Heeeeey #Microbial #Ecology folk! My department has a job opening for a tenure track Microbial Ecologist! Feel free to DM me with questions. Come join our awesome supportive whip-smart & kind crew in the Biology Department of @umassboston.bsky.social! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

Human-mediated land-use and climate change occur simultaneously, but how do they interact to shape adaptive dynamics? Super excited to share the first paper from the Kreiner lab, led by postdoc extraordinaire @rpineau.bsky.social

#SICB job share- an opening for

Assistant #Professor of #Vertebrate #Physiology

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*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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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.
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#microbiology #ecology

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱
-Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences.
Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions.
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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.

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Details (+ application portal) here:

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New — with @joannarifkin.bsky.social, @jotlovell.bsky.social, @spicybotrytis.bsky.social, and many more — we created seven new high-quality genomes and explored pangenomic variation in the emerging oilseed crop pennycress (Thlaspi arvense). 1/

Fascinating essay by @martinebotany.bsky.social on spiny solanums (tomato et al. relatives) as an example of all the important natural history research left to be done. Great observations on pollination and symbiosis... A very inspiring Sunday morning read!

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Application review begins in one week for the MSU herbarium director position!!!! More info here: plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

aw, thank you, friend!!!

k-mer-based diversity scales with population size proxies more than nucleotide diversity in a meta-analysis of 98 plant species.

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Go read our new pre-print!

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

I'm so proud of this work!!! It was an incredible amount of effort that started when I was trapped in a greenhouse during the pandemic and is only now seeing the light of day. Kudos to Megan, Hagar, & Pia!

We'd love to hear your thoughts!
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Overall, we think that repeated incidences of hybrid seed inviability originally arose via conflict between parents for resource allocation to offspring, but because these alleles are selfish, they may have introgressed across species, creating this complex pattern of crossability in the complex

At the same time, Dr. Megan Frayer was finding that these two species have a ✨sorted✨ history of gene flow, including introgression of a large chromosomal inversion that has been previously implicated in hybrid seed inviability

but here's where things get spicy: in her rotation project, Pia showed that the genetic basis of hybrid seed inviability is in fact SHARED between two such incidences involving two different (and phylogenetically distinct) species.

She followed up with super awesome embryo rescues to show that these incidences of hybrid seed inviability arise in the endosperm, & that hybrid seeds show parent-of-origin biased growth effects, following some predictions that hybrid seed inviability may be evolving via parental conflict

Then Hagar stepped up to the plate: she showed that RI follows a geographic rather than phylogenetic pattern: populations that are closer together have the same patterns of crossing. Importantly, these patterns TRANSCEND SPECIES BOUNDARIES, creating a complex landscape of hybrid seed inviability.

This is work that I first started as a postdoc: I was befuddled about why we saw hybrid seed inviability evolve so many dang times in such a short period of time in monkey flowers, so I started just doing a ton of crosses.... like truly an unhinged amount...

We're on a roll: Super proud of this paper lead by Dr. Megan Frayer & GS Hagar Soliman (with a major contrib from GS Pia Schwarz): Introgression and Parental Conflict Shape Repeated Occurrences of Postzygotic Isolation @hybridzones.bsky.social @hagarsoliman.bsky.social @pfschwarz.bsky.social

This was a HUGE effort, taking years of diligent work. Hongfei was a true leader, and I'm really proud of this cool piece. We'd love any feedback y'all might have. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Lots of cool data to dig into, but the big take homes: Phenotypic evo is repeatable, but the genetic bases of these traits is largely not. Of the QTL we do find in more than one cross, QTL with large effect sizes or those implicated in more than one trait tend to pop up in more than one cross!!!!