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Mario Vallejo-Marin @nicrodemo.bsky.social · 2d

How do plants stave off greedy pollinators? Read our new paper on pollen dosing in buzz pollinated flowers just out in @funecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Gradual pollen release in a buzz‐pollinated plant: Investigating pollen presentation theory under bee visitation

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Jannice Friedman @jannicefriedman.bsky.social · 6d

New paper by former MSc student @christeinecke.bsky.social! ⭐ A behemoth effort to apply artificial selection on clonal reproduction in #Mimulus guttatus. We show that clonality evolves quickly, but not symmetrically in both directions, and multivariate life history traits are altered too! 🧪🌾

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 7d

Life-history evolution under artificial selection in a clonal plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679824v1

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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 6d

Bucket list ✅

I got to see a corpse flower in full bloom! It smelled like cooked broccoli to me - not that bad, but my friends thought it was awful. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Totally worth the 2.5 hr wait with friends and really fun to see so many people excited about plants!

A corpse flower. The Corpse Flower is not a single flower, but a huge cluster of flowers on a central spike called a spadix. This one was 7 feet tall. The colorful "flower" consists of a large, vase-shaped, ruffled spathe (a modified leaf) that encloses the spadix.

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Christina Steinecke @christeinecke.bsky.social · 7d

🙋‍♀️ that's me!!

bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 7d

Life-history evolution under artificial selection in a clonal plant https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.01.679824v1

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Amy Parachnowitsch @evoecoamy.bsky.social · 27d

So happy with this one!

International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 27d

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Spatiotemporal variation in selection on floral traits related to abortion rate, predispersal seed predation, and fitness variance

@evoecoamy.bsky.social, Monica A Geber

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

#PlantScience

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 8d

Great two days of BES data/code hack-a-thon. 111 people (in person + online) collating data and chatting about open science. Big take homes so far: people ❤️ open science; data/code archiving means different things to different people; we can make some simple improvements with big impacts!

A room full of people working on laptops

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Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬 @smwadgymar.bsky.social · 9d

Dear everyone, More science and natural history posts please 🙏🏼 🧪 🌍

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Colautti Lab @colauttilab.bsky.social · 13d

I love math! It’s so weird and fun and relevant, but we rarely teach it that way! Here’s a fun example I show to bio students that exposes a glitch in this shared delusion/simulation we are all living in:

Equation showing that the sum of all integers raised as a power of 10 is equal to -1/9, which can be proven mathematically

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 16d

This study of intelligence in the UK Biobank is typical of a lot of current social science genomics. Impressive technically, and not over-interpreted. But still, a main result gets lost in the sauce. Within-families, the direct-effect polygenic score explains no more that 1-3% of the variance. /1

Imputation of fluid intelligence scores reduces ascertainment bias and increases power for analyses of common and rare variants

Studying the genetics of measures of intelligence can help us understand the neurobiology of cognitive function and the aetiology of rare neurodevelopmental conditions. The largest previous genetic st...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 20d

bioRxiv partners with Dryad to enable easier, better linking to curated datasets connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/09...

Dryad partnership brings easier data sharing to bioRxiv

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Colautti Lab @colauttilab.bsky.social · 20d

Now published in @newphyt.bsky.social, @1pantunes.bsky.social and I review evidence for the "Novel Weapons Hypothesis" and the role of allelopathy during invasion. Bottom line: there is very good reason to be skeptical.
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Experimental approaches and key outcomes supporting the Allelopathy Postulates relevant to competitive interactions and the novel weapons hypothesis (NWH). Numbers in red correspond to the 11 postulates summarized in Table 1. The full experimental framework comprises five sequential steps: (a) assess the natural concentrations of a potential allelopathic compound; (b) demonstrate its ability to suppress native vegetation; releasing resources that enhance growth and reproduction of the invader (e.g. light, nutrients, water); (c) confirm that the compound has limited autotoxicity to the invading species; (d) investigate the biogeographical basis of the allelopathic compound as a ‘novel weapon’ by demonstrating that native communities coevolving with the invader in its home range are significantly more resistant to the allelopathic compound compared to those in the introduced (away) range; (e) confirm that genotypes producing higher concentrations of the allelopathic compounds experience a fitness cost in the context of intraspecific competition but gain a fitness advantage under interspecific competition. Investigating the role of soil-mediated interactions (11) is transversal across different components of the framework

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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 22d

A pensive Minerva contemplating the precarious state of science in the world.

