See our new paper examining how monkeyflowers handle salt spray landing on their leaves! Salt spray lands on plant leaves in coastal habitats around the world, yet we know little about how plants survive this stress.

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · last wk.

Foliar salt spray exclusion & tissue tolerance underlie local adaptation to oceanic salt spray New #AJB research by @madisonplunkert.bsky.social, @pcdurant.bsky.social, @davidlowry.bsky.social & Katherine Egeler doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #monkeyflower #Mimulus

📢 Now seeking applications! The SSE Access, Inclusion, and Community Committee promotes an inclusive environment to enhance the field of evolutionary biology and foster the career of its developing scientists - including events at Evolution! Apply by 8/21. evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

So proud of GSAC and their continued efforts in the evolutionary biology academic space! This is awesome work.

Evolution Students@ssegrad.bsky.social · 4w ago

1/4 In today's funding climate, every grant and fellowship matters. Based on feedback from our GSAC Community Check-In Survey, we're building a growing hub of graduate & postdoctoral funding opportunities and job boards to make them easier to find. 🧵

Excited to share that I’m starting a postdoc position with Rubén Rellán-Álvarez and @joegage10.bsky.social at NC State working on their huge ARPA-E funded maize nitrogen genomics project! Don’t worry, Mimulus will be forever in my heart, maybe just a bit cornier 🌽

God I love the monkeyflower community

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · last mo.

(🧵 6/6)The collaboration grew out of their shared work on heat stress in monkeyflowers, in a research group they affectionately call “Hot Mimulus”.

Excited to present my PhD work today on adaptation and maladaptation under climate change in Arabidopsis at #evol2026 at 4:45pm in Evolutionary Ecology: Adaptation! Come by to learn about what happened under this rainbow as well as my new final chapter quantifying global adaptation lag! 🌱🌱🌱

How does phenotypic plasticity shape adaptation in the wild? Love and Ferris @jillmlove.bsky.social @ferrisifolius.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you’re in Cleveland for #Evolution26 RUN don’t walk to @jillmlove.bsky.social ‘s talk on the genomic basis of local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in Mimulus laciniatius!!!! Tomorrow at 5:15pm!!! #Mimuluspropaganda

Jill M. Love, PhD 🏳️‍🌈@jillmlove.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And if you’re going to Evolution, come to my talk to hear about this project’s equally cool (but less finished 🤫) genomic side! “Linking a genomic locus for leaf shape plasticity to natural selection in the wild” - Monday, June 22 @ 5:15 PM - Ecological Genetics II - Room 24

🎉 PUBLISHED!!!! Out now in @newphyt.bsky.social 🎉 We found positive selection on leaf shape plasticity in a Monkeyflower species. This experiment used two big field transplants, greenhouse, AND growth chamber work. It was hard, but awesome. With @ferrisifolius.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Phenotypic plasticity is broadly adaptive across an elevation gradient in the Cutleaf Monkeyflower

Leaf shape plasticity expression is variable in Mimulus laciniatus.

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Heading to #Evol2026? Stop by the GSAC booth for free swag, great conversations, and fun with fellow evolutionary biologists! We’ll also have a job board for faculty, students, and postdocs. If you’d like to advertise a position or your profile, bring a copy of your job ad. See you in Cleveland!🎉

LGBTQIA+ at #Evol2026! 🏳️‍🌈 Did you sign up for the LGBTQIA+ Networking Lunch? Check your email! 🏳️‍⚧️ The LGBTQIA+ Mixer is set for Sunday, Jun 21 @ 3:45 PM in Room 26C. All are welcome! 🏳️‍🌈 Come grab some swag at our Access, Inclusion, and Community (AIC) booth and see what else we have going on!

We can't wait to see everyone in Cleveland in a couple of days! You can find the schedule here and the QR code to download the app: www.evolutionmeetings.org/program.html

Program

The 2026 Virtual Event has concluded. Recorded talks will be available shortly via YouTube.

