Wanna hear about introgression and pollination syndromes? Boy, do I have a talk for you! I'll be presenting my last dissertation chapter in the Cooley Award session on Monday, 8:45am in room Tucson C-D! #botany2026

My great technician is leaving the lab, and I'm trying to replace her. Are you or someone you know interested in evolutionary genomics research that combines animals experiments (with flies!) and molecular biology? Come work with me! Application info at the link evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...

Delighted to see Duncan Munro's brilliant design work on my book recognised in the short list of the PANZ Book Design Awards.

Everyone should grow a vegetable garden

PhD Position at Uppsala University. Sophie Karrenberg’s Lab. the project is about sex chromosome evolution in plants. Come join us! Deadline 22 July. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology

Pre pollen Pantaloon Pantaloon bee before it has scraped pollen all over its legs for carrying back home. @nikoneurope Z9 and 105mm macro SS1/2500 F8 ISO3200 #macro #bee #entomolgy #insectstudy #insects

4th of July parade, downtown Bloomington, Indiana. Low-key, parochial, and oddly moving.

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Heat Exhaustion vs. Heat Stroke

Our lab is looking to hire a RA to contribute to experimental evolution studies on anaerobic & aerotolerant bacteria! This is a great opportunity for recent grads looking to gain experience before perusing graduate training. Info at this link: ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

In Stavanger, Norway 🇳🇴, the bicycle paths have sensors to trigger the traffic light the lights to change. That means no stopping to press the beg button. Amazing! 🤩🚲 #yycBike #Stavanger #Norway

🚨Interested in #evolutionary #genomics and #popgen #theory? My lab just opened a 1+ year #postdoc position to work on sex chromosome dosage compensation. At #CEFE Montpellier 👉 bit.ly/4eMWDIh Informal enquiries welcome to me🙂 or Paul Saunders and Sylvain Glémin at #SMBE2026 Thanks for sharing!

It's a marketing scheme--feeding into our insecurities about reach and impact for their products. 🤨😑

"I know there's a lot of concern about the proliferation of journals, slop in the in the literature — the best way to combat this is to publish in society-owned journals." — @asn-amnat.bsky.social President @beckyfuller82.bsky.social preaching the Gospel #Evol2026

A great loss of a truly extraordinary scientist and human being.

Markus Eichhorn@markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bob Ricklefs RIP. One of the giants of ecology. His textbooks were the gateway to the field for many students. His papers were invariably thoughtful, well-argued and provocative, even those I disagreed with. 🌏🧪🌐

We're pleased to sponsor this week's Population, Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics conference (#PEQG26) in Asilomar, CA, USA. genetics-gsa.org/peqg-2026/

Homepage - 2026 Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference

Visit our website to learn more.

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🧨 New publication out (I think this one is 🌶️ ): Cerca & @stelkens.bsky.social - "The identity crisis of speciation genomics". academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

Eriospermum titanopsoides (📷: Vera Frith CCBYNC4) doesn't have crazy enations, but it has the most amazingly undulating margin, giving more edge area for fog interception & dew condensation. The photographer’s fingertip shows just how small these plants are. #Asparagaceae #fog #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

The Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has a super creative special exhibit of coral reefs, created by crochet and knitting. Follows a progression from healthy (colored yarn), to bleached (plastic bags), to dead. Powerful!

Indiana University, not the UD Department of Agriculture, ordered the Inness lab to be locked down. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

US biology lab locked down for more than a week amid smuggling inquiry

The Trump administration has spent months investigating the lab after a Chinese postdoc was charged with smuggling biological material into the country.

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Listen to Matatuhi Foundation Best First Book Illustrated Non-Fiction winner Philip Garnock-Jones talking with Jesse Mulligan on RNZ about his stunning honoured book He Puawai @theobrominated.bsky.social #theockhams www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

The award-winning book showing off NZ flowers in full bloom

He Puawai, A Natural History of New Zealand Flowers by Emeritus Professor of Botany Philip Garnock Jones won the Judith Binney Prize for Illustrated Non-Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. ...

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This is a long shot, but is anyone willing and able to review a micropublication (i.e., short and sweet) about how senescent-associated β-galactosidase accumulation influences the lifespan of a particular species (a fish, if it matters)? We can't find a reviewer and we've tried so hard. 🧪

Two big things for talks: 1. use the mic, and 2. use a bigger font. No, bigger than that.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Conference friends: My voice is very loud. Almost certainly louder than yours. I always use the microphone during a conference presentation so that everyone can clearly hear me. And you should too.

Fellow 2014/15 Steven A. Frank is the winner of the 2026 ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences - congratulations! www.amnat.org/announcement...

A really special occasion. Not to be missed 🍾🎉 💯 You’re cordially invited to Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday bash at the Royal Albert Hall Kirsty Young presents David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth on Friday 8 May on #iPlayer and BBC One Full details 👇🏻

David Attenborough’s 100 Years on Planet Earth to air on Friday 8 May on iPlayer and BBC One

The live event will take audiences on an extraordinary journey through a century of exploration and discovery in the natural world, seen through the prism of David’s remarkable life and work

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🚨 My very first postdoc paper is out! 🐠 We show that the Y chromosome of the swamp guppy (Poecilia picta) has rapidly degenerated, losing genes, shrinking, and filling up with transposable elements, while the X responds by exporting key male genes to autosomes. 🧵⬇️ 1/6 📷Joëlle Lafond

Vale Peter Raven, champion of plants and biodiversity. 'In one of his lectures, he described biodiversity as “the whole business”—the sum of organisms, their variations and the communities they form. It was a plain phrase for a concept of considerable scope.' news.mongabay.com/2026/04/pete...

Peter Raven, botanist and advocate for biodiversity, has died, aged 89

Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines. Over the course of the 2...

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#TansleyReview: Recombination suppression in plant adaptation and speciation Zhang et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Got to go wade fishing with two of my favorite people, and I caught 3 kinds of fish (6 total) and kept one. Lovely way to end the day.

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw