Congratulations to @dortizba.bsky.social on a new collaborative Tansley Review in @newphyt.bsky.social! Predictive evolutionary genomics: principles, validation, and practice doi.org/10.1111/nph....

We are looking for an **assistant professor in ecology** in our integrative biology department, a vibrant dept focused on ecology, evolution, organismal biology, with several linked centers including natural history collections! PLEASE APPLY! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489

The prestigious Miller Research Postdoctoral Fellowship is open! University of California, Berkeley This is a postdoc fellowship with substantial support and independence to be hosted at a lab at Berkeley, reach out with interests! miller.berkeley.edu/nominate-app...

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Tahir Ali, Ph.D.@tahirali-biomics.bsky.social · 2mo ago

SMBE 2026 — A wake‑up call Genetic diversity is collapsing, and global policy is still treating it as optional. Spp have already lost >10% of their genetic variation — the very engine of adaptation & survival. Scientists are raising the alarm. 🔗 genetic-diversity-scientists-warning.github.io

Had a great time in the plenary! Here a partial view from the stage when the room did a live voting on understanding genetic diversity! #smbe2026

Fantastic final plenary at #SMBE2026 by Moises Exposito-Alonso; transplant experiments suggest that Arabidopsis populations are lagging in adaptation to rising temperature by 2°C; other species likely worse.

#SMBE2026 What a fantastic talk by @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social on adaptation to the anthropocene in Arabidopsis 🌱 Adaptation is rapid and predictable but we have to do more to protect species adaptive potential! 🧬 Truly inspiring 👏

@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social has officially converted me into a plant person 🌱 #SMBE2026

Be sure to attend tonight the poster and find the amazing Tati Bellagio @tbellagio.bsky.social with hot (literally) updates of environmental adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana using a new pangenome aware method for outdoor experimental evolution #PEQG26

Tatiana Bellagio@tbellagio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come see my poster tn! For 3 yrs, populations evolved at 43 sites worldwide. I built kMate, an alignment-free, pangenome k-mer method to track SNP & SV frequencies across space & time, opening the door to accurately and efficiently mapping climate-adaptive variants on evolution experiments! #PEQG26

Be sure to attend tonight the poster and find the amazing Tati Bellagio @tbellagio.bsky.social with hot (literally) updates of environmental adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana using a new pangenome aware method for outdoor experimental evolution #PEQG26

Tatiana Bellagio@tbellagio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come see my poster tn! For 3 yrs, populations evolved at 43 sites worldwide. I built kMate, an alignment-free, pangenome k-mer method to track SNP & SV frequencies across space & time, opening the door to accurately and efficiently mapping climate-adaptive variants on evolution experiments! #PEQG26

Would love to hear your thoughts and for you to test it on your data 😉 Poster #308T

Come see my poster tn! For 3 yrs, populations evolved at 43 sites worldwide. I built kMate, an alignment-free, pangenome k-mer method to track SNP & SV frequencies across space & time, opening the door to accurately and efficiently mapping climate-adaptive variants on evolution experiments! #PEQG26

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

Please join us in congratulating 2026 GSA Early Career Medal recipient @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social!🎉 Recognized for pioneering research on plant adaptation, genetic diversity, & climate change, he is shaping the future of biodiversity science. 🔗: buff.ly/7MBsZ4l

Very nice feature Innovative Genomics Institute at Berkeley about our team! Our goal is to learn about evolution to climate! innovativegenomics.org/news/moi-exp...

Moi Expósito-Alonso Joins IGI's Climate Team

The Moi lab is joining the IGI and is using CRISPR to study how plant genomes evolve to adapt to climate change over time.

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Thank you @adrigov.bsky.social for the nice summary in Plantae.org of our paper!

Plantae.org@plantaeofficial.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Plant Science Research Weekly --  Can plants adapt quickly enough to keep up with climate change? (Science) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social @bossdorf.bsky.social @carlos-lara0.bsky.social (Summary by Adrian Gonzalez Ortega Bluesky: @adrigov.bsky.social) buff.ly/P2kiysF #PlantaePSRW

Plant Science Research Weekly --  Can plants adapt quickly enough to keep up with climate change? (Science) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social @bossdorf.bsky.social @carlos-lara0.bsky.social (Summary by Adrian Gonzalez Ortega Bluesky: @adrigov.bsky.social) buff.ly/P2kiysF #PlantaePSRW

Can plants adapt quickly enough to keep up with climate change? | Plantae

In a new article by Wu et al., a large team of collaborators led by the Moi lab addressed this question by doing a huge outdoor evolution experiment at 30 places with different climates.

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#PlantSci April 10 plantae.org/plant-scienc... (2/2) Stress accelerates aging! (In leaves); Real-time climate adaptation study of Arabidopsis; SAR signaling mediated by jasmonate; Rice that suppress rhizosphere methane production; Exuded benzoazinoids alter microbiota & promote disease resistance.

Our team appeared in The Daily Californian news! Discussing our experimental evolution in Science Magazine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and a recent paper on the threat of genetic diversity loss in PNAS doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Check it out: www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

📢Acaba de publicarse en la revista Science (@science.org) el artículo "Rapid adaptation and extinction in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis" del que Carlos Lara (@carlos-lara0.bsky.social ), Alfredo García, Martí March y José María Iriondo (@txiriondo.bsky.social ),... 👇

Check out this Science paper with contributions from iDiv members Walter Durka (@ufz.de) and Marcel Quint (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB)@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

Finally, big paper #1 from GrENE-net, the unique distributed Arabidopsis evolution experiment! What an achievement, particularly by Moi, Niek and Francois who conceived the project (in Tübingen), and by the incredibly smart Moi Lab data analysis team: Lucas, Tati, Meixi, Xing and Moi!

Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB)@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

Happy to be part of the grene-net.org research network, which published its first paper in @science.org #universityoftheaegean #research www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rapid adaptation and extinction in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis

Climate change forces species to adapt rapidly to avoid extinction. To directly observe rapid adaptation and extinction, we conducted synchronized evolution experiments with Arabidopsis thaliana in 30...

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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB)@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

Incredibly grateful to the grene-net.org community that pushed this distributed experiment forward. To lab members leading the work at different stages, Xing Wu, Tatiana Bellagio, Ru Peng, Lucas Czech, Meixi Lin, and others And to co-coordinators of the network Niek Scheepens and Francois Vasseur!

Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB)@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

And check out the news release from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social !

Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB)@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

Congrats to our 2026 GSA Award recipients! They have made significant contributions to science, including scientific discoveries, mentoring, creation of community resources, and education. Learn more about them: buff.ly/6zAwQQ1 Join us in celebrating their accomplishments.👏 1/3🧵⬇️

🧬 Edward Novitski Prize: Mike O’Connor, University of Minnesota 🏅 GSA Medal: @schacherer.bsky.social, @unistra.fr 🧑‍🏫 GSA Mentorship Award: @irinakitop@bsky.social, @fredhutch.org 3/3🧵

🏫 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education: Brian Donovan 🎓 GSA Early Career Medal: @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 🌎 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal: Judith Kimble, @uwbiochem.bsky.social 🔬 George W. Beadle Award: Aaron Mitchell, @universityofga.bsky.social 2/3🧵

IGI's Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) on his path from growing up in Spain and dreaming of becoming an ecologist to running a research group at Berkeley, studying plant adaptation to #ClimateChange. New from IGI's Emma MacKenzie! Read here: https://ow.ly/g4ph50XAjp4