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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 14h

The October #GENETICS cover shows phenotypic variation in rose flowers across different periods of 19th-century breeding history, illustrated with some of the rose varieties preserved in the ancient rose garden Roseraie Loubert.🌹 Read the full issue: buff.ly/BYzknt9

📸: @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social

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Hanna Johannesson @hannajohannesson.bsky.social · Sep 7

We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT!
Find the positions here: su.varbi.com

Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet

Jobb

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Tanja Slotte @tanjaslotte.bsky.social · Sep 2

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University*
We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5

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Purple pollen visible in a dissected flower of Linum grandiflorum, flowering flax, an insect-pollinated species.

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Amelia Cervera 🍉 @ameliacervera.bsky.social · 6d

#TEsky

Molecular Biology and Evolution @molbioevol.bsky.social · Sep 5

Red devil spiders from the Canary Islands have a genome half the size of mainland counterparts - Pisarenco, @jrozasub.bsky.social et al. show how purifying selection against slightly deleterious DNA and TE insertions is the primary mechanism.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf206

#evobio #molbio #TEsky

How Did Evolution Halve Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Colonization?

Abstract. Red devil spiders of the genus Dysdera colonized the Canary Islands and underwent an extraordinary diversification. Notably, their genomes are ne

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Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social · 7d

Very happy to see this work finally online!
Resistance against necrotrophic pathogens is not generally conserved. When comparing five wild tomato spp, we saw that one spp co-opted a different mechanism against Sclerotinia infection!

KunzLab@LMU @kunzlab.bsky.social · 7d

This looks very interesting. Congrats @rstam.bsky.social et al. Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

Co-option of transcription factors drives evolution of quantitative disease resistance against a necrotrophic pathogen

Quantitative disease resistance in a wild tomato genotype evolved through species-specific regulatory network rewiring, with an ancient transcription facto

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Biozentrum, University of Basel @biozentrum.unibas.ch · 9d

Assistant/Associate Professor in Structural Biology, Biophysics or Biological Imaging

www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio...

#biozentrum #University #Basel #Professor #Structural #Biology #Biophysics #Biological #Imaging

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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 9d

I really like the series of profiles @newphyt.bsky.social is currently publishing.

The new one is on @stanfordstomata.bsky.social:

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PlantScience #PlantLuminaries

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Jon Drori @jondrori.bsky.social · 10d

Proud to announce international publication of my first book for children, The Stuff that Stuff is Made Of, about the things we make with plants. My proceeds to Kew and WWF. More here: jondrori.co.uk/ssmo #botany #plantscience #history #folklore #kidsbooks #kidsreads #STEM #STEMfun #booksky

Author Jonathan Drori holding copy of his first book for children, The Stuff that Stuff is Made Of (The things we make with plants). September 2025.

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Vincent CASTRIC @vincentcastric.bsky.social · 9d

Very happy to announce that the next POPGROUP meeting will take place in Lille on 7-9 January !

Follow ‪@popgroup2026.bsky.social for all updates.

📢 Please share widely ! 📢‬

POPGROUP59 @popgroup2026.bsky.social · 9d

Exciting news!
The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris.

This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics.

More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk

See you there !

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Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social · 11d

www.snf.ch/en/Uo5KXN2tS...

Federal budget cuts: impact on the SNSF

The SNSF rejects the cuts but is preparing for them. Together with its partners, it has decided to cut costs across several funding schemes.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 12d

This only happens to you once

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franceinfo @franceinfo.fr · 13d

Nicolas Sarkozy vient d'être condamné à cinq ans de prison par le tribunal correctionnel de Paris, jeudi 25 septembre. L'ancien chef d'État est également condamné à 100 000 euros d'amende, et ne pourra pas exercer de fonction publique pendant 5 ans.

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 14d

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
Please repost!

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Pierre de Villemereuil @pdevillemereuil.bsky.social · 14d

In 2020, O Gaggiotti, J Goudet and I showed that Qst-Fst comparison was uncalibrated with high population structure.

