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Marc Somssich @somssich.bsky.social · 4d

People: "Things used to be better."

Scientist: "When did it start getting worse?"

People: "When I was born."

From "The illusion of moral decline" by Adam Mastroianni.
shorturl.at/FFEDV

A graph showing violin plots. On the y axis is the perceived morality of people from 0 to 8. On the x axis the time points 40 years before my birth, 20 years before my birth, at my birth, 20 years past my birth, today. The morality value is constant until birth, and then declines.

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Jenn Weber @flwrecoevo.bsky.social · 4d

Patterns of hybridization are driven by many factors. Here we explore these patterns w a special emphasis on breeding system variation. Really great collab w wonderful students and colleagues!

International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 5d

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🚨Undergraduate research🚨

AN EXPLORATION OF FACTORS DRIVING PATTERNS OF HYBRIDIZATION IN TRIODANIS

Keegan McConnell, Alyssa Zhan, Jolie Linhart, Kurt M. Neubig,
@flwrecoevo.bsky.social

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Prosanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 6d

Job alert #TeamFish. Curator of Fishes gig!

Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 6d

🚨We're hiring! The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is seeking a tenure-track split position as Assistant Curator of Ichthyology and Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences. Please retweet & share with colleagues! 🐟🐠🧪

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174674

A job ad with multiple images, including the exterior of the museum, a view of collections (jars on shelves), and pictures of some cool, tropical fish but I don't know enough about fish to describe them other than to say they're pretty colors of yellow and blue/green

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 7d

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Rest in Peace, Jane Goodall 🙏🏻

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 7d

We are deeply saddened by the passing of UN Messenger of Peace Dr. Jane Goodall.

Her life’s work championing conservation, humanity and the natural world leaves an enduring legacy.

Our condolences to her family, the Jane Goodall Institute and all who draw hope from her example.

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 7d

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

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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

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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 22d

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Low reproductive output suggests hermaphrodites are unlikely to spread in a dioecious hybrid willow population

Ashmita Khanal, Nan Hu, Minghao Guo, Diksha Gambhir, Matthew S. Olson

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Low reproductive output suggests hermaphrodites are unlikely to spread in a dioecious hybrid willow population | International Journal of Plant Sciences: Vol 0, No ja

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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 8d

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From the Archives: Using physiological models to identify the relative importance of plant adaptations to environmental variation, an appreciation of Heckathorn and DeLucia (1991)

Hafiz Maherali

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15d

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15d

'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off."

'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.'

We hope neither carries you off today.

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Adam Csank @acsank.bsky.social · 28d

Come work with us! The University of Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability, and environmental justice. Details at this link nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...

Assistant Professor, Human-Environment Geography

The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...

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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 28d

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Heterodichogamy in Ascarina lucida (Chloranthaceae)

@theobrominated.bsky.social et al.

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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....

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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · 28d

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From the Archives: Essential Readings in Plant Mating System Evolution: Three Classic Contributions from Lloyd and Schoen

@flwrecoevo.bsky.social, Carol Goodwillie

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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)

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · Sep 4

Anyone from the University of Montreal here? Please DM.

Please RT.

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

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From the Archives: Multiple ways to escape stick-world: 3 papers that paved the way to integrate the fossil record into a synthetic understanding of the origin and evolution of leaves in the euphyllophyte clade

Mihai Tomescu

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Multiple ways to escape stick-world: three papers that paved the way to integrate the fossil record into a synthetic understanding of the origin and evolution of leaves in the euphyllophyte clade

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Aug 28

1. Flood the forms: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

2. Katrina Declaration: www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...

3. Impeach the Quack: www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...

4. Quack-O-Gram: act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

5. Rally: act.standupforscience.net/events/virtu...

SUFS Write Up Wednesday Action Guide

SUFS Flood the Forms Action Guide - ‘Contacting Your Congressperson’ Scripts Use your Congress Member's websites to submit comments in the "Contact Me" forms. While calling is always the top way to m...

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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Heterodichogamy in Ascarina lucida (Chloranthaceae)

@theobrominated.bsky.social et al

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International Journal of Plant Sciences @ijpsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 12

Who says that field and fashion can't mix? #ESA2025 attendees, stop by the @uchicagopress.bsky.social @chicagojournals.bsky.social booth and pick up one of these oh-so-stylish @ijpsjournal.bsky.social bandanas.

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Two ESA attendees holding yellow IJPS bandanas.

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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 21

Light pollution is causing birds around the world to sing for longer each day, prolonging their vocalizations on average by 50 minutes, according to a new study in Science.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Uz7vzP

A figure showing that light pollution prolongs avian vocal activity by nearly an hour. (A) Most diurnal bird species show bimodal vocalization patterns with peaks in the morning and evening; in light-polluted landscapes (yellow shading), the first vocalizations occur earlier in the morning and the last vocalizations occur later in the evening. (B) Globally—averaged across species, space, and season—onset of morning vocalization shifted 18 min earlier in the brightest landscapes versus the darkest landscapes. (C) Similarly, evening cessation was delayed by an average of 32 min. In (B) and (C), lines are means and shaded regions are 95% confidence intervals (CI) of model predictions.

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Kathleen Kay @kathleenmkay.bsky.social · Aug 8

Is the Most Effective Pollinator Principle a zombie idea? How do plants adapted to one pollinator shift to another without traversing an adaptive valley? How should we measure fitness in pollinator selection studies? We explore these questions and more in a new review doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Beyond the Grant–Stebbins model: floral adaptive landscapes and plant speciation

AbstractBackground. Floral diversity, a striking feature of angiosperm evolution, provides the impetus and rationale for linking pollinator-driven selectio

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Emily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · Aug 21

MSU Plant Bio is hiring a new herbarium director! Our herbarium is a wonderful resource on campus and I'm excited to have the opportunity to make it even better by bringing in a new director. Details here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · Aug 21

Concentration camp brought back into service as concentration camp.

Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · Aug 21

“It was a miscarriage of justice then, and it is a miscarriage of justice now.”

History's not just rhyming

www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center

“The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to their forced removal and incarceration,” one advocate said.

www.nbcnews.com

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