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Martin Turcotte

@exp-evoeco.bsky.social

Associate Professor (U. of Pittsburgh). Lab studies reciprocal interactions between rapid evolution and ecology using experimental evolution in duckweed. Exploring species coexistence, polyploidy, and ecotoxicology… www.martinturcotte.net

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John Wares@johnwares.bsky.social · last mo.

Sad to report that my colleague Dr. Jim Hamrick - a giant in the early study of plant population genetics, though in these 2017 photos he was contributing to the understanding of *barnacle* diversity - has passed.

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Dr. Carly Kenkel@drcarl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The list of Ecology/Evolution/Marine Bio Labs recruiting grad students for Fall 2027 is live! PIs enter your position info here: forms.gle/MAGd4ohyPeoY... students (and PIs not recruiting) share the composite list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely! 🧪

Ecology/Evolution/Marine Biology labs recruiting for Fall 2027

Please complete this form if you are a PI recruiting graduate students for a Fall 2027 start. If you are NOT recruiting, feel free to share the response sheet with prospective students looking for lab...

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Dave Armitage@darmitage.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our group in Okinawa, Japan later this year/early next year. Area of research is wide open, and creative/unconventional projects are encouraged. Together, let's make ecology less of a mess! 📈📈📈 www.oist.jp/careers/okin... DM/email any questions!

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Postdoctoral Scholar, Integrative Community Ecology (Armitage) Unit

A postdoctoral position in ecology is available in David Armitage’s research group at OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) in Okinawa, Japan, with a flexible start date, ideally in early...

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Taylor Zallek@taylorzallek.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Such a great group to work with! Invasions are global phenomena and understanding them requires global collaborations. Huge THANK YOU to the organizers, sponsors, and workshop leaders!!! 🇺🇸🇿🇦🍄

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New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What is the origin of South Africa's invading #mushrooms? The 'fly agaric' is the famous red-and-white-spotted mushroom of fairy tales. But like all good stories, this fairy tale has a dark twist: the mushroom is invasive on multiple continents, including in Africa. youtu.be/ILLT154Byw0 🧵1/3

Taylor Zallek@taylorzallek.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New to bsky, trying to (re)connect with eco-evo folks. I'm an evolutionary ecologist who studies how rapid evolutionary dynamics shape community and ecosystem processes. My work integrates experimental evolution, population genetics, and community ecology, with an emphasis on biological invasions.

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Kevin Cox Jr@kcox-bioguy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Thanks for the shout-out! If anybody wants to get an overview of expansion microscopy techniques in plants, give this a read! 🔬

Journal of Experimental Botany@jxbotany.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🔬 EXPERT VIEW 🔬 In this review, Cox & Czymmek cover the recent developments of expansion microscopy techniques in plant systems and provides examples of their applications in plant biology research. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @kcox-bioguy.bsky.social

Fig. 1.Current expansion microscopy (ExM) methods in plant systems and other potential applications. Figure shows a schematic diagram of digested, permeabilized, expanded plant organelles, cells, or tissues embedded in a hydrogel in the center. Left panel showcases ExM techniques successfully applied in plant systems. These include chloroplast and nuclei (isolated organelles), Chlamydomonas, tobacco BY-2 cells, protoplasts, Arabidopsis seed embryos, and Arabidopsis roots. Right panel outlines other potential applications of ExM in other areas of plant biology including developmental biology, plant-microbe interactions, and spatial and single-cell biology. Created in BioRender. Cox, K. (2025) https://BioRender.com/ok72cvy.
Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 8mo ago

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Dr Steven M. Vamosi 🇨🇦@smvamosi.github.io · 8mo ago

Pretty sure I hate this: got an email from a group “studying how AI helps scientists extend their work in new directions”, who had applied ‘custom’ AI models to a recent preprint of mine. Would I like to see the five extensions? Thanks, but no

Mike Grillo@mikegrillo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I am hiring a postdoc to examine the genomic and evolutionary basis of plant microbiome variation in legumes. There are opportunities to gain teaching experience. Chicago is a great city to live in! Please help spread the word. share.google/gukbzS1zdIx6...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Plant Evolutionary Genomics

The postdoctoral researcher will work in Dr. Michael Grillo’s plant evolutionary genetics lab. The goal of this research project is to understand the genomic basis of plant-microbiome variation in leg...

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Paolo Crosetto@paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.
Ferris Jabr@ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 2y ago

Cucurbita pepo is one of the oldest domesticated species. Over millennia, it has proved astoundingly versatile. Just as Brassica oleracea gave us broccoli, kale, cabbage, Brussels sprouts etc, C. pepo morphed into the pumpkin, zucchini, delicata, pattypan, acorn, yellow squash and more!

A watercolor illustration showing the modern cultivars of squash descended from the ancestral Cucurbita pepo. C. pepo is in the middle, depicted as a round-ish speckled squash ripening from green to yellow-orange. Acorn squash, zucchini, pumpkin, delicata, pattypan, and yellow squash surround it in a circle, each connected to C. pepo by a line, like spokes in a wheel. Illustration by Ferris Jabr.
Daniel Bolnick@danielbolnick.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is a fantastic new preprint, one of the first papers from our replicated whole lake experimental evolution study with stickleback. alaskastickleback.com

Alaska Stickleback Restoration Project

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology@biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Experimental rewilding of stickleback drives phenotypic shifts that oppose long-term evolutionary trajectories in Daphnia in Alaskan lakes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.682675v1