The Gaynor Ecology and Evolution of Polyploids lab at Florida State is recruiting a postdoc! Interested in developing tools, methods, or theory related to population genomics and coexistence? Not afraid of polyploids? Find out more about the postdoc position here: mlgaynor.com#join-us

New paper! We found additional loci impacting snail resistance to schistosome parasites. We re-examined old mapping data by aligning to a new improved reference genome, letting us find new hits. Genome assembly reveals information previously hidden in plain sight. journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

The growing repertoire of putative pathogen interaction genes in the Biomphalaria glabrata vs Schistosoma mansoni system

Author summary Schistosomiasis is a major neglected tropical disease of humans that is caused by trematodes in the genus Schistosoma. Schistosomes require aquatic snails as obligate intermediate hosts...

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excited to share a new preprint! We can describe the expected spectrum of genotype configuration counts under a given population selfing rate from Nordborg and Donnelly's partial-selfing model. Think SFS.... but including information about pairing within diploids: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Estimating self-fertilization rates from the diploid genotype spectrum

The distribution of self-fertilization across the tree of life remains poorly characterized. Here we present the diploid genotype spectrum (DGS) as a useful genomic data summary for characterizing pop...

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The @burkemuseum.bsky.social is offering funds to support graduate and postdoctoral research visits to the collections, including our University of Washington Herbarium! Please help us get the word out! More information is available here: www.burkemuseum.org/collections-...

Collections Study Grants

Collections study grants provide financial assistance for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers to study the collections of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (UWBM).

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The US is not an outlier not only because we don’t use the metric system, but also because we have 8 1/2” x 11” standard office paper rather than A4. And we have our odd paper size for roughly the same reason that we don’t use meters.

A4 Paper Is One of Humanity’s Greatest Achievements

How a boring white rectangle became a triumph of mathematics, standardisation and cooperation... and why America looked at all of that and chose 8½ × 11.

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Please share! Our department has two tenure-track job ads up today. Here is the #botany job, with an open mind towards multiple subdisciplines. Fantastic facilities, perfect-sized institution, easy living. Come work here! bsu.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Exciting news!! I'm chairing the search in my department @lsubiosci.bsky.social for an **Endowed Chair in Lichenology**! The candidate should be tenured (or equivalent), and have a documented track record in excellent in collections-based lichen research. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

Dr. Shirley C. Tucker Chair in Lichenology

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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This finally out in www.internationaloaksociety.org society journal... message me if you want a pdf and aren't a member of International Oak Society (which you should be! It's one of the best societies ever!!!).

One of the most widespread and conspicuous rock crusts in continental climates of w N Am has been called Acarospora strigata; now it has a new (old) name, A. peltata; but wait... also look out for the similar A. lactea, A. coloradiana, A. nevadensis, and A. utahensis. doi.org/10.3897/myco...

🚨 Our department is hiring! Looking to fill an endowed position in genetics/genomics to join us in beautiful Oregon. Search is at the Associate/Full Professor level. See below for details and share with your colleagues!

Full time job opportunity for a scientific illustrator to work with us at the U-Michigan museum of zoology and herbarium! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

This is a truly startling paper. It shows that mRNA can perform regulatory functions *in addition to* its role in encoding a protein. In other words, the distinction between protein-coding RNA and noncoding regulatory RNA is fuzzy. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Regulation of target gene expression by chromatin-associated protein-coding transcripts in plants

Protein-coding transcripts are regarded as intermediates that mediate DNA-to-protein information flow, leaving their noncoding regulatory potential largely underappreciated. Genome-wide profiling of R...

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Meet the French seamstress turned scientist who solved the ancient mystery of the argonaut, pioneered the aquarium, and paved the way for the study of octopus intelligence www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/26/j...

The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study of Octopus Intelligence

“I armed myself with patience and courage, and only after several months managed to dissolve my doubts and see my research crowned with happy confirmation.”

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Professorship (W2) of Computational Plant Systematics (6 years/tenure track). New job offer in our biology department @lmu.de 👇. Please apply and help to spread the word. www.nature.com/naturecareer... #PlantSciJob #PlantScience

Professorship (W2) of Computational Plant Systematics (6 years/tenure track) - Munich, Bavaria, Germany job with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) | 12865714

Professorship in computational plant systematics, focusing on plant evolution, adaptation to changing habitats, and taxonomy.

