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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 5d

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 7d

Second this recommendation. Daniel is a wonderful colleague and this is a great opportunity.

Josef Uyeda @pseudacris.bsky.social · 7d

Master's degree position at Towson University with Daniel Caetano on macroevolutionary and phylogenetic comparative methods! Daniel is an awesome human and a great mentor, share with your students!
caetanods.weebly.com/join-the-lab...

Join the lab

The Caetano lab at Towson University (Maryland, USA) is seeking a Master's degree student to start in Fall 2026. A Research Assistant (RA) position is available to the student during part (or all) of....

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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to begin the search for the next (6th) Burpee Post-Doctoral Fellow in Botany here in my lab at Bucknell! Funded research and teacher-scholar training embedded in the primarily undergraduate institution (#PUI) environment.

#iamabotanist

Details (+ application portal) here:

lnkd.in/eVsbe7K5

Photos of past Burpee postdocs with some of our great students at Bucknell.

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · 8d

The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky is hiring a Microbiologist (broadly defined). Microbial eco-evo folks, this is your sign to come work with us. Not in the search committee, but happy to answer questions.
ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/600...
#microbiology #ecology

Assistant or Associate Professor in Microbiology

The Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY seeks to fill a tenure-eligible faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor le...

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's outdated in so many ways but Sepkoski's 1998 Rates of Speciation in the Fossil Record is such a classic and highly influential paper

Rates of speciation in the fossil record | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences

Data from palaeontology and biodiversity suggest that the global biota should produce an average of three new species per year. However, the fossil record shows large variation around this mean. Rates...

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Matthew Hahn @3rdreviewer.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm a little bit late, but happy to see this new paper led by @imillercrews.bsky.social and anchored by @rosvall-lab.bsky.social now out on bioRxiv.

We analyze comparative songbird RNA-seq data using new features in our software package, CAGEE. Check it out!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How sex shapes transcriptome evolution in the songbird brain

Sex differences have captivated scientists for a long time, yet the evolutionary rate of change in sex-biased gene expression has not been directly quantified. To address this issue, we leverage brain...

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PaleoSynthesis @paleosynth.bsky.social · Aug 22

This July, an international team of researchers, co-led by Professor Rachel Warnock, organised a “Taming the BEAST” workshop in Beijing, China. BEAST2 is a software package used to reconstruct evolutionary trees and is widely applied in diverse areas... more info: www.gzn.nat.fau.eu/2025/08/06/w...

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 20

Marcial Escudero’s lab has a nice logo 😁
https://marcialescuderolab.weebly.com/
#eseb2025

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza next to a windmill whose sails are a large phylogeny, subtitled Escudero Lab

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Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠） @lhliow.bsky.social · Aug 19

G.G. Simpson is the most mentioned paleontologist at #eseb2025. These are 3 different talks from two separate sessions. But there are more! adaptive landscapes, adaptive radiations and horotely (rates) are in! So is the fossil record! @roszenil.bsky.social @ignacioq.bsky.social and others!

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Aug 19

the crazy hour explains my typos 🤦🏾‍♀️

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our "Joshua tree is CAM" paper is finally out: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Data collection started back in 2021, when we saw weird results in some RNAseq that made me stop and wonder if Joshua trees, long thought to be C3, were actually...CAM!

Cryptic CAM photosynthesis in Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia, Y. jaegeriana)

Joshua trees are long-lived perennial monocots native to the Mojave Desert in North America. Composed of two species, Yucca brevifolia and Y. jaegeriana (Asparagaceae), Joshua trees are imperiled by...

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Aug 19

In the last part of the talk, I in this example of diversification in huge angiosperm level phylogeny with data on poricidal anthers. Work with the amazing @draverbee.bsky.social, @nicrodemo.bsky.social, Stephen Buchmann, Diana Jolles, and Ricardo Kriebel
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Widespread evolution of poricidal flowers: A striking example of morphological convergence across flowering plants

The evolution of tube-like floral morphologies that control pollen release via small openings (functionally poricidal flowers) represents a taxonomically and geographically widespread instance of repe...

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Aug 19

In this talk I focus on work with my the wonderful @lhliow.bsky.social where we spent time re-reading Simpson's Mode and Tempo in Evolution, figuring out horotely, bradytely, and tachytely. The result of that work is here besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Simpson's tachytely or bradytely? The importance of quantifying rate uncertainty

The spectacular variation in species forms and richness across space and time can be explored using sophisticated and powerful tools recently developed by evolutionary modellers. In this contribut...

