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Adaptive plastic responses to seasonality, fitness trade-offs, climate change, maladaptation, and heterosis. Plant lover. Assoc. Prof. Purdue University.
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New #jebblog post from Matthew Hartfield on just-published 🎯Target Review from @josselin-clo.bsky.social et al. Read the origin story for this key paper here: jevbio.net/perspectives...

Good to see an #herbarium study from @newphyt.bsky.social featured on NPR, with an assessment of what we stand to lose when herbaria are closed. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... www.kcur.org/news/2025-02... Includes quotes from @barbarathiers.bsky.social, Jordan Teischer, Lynn Clark.

Purdue Undergraduate Research Experiences for Plant Biology and Data Science (PURE-PD) REU Program - Deadline March 7th

KU Center for Genomics is hiring a postdoctoral fellow! Choose a mentor among the Center's faculty and propose an original project. Two years funding and generous research budget included. Please share, retweet and apply! genomics.ku.edu/ku-center-geno…

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

The portal for @asn-amnat.bsky.social student research award is LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Apply, apply, apply!!!!!!!!! Due March 14. Ten awards of $2K each will be given to research that advances the the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, or behavior. More info here: bit.ly/asn_grant_25

Announcing a curated collection of long-read genomes for Arabidopsis thaliana: The 1001 Genomes Plus Project. Currently 453 unique accessions/almost 600 assemblies. Interested in contributing? Please contact us! #plantscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Applications due January 20 for our Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution program! Are you an undergrad interested in ecology, evolution or related fields? This program provides funding, mentoring, and a presentation opportunity at #Evol2025. https://buff.ly/4eExoFL @evolmtg.bsky.social

Late-breaking job ad: The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Evolutionary Biology!!! More details below. Please repost!

Please share your paid Summer Research & Internships. I will share your program or positions with 100+ STEM Scholars & our ISU SACNAS list-serve.

Kellogg Biological Station is searching for a new Director! KBS is unique in its ability to integrate lab and field research, as well as integrating fundamental research in ecology and evolution with applications to environmental problems. Questions to me or the search chairs. Please apply!

Huge news for academics and science! Very excited to see that Bluesky is being recognized as THE app to replace what used to be good social media science comms back when Twitter was Twitter

I started a #NativesinSTEM starter pack. If you want to be added, tell me a little bit about yourself, including who your people are and what you study go.bsky.app/4hoZMPV @taramcallister.bsky.social I'll try to figure out how to turn this into a feed too.

BLACK WOMEN IN #STEM i made a starter pack for black women in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and would really love to keep adding to it so please hmu if you fit the criteria or know someone who does! πŸ§ͺ go.bsky.app/9jYkUK1

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! πŸ’ #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

Plant Ecophysiology starter pack go.bsky.app/Pbq39H7

Aloe there πŸ‘‹πŸ½ Here is a starter pack with Black researchers, practitioners & orgs working with plants in the broadest sense (botany, forestry, plant ecology, crop science, herbaria, botanic gardens) Hoping this will help set seed for a nurturing community! Reply πŸ”½ to be added go.bsky.app/7Gn2NCb

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Day 2 of the symposium starts at 11 AM. PhD student Kaleb Goff is presenting some of his dissertation work on the long-term effects of climate change on alpine plant communities at 11:30

We are looking for a research assistant to join the EDGE lab (edge-ecology.com) here in Gothenburg πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺ for the next 2 years. A great team and lots of exciting research to be a part of! πŸŒ±πŸŒπŸŒ‘οΈβ„οΈ Please apply or share πŸ™ #ecology #job

I put together a starter pack of people studying plant evolution! I have no doubt missed some folks that should be included, so please reply or message me to be added! #PlantEvolution #Botany go.bsky.app/6FPMYnJ

I am currently searching for a new postdoc to conduct research using amazing data sets that we have accumulated over years through research on a continental-scale array of field experiments with switchgrass genetic mapping/GWAS populations. careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/52...

The Morton Arboretum is recruiting a PI-level Research Scientist in Plant Pathology. I've worked at the Arb for 20 yrs as our Plant Systematist and Herbarium Director and would be one of this person's colleagues. I'm happy to answer questions. Please share! careers.hireology.com/themortonarb...

The deadline for this Plant Conservation Ecology faculty position has been extended to Oct 23! #AcademicSky #evolution #ecology

Renewed my memberships at @sse-evolution.bsky.social and @botsocamerica.bsky.social for life, completing my first major post-tenure goal.

Heterosis in crosses between remnant populations of a rare prairie forb: implications for restoration genetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.13.618093v1

Are you recruiting undergraduates for 2025 summer research programs with plants? #PlantScience Let us know and we'll add you to our list - see last year's example rootandshoot.org/summer-2024-...

Apply for the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB at MSU! Collaborate with multiple EEB labs on your own project(s). Fellowships are 2 years, $65k/year + benefits, moving expenses, and research funds. International apps welcome. Deadline: 11/4/24 eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Come be my colleague in the dept of plant bio at MSU!!!!! This department has been such a supportive and exciting place to be a new professor and mid-Michigan is a great, affordable place to live. jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2056365...

CSUN Biology is hiring a tenure-track plant ecologist! Come work with me, @ecoevolab.bsky.social, and a big, friendly department. 🌿 I'm not on the committee but I'm happy to chat about the department and the CSUN experience. Review of applications starts October 15!

Another good night of migration setting up in the east tonight! #birds #fall #migration

The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. This is for those who are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology, evolutionary biology, etc docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

About to take the helm of the HPC core at UC Davis. One key goal is to make things easier for users and increase usage. So help me out. What are things you really like about how HPC runs at your institution? What are things you wish they did differently? If you could be using HPC but don't, why not?

#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs

We are looking for a new colleague to join our EEB group at IU.

The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. Now featuring both faculty and postdoc positions. 🌍πŸ§ͺ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

One of the most exciting things happening in my lab today is the functional molecular research to understand the genetics of local adaption in Mimulus guttatus. This work is only possible because of modified and new transformation methods we report here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...