Botany friends: cool job alert. We're searching for a new Director for the UC & Jepson Herbaria here at UC Berkeley. Share with nice people. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405 🌿🌺🌵

Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Head's up SSE members: Virtual Evolution is next week! Join us for the SSE Presidential Symposium on May 21 for talks from SSE leaders and past presidents on sustaining research, supporting trainees, navigating funding uncertainty, and strengthening evolutionary biology. Pls RT!

Join @amsocplanttaxon.bsky.social for Dr. Lauren Eserman-Campbell (Atlanta Botanical Garden)'s webinar, “How Taxonomists Can Shape Conservation Outcomes” on Friday, June 5 at 12pm ET. Register today, and please share! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can!

Thank you, Vanessa, Mike and all involved! So many cool findings described in this work, including parallel evolution of leaf shape and the rapid radiation of Scalesia after genome doubling and Galápagos arrival.

Mike Martin@museumevogen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THANK YOU to Dr. Vanessa Bieker for her excellent work, and the ‘dream team’ including: @jleebensmack.bsky.social @pablovargas1111.bsky.social @pjaramillod.bsky.social @plantdevo.bsky.social @naturalselection.bsky.social @mfmazuecos.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Open postdoc position in my lab at Cornell, conducting comparative and experimental studies on transcriptomic responses to diet and toxins, utilizing the milkweed-insect community. Background in molecular bio & herbivory desired. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31867

California poppy genome and gene expression analysis just published in time for the booming season - doi.org/10.1093/plce...! Wonderful collaboration with Annette Becker's lab at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU), @jgi.doe.gov and others.

We're pleased to welcome @camilledelavaux.bsky.social to the New Phytologist Board of Advisors! Camille is the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science. www.newphytologist.org/news/new-phy...

New Phytologist Tansley Medal 2025 winner: Camille S. Delavaux

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science has been awarded to Camille S. Delavaux.

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Work led by @pbentz.bsky.social shows that two of eight dispersals of Asparagus out of Southern Africa were associated with shifts to dioecy and independently evolved XY sex determination systems.

Molecular Biology and Evolution@molbioevol.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@pbentz.bsky.social @scarey.bsky.social @jleebensmack.bsky.social et al. explore the origins of recombination suppression between ancestral autosomes leading to independent sex chromosome formation in Asparagus. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag003 #evobio #molbio #PlantSky

📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on rigorous research in genetics, entomology, and host-microbe interactions. Please consider and share with others in need. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...

Research Technologist - Life Sciences Advance Professional - Bordenstein Lab

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The January issue of New Phytologist is online now, featuring on the cover @roseamarks.bsky.social’s article on the physiology and genomics of the resurrection plant, Myrothanus flabellifolia. doi.org/10.1111/nph.... (I’m posting here for Dr. Marks, who is currently doing field work off the grid)

The architecture of resilience: a genome assembly of Myrothamnus flabellifolia sheds light on desiccation tolerance and sex determination

Myrothamnus flabellifolia is a dioecious resurrection plant endemic to southern Africa that has become an important model for understanding desiccation tolerance. Despite its ecological and medicina...

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My department at California State University Northridge is hiring! We're looking for a new colleague studying microbiology or molecular/cellular biology. I'm not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions about the department and campus, and life in LA buff.ly/Pc1KOaC

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Today is the last day to register! Please consider doing so - it is going to be a fun one! Register here: evomics.org/apply-worksh... bsky.app/profile/jlst...

Apply: Workshop on Phylogenomics and Genome Evolution 2026 - Evolution and Genomics

Application for the 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics and Genome Evolution Use this form to apply for the 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics being held in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia from 25th January ...

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk@jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Tomorrow registration closes for the #Phylogenomics and Evolutionary #Genomics workshop in the beautiful Czech Republic! The #faculty are world-class -- this isn't one to miss! Register today and learn both the fundamentals and advanced techniques in the field! evomics.org/apply-worksh...