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BPP is hiring! come join us in @osubpp.bsky.social The Department of Botany & Plant Pathology invites applications for a 12-month (0.75 FTE), tenure-track Assistant Professor position in extension plant pathology. more at link below: oregonstate.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/OSU_Careers_...

Btw federal park bio tech plant jobs are already up on USAJobs for intermountain west parks 😵‍💫 seems earlier than usual this year

Has anyone noticed whether @molecology.bsky.social started using AI to process papers? It's not the first time they've asked me queries that make no sense, and my conclusion is that it looks like AI slop.

The Garden Club of America’s Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany is now taking applications and provides at least one grant award of $4,500 annually to support a one-year research project related to medicinal plants. Deadline: January 31, 2027 Learn more here: botany.org/news/display...

I've spent ~30 years writing HyPhy to study selection & evolution. That era is coming to a close. HyPhy is passing the torch to HyphAeon: a ~2M parameter geometric transformer running in the browser that does things we never built it to do. @nclark.bsky.social @brcanalytics.bsky.social 🧵👇

Linking genomic variation to floral trait adaptation across species boundaries #TansleyReview by Acoca-Pidolle et al. @carriewessi.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

I am thrilled to share our pre-print for CBS-tools: a k-mer based analysis that utilizes whole-genome sequencing of a few sex-identified isolates to guide users from the discovery of the heterogametic sex through identifying the sex-determination region www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Identifying, phasing, and structurally annotating sex chromosomes for genome assemblies using CBS-tools

A complete reference genome for species with chromosomally-determined separate sexes should contain scaffolds for all sex chromosome homologs. However, sex chromosomes present distinct computational c...

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Thrilled: NSF awarded $11.9M to SCIBG, co-led by Rockefeller, ASU & KU, to sequence genomes of U.S. species. 🧬 As a Diné geneticist and ASU co-lead, I'm humbled this massive effort centers #Indigenous knowledges and #genomic #data #sovereignty from the start. 🙏 news.asu.edu/20260924-env...

Decoding important wildlife DNA | ASU News

There is a wealth of knowledge to be found in the DNA of our nation’s spectacular wildlife. A team of researchers co-led by Arizona State University will create a national resource to sequence and ana...

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Delighted to share that this is now published: Identification of a candidate self-incompatibility locus in beet (Beta vulgaris) This was a deep bioinformatic search for the so-far-undescribed SI system in Beta, and like all SI systems, we found complexity! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Identification of a candidate self-incompatibility locus in beet (Beta vulgaris) - Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Key Message This study provides the first genomic evidence for a candidate self-incompatibility locus in beets (Beta vulgaris), identifying T2/S-RNase candidate genes and a complex S-locus on beet chr...

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www.anthropic.com/news/claude-... 950 Claude agents spent 21 hours looking at sequences encoding reverse transcriptases and noticed nearby spaced repeats like in CRISPR. It's cool but.... how come the string matching community had not found this before? Embarrassing.

Do you use #iNaturalist data in research—or advise students who do? We put together a practical guide to using iNaturalist data in scientific research, covering how to access, acquire, analyze, and attribute the data, with examples in R and Python. Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bios... #ecology

Two positions in my department at Virginia Tech in Molecular Microbiology. Come be my colleague! jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant/Associate Professor - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Job Description The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science at Virginia Tech seeks applicants for two (2) tenure-track research and teaching positions at the Assistant/Associate ...

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Plant Colleagues! Open job for Director of the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center (PRC) at UT Austin. A great job for anyone addressing fundamental questions in evolution of plants and a commitment to herbarium administration and/or collections-based research. apply.interfolio.com/193263

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

New #AJB research details how #fossils show the first occurrence of #Austrocedrus in Antarctica, demonstrating that the genus was an element of Antarctic forest ecosystems during the Late Cretaceous. New #AJB research by @kpfeiler.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.... #botany #cypress

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On the origin of animals and placental mammals: a critique of literalist readings of the fossil record

Abstract. The fossil record is incomplete, as evidenced by the pervasive presence of ghost lineages throughout the Tree of Life. For example, across placen

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