So proud of this manuscript- lead by the fantastic @henryarenas.bsky.social with two undergraduates (Cage Cochran and Quinn Evans) each doing a Herculean effort during their honors theses, and Hongfei Chen helping out tremendously with lab work. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Maintenance of phenotypic divergence in two sympatric monkeyflowers with weak reproductive isolation

Sympatric species often exhibit permeable reproductive barriers, yet many of them coexist as phenotypically distinct entities. One way to account for this apparent paradox is that selection on loci th...

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What is academic bullying, and how do you know when criticism has crossed the line into harassment? In the newest Evolution Exchange, I talk with Dr. Morteza Mahmoudi (Academic Parity Movement) and Dr. Aaron Roussell about bullying, mobbing, and doxxing. A long but 🌶️ convo! tinyurl.com/87nyfbzk

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...

What does it really take to land a faculty position? @jazlynmooney.bsky.social shares insights on preparing competitive applications, navigating interviews, building a research vision, and more. 🔗: buff.ly/nLWXT9m

I had so much fun working on this perspective piece with Annabelle, Emily, David and John! I am looking forward to incorporating the things we learned into ongoing and future research efforts

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 3w ago

The incredible vulnerability that reproduction poses for plant species in a warming world Denney et al. @derekdenney.bsky.social @emjo.bsky.social @davidlowry.bsky.social @msupri.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The incredible vulnerability that reproduction poses for plant species in a warming world Denney et al. @derekdenney.bsky.social @emjo.bsky.social @davidlowry.bsky.social @msupri.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

To the #Evol2026 folks, I am recruiting MSc/PhD students (with or without their own funding) - please send people my way if you know of anyone interested in blending ecology & evolution!

Headed to Evolution in Cleveland! Speaking Tuesday at 2:30 PM on how climate affects spring ephemeral fitness through direct and phenological pathways. Also presenting a poster Sunday evening on conservation data needs and evolutionary biology. Hope to see you there!

Just start writing. My new post: substack.com/home/post/p-...

How do plants locally adapt to challenging habitats despite ongoing gene flow? Come find me tomorrow at poster 236W to chat about life history divergence on small spatial scales in the yellow monkeyflower! #PEQG26

Do you like Arabidopsis thaliana? Do you like linked selection? Are you at #PEQG26? Well you're in luck! Come by my poster 244W tonight, June 10th, and hear about my attempts to estimate the extent of linked selection in Arabidopsis thaliana evolution experiments.

Amy Angert and I are recruiting 2 temporary field technicians to assist with demographic surveys across the range of scarlet monkeyflower in California and Oregon. Perfect for recent graduates who are considering applying for grad school. Apply here: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/231.... Please share!

🚨SSE members: check your inbox!🚨 SSE has sent an important email regarding the OMB's proposed overhaul of federal grant regulations--changes that could affect peer review, publishing, conferences, professional societies, international collaborations, and more. @sse-evolution.bsky.social

postdoc alert 🚨! NIH-funded postdoc in my lab to work on Ancestral Recombination Graphs in space. Please spread the word widely in your networks, and please reach out if you're interested! (2-3yr position, start date flexible, pay/benefits good!). details here: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

recruitment

Multiple positions available: ​ Postdoc PhD students

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Update! The posting for the postdoc opening in my lab is up! Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

Dan Schrider@samurscicop.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please circulate: I will have a postdoc opening soon, ideally with a start date sometime this summer or fall. If you're interested in empirical population genetics, computational methods development, and/or evolutionary modeling via simulation, don't hesitate to reach out. For more info on the lab:

Once you've called SNPs and gotten a vcf, do you all have any favorite little checks? Stuff like, is pi_n < pi_s? I'm trying to write up a list for my lab and am curious what other folks do.

Congrats to @milesroberts.bsky.social!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Society for the Study of Evolution@sse-evolution.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We are pleased to recognize two Honorable Mentions for the SSE Presidents’ Award this year: Skylar Berardi and Miles Roberts for their papers in Evolution Letters! shorturl.at/CpcoY @evolletters.bsky.social

I am hiring a popgen postdoc! Looking for a creative scientist to join us at USC to investigate recessive variation and complex traits in model or non-model species. The project is funded by a multi-year NIH grant, contract can be renewed. Job add & details 👇🏽 usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

I hope this isn’t the end of Brian’s career but if there’s something people can do, it’s use his material in your classes (thankfully carried on by @robbeewedow.bsky.social and company)

This is terrible. Brian's work has really shaped how I approach teaching genetics.

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪

Procrustean pseudo-landmark methods in Python to measure massive quantities of leaf shape data New in #AppsPlantSci by Hightower et al doi.org/10.1002/aps3... @puffballove.bsky.social @andreacase.bsky.social @husbandslab.bsky.social @emjo.bsky.social @zoemig.bsky.social #botany #morphometrics

Happy to share this paper with @samyeaman.bsky.social, now published in Molecular Biology and Evolution! Using replicated hybrid zones, we explored patterns of local adaptation and introgression in spruce and found strong signals even at very fine geographical scales! doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Replicated hybrid zones reveal genomic patterns of local adaptation and introgression in spruce

Abstract. Hybridization between species can occur along repeated zones of contact, providing a natural laboratory for studying the interplay between migrat

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Hey Asia Hightower's @puffballove.bsky.social cool paper analyzing 1000s of leaf shapes in published in #AppsPlantSci doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

Spring is starting in the garden :)

Review: What happens when it gets too hot – the vulnerability of plant reproduction in a warming world plantae.org/review-what-...

Review: What happens when it gets too hot – the vulnerability of plant reproduction in a warming world | Plantae

Climate change brings about higher temperatures, threatening plant populations worldwide. Higher temperatures interfere with reproductive processes such as pollen production or fertilization…

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New lab preprint from Maya Wilson Brown, with Adrian Platts & Rebecca Panko investigating genetic variation and introgression in NYC Capsella bursa-pastoris www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Introgression across ploidies contributes to genetic diversity in introduced urban Capsella bursa-pastoris https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.17.712489v1

Heat alters fruit morphology and severely limits reproduction but not growth in a widespread urban weed. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.10.710864v1

New preprint from Asia Hightower @puffballove.bsky.social showing that heat hurts reproduction + fruit development without affecting vegetative growth in Capsella bursa-pastoris www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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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