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Aug 19

Unfortunately, I couldn't join in person #eseb2025, but the organizers kindly accommodated a video. Posted here in case you missed it!
youtu.be/n9Ls9-8p8x0?...

Zenil-Ferguson. The importance of quantifying rate uncertainty

YouTube video by Rosana Z-F

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Jeremy M. Brown @jembrown.bsky.social · Aug 15

Another exciting #SSB2026 workshop to highlight:

A Primer for Phylogenetic Causal Inference

with @oschwery.bsky.social & @pseudacris.bsky.social

Also, lots of new info on the website and more soon:

ssb2026.github.io

Follow for the latest updates!

@jembrown.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Aug 16

Working on this system with these wonderful scientists. What a treat!
#solanaceae

Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · Aug 11

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Fellow in Tomatillo Evolution

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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · Aug 16

URM faculty received 7% more negative votes & were 44% less likely to receive unanimous votes from P&T committees -evidence that P&T decision-making processes contribute to the sustained underrepresentation of URM faculty in tenured faculty positions
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Underrepresented minority faculty in the USA face a double standard in promotion and tenure decisions - Nature Human Behaviour

Masters-Waage et al. report that underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in the USA face barriers in the promotion and tenure process, receiving more negative votes and fewer unanimous positive decisi...

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Ana Bedoya @botana-bedoya.bsky.social · Aug 14

THRILLED to announce that my NSF "Closing the gap: The history of river connections with the formation of the isthmus of Panama and its impact on the evolution of plants in rivers" in collab w/Carlos Jaramillo at STRI and Caroline Strömberg at UW was awarded! Add for a PhD student+a postdoc to come🧵

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Aug 9

Nadie se arrepiente de ser valiente.

Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · Mar 11

When students were attacked by cops in the México City protests of 68, UNAM’s Rector - Javier Barros Sierra - stayed silent for fear of jeopardizing university funding.

Just kidding. He ordered all flags to 1/2 mast, led 80,000 down Av. Insurgentes, & gave an epic speech defending free expression

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · Aug 8

It's Hawaiian Honeycreeper day! Spirit of the forest. <3
('I'iwi on mamane, Haleakala National Park) 🦉📷🌿

An 'i'iwi, a vermillion honeycreeper with a long, curved bill, perched on a mamane bush with small yellow flowers

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Rosana Zenil-Ferguson @roszenil.bsky.social · Aug 6

Work from Dr. Katie Everson, Dave Weisrock and many wonderful colleagues- Lots of hybridization correlated with faster diversification rates in Lemurs! I didn't get to go to Madagascar so enjoy the pic of the local lemurs at Cincinnati Zoo
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two lemurs sitting on a branch at the Cincinnati Zoo

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Laura Lagomarsino, PhD @tropicalbotany.bsky.social · Jul 30

What a night for #Rubiaceae! I’m so proud of my student @laymonstera.bsky.social for taking home the American Society of Plant Taxonomist’s Cooley Award for best talk, and my colleague and dear friend Charlotte Taylor for receiving the lifetime achievement Asa Gray Award. #Botany2025 #LagoLab

Laymon receives the award from Dave Tank.

Charlotte gives the her statement after the award is announced.

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Jesús Martínez-Gómez @jesusgm.bsky.social · Jul 25

A little belated but I've started a faculty position at Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. I'm absolutely stoked! I'll be recruiting at all levels and will be at #Botany2025

Reach out!

www.martinezgomezlab.com

Martinez-Gomez Lab

Plant Evo-Devo

www.martinezgomezlab.com

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · Jul 22

Right now, you're looking at the first known iNaturalist observation of the fern family Cystodiaceae! This species' scientific name is Cystodium sorbifolium.

📷 msundue on iNaturalist
📍 Malaysia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay

A close-up of a fern with ridged leaves.

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Caroline Farrior @cfarrior.bsky.social · Jul 22

We find stable coexistence of Rüger's tropical tree demographic strategies (slow, fast, short-lived breeders, and long-lived pioneers) in a model with just competition for light and stochastic small-scale disturbances.

Great work, Damla Cinoğlu!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Small disturbances and subsequent competition for light can maintain a diversity of demographic strategies in a neotropical forest: Results from model–data integration

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