A day in the greenhouse is a day well spent 🫶
Christina Steinecke
@christeinecke.bsky.social
Grad student at @HarvardOEB, studying polyploid speciation in Phlox, broadly into evolution, pretty flowers, birds, frogs, and bicycles 🏳️🌈 Free Palestine 🇵🇸 (@QueensU & @TrentU Alum) she/her
🌱Check out this new #AJB Review!🌱 The #polyploid continuum & the landscape of polyploid genomic variation By Alex Twyford, Justin Conover, Jeff Doyle, Annaliese Mason, Douglas Soltis, Pamela Soltis & Jonathan Wendel doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #polyploidy @soltislab.bsky.social
Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book. gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b... book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/ Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable dm me with comments , ideas etc
Applied Biostatistics
ybrandvain.github.io
I cannot believe our work is finally out there and in @journal-evo.bsky.social ! This was an enormous group effort! We provide an updated estimate of the number of buzz pollinated angiosperm species, genera, and families, look at consequences for diversification, number of transitions, and more!
Mario Vallejo-Marin@nicrodemo.bsky.social · 10mo agoHow many plant species are buzz pollinated? After more than six years in the making, our paper on the convergent evolution of buzz pollinated flowers is out in @journal-evo.bsky.social. Thanks @draverbee.bsky.social @roszenil.bsky.social and all co-authors for your hard work! doi.org/10.1093/evol...
AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 Viral-induced flower colour breaking reveals that turnip mosaic virus infection prevalence increases with urbanization in the invasive Hesperis matronalis Kaitlyn Dawson et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #PlantScience #Botany
New paper by former MSc student @christeinecke.bsky.social! ⭐ A behemoth effort to apply artificial selection on clonal reproduction in #Mimulus guttatus. We show that clonality evolves quickly, but not symmetrically in both directions, and multivariate life history traits are altered too! 🧪🌾
bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 11mo agoLife-history evolution under artificial selection in a clonal plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679824v1
AOP @ijpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨Undergraduate research🚨 Viral-induced flower colour breaking reveals that turnip mosaic virus infection prevalence increases with urbanization in the invasive Hesperis matronalis Kaitlyn Dawson et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #PlantScience #Botany
journals.uchicago.edu
Awesome (allo)polyploid Phlox presentation from @christeinecke.bsky.social … a ton of fieldwork behind it #Botany2025
I'm missing #Evol2025 @sse-evolution.bsky.social this year, but representing the lab is fantastic grad student @isabeaulewis.bsky.social speaking on Mon Jun 23 in Evolutionary Ecology III at 2:45 on kin discrimination in #Mimulus plants! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
As a Harvard international graduate student… I’m sad. And scared. Really scared.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.Harvard has just under 6,800 foreign students enrolled. Every one of them would have to give up their dreams of an education in the US or transfer elsewhere, if Noem's attack on Harvard is upheld. None of them have done anything wrong, they're just collateral damage to Trump.
🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 For American students planning to start grad school who are reconsidering their USA offers (or had offer rescinded), my Canadian university #QueensU announced a special funding call. Want to join my lab to study #plant #evolution? Get in touch! 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴 🌿🌸🌾🪴
I hope every single Tufts parent out there calls the University and their reps about this.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY