantscience #Mazaceae #pollen #pollination
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