John Stinchcombe
@johnstinchcombe.bsky.social
Ecological and evolutionary genetics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UofT. Dad, dog lover, unashamed coffee addict.
Nominations are now open for the Dobzhansky Prize, which recognizes the accomplishments and future promise of an outstanding early-career evolutionary biologist. The award includes $5000 and an award talk at the in-person Evolution meeting. Deadline: December 1. shorturl.at/p70wY
Toronto driver not sure where to park after city removes bike lanes
Toronto driver not sure where to park after city removes bike lanes
TORONTO - Following the removal of much of the city’s bike lanes, local motorist Jason Welch is facing extreme uncertainty about where he should park his car now.
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Really fun coverage of @anahvsb.bsky.social's recent @newphyt.bsky.social paper from @umichnews.bsky.social !
They get knocked down—but they get up again
A brush with low doses of the herbicide dicamba spurs oxalis, a weed commonly known as wood sorrel, to produce more flowers, University of Michigan researchers found.
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I don't need AI to read PDFs for me- I like reading papers. I apparently do need an AI bot to make the Uni admin Outlook calendar system, my phone and tablet's google calendar, and the built in calendar for my email client (Thunderbird) actually talk to each other. Why is this so stupidly hard?
I'm excited. Five more days until this job closes. Come do plant evolution here at Davis! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777?utm...
EVE Plant Evolutionary Biology Assistant Professor
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Our manuscript is now available in Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social ! We examine the three neo-Ys in mountain pine beetle which are suspected to be contributing to cryptic species diversity. doi.org/10.1093/evle...
The tortured past and present of young polymorphic neo-sex chromosomes of the mountain pine beetle
Abstract. Neo-sex chromosomes have proven powerful for studying the early stages of sex chromosome evolution and differentiation, yet if these dynamic proc
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Monash University is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship to an outstanding student in animal behaviour/evolutionary ecology. Choose from eight project areas. For information about what project I'm offering, please DM me or see application form: forms.gle/ia9t4KPD3FKT.... Deadline: 15 Nov.
Woo-hoo! @gmzhang.bsky.social's photo of a morning glory being visited by a bee is on the front cover of Evolution Letters! (Image accompanying Sasha Bishop's paper, with co-author @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social)
My department at University of Utah is recruiting new faculty, with "Human" and "Genetics" broadly defined. It is a fantastic place to start a lab, with collaboration, creativity and conviviality encouraged. Applications due Oct 16. Please share and apply! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...
Faculty position at the University of Toronto 👇 jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Assistant Professor - Systems Neurophysiology
Assistant Professor - Systems Neurophysiology
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With fieldwork, I didn't get to advertise our (not so now) new paper on the quantitative genetics of growth in the 🦎 in @journal-evo.bsky.social: dx.doi.org/10.1093/evol... It's an exciting paper paper in which we disentangle what it means to treat the whole growth curve as a function-valued trait!
Quantitative genetics of lifetime growth curves in a lizard
Abstract. Body size is an iconic trait in quantitative genetics. For species with indeterminate growth however, growth curve, a function-valued trait, is t
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Application deadline for this is approaching fast. Email me if you are interested in doing a 2-year postdoc in a project to study the reproductive system and population genomics of an European buzz pollinated plant. To be clear: this is to participate as a named postdoc in a grant application.
Mario Vallejo-Marin@nicrodemo.bsky.social · 2mo agoI am looking for potential candidates interested in applying for an external postdoctoral fellowship in my lab at Uppsala University. If you want to work on buzz pollination please get in touch. Reach me by email. More about our current work here: plant-evolution.org/wp/
Okay this jogged loose something I've had half-written for a while now: Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paper denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2026/09/desp...
Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paper
Science is difficult, but not for the reason you think. It’s not that conceiving a research program is difficult. It’s not that planning and performing an experiment or observational st…
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Jeremy Yoder says no war@jbyoder.org · last mo.ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE
Come to @romtoronto.bsky.social and EEB in Toronto! ROM is seeking entomologist/arachnologist curator who would also be faculty in EEB at UofT royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/mdMTpA...
Curator of Insects & Arachnids - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page
Apply to Curator of Insects & Arachnids at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Sincere question, @trevorabranch.bsky.social : how do these spawning stock biomass estimates compare to estimates from the 1960s, or even earlier? This recovery is great, and clearly better than not recovering... but is this also a case of shifting baselines?
Trevor A. Branch@trevorabranch.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
Our pre-print analysing the 1 std decline in mass in Wytham great tits has just been published in @animalecology.bsky.social check it out: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @biology.ox.ac.uk
Early‐life environment drives long‐term decrease in adult body mass in a wild bird population
Using more than 90,000 body mass measures of adult and nestling great tits Parus major, we show that the 1 SD decline in adult mass between 1978 and 2024 is a consequence of changes in the environmen....
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David López-Idiáquez@davididiaquez.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe have published a new pre-print showing a decline in great tit adult and nestling mass of around 1 gram in 47 y. [rate of approx. -0.040 Hadanes] With @ellafcole.bsky.social, @devisatarkar.bsky.social, Sam. Crofts, @mcmahok.bsky.social & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I'm excited to release the newest version of my free applied biostats textbook. It's tidyverse style, clarkia inspired and loads of fun Im putting this down until the end of the semester, when I'll add and polish additional chapters, but the 1st 21 are pretty solid yanivjb.github.io/biostats-book
Applied Biostatistics
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This is a "least bad" outcome of a self-inflicted problem from Duke University. Is it better than the collection being atomized and shipped all over the place? Yes. Is it a travesty that one of the world's wealthiest private Universities divested from their herbarium? Definitely yes.
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 2mo agoUNC-Chapel Hill, Duke to combine herbaria, creating the third-largest university plant collection in the United States ncbg.unc.edu/2026/08/31/u...
Selection shapes the evolution of genome size in a globally invasive plant Nongthongbam et al. @byonkeshn.bsky.social @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We will be hosting DC Area research talks on Evolutionary Genetics at GW starting this Fall. First Tuesday of the Month at 3pm, Science and Engineering Hall. Co-founded with Manus Patten at Georgetown University. Please help spread the word.
My current opinion of journal publishers offering an AI chatbot about papers... side-eye'ing Wiley journals.
UCD is one of the top universities globally in both evolutionary biology and plant sciences. The department is a gem full of great folks. It's hard to imagine a better place to do plant evolution! Position opens Aug. 17. Please spread the word! eve.ucdavis.edu/people?page=1
People | Evolution and Ecology
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I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777
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Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS
In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...
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This is thoughtful and worth your time.
Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 3mo agoEveryone says AI will accelerate science. I don't think it will -- at least not in biology, and at least not soon. New post where I explain why, and how the productivity paradox can be resolved: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-ai-wil...
Still time to apply: Postdoc position in our lab together with @meauxjuliette.bsky.social to combine Ecological models with quantitative genetics. Become part of a great community of Ecological Genetics. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...
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4. The pushback on the outrage will be "A man is dead! How DARE you try to politicize this tragedy!
Got a well intentioned email that ended with “I work at odd hours. My working hours are not necessarily your working hours. Please respond when you feel you comfortably can.” Obviously that’s code for they don’t expect a response from me. Ever.
