I'm excited to share our paper on natural variation in the Arabidopsis circadian clock, published in @plantphys.bsky.social with Anna Philippova, @adaevo.bsky.social and @hikemaydon.bsky.social 🌱🕐. Thread below (🧵1/6) academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

A noncoding SNP in ELF3 alters ELF3β expression and confers adaptation of Arabidopsis to a continental climate

A naturally occurring variant in the Arabidopsis core clock gene EARLY FLOWERING 3 alters temperature responsiveness and has been selected for in regions o

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Historical Perspective: Sridhar et al. use the backstories of famous scientific papers in Ecology and Evolution to uncover the background roles of natural history that are written out of papers. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Linum bienne is the wild ancestor of a fiber crop, flax, and the threads of its evolutionary history are as entangled as it can get! 🪡🌱 We used (phylo)genomics to untangle how secondary contact and climatic shifts shaped this complex species across taxonomic scales. @rorrodew.bsky.social

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Reticulate evolution and climate driven diversification shaped the origin and geographic structure of Linum bienne https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.17.732954v1

🌿🧬 Ancient polyploidy events cluster around major environmental crises like the K-Pg extinction, PETM & Eocene-Oligocene Transition. Polyploids may have better survival odds during rapid climate change. Lessons from 132 dated WGD events in 470 angiosperms #plantscience www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The rise of polyploids during environmental upheaval

From the dating of 132 ancient whole-genome duplication events across 470 angiosperms, paleopolyploidization events cluster around pivotal periods of environmental upheaval and extinction, notably the...

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new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

Circadian oscillations in chromatin accessibility systematically orchestrate rhythmic gene transcription in soybean (Hao Tian (田昊) , Zijian Yang (杨梓健) , Qichao Lian (连启超) , et al) doi.org/10.1093/plce... #PlantScience @aspbofficial

Circadian oscillations in chromatin accessibility systematically orchestrate rhythmic gene transcription in soybean

Circadian changes in chromatin accessibility—how loosely or tightly DNA is packaged—temporally regulate the expression levels of rhythmic genes in soybeans

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Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients Into Clear Quantities - Julia M. Rohrer, Vincent Arel-Bundock, 2026

Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear model...

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#ggtree has a relatively steep learning curve. But after looking at a few Python alternatives eg., toytree, ETE, Bio.Phylo it's hard to match its layout versatility. 21 tree variants with just a few lines of code. #rstats #phylogenetics #bioinformatics

How does development shape the variation evolution can act on? In our new paper in @pnas.org , we bridge developmental dynamics and quantitative genetics, linking dynamical models of phenotype formation with the statistical parameters used to study evolutionary change www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Bridging developmental and statistical approaches to variation and evolution | PNAS

Phenotypic variation is the raw material for evolutionary diversification and adaptation. However, a critical gap remains in evolutionary theory be...

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Excited to share my first first-author paper from my master’s work at @carleton.ca , with @andrew-m-simons.bsky.social and Myron Smith! We explored how constraints on adaptation can aid the persistence of bet-hedging traits in the short term. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Avoiding dead ends: the experimental evolution of constraint as adaptation to environmental variation

Abstract. Environmental unpredictability can result in the evolution of bet-hedging traits, which maximize long-term fitness but are, by definition, subopt

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1/How do maladaptive responses to novel environments influence trait evolution? With field & lab studies, we (@jpvelotta.bsky.social & @mstager.bsky.social) explored this in deer mice along an elevational gradient. And...it's complicated! 😱 academic-oup-com.silk.library.umass.edu/evolut/artic...

“Overall, the message from this survey is positive; evolutionary biologists are readily employable outside of academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Leaving Academia: Insights from Evolutionary Biologists on Their Career Transitions and Job Satisfaction

Many who have obtained PhDs in evolutionary biology will ultimately pursue careers that fall outside a narrow definition of an academic career. At the same time, PhD students and supervisors of PhD st...

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Global phenology maps reveal the drivers and effects of seasonal asynchrony | Nature share.google/GZ5X7WR40b8K...

Global phenology maps reveal the drivers and effects of seasonal asynchrony - Nature

A global land surface phenology map predicts complex geographical discontinuities in flowering phenology, genetic divergence and harvest seasonality across a range of taxa.

