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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

@jrossibarra.bsky.social

evolutionary genomics of maize and wild relatives. erstwhile ethnobotanist. purveyor of bad puns. dad. prof and HPC director at UC Davis. not actually a cool cow from 1994. rilab.ucdavis.edu. views, especially bad ones, mine only (he/him)

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Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · yesterday

The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.

ScienceAdviser Exclusive: Meet the inaugural winners of the Ctrl Z Award

Today in Science and science: Ice age hunters’ penchant for female mammoths, a detailed vagal map, and more

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Rebekah Rogers@evolscientist.bsky.social · yesterday

Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).

Julia Kreiner@jmkreiner.bsky.social · 5d ago

uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... The Kreiner and Carley Lab groups are hiring a shared Research Analyst to help lead wet lab protocol development and management. We're a fun group and would love to hear from you :) Get in touch with questions!

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Department BSD E&E Carley Lab About the Department The Kreiner Lab (kreinerlab.com) and Carley Lab (carleylab.uchicago.edu) in the Department of Ecology & Evolution at The University of Chicag...

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · last wk.

From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”

Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · last wk.

Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:

When women do obtain tenure, the effects extend well beyond their own careers. Beyond the direct promotion of the qualifying candidate, departments experience on average one additional female promotion over the subsequent fifteen years, a substantial expansion of the female PhD pipeline, and improved retention and career progression among female doctoral graduates. These effects are concentrated in departments where women are underrepresented, but not entirely absent, suggesting that a minimal female presence is a precondition for trickle-down effects to materialize, whether through mutual support, departmental influence, or other channels that require women not to be entirely isolated.
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · last wk.

Stalked jellyfish are a super rare group of jellies that don't float, but instead anchor themselves to the seafloor using a special 'foot.' To move, they do cartwheels, holding onto the seafloor using sticky pads between their pompom tentacles. 🧪🌿🌊

Pompom tentacles of a staurozoa, by Wkaela robinson from Wikimedia commons Photo by Minette Layne from wikimedia commons, showing the pompom tentacles up close
Dr Yvonne Couch@dryvonnecouch.bsky.social · last wk.

one of my favourite authors from way before AI said: 'knowledge, like everything, is best in moderation. knowing everything means you do not need to think, and that is very dangerous' and I feel like AI has given us all knowledge and a lot of people use it as an excuse not to think

Evolution Students@ssegrad.bsky.social · last wk.

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. 🧵

Funding and job board curated by Dieter Lukas and Pro Manna
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra@jrossibarra.bsky.social · last wk.

Academia dot edu gets filtered to a separate folder so I'd always ignored it for the most part. But this is the 8th time they have sent me this paper. The answer is yes, Academia, yes it is. And now I've unsubscribed from your spam, thank you very much.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra@jrossibarra.bsky.social · last wk.

What a loss. I will never forget the multiple 3am discussions about TEs and gene balance with Mike at the maize meeting. A wonderful thinker and mentor to an entire generation of eminent maize scholars.

MaizeGDB@maizegdb.bsky.social · last wk.

We are deeply saddened to share that Michael Freeling passed away on 7/20/2026 after a year-long battle with cancer. Our deepest condolences go to his family, friends, colleagues, and the many students he inspired. We will share additional memorial information soon.

We are very sorry to share the sad news that Michael Freeling passed away on 7/20/2026 after a year long battle with esophageal cancer. Mike was a long-time faculty member in the Plant and Microbiology Department at University of California-Berkeley, a groundbreaking plant geneticist, and an inspiring teacher and mentor to over two dozen Ph.D. students, four dozen postdocs, and countless undergraduates. He was best known for pioneering work on maize anaerobic metabolism and gene regulation, transposon biology, developmental genetics of the maize ligule, and the discovery of biased gene retention following whole-genome duplications in plants. Mike was hired by UC-Berkeley as an assistant professor straight out of graduate school in 1973, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1979 and to full professor in 1984. He was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1980, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, and won the McClintock Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome Studies in 2017. Mike taught genetics, comparative genomics and scientific reasoning to our graduate students, and he also taught a popular genetics course for non-majors that had various titles over the years but was affectionately known as “Genetics for Poets.” Our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends and many colleagues.