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Linda Horianopoulos @linder-surprise.bsky.social · 2d

What started as a project characterizing variation in metabolic rates across yeasts turned into an interesting story about convergent evolution acting on the same key genes through distinct molecular mechanisms with @hittingerlab.bsky.social & @rokaslab.bsky.social.

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

Convergent evolution of aerobic fermentation through divergent mechanisms acting on key shared glycolytic genes

As the tree of life becomes increasingly accessible to molecular investigations, describing mechanisms underlying evolutionary convergence and constraint will be crucial to understanding diversificati...

www.biorxiv.org

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 6d

This is an excellent piece from @georgianndavis.bsky.social on the wave of anti-scientific censorship sweeping the country and what it means to teach honestly in the moment.

Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'?

A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

www.latimes.com

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

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...

ukjobs.uky.edu

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Caiti Smukowski Heil @caitismuheil.bsky.social · 13d

Excited that we could share some of our recent work on how temperature affects sporulation and recombination rate in Saccharomyces 🎤🌡️🧬🔬
Thanks for having us Mike & @heredityjournal.bsky.social!

@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · 13d

🎙️ 📻 New Heredity Podcast!

We talk with @caitismuheil.bsky.social and Jessica McNeill about their work showing the sensitivity of meiosis to temperature and what this might mean for populations in a warming world.
@ncstate.bsky.social
@gensocuk.bsky.social

Episode:
shows.acast.com/heredity-pod...

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Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 14d

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 21d

We have a new paper out in Molecular Ecology, led by @devinbendixsen.bsky.social ! Reproductive isolation due to divergent ecological selection is accompanied by vast genomic instability in experimentally evolved yeast populations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Piotr Ziolkowski @piotraz.bsky.social · Sep 2

Breaking genetics news‼️🌱🌽 A natural DNA trick triples recombination in maize. What we first saw in Arabidopsis (@hendersi lab) a decade ago is now confirmed in crops—opening new doors for plant breeding. Published today in Nature Plants! More details 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enhancing local meiotic crossovers in Arabidopsis and maize through juxtaposition of heterozygous and homozygous regions - Nature Plants

This study discovered that locally confined DNA differences boost crossover rates in both Arabidopsis and maize, revealing a conserved mechanism that can accelerate plant breeding and trait introgress...

www.nature.com

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Linda Horianopoulos @linder-surprise.bsky.social · Sep 5

We often talk about THE whole genome duplication in yeasts, but we find new evidence of additional whole genome duplications in other yeast species!

Check out this preprint led by @kylethedavid.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeasts

Whole genome duplication (WGD) has had profound macroevolutionary impacts on diverse lineages, preceding adaptive radiations in vertebrates, teleost fish, and angiosperms. In contrast to the many know...

www.biorxiv.org

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Alex Gunderson @agunderson.bsky.social · Aug 8

Early view: we find that brown anole lizards are one of, if not the most, lead tolerant vertebrates known to science combining measures of field exposure, responses to lab dosing, performance assays and functional genomics. Led by PhD student Annelise Blanchette
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unprecedented lead tolerance in an urban lizard

Lead (Pb) is an extremely toxic heavy metal pollutant pervasive in many environments with serious health consequences for humans and wildlife. We foun…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Oregon State University Botany and Plant Pathology @osubpp.bsky.social · Aug 6

The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University is Hiring!

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Marc Johnson (he/him) @evoecolab.bsky.social · Jul 30

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

www.utm.utoronto.ca

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jul 12

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT

Please watch the workshop video and COMMENT by 5:00 Monday 7/14

This is the source of the "no more model organism only grants in NIH-funded research" decree.

@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · Jul 11

Dear all, PLEASE add comments on the importance of model organism research at this link:

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Caiti Smukowski Heil @caitismuheil.bsky.social · Jul 9

Yay Aldo and team!

Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · Jul 9

The #GENETICS July cover shows male (top) & female (bottom) cichlid fish of the species Aulonocara koningsi at Mbenji Island in Lake Malawi, East Africa, key in revealing the genetic basis of gut length variation associated with trophic level in Lake Malawi cichlids.

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Caiti Smukowski Heil @caitismuheil.bsky.social · Jun 26

Great seeing you Walter!

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Caiti Smukowski Heil @caitismuheil.bsky.social · Jun 26

NC State at #Evol2025!

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · Jun 25

Another day testing the limits of resilience.

The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.

Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.

The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.

‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover

Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...

www.nbcwashington.com

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Jun 23

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.

Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.

Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · Jun 23

Olivia Reidling of the @rokaslab.bsky.social explores the global 🌏 diversity of Aspergillus fungi w/ machine learning

She finds high taxon richness in human-associared plant classes

The resulting taxon distribution prediction align with known biological features (acidity etc)

#Evol2025 #Evol25

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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · Jun 23

Jacqueline Peña @jjpena-ecoevo.bsky.social asks if humans 👥🍺🍷🍞 left an impact on wild yeast 🌳

They estimate that S. cerevisiae spread across the global after the last glacial maximum

Looks like wild strains are NOT independent of human movement

Lab of @dbensasson.bsky.social #Evol2025 #Evol25

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · Jun 23

The @sse-evolution.bsky.social public policy committee is organizing folks to send postcards to Congress from #Evol2025, stop by the booth in the exhibition hall

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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · Jun 22

"Science depends on K-12 education."

Kenneth Miller #Evol2025

The Scopes Symposium was excellent and timely.

A man at a podium delivering a talk during a conference. The slide behind him reads "Science depends on K-12 education", "we need to make ourselves available as resources to science educators", and "And we need to fight publicity to defend scince education at all levels".

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LaBella Lab @lablabella.bsky.social · Jun 22

Caiti Smukowski Heil @caitismuheil.bsky.social tells us about th domestication of yeast in bread 🍞

Humans have made a profound impact on the genome of S. cerevisiae

And commercial baking strains are super weird!

#Evol2025 #Evol25

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Caiti Smukowski Heil @caitismuheil.bsky.social · Jun 22

Tomorrow, come see postdoc Antoine Houtain's poster E1 to hear about rescuing hybrid fertility to identify loci involved in hybrid adaptation to wine and cider!

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