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🎉 Happy Birthday to Barbara McClintock, GSA’s first female president (1945) and a pioneer who transformed genetics. Born June 16, 1902, her discovery of transposable elements, or “jumping genes,” reshaped our understanding of genomes and earned her the 1983 Nobel Prize. 🧬🌽

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!

This spring I took over and redesigned the only Gen Ed on plants here #IB103. We walked through every core aspect of plant bio in lectures & labs, but also through art & design. I had a blast, the evaluations are rewarding (4.9/5), the redesign got an award from the college, and a little press too!

Meet our newest #BSASpotlight, Jill M. Love, a graduate student at Tulane University studying how the cutleaf monkeyflower (Mimulus laciniatus) adapts to extreme environments through the lens of phenotypic plasticity! Read more at botany.org/home/careers... #IamaBotanist

I'll be presenting a talk in Session 3 of the Hamilton Symposium at Virtual Evolution on Friday!! #Evol2026

I’m grateful for spaces that celebrate visibility and remind us that representation matters, especially in this uncertain political landscape. Thanks @botsocamerica.bsky.social for the spotlight! botany.org/home/careers...

Out today from Isabelle Neylan, @rujutavaidya.bsky.social @brantfaircloth.bsky.social, M Dassnayake and me: The transcriptomic response to early life heat stress mirrors adaptive differences between populations – evidence for plasticity-led evolution. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Genetic assimilation and accommodation shape adaptation to heat stress in a splash pool copepod

Abstract. Understanding organismal responses to dynamic environments is becoming increasingly important in our rapidly changing world. Beyond genetic adapt

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I'll be presenting a talk in Session 3 of the Hamilton Symposium at Virtual Evolution on Friday!! #Evol2026

Join us at virtual #Evol2026 this Friday to hear from the finalists for the SSE Hamilton Award for Outstanding Student Presentation! This symposium is in 3 sessions starting at 11 am Eastern.

Graduation day!!! Katie, you changed my life in the best way. Thank you so much for the mentorship, support, and care you’ve shown me over the years. What a ride! @ferrisifolius.bsky.social ❤️

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today theonion.com/biologists-c...

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today

STANFORD, CA—Calling it a “pretty slow one” as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. ...

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GSAC is gathering anonymous input on how funding uncertainty is affecting grad students and postdocs, including challenges and helpful strategies. Responses will be shared in aggregate to inform advocacy and discussions at Evolution. Share your perspective by May 1, 2026: forms.gle/c63zpSkwK3HT...

It’s official!!!! I’m Dr. Love!!!!

Kathleen (Katie) Ferris@ferrisifolius.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Having passed her closed door defense with flying colors please welcome the newest Ferris Lab PhD: Dr Love @jillmlove.bsky.social !!!!!!! Congratulations Jill!!!! This is so well deserved.

Today @jillmlove.bsky.social have an amazing talk in her public dissertation defense on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in #Mimulus . Jill, you’ve accomplished so much. I’m so proud of you. #ProudPI #Mimuluspropaganda

I’ll be there!! Hope to see some familiar faces! :)

Gina Baucom@gbaucom.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Who’s coming to #Evol2026 in Cleveland this June? I’m going! Cleveland’s a great town—good food, great lakefront, and plenty to explore between sessions. Show of hands? ✋ Early registration closes soon ⏰

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

Excited to share a new paper written by a AAAS Policy Fellow I mentor, Dr. Lisa Walsh. “This review synthesizes literature on fieldwork safety across scientific disciplines, highlighting four facets of safety for leaders and researchers to address: physical, social, financial, and psychological.”

Enabling Fieldwork for All (EFFA) Framework: Supporting physical, social, financial, and psychological safety in the field

Comprehensive review of fieldwork safety literature across disciplines yields synthesized recommendations.

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A centromere but not just a centromere: structure and evolution of a selfish chromosomal supergene in monkeyflowers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.23.707561v1