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Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down U.S. flag on El Capitan as a distress signal www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

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Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

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Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.

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“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

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BREAKING: 620 undergraduate student workers at Clark University in Worcester, Mass are unionizing with @teamsters.bsky.social

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WSJ sub: “Indian Partition went smoothly enough, right? Will try to remember to check this before publishing.”

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New edited book on Speciation is now out. m.cshperspectives.cshlp.org/cgi/collecti... Thanks to Katie Peichel who led the team of Editors, and the folks at Cold Spring Harbor Press

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Western North American Naturalist Grant Supporting Natural History Research "grants of up to $2,500 each to fund their natural history research. Our intent is to help authors who may not have adequate funding to complete their work." scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan/grant_i...

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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

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If you want to read the full text of the memo pausing federal grants it's available here: static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

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If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

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I decided to go ahead and make a starter pack of historians, scientists, and others who work on scientific racism. If you’d like to be added to the pack (or removed from it), let me know. go.bsky.app/E9PN3oG

submitted 112 days ago • 48 comments

Great thread from @annbot.bsky.social about our new paper on seed dispersal in annual and perennial Mimulus. Check it out! 🧪🌾 #evolbio #ecoevo #plantbio #botany

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To the best of my knowledge, we broke the 🚨 world longevity record 🚨 for Mediterranean Gull on Saturday, with this bird re-trapped at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Ringed at Folkestone, Kent, as an adult in February 2001, it’s now in at least its 28th calendar year, with no sightings since 2001! (🧵 1/2)

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Thousands await stinky plant's rare bloom. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Meet Tacca chantrieri, the bat flower 🦇 Its black bract attracts specific pollinators, like flies or beetles drawn to dark or decayed-like colors. Native to Asia rainforests, habitat loss threatens this orchids. Protecting its ecosystem will ensure its survival! #Biodiful photo (c) Ronincmc 🌍🪴

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"I scarcely ever like to trust any general remark in Zoology, without I find that Botanists concur." Charles Darwin to Asa Gray. August 1856

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Had a lovely time presenting at the @binghamtonu.bsky.social Biology Graduate Student Organization annual symposium! Loved learning about my colleagues' cool research! Congrats to @knechtfour.bsky.social 's undergrads Rachel and Jovana for winning best poster! 🎉 #Mimulus #Binghamton

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I'm hiring, two fully funded PhD positions! Come work in Umeå in Arctic Sweden, a leading place for high-latitude ecosystem ecology and carbon biogeochemistry

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“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪 #AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬

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The first chapter of my dissertation is finally out. Thanks to all my co-authors and mentors. Gustavo Londoño, Martha Muñoz (@marthamunoz.bsky.social ), Don Miles (@lizardprof.bsky.social) and Rosario Castañeda doi.org/10.1093/evol... (1/5).

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

We have a postdoc position available in the lab on post-copulatory barriers in hybridizing crickets. We have genomic data ready to be analyzed and crickets ready for experiments. This is a great collaborative group and a study system with a lot of potential for new projects. Join us!

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Thrilled to have Prof Sachiko Kusukawa talking us through Leonhard Fuchs's History of Plants - our first 2025 presentation of Linnean Lens. A recording will be available if you miss it. Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel to be alerted to the upload here: www.youtube.com/linneansociety

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Calling all early-career plant scientists (-6 months to +2 years from PhD defence)! 🌱 Share your research at the Umeå Plant Science Centre Symposium on 26–27 March 2025. Network, collaborate, and join exciting workshops! Apply by 7 January 2025. Details: www.upsc.se/about-upsc/n... #PlantScience

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NC State hiring a Tenure Track Plant Evolutionary Biologist 🌿 Please share! Review of applications will begin on January 13th! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/212... 🧪 #evosky

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I'm super proud of my most recent manuscript in TPB about modelling quantitative traits in finite populations! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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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!

submitted 72 days ago • 6 comments

✅ Do you use R or Python? ✅ Are you an ecologist/biologist? Then you might find our website ALA Labs useful! ALA Labs is full of how-to articles to visualise or analyse biodiversity data. Some are for beginners, others are advanced/experimental 😀 labs.ala.org.au 🧪🌏 #rstats #python #quartopub

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Starterpack of WoC and non-binary PoC in EcoEvo. Specifically, those of us who are members of the #WoCinEEB slack community. I'll keep adding people in the next few days. Please let me know if I missed you! Happy to provide info on how to join our community 💜 Please share! 🙏🏽 go.bsky.app/9iCneeT

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“A new study of children living through the war in Gaza has found that 96% of them feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of the trauma they have been through.” Unforgivable.

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❕ PhD position on 🦋 ❕ Passionate about studying the genomics of local adaptation? Join us for a fully funded 4-year PhD at Uppsala University, Sweden. Enjoy competitive salaries, full employment benefits, and a vibrant research community surrounded by nature. Apply here uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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♀️🇲🇽🧪🦠 This paper about the challenges of being a female microbiologist in México is authored by four women central to my career: my PhD supervisor Valeria Souza my PhD committee member Gabriela Olmedo my PhD colleagues Esmeralda Lopez and Ana Escalante doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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Each year, we offer several #awards for undergraduate & graduate botanical #research, training and symposia. Applications are open for this winter, the deadline for submissions Feb 15, 2025! Learn more and apply here: www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/ #botany #grants 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾

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I have funding available in my lab at NC State for a graduate student interested in plant evolutionary genetics, especially in weeds. Please email me by Dec 20 for full consideration. Details and contact info on the lab website: avanwallendael.github.io/#joining-the-lab

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I made a starter pack of speciation researchers. Please let me know if you or someone you know would like to be added. I am particularly sad that so far there are not many speciation researchers from the Global South represented. go.bsky.app/J7qDY56

submitted 82 days ago • 44 comments

@rachelkruger.bsky.social I always have to share this guy from the Purdue Pokebio event in 2023 when I think about monkeyflowers.

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The first chapter of my dissertation with @carriewessi.bsky.social is now available as a preprint!! Give it a read if you are interested in learning more about the evolutionary history of an EXTREMELY cool floral type called personate flowers!!

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The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

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Help me, BlueSky Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope! I'm fixing to get a new #Windows #laptop before prices skyrocket next year, but I'm not sure what specs to look for. I'll be doing a QTL, so I'll need some processing power. Any ideas or #recommendations would be much appreciated! #Bioinformatics

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

Photographing flowers. The fact that this little room feels like a dungeon is offset by the sunshine-y colors of these beauties. #Mimulus

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What does gene flow & introgression do to gene coexpresion networks? In a new preprint, Rogini Runghen and I run simulations to find out: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Introgression creates blocks of linked eQTL, creating modules of correlated gene expression due to LD

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🏵️Research finds invasive Erythranthe guttata in New Zealand developed distinct phenotypes between upland & lowland Canterbury – highlighting how even highly plastic invaders retain the ability to genetically differentiate: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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