Thank you to everyone who made it to my #Evol2026 talk on Wednesday and hung out with me while traveling solo! 💕
Mags
@bisexualbotanist.bsky.social
Grad Student at MSU. 🏳️🌈💙💜💖 🧬Hybrid Polyploid Investigator. Cryptic Taxa Finder. Opinions are my own. 🇺🇸🏴🏴🇮🇪
Today is the day! It’s also the last day of #Evol2026 after lunch come see what clues we have for answering the question of E.B. stricta! 2:45 - Hybridization I
If you are a mystery solver, want to learn more about hybridization or just love boechera come check out my talk #Evol2026 tomorrow at 2:45 “What roles have polyploidy and hybridization played in the evolution of eastern Boechera stricta?”
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Boechera’s idea of resistance is pushing forward new growth even when the rest of you is dead
Faodail!! When your friends were telling you about dimorphic violets popping up around the city, and you finally see them in your yard! #violets #dimorphism #naturalmutations #variation
When your mentee got 3rd place at #UURAF!!! So proud of Jas’s work developing methods for assessing plant performance between genotypes to answer questions on the effect of Urban Oases! #UndergradResearch #MSU
What a MASSIVE scientific undertaking 🤩 Stephens et al. inferred orthogroups for over 100 scleractinia reference genomes/transcriptomes - 228 datasets total! I can only begin to imagine what incredible insights can be gained from this 🪸🧬🧪 #popgen #evolution #coralreefs #phylogentics #EvoBio
Genome Biology and Evolution@genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 4mo agoStephens, Kulczyk & @bhattacharyalab.bsky.social suggest that dark genes (those with no ascribable biological function) in stony corals originated via bursts of lineage-specific duplication, often from genes with known functions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag072 #genome #evolution #corals
Since I’ll being doing less field work this year, some great views from last year #smokeymountains #boechera #fieldwork
When Boechera is growing near a Fairy Trap…we still collected though (less than 10% of material in accordance with Kentucky permitting)
Thanks Kew! The paper itself can be found here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Kew Gardens@rbgkew.bsky.social · last yr.BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪 Scientists at Kew & QMUL @qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍 Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat... #PlantScience #SciNews
Can you guess what we did on our “rest” day? 🌈🦋🎸 …we still leaned over fences hoping to get the ultimate “field” collection…
Got to look out at the Smokey’s before driving through them! 🗻💨
When we were driving through the Mountains to Tennessee, we got to see why they are called the Smokey’s 😅
In Houston’s Gulfton, where sidewalks hit 135°F, residents are planting trees, building pollinator gardens and redesigning parks to create “cool corridors.” By working with nature, they’re beating the heat, building community and showing how cities can adapt to extreme heat.
🚨The Florida government is going to tear down Everglades wetlands so they can build a tent camp in the swamp to fuel Trump's mass deportation operations — and they’re going to get money from Trump that Congress intended for humanitarian care to recently arrived-migrants.
Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · last yr.Scoop: Florida is building a detention facility for migrants nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” in the Everglades designed to help the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. DHS will help pay for the detention facility with money from FEMA. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
I almost forgot, a big thank you the @msupri.bsky.social and the plant bio department for funding to attend #Evol25
Mags@bisexualbotanist.bsky.social · last yr.Dioloch, thank you to everyone who came and talked to me or watched me present during the poster session. I’m really excited to update you all in the progress next year! #Evol25 #Boechera
Good news! We posted about this yesterday, but here’s a deeper look: A dangerous provision buried in Trump’s domestic policy bill has been struck down.
Dioloch, thank you to everyone who came and talked to me or watched me present during the poster session. I’m really excited to update you all in the progress next year! #Evol25 #Boechera
Mags@bisexualbotanist.bsky.social · last yr.Poster is live #Evol25
EXCLUSIVE: 80% of anti-trans organizations receive direct funding from fossil fuel billionaires or companies, per an investigation shared exclusively with @atmosmag.bsky.social and HEATED. @yessfun.com with a big one, in collaboration with @emilyatkin.bsky.social 🧪🌎
Fossil Fuel Billionaires Are Bankrolling the Anti-Trans Movement | Atmos
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
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Looking forward to Sarah and Adam’s talks! We’ve been attempting a pilot study in collaboration with the Lebeis Lab!
MSU Plant Resilience Institute@msupri.bsky.social · last yr.Meet the Great Lakes Plant Science Conference featured faculty speakers: 🦠 Sarah Lebeis, MSU ☀️ Alizée Malnoë, IU Bloomington 🍃 Adam Mott, UTSC 🧬 Ronan O’Malley, UChicago Attend #GLPSC2025 to network with cutting-edge plant scientists! Register and view the full agenda: research.msu.edu/glpsc2025
You know you have at least one item at home that would look better tie dyed.