During her PhD with us, Isa do O developed LogAV: a method that accounts for any population structure while testing for local adaptation :
journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

A method for identifying local adaptation in structured populations

Species occupy diverse, heterogeneous environments, which expose populations to spatially varied selective pressures. Populations in different environments can diverge due to local adaptation. However...

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Xavier Mauduit @xaviermauduit.bsky.social · 17d

Cette semaine dans Le Cours de l’histoire tous les jours en direct à 9h sur @franceculture.fr @radiofrance.fr puis en podcast

Humanitaire, histoires d'aide et d'ingérence !

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Infirmière de la Croix-Rouge pendant le Première Guerre mondiale. Toile de William Hatherell, vers 1918

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Dr Elodie Chabrol @eloscicomm.bsky.social · 15d

👩‍🔬J'ai commencé un kit de démarrage "chercheuses en France" go.bsky.app/TBEzKC #FemmesEnScience

J'ai besoin de votre aide pour le remplir et donner de la visibilité aux chercheuses que vous connaissez et qui sont sur Bluesky !
▶️Taguez celles que vous connaissez, je les ajoute !

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Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social · 15d

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ZMBP @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Job alert! #PlantSciJob
We are opening a Professorship (W1-TT) in Plant Biochemistry at the ZMBP @unituebingen.bsky.social
Apply by October 17th

Please spread the word!

More info 👇
uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Open Professorship (W1-TT) at the ZMBP, University of Tübingen (Germany). Deadline October 17th. More info: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/zentrum-fuer-molekularbiologie-der-pflanzen/zmbp/job-opportunities/#c12494

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Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social · 15d

J'étais déçue que tu ne sois pas l'invité :) Tout va bien ici!

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France Culture @franceculture.fr · 16d

Chasser, fuir, prospérer… et parfois s’entraider : l’évolution a ses secrets, et la coopération en fait partie.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/XrN

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Borjana Arsova @borjana-a.bsky.social · 16d

👇Is our recent effort 2 make #PMI research more reproducible. Check out this 📜 done on 3 continents🌎, by👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 in5 diff. labs, using the🌾 #brachypodium and 2 #SynComs
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🧪 #PlantMicrobeInteractions #EcoFAB #PlantSci @fz-juelich.de @berkeleylab.lbl.gov @unimelb.bsky.social

Breaking the reproducibility barrier with standardized protocols for plant–microbiome research

Reproducing microbiome experiments across laboratories is a major challenge in soil and plant health research. In a collaborative effort involving five laboratories, this study achieved consistent, in...

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WSL Biodiversity Center @wslbiodiversity.bsky.social · 19d

Join us for our next Biodiversity Seminar (24 Sep) with @sofiavanmoorsel.bsky.social (University of Zurich):

Drought Responses and Intraspecific Variation in European Beech Across Europe.

All welcome, in-person or online!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...

Announcement poster for a WSL Biodiversity Seminar titled "Drought Responses and Intraspecific Variation in European Beech Across Europe." The event features Sofia van Moorsel from the University of Zurich and takes place on September 24, 2025, from 11:00 to 12:00 CEST. It will be held in the Englersaal and online. The poster includes a photo of the speaker and the website biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch for more information.

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Pierre Baduel @pierrebaduel.bsky.social · 20d

Happy to share the results of a long-haul post-doc project, now online @science.org, aiming at understanding the rules of transgeneration epigenetic inheritance over TEs in plants and its extent and impact in nature. More below!
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Transposable elements are vectors of recurrent transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

DNA methylation loss at transposable elements (TEs) can affect neighboring genes and be epigenetically inherited in plants, yet the determinants and significance of this additional system of inheritan...

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Anne Roulin @anneroulin.bsky.social · 20d

Amazing story Pierre!

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Thibault (Tibo) Leroy @tiboleroyinen.bsky.social · 20d

Fifteen 2-year postdoc fellowships available at U. Toulouse 😍 through a MSCA-COFUND (AToUT tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...)

Interested to apply for a postdoctoral research project focusing on the genomics of farm animals or pollinators? Let me know!

Eligibility: <1 yr in 🇫🇷 in the last 3 yrs

AToUT – TIRIS – Toulouse's Science In and For Society

tiris.univ-toulouse.fr

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