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The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect. I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now. Check it out in pdf form: drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...

Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome) or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?

Interested in (studying) biological #clocks? Here is a brilliant and concise introduction to the field, focussing on #ciradian clocks, and stressing the #adaptive nature of clocks. And it's #OpenAccess ! #chronobiology 🧪 @doabooks.bsky.social doi.org/10.21827/686...

On the Essential Principles and Practice of Circadian Biology: A Road Map – Simple Book Publishing

Circadian Biology is about the adaptation of life to our rotating world, to the Earth’s 24-hour rhythm of day and night. Not surprisingly, the field has attracted considerable popular and scientific ...

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Over the last couple of years I have been writing individual chapters of what I call 𝗔 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Each chapter covers a specific, basic, but for some reason special and interesting aspect of #PlantScience research. Have a look here 👇🧵

Between 1637 and 1697, people who died at Milan's biggest hospital were dropped into underground vaults. Now their remains (including nearly 3 million bones & preserved brains) are helping archaeologists reconstruct the lives, diet and drug habits of people historians often overlook. @science.org

Thousands buried in 17th century Italian crypt reveal lives of working poor

Remains recovered from beneath a Milan hospital shed light on health, diet, and drug habits during the 1600s

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If you haven't heard it, RadioLab did a really great piece on the small government grant that led to the discovery of Taq polymerase Listen to: The Age of Aquaticus - one.npr.org/i/fis-452538...

🔊 Listen Now: The Age of Aquaticus

Radiolab from WNYC Radio on NPR One | 43:00

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📜 PHOTOPERIOD 1 enhances stress resistance and energy metabolism to promote spike fertility in barley under high ambient temperatures 🧑‍🔬 Tianyu Lan, @simonrdg.bsky.social, Maria von Korff, et al. 📔 @plantphys.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/plphys/advan... #️⃣ #PlantScience #Barley #PlantStress

PHOTOPERIOD 1 enhances stress resistance and energy metabolism to promote spike fertility in barley under high ambient temperatures

The major barley photoperiod response gene PHOTOPERIOD 1 enhances stress resistance, thereby maintaining spike carbon metabolism to drive floret and grain

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1/35 New paper out! @jamesTstroud and I dive into why long-term studies are crucial for understanding evolution. They reveal processes impossible to detect in short timescales and capture rare events that transform our understanding of evolutionary dynamics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Latitudinal clines in the phenology of floral display associated with adaptive #evolution during a biological invasion New #AJB research by Mia Akbar, Dale Moskoff, Spencer Barrett & @colauttilab.bsky.social bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #botany #plantscience #globalchange

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Natural neopolyploids: a stimulus for novel research

Recently formed allopolyploid species offer unprecedented insights into the early stages of polyploid evolution. This review examines seven well-studied neopolyploids (we use ‘neopolyploid’ to refer ....

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Stable whole gene duplication—persisting over evolutionary timescales—shown in the Long Termm Evolution Experiment. 🌱🐋🦫🦋🧪🗃️🧠 #EvoBio

Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment - Nature

In the Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment, diploid yeast evolve to be tetraploid under selection for larger multicellular size, revealing how whole-genome duplication can arise due to its...

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Try our new in silico PCR (sPCR) tool sharkmer- github.com/caseywdunn/s.... You give it primers and fastq reads, it gives you sequences that would be amplified by PCR. Works in minutes on a laptop for high copy regions like rRNA, great for species id etc. Feedback welcome. #bioinformatics #ngs

GitHub - caseywdunn/sharkmer

Contribute to caseywdunn/sharkmer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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When will hybridization bring long-term benefits? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.16.633403v1

stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/39789 A follow up to my post on the rate of species description. It is usually the next question people ask but not so easy to answer. 🧪 #botany #taxonomy #systematics @diimoffatt.bsky.social‬

There are more plant taxonomists today than there have ever been

In a previous post I proposed that the rate of plant species discovery had not significantly changed in the last fifty years despite enormous changes in technology. A comment was made that this might ...

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Experimental validation of genome-environment associations in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.08.631904v1

Day 16 in Evin for Cecilia Sala. #FreeCecilia