Clark’s Nutcracker at Emerald Lake today 🌿

Group project from the @jdmanthey.bsky.social lab that I led is out in Molecular Ecology! We used whole-genome data to understand Pleistocene forest refugia in central Africa in Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, a species found across most forest habitat in the region: doi.org/10.1111/mec.... 🧵

new paper (my first w/ a Tok Pisin abstract)! our 2024 camera trap record of the rare New Britain Thrush prompted a review of all known observations of the species since its description—a mere 15 total. led by MS student Jason Gregg for the brand-new Journal of Lost Species: doi.org/10.66264/3c8...

At #Botany2026, I was hoping to start recruiting for my lab group. If you are interested in polyploidy and population genetics, please reach out.

Kudos to Forbes for covering this topic—I was interviewed and got to highlight recent work from our group led by Eliza Clark! www.forbes.com/sites/derekn...

The Next Green Revolution: Climate-Resilient Crops

American farmers face increasing climate volatility. Scientists are developing diverse solutions, integrating genetics, breeding, and engineering to adapt crops.

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grateful to have received the lab's first NSF grant to study cyclical processes of speciation with new theory and tools (applied to Melanesian birds). ad to come, but I'll be looking for a postdoc with computational biology chops—please reach out! (and repost) www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

#Viewpoint: Using herbarium collections to study genetic responses to global change Eckert et al 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience @lucaseckert.bsky.social @cameronso.bsky.social

PSA this appears to be Linum perenne given the reverse herkogamy. It’s introduced from Europe and often mistaken for lewisii. Also, Lewis flax is typically not so deep blue, at least in the Boulder area

FrontRangeWildflowers@frwildflowers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Linum lewisii, our Lewis Flax, blooming on Boulder Creek now #nativeplants 🌿

📢 NEW GENOME ALERT in #G3journal The first genome assembly for Nucifraga colombiana—a North American seed predator, aka Clark’s Nutcracker—will aid comparative and conservation genomics research. @mdcarling.bsky.social @peterinnes1.bsky.social @elinck.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/xdQeCOG

Spatial inference of ancestor locations suggests northern refugia for canopy-forming #kelps in the Pacific Northwest Jordan B. Bemmels, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @gregowens.bsky.social #PlantScience #phylogeography

Thrilled that our new review article on animal hybridization is now up on EcoEvoRxiv! 🎉 Working on this review with @mollyschumer.bsky.social was a blast, and it was such a wonderful opportunity to catch up on all the amazing work in animal hybridization over the last few years!

Molly Schumer@mollyschumer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excited to share this new pre-print from the fantastic @kelsiehunnicutt.bsky.social! Kelsie put together a thoughtful and thorough review on hybridization in animal evolution: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v.... She tracks notable shifts in perspectives on the study of hybridization through time.

Wild rice is a perennial, creeping plant. The secret to its perennial growth habit lies in a developmental reversal directed by small RNAs. This image illustrates how combining perennial genes with prostrate growth genes allows cultivated rice to mimic wild rice. Learn more: https://scim.ag/40GOjDb

Spring is arriving, but there's still snow in the forecast! How do late #winter storms affect our migratory #birds? Out now in @natecoevo.nature.com, we ask that Q with 25+yrs of #CitizenScience data and ~400 museum specimens collected after the 2021 Great TX Freeze: rdcu.be/e7aUy #EcoEvo #evolution

Storm-induced mass mortality results in both immediate and long-term consequences for a migratory songbird

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Combining 27 years of citizen science data with whole-genome sequencing, the authors show that mass mortality of purple martins caused by a severe winter...

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In an era of highly partisan politics in the US, I want to highlight this promising bi-partisan bill to study biodiversity genomics in US National Parks. Consider sending a letter of support to these reps for the Living Library Act! www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Thanks @elinck.bsky.social @mdcarling.bsky.social for the opportunity to assemble this genome, which will be an important resource for future comparative and pop gen work. Given its close and iconic mutualism with whitebark pine, Clark’s Nutcracker is basically a plant, hence my role in the project

Ethan Linck@elinck.bsky.social · 7mo ago

get your fresh hot highly contiguous Clark's Nutcracker genome here: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... (lead by @peterinnes1.bsky.social & feat. @mdcarling.bsky.social)

Geography and admixture shape the genome‐scale phylogeny of North American #Delphinium 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Meek et al. Photo credit: Delphinium scaposum & Delphinium carolinianum www.wildflower.org/texas; Delphinium viridescens www.burkeherbarium.org

Recombination suppression in plant adaptation and speciation #TansleyReview by Zhang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #plantscience

my Ph.D. student Lizzy & I contributed to this perspective on range-wide signatures of local adaptation in American Pika—her first coauthuored paper: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Genomic Evidence for Local Adaptation to Elevation and Climate Sheds New Light on Variable Responses to Global Change in American Pikas (Ochotona princeps)

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Just saw this new preprint - includes flow ctyometry on 45,000 silica-dried samples for 1135 species - this is amazing and such a great resource for anyone attempting to do flow cytometry: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#TansleyInsight: Evolutionary #genetics of alternative splicing in #plants @peterinnes1.bsky.social, Nolan Kane & @chriscrsmith.bsky.social 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Can we predict gene expression evolution? In flour beetles, transcriptome-wide selection predicts expression change, with indirect selection acting strongest on pleiotropic, network-central genes—linking co-expression architecture to adaptation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... Photo: Udo Schmidt

Why do selfing rates vary across a species’ range? In alpine monkeyflower, self-fertilization increases away from the range center, supporting the abundant center hypothesis over historical range expansion in shaping reproductive assurance. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... Photo Credit: Brewbooks

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

Climate drives variation in optimal phenology Clark et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/MCQ8GR...

Thanks nature news for featuring our recent preprint on 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘣𝘢 led by @hbrappap.bsky.social (check out preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...) #protistsonsky

Nature@nature.com · 10mo ago

This single-celled amoeba can thrive at temperatures that kill all other known eukaryotic life go.nature.com/4452LXP

🌻 Sharing this preprint where we assembled 3 new chromosome-level genomes, including the first for Asteraceae's South American sister Calyceraceae! Asteraceae uses all the tricks when it comes to being the most ecologically successful family of flowering plants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our review on alternative splicing evolution, with @peterinnes1.bsky.social and Nolan Kane!

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 10mo ago

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Evolutionary genetics of alternative splicing in plants nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Evolutionary #genetics of alternative splicing in plants #TansleyInsight by @peterinnes1.bsky.social, Nolan C. Kane and @chriscrsmith.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience #speciation

Thanks to @chriscrsmith.bsky.social for the invitation to write this Tansley Insight together! First pub in one of my favorite journals @newphyt.bsky.social 🌱 🥹

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 10mo ago

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Evolutionary genetics of alternative splicing in plants nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book. gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b... book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/ Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable dm me with comments , ideas etc