Absolutely happy to share our latest publication!🥳🎉 The first manuscript of the first PhD candidate of my team! 🥹🤩 Huge congratulations to our brilliant Asif Ahmed Sami for his excellent work! ✨️ academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

The phylotranscriptomic profile of angiosperm seed development follows a reverse hourglass pattern

Angiosperm seed development exhibits a reverse phylotranscriptomic pattern, with early and late stages showing greater conservation and mid-phase showing h

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Chazz Jordan's phylogenomic analysis of cone flowers (Echinacea) just published! - doi.org/10.3389/fpls.... Chazz's findings suggests rapid diversification in the genus as ancestral populations dispersed from southeastern North America into the midwest.

Frontiers | Utilizing target capture sequencing to resolve the speciation history of Echinacea (Asteraceae)

It has been difficult to resolve relationships among many important lineages within the Asteraceae family due to interspecific hybridization and rapid specie...

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Analyses of a new genomes for garden asparagus and a Mediterranean basin congener reveal independent origins of dioecy and XY sex chromosomes. The work led by Phil Bentz @pbentz.bsky.social finds no overlap in the two Y-linked sex-determination genes - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... .

Two independent origins of XY sex chromosomes in Asparagus

The relatively young and repeated evolutionary origins of dioecy (separate sexes) in flowering plants enable investigation of molecular dynamics occurring at the earliest stages of sex chromosome evol...

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Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

🌾The Functional traits in primary producers: recent advances and future directions special feature is open for proposals!🍄 🌲Proposal submissions close 15 September, more details here: buff.ly/e8PTkMM

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Oregon State University Botany and Plant Pathology@osubpp.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring! We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

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Andrea Case@andreacase.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

On the cover of @natplants.nature.com this month: @leobaumgart.bsky.social @greensi.bsky.social @abmora.bsky.social @omalley-regulome.bsky.social et al. map binding sites for 360 TFs across 10 🌿plant🌿 species using a new multiDAP approach Here is Sharon's explainer 🧵: bsky.app/profile/gree...

sharon greenblum@greensi.bsky.social · 12mo ago

August’s Nature Plants cover story shows how we integrated large-scale multiDAP and snRNA data to reveal drivers of cell type identity and evolution in flowering plants. www.nature.com/nplants/volu... We packed a lot into this paper! Here’s a single-cell spin on what we found:

Awesome research with implications for understanding of transitions between CAM and C3 modes of photosynthesis in yaccas agaves and their relatives!

Karolina Heyduk@kheyduk.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Our "Joshua tree is CAM" paper is finally out: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Data collection started back in 2021, when we saw weird results in some RNAseq that made me stop and wonder if Joshua trees, long thought to be C3, were actually...CAM!

hi friends, let me know if you'd like a zoom link for my defense next week!

I love this trend in polyploid research: “With new data and techniques, we can finally tackle this horribly complicated group!” “And guess what? It’s even worse than we imagined!” But seriously, excellent work!

Justin Conover@conjustover.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New Paper! In 2019, my first dissertation chapter revealed complicated polyploidies in the cotton family (Malvaceae) but we lacked the tools and genomes to truly understand it. Now with better genomes and improved methods, it's much more complicated than we thought. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Day 3 of popgen we talked about effective population size. No, I don't really understand it. You probably don't either. But I highly recommend this fantastic guide about how to think about Ne onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Idiot's Guide to Effective Population Size

This is a reference manual for the elegant, yet hideously complex concept of effective population size (Ne), inspired by a classic, self-published manual of automotive repair ‘for the compleat idiot’...

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The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring! We are searching for a Director of the Oregon State University Herbarium and applications are welcomed at the ranks of assistant, associate, or full professor.

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

Come be my colleague (& @jacquelyngill.bsky.social's and other great folks)! UMaine is hiring a Genetics Facilities Manager to lead the CORE eDNA and DNA Sequencing Labs. Hiring range is $75-85k (up $20k from previous round) fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...