Today marks my first day as a full-time Lecturer in the Department of Biology at Stanford University! Looking forward to teaching ecology and evolution in the lecture hall, lab, and field and training many emerging biologists! And a big shout out today to those who inspired me in my own training! 🌲

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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Very excited to have started as a contract teaching faculty @laurierbiology.bsky.social for 300-level Evolution this spring and looking forward to providing a creative and engaging educational experience focused on active learning!

Join us here at @laurentianu.bsky.social as we rebuild our ecology/evolution group. We are hiring an assistant professor in animal ecology Working with me is a treat, so that's a bonus not mentioned in the ad. laurentian.ca/about/career...

☘️New paper!☘️ Very excited that my 3rd and final data chapter of my PhD with @evoecolab.bsky.social is now published in JEB! We manipulated precipitation and herbivory at field sites in Ontario and Louisiana to test their effects on white clover HCN chemical defense phenotypes

Journal of Evolutionary Biology@jevbio.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A field experiment by @lucasjalbano.bsky.social et al. assessing the roles of drought, herbivory, and local climate on cyanogenesis cline formation and local adaptation in Trifolium repens: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867

Big congrats to former Lowry Lab postdoc Daniel Anstett, who's paper: "Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought" is out in Science today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought

Populations that are declining as a result of climate change may need to evolve to persist. Although evolutionary rescue has been demonstrated in theory and in the laboratory, its relevance to natural...

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☘️NEW PAPER☘️ I am incredibly excited to announce that the centrepiece of my PhD was just published in Ecological Monographs! This was a massive transcontinental common garden experiment using white clover with researchers from UToronto 🇨🇦, UL Lafayette 🇺🇸, CNRS 🇫🇷, and SLU 🇸🇪 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Are you anywhere in the world (other than Canada) and want to do a PhD in my lab in Canada at Queen's University? We have a prestigious scholarship for 3-years of PhD funding. Get in touch, applications due early February. Must love plants and evolution! friedmanlab.ca

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Extremely proud of the outcome of this very cool experiment with @seemasheth.bsky.social that involved imposing a heatwave treatment on scarlet monkeyflower seedlings. It was really fun to be able to explore some plant ecophysiology concepts and put them in an evolutionary context. Please share!

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Rangewide responses of #Mimulus cardinalis to an extreme heat event New #AJB research by Lucas Albano, Robin Bingham, Sulma Correa, Catherine Laufenberg, Cristina Payst, Christopher Muir & Seema Nayan Sheth doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower #climatechange

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Urban Evolution and Ecology which will be held from Jan. 31 - Feb. 5, 2027. Please save the dates, and we look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Ventura Beach, California!

Excited to share the first two publications from our PERSIST (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species in Space and Time) project. Thanks to NSF-DEB for supporting this work! (1/3)

A resurrection study of scarlet monkeyflower populations across the species' range finds relatively little adaptive response to a seven-year drought event, showing that evolutionary rescue is not as predictable as we might hope 🌿 buff.ly/L8o4hhr

I'm hiring a full time fixed-term 1yr lab tech to assist with field and greenhouse projects related to floral evolution and plant reproductive ecology. Please share! Ideal start date early 2026. jobs.clemson.edu/psc/ps/JOBS/...

We are recruiting field technicians to contribute to a field study of adaptation to climate in Chamaecrista fasciculata in Raleigh/Chapel Hill, NC. My collaborators at UGA will soon post similar positions in Ithaca, NY and Archbold Biological Station, FL. Please share jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/225...

New paper from PhD student @ellmartin.bsky.social provides compelling experimental evidence that urbanization drives local adaptation, life history divergence and eco-evo feedbacks on a diverse community. Congrats Ella! 🌎🌆 #urbanecology #urbanevolution #evoeco

ella martin@ellmartin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Part one of my common garden experiment is out today in Nature E&E!! We compare how urban and rural environments affect selection on HCN production, local adaptation, and eco-evo dynamics in white clover doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Effects of urbanization on local adaptation and eco-evolutionary feedbacks in white clover - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evidence of adaptation to the urban environment remains limited. Using reciprocal transplants of white clover in urban and rural environments, this study shows divergent selection on an antiherbivore ...

