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metallophyte.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist in Wales
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🗞️📜Fresh from the press! Our new paper shows that the Cape Verde date palm actually evolved from the date palm crop🧬 with interesting implications for conservation and breeding of drought resistant varieties 🌴🏝️ Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders. Full details here: findaphd.com?pj=182328

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Photographic evidence that it has also colonised a galaxy far, far away...Silene uniflora growing on Luke Skywalker's island retreat (aka Skellig Michael)!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Years of work by a tremendous group, lead by Gabriel Marais. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Gabriele's paper is out in PNAS! He found a large number of genes with repeated sweeps in multiple plant species. Most interestingly: they tend to be peripheral in co-expression networks (low pleiotropy), consistent with mig-sel theory!! @gabnocgenomics.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @meebangor.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @ukri.org @pnas.org

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Senior Editor position!!! Please feel free to get in touch with me via DM or email if this is of potential interest to you, even if you don't think you're 'ready' (I didn't!). Serving on a @britishecolsoc.bsky.social journal is for me a joy and a privilege.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Looking to build your CV by doing a Masters project? Lots available at Bangor University in zoology-related fields and more:

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 101 days ago • 22 comments

Are you interested in evolution in the Anthropocene?... in evolved resistance to pollution?... in the genetic architecture of rapidly evolving traits?... You are in luck! I have something for you to read... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 402 days ago • 1 comment

PhD opportunity in my group at UiO on adaptation to shifting temperatures in house sparrows. Looking for candidates interested in combining evolutionary genomics and ecological approaches! Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

submitted 403 days ago • 0 comments

Thrilled to finally see this out. Work led by former postdocs in the lab, @leegwonjin.bsky.social and Brian Sanderson. A large-effect fitness trade-off across environments is explained by a single mutation affecting cold acclimation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 403 days ago • 0 comments