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 23d

Very excited to see this work in press! I think there is a reason to believe that this is a common means of stabilizing large-effect polymorphisms in general and might be an important reason for why diploidy is so common. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

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Colautti Lab @colauttilab.bsky.social · 27d

Ahh, that most wonderful time of year when the hot weather starts to cool down, leaves start to change colour, and grant application spam starts to nestle into your inbox

Screenshot of an email inbox full of automated messages from NSERC

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 29d

One of the most enjoyable parts of my book was inviting researchers I admire to contribute essays

This what David Wardle said:
Every manuscript needs a simple take-home message. Every sentence must earn its place. Keep it clear, keep it simple.

This is an essay by David Wardle on my book (a pocket guide to scientific wriing and publishing). Can you make one or two tweets with some of the highlights of this text, so i advertise my book? Ecologist Here are ten points that continue to guide my own scientific writing. These are of course what works for me and are loaded with my opinions – others might have very different ways of doing things, and as always there are multiple equally effective alternative routes to the end goal. 1. Every manuscript needs a really simple take home message – what it is that you have discovered and why it is important ideally something that can be stated in a single sentence. Everything in the manuscript, from your hypotheses to your figures and tables, should then somehow connect to it.

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Dennis Goris @dennisgoris.bsky.social · Aug 28

I miss the old brand #CDC

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · Aug 14

New paper out of the lab today: “Gene Expression Divergence Between Locally Adapted Inland Annual and Coastal Perennial Ecotypes of Mimulus guttatus Across Developmental Stages” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Gene Expression Divergence Between Locally Adapted Inland Annual and Coastal Perennial Ecotypes of Mimulus guttatus Across Developmental Stages

The action of natural selection across heterogeneous natural landscapes drives local adaptation and the formation of plant ecotypes, the precursors to new species. Plant ecotypes typically differ sig...

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TanentzapfLab @tanentzapflab.bsky.social · Aug 13

The goal of a PhD is not to learn some facts or read a few papers or learn a bunch of techniques. The goal of a PhD is to learn independence, problem solving, how to finish things you start, resilience, & gain the ability to adapt & think creatively. Learning these things is hard.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · Aug 14

"Everyone should think carefully about using generative AI simply because the technology is built on environmental destruction, labor exploitation, and IP theft"

Dr. Catherine Scott @cataranea.bsky.social · Aug 14

The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI & Art:

cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang

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Devang Mehta🌱🧬 @mehta-lab.com · Aug 12

Delighted to share the lab’s first independent publication, a Tansley Insight in @newphyt.bsky.social where we analyse new crop genomics studies to show how we can engineer plants that can grow at different latitudes (key for climate-smart Ag) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A screenshot of the first page of the scientific paper linked in the post.

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Camille Delavaux @camilledelavaux.bsky.social · Aug 9

So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social

On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion

Most plant species world-wide depend on one or more mutualisms – beneficial associations with other species. Evidence is emerging that these biotic mutualisms shape plant biogeography (i.e. distribut....

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Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · Aug 6

Bittersweet to be leaving @docedge.bsky.social after a wonderful postdoc, but excited to share that I'm joining @uoregon.bsky.social next month as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Science.

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · Aug 5

Just got the final proofs of my book💓

Available on Amazon worldwide next week
Very exciting!

I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years

I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪

book cover of the book "A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing" by Martin A. Nunez

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · Aug 4

Post promotion, I quit tracking conference presentations, titles of seminars, run of the mill service, etc.

OOPS! You'll eventually run into someone who cares what year you were on Grad Admissions or gave an SSE talk.

Asking people to track their years on the seminar committee is really stupid.

Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · Aug 4

Full endorse.

Funny story: years ago I wrote a blog post about doing this. I called it "Why I have a 37 page version of my CV". Almost everyone understood... but a couple of folks were REALLY mad at me for bragging about how long my CV was. scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2016/09/15/w...

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Pedro Madeira Antunes 🇨🇦🇵🇹 @1pantunes.bsky.social · Jul 30

A THREAD: Our new paper, with @colauttilab.bsky.social, critically assesses whether allelopathy truly gives invaders their edge. Key takeaways 👇🧵

doi.org/10.1111/nph....

A critical reassessment of the novel weapons hypothesis and allelopathy as an adaptive strategy that facilitates plant invasion

Plants have evolved an assortment of chemical adaptations that integrate environmental cues with developmental processes to regulate growth and reproduction. A subset of these phytochemicals may be c....

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