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Incredibly proud to be a part of this amazing and ambitious collaboration and looking forward to putting all of the data together and exploring the results in the coming months!

Seema Sheth@seemasheth.bsky.social · last yr.

Yesterday was the last day of data collection for our scarlet monkeyflower project involving a resurrection study in 3 latitudinally arrayed common gardens. With tons of support from family, friends, and colleagues along the way, the literal seeds of this project developed in 2010.

Bittersweet to be completely finished field work at the beautiful Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, the site of the southern common garden of the PERSIST project on adaptation to climate in scarlet monkeyflower with @seemasheth.bsky.social. On to the central garden next!

Now out in Oecologia! Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are ant-plant mutualisms stronger at lower latitudes? A case study using the castor bean plant - Oecologia

The Biotic Interactions Hypothesis (BIH) predicts that species interactions will intensify from the poles to the tropics. We studied the ant-plant defensive interaction mediated by extrafloral nectari...

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Pooja Nathan@pothebug.bsky.social · 2y ago

The second chapter of my PhD is now available as a preprint! We sampled ant-plant interactions across a ~20° latitudinal gradient across the Indian subcontinent to test the biotic interactions hypothesis for mutualism. Check it out!

Very honoured to be involved in this huge collaboration investigating global invasion in ☘️ by contributing fitness data from the transcontinental common garden experiment I completed during my PhD with @evoecolab.bsky.social! Well done to @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social and many many others!

Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · last yr.

Whole-genome sequences and field experiments focusing on the global invasive forage crop, white clover, show high levels of genetic variation across continents and parallel signatures of selection in five haploblocks www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi #evol2025, our paper came out yesterday and I'd love to chat about it. We used an underused tool for studying parasite local adaptation, the Host Reciprocal Transplant, to study switchgrass and its fungal rust. doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Presenting the first paper to come out of my postdoc with @seemasheth.bsky.social at #Evol2025 tomorrow. Results from a growth chamber experiment on adaptation to heatwaves in Mimulus cardinalis, led by Robin Bingham! Adaptation IV in Athena CD at 5pm! 🔥

Very excited to see this final product from a cool study led by @brandonhendrickson.bsky.social that adds to the story of the invasion success of white clover across the globe 🌎☘️🌏☘️🌍

Annals of Botany@annbot.bsky.social · last yr.

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Evolution of drought resistance strategies following the introduction of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Despite everything else going on, I'm proud of what everyone in the lab has accomplished. I got behind on updating our lab news, and just updated the past 1.5 years that were missing 🫠 Thankful to work with this amazing bunch! seemasheth.weebly.com

The Sheth Lab

Lab news Spring/Summer 2025 We had lots of fun interacting with Emily Josephs during her GGA seminar at NC State. Thanks to the Guerrero Lab for hosting! Lucas Albano received a Global One Health...

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Preprint of our first manuscript from the PERSIST project (Predicting Evolutionary Rescue of a Species In Space and Time), with @lucasjalbano.bsky.social and many other co-authors not on BlueSky

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · last yr.

Evolutionary responses to historic drought across the range of scarlet monkeyflower https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.20.655098v1

Checkout new pre-print led by postdoc @lucasjalbano.bsky.social describing results from experiment led by sabbatical visitor Robin Bingham from Western Colorado U!

Lucas Albano@lucasjalbano.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨New preprint with @seemasheth.bsky.social! A resurrection experiment led by Robin Bingham (Western CO) showed that Mimulus cardinalis responded favourably to a heatwave treatment, plus enviro-specific divergent evol responses to a recent natural extreme heat event. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨New preprint with @seemasheth.bsky.social! A resurrection experiment led by Robin Bingham (Western CO) showed that Mimulus cardinalis responded favourably to a heatwave treatment, plus enviro-specific divergent evol responses to a recent natural extreme heat event. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Range-wide responses to an extreme heat event in Mimulus cardinalis

Premise: Extreme events are an understudied aspect of ongoing anthropogenic climate change that could play a disproportionate role in the threat that rapid environmental shifts pose to natural populat...

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