Jay Keche G.
@caterpillar-coevo.bsky.social
Evolutionary genetics of plant-insect interactions. Sault Tribe Chippewa. Assistant Prof @ Arizona State University.
A revolution in annotating protein coding genes in eukaryotes: Richard Krieg, Joscha Diehl & @masta.bsky.social developed Vipsania, a genome foundation model with integrated HMM-layer: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🎉💐 So impressive work! Congratulations!
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New Mongue lab publication alert! The first first-author paper for master's student @ethangrebler.bsky.social who started this work as an undergraduate in the lab! The genome assembly of the ambush bug Phymata mystica! Read about it here: academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad... Highlights below 1/5
i turned off all autocorrect and "smart typing" features on my devices and life is so much better now
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2w agoThe thing that bothers me is when I’m typing something on my phone and I type a word and then another word and the phone decides I really meant some two word phrase so I then have to go back and change both words even the one that was FINE AS IT WAS
I get why he made the video (it was cute) but it’s a fact that bicycle helmets are not designed to protect cyclists in the event of a collision with a car. We need to stop putting the onus on people doing the dying rather than people doing the killing.
Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 2w agoMayor Mamdani's focus on a helmet paints deadly crashes as the failure of vulnerable road users to protect themselves, rather than as the failure of government to stop completely avoidable carnage. buff.ly/0HIM3RQ
The Desert Botanical Garden is hiring!! 🌵🌻🏜️ We are looking for a new Chief Research Officer - somebody to lead our fantastic research dept. which encompasses work on plant conservation, climate adaptation, biodiversity, and more! Please share the link below with anybody that may be interested!
Desert Botanical Garden - Vice President & Chief Research Officer
Desert Botanical Garden is seeking a visionary scientific leader to help define the future of desert research. As Vice President & Chief Research Officer, you will set the strategic direction for ...
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Hello world! You bored? My research group is documenting flower color variation and you can help! check out tribblelab.org/flower_color... and dm me with any technical difficulties or issues. Share with your friends! The more players the better.
In Bloom — Flower Color Quiz
A crowdsourced flower-color observation quiz.
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highlights from this morning's trail run at #botany2026. successfully avoided tripping on a rock and falling into any number of prickly things.
Anti-Indigenous environmentalism treats Indigenous Peoples as outsiders on lands they have stewarded for generations. #FreshBananaLeaves #GrowingPapayaTrees #IndigenousScience #EarthDaughters
I have always wanted to be able to view the genome, protein, and protein structure at the same time. Last week I built this utility with Claude Science. Click protein domain to zoom to structure and genomic region. I hope you find it as revealing and useful as I do. github.com/DavidSternLa...
PAPER from @pnovik.bsky.social #PlantScience royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Autopolyploidy exacerbates dominance masking under negative frequency-dependent selection: evidence from sporophytic self-incompatibility in Arabidopsis arenosa and Arabidopsis lyrata
Abstract. Polyploidy is widespread within flowering plants, with 35% of extant species being recent polyploids. Whether and how polyploidy modulates the ac
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Interested in joining a growing lab in LA? We’re hiring a postdoc!! Please spread the word to folks in your network and feel free to get in touch with any questions recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11142
It's on the university website so it's officially official now 😁
OrthoGLMM: Phylogenetic Association Testing for Gene Content and Trait Evolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.03.736217v1
1st, it's totally possible to travel by train further than you would first think. 2nd, night trains rule. Treat yourself to a comfortable option, it's probably cheaper than a hotel night + a train ticket.
A step forward in discovering Buchnera's key to the aphid's heart, published today! Thanks to Jerry Maeda and other authors--a great team -- and to the helpful reviewers #SymbioSky doi: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A secreted endosymbiont protein essential for colonizing host cells - Nature
SyeA was present in the Buchnera ancestor, is secreted into the host cytoplasm, is homologous to secreted effectors of bacterial pathogens and is essential for Buchnera transmission.
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ERGA member Roberto Biello @rsbiello.bsky.social will present @official-smbe.bsky.social July 1 in session "Open 10b: Population genetics and genomics 3b" #SMBE2026
I’m recruiting a PhD student to join our lab in the fall of 2027. If you’re excited about phylogenetics, comp bio, paleobiology, stats theory, macroevolution, etc. please get in touch! Folks at #Evol2026, you can talk to @brpetrucci.bsky.social & @sigournie.bsky.social to learn more about our lab
The full Mongue lab will be at #evol2026! Say hi or come see our work. All three of us have talks (pic related). Check this thread for some more specifics and we hope to see you there! 1/5
I am not at #Evol2026, but @conjustover.bsky.social is! Go check out his talk on collaborative work we have been doing with John Wakeley on simulating autotetraploids tomorrow at 4:15pm.
How did snakes get so long? Did they expand their necks? Torsos? Both? Do they even have necks? Find out (kind of) in 25A at 3:30 June 21st #Evolution2026
Fire on the mountain. Haven’t seen this since the 2020 Bighorn Fire.
The new OrthoFinder paper is out now! In this new work, we introduce major advances in accuracy and scalability, allowing analysis on much larger datasets www.nature.com/articles/s41... github.com/OrthoFinder/...
OrthoFinder: improved phylogenetic orthology inference with enhanced accuracy and scalability - Nature Methods
The updated OrthoFinder v3 software boosts accuracy and scalability in phylogenetic orthology inference with massive and diverse datasets.
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When caterpillars attack, the common bean plant relies on a receptor in its leaves to sound a chemical rallying cry that recruits predatory wasps, a new #ScienceAdvances study finds. https://scim.ag/434rXN5
A plant immune receptor mediates tritrophic interactions by linking caterpillar detection to predator recruitment
A plant receptor detects caterpillar attack and triggers emission of chemical cues to attract predatory wasps.
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